This is the episode where they filmed in the cemetery at night and weird things happened. See later.
Constantine mentions Bloody Mary and we're back on the booze train and wallowing. I was gonna say self-pity and Manny did! Then Constantine uses "wallow." Another one of his friends, we meet Gary again after the pilot 1.1 ep. It would appear that since Gary's dead that Ritchie would be next, some sort of perverse foreboding, I wouldn't call it justice with the Rising Darkness hunting down Constantine's friends in lots of ways to make him vulnerable and alone. No help but had a thought on this that perhaps the Rising Darkness was a product of Negral or some other demon in the sense of hunting down all of the Newcastle Crew that were present at that seance with Astra. Although obviously I'm not alluding to the comics at all.
Ritchie shut down data mining. Constantine said he stole from a campus cop so there's a "big difference."
Constantine: "I'm well versed in the art of pretending to be a gentleman." Ritchie was his true partner in crime. All the others "worshipped the ground I walked on." All of the Newcastle Crew were "shut down in some way." Which is what I just said.
Constantine: "I'm not exactly a guiding light am I - bollucks [Manny disappears] really get on my nerves sometimes."
An Egyptian ritual took place as he found evidence in the cemetery. Out of body travel and Jacob Shaw was a traveller to alternative realms. His journal is missing.
Ritchie's working on a new project of how singularity and technology and humanity can merge consciousness, can find in mortality in a computer network. Ritchie mentioning the "Darkness is almost here."
Ritchie blames them for what happens and Constantine doesn't fool him - knows his secret and what he pretends not to feel - he's feeling it now? Guilt.
In Egyptian magic/myth mirrors are doorways. Myths of mirrors as in Supernatural. As she uses her phone and what did Constantine just say about mirrors and reflections. A bit like Supernatural 1.5 Bloody Mary ep with the mirrors and reflections. Mirrors also reflect the soul and so it’s bad luck to break them, they also reveal secrets, which is why Sam wanted to summon her: his secret being revealed in the mirror by his own reflection.
As we know it’s bad luck to break a mirror which is why most people also cover them up at night and during thunderstorms, so no reflections can be seen in them in the dark and not just when someone dies in the house.
Mirrors have also been seen as gateways to other worlds.
Mirrors were used in the ceremonies of some ancient religions, believing evil beings didn’t have a soul and because this wasn’t reflected in the mirror and consequently they had no soul.
about the camera capturing the soul and how people in olden times believed this, like the mirror being a reflection of the soul.
Ritchie tries to reason and the end consequence is that there's no reasoning here with Constantine, who adds, "just like back in the day 'ey?"
As they enter Jacob's reality Ritchie says it's "too much like it and he can override this world. Jacob introduces himself and doesn't want to know who Constantine is.
Constantine: "you're an arrogant, bloody sod aren't ya?" Like Constantine, but he doesn't do this for selfish reasons or as one would say, it takes a sod to know another sod!. Constantine believes in Ritchie who lets the sun shine through. As Jacob preferred the dark.
Constantine is nailed to the mantle - no religious connotations there.
As Daniel Cerone tweeted: "John nailed to a cross perfect." 31 January 2015.
"John #Constantine nailed to the cross. Well the hearth, classic more closer of fire. Hell fire!"
Jacob's world will fall apart now.
Ritchie wants to stay and Constantine tries to talk him out of it saying this is only his imagination. Ritchie decides what's real: "the reality that I want - endless possibilities - paradise."
Constantine's not going to lose another friend in this fight. Gary's voice so heard?
Ritchie "forget about darkness closing in." Constantine says he's running away from it and Ritchie returns. He says: "inner peace is possible - but human kind's suffering won't end..."
No narration here again from Constantine.
X-Files ep 9.11 Audrey Pauley where there was the little hospital where Monica was stuck and Dogget had to find her. She was in purgatory with other patients suffering ailments and he asks the help of a hospital employee to help her and connect with her in the alternate world. Catching a 'Dr Death' figure in the process. Similar in some ways to Jacob here. He was feeding off the students in this reality in bringing them here and keeping them. What was his end goal anyway. I don't know why I thought of this X-Files ep, it just came to me with the production and the sets.
Constantine and Ritchie have their brief reunion where it's revealed that Ritchie was the only one who wasn't in awe over what Constantine did in his dabbling and being more pragmatic - he took it all in his in his stride as he was the "scientist" in the sense of his computer stuff?? Jacob's travelling to alternative realms doesn't fall in the realm of astral projection.
Daniel Cerone: "Matt and Jeremy awesome in the scene. Comparing themselves to cancer. Spreading their disease. perfect."
"Ritchie is a deep thinker. I love the dynamic between Matt Ryan and Jeremy Davies."
This episode introduced us to Ritchie again part of the Newcastle Crew. That sun comment from Ritchie made Jacob look like some vampiric or nocturnal fiend - praying on the vulnerable, or those gullible enough to fall into the experimentation and ritual crap? But why the need to kill them even if they did use the ritual.
Ritchie returns and can't stay there - was it his conscious decision to return or did that world just collapse in on itself now that Jacob was dead. Significant line about finding inner peace - we all do that - need to - to survive life's lows. But suffering is never-ending in many ways, always will be since the beginning of time. Referencing Eve again in many ways and that damned apple. Also Constantine said it too in 1.6 with Marcello that life is painful.
Daniel Cerone: "Ritchie saved the day not John, we're proud to pint out. heroes, super and otherwise are overrated."
Daniel Cerone; "Kevin Blank surreal landscape."
Obligatory cheesy horror flick opening in this ep with the ritual cos things always go awry there and this wasn't going to be any exception. Constantine listens to Warner Zenon and in some ways an appropriate song to wallow to. ?/
Ritchie returns as said, only he doesn't in the comics and he was only in a few of the Hellblazer issues anyway. This was going to be his refuge from Newcastle - but man if he wanted that what took him so long - cos he could've found his "perfect world" in any reality, already having Jacob's journal.
Was filmed at Agnes Scott College, Atlanta.
There are actually four Noble truths at the heart of Buddhist thought.
Daniel Cerone tweeted:
"If we get a DVD release, I'd love to extend some of those scenes, John and Ritchie, John and Manny etc."
"Jeremy was awesome. Though for every scripted word you give him, he adds 5 with his ad libs. Lots of fun."
"Ahh! This was a 3 min scene between John and Manny. Had to be radically cut for time. Insert knife in heart." {Or Knives In Hens re Matt's play! Oops.}
Daniel Cerone" 741 this episode heavily inspired by Ritchie Simpson's demise in #Hellblazer. Into the computer."
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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