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spn episode reactions
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- I'm getting S6!Cas vibes from Naomi, the whole "let's do terrible things for the purported common good" thing and especially the sense that they're single-handedly desperately trying to keep everything from falling apart, while simultaneously digging their own grave on account of mission myopia. I think S6!Cas and Naomi sincerely believe that what they are doing is necessary despite the terrible costs, which does not mean that they don't feel the terrible cost deeply. I'm sure they do. I mean, the lingering shot on Naomi after she sends Cas back to kill Samandriel, I am all omgggggg. It makes me hope more fervently that the endgame of the Cas-Naomi relationship is not her death. When the opportunity comes to kill her, I want Cas to be unable and/or unwilling because she is his sister and he is tired of killing his kin, even one who has made him do all this. Perhaps even especially one who made him do all this, because Cas knows what it's like to have your good intentions make you do terrible things.
- ANGELS AS PROGRAMS. ANGELS AS PROGRAMMERS. ANGELS PROGRAMMED TO BE PROGRAMMERS. One of the first things that I glommed onto when I first started watching Cas episodes was the "robots becoming sentient" feel of his arc, but the show has never been so explicit about it until now. The personhood of robots, the personhood of programmes, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Matrix, that movie with Jude Law and Haley Joel Osment. I'm intrigued by this can of worms the show has decided to open up. I guess they're going there, after all. If Naomi's programming Cas, who's programming Naomi?
- I have such an irrational weakness for Cas bossing the Winchesters around and telling them to stow their crap, so this episode was really great for me on that front. No, we are not having burgers, we're hunting demons. No, I am not humoring your emotional constipation, we are working with Sam. STOW YOUR CRAP, EVERYBODY.
- STILL HOLDING ON TO THE HOPE THAT THIS ISN'T THE LAST TIME WE SEE AMELIA
- THIS IS KEVIN'S DESERT. HOW MUCH DO I LOVE THAT LINE. Also, lookin' good with that scruff, Tran, keep it rockin'. I wanna delve into Kevin’s headspace here, his isolation and his desert, and how the Word of God consumes him. How much of it is a burden? How much of it is unexpected succor? The scholar prophet. The scholar prophet hermit out in the middle of the ocean, isolated from the world he’s meant to save.
- More a fic idea or headcanon than actual analysis, when Dean says "let's start at the burning bush and work our way outwards", what if he's done that in purgatory? What if sometimes when the leviathans or some other purgatory beastie is attacking Cas, Cas's pain also manifests itself as miracles around him? It spirals outwards from him, a golden spiral, the Fibonacci sequence even in angels, especially in angels, even here in afterlife, and all Dean has to do is follow the trail of miracles, and what strange and beautiful miracles they are.
- I love how with every season the show embraces Dean's geekery more and more until we have the dude having the time of his life cosplaying as a knight. What you wanna be that he accidentally injured someone during the fake battle because he got overenthusiastic?
- When I first started watching SPN, I got the impression that if the writers wanted to feel clever and put in a clever joke or reference, they'd make Dean do it. Dean was the joke deliverer, non-diegetically, but diegetically this means Dean is just a big a nerd and consumes as much geek media as the writers do. He is a vessel for writer geekery. The more the writers write Dean from the angle of being a sincere geek at heart, the better a joke deliverer Dean becomes, and actually, that function becomes obsolete. It's just Dean being Dean. Please, tell me stories about his tabletop RPG adventures.
- IDK, MAN, FOR REAL THIS KINDA FELT LIKE WATCHING LIVE-ACTION GEEK!DEAN FANNISH META THAN ACTUALLY WATCHING ~THE SHOW~ ITSELF. Y'know?! It felt like reading someone's "dean is a total trekkie" commentfic and "dean can recite Back to the Future line for line" tags. Y'KNOW?!
- Charlie and Dean, BROTP OF THE UNIVERSE. "Little sister I never wanted", my ASS, you LOVE HER. My god, the Belladonna thing was just the BEST THING.
- One of the things I deeply wanted from S8 was Sam in a ponytail. Check and check. MORE PLEASE, AND THIS TIME LET HIS BANGS FLY FREE.
- THE BENNY BREAK-UP INSINUATION GAVE ME SUCH THE FEELS. I honestly did not expect to be shipping Dean/Benny as hard as I am, but it's HARD NOT TO. THEY MAKE THE BEST FACES ABOUT EACH OTHER. Benny, geez, just bite him and drink his blood in a sexy way already.
- I am not even gonna try to calculate how many keysmashes and capslock are required to fully express my joy at Charlie and Gilda. Like. Cannot even. oh my god i think i spontaneously turned into a basket of kittens or something.
- I'm getting S6!Cas vibes from Naomi, the whole "let's do terrible things for the purported common good" thing and especially the sense that they're single-handedly desperately trying to keep everything from falling apart, while simultaneously digging their own grave on account of mission myopia. I think S6!Cas and Naomi sincerely believe that what they are doing is necessary despite the terrible costs, which does not mean that they don't feel the terrible cost deeply. I'm sure they do. I mean, the lingering shot on Naomi after she sends Cas back to kill Samandriel, I am all omgggggg. It makes me hope more fervently that the endgame of the Cas-Naomi relationship is not her death. When the opportunity comes to kill her, I want Cas to be unable and/or unwilling because she is his sister and he is tired of killing his kin, even one who has made him do all this. Perhaps even especially one who made him do all this, because Cas knows what it's like to have your good intentions make you do terrible things.
- ANGELS AS PROGRAMS. ANGELS AS PROGRAMMERS. ANGELS PROGRAMMED TO BE PROGRAMMERS. One of the first things that I glommed onto when I first started watching Cas episodes was the "robots becoming sentient" feel of his arc, but the show has never been so explicit about it until now. The personhood of robots, the personhood of programmes, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Matrix, that movie with Jude Law and Haley Joel Osment. I'm intrigued by this can of worms the show has decided to open up. I guess they're going there, after all. If Naomi's programming Cas, who's programming Naomi?
- I have such an irrational weakness for Cas bossing the Winchesters around and telling them to stow their crap, so this episode was really great for me on that front. No, we are not having burgers, we're hunting demons. No, I am not humoring your emotional constipation, we are working with Sam. STOW YOUR CRAP, EVERYBODY.
- STILL HOLDING ON TO THE HOPE THAT THIS ISN'T THE LAST TIME WE SEE AMELIA
- THIS IS KEVIN'S DESERT. HOW MUCH DO I LOVE THAT LINE. Also, lookin' good with that scruff, Tran, keep it rockin'. I wanna delve into Kevin’s headspace here, his isolation and his desert, and how the Word of God consumes him. How much of it is a burden? How much of it is unexpected succor? The scholar prophet. The scholar prophet hermit out in the middle of the ocean, isolated from the world he’s meant to save.
- More a fic idea or headcanon than actual analysis, when Dean says "let's start at the burning bush and work our way outwards", what if he's done that in purgatory? What if sometimes when the leviathans or some other purgatory beastie is attacking Cas, Cas's pain also manifests itself as miracles around him? It spirals outwards from him, a golden spiral, the Fibonacci sequence even in angels, especially in angels, even here in afterlife, and all Dean has to do is follow the trail of miracles, and what strange and beautiful miracles they are.
- I love how with every season the show embraces Dean's geekery more and more until we have the dude having the time of his life cosplaying as a knight. What you wanna be that he accidentally injured someone during the fake battle because he got overenthusiastic?
- When I first started watching SPN, I got the impression that if the writers wanted to feel clever and put in a clever joke or reference, they'd make Dean do it. Dean was the joke deliverer, non-diegetically, but diegetically this means Dean is just a big a nerd and consumes as much geek media as the writers do. He is a vessel for writer geekery. The more the writers write Dean from the angle of being a sincere geek at heart, the better a joke deliverer Dean becomes, and actually, that function becomes obsolete. It's just Dean being Dean. Please, tell me stories about his tabletop RPG adventures.
- IDK, MAN, FOR REAL THIS KINDA FELT LIKE WATCHING LIVE-ACTION GEEK!DEAN FANNISH META THAN ACTUALLY WATCHING ~THE SHOW~ ITSELF. Y'know?! It felt like reading someone's "dean is a total trekkie" commentfic and "dean can recite Back to the Future line for line" tags. Y'KNOW?!
- Charlie and Dean, BROTP OF THE UNIVERSE. "Little sister I never wanted", my ASS, you LOVE HER. My god, the Belladonna thing was just the BEST THING.
- One of the things I deeply wanted from S8 was Sam in a ponytail. Check and check. MORE PLEASE, AND THIS TIME LET HIS BANGS FLY FREE.
- THE BENNY BREAK-UP INSINUATION GAVE ME SUCH THE FEELS. I honestly did not expect to be shipping Dean/Benny as hard as I am, but it's HARD NOT TO. THEY MAKE THE BEST FACES ABOUT EACH OTHER. Benny, geez, just bite him and drink his blood in a sexy way already.
- I am not even gonna try to calculate how many keysmashes and capslock are required to fully express my joy at Charlie and Gilda. Like. Cannot even. oh my god i think i spontaneously turned into a basket of kittens or something.