#just thinking of how caravaggio would pick randos up off the street and have them model for christ

[saltchurch]

the way early seasons supernatural is THEE midwestern baroque. if it was a caravaggio all the faces would be half light and half absolute pitch. if it was a caravaggio tenebrism would leak from the corners of crowded motel rooms empty of bodies and it does. supernatural is the emersion of genre, it’s counting your change, it’s landscapes made acceptable by men in boots and the absence of God. it’s emotion dripping in corn syrup blood, men on their knees, Teresa in sublime ecstasy for her application for sainthood has been accepted. the beat of gunshots, the rythm of broken family, the camera panning to focus on a clawed hand. if it was a caravaggio (and it is) their haloes would be so thin you could barely see their righteousness. if it was a caravaggio christ would appear in a grimy student apartment at midnight boasting a bloody lip and rough hands and a toothy smile: whoa, easy tiger.

#supernatural is a diorama its a nativity scene #just thinking of how caravaggio would pick randos up off the street and have them model for christ #or mary or saint whoever #yeah sam IS the epitome of a christ figure down to 'exorcises demons' but i was thinking about the calling of st matthew #supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester