Well, it's Wednesday and tomorow I have a lot to do. I seem to get more done and feel better about myself when I'm busy and have a limited amount of time.
Noticed something about an episode of Angel, tonight. Symbolism. It's not that he's a demon and has demons; we all do. We all have evil in us put in the right circumstances at the right or wrong time, however one sees it.
Tonight's episode has an actress who wants to be young and 22 always and tries to use Angel to do it for her. Angelus emerges when Angel is drugged and experiences a moment of happiness, or thinks he does. Interesting, evil emerges when something is more wonderful than anything we can imagine. Hmmmm.... Why wouldn't people use drugs when it affects the pleasure centers of the brain the way it does, even once, in some cases.
The Ring is about men who pit demons with each other in a fight to the death. I'll have to think about what the Ring represents, but, it says about our society that we are a people who would allow that to happen and continue happening because demons are hated and used made into slaves in this episode. They aren't anything. They are nothing. They are inferior, perhaps worse than inferior. No one cares enough about them to stop the slavery, the gladiator fights, and some are blood thirsty enough to cheer the combatants on. That's what the gladiators in Rome were for. Entertainment. Sport. To keep the masses drugged so they didn't think. Keeps them in a ring, of sorts, and they can't get out.
What Angel told Tepfor was, "If you do this, (kill me), you'll never be free even if they take the bracelets off you and let you go.
We are all slaves to something, in a way. Whatever our addiction is, good or bad. Mine is food when I am emotionally upset. For others it's following celebrities and listening to that horrible show on TV, a spin off of Entertainment Tonight, the worst I've seen, where four or five young people sit around making rude, arrogant, sarcastic, cutting remarks about celebritites and people tune into the show to take part in it.
My view of tabloids has changed markedly lately.There's nothing people seem to enjoy more than watching a famous person fall and the ridiculous stories they run are so sad and a travesty and a statement about our society as a whole and our addiction to following celebritites. What a demon that is. It's not the Paparazzi, or even the publishers who buy their pictures, it's the people who continue to purchase those papers or read the articles in them, and even worse some think they reading something true. How sad.
Faith's seeking out Angel when she realizes how deep she has sunk into evil. How damaged her soul is. Remarkable two episodes coming up.
I like Angel; it is constantly addressing evil and good; what it is; what it isn't. Gives one pause to think.
M
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