Apparently, I’m a sucker for a re-made TV series which must have aired during my media-sensitive formative years.
Although I missed the pilot when it originally aired a couple of weeks ago, I just caught up with it on ABC.com and was mildly intrigued by a couple of things.
Religion…I’m always interested in the portrayal of religion and spiritual subjects when it comes to TV, film, music, etc. Jack, (hmm…what’s the obsession with “Jack” and hero characters for ABC?) is a priest who quickly becomes aligned with the resistance movement. In the final scene with Elizabeth Mitchell (also of Lost fame), “devotion” is identified as the great weapon which the reptilian visitors have on their side.
It reminds me a little bit of C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters and some of 
the ways in which the appretice demon was learning to thwart God’s purposes in the lives of Christ followers.
That scene certainly prompted me to think of ways in which my own devotion might be misappropriated. St. Augustine called it disordered love in our lives.
We’ll see how the Visitors’ attempt goes for gaining viewership and entertainment devotion. But this idea obviously begs the question on a spiritual level, have we lost our identity as subversives and champions of resistance?
Is our devotion rightly directed…or has it been hijacked by a reptilian or somewhat sinister system of living?
No one’s saying that isn’t an alluring option. 
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