#maria doyle kennedy

Outlander | S06E5

But if anything should happen to my son…

so followin on from the bit abt the wachowskis own “reincarnated princess” havin a dead scientist ASTRONOMER dad named MAX played by james darcy who was in SIR GAWAIN

Team Establishment sure is ticked off at Team Resistance

they keep killing off effigies of their charas esp harkin back to one maximilian carlo martini playin jodie fosters own Darcy as a longhaired surfer dude workin on a SETI proj in CONTACT see also TRANS4MERS & now this

but hey its just more confirmation of my theory that THOR & PACIFIC RIM were always meant to be AUs of each other

& i got a feeling & checked who plays her mom in this

& its an irish actress who played – yep! – the spanish queen katherine on THE TUDORS (x)

& also was on RTDs original QUEER AS FOLK w charlie h (& now on DOWNTON ABBEY)

& ppl are wondering abt the other chara names in JUPITER ASCENDING & welp aside from ABRASAX aka ABRAXAS = gnostic name of god &/or ancient archangel we have Kalique which is a very obv morph of “calique” which is a minced franco-american blasphemy

deriv of CHALICE (x) & which apparently is sometimes used by Northstar in the Marvel comics (x) so theres a couple-three connections w the del toro verse

Seraphi = seraph[im] aka angels agn pretty darn obv cx goin back to CRONOS

& Balem is probably another phonetic morph of “Belem” as in the brazilian city
which has a dual implication of colonial spain (see also the terry gilliam scn) plus also the name itself is a contracted form of BETHLEHEM

& if there was any sign heretofore that there was any respect for anyone else or acknowledgment of others filmmakin efforts in the wachowskis employment of such tropes id call it clever & a shoutout even if a fairly thin one

but given the uncredited & even twisted raiding of the 1st 2 BLADE films in MATRIX & VENDETTA on top of the uncredited raiding of cordwainer smith in this movie im not gonna give even that (& i suspect if i had the heart & patience for revisting the MATRIX sequels i wld catch a ton more of stuff that made no sense wo the ‘combative dialogue’ context of the time - but “Merovingian” fits bc the subject matter (x) is referenced explicitly in HENRY V opening in the whole angevin/plantagenet inheritance mess via “salic law” & theres that whole tacit allusions to outre-mer & the crusader kingdoms that guillermo plays w mostly visually in BLADE 2 – & then it all gets tied back in w the nonsense of dan brown & that earlier grail book abt modern european royalty bein descendents of Jesus so yeah)

ITS NOT AN ACCIDENT THAT THEY WENT W VAMPIRE ARISTOCRATS WHO ARE LIKE SQUABBLING ANCIENT DEITIES (sub in “blood” for “genes” in the film dialogue & it all makes so much more sense on multiple levels what w “the blood is the life” from scripture & original DRACULA & also “blood” as metaphor for biological heredity) 

any more than casting Richard Sharpe as another mentor / father figure to the hero

but mainly im just pissed that they went backwards w super reactionary gender politics & ALL the characters played by actors of color in servant / minor roles –at least MATRIX had characters of color in positions of authority & power but i guess after you do yellowface in the 21st century & call it something profoundly symbolic human unity blah blah the only thing you can do to top it is make your film look WORSE than 1960s & 70s TV shoes for diversity

at least ppl arent buying it any more than a “heroine” who just screams & flails & needs to be rescued by the manly action hero from yet another consequence of her own foolishness….

(& also nice to see , no matter what i think of their work ethic , is how every single reviewer so far is simply callin em the brother-and-sister duo & not misgendering lana or bringing up her transition – its just accepted now in the film criticism community & not a matter for discussion )

Katherine of Aragon in The Tudors 1x02 & 1x09

Happy Birthday, @hjannah!