kippurbird | Disney is all Coded.

So, last time, Princess Sophie suddenly realized that she might be the Holy Grail because Brown hit us on the head with a ton of foreshadowing. Like Bricks falling from a building onto innocent civilians crushing the life out of them and leaving a bloody splatter on the ground. This is Brown trying to do obvious foreshadowing. Obvious foreshadowing is something they did in Heroes. No, I'm not going to do spoilers. Last season they constantly showed us what was going to happen through the use of Issac's paintings. He painted the future. And we saw these paintings. But what we were left wondering is how the hell are we going to get there? And how are they going to stop the exploding man? We knew the end, but we didn't know the journey. Brown is trying to do that sort of thing with his Holy Grail being a person here, but in this case it doesn't work because, they're not trying to stop an event nor are they trying to find someone. They're not really. They're sort of wandering around blindly following puzzle and puzzle but they have no real "mission". If anything, Sophie should have gotten chills or... remember a bit of something her grandfather said or something inconspicuous instead of PRINCESS SOPHIE!! *GASP*

If anything, Brown should have had Sophie know that she was the Grail or of the Grail line, but not know anything else, like any of the puzzles or clues. And then she would have the personal investment of trying to get it before Silas so that it doesn't lead back to her and kill her. Langdon could still be oblivious, but some sense of urgency and distrust could be kept into the story as Sophie tries to get Langdon to do what she wants, obviously manipulating him to her own ends... whatever they might be.

Also, if you want to see cliff hangers done properly, watch Heroes. Cause DAAAAMMN!

Of course, Brown does something completely and utterly inane to prove that Sophie isn't the Holy Grail. When Teabag leaves she looks at Langdon meaningfully. And Langdon says, "The same thought crossed my mind when I realized that your grandfather was in the Priory, and you said he wanted to tell you a secret about your family. But it's impossible." Langdon paused. (and here we get the ASTOUNDING piece of proof that Sophie is not the Holy Grail) "Sauniere is not a Merovingian name."

Right because I know that if any of the Merovingian's had daughters they would marry them off into the same family and thus let them keep the same name. This entire thing is utterly ridiculous. It's been two thousand years! There should be millions of the little buggers running around by now. There's no way that the Church could have contained all of them, or the Priory. I mean, they've found genetic evidence that about fourty percent of the world's Askenizi Jews are descended from four people. And that's ninth, tenth century? Mary's sprogs had hundreds of years before the Church decided to persecute them there's no way there could only be TWO lines. There should be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them. Unless they were all interbreeding... or something... that actually might explain something....

Thus having successfully disproved Sophie as the Holy Grail we get to the fact that Disney was a Modern Da Vinci and apparently was also in the Priory.

Most of Disney's hidden messages dealt with religion, pagan myth and stories of the subjugated goddess. It was no mistake that Disney retold tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White - all which dealt with the incarceration of the sacred feminine. Nor did one need a background in symbolism to understand that Snow White - a princess who fell from grace after partaking of a poisoned apple - was a clear allusion to the downfall of Eve in the Garden of Eden. Or that Sleeping Beauty's Princess Aurora - code-named "Rose" and hidden deep in the forest to protect her from the clutches of an evil witch - was the grail story for children.

Wrap your mind around that? Let us look at this. Sleeping Beauty is supposed to be a grail story for children. Because it's a hidden message or something. But usually a hidden message only does you any good if you know you're LOOKING for a message. Other wise you would pass it by. That is the point of it being HIDDEN. The children watching the movie wouldn't know it's a grail story because they know absolutely nothing about the fact that the holy grail isn't a cup but instead a woman. Why? Because they've never been told that. You can't go looking for something you didn't know existed.

Unless your an elf. Then you get a free search check if you walk within five feet of a hidden door.

Also Disney made Snow White because he needed money. He was losing money on short films. If you notice none of his other shorts included grail imagery unless you count the red in Micky's shorts. Though I suppose Brown could make the assumption that Minnie was the Grail and Micky the knight searching for her.

OH GOD I'M STARTING TO THINK LIKE HIM MAKE IT STOP!!! MAKE IT STOP!! I DON'T WANT TO WRITE STUPID CONSPIRACY NOVELS!!!

Apparently, according to Brown, the Little Mermaid "was a spellbinding tapestry of spiritual symbols so specifically goddess-related that they could not be a coincidence."

Except for the fact, you know, while Disney wanted to make the Little Mermaid he had no hand in the actual production of this version.

Not that really stops Brown from making such assumptions. Or Assertions.

Then Teabag comes back in and says that Robert has been lying to him.

Thus we end another chapter before Kippur runs off to go to work.