Fallen

Language : English / Portuguese / Italian / French

Year of release : 2007

Run time : 1h20min-1h24min / 3 episodes

Genre : Fantasy / Mini Series

Cast : Paul Wesley, Bryan Cranston

The series are based on 'The Fallen' series of novels by Thomas Sniegoski, published in 2003-2004.

Episode 1

Aaron is a teenager who's been living with a foster family for three years now,and still calls them by their real names,instead of calling them mother and father. He is an orphan who doesn't know his parents.

His foster family has an autistic child,who only feels comfortable around Aaron,him being the only one he lets touch him without permission.

 

On the eve of his 18th birthday, Aaron has migraines,and when he wakes up,he can understand animals and foreign languages he never studied.

Aaron has dreams and visions about ancient times,and then he meets a homeless man who tells him he is a fallen angel,and Aaron is a nephilim,and not just that,but he might be their redeemer.

Problem is,to this day, the fallen angels and their offspring,the nephilim,are hunted by the k1ller angels,the powers,to destroy them.

 

A former k1ller angel,Camael, finds Aaron and offers him his help,as he thinks God gave the fallen a second chance at redemption,by sending them their redeemer, through Aaron,who can send them back to God.

Episode 2

Aaron is listening to the fallen angels' confessions now,and redeems them.

He meets a girl on campus and goes out with her,and even to her classes,where,the shock,the teacher speaks about Paradise Lost,and Aaron ends up talking to him about angels.

The teacher trusts him,and tells him his secret.

His secret is Aaron's former love interest,his school mate,who was captured by a secret society,and was held with spells in the teacher's house.

The Powers are tracking the fallen angels and Aaron.

Azaziel is released from hell by a mysterious entity,and asked to help Aaron.

Camael fights the Powers,and loses.

Episode 3

 

Aaron is chased by The Powers,and he fights them with Azaziel,defeating them.

Azaziel is taking Aaron and his girlfriend to the Light Bringer (nobody figured out who this is,as it's so obvious! * eye roll) as he tells him he has all the answers.

Camael is punished by the Powers with having his wings taken with angel fire,and is badly wounded. He still pursues Aaron,trying to stop him from doing the Light Bringer's bidding.

The leader of the Powers,Mazarin, asks advice from God,and Michael comes to tell him he needs to help Aaron instead of k1lling him,in order to defeat Lucifer.

The Powers join forces with Camael and Ariel,trying to find Aaron.

Aaron reaches a portal to where the Light Bringer is,and enters it. Vilma,his love interest, follows him,seeing is taking too long,and gets trapped in...hell.

The first time I watched these series I liked it,but now when I know more on the subject,it just annoys me. It's obvious the writer didn't do his research on angels,fallen angels and nephilim .

 

One thing that always bothered me in such series (Supernatural is one of them) was they always portray the angels as bad,hating humanity,and God always missing,always being an absent God,nobody knowing how God looks like or where he is,not even the angels! The angels never talk to him, they have the same relation to God people have! The same thing happens here.

The actors were good,especially the actor who played Ezekiel.

The visual effects are so and so, as in,they're not that good. At times they kinda look like cartoons.

The aerial fights are also bad,and this was made after the Matrix.

The soundtrack did no impress,as at times it wasn't loud enough,and so on.

The series are on FuboTv free for 7 days, and on Freeform with subscription.

 

Rating : Worth a watch !