SPN 4.16; or, this is REALLY why I usually don't write ep reviews

[aesc]

NO NO NO NO NO WHY THE FUCK DID YOU HAVE TO GO KILLING OFF URIEL????? aesc DISAPPROVES OF THIS VERY VERY VERY STRONGLY.

*heaves* Of course they do it in the episode when my Uriel!appreciation was grounded in more than just my perverse love of people I'm not supposed to like. He's the funniest angel in the goddamn garrison! He's starting to like Sam and Dean, even if he's totally sarcastic about it. WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME, WRITERS? SERIOUSLY! COME ON!

Even though I try to make it a policy not to hate on characters... I would have liked it if the culprit was Anna, despite the fact she's probably the obvious suspect, if it isn't a demon: known history of disobedience, questioning authority, that sort of thing. It sounds right up Lucifer's alley.

I will try, I will try to put aside my resentment of Uriel being killed off, because the rest of the episode is so deeply made of awesome. Why, you ask?

Because we got like, what, five times Dean calling him Cas? And I like to think that the angels picked up the habit of calling him that, since Anna and Uriel both use it once.

Because there's another layer in the angel/demon war, and lingering resentment among the host that's responsible for how royally fucked up things have become--why Castiel is being ordered to make Dean torture Alastair even though he really really sincerely wishes he didn't have to.

CASTIEL CASTIEL CASTIEL CASTIEL. I love how much development we got here, his fear, the resolution he's slowly starting to come to. How the People Upstairs have gotten wind of the fact that he's a bit too partial to Dean and think that's compromising his effectiveness, and he clearly resents it, and resents having Uriel in charge of him again.

THERE ARE GIRL ANGELS!

Sam and his fear for Dean, knowing that Dean's busted up and hasn't been himself. I was on the point of becoming truly exasperated with him, but this saved him for me. He knows Dean hasn't been himself since he came back--who would be?--and this is the only way he can see to deal with things, when strength beyond what Dean's physically and psychically capable of is required.(The bloodsucking thing, however, gross. And my distrust in Ruby = 100% renewed.)

And Dean. Dean all the way through, but especially at the end, broken, frightened, overwhelmed, oh my heart. I can't even talk about it.



In my head, just after the fade out, Castiel takes his hand and heals him, and things still suck in astronomical proportions, but there is, for one moment, a lessening of pain.

Comments

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why but when Cas was throwing his slightly clumsy fists around I kind of melted a little- possibly because I think Misha kind of bled through there in that he probably has never been physically violent like that.

Heee, I was telling smilla02 that, according to the canon in my head, Castiel originally was not a soldier in the sense of someone who goes out and does the violent stuff; he was more of a military engineer-type who specialized in devil's traps. In fact, he totally invented them, and was assigned to Earth thousands of years ago to teach them to humans, for purposes of self-defense. Then his orders changed and he ended up staying on at the garrison with Uriel and Anna, and he's never been really comfortable with his new task (and is even less comfortable going around in his new vessel; these take some getting used to). But, orders are orders, so here he is.

Castiel should really take Dean's hand *nods*

OH MY GOD YES, DEFINITELY.

[insight2.livejournal.com]

he was more of a military engineer-type who specialized in devil's traps. In fact, he totally invented them, and was assigned to Earth thousands of years ago to teach them to humans, for purposes of self-defense.

I FIND THIS IDEA VERY, VERY HOT *assimilates into my personal canon as well*.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

ME TOO.

In the absence of having him be as smitey as I would wish, I will totally take badassery in other ways :D

[insight2.livejournal.com]

In the absence of what??!!! Smiting with intellection is a whole 'nother level of BADASSERY.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Heh, there is something to be said (every now and then) for a good ol' fashioned flaming sword :D

A flaming sword of justice!

[insight2.livejournal.com]

:DDDD Or the gun of a pagan angel!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Nnnnnnf, dammit, that gets me every time :D Because it's true.