Revelations

On NBC last night, a new short series titled "Revelations" premiered. It's the story of a Harvard professor whose daughter has just been murdered by a cult leader. Strangely, a nun comes to visit him, saying that there is a girl in Florida, who, although brain dead, is speaking in Latin and writing maps. On the map is a picture of a donkey, and the professor realizes that his daughter used to make that sign on her notes to him. So he goes to check out the girl, and just as he is convinced it's all hocus pocus (she has silver fillings embedded in her medulla as a result of a lightning strike), the girl "dies." He takes her hand, recalling images from his own daughter's funeral, and suddenly, she squeezes it and her heart starts beating again. Meanwhile, a mysterious baby is the only survivor of a ferry accident in the Aegean Sea. It is taken to a Greek Orthodox cathedral where people go to see and touch the baby, hoping for miracles.

Let's just say it will keep me watching for the full six episodes.

I think some of it is hokey, such as the villain whose lord is Satan, and starts to preach his ministry in a maximum-security prison. I like apocalyptic fiction, but this might be too Xtian for my taste. In fact, it has a rather "The Stand"-ish feel to it.

What I find rather amusing are the people who believe that this series is not a work of fiction. Get over yourselves, people.