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last night’s episode of the brand-new X-Files, number three in the new series, strikes me as having been influenced by the character of Nicholas de Vere in particular: not so much the mythology behind his claims, but just the person that he was. /.../
The show was about a scale-covered dragon-like upward-walking bipedal creature that (spoiler alert) is bitten by a human being. Thereafter he begins to experience a transformation into human form, but turning back into a dragon once every full moon. /.../
So here we have an upright-walking human-dragon hybrid, similar to the way in which the serpent in the Garden of Eden was once depicted in Christian art. The Garden symbolism is alluded to in the scene showing the Were-Monster’s first transformation into a human. He wakes up in human form and suddenly realizes he is naked, with an unexplained desire to immediately put on clothes even though he had never worn them before, just like Adam and Eve after they ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. /.../
I believe that the writers who worked on this particular episode based the Were-Monster character in large part upon Nicholas de Vere. The actor who played the human incarnation of the Were-Monster, Rhys Darby, even looks like Nicholas de Vere in this instance. The facial hair and many facial features are similar. /.../
Another point of commonality is that Nicholas de Vere was consumed by existential angst about the human condition, just like the Were-Monster character is, and believed that his ancestors, the pure Dragons were above that. When at the end of the episode the Were-Monster runs off into the forest to hibernate for 10,000 years, he is escaping the drudgery of working life that he had come to so dislike while in human form. This is like a retreat into the higher, atemporal reality that Nicholas de Vere claimed the Dragon people were connected to spiritually, and which they allegedly returned to upon death.
last night’s episode of the brand-new X-Files, number three in the new series, strikes me as having been influenced by the character of Nicholas de Vere in particular: not so much the mythology behind his claims, but just the person that he was. /.../
The show was about a scale-covered dragon-like upward-walking bipedal creature that (spoiler alert) is bitten by a human being. Thereafter he begins to experience a transformation into human form, but turning back into a dragon once every full moon. /.../
So here we have an upright-walking human-dragon hybrid, similar to the way in which the serpent in the Garden of Eden was once depicted in Christian art. The Garden symbolism is alluded to in the scene showing the Were-Monster’s first transformation into a human. He wakes up in human form and suddenly realizes he is naked, with an unexplained desire to immediately put on clothes even though he had never worn them before, just like Adam and Eve after they ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. /.../
I believe that the writers who worked on this particular episode based the Were-Monster character in large part upon Nicholas de Vere. The actor who played the human incarnation of the Were-Monster, Rhys Darby, even looks like Nicholas de Vere in this instance. The facial hair and many facial features are similar. /.../
Another point of commonality is that Nicholas de Vere was consumed by existential angst about the human condition, just like the Were-Monster character is, and believed that his ancestors, the pure Dragons were above that. When at the end of the episode the Were-Monster runs off into the forest to hibernate for 10,000 years, he is escaping the drudgery of working life that he had come to so dislike while in human form. This is like a retreat into the higher, atemporal reality that Nicholas de Vere claimed the Dragon people were connected to spiritually, and which they allegedly returned to upon death.