hello everyone and welcome back to another video I'm still working on the second part of my vampire
the masquerade video but today we're gonna be looking at the Netflix series midnight mass
which I've made a video about before if you're interested it's no doubt one of the best Netflix
originals I have seen I really like the mystery in horror elements the show has received great
ratings from fans and critics midnight mass puts a really unique spin on a vampire story which is
a breath of fresh air in the genre but that's the question is it a vampire show no one ever calls
this thing a vampire and monsignor Pruitt calls it an angel so what is it I'm out of the sacrament
the creature is discovered by monsignor Pruitt played by Hamish Linklater Pruitt is an aging
priest from the small island of Crockett and he's suffering from dementia he goes on a trip to
Jerusalem paid for by the people on the island so he can see the holy land before he dies but while
there his dementia causes him to get split from his group and he becomes lost in the desert around
Damascus in a sandstorm he eventually comes upon a dark cave so he goes inside to shelter himself
but while in the dark cave he realizes he isn't alone the creature eventually appeared in front
of him and attempted to feed on his blood and in a state of shock and fear Pruitt began to say angel
over and over again and pray this seemed to catch the attention of the creature and instead
of kill him the creature stopped feeding on Pruitt's blood and fed him some of its own
when he awoke he was no longer an elderly man suffering from dementia but a much younger version
of himself he finds out the creature's blood makes you age backwards until you're in your peak state
this amazing feat performed by the creature convinced Pruitt that it must indeed be an angel
how else could he age backwards 40 to 50 years
just like the stories of Jesus and angels turning the old young Pruitt proceeds to bring the angel
from Jerusalem back to his island town of Crockett a small fishing community of only 127 people
Pruitt starts to have everyone that goes to the church on the island drink the creature's blood
unknowingly he puts it in the holy communion before each Sunday this starts healing other
people in the town and even causes one girl who is in a wheelchair to walk again
eventually when Pruitt presents the so-called angel to the town they are shocked afraid but
they also believe that it's an angel after seeing the miracles that have occurred since it arrived
the way it is presented in holy robes beside Pruitt also helped at first it seemed pretty
cut and dry a vampire that was taken advantage of this island but the more i thought about it
the more I realized it really could be an angel but maybe not the good kind lots of
other vampire shows or movies have had vampires be descended from either god himself or an angel
the ancient vampires from the strain were descended from the angel of death
Ozrael based on a real angel of death Azrael in Vampire The Masquerade they are descended from
Adam and eve's son Kane but where did this vampire come from monsignor Pruitt finds the
creature in Jerusalem kind of a weird place for just such a random creature to be hanging out
it's possible that it lived there for a long time at some point it may have been worshipped
or maybe it was attracted to such a holy place the creature also knew how to manipulate a holy
man and his beliefs this makes me think that the creature is not an angel but a fallen angel or
angel of death possibly during the war in heaven lucifer rebelled against his father
but lost so lucifer and his angels were cast down from heaven to live on earth maybe this
is one of those fallen angels trapped to live on earth in a twisted demonic form fallen angels are
often depicted with featherless bat-like wings when an angel appears to we humans we are afraid
this isn't usually what you think of when someone says angel but no one's ever seen an angel so how
would we know for sure during the show Pruitt mentions a few times how the bible describes
that when angels come down from heaven and people and prophets see them they are terrified
so it's possible that an angel in heaven would not look so far off from this one some angels
have been genocidal killers on behalf of god like in the book of revelations the director Flanagan
said in an interview that he seen a movie called the prophecy involving an archangel and one line
stuck with him god sends an angel to kill someone curse someone destroy something imagine what
these creatures would look like so it sounds like he used this line as an inspiration for
angels to be terrifying which I think is a good piece of evidence that this is no mere vampire
maybe the reason the creature let Pruitt live was because he recognized the angel when he seen it
it was possibly the first time the creature has ever been called that while on earth
and so it embraced him monsignor should have known not to drink the blood of the creature though
as in his religion drinking blood from anyone other than their lord is a sin but he was blinded
by the promise of life and after blinded by the possibility of a new life with a woman
he could never be with the devil also offered Jesus a fake promise in the same desert but he
did not accept unfortunately monsignor being old and stricken with dementia did not realize he was
pleading to a false prophet one that would try to twist and corrupt their island town
this is a quote from the catholic bible and no wonder for Satan himself masquerades as an angel
of light I'm not saying that this angel is lucifer himself although anything is possible but if Satan
is willing to pretend to be an angel then other fallen angels would do this for sure angels in the
bible are described as bathed in light this angel was bathed in shadow in fact light burns this
creature fallen angels were banished from light and kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness
you could interpret this as fallen angels would not be able to walk in the light
just like a vampire also if it really was a fallen angel it might have taken some pride in converting
some of god's followers to twisted cursed versions of their former selves even a messenger of god one
of the other big questions I had while watching the show was is this the only angel maybe if we
ever got to season 2 we would find out but the director and writer said that's unlikely to happen
the angel could fly had immense strength and speed and had some supernatural abilities proving that
it was more than just some other species the creature could mimic the voice of the town's
drug dealer and led him into this house to be killed hello somebody there hello somebody there
the creature's blood was also supernatural able to cure illness and provide eternal
life but at what cost when someone first drinks the angel's blood they get nothing but benefit
but if you die with the angel's blood in your system you will convulse and soon return to life
but not human you will instantly crave blood and lose control of yourself committing horrible acts
a lot of the people that drank the angel's blood and returned to life ended up killing
their friends and family and were in a state of shock because they could not control themselves
they were crying and appalled at what they had done ending your own life is seen as a sin so
maybe having everyone and their life to rise again was the fallen angel attempting to damn them all
just like itself most people in the town end up drinking the creatures blood and becoming well i
guess a vampire they look human but they are far from it those that refused the angel's gift were
killed there is one unique situation though these characters Annie and Ed Flynn drank the blood died
and came back as a vampire or whatever they are but do not start killing people like everyone
else the two find each other amongst the chaos and Ed says "when I saw them at the church I
thought it was something they really couldn't help like something impossible not to do but it isn't
Annie" so somehow the two of them were able to stay in control of themselves
possibly because their willpower was stronger or maybe the creature's blood brings out the
worst in people their most evil intentions even the main character riley tries to attack
someone when he is first turned and monsignor learns to control himself but eventually did
accidentally kill someone i also forgot the alley the sheriff's son is also turned but
does not feed on anyone it's not clear why these three were affected differently than the rest
from what it looks like in the church Ed and Annie were forcefully turned because we see Ed fighting
everyone off but Ali accepted it willingly so they weren't even turned in the same manner
but were still different from the rest Pruitt was the first to drink the blood from the angel
and he eventually starts experiencing fits of pain and ringing in his ears it's not clear
exactly what this is but I thought it was his body changing would the residents of Crockett island
eventually look like the creature itself or would they just remain the way they are now forever
I think one of the biggest questions of the series besides what is this thing
is what did it want why did it agree to come to Crockett island
surely it could have gone anywhere and taken over many people would give anything for eternal life
one reason could be if anything went wrong the creature could get away from the island or kill
everyone on the island it also might have known that a simple small town like that would be easy
to manipulate but monsignor does mention that the cave that he found the creature in was unearthed
by the storm so it's possible that the creature was trapped in here for thousands of years
i also thought it was strange some characters were so fixed on making it to the main island
and spreading their curse i mean gift it made me wonder if somehow the creature
was manipulating them into wanting to spread the curse either through its blood
or some kind of mental manipulation the creature is obviously pretty intelligent it knew not to
kill Pruitt it knew that giving its blood would create more loyal followers but it cannot speak or
we never hear it speak so how is it communicating with Pruitt maybe telepathically in an earlier
episode like i said before the creature was able to mimic the voice of the island drug dealer back
to him from inside this creepy house but that also might have been some kind of mental manipulation
one piece of evidence that points to the creature just being some kind of
other earthly species is what the doctor finds in the infected blood
the doctor finds that the blood is showing signs of porphyria which is a combination
of symptoms and abnormalities that cause the person to be sensitive to sunlight among some
other side effects which could explain why the creature and infected people don't like sunlight
this condition also makes your body produce less Heme which makes you crave blood or red
meat so this could be the reason why they have to drink blood so the doctor was basically saying
that this creature possibly was just a human but with some kind of alternate version of porphyria
except one thing though people with porphyria don't burst into flames so although there is
some kind of genetic component I still lean toward this being caused by some kind of curse
you would think the creature would need blood to survive right but Pruitt said the tomb where he
found the creature was unearthed by the storm so who knows how long the creature was trapped down
there without blood making me think it doesn't need it but enjoys it the bible sometimes refers
to blood as the life force of mortals and says the demons thirst for blood like flies
so maybe when you consume the angel's blood and are resurrected you're now part demon freaky but
again if you are strong enough and don't give in like these two it seems that you can overcome it
after looking at all that is this creature a vampire or some kind of demon pretending to be an
angel when I made my first video about this show I thought it was just a very intelligent vampire
possibly hundreds or thousands of years old tricking the island to create more of its kind
but the more I research stuff about angels and demons the evidence really started to add up
so I think it's an angel or fallen angel partially because it makes sense and also because it would
be awesome for those who don't think it's an angel I do have another theory the creature could be
some kind of other species that has existed for thousands of years and possibly just like how
Pruitt was performing miracles with vampire blood maybe every story of someone performing similar
miracles through history also had the help of a vampire going all the way back to Jesus it would
explain why angels are described the way they are terrifying and why it was entombed in Jerusalem of
all places rather than this being an angel angels might have been based on encounters with vampires
I've also seen some theories that suggest maybe it was a priest that became a vampire somehow
and that's how it knew about religion or that the creature could actually be Jesus
himself since he heals people resurrects them etc. and I've seen some pretty convincing arguments
such as the story in the bible where Paul meets Jesus on the road to Damascus
the same story Pruitt cites as the reason he changed his name to father Paul upon returning
to Crockett "and I knew the one that I'd have to lie lying to the very people I'm here to
save" midnight mass has some really cool theories and I had a lot of fun exploring this show again
and trying to look at it from a different perspective vampires and biblical stuff always
seem to get mashed together for some reason but I always find it interesting so I'm not complaining
what do you guys think did I overlook anything let me know if you agree that it's a fallen angel
or if you think it's a vampire if you're interested I made another video about midnight
mass explaining the creature its abilities how people are turned side effects of the infection
how to cure it and more I'll put that on screen now and at the end of the video if there's any
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