Brimstone (TV series): Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"I never loved anyone but'' God. ''And that was a long time ago."''|'''Satan'''}}

 

 

A show that was entirely [[Too Good to Last]]; it suffered from constant pre-emptions and never quite found its audience, and was canceled after just 13 episodes. Lasted from October, 1998 to February, 1999.

 

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=== Provides examples of: ===

* [[Confessional]]: The opening scene of uses the confessional as exposition that the protagonist has been brought back from the dead to hunt down 113 souls who have escaped from Hell. When the priest demands to know why he's telling this ridiculous story, the protagonist says: "Oh I think you know." (The priest is one of the 113).

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The Devil. Zeke manages to get in a few as well.

* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: The Devil is shown at the local hot dog stand and jogging.

* [[Don't Tell Mama]]: {{spoiler|Gilbert Jax, the guy who raped Stone's wife is one of the 113 who escaped. Stone doesn't have the heart to tell Gilbert's mother what the guy was ''really'' like, and lets her believe he sent Gilbert back to Heaven.}}

* [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu]]: The Devil is annoyed when Zeke shoots him, and makes it clear he's not to do it again.

* [[Evil Is Petty]]: When ever Satan drops by, he will engage in some petty prank of anonymous evil. Such as ticketing a legally parked car. loosening a salt shaker. or tying shoelaces together.

* [[Eye Scream]]: The escaped souls can be forced to return when the eyes of their hosts ("windows to the soul") are destroyed. This is often mentioned but usually done off-screen by Ezekiel.

* [[Fake Guest Star]]: John Glover, who played the Devil on every episode, was always credited as a guest star. In fact, the only name in the opening titles was Peter Horton.

* [[Foe Yay]]: Between Zeke and {{spoiler|Ash}}. It started off as mutual attraction, until she got his shirt off and saw her name tattooed on his chest. She still seems to have some interest in him, however.

* [[Gods Need Prayer Badly]]: Undergoes a dizzying [[Genre Shift]] when {{spoiler|the LAPD policewoman who had been his inside track with Earthly authorities is revealed to be the ringleader of the souls, a dead Canaanite priestess who had engineered the escape from Hell by seducing Satan. (The policeman had, unwittingly, been helping her to eliminate members of her "gang" that had gone rogue.) Her plan is to systematically eradicate belief in the God of Abraham from human culture, thereby causing God, Heaven, and Hell, to all blink out of existence. The protagonist realizes that Satan had been desperate to retrieve the escaped spirits, not out of some altruistic desire to restore the [[Cosmic Balance]], but because if the priestess were to succeed in her agenda, Satan, being part of the Abrahamic mythos himself, would blink out of existence as well.}}

* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: Or, rather, [[Gotta Kill Them All]].

* [[Human Notepad]]: Zeke Stone has the names of the 113 damned souls he's hunting tattooed on his body, 'penned in [the Devil's] native tongue'. When he sends a damned soul back, their name is removed, painfully.

* [[Satan]]: Played by John Glover, which just goes to show he's a ''good'' [[Magnificent Bastard]].

* [[Satan Is Good]]: The Devil isn't necessarily evil. In fact, he's in charge of punishing evildoers, hence his need to get the 113 escapees back to hell. He is, however, an unrepentant [[Jerkass]]. <ref> His need to get the souls back may also be partially motivated by self-interest. It's impled that he's accountable to God and will suffer if he allows the souls to run free.</ref>

* [[Trickster Mentor]]: Satan.

* [[Walking Wasteland]]: "Carrier."