here, have a totally random post

Did you know that Enochian, the language used for angel-related magic in Supernatural, is not actually a real ancient language but was made up by John Dee and his seer Edward Kelley in the late 16th century?

(Lymond fans will remember John Dee because of his freaky mirror-lined room and his horoscopes and prophecies in The Ringed Castle.)

Oddly enough, I learned this by looking up information about the band Coil.

Wikipedia, man.

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Continuing the stream of random posts: a Farscape/Supernatural comparison

I’ve been thinking about Supernatural in relation to Farscape. Farscape is a better show, but SPN pings my fannish radar more intensely. I’m wondering why.

One of the aspects I love most about Farscape is that it captures how complicated, messy, and conflicted human beings are. For a show about aliens, it’s probably the most accurate portrayal of humanity that I’ve ever seen in a TV show.

I read an article recently (now I can’t find it–I think it was in the New York Times Magazine) about how humans don’t have single personalities or single motivations, but we actually contain multiple, competing, and conflicting selves and desires, and our consciousness is what sorts these out and decides which ones we’re actually going to go with and which we’re going to reject/repress/ignore.

( Farscape just kind of instinctively got this. It was *messy*. Supernatural is neater, cleaner, and more conventional. But here are a bunch of things I do like about SPN. )

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