Midnight, Texas

Anyone check this out? The pilot made it obvious it was just trying to be a low rent version of True Blood (where it succeeded) but the subsequent episodes have steadily been getting better that it now reminds me of the Vampire Diaries. The premise is that it's about a town of supernaturals who have retreated from the world ala Being Human.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MidnightTexas

I'm enjoying it despite the fact it feels like it's focusing on the least interesting characters.

It's nothing groundbreaking, but I like the characters. It's not as "cutting edge" as other horror shows, but I prefer it that way too.

My favorite characters are the Psychic (interesting powers and he makes a nice flawed protagonist) The Witch (you rarely see a Wicca on TV) but I'm on the fence with the Vigilante, I know she has a dark past but I just can't stand her judge-and-executioner attitude. Also I don't like the Fallen Angel because he was kicked out of Heaven for being gay? I don't mind gay characters, but I don't like the idea of God existing in a Monster universe and not giving a crap about intervening directly for humanity's sake.

edited 19th Sep '17 6:26:44 AM by Sijo

Um...that's not why he was kicked out of heaven, at least as i understood it. It was less "he's gay" and more "he's gay with a demon." I imagine the reaction would have been the same if the demon (well, half in this case) was a woman.

And if you go by the "God is a benevolent chessmaster type" theory, you can argue that Midnight's various protectors are all there by his will.

Theodicy does not really have any good answers. It really, really does not have any answers that hold up in a universe where the overtly supernatural is common place. Christian theology is.. not very coherent. But people keep using it as background because angels and all the rest of it are trappings that carry a lot of water for you in western culture, and who cares about your world-building hanging together in the face of that? Which ends up making a heck of a lot of media inherently gnostic, as they end up portraying a universe where the Christian god is an ass.

edited 19th Sep '17 11:53:49 AM by Izeinsummer

The simplest answer is to say that God is not all powerful (any mentions in the Bible about how "nothing is impossible with God" and such-like can be dismissed as boilerplate hyperbole) and in a Fantasy Kitchen Sink universe can be stymied by the many other powers out there.