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May. 3rd, 2010 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lullabelleJust finished watching Supernatural 5x19: The Hammer of the Gods
OMG. Oh em eff gee. Srsly.
I read the early interviews with Eric Kripke explaining that two of his major influences in creating Supernatural were Hellblazer comics, and American Gods.
We've already got the shout-out to Hellblazer. (Have you seen Castiel? He looks like he crawled out of the comic book. Of course, the fact that he's an angel is highly ironic, since John Constantine's really just a bastard.) This entire episode was an homage to American Gods, which is one of my favorite books ever. I freaked a little. The fact that they included Baldur was a double-shout-out since he's not the most recognized of Norse gods, but the insanely-knowledgeable and Wikipedia-literate (I'm the second one) know that the narrator of American Gods, Shadow, was actually Baldur. There's a short story follow-up to American Gods, called the Monarch of the Glen, where this fact is a more evident, so I feel a little better about wiki-cheating. I'm pretty sure the unidentified blonde woman, the one who was posing as the waitress in the beginning, was supposed to be Esther. Could have been Freya, but between Baldur, Odin, and Loki, I feel like they had the Norse pantheon pretty well covered. There was also an unidentified Caucasian man in a snazzy dark suit, and a younger Caucasian man in a less-snazzy suit who remain unidentified. There may be more wiki-cheating in my very near future.
Oh, God, and the end of the ep grossed me out so much. That was waaaaay too much mucus. I'm almost scared to watch the next ep. Almost.
ETA: AND OMG! WHEN LUCIFER STABS GABRIEL, AND THE REAL ONE IS STANDING BEHIND HIM! IT WAS A TWO-MAN CON! *geekasm*
ETA2: Also love this ep. for reconciling the Judeo-Christian mythology of the series with other world religions.
OMG. Oh em eff gee. Srsly.
I read the early interviews with Eric Kripke explaining that two of his major influences in creating Supernatural were Hellblazer comics, and American Gods.
We've already got the shout-out to Hellblazer. (Have you seen Castiel? He looks like he crawled out of the comic book. Of course, the fact that he's an angel is highly ironic, since John Constantine's really just a bastard.) This entire episode was an homage to American Gods, which is one of my favorite books ever. I freaked a little. The fact that they included Baldur was a double-shout-out since he's not the most recognized of Norse gods, but the insanely-knowledgeable and Wikipedia-literate (I'm the second one) know that the narrator of American Gods, Shadow, was actually Baldur. There's a short story follow-up to American Gods, called the Monarch of the Glen, where this fact is a more evident, so I feel a little better about wiki-cheating. I'm pretty sure the unidentified blonde woman, the one who was posing as the waitress in the beginning, was supposed to be Esther. Could have been Freya, but between Baldur, Odin, and Loki, I feel like they had the Norse pantheon pretty well covered. There was also an unidentified Caucasian man in a snazzy dark suit, and a younger Caucasian man in a less-snazzy suit who remain unidentified. There may be more wiki-cheating in my very near future.
Oh, God, and the end of the ep grossed me out so much. That was waaaaay too much mucus. I'm almost scared to watch the next ep. Almost.
ETA: AND OMG! WHEN LUCIFER STABS GABRIEL, AND THE REAL ONE IS STANDING BEHIND HIM! IT WAS A TWO-MAN CON! *geekasm*
ETA2: Also love this ep. for reconciling the Judeo-Christian mythology of the series with other world religions.
