cyrné / reeves ➰ comms open

S2 ep2 Holstrom deciding that, yes, he now wants Pope to kill Caspian for him strikes me as a very "Saturn Devouring His Son" kinda situation

Holstrom literally asked for and gave means for this life to be created. All of Project Caspian was his idea. He was literally created from Holstrom, for Holstrom. Despite genetically being closer to a twins situation, thematically Caspian is set up as his son.

But Holstrom, like Saturn, was terrified that his "son", his clone, would supplant him. Caspian did what he could NEVER do, he cracked Integrity, and he did it by 18. He was better, he was smarter. He was no longer a clone, he was a threat—to Holstrom's self, to his power, to his "throne" as self-proclaimed prophet and savior of the new age.

Rather than risk being supplanted, Holstrom decided to just have Caspian removed, murdered, just like Saturn/Cronus ate his children to try and prevent the eventuality of one of them overthrowing him. One could even say that Holstrom's acts such as killing Zhong Shuchun when she resisted him and harvesting her code, or sacrificing Ping to Safesurf for betraying him, and then murdering Chanda for the same reasons, are all acts of Holstrom/Saturn "eating his children". They threatened his power, his throne, so he disposed of them.

But, like Zeus/Jupiter, Caspian escaped Holstrom's attempt to kill him, turned the other UIs/gods against him (thank u Chanda bro for helping), and not just dethroned him, but took him DOWN. One could even say that his death by Safesurf , which tears a UIs code apart until it's irretrievable, is analogous to Saturn being chopped up into tiny lil pieces with his own scythe (especially since he'd used Safesurf as a weapon against others before, like Ping)

The biggest departure from the analog is Caspian's sacrifice, as he never lived to "rule" the next world like Zeus. But just like the gods replaced the titans after Saturn was defeated, a new world of UIs replaced the original ones who'd fallen.