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Jun. 18th, 2009 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damkiannaThere was some interesting meta today - it was a bunch of later episodes this time, the last one being the very beginning of that weirdo arc with the devil and Joan maybe having ... Lyme disease, I think it was. I don't remember it very well, I think it was pretty soon after that that the show got cancelled.
Anyway, as noted, the penultimate episode that got shown today was Ryan "Maybe Sort of the Devil, It's Hard to Say" Hunter's introduction, and the ultimate episode was the beginning of him really getting inserted into the show. And it only occurred to me near the end of that ep that Ryan Hunter was a reasonably wealthy, and perhaps very wealthy, youngish white male, and also presented as a creeper who was quite possibly the Adversary of Heaven - certainly an adversary of Joan. By contrast, God, throughout the series, has been a number of different people of color, including women of color; a couple of small children; a teenage Goth with a lot of piercings; a perky young woman with an idiosyncratic dress sense who likes to knit; and a senior citizen at least a few times.
Not necessarily hugely significant; but it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling, to realize that they were presenting a holder of a lot of different kinds of privilege as the Big Bad, and ... well, various less-privileged kinds of people as God. I'm pretty ridiculously areligious, but JoA's God has a way of moving me unexpectedly.
Also, Lilly the ex-nun? SO MUCH LOVE. I have a kind of enormous girlcrush on her.
Aside from that, I poked a little at a few things today. Got past a minor stumbling block on the HP AU, which was satisfying, and prodded my NaNo along a little further. Since it was raining so much today, I ended up not going to work; I stayed home on the couch with the cat, and also made a batch of brownies.
It was a pretty good day.
Anyway, as noted, the penultimate episode that got shown today was Ryan "Maybe Sort of the Devil, It's Hard to Say" Hunter's introduction, and the ultimate episode was the beginning of him really getting inserted into the show. And it only occurred to me near the end of that ep that Ryan Hunter was a reasonably wealthy, and perhaps very wealthy, youngish white male, and also presented as a creeper who was quite possibly the Adversary of Heaven - certainly an adversary of Joan. By contrast, God, throughout the series, has been a number of different people of color, including women of color; a couple of small children; a teenage Goth with a lot of piercings; a perky young woman with an idiosyncratic dress sense who likes to knit; and a senior citizen at least a few times.
Not necessarily hugely significant; but it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling, to realize that they were presenting a holder of a lot of different kinds of privilege as the Big Bad, and ... well, various less-privileged kinds of people as God. I'm pretty ridiculously areligious, but JoA's God has a way of moving me unexpectedly.
Also, Lilly the ex-nun? SO MUCH LOVE. I have a kind of enormous girlcrush on her.
Aside from that, I poked a little at a few things today. Got past a minor stumbling block on the HP AU, which was satisfying, and prodded my NaNo along a little further. Since it was raining so much today, I ended up not going to work; I stayed home on the couch with the cat, and also made a batch of brownies.
It was a pretty good day.
