I haven't been keeping up with this season's new TV shows with MK themes [already posted on Dollhouse and others previously, like
The Listener (guy hears people's thoughts, sounds average and looks it from trailers on TV) but I did catch
Kings per the recommendation of a commenter a while back and having seen all the butterfly/Monarch imagery for myself on
their website and such. This is the type of show that I think a few people may be interested in covering due to the fact that it is based on the biblical story of
King David, so I won't mention everything significant, just picture some of the Monarch imagery and others; it is made by
Israeli/American Zionist Michael Green. As usual the American masses
have ignored (though Nielsen ratings are obviously a useless method of telling how many people watch something [most don't have Nielsen boxes (+ most people probably download it anyway), they are all apparently consciously given to American Idol/Desperate Housewives/Greys Anatomy watching zombies]) what could become a great show in my opinion, so it'll probably be cancelled after the first season.
The show has obvious parallels to modern day America, including the architecture, the controlled media and many others. Shiloh (main city) is consciously made to look like
New York too, NY/OZ;
Ian McShane's Daily Show interview promoting the show is very good (goes into the NY connection), which I watched after writing this (took it as a synch + talking about the Queen etc). From
wiki synopsis: "
Kings is set in the nation of "Gilboa", which technologically and culturally resembles an alternate present-day United States, but with an absolute monarch (it has not yet been stated if Gilboa is actually supposed to be an alternate United States, because no world maps have yet been shown)."

Popular actor
Ian McShane plays King Silas Benjamin [
Saul], and is a standard Monarch (puppet for the corporations/wealthy, as they all are in reality), the TV reporter states (note 33 synch on TV further up): "Like the King himself [likening him to the new City Shiloh they are celebrating the opening of here], who rose from meager beginnings as a soldier to a Monarch beloved by his people... As Silas explains, when the war ended he stood on the ruins of the city, and a swarm of butterflies began to fly around him, and then landed in a ring on his head exactly in the shape of a crown. Silas took this as a sign that God wanted him to be king, and made the national symbol of Gilboa a butterfly (their national flag is a black butterfly on an orange background."

I should also mention the King's wife (not pictured), Queen
Rose Benjamin [
Ahinoam] played by
Susanna Thompson who played the
Borg Queen (so a Borg [robot] monarch [note Hannah Montan "Best of Both Worlds" episode names in that link]; in Deep Space Nine she guest starred participating in one of TV's first
lesbian kisses [often how these slaves are used, Katy Perry etc]]) in Star Trek (the other actress to play her was
Alice Krige [psychiatrist/physician parents]; not sure which ones were credited in the pictures below, these are probably Alice but obviously there's so much make-up it doesn't really matter).









The first monarch butterfly that pops up, hinting at future events is on the tip of
Christopher Egan's character David Shepherd's
[David] gun.


He gains notoriety (taking on 'Goliath') and becomes a public hero (future Monarch) taking out a tank on camera and rescuing the King's son who had been held prisoner by them.


Later on in the episode, his brother dies and he manages to do a dramatic speech and convince the enemy to come round and peace-talks ensue, increasing his heroic status even more.

He is promoted to Officer and they try to make him into a media puppet (happens before above scene though, a lot of these images aren't in order), removing him from the front line; note the
black/white/red (nazi colours, top half of butterfly white bottom black,
duality).


He is getting involved with the King's daughter (in a
red dress) Michelle Benjamin [
Michal], played by
Allison Miller; whose first role was as
Lucy in
Lucy's Piano (Lucy = Lucifer shortened), I've seen her in CSI:NY where she played a
Suicide Girl (all those crime shows are
never porn! [it's all about programming us, sex and death is the key!]).

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