On the Archetypal Significance of TV Epics and Ridiculously Embarrassing Celebrity Crushes
This is a long piece (written a year ago, but I only just came across it today), but really fascinating reading by someone with a PhD in Mythology.
It is of vital significance that epics like Outlander, a story about the way two whole, creative beings come together to make a new world, continue to have a central role in the myth making medium of television because this story of creativity is the power of Eros. We must make room in this process for this and other culturally subversive perspectives. Perhaps it is the life giving, feminist aspect of the story that balances it and makes it threatening to its detractors. Cowan writes, “the epic assumes that the sacred marriage of the two equal and complementary powers is possible and that in that wedding the whole world is renewed.” As far as I’m concerned, this is made clearer in Outlander than in any other offering of our contemporary image based forum for myth.
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It is of vital significance that epics like Outlander, a story about the way two whole, creative beings come together to make a new world, continue to have a central role in the myth making medium of television because this story of creativity is the power of Eros. We must make room in this process for this and other culturally subversive perspectives. Perhaps it is the life giving, feminist aspect of the story that balances it and makes it threatening to its detractors. Cowan writes, “the epic assumes that the sacred marriage of the two equal and complementary powers is possible and that in that wedding the whole world is renewed.” As far as I’m concerned, this is made clearer in Outlander than in any other offering of our contemporary image based forum for myth.
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