Hell is next door and we have the key in our pocket, so let's use it and enjoy eternal heat, which, will be perfect in our troubled times when natural gas and oil products are becoming rare and expensive. Let's a-Biden to our fate. And that fate will be chaotic and dangerous, though the trouble-makers will find themselves alone in front of the big bears of life which is not a Koala Bear nor a Giant Panda. More like a plain grizzly.
2. Hunting down Sam and Dean
Winchester, a Luciferian ordeal
The Series may be dead but Long Live the Winchester Brothers,
wincesting or not. Those famous hunters of monsters and other
supernatural beings, with a lot of angels, demons, vampires,
werewolves, shapeshifters and other frightening fiends hiding
among your friends, are nothing but two little kids who have never
left their teenage.
From time to time they have something like a partner, of the
other sex I mean, but their only love has always been and will
always be for themselves, both narcissistically and reciprocally,
which has created the myth of WINCEST, the sexual love the two
brothers are supposed to share and hide at the same time in their
motel rooms.
But do not think this is only a phantasm in the ghostly freaky
phantom of a mind in the skull of some teenagers who are taking
their onanistic desires for simple realities, as long as they stay on
the screen and do not move to their pants where they only have
ants.
It is true that age is aging the cheese show that these two men
were at the beginning and their supposed WINCEST has been long
lived from one episode to the next and now misses some pepper.
So we decided, Ivan the Younger and Jacques the Elder, to
chase them in our turn and it’s funny how many secrets we
discovered in this series which is nothing but a series after all,
hence some kind of pleasurable entertainment but with many dark
lusty corners.
And the tale of two brothers became the tale of two henchmen
longing for blood and holy water, and I must say the
3. accompliceship became at times hot enough to let me, the Elder,
nearly scared with and by my Younger conspirator, both reckless,
restless and modestly shy.
But all pleasures have time limits and Ivan has departed this
world to discover the southern hemisphere and I stayed behind to
cultivate my own gardens, longing for the adventure but knowing
that all funny episodes have an end, sooner or later. Fare thee well
Sam and be sure your Dean will be waiting for you. Eternally if
necessary in Sioux City.
Jacques to Ivan
SUPERNATURAL
CAR CHASE OR JOY RIDE?
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
& Ivan EVE
4. Supernatural is presently running its seventh season. We will
concentrate on the first six seasons of it that were aired from
September 13, 2005 to May 20, 2011.
Each episode starts with THE car, the car used by the two
brothers in their hunt, going to a certain place where there Is some
mess to clean up, and ends with the same car going away from that
place after the mess has been cleaned. The car is their home, sole
possession, arsenal, base, assault vehicle, or whatever it is needed
for. The two brothers, Sam and Dean, have left everything behind
and have no real home of their own. We will start with the precise
study of the car in the series in perspective with the American
mythology attached to the mechanization of means of
transportation, from the iron horse to the Hell’s Angels’ bikes, from
the Model T to Christine and beyond. The car is providing mobility
hence without its wheels, that are yours, you are grounded. It is the
everyday House Gods of the American family. It can also be the
most diabolical enemy or weapon used by an enemy. This justifies
its unavoidable structural presence in this series.
Since the car is the central home plate of the series we will
identify all places and dates visited in the episodes and we will map
these places and dates to define with great precision the American
territory concerned by the series and try to connect the visits to this
or that place to real events in the American society. That’s what they
call geographical profiling in the FBI and that will define the frame of
all the actions. The series then becomes a travel book in a way and
that is typical of many American series that have a normal territory
and do not get out of it. Some even develop autonomous series
under the same name but in a different region. But in the territory
concerned here we will be able to define exactly what social territory
the brothers target: cities, suburban areas, countryside, isolated
communities, etc. This could be called the social profiling of the
series.
That will naturally lead us to the third level of territoriality: the
communities in which the events take place. We understand
community in the widest sense possible to cover social communities
5. of course but also all other communities that may be thought of:
ethnic, racial, national, sexual, religious, political, cultural, etc. We
will characterize the series once again at that level and try to find
out if there is or are one or several dominant social groups. That
should lead us to two questions: the status of the family for these
two brothers who have in fact no family at all and the religious
dimension of these social and geographic territories along with a
time line of the present events and of the past events.
As for family relations and the two brothers we would like to
identify the originality of these two brothers in the American
6. literature where two brothers or twin brothers are very common,
particularly in fantasy and horror literature. We are thinking of the
evil second twin that is eliminated at birth and comes back to haunt
the elder one who was the only one to be borne. Stephen King in
The Dark Half and Anne Rice in Blackwood Farm used that theme.
The theme of the two brothers is extremely common, but in this
particular series we would like to differentiate them from all other
references and allusions. The two brothers would thus be an
essential element of American-ness and at the same time an
essential tool to develop this particular American dimension to a
more emotional and universal dimension: once a brother forever a
brother, hence “there is nothing like family”.
The final territory of importance that has to be studied here is
that of the supernatural field itself. Religions will have to be identify
with great care. Then beliefs and myths will have to be sorted out to
see if there is any higher classification, since ghosts, angels and
demons seem to be slightly circumstantial, especially after the
numerous novels by Anne Rice using mythologies from the Middle
East and Egypt, including Jewish and Christian myths, not to speak
of books like Memnoch the Devil, Servant of the Bones and her
more recent series The songs of the Seraphim. We could think of
Hawthorne and his Scarlet Letter where the mother and the
daughter are living in some kind of natural religion. Is it enough to
use the concept of paganism which is in fact very closely related to
the three Semitic religions that were born in Egypt, Palestine and
Arabia? That should lead us to the conception of good and evil in
this series and the punishment of evil which might be on the human
side more than on the demonic or ghost side. This will also lead us
to contrasting though not opposing destiny and freedom.
In the background of all this we are of course thinking of the
[rock’n’roll / burger / roadhouse / mechanics / guns] culture of
America, but this is the common backdrop of all American series,
the décor of the action, the setting of the plot. All series today have
that culture in the back of their minds. It is this background that
dictates a special treatment of the characters. They are all identified
by some social, religious, economic or cultural link and we have a
social patchwork representing America as a whole. But each patch
7. of that vision is itself explodes into individuals who each one of them
and all of them personify one particular value, position, idea. The
series tries to avoid stereotypes by dealing with some real details on
every character. The patchwork of social, cultural, religious, ethnic
or economic groups then become the assembly of just as many
kaleidoscopes within each group. Even the most supernatural
beings are described as having a personality of their own. That’s
probably the most modern approach of America beyond post-
modernity since the myriad of points of view becomes a myriad of
self-contained truth from which, with which and beyond which some
unified architecture of the USA has to be captured.
SUPERNATURAL, CAR CHASE OR JOY RIDE?
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU & Ivan EVE
Illustrations Annunzio COULARDEAU
CHAPTER ONE, The Tale of Two Brothers and Their Impala 67
CHAPTER TWO, Hitting The Road
CHAPTER THREE, They “Are The Hollow Men”
CHAPTER FOUR, Their Number Is 666
CHAPTER FIVE, And Cain did not slay Abel