LEGION

[sivaroobini]

Today I had to leave my library club meeting early (well, all the important things and admin stuff were over and we were just preparing things for events over the next few weeks) and rush to the Toa Payoh MRT station to meet my sister at 5 because it was an emergency. (I got there at 4.30, she got there at about 5.10)

The emergency: She, her friend Andy and I were going to watch Legion. 8D

And lemme tell you, it was AWESOME. Alright, so it was more of an action/horror movie, which is usually not my thing, and they should have been able to use angelic powers or something instead of relying so much on the guns, but hey, it was cool. :P

For starters, we actually had the entire theatre to ourselves! It was amazing. We talked and laughed at a normal volume instead of hushed voices, rested our feet against the seats in front of us, bickered over the delicious popcorn, laughed our heads off and did not have to be distracted by things like other people talking at crucial plot points or babies crying. We just distracted each other. ;) Watching a movie with Andy and my sister means lots of extra commentary; near the end, one of Andy's jokes made me literally spit out a mouthful of Sprite, spraying it all over the seats in front of me. :X I sincerely hope they managed to clean it off. My sister loves making me laugh when I'm drinking at home because I cannot control my laughter. >.<

And Michael was kickass. I've been a Michael fangirl for ages, thanks to steadfast 's awesome version, but this version was different - rather like my version of Gabriel, cattygabriel , in fact - and still different and awesome. I loved the scene when Michael tells Jeep (though really, who names their son Jeep?! O.o) about how much he loves humans, how he was the first to bow to them back when He first created them (which reminded me of Lucifer refusing to bow before such inferior beings) and how he's watched them basically destroy themselves over the millennia, and yet there are some who cling to faith and hope. Even if it hadn't been like my own Gabriel, it was a really touching scene. ^_^

His utter calm in the face of practically everything also rather reminded me of the Michael from DC Comics' Lucifer, in fact. And the things coming after them... I thought they were demons, at first, but then Michael said they were angels. O_O That old lady, and the two kids... my sister says she's never hugging our grandma again. xD Thankfully ice-cream trucks aren't exactly common here. As Andy said, "If that's Heaven, I'd hate to see what Hell coming after them would be like."

I've always associated angels with flaming swords, but seeing Michael come out with two really cool guns and start blasting was A.W.E.S.O.M.E. And he kicked ass at hand to hand combat too, but the gun scenes were seriously amazing. I loved the bazooka bit as well.

Gabriel, however, made me facepalm - why does everyone make Gabriel out to be the villain? >.< First the Hellblazer comics and the movie version (Constantine), then the Lucifer comics, and now this. He's always portrayed as a self-righteous arse and a Snob with a capital S. I literally groaned when Michael, near the end, had a sword pressed to his throat and then spares him and Gabriel says something like, "Why did you show me mercy? I would have none for you," because, seriously, Gabriel IS the Angel of Mercy. I have done my research. :P But freaking hell, his wings and his fighting were COOL. My jaw dropped. And oh, Michael's seriously cool dagger. And his sword. *sigh*

For my eighteenth birthday, this July, I want Michael's dagger, his sword, and his wings. xD My sister can keep Paul Bettany himself, she was fangirling enough in the theatre.

Comments

[maleficial.livejournal.com]

It was fucking horrible.

[steadfast.livejournal.com]

You could always watch Gabriel, where Michael is the evil one and Gabriel is the one going around kicking ass xD

Seriously those two are like angelology canon OTP, why do people always pit them against each other? >_

[eidolon-bird.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen this yet, but I want to (if only for the wings)!  Perhaps this weekend. :D

Gabriel is also the villain in The Prophecy. :\  Though I'm not terribly fond of him constantly being cast in darker rolls, there is a bit of sense to it.  Though God's messenger and an angel of mercy, he is also an angel of vengeance and death.  He is often identified as the angel who laid waste Sodom and Gomorrah, who destroyed the hosts of Sennacherib, and was the angel who wrestled with Jacob at Peniel.  In Milton's Paradise Lost, it is Gabriel who is the head of the angelic guards watching over Paradise.  I have a book that briefly references a Babylonian legend (still trying to track that one down) that says Gabriel once fell into disgrace for not obeying a command as it was given and was thus temporarily exiled from Heaven.  Thus, while I prefer Gabriel to be an angel of mercy, I do not find it entirely out of line to cast him either as an angel of vengeance, or a spirit somewhat fallen from His Grace.

As for Michael showing mercy, many of his roles in canonical Jewish and Christian texts are far more merciful than those ascribed to Gabriel.  He is credited as being the author of Psalm 85 which beseeches God for salvation after Jacob royally screwed up and God sent Gabriel to kick his ass; the psalm also would remind people not to be so stupid as to turn their back on God in times of trouble (okay, so I'm taking some liberties with interpretations :P).  He is the angel who stopped Abraham from sacrificing his son.  According to Persian lore, Michael was called Beshter, and provided sustenance for mankind.  Though also identified as one of the many angels of death, he is given a more benevolent roll, weighing souls and delivering the faithful into eternal light.  Picking and choosing bits and pieces from the Bible and other sources, it is easy to justify casting Michael as the merciful guide and protector of mankind.

Er, right.  I talk WAY too much about this stuff.

[kunenk.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Maybe not aimed so much at people interested in… less conventional explosions? I'm not sure how to phrase that. Or something concretely supernatural didn't seem worth it, perhaps.

This one… I think he's sad, more than anything. Though that's not one of the parts that's been on my mind so much, lately (…and that would make location interesting, I suppose, I'm not sure which part of town would conduct that).

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