Never mind that, as I said, they didn't even do a good job of ripping off Leon: The Professional. Not that anything in this show has any emotional weight, especially considering how good the various things they try to copy from were.

So you're saying that it surprises you that a show that's been around for three years gets people more excited than something Cerone and David S. Goyer have thrown together in the most haphazard fashion?

Yes, that is correct. If we let them be unoriginal in such an obvious way even once, they'll do it all the time— they'll rip off the demon Pazuzu and everything else from The Exorcist, they'll rip off psychic paper from Doctor Who, they'll even rip off that I'm-Batman voice that Keanu used in the movie of Constantine…

But the way he dealt with Faust was just the end of the movie LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL. Girl is in trouble, so a meeting with the bad guy is unavoidable, a grenade pin is pulled, bad guy problem solved.