and another thought (supernatural)
And another thought about Supernatural, this time about the demon.
The demon targets a select group of "special" children on their six-month birthday (is there a word for that?); it kills their mothers but not the children themselves. It may also kill the people with whom those children form emotional ties (Jess, obviously). It doesn't try to kill the children themselves, and presumably, if they're special and it has big plans for them, it wants them alive I wonder whether the blood dripping on the children is significant, as some kind of demonic baptism; this might have given the demon an extra reason to kill Jess the way it (he?) did.
It's kind of hard not to notice the gender dynamics here: this is a demon that targets women (mostly but not always, mothers). Presumably if it only cared about emotional ties, it would be as likely to kill fathers as mothers, and might have thought of taking out Dean and John, in addition to Jess. But there's something very specifically gendered about the method, as well -- the blood dripping from the womb as the women are pinned to the ceiling, which makes me think that the fact that these are women matters. The demon tells Sam that he killed Mary and Jess (and presumably the other women) because they would get in the way of whatever the big plan is; I wonder whether it's being entirely honest here. I wonder if the women don't pose some more immediate threat. What I really think is, wouldn't it be cool if that demon could only be killed by a woman? Or only by a woman with some close tie to one of the children it's interested in.
This will never happen, because it would mean that none of the living Winchesters are capable of killing it. But it would be a neat way of addressing the weird gender thing.
Yeah, so sue me, I watched Salvation and Devil’s Trap again last night, because BH had a dinner in college.
The demon targets a select group of "special" children on their six-month birthday (is there a word for that?); it kills their mothers but not the children themselves. It may also kill the people with whom those children form emotional ties (Jess, obviously). It doesn't try to kill the children themselves, and presumably, if they're special and it has big plans for them, it wants them alive I wonder whether the blood dripping on the children is significant, as some kind of demonic baptism; this might have given the demon an extra reason to kill Jess the way it (he?) did.
It's kind of hard not to notice the gender dynamics here: this is a demon that targets women (mostly but not always, mothers). Presumably if it only cared about emotional ties, it would be as likely to kill fathers as mothers, and might have thought of taking out Dean and John, in addition to Jess. But there's something very specifically gendered about the method, as well -- the blood dripping from the womb as the women are pinned to the ceiling, which makes me think that the fact that these are women matters. The demon tells Sam that he killed Mary and Jess (and presumably the other women) because they would get in the way of whatever the big plan is; I wonder whether it's being entirely honest here. I wonder if the women don't pose some more immediate threat. What I really think is, wouldn't it be cool if that demon could only be killed by a woman? Or only by a woman with some close tie to one of the children it's interested in.
This will never happen, because it would mean that none of the living Winchesters are capable of killing it. But it would be a neat way of addressing the weird gender thing.
Yeah, so sue me, I watched Salvation and Devil’s Trap again last night, because BH had a dinner in college.