Have just finished watching the second series...the bit where the boy asks The Man if his father loved him and he answers the boy by saying "in his own way" or something to that effect.
The father he is referring to is God.
I think the Man is Loki/Trickster/Raven/Eris/Coyote.
shareThe devil would try harder to convince the people not to back out, I think.
Sometimes I get the impression that while the man is telling them to do specific bad things to get what they believe they most want, he may actually be 'helping' them to redeem themselves by providing an opportunity to choose the greater good over their own selfish wants.
I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker.
Sometimes I get the impression that while the man is telling them to do specific bad things to get what they believe they most want, he may actually be 'helping' them to redeem themselves by providing an opportunity to choose the greater good over their own selfish wants.I think that's pretty much it. Not all the requests are selfish, but many of them are. Some should be completely unattainable, and some should only come with actual dedication and hard work.
Exactly.
Like the man who was tasked to kill 22 people. At first it seems like why would you task this guy to do this? But then you realize it was so the other guy could redeem himself by stopping him. He may have quit his own request, but he found something within himself because of that event....
and the man tasked to kill the 22 people, he was more than happy to have done it even without the reward. He deserved to die.
Which would make him God. But, then, he also, tempts people by their own lusts. Which would make him the devil. Some belief systems reconcile this dichotomy by concluding that God and the devil are two aspects of the same Divine being.
sharePersonally, I think "The Man" might actually be God. I just finished watching both seasons in one sitting for the first time right now, so I'm a bit too tired to list all of my reasons for thinking this (being that it's almost 4am).
If he is God, however, I think that might make Doris "The Devil". It could quite easily be the opposite, though. When she says that she wants him to love her at the end, I could see that going both ways: God wanting Satan to just love him unconditionally, or Satan wanting God to forgive him and love him for who he is.
Whatever ends up happening, Christopher Kubasik has already proven to me that he's more than capable of writing a phenomenal ending to this wonderfully intriguing series.
I've only watched the first season and I cannot believe that a show that takes place entirely in a booth of a diner can keep me so interested.
There was a point when The Man is asked if he believes in God and he replies, "I believe in the details".
Ever hear the phrase, "The Devil's in the Details?"
That had me thinking along those lines for a while, but I've since decided that I believe that The Man is actually more likely an ordinary human and just like the rest of the characters he also wants something. The deal that he made in order to get it was to be this man at the booth at the end dishing out deals to people for a certain period of time in order to get his own wish fulfilled.
But hey, who knows? All I know is that it keeps my attention every episode I watch.
In the first series in, I believe, the penultimate episode he is asked, "Do you believe in God?"
The answer was "I believe in the detail". As in 'the devil is in the detail' which was the big giveaway.
And before that it was plainly obvious that he was by offering anything one desired for a little service. If he isn't the Devil then he's certainly one of his daemons acting on his behalf.
Wbichever it is there is certainly something of The Pit about him.
I do have to say that this is a brilliant series throughout and it would have made an excellent stage production.
I'm not sure. I get the impression that his activities have started quite recently, and that he actually stole the book from someone (Doris threatening to report him). Maybe he's a spirit, a djinn, a demon, a character from another mythology... Maybe he's a human who had an encounter with something supernatural at some point and found himself in this situation as a result. Maybe he asked the devil for a deal and what he had to do to get it was intervene in people's life the way he does at the diner.
Maybe it doesn't actually matter who he is, it's a fable and he's a metaphor. The interesting bit is how everything is connected, how good and bad are intertwined as well and also destiny vs. free will.
(Btw, the original expression is actually God is in the detail. The devil version of the sentence is a satire of it.
not sure foar you have been following the series, but it is quite obvious that he his neither god nor the devil.
"laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." - Dae-su Oh
I think that he is a fallen Angel (like the devil), but not the devil himself because he seems releaved when a person makes a choice not to kill somebody. I think that Doris is a regular angel.
shareHe's definitely not the devil because there are other like him and he fears them.
He is kind of an outcast, hiding from them. He also is "cursed" to do what he does, he has no choice. He has to write down the stuff. If someone asks for a deal, he has to comply. He is researching something in human behavior, something metaphysical. He personally doesn't have any power, the book has, he just can read, interpret and write in the book.
Maybe he is some kind of alien? :)