matrixrefugee (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
matrixrefugee) wrote2005-10-23 04:23 pm
matrixrefugee) wrote2005-10-23 04:23 pm
Entry tags:
Bad Catholic versus Trad Catholic??
I just finished reading "The Darkness Did Not" (Which I think should be titled "The Darkness Did Not Comprehend", since the current title just kinda leaves you hanging. As in "the darkness did not... do what?!"). I liked it, but parts of it had me wanting to punt the book across the room, namely, some of the unnecessary preaching about how suicides do not deserve to have Requiem Masses said for them or be buried in consecrated ground; and also some really maddening preaching about baptism of desire. I could be dead wrong, but I believe that if a person really, really wants to be with God and asks Him to let them into heaven at the moment of death -- whether they're baptised or not -- then He will take them in. We're all His children, and what truly loving father turns his child away from his home, for whatever reason? I don't think that *everyone* goes to heaven, since everyone has the ability to choose not to, if they cling to their sins and selfishness and refuse to let go. But I don't believe that the gate to heaven is quite so narrow as some people make it out to be.
That said... I loved the final confrontation between the priest aided by his cohorts, the Knights Tumblar (a group of chivalric Catholic laymen; why can't I find guys like them?!), and the vampire: spooky and funny at the same time; it could have been a little tighter if the writing had been less urplish, but it still worked. My other carp is that the book was a bit short on strong female characters (some of the few female characters seemed a little stereotyped, but that's just me), but I'm not going to go crazy about that, lest I sound like one of those fanbrats who write Tenth Member of the Fellowship of the Ring-fics or who give the Winchester Brothers a sister.
Which brings me to the wacky thought that's been pricking at my brain: I started out by playing the "Hm, if I was gonna make a movie of this, who would play what character?" game, but since I couldn't come up with anything beyond fantasy-casting a young Lambert Wilson as Pierre Bontemps (one of the Knights Tumblar and a guy I would love to marry, if I ever found him or someone like him), I started throwing other ideas around... Which lead me to the looney thought: "What would happen if Father Jean Baptist crossed paths with a certain snarky, chain-smoking demon hunter?" It's not impossible: they both deal with things that go bump in the night, they both live in Los Angeles, they're both Catholic, though one's a Traditionalist Catholic cop-turned-priest, and the other is a Walker Percy-esque "bad Catholic" who has a better idea of what's going on than a lot of so-called "good Catholics". I ran it past Constantine, who at first was adverse to the idea, but then he admitted he's had some run-ins with anNOYing Traditionalist Catholics of the sort I call "Traddies", or which he calls just plain "Trads". I've been tossing around a few ideas and sketches, but I don't have anything definate yet, and probably won't, but it's a neat little thought exercise.
Speaking of fanfics, I think Flood is getting his revenge against me for a certain AU fic I started quiddling with: Last night I had this wierd dream about being pregnant and not knowing who the father is (very unlikely to happen) and not even knowing how I ended up that way in the first place. Yes, his snarkiness is going about in my headspace with an utterly evil smirk on his handsome face.
That said... I loved the final confrontation between the priest aided by his cohorts, the Knights Tumblar (a group of chivalric Catholic laymen; why can't I find guys like them?!), and the vampire: spooky and funny at the same time; it could have been a little tighter if the writing had been less urplish, but it still worked. My other carp is that the book was a bit short on strong female characters (some of the few female characters seemed a little stereotyped, but that's just me), but I'm not going to go crazy about that, lest I sound like one of those fanbrats who write Tenth Member of the Fellowship of the Ring-fics or who give the Winchester Brothers a sister.
Which brings me to the wacky thought that's been pricking at my brain: I started out by playing the "Hm, if I was gonna make a movie of this, who would play what character?" game, but since I couldn't come up with anything beyond fantasy-casting a young Lambert Wilson as Pierre Bontemps (one of the Knights Tumblar and a guy I would love to marry, if I ever found him or someone like him), I started throwing other ideas around... Which lead me to the looney thought: "What would happen if Father Jean Baptist crossed paths with a certain snarky, chain-smoking demon hunter?" It's not impossible: they both deal with things that go bump in the night, they both live in Los Angeles, they're both Catholic, though one's a Traditionalist Catholic cop-turned-priest, and the other is a Walker Percy-esque "bad Catholic" who has a better idea of what's going on than a lot of so-called "good Catholics". I ran it past Constantine, who at first was adverse to the idea, but then he admitted he's had some run-ins with anNOYing Traditionalist Catholics of the sort I call "Traddies", or which he calls just plain "Trads". I've been tossing around a few ideas and sketches, but I don't have anything definate yet, and probably won't, but it's a neat little thought exercise.
Speaking of fanfics, I think Flood is getting his revenge against me for a certain AU fic I started quiddling with: Last night I had this wierd dream about being pregnant and not knowing who the father is (very unlikely to happen) and not even knowing how I ended up that way in the first place. Yes, his snarkiness is going about in my headspace with an utterly evil smirk on his handsome face.