Family of Blood
Jun. 2nd, 2007 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafPaul Cornell's definitely been watching The Last Temptation of Christ; except I didn't find the alt!life in LTC particularly moving, whereas I definitely had a lump in my throat at the 'one adventure he'll never have' sequence here. Possibly it's because the Doctor is a character I've loved for years, while being decidedly unconvinced by film!Jesus (who was even more emo than poor old John Smith); but it probably also has something to do (a) with David Tennant's very convincing besotted-new-dad-look, and John's need to know the children were safe before he could die, a nice touch which pointed to the decision he knew he would finally take, and also (b) the fact that alt!John Smith was not getting his end away with every woman in Galilee under the somewhat disturbing pretext that 'every woman is Mary'.† Whether that's some half baked goddess archetype, or 'all cats are grey in the dark', I"m not impressed.
†Magdalen, not BVM, thankfully - it wasn't quite that pervy.
On the subject of batshit Mary Magdalen fen: I am not inclined to buy the theory, advanced by 'The Real Mary Magdalene', which I picked up out of a sense of dread (and put down) in the town library this morning, that Luther believed that Jesus and Mary were lovers - actually, physical lovers. In fact, I'll eat a chasuble if that turns out to have any substance to it at all. If nothing else, if he'd said anything that heretical, the Roman Catholics would never have shut up about it
†Magdalen, not BVM, thankfully - it wasn't quite that pervy.
On the subject of batshit Mary Magdalen fen: I am not inclined to buy the theory, advanced by 'The Real Mary Magdalene', which I picked up out of a sense of dread (and put down) in the town library this morning, that Luther believed that Jesus and Mary were lovers - actually, physical lovers. In fact, I'll eat a chasuble if that turns out to have any substance to it at all. If nothing else, if he'd said anything that heretical, the Roman Catholics would never have shut up about it
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Date: 2007-06-05 09:35 am (UTC)If only because they'd be far too busy writing Deborah/Jael and Cain/Leviathan.
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Date: 2007-06-05 09:45 pm (UTC)Point taken, though. Mind you, I can actually imagine Jesus/ Mary Magdalen versus Jesus/ John the Evangelist shipwars...
I feel slightly unclean now *sporks eyes out*.
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Date: 2007-06-05 10:00 pm (UTC)Meanwhile Judith/Holofernes is the Death Eater/Order Member OMG teh Tension of choice.
(You feel unclean? I have spent my evening learning to put Gaudy Night in lolcats.)
H/Hr OMGtheirlove issognostic
Date: 2007-06-05 10:15 pm (UTC)Thinking about the sort of Gnostic types who go in for the former, that's disturbingly accurate.
Re: H/Hr OMGtheirlove issognostic
Date: 2007-06-06 09:37 am (UTC)Re: H/Hr OMGtheirlove issognostic
Date: 2007-06-06 09:44 am (UTC)