What a shitshow
I use 'adaption' in the loosest possible sense, in that rough contours of the long-running comic series can be gleaned from time to time in the TV series, but they're buried underneath an almost unimaginably-inappropriate (and gag-inducing) police procedural.
Fox's Lucifer neither looks, acts, nor contains any of the dignity or quiet menace of his comics counterpart. Here he's your stereotypical TV quippy-Brit, teamed with your stereotypical tough-but-tender female cop who's a single mom trying to raise her stereotypical spunky little moppet of a daughter.
Lucifer -- yes, that Lucifer -- giddily gallops around LA (Vancouver, actually) and helps the tough-but-tender female cop solve crimes that would have seemed tired in Angela Lansbury's heyday. I wish I were kidding.
The show is an abomination, but not for any of the reasons some of the YouTards thought. (It should be noted there's also a cable series called Damien, based on the Antichrist in The Omen, but that seems destined for cancellation).
The comic series Lucifer was a spinoff from Neil Gaiman's byzantine Sandman universe and was written by British creator Mike Carey, who also did a series that archly played off of Harry Potter fandom called The Unwritten.
The comics Lucifer was based visually on David Bowie and, oddly enough, the series premiered two weeks after Bowie's death. However, the only reference to Bowie in the TV pilot was "Fame" playing in the after-credit sequence. Given the horrendous spectacle that followed it's almost a mercy Bowie wasn't there to see it.
Indeed, this TV Lucifer is all too fitting for the age of safe-space Satanism. Listen to this riveting synopsis for a recent episode: "When philanthropist Tim Dunlear is found dead, Lucifer explores his good side by becoming a benefactor for Tim's glitzy Los Angeles charity." (...the eff?)
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Carey's take on Lucifer was distinctly Gnostic, and I don't mean that in the trendy, one-size-fits-all sense of the word. Lucifer Morningstar, who had long ago resigned his post as King of Hell and struggled with a nemesis in the form of the Archangel Michael, who was in fact the Demiurge.
Fox's Lucifer neither looks, acts, nor contains any of the dignity or quiet menace of his comics counterpart. Here he's your stereotypical TV quippy-Brit, teamed with your stereotypical tough-but-tender female cop who's a single mom trying to raise her stereotypical spunky little moppet of a daughter.
Lucifer -- yes, that Lucifer -- giddily gallops around LA (Vancouver, actually) and helps the tough-but-tender female cop solve crimes that would have seemed tired in Angela Lansbury's heyday. I wish I were kidding.
The show is an abomination, but not for any of the reasons some of the YouTards thought. (It should be noted there's also a cable series called Damien, based on the Antichrist in The Omen, but that seems destined for cancellation).
The comic series Lucifer was a spinoff from Neil Gaiman's byzantine Sandman universe and was written by British creator Mike Carey, who also did a series that archly played off of Harry Potter fandom called The Unwritten.
The comics Lucifer was based visually on David Bowie and, oddly enough, the series premiered two weeks after Bowie's death. However, the only reference to Bowie in the TV pilot was "Fame" playing in the after-credit sequence. Given the horrendous spectacle that followed it's almost a mercy Bowie wasn't there to see it.
Indeed, this TV Lucifer is all too fitting for the age of safe-space Satanism. Listen to this riveting synopsis for a recent episode: "When philanthropist Tim Dunlear is found dead, Lucifer explores his good side by becoming a benefactor for Tim's glitzy Los Angeles charity." (...the eff?)
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Yes, that Demiurge.
All sorts of strategies and alliances took form and one began to wonder just how interested Carey was in the actual history of the Lucifer mythos as opposed to classic British fantasy. The artist who drew most of the issues, Peter Gross, is best known as a fantasy artist.
Indeed, the comic series was deeply rooted in that tradition more than the Biblical tradition, which only makes sense seeing that Lucifer is not only a title and not a name, but in the Vulgate (that was the Bible for more than a millennium) refers to a number of different things and people, one of whom is Jesus Christ himself.
All sorts of strategies and alliances took form and one began to wonder just how interested Carey was in the actual history of the Lucifer mythos as opposed to classic British fantasy. The artist who drew most of the issues, Peter Gross, is best known as a fantasy artist.
Indeed, the comic series was deeply rooted in that tradition more than the Biblical tradition, which only makes sense seeing that Lucifer is not only a title and not a name, but in the Vulgate (that was the Bible for more than a millennium) refers to a number of different things and people, one of whom is Jesus Christ himself.
Indeed, it's all too fitting that Lucifer retired as King of Hell in the comics and now the TV series since he or more accurately, the title, seems to have been press-ganged into service in the first place.
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