Researchy Goodness

I woke up fluey and sulky this morning, so I called in sick for work. As a result I am on the couch, wrapped up in blankets and drinking green tea with manuka. I decided it would be useful to work my way through a bunch of movies I want to reference for various research thingies. You know... note taking and so on. I started with Gabriel.  I thought... you know... Paradise Lost, fits in my theories about The Amory Wars that I'm working on (and DAMN is Milton getting a reworking right now). Yeah... so. I like the aesthetic (although the contact lenses look shocking. It's always more realistic if pupils can change size. and, you know.... if CGI can manage Pochahontas II: Blue Cat Boogaloo, then damnit, just CGI their irises, don't use lenses). And I know I was asking too much by thinking they might actually have ... you know... researched angelology. Like... Samael? IS ANOTHER NAME FOR AN ASPECT OF GOD, YOU UNEDUCATED DRAMATURG. Clearly someone did their research via wiki. I mean, I like that Gabriel is a little bit gay. Or at least confused. Michael?Amitiel?Michael? Amitiel? Samael?!

There also seems to be some confusion about purgatory. For those of you who didn't survive a childhood of Catholic indoctrination, purgatory is a realm between heaven and hell. A nothingness for people who weren't baptised when they died. Except apparently everyone there is mortal. Not dead. Gah. GAH. Clearly the script writers also did not sit through 13 years of Catholic indoctrination. 

And apparently angels find redemtion and minor key guitar with piano and climactic strings through one night stands. Rather than original sin. My head is desking.

Short version: I am not writing on this. Dogma was better researched (I will never doubt you Kevin Smith. In conclusion, Alan Rickman). But it was a good movie to feel sulky and fluey to.