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Feb. 2nd, 2026 01:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethHave watched first disc of Constantine.
Want to watch them all in a row but unfortunately then I will have watched them.
The theology of the horror story is still deeply screwed
but
I can entirely believe the character John Constantine believes the things that lead him to choose as he does.
Also if anyone turned up preaching happy shiny forgiveness better way to him he would be *angry* angry.
Where were the alternatives when he was looking?
... in Legends of Tomorrow, sometimes, maybe, but not here on his own show.
The way horror tragedy constructs the story to lock the ever so sympathetic main character into
Hard Choices
is a great big Thing.
Of course there should be a better way, but then we wouldn't be in this genre, so you get a story that believes in the Fall but is at best equivocal about redemption.
Interesting enough stories, compelling as ever character.
Want to watch them all in a row but unfortunately then I will have watched them.
The theology of the horror story is still deeply screwed
but
I can entirely believe the character John Constantine believes the things that lead him to choose as he does.
Also if anyone turned up preaching happy shiny forgiveness better way to him he would be *angry* angry.
Where were the alternatives when he was looking?
... in Legends of Tomorrow, sometimes, maybe, but not here on his own show.
The way horror tragedy constructs the story to lock the ever so sympathetic main character into
Hard Choices
is a great big Thing.
Of course there should be a better way, but then we wouldn't be in this genre, so you get a story that believes in the Fall but is at best equivocal about redemption.
Interesting enough stories, compelling as ever character.