Chilling Adventures of Sabrina...Thoughts?

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There is a literal Satanist group (not wiccan) charging Netflix with appropriation and use of their imagery.
 
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And here everyone was getting worked up over Harry Potter despite Rowling insisting real world Wicca has no place in her fictional world ;).
 
Personally, I like darker stuff when it is still maintains a bit of whimsical charm and gentle humanity to it. It’s why I love things like The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Coraline, Harry Potter, and even the first Witcher game. Once it starts moving to being in-your-face, edgy, and/or cynical, I start to lose interest.

Edit: I guess there’s also being so dark you come around to being campy. That’s always good for some laughs.
 
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“Death is for other people dear.”
We will definitely see the Master again…but the Gomez Missy incarnation? Perhaps.
 
I thought I saw an episode recently (perhaps it was the last Capaldi episode) where both recent iterations of the character, Missy and the Master are present on a world and they end up shooting each other dead simultaneously, can’t remember why exactly. (Not that any of this means they can’t find a way to bring the character back, as it is science fiction after all.)

I would like to see them bring back the classic Dr. Who villainess known as ‘the Rani’. I think she was an evil and particularly ruthless Time Lord.
 
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I almost feel bad saying this, but I’ve been watching Sabrina, and I like the show. I think the writer is probably Catholic, because they get a lot of things right. For instance, someone refers to Satan as the father of lies. And they talk about exorcism - and how only the Catholics can do it. They also discuss limbo, and get that mostly correct too. They also have a scene where the witches are literally eating another witch as part of a ceremony. If you’ve ever listened to the former Satanic priest Zachary King, he describes something very similar in his talk “Abortion is a Satanic Sacrifice”. And the witches and warlocks who are really into Satanism are very heavy handed and no fun at all. In fact, everyone fears them. We find in one episode, where Sabrina is on trial, that she is excused because she was baptized in a Catholic church. Her defense counsel presents her baptismal certificate to the court as evidence. Sabrina rebels against these things - but does learn magic, and some evil spells. She says that she only attends the school for witches is so that she can learn to conjure the devil so she can destroy him. So even though some of the witches do say things that we would never say, and do praise their dark master, I think the writers are building towards Sabrina possibly renouncing the Satanic and moving towards Christianity. How counter cultural! I would NEVER let my son watch this though. He can’t access it as he has a disability, and I don’t let him see me watch it. If anyone has questions I’ll be happy to answer. I’ve now seen all 10 episodes. God bless you all. I completely understand many who don’t wish to watch this or support it. I just wanted to see what they were going to say about Catholicism and Satanism. The jury is still out. But my money is on Catholicism being made to look good eventually in this series. I truly hope I’m correct.
 
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Thank you for your analysis! That is one of the subjects I wondered if and how they would handle, Satan being the father of lies. When they were explaining to Sabrina that for their service they are given power and spared the torments of hell, I kept thinking…but the devil is a liar who doesn’t honor contracts and hates you.

Since I couldn’t keep watching it my guess here is less informed than yours, but I don’t think the writer is Catholic. I would hope that a Catholic would put a little more thought into protecting their audience and crew from dabbling in the occult, but we come in all stripes. The inclusion of Catholicism would be necessary because of the degree to which that type of satanic worship seeks to mock, parody, and invert the Catholic mass.

You’ve kind of peaked my curiosity about her conjuring the devil to destroy him. That doesn’t seem like it will pan out well for her.

I wonder how they will depict the devil. I remember watching Penny Dreadful and getting so scared of an episode where the main character was to walk into a room and face the devil. I was almost too afraid of how the depiction would haunt my thoughts later to find out, then he ended up being a talking marionette puppet that looked just like her.😆
 
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That’s a shame. You mean the writer who created the Rani somehow got rights to the character? I’m surprised the BBC would be so generous whenever this was (the 60’s-70’s)?
 
I loved it! It was entertaining and I liked the riverdale mentions here and here. Also it’s a great show for diversity. At the end of the day it’s just a show, it’s not reality. Satanism and witchcraft are not the same thing witches don’t worship or believe in satan and satanism is more the honour of the self than evil in real life. It was funny. Also side note apparently a temple of the church of satan is suing Netflix for copyright of the baphomet statue.
 
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There’s not a hidden satanic agenda being plotted by the producers, much to the chagrin of the conspiracy theorists on here.
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No, the producers most likely do not have a hidden satanic agenda. But we know that Lucifer himself definitely has an agenda.
 
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