Amanda Mims' Meditation #8

I’m not going to lie, I was not at all looking forward to spending an entire Saturday watching a ridiculously long movie; I was however looking forward to the free food. Interestingly enough though I found The Mysteries to be quite entertaining, and actually found some sort of pleasure in spending a Saturday cooped up in Ida Green. I was mesmerized by Lucifer. Reading back over that it makes me sound somewhat like a Satanist, but the man who played him was so talented and brought such a different side to someone that I was brought up only hearing about how he was a fallen angel, a heretic, and just all around a really bad being. However while watching The Mysteries I was drawn in by his charm and his humor and how sly he was in situations. But this all makes perfect sense when talking about the devil, even as displayed in the Adam and Eve scene in the Garden of Eden, Eve was sucked in by his charm. He is a master at commanding attention and manipulating to get his way. I also was envious of the comedic timing that Lucifer had all throughout the show, comedy is much more difficult than people think—timing is the most important thing, and his was perfect. I found it so odd that to me the Devil was the comic relief because typically the source of all evil isn’t too funny.