>"Of course, the whole portrayal of death and the door system is very different in this version. Much less hopeful and more scary."
Yes.
Well, I have no comparison between the series, but yes, absolutely, that's part of what I loathed in second season as this escalated. Besides the pathetic ignorance about even the dominant religions of the UK (they keep tossing off stupid Wikipedia-able little errors), there's this... primal fear unsoothed by any of the ideas humanity has discovered and crafted to soothe it.
With the sole (rocking!) exception of the first-season finale repelling a vampire with George's Magan David, just about anything spiritual, religious or metaphysical in this universe is fearful, dangerous, irrational, wrong. Science and faith don't, can't co-exist here. They trip over each other.
Which is so absurd, ill-informed, short-sighted, shorthand, stereotypical...
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Yes.
Well, I have no comparison between the series, but yes, absolutely, that's part of what I loathed in second season as this escalated. Besides the pathetic ignorance about even the dominant religions of the UK (they keep tossing off stupid Wikipedia-able little errors), there's this... primal fear unsoothed by any of the ideas humanity has discovered and crafted to soothe it.
With the sole (rocking!) exception of the first-season finale repelling a vampire with George's Magan David, just about anything spiritual, religious or metaphysical in this universe is fearful, dangerous, irrational, wrong. Science and faith don't, can't co-exist here. They trip over each other.
Which is so absurd, ill-informed, short-sighted, shorthand, stereotypical...