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Stargate SG-1:Â Citizen Joe
as much as the concept of Jesus being a fairly normal lad has its charms, im personally very intrigued by the idea of him being just⊠extremely weird. not even in a mystical sense, justâŠâŠ.staggeringly BIZZARRE.Â
you go to the well to get some water, and hereâs Miriamâs boy, staring at the sky, completely still. his expression is unreadable. you hazard a hello and ask how heâs doing, and he slowly, unblinkingly, lowers his gaze on you (heâs 8 and is missing his frontal teeth, not that this is making you any less uncomfortable) and says âI cannot speak of the state of my being, Nathan son of Saul, my brother, but rejoice for the water you shall take today will be as pure as the soul of the children of Heavenâ
âŠyou start sweating
normal person in 1st century Nazareth: making my way downtown, walking fast
*sees J boy, 8 yo, staring at you from across the street*
normal person: walking fasterÂ
even funnier, the only person 100% on board with his Prophetic Kid Talk is his mother Miriam, an otherwise placid, absolutely normal woman around 25 or so
kid JC, coming home at twilight, a single white dove following him and chirping with weirdly human-like precision:
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Miriam: ! thatâs my little boy :) now letâs go get ready for dinner :)Â
her husband Yosef, a carpenter who only marginally got signed up for this:Â
This post is so Christian, but itâs the spicy kind of Christian that gets you murdered by other Christians for heresy, so Iâm torn.
literally biggest form of compliment iâve ever gotten
that means the angels are babysitters then
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The Path s01e05 âThe Holeâ
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The Path Screen actors guild Q&A snippet.... I wish we could get the whole talk.
Discover the unknown and mysterious world of the cult-like Meyerist Movement in this physiological-thriller domestic drama hybrid
The Path S1 DVD released in Australia. Region 4.
Will any other regions get one? Will it have extras?
Its been NINE YEARS and i still dont think anyone knows exactly why teen titans was cancelled
Same reason Young Justice and Green Lantern The Animated Series were canceled: Girls liked it. Bruce Timm finally up anâ said it out loud in an interview a while back when he was asked why in the hell GL:TAS had been canceled when it was doing so well on every front; DCâs animation department has institutionally decided that feee-males donât/canât/shouldnât like superheroes, so even if a show is drawing in great viewership numbers and has great toy sales, once they find out that itâs popular with women and girls, they pull the plug on it. Cartoon Network loved Teen Titansâ two million viewers for new episodes will do thatâ and wanted a Season Six, and the production staff was already in the planning stages for it; they were going to have a big arc about Terra and why she was Living Normal, and do a lot more with the extended Titans team members.
This is so fucked up.
To elaborate on this point a bit, the reason this happens is that modern television merchandising aims for total market segregation.
In a nutshell, itâs much more efficient to sell things to people if you can divide them up into tightly defined subcategories that have no interests in common; that way, you never risk accidentally competing with yourself.
This is why childrenâs toys (and toy sales channels) are actually much more strongly gendered these days than they were forty, thirty, even twenty years ago: one of the basic market segregation splits theyâve decided to use is âboys versus girlsâ.
Ever wonder why you see Avengers t-shirts that leave Black Widow out of the group shot, or Guardians of the Galaxy action figure lines with no Gamora? Thatâs market segregation in action.
The upshot is that shows with crossover appeal can actually be cancelled for being too popular with girls; theyâre viewed as âstealingâ the female market from the specifically girl-targeted media that rightfully âownsâ it.
This is the sort of thing folks are talking about when they say gender roles are socially constructed, by the way. The gender split in media merchandising? Itâs not just artificial, itâs deliberately imposed as a top-down marketing strategy. When folks try to justify it by saying âthis is the ways itâs always beenâ or âthis is just what the market wantsâ, theyâre lying through their teeth - this is, in fact, the merchandisers dictating to the market what it wants in order to sell stuff more efficiently.
(Interestingly, the reverse isnât always true: if a specifically girl-targeted show unexpectedly becomes popular with boys, sometimes rather than being cancelled, its merchandising will shift to court the male collectorâs market. TV execs are so sexist, even their sexism is sexist.)
IâM REBLOGGING THIS TWICE BECAUSE IâM SO ANGRY
Reblogging because âTV execs are so sexist, even their sexism is sexistâ is probably the best thing Iâve ever heard @prokopetz say.
So I finally finished watching The Path...
âŠjust in time for it to be cancelled, apparently. And, um, I have someâŠthoughts. Â
In no particular order:
1: Sarah and Eddie are both kinda terrible parents
2: I know thereâs not a LOT you can do with a giant eye, but is there any way they could have picked a design that looked a slightly less like the Eye of Sauron?
3: Replacing a deified flawed human being with another deified flawed human being is a fucking stupid thing to do
4: I would literally watch an entire show that was just Cal and Mary going to therapy and recovering and bettering themselves with absolutely no other conflict or plot. Â
5: Cal attempting suicide was something that was so foreshadowed from way back in season 1 that it was honestly almost a relief when they finally went there, and even more of a relief that they let him survive thatÂ
6: Every time someone says that Eddie Lane is a âgood manâ I like him a little less, to the point that I think heâs now my least favorite character among all these dipshits
7: Every character that has died on this show deserved better, but I almost think thatâs maybe the point
8: This show has brought up a lot of thoughts and feelings in me about taking responsibility for our actions versus the narcissism of guilt, and actually feeling a desire to help others vs. using âless fortunateâ people as props for oneâs own âspiritual fulfillment.â These thoughts and feelings may have been influenced by me intermittently rewatching Buffy The Vampire Slayer during my viewing (fuck Steven Myers and Eddie Lane btw, we should all be following the cult of Buffy Summers)  Â
9: I really, really hope the shipper name for Hawk/Caleb is Cawk. Â
And thatâs all I got for the moment. Now that I have no fear of spoilers, please like or reblog this if you post Path content cause I am so ready for that. Â
Definitely agree Vera deserved better, although I suspected she was going to die from the moment they confirmed she was Steveâs daughter.
Iâd argue Maryâs father actually deserved worse.Â
Among the Calopologists, I was probably the least likely to forgive him for murdering Silas until the reveal of what Silas knew about Steveâs urges in the finale.
And yes to #4 â I never expected to really want to see Cal and Mary work it out.Â
#4 - I was genuinely surprised at how strong Mary became. In contrast, we saw Cal weakened to the point he believed suicide was his only option, I like them as a couple and this is my only real regret about the show not being renewed; not knowing how their story played out.
#6 - After he embraced being the leader, sometime mid-season 2, is when I started to detest Eddie, when I mostly liked him. I didnât like Sarah from the start, but she redeemed herself with her speech to Cal in the woods, talking him out of killing himself.
#8 - (fuck Steven Myers and Eddie Lane btw, we should all be following the cult of Buffy Summers) Â Â HUZZAH!
My thoughts: Vera had a target on her back from early on. Her death was the least shocking thing that happened in S3. It wouldâve been interesting to see if Eddie would have stepped down and Vera taken over the movement. As Steveâs true child, it would have made more sense, and Eddie would have gotten his head out of his ass. Believing your own press is stupid; just ask Cal.
Though I will give Cal credit, they continuously showed Cal trying to help Meyerists - in S3 when he walked out of the hotel room and helped the two women do the proper hand placements for their Unburdening or whatever, and Eddie merely laid into him about overstepping his place. They never showed Eddie helping in those small ways, we only saw his Big Moments like the Nazi kid. Big, bold statements that wouldnât hold as much sway with true believers than the everyday kindnesses.
@themeyeristmovement Silas knew, too? I thought it was just Felicia. I admit I canât make myself go back and watch it, as it was devastating to hear :( I did hate that Cal killed Silas, intentionally or not, it was a blot on his soul that would never be undone. Iâm kinda glad we wonât get to see Cal dragged down further by the discovery of SIlasâ body, and if the Movement/Eddie would deem it necessary to cover up to protect the Movement, or throw Cal to the authorities to get him out of Eddieâs hair once and for all.
I will never be over Cal wanting to thank Vera for giving him a month of Steve being a real father to him. A fucking month where Steve only touched him like a father, in the ten or so years he was abused. That is ⊠*shudder* beyond sick, and for him to want to thank herâŠhow could he still be standing? Speaking? *cries*
Someday I may write up my rant about how relatively light the first generation got off for letting what happened to Cal happen. Feliciaâs confession was that Steve told her and Silas at his 7R about his pedophilia and they believe they prayed it away. And never questioned Steveâs interest in Cal because why would they knowing what they knew? [deep breath] [also very pissed off they retroactively ruined 7R as the Cal/Eddie ship name] [also need to write about whether Silas was actually a shaman or a charlatan himself and which is worse.]
I also have been meaning to write up my feelings about the difference in how Cal and Eddie approached what it meant to be the leader. Now, LBR, theyâve both been disasters as leaders. But at this point, I feel a little more empathy for Cal. He believed in the mission of Meyerism, that it could make people better, that he could help people. Yes, he was blind to his weaknesses and impulsive and confused his own ego (I WILL HELP PEOPLE BY BUYING THIS BUILDING) with the actual mission (you could have done so much more good with the money you poured into that building).Â
But they showed him able to recognize when he fucked up. He would actually say he fucked up. And he took those moments to help - sticking his neck out to protect the refugees, helping the novices at the motel, stopping Eddie from killing the old man. [side note: curious if he told that part of the tale to Mary or just that he arrived in time to dig Eddie up and they kept ]
Eddieâs perspective is as âthe chosen Sonâ - people should just respect that. Yeah, sure, heâll make mistakes but FFS PEOPLE I AM THE CHOSEN SON.Â
Granted, we donât know where they would have gone with S4, what sort of arc for Eddie they had set up. But Iâve said it in a couple other ways - Sarah was completely right at the end of S2 - Eddie lost everything that was beautiful about him when he decided he wanted to be the leader. Heâs really trying to be Steve 2.0 (see OPâs point #3). We no longer see the guy who almost managed to make Abe the FBI informant into a true believer all while having his own crisis of faith, purely by being honest. Now itâs his way or the highway. Not sure how you write him out of this back to being the moral hero of the story.Â
Yes, I came in to this show completely biased in favor of whatever character Hugh Dancy was playing, but at this point I donât think Iâm wrong that at the conclusion of three seasons, heâs the most sympathetic of the of three leads.Â
And back to OP, yes, Buffy Summers would be a much better leader to follow than any of them.Â
âSomeday I may write up my rant about how relatively light the first generation got off for letting what happened to Cal happen.â Â
Oh my gosh, yes. Again, we donât know what might have been planned for season 4, but this is a major thing for me. Like, even the ones that had no idea are culpable to some degree in my opinion simply because of their worship of Steve. Like, thatâs the problem, and why this whole thing with Eddie is a big disaster waiting to happen (which I think is the intent of the show, all those shots of Prophet!Eddie are ominous AF). Itâs not a matter of having the ârightâ person in charge, itâs that unquestioned authority in itself is dangerous and harmful. Cal must have known, even as a child, that likely no one would believe him. That they would all side with Steve. I would bet good money that that contributed to him repressing those memoriesâthe helplessness that comes from knowing everyone sees your abuser as a god. The first generationâs worship of Steve not only allowed the abuse to continue unchecked, but I would argue was in itself a form of abuse. Arguably a form of abuse that has had just as much, if not more, of a profound, long lasting effect on Cal. Â
@kronette I too only fully came around Sarah in that scene with Cal. (That was the only scene in the show that actually moved me to tears, btw.) But Iâd actually been warming up to her in little bits all seasonâlike how she acknowledged to Hawk that how she had treated him the way Calebâs dad was treating him now. I really liked that. Â
I also agree about Mary, tho I feel like we skipped over a bit of her growth. We didnât really get to see her struggle to become the more actualized person she is now, it kind of just happened. Â
And since I basically saw Cal with big olâ âIâm in danger of killing myselfâ sign on him from, like, I donât remember, early season 1? I didnât see this has him being âweakenedâ, but rather him finally facing that part of himself. Now at least he can start to expunge those feeling of self loathing and worthlessness. I know itâs hard to watch, but sometimes people need to go ârock bottomâ like that, and as I said, Iâm so glad they let him come back up again. But, in my opinion, this was always where his character truly was, the circumstances just finally made it impossible for him to hide. Â
Itâs possible Iâm projecting a little. While I have very little in common with Cal, I recognized that particular brand of self loathing almost immediately. It was so funny to me when they tried that misdirect with the gun, trying to make us think heâd be the one to shoot Eddie? Like, I actually laughed out loud at that. It was just so damn obvious to me who that gun for. Who did you think you were fooling, show? Like, come on. Â
Itâs kinda crazy, because I even sot of âdreamedâ about it, way back when I was still in season 2 (I watch stuff before I go to sleep, so itâs very common for shows to infect my dreams, lol). I could see it super clearly: I knew Cal wouldnât make a big show when he finally got there. Thereâd be no big confrontation. He wouldnât throw himself off a building in the middle traffic, or shoot himself in front of someone while spitting blame like that guy did with Sarah. Heâd go out in the woods somewhere so he wouldnât leave a mess. Leave a note to those who mattered, just so they wouldnât waste time looking for him. Just try to disappear, with as little inconvenience as possible. And holy shit, if that isnât exactly what happened. Like, my subconscious fucking called it, almost beat for beat. I mean, there have been moments in my life where the only thing that kept me alive was thinking about the mess my dying would cause for the people left behind. Once that little voice in your head that says theyâd be better off anyway gets strong enoughâŠwell. Then you just try to minimize the inevitable mess, convinced that ultimately itâll be for the best. I think itâs really a credit to how well his character has been writtenâhow quickly I knew where it was going, and how true and genuine the actual event played out. It honestly didnât feel like cheap drama to me, at all, and given how suicide is usually treated in fiction, thatâs a huge credit to everyone involved.
Sorry this got so personal, I really just wanted to express how well I thought they did with that and why I felt that way.    Â
Thank you for sharing!Â
I was resistant to the idea that Cal was suicidal, and Iâm not sure why. But once it was happening on screen, it was so obvious thatâs what Cal would do.Â
I feel like there was a decision to reset Maryâs character path between episodes 311 and 312. I really saw her becoming almost a straight up sociopath that would leave Forest with the Meyerists in order to follow the Senator who offered the power and security that Cal wasnât going to be able to provide. Then suddenly 312, sheâs a rather reasonable young woman trying to take advantage of a real opportunity to make a new life and willing to take Cal along with her, but not willing to sacrifice herself or her son to Calâs inability to let go of the Movement.Â
On the one hand, it felt great to see her grow, Iâd wanted that for her since the first episode. But that woman doesnât seem like the one that left her son at the collective nursery so she could babysit the Senator.Â
Sarahâs just been all over the place, the character that seems to fall the most victim to doing whatever the plot needs her to do rather than a consistent character arc. Yes, scene talking Cal out of suicide was incredibly touching. But this is the same woman who at the end of the previous episode had let Eddie waltz into Calâs home, discover that Mary had left him, and still yank the rug out from under him.Â
Yes to everything about the dangers of the cult of personality. Cal and Vera assumed Eddie would end the Movement once he understood who Steve was. They didnât imagine heâd choose to just replace Steve with himself. I donât feel like the show brought me along on that path with Eddie, but maybe I was just to focused on what a really solid job they were doing with Calâs story.
I was really surprised by how invested I became in Cal and Marys relationship. WAY more than Eddie and Sarah ( although thatâs also interesting.). It got me thinking of worthyness as a concept.
During Season 1 Cal clearly saw Sarah as a goddess, that he was passed over by in favour of Eddie. He tried manipulativly to appear worthy of her. He literally describes her as âan Angelâ in S1 which is how Mary describes him.
Sarah blames him for her hypocrisy and moral decline at the start of S2. We know that he views her as a moral/ ethical ideal and his perceived corruption of her is one of the things that , to my mind, contributed to his suicide bid. âLook what I did to youâ he says in the final episode.Â
Calâs attitude to Mary, while still being subconscious at the start is that he and Mary are the same person. He recognises a part of himself in her that he covets ( his missing past self.) but doesnât think worthy of happiness. And, he sees himself as a corrupting influence, so he rejects her, and then breaks up her relationship with Sean. He is also jealous, because despite his inability to have a relationship with her, he is in love with her, fundamentally in a more real way than he is with Sarah.
When he commits murder, he brings Sean back. Because he is now so much worse than Mary. And not worthy of her ever again, no matter how lowly she is.
Eddie and Calâs 7R discussion about their digging visions tells us that Calâs neurosis is a fear of being â A nothingâ. This is, effectively because huge parts of his psyche have been erased from memory. Eddie has no such fear.
Toward the end of S1 there is a clue to the cause of his feeling of unworthiness when he confides in comatose Steve and says â I tried to be your son.â Implying that he never quite achieved that status, Steve used love as a tool to keep Cal reaching for his approval. Also the subconscious knowledge that thereâs was not a father-son relationship at its core.
During season 2 we learn that Sarah was a role model for Cal, that she had âsaved himâ as a kid. Sarah was his standard of normalcy, for goodness, for purity etc. He was heavily invested in her remaining on her angelic pedestal. When she fell from grace ethically he felt that it was his fault. And he carried it ever since.
He literally âdragged her down to his levelâ during the exhumation of Silas, made her complicit in the murder, and the corruption that followed.
â It all began with Silas,â says Sarah in season 3 ep 1. When she comes to him looking for punishment. Silas was, indeed, the catalyst for Sarahâs moral decline. BUT the thing sheâs never been able to do is to take responsibility for her actions, because if Meyerism worked, it would surely have kept her on the right path? It must be someone elses fault!
Its is only when she admits Meyerism doesnât work for her that she begins the journey toward self actualisation ( which is taking full responsaibliy for her actions or lack of action). Punishment is, at its core, a way to avoid full responsibility for ones actions. Which is why it doesnât work to absolve her of her guilt.Â
The first time Cal threatens suicide it is to Mary in S2. He asks if she would die with him/or run way with him, he isnât sure which. He sees Mary as equally damaged as him, hence death is a viable way to dispose of them both. His self hatred overflows onto poor Mary more than once over the course of the series. She acts as a catalyst for his abusive behaviour.
But with his acknowledgement of Forest as his child Calâs behaviour does actually start to change. Because the fact is, this innocent , pure thing is also literally a part of them both. And no matter how defended they both are they can still love that small part of themselves. As they grow to love their child they start to love each other in a genuine way. Even though neither of them can say the word until the end.
In his behaviour by the start of season 3 we see him Cal committed to Mary. Even though they have no intimacy in their relationship. Almost like their relationship is a penance for his past abusive behaviour. Then, as he regains his memories and the parts of himself he lost, he regains his ability to love her. This dynamic is beautifully illustrated by the stilted dancing in ep 1 where he can hardly touch her, verses the physical intimacy Iater on.
In S3 we see Mary becoming more self actualised after the shift away from Meyerism, in that she no longer actually needs Cal for her own survival anymore. She canât worship or idolise him anymore but still loves the broken child he actually is. Mary handles her trauma in a way that appears exemplary ( assuming Cal doesnât know about her killing Dad Cox.) She is stronger than he is, although at the expense of being cut off from her own vulerability to the point of appearing socipathic.
Ironic that, despite their rivalry and jealousy, itâs Sarah who Mary calls for help in the end and she is the only one who could have found Cal in the spot Silas was buried. She is the one who has known, and loved him, the longest. And the only one who can absolve him of any part of his numerous sins. He repeats Silasâ words to him while standing on the manâs grave. âIâm an alcoholic salesman and and it will catch up to them.â Once again he feels his sins are going to drag his loved ones down. He feels âruined,â has been since he was a small child. It gives terrible insight into how he views himself. As something so corrupted as to be conatgious to those around him. Originating in the idea that he has corrupted the purest thing he can imagine, Sarah.
When Sarah absolves him for his part in her downfall. Of responsibility for her own free choices in the season 3 finale he is freed from that guilt bond they share. He can move on from her. Later he apologises, out loud, to Mary, perhaps not only for the suicide attempt, and says he will try to âBe really worthy of you.â Mary, in all her brokenness, is not damaged goods in his eyes anymore. She isnât just a refection of his pain anymore but a person worthy of respect.
Its such an unusual journey for a relationship to take on TV.
A few words about The Path
Those of you who have been following the show probably know that it got cancelled earlier this week. Or as I like to call it - discontinued. Like this special ice cream flavor that you really liked but not enough people knew about.Â
This show was really really important to me. Granted, I played a small part (no pun intended) when looking at the big picture, but what not many people know is that Iâve been there since day 1.
Iâll never forget it. It was the day we were shooting the post-hurricane scene, we were in Long Island, which is not where most of the show was shot. We got there on day 1, a core group of 6 BG actors chosen to portray âcult membersâ and I was in awe when I saw a yacht, a flipped school bus, and a whole lot of mud created by the set team.
I remember wrapping after a very long day, and waiting in the parking lot with our AD for a bus as one of the two we had broke down and some of us had to stay behind. This is when he got the call from production telling him the show which was called âThe Wayâ up until that point, would now be known as âThe Path.â (Up until a few weeks prior every time someone from BG casting talked to me about it, it was âuntitled hulu cult show.â)
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Havenât seen a formal announcement but this seems pretty well sourced. No season 4.
Proof, once again, that studio execs have no taste.
Music: The Guests, Leonard Cohen Clips: The Path, Hulu.
When youâve been watching a fictional show about a cult and catch yourself singing one of their songsâŠ
Excellent work, Hulu.
Me reading Reddit comments defending Felicia.