Supernatural Season 5

[handful_ofdust]

Saw the trailer, finally, gacked the Jen Titus remix of "O Death" from fanmix, and...now I'm excited. I realize this makes me a bad lady, or whatever, but I really don't much care; Supernatural has slowly become one of my most enduring pleasures, unseating Lost last season--they conflicted, and I didn't even try to work out a way to keep up with both of them. And yes, certainly, part of the appeal is manflesh--both Ackles and Padalecki are extremely attractive to me, with Padalecki taking a tad of a lead (I think it's the height). But I'm also just a sucker for Apocalyptica, particularly the kind which comes with Christian iconography attached. Call it Prophecy syndrome.

Naturally, though, it gets me thinking about the Cornish sisters again. Because, in the interim, I've really come to realize that the Cornishes are not the Winchesters with boobs, let alone Scofield/Burroughs redux. The biggest difference is that Dionne and Samaire weren't actually brought up together--they were taken into care and separated at an early enough age that while they can remember/recognize each other, they had to bond as adults, not children. And Jeptha having murdered Moriam puts a completely different slant on their interaction, anyhow...so much so that I absolutely know when Dionne showed up on Samaire's door, the first thing Sami must have said was: "Are you here to kill me?"

So, yeah: Blood means a lot, but half Sami's blood isn't Dionne's, and vice versa; half Di's blood belongs to the man who killed their mother, making her literally Jeptha's daughter, his willing sacrifice to an angry God. And half of Sami's blood is shared by things like Allfair Chatwin--she's kin to witchery and demonism from birth, not by contagion. Nothing will ever change it.

Well, that, and the whole chick thing. I think I'm still pretty safe, in terms of copyright infringement.;)

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

remix of "O Death"....?

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

I'll send it to you.;)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

A cool music program that I wish I had seen (in the way you wish for things that would never happen: I've never been to Carnegie Hall in my life) was "The Old Burying Ground": the text of gravestones from an old New Hampshire graveyard, orchestrated. This one is especially shiverful:


In memory of Mr. John Wood
who died July 5th 1799
Aged 55 years

"There is a song
which doth belong
to all the human race
concerning death
who steals the breath
and blasts a comely face.
Come listen all
unto my call
that I do make today.
For you must die
as well as I
And pass from hence away."

This one has even more powerful words (it's about the death of a child), buuut, I don't have them anymore, and you can't really hear them that clearly in the video because of the orchestration.

[jackal-lies.livejournal.com]

I've always been a sucker for fictional sister relationships. How close are they, considering the obstacles they had bonding?

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a bit like Batman and Superman--yeah, Clark's a great guy, and all--you share a common goal, you trust each other with your lives, you're closer in many ways than you could ever be with anybody else, because each one of you is a species to yourself (Robins excluded). But...he's not really human. And you always want to have a bit of Kryptonite around--not that you'd use it, necessarily. Unless you had to.

[jackal-lies.livejournal.com]

Allfair Chatwin sounded like a very interesting main character. (I'm not too sure whether anti-heroine or protagonist are the right words). Is Crossing The River the story where she meets Samaire or do I have it all wrong?
I never used to write female characters and now it seems every story I have has an all-female cast. Although that's not a bad thing, it makes me wonder if I'll ever be able to write anything like a believable boy/girl romance.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's "Crossing the River". And I know what you mean--gender balance is hard. My mind keeps skittering away from the perceived default.;)