SPN & Paradise Lost: "She plucked, she ate."
Oh god. So I've been advocating Paradise Lost as the major source for the current myth arc of Supernatural since it all got angel-on-angel in 4x16 but only now does it hit me: Oh, hi, Sammy, you're Eve and Ruby is a big fat snake. Whoa. So, they're not just doing part one which is all Satan falling and angels battling but they're doing part two and Sammy just lost them Eden. Holy fucking shit.
Oh Supernatural, how do I love thee, let me count the ways.
Also, I think this fairly sums up the end of s4 for me in a way, too:
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide:
They, hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.
Yes. Last four lines of Paradise Lost. Yes Sam and Dean going together, accepting their fate after everything they've done and being together alone. (Sammy, you lost Eden for all the world, you drank the demon blood of fucking knowledge and now the garden is gone.)
Also: do me Armando Iannucci, unf. Yes, I just watched Armando Iannucci in Milton's Heaven and Hell on BBC iPlayer. And yes it was only then I realised that my Paradise Lost comparison was way better than I'd ever imagined. Oh god. May have to edit this later because I am just so taken aback right now. Why is there not a copy of Paradise Lost in my house? Reading it on the internet is somehow not good enough for me.
Oh Supernatural, how do I love thee, let me count the ways.
Also, I think this fairly sums up the end of s4 for me in a way, too:
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide:
They, hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.
Yes. Last four lines of Paradise Lost. Yes Sam and Dean going together, accepting their fate after everything they've done and being together alone. (Sammy, you lost Eden for all the world, you drank the demon blood of fucking knowledge and now the garden is gone.)
Also: do me Armando Iannucci, unf. Yes, I just watched Armando Iannucci in Milton's Heaven and Hell on BBC iPlayer. And yes it was only then I realised that my Paradise Lost comparison was way better than I'd ever imagined. Oh god. May have to edit this later because I am just so taken aback right now. Why is there not a copy of Paradise Lost in my house? Reading it on the internet is somehow not good enough for me.