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Midnight mass season 01 episode 07 - Available on bilibili
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Finally! I get to write another liveblog!
FUCK. REVELATION.
Who? Eyes. Candles. Oh ho ho blood. This seems like a good time to bring up a similar image: blood on the doors of a church. My people & my sister people were massacred (& in exchange massacred some jesuits so now they are considered martyrs) & forcibly converted (& some willingly converted but that didn't save us) & when graves were found, people protested by painting bloody handprints on the doors of the church. I am pleased with pope francis' apology, but there are STILL residential schools operating in South America.
The bullet wound...
So where did everyone go anyway?
Wow. Real zombie apocalypse visuals. Everyone is way more out of their minds than father Paul was. Ah he's probably an atheist, that's why he's not at church & needs to drink Wade's blood. Does Wade's blood count or is it just the vampire's?
NO, ALI!
ED!
Oh holy shit, lesbian splattered with blood 😳
Special police radio?
Ohhhh no. Erin is smart. Oh no. & they are not mindless zombies, as they appear right now, they can probably think just as smart as Paul Hill who smuggled a whole living person to the island from the holy land
By handing him the gun is she saying they all need to die? He don't have enough bullets. Ah but he checks.
A knife that small?
"This is never the way" rn bc it only kills them for like 5 minutes (& would traumatize you) but actually it is the way according to the catechism of the catholic church
Yeah girl. That is also why I'm suicidal lolol.
No greater love than to lay down one's life for others, even those you haven't met.
Hell yeah molotov cocktails.
HELL YEAH THE POWER OF A MOTHER. HELL YEAH THE LOVE OF A SON FIGHTING TO GET BACK TO HER & HELL YEAH HASSAN PUSHING HIM OUT THE WINDOW
Ohhh blesses herself.
"Bev, listen to me. You aren't a good person." FUCK YEAH SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT.
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Annie is on point. I like her.
Oh wow. I wish I could do that. Youe survival instinct is pretty strong, you need to have either a strong impulse or a strong will to manage that.
Oh. OK yeah I was right about the sex metaphor as one part of this.
We just had the sparrow reading recently. Well because God is omniscient, at least we think It is. Other gods aren't omniscient, so why does ours have to be?
Oh you know I THOUGHT that was Mildred!
Just like that tumblr post "they did it bc of love, grief counts, & it doesn't excuse anything"
Maybe the protestants & orthodox are right about letting priests marry...
You know, I respect her choice. Poor woman, but yeah.
No. Until DEATH parts you. After one of you dies, marriage is broken. You have both died.
His mustache looked like his mouth D:
Nooo Ook
Oh wait he's racist. Hell yeah hassan finally has an excuse to shoot a racist. (& also religious discrimination)
Oh no. Oh he just flew away, it's fine.
I was just about to count his bullets.
Hassan is am absolutely king. Stabbed that zombie vampire cultist. Then smacked him across the face. Tumblr needs to lust for this man.
Did the kids get separated? Oh I love his run
"It's fine if everything burns bc the church didn't burn last time the island caught fire.
Girl you are not a protestant why are you like this?. Damn girl. This is a good actress btw. Bud this ain't a normal storm, they might not make the connection. & GASP
THE REC CENTRE. THAT WILL BE THE BRIDGE THAT WILL LET THE FIRE LEAP TO THE CHURCH & WE WILL GET AN OVERHEAD SHOT AS THE CULTISTS BURN INSIDE THE CHURCH & BEV IS FACING THE SKY & SCREAMING "Why? Why is it burning?" & IT WILL HAVE SOME KIND OF SYMBOLISM the road to hell is paved with good intentions & she doesn't even realize she doesn't see that it's burning bc of her.
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Is this Joe Cooley's place?
Something something gun symbolism losing parents victimhood cycles of abuse power etc
"Either way, we're going to be ok" yeah canoe vs motor, but also either we are going to escape or join them which might be ok
Ohh right I forgot about the romance.
General store: where the dog barked at her & Joe bought his stuff & the sheriff has an office
Good setup for the foggy zombie scene with burning buildings.
Oh my gosh fucking Ed & Annie... he thought he saved her... she thought she lost him...
"It's all mine" LMAO but also yeah I didn't eat anyone (I'm not a bad person). Why are they more virtuous? Oh maybe she's not. Ohh loss of personhood.
Ohhhh yeah this is DEFINITELY an analogy for MANY things. Conversion of unwilling peoples (pagans & jews) & murder & secretly giving them communion or baptism... rape... abuse, I'm thinking from a parent rn... the violence of conversion, "I can't help it" of the abuses I mentioned... not just choice, but fighting urge... revealing who you are & who you are but you're just waiting for permission to act like it bc you're hiding it...
Are THEY getting gas to burn the town & that's why they're confused-- ah the boats. @codex-dominion reference.
Beauty.
OH ARE THEY ACTUALLY CHASING HER?
Is it going to be Bowl?
Is that another person?
O--
OH SHOOT!
No idiot leave it out & exit! Did she take off the safety?
Smart but honestly it will burn its skin & then it will burn out & the monster is too wet to burn, then it will heal.
In-universe reason for a fade out.
You would almost think thr actually actors didn't know it lights that fast irl.
It is flying that fast, it is out. The gun? The fluid?
Burning the school.
Where'd she get that many cots?
OH THEY WILL BURN IM THE REC CENTRE DURING DAYTIME, THATS WHY THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO LEAVE
& several hundred candles... Bev overlooking her Place (double entendre, both the place she has set up, but also her metaphorical place, her status.
What, were they walking to their house on fire?
I love how we get a glance at all the different character groups
Bev when it's the priest who needs his sins overlooked vs bev when it's anyone else (exc herself)
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& they come out of the smoke like that...silhouettes...
Bev wants to be a cult leader. Paul Hill is figuring out that he just wanted his paramour back. He's changing his tune this fast? I mean, I guess...wait did I mention the (kill me I almost said irony when I meant coincidence but it isn't even a coincidence it was important & it isn't dramatic irony it's literally known to them that) they had the resurrection thing at the same time as theirs. I mean yeah it makes sense, new covenant & all that.
Religion <3
The way "God" echoes once he yells it. Ugh beautiful scene.
Her eyes. Oh no. I mean yeah as a heretic I agree... girl you ain't a protestant why are u being like that?... she is really the successor of the cult's leadership, which is a thing for cults.... the way she immediately forms the world to fit her vision, "why did it have to be true of you?" but she's mad abt smth that is true because she created a reality in which it is the only possible option... she needs this, she believes so much in the cult that she doesn't believe in the man who started it, & you see this all the way through, her need to be righteous, as soon as Pruitt ate Joe, she settled on the conclusion that it was right. She sees a reality where it was ok to poison the dog bc she wouldn't do it if it were wrong. It isn't that she wants to create a reality where she is right, it's that she wants to do something wrong so she creates a reality where it is right to excuse it. The psychology of Bev Keane. She makes it about herself. You are a test of my faith, I am the main character.
Very fitting, Jesus to Peter, not to Satan the adversary, but Peter, a servant of God.
Is Bev consecrated? Like, to live a single life?
".... They who?"
Oh this is so sad.
This is the perfect horizon to have a zombie clamber over the top.
Dude you can ask about this in the boat.
Did anything particularly bad happen at the last dinner they had all together? Is this excluding Riley?
Oh no. Is she picking on Howard? Whatever metaphor, killing your wife & kids, this was always inside you, you just needed a reason to let it out, or it's something that isn't you no it is an urge that does not belong to you & you need to fight it but you can fight it.
Oh noo bev don't tell him he could have brought them back dang & oh wait sturge wasn't supposed to-- ok...? Dang Bev is just...
My gosh. & like, a lot of this is theological in a way I wouldn't expect from a twice a year catholic writer. Yes it is lent, but we talk like this a lot during advent too, always being ready in advent & always preparing yourself in lent, different connotation or smth... you could have had the tools, you should have been ready. & then "you knew but you didn't believe" as opposed to "the poor pagan had never been exposed to it"
Dang he tried to save his friend... but he is following Bev, & he's crying & ohhh he is comforting him by telling him to khs watching the sunrise... ohhhh no.
Oh no, warring cults?
Ohh oh ho ho father daughter uhhhhhhh oh dang good... "God am I proud of ya" the way he says it, I love his voice pattern, & he's just a dad rn...
Thinking about "all are welcome" & my possible metaphors
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GASP
Is he going to save her (bc that is ALL he wanted) or let her free?
Secret third thing: tackle Sturge. Choking??? Half of me expects her to run back out & finish the job the priest started.
Oh no
Oh is she spitting it out? Successfully?
Ohh a burning church
The atheist lesbian doctor is the Jesus now, not the priest. She is going to get a speech.
He has his family, one dead, & he achieved his goal & is walking away from the cult he started to get it.
Oh no Hassan!
"The day" he set foot here? OK prejudice. You didn't know him. Ok yeah you're openly racist now. Something something metaphor for choosing to give into urges which are unnatural & from drinking the poison sacrifice from another person. "My granddaddy fought in x war, he sacrificed his blood for me, I have to support his politics & I get to say slurs now even though without pop-pop I wouldnt want to" like "you bit your wrist for me, spilt your blood, I must follow your cult, & now I am free to start killing & eating people, even though I wouldn't naturally want that"
The back of his thigh is probable messed UP rn.
I swear, Allah is going to have given Hassan such strong blood that Bev will die on contact. Inshallah.
Erin? Was Hassan going for a "you had a grievance with her" trick before she got snatched?
ALI!!! Boy? He's your student, you know his name, right? You're just calling him boy? The family you died for or the family you were born into? The ones you chose who shot the one you didn't? Hassan's nod...
That little explosion is legit btw, if it has enough time to fume.
That's the gospel. Idk if they have that line in the gospel of isus, it might be from Hassan's time looking at Christianity.
Bev goes hard tho. (The gun would kick back way more.)
In the heart?
It is so preoccupied it can't even feel pain
Damn that is for sure a sex metaphor.
You could make a line to the sea & pass buckets.
They seem so out of it.
Do you think Joe's trailer's roof is intact? There is surely a shack in the uppards which has enough space for two people...
Yeah it is traumatizing to the perpetrators. Asking for forgiveness from your fellow of your kind. Checking in on some kid, confessing, forgiveness, unjust forgiveness... Howie <3
It's gonna kill her for real now or not
He's going to die. It's a gut wound.
The dragon over the mighty fires it wrought.
Better start rowing. Erin is going to burn & die bc she drank the blood.
The Easter music. Were you there when they beat him? Were you there when they crowned him with thorns? Were you there when the weight of the cross felled him? Were you there when they crucified my lord? Sometimes it causes me to tremble. Very fitting. & I like how they're doing death. It is of course for our comfort, as may be the idea of heaven after death, so the show is falling into that trap, but on the other hand, they did well with diversity: atheists died & were turned & suicided, christians died & were turned, muslims died (I expect) & were turned & survived (for a time), "good" people & "bad" people & "justified" people all over, death doesn't discriminate, cultishness doesn't discriminate.
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This is good bc I have been questioning a lot with my suicidality.
I can't tell if that's smoke or vampire vision. She is uniting with the universe. That is heaven, in a way.
Her favourite place
Holding hands <3
I love the limp. Why are they going to the coast? Good for them ig.
Yes she's right, I was right, heaven is complete unity with God, I was right.
On the other hand, it scares me into suicide "I am the universe dreaming that I have a life" but comforts me that if I do, it won't matter so idk
I like the fake neck tissue lol
Sounds gnostic.
Sounds sacrilegious.
Oh wait lol yeah that's very similar to gnoaticism. I wasn't talking about that tho, I was talking more about what the show is saying.
I'm sure you could hide yourself under a pile of bodies oh wait they'd dissolve into ash.
She is still catholic, despite it all.
I am trying to learn this in cree. Look at them swaying & harmonizing. Awwwwww.
Aaaah the way he let's him down onto the beach.
I THOUGHT THEY MIGHT BE GOING TO THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF THE ISLAND OR TO THE SIDE BY THE NEAREST MOSQUE AWW. Idk if I want them to survive because of the power of Islam or if I want them to die because atheism & ambiguity of real supernatural stuff with varying religious beliefs but I know they need to die.
She'd totally yell at them still tho, don't let her become normal. Well, ok, maybe she's just drained & ready to die in the sun.
Taking off the collar like he said for family but also everything it represented for the cult & the show's concept of religion (specifically catholicism)
They don't have mats with them, they don't have a wall or a corner or even a purse to place across from them, it's just out to the horizon. He's dying & he's praying. That's how I want to die. OH HE JUST KEELED.
Bev being on the very coast, the framing, she falls to her knees...
Lol she's digging.
ARE THEY SURROUNDING THE USA FLAG?
Is Sturge related to Ook & the earlier conversation wasn't weird or are they just sticking together?
Lol these 90yos kissing in their 33yo bodies
AAAAH ALI HOLDING HIS FATHER'S BODY AS HE BURNS IN THE SUN I'M LEGIT CRYING
Bev screams right over the word "god"
Lmao.
Lol the singing stopping like that
I know it was for the drama/affect & for the cinema/inception, but I also think it was good for the religious analogy, too.
I can't help but imagine the beast dropping dead from the sky.
Those are people...
Yay yippee that's probably a good sign.
WOWOWOW OK
