More thoughts on Forever. I have a guess as to where the curse comes from (though not the how) based on a single facial expression.

Back in the pilot, when Henry was trying to keep the slave from being thrown overboard, the expression on the slaves face was not "Oh what a noble, if futile gesture". It was WTF to the bazillionth.

The way I interpret this is "You had nothing to say surrounded by people in chains on their way to being sold, but when one of us is to be killed in front of you THEN it is too much for you. Where were you the rest of voyage?"

In short, Henry was the good man who was silent in the face of evil until it was too late. Now who cast the curse I don't know. The slave's curse as he died? Some god or spirit? But the point of the curse was "You valued life but not freedom? Then you shall have life till you are sick of it, with no freedom to choose to end it." Anyway, that is what I got out of a single facial expression.

Except how does that explain Adam?

If one person can be cursed so can another. We don't know Adam's back story yet, but it does not have to be exactly the same; to be consistent with this theory all that would be needed would be for Adam to have been cursed for having (at one time) valued life over the things that made life worth living.

The Secret History of John Constantine

The guy who plays Iris' detective boyfriend looks like Misha Collins. It creeps me out.

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Tom, that's an excellent article on Constantine, thanks for linking.

"Commercial" for Henry Parish, Attorney at Law: [link]

AWESOME.

"Got food poisoning from sin eating?"

That was awesome. Anybody dared to try the phone number?

Constantine was not terrible, but the writing was kind of pedestrian. At least Matt Ryan seems like a good fit for the role.

I liked Constantine. Not in love yet, but I'm in for more. John seems, so far, pretty much the same John as in the comics, with, predictably, less smoking and swearing. The reason he's now in America makes sense, and I like this odd new version of Chas. There was a bit too much of the girl/MacGuffin, though I guess she's supposed to be the Ordinary Jane that the audience who doesn't know John is meant to identify with, so I guess that's to be expected in a pilot. From what I've read, she was originally meant to be a continuing character, but the writers decided to send her on her way and bring in a different woman character as a regular - hopefully someone more interesting and less of a damsel. The actor who plays Constantine did great, I can't imagine them finding a better one. He moves and speaks a little faster than I imagine the "real" John would, but hey, we've only got 42 minutes.