#best character
ALTSandro appreciation post because yes I love the brothers (uh well mostly the poor baby who was stabbed to death) and the powerful women (so badass and inspirational especially Mama Lucrezia), Sandro represents the essence of the time period for me. After his best friend Giuliano died, he personally experienced a renaissance of his own art “because after death comes life” as he put it. This personal journey of his highlights how even in a period of political instability, art and beauty is what keeps society going. It is what kept him going.
As an artist myself, his journey really spoke to me…especially when he lost his muse. It’s really inspiring that even though his greatest inspirations died, he was able to keep going and produce some of his best works. He didn’t forget about his inspiration, Simonetta because he never stops painting Venus. What really moved me is that he didn’t forget Giuliano. In season 3 when he shows his sketch of a Greek god to little Giulio and calls it a “likeness of your father” that was one of the sweetest moments of the show. What Sandro does truly honours Giuliano’s memory unlike Lorenzo’s obsessive and dark path of revenge.
Sandro as a character is so strong because he is as driven and ambitious as Lorenzo but unlike Lorenzo, he sticks to his morals and principles. Can I just say he does this in the most iconic way by throwing shade at the Pope?? “It is for his glory, not ours”
Lastly, yes, he is super stubborn but he always comes around when it matters. He reconciled with his best friend as he died even though their fight was HUGE because it was about his art and his connection to his muse which was his ENTIRE life. He also stood by Lorenzo as he died (who lets face it was not deserving of all the sympathy when he died because he sold his freaking daughter and tried to use Sandro and his art as a political tool and replaced him with Leonardo). He is such a beautifully written and portrayed character and he is super underrated and deserves better. Let’s not forget both part 1 and part 2 end with his art because that’s what this show is about “the beauty and the pain”
an atheist ghost. they refuse to move on to the afterlife on the grounds that the afterlife does not and should not exist
they only respond to ouija board summonings in order to lecture people for participating in non-evidence-based belief systems
exorcisms dont work cause they dont believe in them.
“yeah sure I could ‘go into the light’ as you so eloquently put it, but let’s be analytical about this. worst-case scenario, the afterlife is real and I get cast into some version of Hell for being a nonbeliever. slightly better-case scenario, it’s a reincarnation-based afterlife, which means I end up having to do the whole Existence thing all over again, which frankly seems like a hugeroll of the dice. enormously risky, given the low quality of life many people experience, and that’s setting aside philosophical issues of identity, e.g. without the memories and experiences that shaped me, wouldIeven still technically exist as a version of myself I could identify? reincarnation aside, let’s bear in mind there’s no actual evidence there’s even a so-called ‘afterlife’ waiting on the other side–for all we know, my consciousness will just dissolve into nonexistence. again, huge roll of the dice. and even in the best-case scenario? wherein I somehow pass an Arbitrary Morality Test I didn’t sign up for and get accepted into some sort of magical Heaven or whatever? well. consider it from my point of view. all of a sudden I’d be a member of a strange and unfamiliar society, subject to a completely new set of rules and regulations that I probably don’t get a say in. Is ‘Heaven’ a democracy? will I still have access to free will? will I have meaningful choices regarding lifestyle and occupation? what do the holy books say about that, huh? I could be forced to spend a literal eternity worshiping a deity who has made some extremely questionable and problematic decisions regarding the universe. I’m not signing up for that! how is that any better than my current situation? listen buddy, I spent 80 years living in a capitalist hellhole before death Itself finally freed me from all the obligations and restrictions of modern existence. I don’t work, I don’t pay rent or taxes, I just wander from place to place keeping my own schedule, doing my own thing, beholden to neither laws nor peer pressure. as purgatories go, that’s a pretty sweet deal! and what guarantee do I have that any damned afterlife is going to be more tolerable than my current not-existence, huh? none! none whatsoever. skeptic? damn right I’m skeptic! not to mention this whole Heaven-and-Hell dichotomy seems extremely manipulative if not outright abusive, as moral systems go. that’s no way to parent a species! nope. just, nope. this whole religious afterlife nonsense sounds like a whole lot of unnecessary stress and risk. I’m perfectly comfortable staying right where I am, thanks ever so, so you can tell your exorcist to write that out in latin and shove it up his ass”
“the power of christ compels ME?” bitch just because YOU choose to subscribe to a oppressively christian-centric world view doesn’t mean I have to dedicate my afterlife to following the rules of your false gods. if you’re so desperate to get smoke blown up your ass i’m happy to help you shove that thurible way on up there
