They Don't Kiss Until Episode 16

We are at the halfway point in The Judge from Hell, and I figured I would use this point to discuss the mythology behind the show and questions I have as the show continues.

Demons and angels aren’t as separate as we may think. It is implied that Justitia/Bit-Na used some connections to get an angel to communicate a message to the young boy whose stepmother killed his father and whose biological mother had passed due to illness. We also learned that the old woman who lives in the apartment as Judge Kang is an angel, and Bit-Na is a demon in disguise. We don’t know this angel’s purpose or mission, but I think this angel is pretty high up and on par with Justitia.

In episode 8, one of the lower clean-up demons anonymously donates money to ensure a victim gets cancer treatment, and Justitia’s sidekick, Valak/Man-Do, regularly attends church. So I’ve been asking this whole show, so far, what makes a demon a demon?

Throughout the show, I’ve been wondering if Justitia is really a demon? I mean, her whole thing is to send murderers to Hell, and that level of judgment feels like a Heaven-type thing. In episode 8, I believe we learn that God’s gift to demons is that one thing: judge unrepentant murderers and send them to Hell.  As discussed, in the show, none of the murderers we have met have been possessed by an evil spirit or a demon as traditional Christian lore states. Each body that a demon is in is the body of a person who died; their soul has left the body, leaving it empty, if you will. So if demons are sending people to Hell and making sure sinners don’t escape from Hell and are assigned to their correct torture, then what are angels doing? Because as it looks, these demons aren’t evil. They just work in Hell.

As I looked up the backstories and the source material for these various demons, many names that we associated with heaven and Hell, etc, are translations and merging of terms over time. The demons mentioned by names such as Gremory and Valak are demons described in renaissance era books called grimoire, essentially spell and magic books that describe demons, their powers, and how to conjure them to be used in dark arts. In short, there is a lot of leeway for the writers to take regarding our views of demons. And that leeway has helped me formulate these questions I hope are answered as the show continues:

1. How are demons made?
2. Is Justitia really a demon
3. This is more a prediction than a question, I don’t believe that anything bad happens to a demon that cries or develops emotions, I think it is propaganda to
   1. Keep demons in Hell per Satan or Lucifer’s plan.
   2. A rumor started years ago when Satan rebelled against Lucifer (as per the story in the show)
   3. Somehow, crying helps a demon find the treasure that has gone missing.

I say all this because while it is a difficult punishment, I think there is a reason why Bael sent Justitia to do such a difficult task, knowing full well that she can become susceptible to feeling human emotions.

1. Is Arong/Gremory really Satan? I feel she has a mission not given to her by her supervisors.
2. Will Justitia try to save Detective Han’s soul, and is that so bad? It seems that Justitia delights in punishing murderers, but she doesn’t seem to want murder to continue on Earth. She has accepted that murder is a condition of humanity, and as such, she will be there to judge accordingly.

This show has really brought to my attention these concepts of who is good and who is not. Justitia/Bit-Na claims that humans are sneaky and untrustworthy, and she might have a point because I have yet to see a demon display that behavior except for Arong. It will be interesting to see how far Bit-Na and Detective Han go now that each person has unlocked a different emotion from the so-called opposing side.