Post by Melissa Kane on Feb 26, 2007 23:57:10 GMT
This is a really clever Canadian TV series, as disconcerting as it is entertaining.
The basic premise (I started this in one of the Meghan Ory threads further up the forum) is that a monk, Brother Morgan Pym (the delectable Chris Kramer. ) from the 14th Century, tempted to stray from his devout and Godly path by the love of a woman, is recruted by the Devil to be his first, but by no means last, Soul Collector. The Collector arrives 48 hours before a deal with the Devil is set to expire and watches the client squirm before his or her soul is taken to Hell for eternity.
After centuries of service, Morgan puts a suggestion to the Devil that he use those 48 hours to try to redeem the souls he was sent to collect. If he cannot break the deal, he will collect the soul as per instruction. Haunted by his memories of the woman he loved and lost and with constant interference, bluff and double bluff by the Devil himself, who finds the prospect of redemption amusing, Morgan has his work cut out.
This isn't as steeped in theology as you might think, though obviously God and the Devil are pretty much in the forefront of the tale. The Collector is, in part, a morality lesson - about being careful what you wish for and being grateful for what you have - and partly a detective story for the viewer, trying to figure out how Morgan can find the deal breaking situation and to puzzle out the Collector's own past while we're at it.
If you get a chance to, watch it. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
Enjoy!
'Lissa.
The basic premise (I started this in one of the Meghan Ory threads further up the forum) is that a monk, Brother Morgan Pym (the delectable Chris Kramer. ) from the 14th Century, tempted to stray from his devout and Godly path by the love of a woman, is recruted by the Devil to be his first, but by no means last, Soul Collector. The Collector arrives 48 hours before a deal with the Devil is set to expire and watches the client squirm before his or her soul is taken to Hell for eternity.
After centuries of service, Morgan puts a suggestion to the Devil that he use those 48 hours to try to redeem the souls he was sent to collect. If he cannot break the deal, he will collect the soul as per instruction. Haunted by his memories of the woman he loved and lost and with constant interference, bluff and double bluff by the Devil himself, who finds the prospect of redemption amusing, Morgan has his work cut out.
This isn't as steeped in theology as you might think, though obviously God and the Devil are pretty much in the forefront of the tale. The Collector is, in part, a morality lesson - about being careful what you wish for and being grateful for what you have - and partly a detective story for the viewer, trying to figure out how Morgan can find the deal breaking situation and to puzzle out the Collector's own past while we're at it.
If you get a chance to, watch it. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
Enjoy!
'Lissa.