I recently read a bit about OG historical St. Nicholas. I separately totally watch:
a) A biopic about historical St. Nicholas in the real world (no wizard or cleric spells), aiming for the most plausible real-ish story.
b) A movie about the oldest legends of Nicholas that include magic and him becoming a Saint, which is basically the movie Klaus but more explicitly about St. Nicholas instead of Santa Clause.
But I am most excited for:
c) A TV show that’s kinda American Gods esque that begins with human St. Nicholas, he dies at the end of Season 1, becomes a Catholic saint, then somehow the fact that people end up believing different things about him gives him different powers.
It might be that Father Christmas and Saint Nicholas are initially two different characters and they fuse together at some point. (I’m not 100% sure atm whether they were ever separate). They encounter and deal with Grylla, the Yule Cat, and Krampus.
Somehow the fact that Coca Cola just decided he has a new vibe is a dramatic season finale moment for like Season 6, although I’m not sure how to make it thematically interesting. I think it’s maybe most interesting if it sort of straightforwardly grapples with the good-and-bad of capitalism. Like clearly there are some new Spirit of Commerce in the world that is having spiritual effects, and it maybe includes both “We have more stuff, people can actually afford to be more generous and are materially better off. Also, there is kinda something spiralling out of control that is alarming, and there is both a wider variety of giftgiving, a lot of it becomes rote/commerical.”
I feel like it should reach the 21st century but not really sure what the series finale is supposed to be. I feel like he’s continued to evolve but not sure if there’s an interesting angle on it.
(I kind of liked watching the movie Red One and imagining that the long dead spirits of Grylla and Krampus are revived by a movie that puts them into the pop culture world and gets millions of people saying their name again)
I recently read a bit about OG historical St. Nicholas. I separately totally watch:
a) A biopic about historical St. Nicholas in the real world (no wizard or cleric spells), aiming for the most plausible real-ish story.
b) A movie about the oldest legends of Nicholas that include magic and him becoming a Saint, which is basically the movie Klaus but more explicitly about St. Nicholas instead of Santa Clause.
But I am most excited for:
c) A TV show that’s kinda American Gods esque that begins with human St. Nicholas, he dies at the end of Season 1, becomes a Catholic saint, then somehow the fact that people end up believing different things about him gives him different powers.
It might be that Father Christmas and Saint Nicholas are initially two different characters and they fuse together at some point. (I’m not 100% sure atm whether they were ever separate). They encounter and deal with Grylla, the Yule Cat, and Krampus.
Somehow the fact that Coca Cola just decided he has a new vibe is a dramatic season finale moment for like Season 6, although I’m not sure how to make it thematically interesting. I think it’s maybe most interesting if it sort of straightforwardly grapples with the good-and-bad of capitalism. Like clearly there are some new Spirit of Commerce in the world that is having spiritual effects, and it maybe includes both “We have more stuff, people can actually afford to be more generous and are materially better off. Also, there is kinda something spiralling out of control that is alarming, and there is both a wider variety of giftgiving, a lot of it becomes rote/commerical.”
I feel like it should reach the 21st century but not really sure what the series finale is supposed to be. I feel like he’s continued to evolve but not sure if there’s an interesting angle on it.
(I kind of liked watching the movie Red One and imagining that the long dead spirits of Grylla and Krampus are revived by a movie that puts them into the pop culture world and gets millions of people saying their name again)