They can't find anything strange on the map. Zed is alone, Ariadne's thread is mentioned. As Constantine tells her "heroes are usually jerks at heart." Dionysus's adventure started from one piece of thread. Zed only saw this room and it never changes.
Constantine; "helluva hangover comes from magic but the best curse for a hangover is another drink." No one's prepared for what they do, "but this is the labyrinth we choose to walk."
Constantine: "I forget, angels they can't read sarcasm." (Like most people I know or don't know.) Manny's always giving him information seen as another form of manipulation dressed up as angelic guidance." Manny burns the map calling it a crutch and he should use his instincts and Zed's visions. Chas: "I hate being used." That's an understatement.
Daniel Cerone tweeted:
"Ah the scry map. Felt so smart at the time. Turned into an albatross. Writers cheered when Manny burnt it. #Constantine" 25/4/2015
So much foreshadowing in just this opening part of Manny - what's to come - betrayal.
Chas has a screwdriver through his leg and Zed sees an angel, "light was like it was trying to kill me."
The doctor didn't find anything on the dead woman and he's ever seen black veins before. Constantine experimented on him "in the name of magic."
Detective Constantine thus he always needs a raincoat. He says Elan Vital, the human body can always give off a spark. Constantine doesn't want to see Zed just yet since he can't face what she's going through, but he does succumb to his feelings. Introducing himself as "colleagues" whereas she says "friends." He says she's not to blame for the mass and visions. Ariadne ended up dead.
Manny: "filthy habit" when Constantine's with his cigs again. He asked if Manny knew about Zed and if he can fix it. But as always it's out of his hands. Always being the piss poor excuse. Constantine uses air from Hades on Manny to control him and he can't stay in a human body for long, he'll lose contact with the host and his angelic powers. As Constantine says he wasn't using his powers anyway, I said that too! A sorcerer destroyed the Black Diamond of evil and an angel's sword shattered the diamond scattering the pieces around the world. It's clarified evil and a human can't touch it. Chas can and Constantine uses the cattle prod to get it out of his hands.
Constantine comments on Manny socializing and making "two sods feel pleasure" it's not a sin but he wasn't around when those rules were made. "Denial and gin" helps him get his work done. Manny and his filthy habit again, drinking and smoking.
Zed senses Manny's not a doctor and he wanted to see how she was doing, saying Constantine sent him as he's "having a rad time communicating feelings." She asks if her visions are a gift from God or evil. Since she met Constantine she uses them "to save lives. Her gift so put up with the pain," is what she wants to do. Manny: "you have all the answers you need." Yes more cryptic lines from him cos she needs to decide what to do. Manny saying Constantine's missing Zed as support. After all the dark Constantine's seen and he still has the heart to do this work, it's not his fault. He realizes the Black Diamond is a gift of God, meaning 'Baghdad.'
Constantine: "heavenly light is the only thing that can fight dark matter."
Constantine reveals his secret how every morning he imagines those around him are dead for the first five minutes and meditates on that. When it inevitably happens it lessens the blow. He then sparks a ciggie and fries an egg, true to life! ha.
Manny says she should enjoy her time with Constantine and she admits she can see Manny.
Zed: "magic has its cost if that cost is pain I'll take it." Constantine taught her that.
Constantine: "you have changed angel."
As for her visions question, Manny replies "I'm here aren't I."
Stop lighting up in church dude! Funny Daniel Cerone tweeted this too!! "John is smoking in a church. Lighting up with a Communion candle. Is this #Hellblazer or what?"
"We went from John not smoking at all to sparking up using a church candle. We've come a long way."
"Demons and angels, John doesn't discriminate. They're all his puppets."
Dionysus is such an oft used deity in many shows/plays. More recently in Venus In Fur (UK play.) This episode, Zed's the one who seems to be wallowing and manages to find a room in the millhouse which brings her some peace. As for the 'wallowing' word she does have every right after everything she's been through and is going to be dealt yet another blow.
Ariadne was in BBC drama Atlantis (another shortlived show). All from Greek myth. She was the daughter of King Minos of Crete and Pasiphae, she helped Theseus with the Minotaur. In some tales; she was wed by Dionysus. In others, she was abandoned when asleep by Theseus and Dionysus found her again and married her. Some say he asked Theseus to leave her there so he could find her. This in effect absolved the "Athenian culture hero - of desertion" and in a roundabout way Constantine alludes to this when he says, "heroes are jerks at heart". Also showing why he's your typical, average anti-hero. Ergo non-typical anti-heroes are jerks too!
The Labyrinth was built by Daedalus to capture the Minotaur and found it difficult to escape from his own creative intricate design. But Zed here manages to find this room - through the Labyrinth's of Jasper's creation: the millhouse with its mazes of rooms.
Manny cunningly burns the map (well it was an eyesore and had to go) so much for being a "crutch". Adding and mentioning the Ivanche, the serpent and the Brujeria from 1.8/9. Oddly though why did he bring them up now - no one else did. Did he see that map as somehow eventually being, or bringing about his own downfall and crutch for whom? Manny and his plans for Constantine.
Constantine won that vial of air from a siren.
"Elan vital" (meaning vital impulse) a term used by French philosopher Henri Bergson the force of life present in all organisms and contributing to evolution.
There's a shard of the Black Diamond they seek back at the millhouse.
Daniel Cerone tweet: "kudos to Dave Blass for designing that tricky Hellraiser puzzle box encasing the Black Diamond. Straight from DC lore."
"Matt has a great cackle."
"Was that a tear in John's eye?" I said that too when he recalled Astra earlier on .
Constantine mentions the William Rede - this is the morality system in the neopagan religion of Wicca containing the saying, "An it harm none, do what ye will." After Manny says he interfered with that doctor/nurse couple and what they had.
Later it became in some texts, "An it harm none, do what thou wilt." Not to be confused with the doctor's Hippocratic oath of "first do no harm." As well as Aleister Crowley's Law of Thelema: spiritual philosophy with its roots in Western esotericism. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, lover underwill." Developed in the early 1900's by Crowley - English writer, magician and mystic.
Daniel Cerone tweet: "doesn't seem like a sin to me but I wasn't around when they made those rules." this was Daniel's favourite line of the episode.
Perhaps in this scene the most baffling bit was Manny's face when Constantine asks 'are you wearing perfume?' You know now that he's momentarily free of being an angel.
Zed develops or is now found to have a tumour and she believes perhaps this is a cause of her visions. And let's not forget her unequivocal devotion to angels and believing in them still; even after her experience with Imogen in 1.7. That's a sign of her faith and devotion, not some foolhardy notion she's clinging on to. All the more real when Manny reveals himself to her, although perhaps he's not the right angel for her to cement this belief into reality. Manny actually swoops in to rescue Zed and Constantine now.
Constantine tries to explain why he couldn't be there for Zed. He does lament about Zed and what she's going through - does he feel guilty this being brought on or manifesting now cos of him. But he does have masked feelings here?/
Daniel Cerone's tweeted:
"Zed seeing Many means more Manny. Stellar."
"I like to hunt." Yay Supernatural and Dean!!
"Yes that's Jonjo recorded from the UK to voice the animated corpse. RIP Gary Lester." [Yeah and Gary should've gotten his own hashtag#.]
"This story is ripped from the pages of #Hellblazer. We're proud to say. Siren's Call. Sung by Bear McCreary's wife."
"NOW THOSE are wings." Re Cas Supernatural
"Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd
bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell.
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
thou comest in such a questionable shae that I will speak to thee..." Act I Scene IV.
My Matt Ryan book. Yeah I know a lot of you are fans in name only which is fine and are only fans of Constantine but this was a labourious one to write so do check it out!! And there's plenty Constantine in it too!!
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