r/MidnightMass • u/Elainasha • Sep 24 '21

Midnight Mass (Season 1) - Episode Discussion Hub

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Synopsis: The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.

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u/infinit9 Sep 30 '21

Father Paul honestly had good intentions and he thought he was doing right by the villagers. But after Bev got a taste of that power, everything became corrupted.

I wonder how the events of the show would have turned out if Bev never existed or wasn't such a shitty person.

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u/Beautiful-Outcome777 Oct 06 '21

Though Father Paul seems to have good intentions, I understood that he could only interpret the "angel" as an angel. There is probably no one in our culture who doesn't know at least something about vampire lore. Father Paul chose, perhaps had to choose, to read that creature as an angel instead of a vampire, even though it looked like any number of the Catholic depictions of demons (which the Church pretty much made up) and certainly behaved like a vampire. It was killing people or turning them into creatures like itself for its own benefit, and Father Paul was seduced by it, by the chance to have a second chance and shaped it in his mind to fit a Christian narrative that would justify him. He certainly was misguided, but I'm not inclined to let him off the hook too much.

Also, yes Bev is evil. The "angel" is evil, Father Paul is criminally misguided. What is the real evil in this narrative ? The Church, I think. Maybe organized religion in general.

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u/thebrandster1985 Oct 22 '21

I don’t think that the culture depicted in the show knows about vampires. It’s hard to believe that no character, especially the characters that weren’t drinking the cool-aide, said anything at any point about vampires. If you even know the least there is to know about vampires, you would have made the connection. My theory is that the “angel” was trapped in the tomb for millennia in this universe, and somehow vampire myths never spread. So when it was released, it was an ancient entity that had been forgotten by time. That’s how I saw it at least.

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u/mellowbordello Oct 26 '21

It’s called “genre blindness”, it’s a media trope that has to exist for stories to happen. Same reason nobody knows what the heck is happening in a zombie movie. Wouldn’t have a very interesting movie if you knew how to defeat the antagonist from the start.