DOMINION starts 25 years after the battle between
angels and
humans started in Legion. Humanity has
hidden behind fortified cities and one of them is Vega (formerly known as Las
Vegas). Two
house vie for power in Vega that one of the heads, David Whele, (played by
Anthony Stewart Head) plans a wedding between his son William and Claire Riesen
(the heir apparent to Vega and the lover of Alex). Alex Lannon wants to
run off with Claire,
but he also has a bigger role planned in the coming battle as the Chosen One as
foreseen by Archangel Michael (the only good angel). Archangel Gabriel
is assembling an army of
lower angels in this post-apocalyptic future.
DOMINION sounds like a great concept on paper,
but I hope
the series is better than the awful pilot.
The only saving grace is Anthony Stewart Head. The two lead female actors
look beautiful,
but Michael seems to have world class angel problems as Senator Becca Thorne
(his bisexual lover played by Rosalind Halstead) wants him to join in with the
sex games with her and other women. Michael
has Catholic guilt and wants to get back to being a pure angel while Gabriel
still wants to get rid of the humans (including using low level angels to
possess humans). DOMINION is full of
flawed characters and a reluctant hero, but the series is going to have to make
up for the bad soap opera that the pilot ended up being. The pilot doesn’t
really compel me as the
caste system of Vega and the religion overtones come off as badly written. I
think I rather have seen a TV series based
on the movie PRIEST than seeing a movie based off LEGION (which isn’t a bad
movie and it is a superior work compared to the pilot episode of DOMINION). I
hope the show gets better, but I won’t
miss it if SyFy cancels it if future episodes play out like the pilot.
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