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penguinfaery) wrote2010-03-15 03:46 pm
penguinfaery) wrote2010-03-15 03:46 pm
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http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc
*geekgasm*
Academic papers on Supernatural.
Academic fan related stuff is a secret crack addiction of mine. This+Mechadamia=me locked up for weeks.
...except I totally need to be getting food, and cleaning, and working on homework. And not sitting around reading essays on Supernatural Mpreg.
This cracked me up though:
I'm intrigued by the larger questions our show raises if there's a hell, does that mean there's a heaven? I wrote an episode in which people kill after being visited by something that may or may not be an angel. That, of course, raises lots of questions no one can answer. And it was important to hold onto that ambiguity to keep the world of the show from spiraling out into Judeo-Christian-land, and also because in life we don't ever get definitive answers to questions of faith. Keeping all that going for a whole episode was trickier than I anticipated. When we were working on it, we would put on that Voice Over Guy voice and go, "This week on Supernatural: hot zombie chicks. And next week, Sam and Dean ponder the age-old question, 'Is there a God?'" It was heavy.
It would be interesting to see an interview NOW. As they sure went there.
*geekgasm*
Academic papers on Supernatural.
Academic fan related stuff is a secret crack addiction of mine. This+Mechadamia=me locked up for weeks.
...except I totally need to be getting food, and cleaning, and working on homework. And not sitting around reading essays on Supernatural Mpreg.
This cracked me up though:
I'm intrigued by the larger questions our show raises if there's a hell, does that mean there's a heaven? I wrote an episode in which people kill after being visited by something that may or may not be an angel. That, of course, raises lots of questions no one can answer. And it was important to hold onto that ambiguity to keep the world of the show from spiraling out into Judeo-Christian-land, and also because in life we don't ever get definitive answers to questions of faith. Keeping all that going for a whole episode was trickier than I anticipated. When we were working on it, we would put on that Voice Over Guy voice and go, "This week on Supernatural: hot zombie chicks. And next week, Sam and Dean ponder the age-old question, 'Is there a God?'" It was heavy.
It would be interesting to see an interview NOW. As they sure went there.
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And I'm impressed by how many monster of the week things they still manage to fit in, and keep things moving, without being like "Let's ignore the apocalypse to go do something random for a week."
It could be summed up that way, but it doesn't feels like itAnything involving demons is going to have to include more levels then just a simple boogie man in some shape or form, and I can think of a few other options to explain them as a whole that is so relevant, but like you said, this show is very...American, and Christianity is our biggest mythology. As much as I loved, say, American Gods, I had an issue buying that half those gods and pantheons would have EVER been worshiped here, so using Demons from like...Hindu for their over arching mythology wouldn't have fit. I think once they started making demon's such a big deal instead of making Azazel something "else", the path was pretty well set. And I don't think they could have gone on for TOO long without defining some kind of over arching...antagonistic force.