Show fail, movie fail. Fail fail fail!
Watched Supernatural last night. Ugh. Kinda surprised that they pushed the story forward since it looked like a filler episode. And then they brought out the Gods. Now, they've done this bullshit before and I grit my teeth and sat through it. But, really, if you're going to do research to get shit right... couldn't you at least try with the other mythologies that you're using? I don't understand why there were (supposedly) three Norse Gods present and only one God/dess from the other pantheons. And why Baldur? He's dead for crying out loud. And why weren't the Norsies upset that Loki showed up and wasn't chained beneath the earth with poison being dripped into his eyes?
I think the worst part wasn't so much that the pagan Gods were eating humans but the ideas behind it. There is this idea in Supernatural that the old Gods are weak because their power from human sacrifice. Supposedly the Judeo-Christian God is more powerful that the pagan Gods because he doesn't rely on human sacrifice. But one would think then that the pagan Gods get their power from humans sacrificing humans, but the Gods sacrifice the humans. So why wouldn't they just kill a shit load of us and take over?
And the whole stake thing to kill gods like their vampires? Why, oh why wouldn't you use that on the one God that it would make sense??? In SPN world the only way to kill a God is to stake them through the heart. Lucifer shows up and just annihilates the old pagan Gods without the use of a stake. He also calls them pagans and says that they're just masquerading as Gods. Which kind of muddies the waters, does Show have a polytheistic universe or not? And Baldur who is supposed to be nigh indestructible is killed by a hand through his chest. In his myth, Baldur and his mother keep having prophetic dreams of his death. Since his death is the first link in the chain leading to Ragnarok, Frigg gets every object on earth promise to never harm her son. She doesn't get this vow from mistletoe, either because she thinks it's too young to swear the oath or she thinks it could never harm her son. Loki (o, Loki, Trickster extraordinare!) disguises himself as an old woman and gets Hod (Baldur's brother) to throw a spear/dart/arrow of mistletoe at Baldur... which kills Baldur.
Now, knowing that... why wouldn't THAT be the one God you would kill with a stake of mistletoe? THAT would make sense! WTF, Show? Seriously.
And I'm not even going to bitch about the fact that earlier this season they ripped off Good Omens fairly blatantly, but this episode was ripping off American Gods. Neil Gaiman? Please to be asking SPN people to KEEP AWAY from your stuff. Unless the boys are going to become new gods of the highway and the hunt. Cause that would be cool. And they could end this season the way it should be ended - SAM AND DEAN DEAD ON THE HIGHWAY! And still have a sixth season. *nods* I r so smrt.
THEN I made the mistake of watching the Velveteen Rabbit. IT IS CRAP ON A STICK! No, that is being too kind. Why make a movie called the Velveteen Rabbit and NOT make it like the book? The Skin Horse was a retard, the Rabbit was a simpleton, and I have no idea why the boy was stuck with a grandmother and father who resented him/wanted nothing to do with him. The only thing that came from the book was that the Rabbit wanted to be real, the Skin Horse said love would make him real, and the kid got scarlet fever. Other than that? WTF magical attic with a tree house and field in it? The thing that bugged me the most? When the Rabbit is left at the Christmas Tree yard and the real rabbits show up... but their animated rabbits. Then when the Rabbit becomes real (because he sacrificed his life to make the boy stop pretending) he's an actual rabbit, not an animated 'real' rabbit. I really wish I could get that time of my life back. I loved the book as a child and that just sullied it. Urk.
Seriously, hooray for trickster Gods. Because they are AWESOME.
I think the worst part wasn't so much that the pagan Gods were eating humans but the ideas behind it. There is this idea in Supernatural that the old Gods are weak because their power from human sacrifice. Supposedly the Judeo-Christian God is more powerful that the pagan Gods because he doesn't rely on human sacrifice. But one would think then that the pagan Gods get their power from humans sacrificing humans, but the Gods sacrifice the humans. So why wouldn't they just kill a shit load of us and take over?
And the whole stake thing to kill gods like their vampires? Why, oh why wouldn't you use that on the one God that it would make sense??? In SPN world the only way to kill a God is to stake them through the heart. Lucifer shows up and just annihilates the old pagan Gods without the use of a stake. He also calls them pagans and says that they're just masquerading as Gods. Which kind of muddies the waters, does Show have a polytheistic universe or not? And Baldur who is supposed to be nigh indestructible is killed by a hand through his chest. In his myth, Baldur and his mother keep having prophetic dreams of his death. Since his death is the first link in the chain leading to Ragnarok, Frigg gets every object on earth promise to never harm her son. She doesn't get this vow from mistletoe, either because she thinks it's too young to swear the oath or she thinks it could never harm her son. Loki (o, Loki, Trickster extraordinare!) disguises himself as an old woman and gets Hod (Baldur's brother) to throw a spear/dart/arrow of mistletoe at Baldur... which kills Baldur.
Now, knowing that... why wouldn't THAT be the one God you would kill with a stake of mistletoe? THAT would make sense! WTF, Show? Seriously.
And I'm not even going to bitch about the fact that earlier this season they ripped off Good Omens fairly blatantly, but this episode was ripping off American Gods. Neil Gaiman? Please to be asking SPN people to KEEP AWAY from your stuff. Unless the boys are going to become new gods of the highway and the hunt. Cause that would be cool. And they could end this season the way it should be ended - SAM AND DEAN DEAD ON THE HIGHWAY! And still have a sixth season. *nods* I r so smrt.
THEN I made the mistake of watching the Velveteen Rabbit. IT IS CRAP ON A STICK! No, that is being too kind. Why make a movie called the Velveteen Rabbit and NOT make it like the book? The Skin Horse was a retard, the Rabbit was a simpleton, and I have no idea why the boy was stuck with a grandmother and father who resented him/wanted nothing to do with him. The only thing that came from the book was that the Rabbit wanted to be real, the Skin Horse said love would make him real, and the kid got scarlet fever. Other than that? WTF magical attic with a tree house and field in it? The thing that bugged me the most? When the Rabbit is left at the Christmas Tree yard and the real rabbits show up... but their animated rabbits. Then when the Rabbit becomes real (because he sacrificed his life to make the boy stop pretending) he's an actual rabbit, not an animated 'real' rabbit. I really wish I could get that time of my life back. I loved the book as a child and that just sullied it. Urk.
Seriously, hooray for trickster Gods. Because they are AWESOME.