Id like to see some dedicated episodes on Ethan and Sembe the same as they've done with Vanessa. It would be only fair, lol.
And I agree with the confusion about Dorian. Are they biding time with him or is there an actual point with this new relationship? I mean given his decadent history, I find it hard to believe this is his first dalliance with a transgender person. Not that I have a problem with it, more like me wondering if there is a point to it is all....
Same here. But the show seems to revolve mostly around Vanessa, as she is the main star, so I wouldn't hold much hope for it. On the other hand there has been that episode which for most part depicted Frankenstein's story. Not really a flashback episode like it was the case with this one and "Closer Than Sisters", but it was a large portion of it, so I could see something like that happening,
As for Dorian, I like Wilde's Dorian Gray a lot, so I am glad that he's in the show, but so far he is stagnating as a character and seems to be too kind and "tame", so it doesn't seem like he'll become the character I've grown to like anytime soon. I am not sure if it is due to miscasting, bad writing of the character or simply too slow progression of his story.
Maybe he really falls for this transgender woman and she dies somehow.
I wish they would tie him into the Vanessa story tho. Him and his story feels so inconsequential to the rest of the show.
Assuming the role of Sybil Vane from the novel you think? Hmm... possibly. Though I really hoped we'll get to see Sybil, her demise and Gray's further character progression as result of that.
I suspect Dorian's (presumably*) faustian pact will play into the overall season arc. Lucifer did not fall alone, and Dorian's had dealings with one of the fallen.
*In the original story it wasn't revealed how Dorian's portrait worked, but I'd figure they will use a 'deal with the devil' thing here.
Basically we are seeing different aspects of the fallen's effects on Earth. Vanessa: Possession. Kali: Black magic. Vampires: Physical transformation. Ethan: Cursed (either directly or by being bitten). Dorian: Faustian deal.
Caliban/John's lack of faith in religion provides a neat contrast. He and Brona/lilly are anomalies, resurrected/given life by Frankenstein's weird science. His assertion that pagans doing good by choice is surely better than bible thumpers doing good out of fear of their God, is a valid pov.
I've been thinking the same. I do wonder if we'll get to see Basil at some point? Or the artist of the portrait, however they name him in the show.
As for Caliban, he is a romanticist (he actually chooses the name of the famous poet as his own - John Clare. For some amusement, notice Frankenstein's reaction to this when he introduces himself to Brona/Lily), so him thinking like this goes in line with that (and as a fellow romanticist, I agree), though it doesn't necessarily go against christianity and its beliefs...
Take William Blake for example, he was a christian fanatic, but in his own pagan way, since romantic philosophy is tied with pantheism, a form of paganism that predates christianity, if not by name then by practice. So the two are not mutually exclusive. Romanticist paganism would acknowledge and take into account any religion that can fall into its boundaries and there are some aspects of christianity that definitely correspond to the ideals of romanticism.
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