gattino
Justified & Ancient
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Watching the series Monsters And Mysteries...or is it Mysteries and Monsters?... involving convincingly sincere witnesses to cyptid encounters I'm struck that week after week, no matter the strange beasty, there is always at least one reference per episode to the bigfoot/mothman/devildog/thunderbird/skunkape or whatever it might be having had glowing red or else orange eyes. Like Spring Heeled Jack or some movie versions of Dracula now I mention it. Not every creature but one creature per episode appears to.
The show has no overriding arc or narrative so this consistency of detail across varied entities is never referred to in the voice over.
Taking the varied witnesses to varied monsters as generally sincere, what do you suppose this frequent feature suggests?
That they're all experiencing a similar archetype rich hallucination?
That they're having real, distinct, encounters but when it comes to the details this is evidence of all appealing to the same exagerated fancies from the popular imagination?
They're multiple misidentified examples of the same physical creature?
That there is a single type of superatural entity taking on different physical forms.
Or...what?
Are there any mammals in Nature with bright red or orange eyes, btw?
The show has no overriding arc or narrative so this consistency of detail across varied entities is never referred to in the voice over.
Taking the varied witnesses to varied monsters as generally sincere, what do you suppose this frequent feature suggests?
That they're all experiencing a similar archetype rich hallucination?
That they're having real, distinct, encounters but when it comes to the details this is evidence of all appealing to the same exagerated fancies from the popular imagination?
They're multiple misidentified examples of the same physical creature?
That there is a single type of superatural entity taking on different physical forms.
Or...what?
Are there any mammals in Nature with bright red or orange eyes, btw?
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