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Re: Bones... ARGH, it is very cruel and unfair of them to have Bones back off the "we could be together-together" angle and then have them pretend to be married this week. Show, seriously, STOP IT. Also, Angela could do about a million times better than Wendell (who is still cute and likes hockey, so Wendell, you can come over if you'd like) and Hodgins. Actually, I'm not entirely sure there's anyone on the planet awesome enough for Angela. Except maybe....
This guy right here. RIGHT FUCKING HERE.
JESUS CHRIST DID YOU FUCKING SEE THAT BADASS ANGEL? I MEAN, DID YOU SEE HIM???
Siria and I have established that, when I update the Casifesto for 5.18, there will be clips. Three clips, specifically. I think you know which ones. I mean, words cannot even begin to grasp, no, to touch--no, no, to approach or even be in the same galaxy with--how so very fucking kickass and determined and to-the-bitter-end Cas was in this. Compared to him taking out two (two!) angels and then five (JESUS EFFING CHRISTCAKES FIVE AND HE CARVED THE SIGIL INTO HIMSELF, CAN YOU POSSIBLY BE MORE RIGHTEOUS), it made him pounding the shit out of Dean kind of... tame.
I don't know what I can say beyond that, because I am just... you guys, this episode was almost too much for me. But I will try.
First, about if Cas is okay: I think so. I hope so. I'm telling myself that he is, because Misha still has four episodes left (which seems like a bit much for them to write him off now), and also, my schedule is extremely busy these next couple of weeks, so it will be very annoying for me to have to drive out to Vancouver and destroy people. You don't want to piss off the nerd... uh, human, SPN writers. Trust.
Going to try to take some of this in order, some in list format, some a bit more rambly.
-Zachariah in the bar was hilarious. It almost (almost) made me sad to see him go at the end. Also, I TOTALLY called Zachariah being the one to get it this episode, but I just wish Cas could have gotten his licks in, so he could have the satisfaction of pwning Zach one last time. Since he's done it, oh....four times already. Final score is Cas: 4; Zachariah: NOTHING.
-Speaking of Zachariah, way to play on his look-out-for-number-one instincts, Dean! Unlike other angels we know (Cas *cough*), Zachariah strikes me as having no particular interest in the Apocalypse Project if he doesn't get to see the results of all his work.
-Sam. FINALLY. He was on a serious backward track with me in 5.16 and 5.17, but now it seems like he's at last, figured out where everything got screwed up, and his role in that. And I loved that finally Dean confessed what's been driving his actions since 5.10 (maybe before), all of that unresolved difficulty from 5.04, and the knowledge that despite Sam's protestations to the contrary, he's spent the entire year being angry and self-righteous, and a lot of Dean's faith in the world is tied up in Sam being there with him, looking out for the two of them and other people, not looking out for Sam Winchester. And now that Dean has (finally) told Sam this, I'm hoping there's some turnaround; there at least seems to be some at the end of the episode, when Dean figures they'll take their fight to the angels, and not try to escape.
It's actually a neat twist on the Righteous Man being the one to save the world, not by saying yes to Michael, but by taking some other course of action. This is possibly the first hint of old-school "I've got a GED and I can hack it" Dean we've seen for a while, and I hope he stays around.
-Adam... Adam just weirds me out, and I don't know why. I want to like him, but his face reminds me of an exceptionally peevish gerbil. I don't know.
-Bobby... oh, Bobby :( :( The thing is, speaking from experience, guilting someone into staying alive, while it might work, doesn't really work, you know? At times I felt for Dean, and could see him thinking, "Seriously, I love you, but I'm ready to say yes right the Hell now if it means I don't have to hear you shouting at me anymore," and understanding where he's coming from.
-the angels' plan... very interesting. So Adam is presumably Nick's counterpart: Plan B when the condom breaks or doesn't want to cooperate. (This is a sign the body-as-condom metaphor has gone too far, and must be stopped.) It would be nice if this is the setup for Dean saving the world, by saving Gerbil-Face. I mean Adam. Not by saying yes to Michael, to distract him (and if it goes that way, argh), but by doing something, I don't know what. Something cool and improvisational and Dean-like.
-"You know what? Blow me, Cas." YES SCORE WIN!
-"Oh Cas, not for nothing, but the last person who looked at me like that... I got laid." FLAWLESS VICTORY.
-Oh, and Cas pretty much throughout this entire episode. Forever and ever, amen.
-CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS. Goddammit, Misha Collins, you are proficient.
-Cas and faith: I admit, it hurt at the end when Castiel told Dean he doesn't have as much faith in him as Sam does. It hurt deep. But it makes a lot of sense, if you extrapolate from the little bit of him we've been given in 5.16 and 5.17; Dean as a focus for his loyalty and not-inconsiderable badass skills made a logical choice after Cas saw he couldn't trust the other angels, but after God fails him too--the one thing Castiel's put pretty much all his faith in since Day 1, however many millennia ago--and Dean looks like he's about to buckle and pretty much ignore* the fact that Castiel's given up pretty much every single thing he has to help him... I think Cas doesn't quite understand why Dean's ready to give up after "only" a year of psychological torture and manipulation, and he can't really appreciate the human perspective on all of this. What he sees is the third thing that's threatening to give out on him, and I can see why he takes it pretty hard.
* = this is not to say I think Dean's ignoring Cas's sacrifice at all; it probably enters into his thinking, that he doesn't want anyone (Cas included) to suffer any more than they already have; see him at the (heh heh) muffler shop, worried that Cas is going in on yet another suicide run. But to Cas, it possibly seems that way.
I'm getting tired, and I don't really have my thoughts together properly tonight (between being sick and busy and sick, it's been a week). So I'll just leave you with the following:
In conclusion: BE OKAY, CAS!!! AND SERIOUSLY, WHEN YOU AND DEAN MEET AGAIN, YOU NEED TO HUG IT OUT. For my sake.
So you know, I will be updating the Casifesto soon! Just need to get some screencaps from last week and stuff from this week. And replying to things, because I've been slow. And finishing a fic. Which will be posted soon, I hope to God.
This guy right here. RIGHT FUCKING HERE.
JESUS CHRIST DID YOU FUCKING SEE THAT BADASS ANGEL? I MEAN, DID YOU SEE HIM???
Siria and I have established that, when I update the Casifesto for 5.18, there will be clips. Three clips, specifically. I think you know which ones. I mean, words cannot even begin to grasp, no, to touch--no, no, to approach or even be in the same galaxy with--how so very fucking kickass and determined and to-the-bitter-end Cas was in this. Compared to him taking out two (two!) angels and then five (JESUS EFFING CHRISTCAKES FIVE AND HE CARVED THE SIGIL INTO HIMSELF, CAN YOU POSSIBLY BE MORE RIGHTEOUS), it made him pounding the shit out of Dean kind of... tame.
I don't know what I can say beyond that, because I am just... you guys, this episode was almost too much for me. But I will try.
First, about if Cas is okay: I think so. I hope so. I'm telling myself that he is, because Misha still has four episodes left (which seems like a bit much for them to write him off now), and also, my schedule is extremely busy these next couple of weeks, so it will be very annoying for me to have to drive out to Vancouver and destroy people. You don't want to piss off the nerd... uh, human, SPN writers. Trust.
Going to try to take some of this in order, some in list format, some a bit more rambly.
-Zachariah in the bar was hilarious. It almost (almost) made me sad to see him go at the end. Also, I TOTALLY called Zachariah being the one to get it this episode, but I just wish Cas could have gotten his licks in, so he could have the satisfaction of pwning Zach one last time. Since he's done it, oh....four times already. Final score is Cas: 4; Zachariah: NOTHING.
-Speaking of Zachariah, way to play on his look-out-for-number-one instincts, Dean! Unlike other angels we know (Cas *cough*), Zachariah strikes me as having no particular interest in the Apocalypse Project if he doesn't get to see the results of all his work.
-Sam. FINALLY. He was on a serious backward track with me in 5.16 and 5.17, but now it seems like he's at last, figured out where everything got screwed up, and his role in that. And I loved that finally Dean confessed what's been driving his actions since 5.10 (maybe before), all of that unresolved difficulty from 5.04, and the knowledge that despite Sam's protestations to the contrary, he's spent the entire year being angry and self-righteous, and a lot of Dean's faith in the world is tied up in Sam being there with him, looking out for the two of them and other people, not looking out for Sam Winchester. And now that Dean has (finally) told Sam this, I'm hoping there's some turnaround; there at least seems to be some at the end of the episode, when Dean figures they'll take their fight to the angels, and not try to escape.
It's actually a neat twist on the Righteous Man being the one to save the world, not by saying yes to Michael, but by taking some other course of action. This is possibly the first hint of old-school "I've got a GED and I can hack it" Dean we've seen for a while, and I hope he stays around.
-Adam... Adam just weirds me out, and I don't know why. I want to like him, but his face reminds me of an exceptionally peevish gerbil. I don't know.
-Bobby... oh, Bobby :( :( The thing is, speaking from experience, guilting someone into staying alive, while it might work, doesn't really work, you know? At times I felt for Dean, and could see him thinking, "Seriously, I love you, but I'm ready to say yes right the Hell now if it means I don't have to hear you shouting at me anymore," and understanding where he's coming from.
-the angels' plan... very interesting. So Adam is presumably Nick's counterpart: Plan B when the condom breaks or doesn't want to cooperate. (This is a sign the body-as-condom metaphor has gone too far, and must be stopped.) It would be nice if this is the setup for Dean saving the world, by saving Gerbil-Face. I mean Adam. Not by saying yes to Michael, to distract him (and if it goes that way, argh), but by doing something, I don't know what. Something cool and improvisational and Dean-like.
-"You know what? Blow me, Cas." YES SCORE WIN!
-"Oh Cas, not for nothing, but the last person who looked at me like that... I got laid." FLAWLESS VICTORY.
-Oh, and Cas pretty much throughout this entire episode. Forever and ever, amen.
-CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS. Goddammit, Misha Collins, you are proficient.
-Cas and faith: I admit, it hurt at the end when Castiel told Dean he doesn't have as much faith in him as Sam does. It hurt deep. But it makes a lot of sense, if you extrapolate from the little bit of him we've been given in 5.16 and 5.17; Dean as a focus for his loyalty and not-inconsiderable badass skills made a logical choice after Cas saw he couldn't trust the other angels, but after God fails him too--the one thing Castiel's put pretty much all his faith in since Day 1, however many millennia ago--and Dean looks like he's about to buckle and pretty much ignore* the fact that Castiel's given up pretty much every single thing he has to help him... I think Cas doesn't quite understand why Dean's ready to give up after "only" a year of psychological torture and manipulation, and he can't really appreciate the human perspective on all of this. What he sees is the third thing that's threatening to give out on him, and I can see why he takes it pretty hard.
* = this is not to say I think Dean's ignoring Cas's sacrifice at all; it probably enters into his thinking, that he doesn't want anyone (Cas included) to suffer any more than they already have; see him at the (heh heh) muffler shop, worried that Cas is going in on yet another suicide run. But to Cas, it possibly seems that way.
I'm getting tired, and I don't really have my thoughts together properly tonight (between being sick and busy and sick, it's been a week). So I'll just leave you with the following:
In conclusion: BE OKAY, CAS!!! AND SERIOUSLY, WHEN YOU AND DEAN MEET AGAIN, YOU NEED TO HUG IT OUT. For my sake.
So you know, I will be updating the Casifesto soon! Just need to get some screencaps from last week and stuff from this week. And replying to things, because I've been slow. And finishing a fic. Which will be posted soon, I hope to God.
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NO, I THINK FOR IT TO HAVE GONE TOO FAR ONE OF THE CONDOM-BODIES WILL HAVE TO BREAK, CAUSING LUCIFER AND/OR MICHAEL TO GO LEAKING OUT AND A) INFECTING THE EARTH WITH AN STD, AND/OR B) IMPREGNATING IT.
COME ON, SPN FANDOM, EARTHPREG! SHOW ME WHAT YOU'VE GOT.