But I kinda wish the show hadn't introduced her, because that means there is a fate, and a destiny, and things are supposed to happen a certain way. I don't really like it.
It just makes things confusing for me. I don't feel like it meshes with the previous mythology. How does Fate fit in with Death and all that? And God gave her a script? What? God had nothing to do with the Apocalypse. That was all Michael and Raphael pushing buttons.
Exactly. I mean, I like the character. She was cool. But the idea of Fates sits very poorly with me from a series aspect. :/ I liked it better when it was the Archangels doing their own things, which they thought was the will of God. Instead, it's the will of... some tween-esque demigod?
Mixing mythologies rarely works for me. And once we went really Judeo-Christian, they should have stuck with it. Even before S4 and angels, SPN was mainly Judeo-Christain. Despite the minor legends and MINOR gods we got, the center of the world building revolved around Christian sybmols and rituals to dispel demons, and the Christian hell was a real place. But when you start bringing in major players from other religions, you lose me. But IMO, many shows and books do this. The longer they go on, the more they keep "adding" to the world, so much so that the end doesn't look anythingl like the beginning.
Honestly, Hammer of the Gods was a huge WTF for me for this very reason. Because there had been NOTHING up until that point to suggest that all these other major gods were running around. And it really doesn't make sense. All gods can't be real.
Unless it's American Gods, but the entire POINT of that book was that HUMANS created the gods. So all of Kali's "we were here first" stuff annoyed me to no end. Because before this, it was pretty much a given that the Christian God CREATED everything.
EXACTLY. Did God create the other Gods? Or did all the Gods crawl from the same ooze, and the Christian God just happened to be the best? I just don't get it.
Which is why they should stick with one mythology. Or at least related mythologies. Some gods just don't go well together, don't make sense about how they can exist. Chinese and Japanese gods play well. Chinese, and say, Greek gods don't, LOL.
SPN spent an entire season and 3/4 of a season building its own Christian mythology. Sure, the angels were dicks and God didn't care, but it was based in Christian mythology. So then to randomly, for one episode, throw in Indian, Chinese, Greek, and Norse gods, just doesn't make sense. It isn't adding anything to the world, it's messing it up.
Yeah. They really should've stuck with just one. Or, maybe, picked a few that meshed well with Christianity, if they wanted to branch out. But Norse and Chinese really don't mix at all.
Also, I honestly liked it better when Gabriel was The Trickster, or all tricksters, or a generic trickster, than when he was Loki. I seem to be the only one, LOL.
XD I love Gabriel, but mostly because it drew him into the plot. Had I been warned it would cause his demise, I could have been very much against it. XD
It just makes things confusing for me. I don't feel like it meshes with the previous mythology. How does Fate fit in with Death and all that? And God gave her a script? What? God had nothing to do with the Apocalypse. That was all Michael and Raphael pushing buttons.
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Unless it's American Gods, but the entire POINT of that book was that HUMANS created the gods. So all of Kali's "we were here first" stuff annoyed me to no end. Because before this, it was pretty much a given that the Christian God CREATED everything.
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And that bugs me.
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SPN spent an entire season and 3/4 of a season building its own Christian mythology. Sure, the angels were dicks and God didn't care, but it was based in Christian mythology. So then to randomly, for one episode, throw in Indian, Chinese, Greek, and Norse gods, just doesn't make sense. It isn't adding anything to the world, it's messing it up.
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