.spn 5.08; or, BZWEEE
Things are still horribly insane and busy, and I think I may be coming down with something. Please, gods, let it not be the Swine. On the bright side, one of the places I applied to for Actual Work next year wants to see more of my stuff! They might actually be interested in me! And speaking of work...
OH MY GOD I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU ALL JUST WHAT DID YOU SEE THAT?! I MEAN DID YOU???? DID YOU?
I want to compose a letter to the writers responsible for "Yellow Fever" and "I Believe The Children Are Our Future" so that they might understand that this episode, this one right here, is how one achieves the perfection of the union between totally insane crack and Serious Business. It would go something like, Dear writers responsible for "Yellow Fever" and "I Believe The Children Are Our Future": this episode, this one right here, is how one achieves the perfection of the union between totally insane crack and Serious Business. Sincerely,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
aesc.
This episode was just... wow! I mean, what didn't I love about it? Part of me wants to be reluctant about Trickster = Gabriel, but... like, the guy who's responsible for the Ave Maria enjoys spending his time hanging out with scantily-clad women and eating candy, and has a pet Jack Russell! I just love that, so yeah. I love this episode, people, and I won't hear a word said against it.
Admittedly, the "play your roles on TV and play your roles in real life" parallelism is a bit obvious, but it isn't forced--the crackiness of Dean'sobsession with disinterestedness in Dr. Sexy, MD and the hi-fucking-larious sendup of David Caruso takes the edge off, as does the fact that the angels are so terminally, dysfunctionally fucked up. There are hints of it with Raphael (and I will confess, I felt bad for the angels--they're tired, they've been at this for a million years, but see below), but it really comes out with Gabriel, how so very, very wrong things are up in Heaven, and how they've always been wrong. And you could see some of that in Castiel, too, although I wish we'd gotten to see more of his reaction to what Gabriel said about wanting to force an end to everything.*
What the Trickster/Gabriel had to say... man, I think I'm going to be obsessing over this for a while. I love the twist to the mythology here, how Heaven's been slowly falling apart for thousands of years. It makes me wonder, too, if obedience really isn't compulsory for angels, just very... strongly suggested. Anna and Gabriel show us that there are ways out; even Castiel has gone his own way, and he's still around. Now I'm kind of thinking of Castiel's obedience as his own coping mechanism--what makes him more like Dean, and what maybe makes Dean able to relate to him--a way of trying to make the world more ordered than it is. Finding realities to control was Gabriel's way of handling the fact that he couldn't control his family's internal issues; Anna just left, and forgot.
Oh god, I'm going to make myself flail over stupidly dysfunctional angels now. I should move on.
Squeeful, delighted things: THE ENTIRE FUCKING PREMISE. I admitted to being vastly intrigued by the teasers and spoilery stuff I'd seen a while ago, but I had no idea that it was going to tie into the mytharc like this--if anything, it seemed like a one-off, a last hurrah before more Serious Apocalypse Business episodes and the hiatus. But no, I was wrong, brilliantly wrong! It was both cracktastically awesome and heavy, simultaneously Oh, poor boys-sigh-inducing and OMG SQUEE. This episode was like a trip through the years of my life in TV: the dumbass sitcoms, KNIGHT RIDER OH MY GOD WITH THE FISTING JOKE I AM DYING, the General Hospital/Grey's Anatomy, procedural dramas, embarrassingly frank drug commercials... I am looking forward to the gag reel for S5 now, because I cannot imagine they managed to get through this episode without cracking up at least, oh, a million times. It's like the episode equivalent of the all-classic-rock soundtrack. I felt at home.
OBLIGATORY OMG CAS SQUEE GOES HERE. Not enough of him*, but I will take what I can get on a Thursday that's come at the end of two spectacularly fucking busy weeks.
Also, Dean totally fretting about Cas. He wasn't worrying, people, he was fretting.
Of course, now that I can finally say it with some degree of confidence... SAM AND DEAN BEING AWESOME TOGETHER! I think last week was the first time in a long time I'd felt like they were cool together, and things were going well, but this time I really felt it, with the two of them refusing to turn on each other--even when Dean was less than enthusiastic about talking to the Trickster about having him sign up for their side. But they fought through this together, trapped Gabriel together, and had some more uncomfortable moments involving Dean rooting around in Sam's back end.
(Man, poor Sam... genital herpes and Dean digging around in his trunk :| Rough night for the guy.)
* = I of course, as a general rule, wish there was more Cas. Still, though. FRETTING.
Overall assessment: Me likey. Haters to the left, and please stand right in front of the nutcracker device.
.in other news: For the Merlin fans among you, today I saw this guy who looked like a slightly askew version of Bradley James. It was actually kind of unnerving, because I did that double-take that you do when you think things like "hey that person looks like _____!", and he met my glance on Take #2. And then I realized he looked kind of crazy, and hustled on.
OH MY GOD I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU ALL JUST WHAT DID YOU SEE THAT?! I MEAN DID YOU???? DID YOU?
I want to compose a letter to the writers responsible for "Yellow Fever" and "I Believe The Children Are Our Future" so that they might understand that this episode, this one right here, is how one achieves the perfection of the union between totally insane crack and Serious Business. It would go something like, Dear writers responsible for "Yellow Fever" and "I Believe The Children Are Our Future": this episode, this one right here, is how one achieves the perfection of the union between totally insane crack and Serious Business. Sincerely,
aesc.This episode was just... wow! I mean, what didn't I love about it? Part of me wants to be reluctant about Trickster = Gabriel, but... like, the guy who's responsible for the Ave Maria enjoys spending his time hanging out with scantily-clad women and eating candy, and has a pet Jack Russell! I just love that, so yeah. I love this episode, people, and I won't hear a word said against it.
Admittedly, the "play your roles on TV and play your roles in real life" parallelism is a bit obvious, but it isn't forced--the crackiness of Dean's
What the Trickster/Gabriel had to say... man, I think I'm going to be obsessing over this for a while. I love the twist to the mythology here, how Heaven's been slowly falling apart for thousands of years. It makes me wonder, too, if obedience really isn't compulsory for angels, just very... strongly suggested. Anna and Gabriel show us that there are ways out; even Castiel has gone his own way, and he's still around. Now I'm kind of thinking of Castiel's obedience as his own coping mechanism--what makes him more like Dean, and what maybe makes Dean able to relate to him--a way of trying to make the world more ordered than it is. Finding realities to control was Gabriel's way of handling the fact that he couldn't control his family's internal issues; Anna just left, and forgot.
Oh god, I'm going to make myself flail over stupidly dysfunctional angels now. I should move on.
Squeeful, delighted things: THE ENTIRE FUCKING PREMISE. I admitted to being vastly intrigued by the teasers and spoilery stuff I'd seen a while ago, but I had no idea that it was going to tie into the mytharc like this--if anything, it seemed like a one-off, a last hurrah before more Serious Apocalypse Business episodes and the hiatus. But no, I was wrong, brilliantly wrong! It was both cracktastically awesome and heavy, simultaneously Oh, poor boys-sigh-inducing and OMG SQUEE. This episode was like a trip through the years of my life in TV: the dumbass sitcoms, KNIGHT RIDER OH MY GOD WITH THE FISTING JOKE I AM DYING, the General Hospital/Grey's Anatomy, procedural dramas, embarrassingly frank drug commercials... I am looking forward to the gag reel for S5 now, because I cannot imagine they managed to get through this episode without cracking up at least, oh, a million times. It's like the episode equivalent of the all-classic-rock soundtrack. I felt at home.
OBLIGATORY OMG CAS SQUEE GOES HERE. Not enough of him*, but I will take what I can get on a Thursday that's come at the end of two spectacularly fucking busy weeks.
Also, Dean totally fretting about Cas. He wasn't worrying, people, he was fretting.
Of course, now that I can finally say it with some degree of confidence... SAM AND DEAN BEING AWESOME TOGETHER! I think last week was the first time in a long time I'd felt like they were cool together, and things were going well, but this time I really felt it, with the two of them refusing to turn on each other--even when Dean was less than enthusiastic about talking to the Trickster about having him sign up for their side. But they fought through this together, trapped Gabriel together, and had some more uncomfortable moments involving Dean rooting around in Sam's back end.
(Man, poor Sam... genital herpes and Dean digging around in his trunk :| Rough night for the guy.)
* = I of course, as a general rule, wish there was more Cas. Still, though. FRETTING.
Overall assessment: Me likey. Haters to the left, and please stand right in front of the nutcracker device.
.in other news: For the Merlin fans among you, today I saw this guy who looked like a slightly askew version of Bradley James. It was actually kind of unnerving, because I did that double-take that you do when you think things like "hey that person looks like _____!", and he met my glance on Take #2. And then I realized he looked kind of crazy, and hustled on.
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Tom watched it with me because he saw the teaser and was like, "WHOA THIS LOOKS AWESOME." He loved it and giggled the whole time, even though we can't seem to get past season two in his SPN education. (Granted, the first half of season two is kind of crapola compared to other seasons.) Anyway, I loved it, he loved it, it was awesome, and TRICKSTER AS GABRIEL, OH MY GOSH. I was actually kind of scared they were gonna say the Trickster was God, which would have been terrifying. Phew!