Descend

    

After resting for a moment in the shadows of the shrine we started on our way back, weaving down the rough gravel path that led around the hill and down to the fields. Between the trees something glinted, a kind of a shine, and as we approached saw golden figures sitting among the green. 
A golden buddha preaching a sermon to his followers.

We didn’t linger long before proceeding, and soon the fields opened before us again. It was the very fringes of the temple, and one final shrine looking over the sea of grass. A shrine dedicated to the death of the buddha and his final words to his followers.

The Secret Circle

The Secret Circle is a teen witch show, a series that try to ride the teen fantasy craze before it sizzled out. It is based on a young adult book series, because what wasn’t in 2011, but since I haven’t read any of the books I can’t tell you how faithful it is. The same author wrote the Vampire Diaries though so take from that what you will.

The show follows Cassie a young witch who after the loss of her mother in a mysterious fire, moves in with her grandmother and begins to discover her powers. She is quickly swept into the local teen coven, and shenanigans ensue as teenage hormones run rampant, and the elder coven, pretty much the parents, aren’t too happy about their kids leaning magic. They have all sworn off it, you see, after some horrible, horrible, mystery accident.

So Cassie embarks on a journey to understand herself, her past, and unravel a few mysteries and intrigues. Pretty straightforward I’d say if it wasn’t for the dozens of storylines interweaving into a mess of a bird’s nest in a pile of hay.

Personally, I do not recommend. I did not enjoy it, and though it had some nice concepts of magic and okay effects, it was all too glossy and too slow for my tastes.

Pass.

But, nevertheless, let’s examine the pilot episode.

It opens with a narration, rambling something about destiny, as our protagonist Cassie, played by Britt Robertson, is driving home on an empty road. The action doesn’t take long to kick in as another car comes out of  nowhere and almost crashes into hers, and she pops a tire trying to swerve away. But said actions trickles dry just as fast, replaced by awkwardness as a car stops to observe and then flees like a creeper when Cassie asks for help.

She calls her mom instead to let her know of her tardiness, but things start magically going very wrong on that side. A water faucet explodes, the oven catches fire, all the while a creepy man loiters nearby, spilling a bottle and then flicking a lighter. We get some sense how magic works in that universe, so far so good on the build up part.

The creeper starts lighting matches and accordingly the house catches fire burning Cassie’s mother to a crisp.

My only problem here, is that they showed the killer’s face. They could have easily built more mystery and suspense if they hadn’t revealed the culprit right away.

We cut to one month later and teary eyed Cassie staring at some random lake in some random woods with some random pop song playing in the background. It’s here that the series begin trying too hard hitting on the way nearly every cliche in the book.

Cassie moves to a new town to live with her alienated grandmother, alienated because this is the first time the girl’s ever been to her house. Apparently her mother never went to visit her relatives, nor spoke about the past.

Reunion and trying to establish relationship with a relative, check. Mysterious past to investigate, check. Dead father she never knew, naturally. A hot boy neighbour who likes to stand in front of the window shirtless, of course. But that’s okay, they paint him as creepy. Despite the flowy blond hair and all the abs. And for some reason the show is stuck on a lullaby. The narration started with it, the opening title has it, Casie is humming it and the piano soundtrack mimics it. So a mysterious, creepy melody that her mum used to hum, check.

Like in any other teen show ever, Cassie is simply slumped by the fact she needs to start a new school, because school, just ugh. And the list continues, looking at dead mom’s pics before bed, check. All right already, we get it she misses her mom, move on.

So let’s see the new school, meet the president and talk some more about Cassie’s mother and how everyone knew and cherished her, and she was the queen and all, yet she would never talk about her life in her hometown. Spooky! I mean, foreshadowing!

But moving on to creepy-mac-abster, and his equally creepy friend as they whisper around about Cassie like total creepsters. The new guy then proceeds to creepily stare at her. Did I put that across as clear as the series did? And for those who still didn’t get it, it’s all very creepy. But wait, are you sure you got it? Here are two creepy chicks, commenting on how pretty she is in her face without blinking. Just in case you still didn’t, another girl approaches, who also seems to know everything about her, and invites her to hang out after school.

Of course, as a new girl trying to fit in, Cassie goes, and she can’t walk ten metres without someone stopping her to say how much she looks like her mother and how well they knew her. In this case, it’s the owner of the diner she was invited to. Oh look at that, he’s the father of the second creepster guy. Don’t forget to have him ramble about how much he loved her mother, but she chose another guy, but it’s okay, it was all written in the stars.

How long into the episode are we again? Twelve minutes… Holy, fucking, hell. I need a break. But I fear if I take one, I will spontaneously forget I was ever reviewing this thing.

So marching on.

We meet Adam, played by Thomas Dekker, and our most obvious FRI for the day. Remember folks, romantic interest equals long, creepy, silent stares and stuttering every time the creature tries to interact with our Sue.

And the two bitchy witches arrive to save us from the awkwardness. It is replaced, instead, by creepiness, as the newcomers start discussing Cassie’s life and past in front of her, commenting on how hot Adam is every now and then.

Our protagonist tries her best to act human, and reasonable, unlike everyone else, so she gets the fuck away the moment the head bitch blinks.

The two creepy girls proceed to watch her through the window discussing how she doesn’t seem to know, and then using magic mess with the engine, setting in on fire and then locking Cassie in the car. Clueless protagonist and evil witches, check.

It was all to determine if she had magical powers of course, no ill intent, besides Adam was there to save her by staring very hard at the fire to extinguish it.

But I don’t think we had had enough character conflict so far, so introducing Adam’s girlfriend, the girl that invited Cassie to the diner in the first place.

So while Adam and Cassie are cranking up the uncomfortable teen attraction levels, as much as two straw dolls can, the girlfriend decides to actually be useful and confronts the bitchy witch. That’s okay though, she’s only worried about exposure, because you see, they are on the same side. Bitchy witch reveals that it wasn’t her who sent the car on fire but Cassie because she’s strong and has potential and they want her in the club. The trick is, to have any sort of real magical power, a circle of witches is needed and Cassie is the last member. But a chasm forms between miss girlfriend and bitchy witch as one wants to take it slow, and the other not so much.

Around Cassie, things start getting freakier, and she begins to suspect something is off, just not what.

But that’s besides the point, time to walk ten more metres and meet someone else who recognises her and knows everything about her and her mom.

I’ll make it short from here. It continues like this, building up, weird people meeting, talking to her about her mother, the parent figures vaguely speaking about magic and past tragedies, you know to establish that mystery element and all, and girlfriend character deciding to reveal everything to Cassie and take her into their circle.

She does that by leading her into a creepy house to meet the rest of the creepy teenagers. Naturally, the girl freaks and runs the hell away. But that’s okay, captain Adam comes to the rescue and shows her the wonders of magic, but now without some forced romantic tension of course.

Cassie still leaves and the creepsters reconvene to plot some ritual they need to perform to put their power under control. Their group quickly falls apart as bitchy witch is being all bitchy and power hungry.

Meanwhile, our protagonist seeks an answer with Adam’s cryptic, crazy father, but just before he can reveal anything relevant he is interrupted by random street creepster number two that she met earlier in the day. Still he foreshadows the chance her father is alive. Alive and a “very, very bad man.”

But moving on to bitchy getting drunk on power, turning off random lights and starting thunderstorms. A storm, she can’t stop so we can have some tension and maybe action as Cassie rides to the rescue to help them.

Cassie then goes home, creepy parent elements are being creepy, Adams pops for a visit to force spike the tension, she finds a magic book and a mysterious letter from her mother, and that’s it, episode over.

I guess they managed to establish the story and the characters in one episode, kudos to that. But one thing I don’t get. There’s magic in the world, yet this story insists on keeping us locked in this humany, teeny drama as a bunch of adults try to control the use of magic while the kids rebel. While that’s an adequate plot idea, the scope is just too small and too pathetic, the writer could have done so much more if she had escaped the frames of family drama.

Overall, I am utterly unimpressed. The series is mediocre at best and treats its audience like a brain dead horse. And the build up drags on and on with its moody music and establishment scenes. The dialogue is just as obvious and dull, stating everything, all the time, leaving nothing to subtlety.

Though the biggest issue, which becomes obvious through the first few episodes, is that the story is too ambitious. It introduces a lot of trends, and characters, and relations, and mysteries, and themes, and conflicts, and everything, and very early on it becomes clear that it would be impossible to resolve all of it in a few seasons without botching up or rushing the plot.

That was my main problem with the show and the reason I dropped it, it was just overloaded with things doomed to never to be complete as the series got cancelled after one season.

Still, for any witch themes lovers, starved for some hands on magic, it’s something to play in the background on a boring day.

Where is our shadow on a cloudy day?

Wherever we go, whatever we do, we’re always accompanied by a silent companion. Sometimes it’s quite dark and visible, and others it hides among its kind, but our shadow is forever bonded to us. Still, on certain overcast days, we may look around and notice that we are alone.

Where does our shadow go when the sky is cloudy grey?

Shadows are an optical effect caused by an object when it obscures the light source. And when there are many light sources, there can be many shadows.

A shadow such a common, everyday, thing that we may simply stop noticing it until it’s gone. Yet, it is also mysterious, so much so that we write and muse, and make metaphors out of it. In literature, some have written about the importance of a shadow, and how lacking it will make people shun and avoid you. And in art, shadows are essential, without them the picture may feel odd, unnerving, or simply lacking in some unfathomable way.

So what happens on a cloudy day? Light still streams from the sky, and we see our surroundings perfectly, so why are shadows faint or nonexistent?

Similar to how rainbows form after rain, the water droplets in the clouds diffuse most of the visible light, colouring the clouds white to darker and darker grey depending on their size and depth.

And as this mass of clouds scatters the sunrays, there simply isn’t a concentrated light source in the sky, and objects on the ground cast very faint or even no shadows. But while most of the sun’s radiation, and therefore visible light, are diffused or reflected, clouds don’t make UV rays any less dangerous and sunburn is still possible.

As for our constant companion, it return the moment a sunray touches the ground.

Resources and related reads:

Wikipedia: Shadows

University of Illinois: Scattering of Light

Hanover College: Shadow

American Scientist: Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

A small piece of Wilderness

 

We passed the bell shrine and climbed up the hill. Slowly, the fields gave way to trees and a wooden staircase emerged before us. It seemed low, but every segment brought another, carrying us higher and higher into the trees.

As we ascended, the forest grew more unkempt, and at the very top, another small shrine awaited, struggling against the encroachment of nature.

No bells, nor chimes flowed through the wind here, replaced instead by birds and insects who had claimed domain of the high temple grounds.

Farscape

Today we reach further back into the recent sci fi history, to the distant year of 1999 when the crazy rambled about the end of the world, the century was about to turn, and America collaborated with Australia to create Fascape.

Like Star Trek for many people, Farscape holds a special place in my heart as it entered my life somewhere around the beginning of my sci fi obsession. I’d go as far as to say it jump started it had I not seen Star Wars prior.

Farscape follows the adventures of John Crichton, played by Ben Browder, an astronaut testing a new gravity boosted way of space travel, only to collide with a wormhole and be sent lord knows where across the universe.

Fortunately for him, the universe seems to be quite populated because he hits one of the territories controlled by a number of alien species instead of showing up in the middle of nowhere and dying a cold, oxygen deprived death. In fact, he pops up right in the middle of a battle where his small shuttle is quickly swept into the fray.

Through the series, we follow him and the crew of an escaped prison ship Moya, as they struggle for survival and freedom while Crichton seeks a way back home. The characters are unique and interesting, and the story engaging. I have to admit there’s something missing, maybe in production, or because it was made for cable, or low budget, or I’m not really sure and it bugs me, but it’s still enjoyable to watch.

The CGI is somewhat dated, but pretty good for its time, smooth and blending well with the built sets though the sound design could use some work. The makeup is amazing too, though most of the aliens are too humanoid, given a crazy haircut and painted a different colour.

The actors are pretty good too, especially Browder who really sells his performance as Crichton and is a joy to watch.

So I give it a must watch, especially for sci fi fans. Farscape ran for four seasons, culminating in a TV movie, and got much less appreciation than I feel it deserved.

With full speed ahead, we plunge into episode one, otherwise called Premiere.

    We begin with Crichton staring at the sunrise, in his Hawaiian shirt and the space shuttle launch pad on the horizon. The first bits of dialogue are some sciency mumbo-jumbo that let us know all conditions are good to go while in the background they are fitting Johny into his space suit. Some more mumbo-jumbo follows as the annoying friend reads through magazines, talking about the experiment they are about to perform. In layman terms, he’s going to ride the upper circles of the atmosphere, using momentum and gravity to catapult his little ship off into space.

The launch goes as planned, and soon Johnny is on the fringes of the planet ready to begin the experiment that will prove his theory right. Even sooner, trouble comes on the horizon as some electro magnetic anomaly messes with their system and communications. Homebase orders him to abort, but before he has the chance, Crichton crashes into the anomaly, ripping a wormhole through space.

John emerges on the other side uscathed and quickly realises he can’t contact base, in fact, he can’t tell where he is at all. Not a moment later, a few space fighters whooz past him, one of them hitting the tip of his shuttle wing and crashing into an asteroid. It’s momentary and seemingly insignificant, but comes to play a huge part in the plot.

As he exits from the asteroid field, a huge ship emerges before him. The fighters are attacking it, and free floating through space, John is caught in the battle and pulled into the ship.

A cat sized, bug of a robot crawls up his shuttle when he finally lands in the loading bay of the ship. It short circuits his electronics, which starts a fire, in attempt to get him out.

Crichton catapults the shuttle lid along with the robot, breaking one of its little antenna eyes in the process. He later duct tapes it, something that will mark the little critter as his pet through the series.

More of the robots swarm him when he attempts to go back into his ship, tazing him along to the control deck. Crichton blinks, unable to believe his eyes, as a blue woman and a crazy looking man with tentacle-like hair struggle to control the ship. The man easily picks him up, asking questions in a language John can’t comprehend. That is quickly mended when one of the small bots injects him with translator microbes that magically decipher any language.

They are asking about his ship, having brought him along because they’ve never seen one of its kind and wonder if it can help them escape.

We then see the pilot, a huge creature with pincer-like hands that controls the ship from its core. Said ship, Moya, is in fact alive, a creature that dwells in the emptiness of space, and the pilot is another alien that is inserted to control the leviathan after it has been adjusted to serve as a ship.

Another of the crew joins us on his levitating throne, Dominar Rygel XVI, voiced by Jonathan Hardy, a king in exile. Meanwhile, Crichton lays where they threw him, still trying to comprehend what is happening.

 

 

Hull integrity is critical and the blue alien, Pa’u Zotoh Zhaan, played by Virginia Hay, starts praying until Ka D’Argo, played by Anthony Simcoe, rips out the right cables and the controls are unlocked. The collar is off, and the ship can finally flee. But it’s not over yet, the main enemy force arrives and Moya needs to starburst the hell out of there.

We shift to the enemy main ship where a woman reports that Moya has escaped and there were two casualties. The commander, Bialar Crais, played by Lani Tupu, replies he cares not about casualties, but then the messenger mentions one of them is his brother. The fighter that hit Crichton’s ship. Things get personal.

We are fifteen minutes in and none of them are squandered. Swift, action packed, and easy to follow introduction to the premise, characters and conflict.

While the ship is trying to figure out where the hell it is, our crew exchanges names and stories. Zhaan is the leader of anarchist priests, Ka D’Argo killed a fellow soldier, and the toad man was too shitty a ruler.

Meanwhile, Crichton awakes naked on the floor of a cell, praying it was all a dream. The small robot with the broken eye chippers something nearby proving him wrong. He questions why he has been imprisoned, and Rygel answers because they can’t trust him and his new cellmate, Officer Aeryn Sun, played by Claudia Black, whose Prowler, one of the space fighters, was swept into the starburst.

Turns out, Crichton, and humans in general, look exactly like Peacekeepers, the aliens that are pursuing Moya. John approaches Aeryn to introduce himself and she promptly beats the crap out of him demanding his rank and identification.

On the control deck, Moya and its crew try to slip into the nether regions of obscurity, but because Johnny took down Crais’ brother, the leader sets out to take down the leviathan ship.

Sometime later, the escaped prisoners feed the new prisoners in hopes to get information of of them, but the crew’s relations quickly break down as they bicker and whine with Zhaan trying to restore piece. Something she will do throughout her presence in the series.

Moya stops by a planet to trade, replenish whatever mechanical components and fluids were lost, and are needed to restore normal flight speed. While in his cell, Crichton muses on how he got where he is, determining it must have been a wormhole so the only way to go back is wormhole as well. Problem is, where to find or how to create one?

Earlier Aeryn tried to sneak out a fork and failed, now when she snaps at Johnny, he shows her he stole one as well. The two flee the cell as she plans to sabotage the ship and contact her people. He talks her out of sabotaging and the two fly off on her ship and down to the planet.

The meeting with the Peacekeepers doesn’t go as planned, Crichton and Ka D’Argo are captured and Crais intends to fully dissect the human. Aeryn stands up for him and Crais orders her imprisonment as well.

They get away, of course, thanks to Crichton’s smart mouthness, and along with Officer Sun, return to Moya.

The enemy ships follow, and unable to star jump yet, Moya is limited to running. But Johnny gets a genious idea to use his theory, the one he was testing, and bounce the ship from the planet’s atmosphere. He proves his theory right, and they escape, plunging into uncharted territories and towards new adventures.

Overall, the episode was well paced and did a good job establishing the series with the variety of interesting characters. A good show to watch on a lazy evening.

How does heat affect us?

You leisurely lounge at home on a summer afternoon, maybe the cooling is on, or a light breeze dances in the air but the heat still lingers, weighing you down. No matter what you do, where you turn, how many clothes you take off or cool drinks you chug, it always finds its way, wrapping you in a tight, warm blanket.

 

And when the heat becomes extreme, it can provoke quite radical physical reactions in the body, varying from flushing, sweating, dehydration, fatigue, nausea, headaches, cramps to even more serious illness and death.

Areas with high humidity make matters even worse because sweating and breathing are not as effective at cooling the body. In other words, as awesome as summer is, it should not be underestimated and precautions should be taken against the sneaky heat.

But what about some of the more subtle ways the sizzling summer days affect us? Heat makes our bodies unhappy and as a result, our mind isn’t at its perkiest either. First, our concentration suffers as it becomes increasingly difficult to focus on any brain related work beyond chanting ‘oh god its freaking hot’ in a loop. But not only do we feel extra lazy, but also more anxious and irritable, ready to snap at anything and anyone unless they come bearing gifts in the form of cool drinks or ice cream.

And the worst part is, there’s no escape this hellish nightmare other than sticking to air conditioned spaces, wearing as little clothing as possible, soaking in a pool, and making sure the soda on ice keeps coming.

References and additional reads:

National Weather Service: Health and Safety PDF

CBCNews: Too hot for your health, How heat affects the body

Scientific American: How Does a Heat Wave Affect the Human Body?

UoC, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources: How heat affects the body

Dominion

I’m always up for angelic/demonic fiction so naturally Dominion caught my eye.

Even if it claims to be a descendant of Legion, a movie that didn’t leave me all too happy, I was ready to give Dominion a chance.

    So, without further ado, SyFy’s Dominion. Snorts a laugh. Can you believe this poster?

Let me tell you, season two’s cover isn’t much better:

    Which brings me to the first issue. The tone. The posters aren’t necessarily bad but establish up a much more ridiculous, over the top feel, while the actual series has a much more sombre, serious mood even if overly dramatic at times.

    Dominion, in a nutshell, is a story about political games, romantic triangles, forbidden intra class love, personal struggles, angels dealing with internal issues, and a post apocalyptic society struggling to survive under the threat of Gabriel’s, the human exterminator, return.

It doesn’t look bad either. We get nice, if questionable, CGI, and artsy scene setup. Though at times it can seem a bit fake, more like a tacky art project, or out of place fashion magazine in an otherwise gritty environment.

My verdict is: hilarious in how seriously it takes itself. That doesn’t necessarily mean bad, the series can be fun at times, but I definitely wouldn’t call Dominion a masterpiece as it is often bogged down by unnecessary drama. It’s more about political games rather than action.

Oh yeah, and Anthony S. Head is in it. Playing the human villain. Kind of.

So let’s see what the pilot episode has to offer.

It opens with a “what happened before” narration. I cringe already, but at least the powerpoint looks pretty. Yada, yada, god fucked off, led by Gabriel, angels decided to destroy humanity, some refused to join, lesser spirits had no problem possessing humans left and right to serve as a cannon fodder. And, of course, one archangel, Michael, chooses to fight for humanity, because otherwise we wouldn’t have much of a story, poor Earth would be singed in minutes. Then prophecies, chosen ones, you know the drill. Not the most original story, well maybe not by now, and the worst part is the nice apocalyptic war happened in the shitty movie, and we’re stuck observing the aftermath. So forget anything you just heard about angel against human wars, and turn your eyes to the small flea infested refuge of Vega, former Las Vegas.

I do have to give them points for location though. The series was shot in South Africa, and we get some real nice scenery.

About minute and a half in, we meet the protagonist Alex, played by Christopher Egan, as he scavenges for supplies on his own. But fear not, he was not sent on a fool’s errand by an equally foolish authority, no he decided to sneak out on his own.

It was well shot though, and the reveal of the possessed humans  was startling enough. If we can ignore all the cheese because a lot of the shots and developments drip with it.

The possessed do serve as a nice monster, a challenging enemy with creepy visuals and supernatural powers that is only outmatched by the angels themselves. Though a lot of that threat fades as angels are killed or drop dead left and right. Even our main stars, the archangels often struggle in their fights. Having it hard is nice and all, but there’s nothing quite like an enemy who can roll through hordes of humans without a scratch. And we don’t get much of that, we get gritty, physical fights, where even the angels often find themselves threatened or on the brink of extinction.

They are too earthy, too human, you just lack the mystery and threat of the supernatural. A monster is scary until you drag it into the light and showcase its weaknesses.

But moving on.

Naturally, Alex’s superiors are not too happy with his actions, sending him away for the Archangel to take care of.

The archangel himself, Michael, played by Tom Wisdom, poutingly stares through his windows from the highest tower of the city, after what appears to have been an orgy. I got to give it to them, the establishing scene with all the ladies was quite artsy though someone poured too much cooking oil on them.

Michael is upset, because all the ladies want him, and he’s too afraid to have a child, yet he indulges anyway. I find this whole theme/storyline laughable if not unnecessary. I guess they were trying to give him a conflict or a personality or something, but it just sticks out like a fragment that couldn’t quite blend but someone forgot to cut it out in the final version.

And of course, this scene could not end in any other way than Michal plunging out of the window and flying away.

The city itself, its layers and classes was an interesting idea that they tried and somewhat pulled off, introducing class problem, religious cults and the challenge to rule a post apocalyptic society and keep it from sliding into anarchy. As in any society, the poor are pretty fucked over, though what baffles me is why the army is held with such a low regard considering how necessary it is. If anything, the army should be above the petty aristocracy, considering it’s all that keeps the angels, and the possessed at bay. Granted, the first “ruler” is a general, but the rest of the council-thing are all civilians.

And we’re introduced to yet more intrigue. Alex, our lowly soldier, is having an affair with the ‘president’s’ daughter. Gasp! Which is problematic because the power families intend to join by marrying son of one to daughter of the other. One of the episode sub-plots is the lovebirds’ plan to fly away unless the big man lets them marry. That, will naturally be hindered by other events.

I’m kind of itching for fight scenes. Not that it drags, but I imagined more bloody battles between angels and the like and less human drama.

Actually, the series often has the feel of a family drama, which I’m not really a fan of, but I guess it does introduce tension and intrigue. The resolutions can be quite satisfying too when in the end you dump the whiny, useless character whose face you had to bear throughout, in the middle of the desert. Thought that means that he’s still alive and we’ll probably see more of him later. Ugh.

But it’s time to meet the damsel of the series, Claire, played by Roxanne McKee, who could not be more of a metaphor of the virgin mother. For heaven’s sake, in her first introduction she is in a white dress, with flowers in her hair, preaching to children under candle light about the chosen one.

We also see the orphan of the series, Bixby, played by Betsy Wilke. A pasty, thin blond girl with bags under her eyes who is dressed in rags and the protagonist feels personally responsible for looking after her. Yeah, she’s so dead.

A delegation from Helena, a neighbouring/rival city, arrives and the political games begin, each city trying to haggle something out of the other. The catch is Vega will soon have a nuclear reactor, and Helena, supposedly, has an air force. Again it was an interesting idea with the city relations and organisations, while Vega has a more cast like system, Helena seems to be a total tyrannical matriarchy.

A lot of things are introduced in the first episode themes, characters, plots, and at some point it begins feeling crowded. I just prefer more subtle or straightforward story lines. So I will speed-tell the rest so we don’t have to be here all day.

Alex’s father returns, drama ensues because he left without a word. Problems arise among the politicians because the delegation brought in angel infiltrators. All hell breaks loose. Oh and Alex is the chosen one. But the upper cast will cover up everything to keep the masses docile. The end.

The series are not bad, they bring a lot of ideas to the table, but I feel we can’t really focus on them all. A for effort, and if you do like overly complicated, intrigue clad dramas, give it a watch.