.spn 6.11: or, let's make a deal
Yes, another week has gone by. The good news? I have an interview. The bad news? It's just... one interview. And it's next week, so now everything's been pushed to the side so I can prep. Whatever. Anyway, here's a cow I met when going Christmas-tree hunting.
Oh, Dean. A short review tonight, interspersed with the exchange trinityofone and I had while we watched the episode together. We really only got started a few minutes into the episode, after Dean makes his deal with Death, so I will talk a bit first.
Okay, the first major observation I had was that the statue behind Dean looked weirdly like Boba Fett. In fact, my curiosity forced me to pause, rewind, and take a closer look. It wasn't.
The second one, more substantial than the first, is that... oh, Dean. Don't you know that these deals never end well for you, and that there's some hook planted in them that you'll never be able to work out until it's too late? I suspect that he does know, and like Death says, is kind of past caring; his fatalism suggests that, instead of being cool with his mortality, he knows more likely than not he'll wind back up in his body and either things will be fixed or they'll be fucked up. There is a very thin line between those two things.
aesc: ha, I love how Sam decides to call Balthazar, probably because he knows there's no way Cas is going to listen to him
aesc: oh dude no way, Sam
trinityofone: bad sam
trinityofone: also, cas is not sam's boyfriend
aesc: so true. WRONG, Balthazar, WRONG
trinityofone: he's not a student of human nature
aesc: and he clearly doesn't know Cas very well
"Boyfriend," Balthazar? Really? I thought you and Cas were friends. Pfft. Their exchange makes me wonder if Balthazar is going to be the Crowley of the second half of the season. CROWLEYYYYYYYYYYYYY *cry of despair* My sorrow over his passing is alleviated a bit by the fact that I just saw Mark Sheppard being diabolical and manipulative in BSG, which makes me wonder if I really miss Crowley as Crowley, or if I just miss Mark Sheppard being a conniving asshole.
Anyway, I'm very happy that we're going to get more stuff about human souls as commodities and objects of exchange. I'd actually almost forgotten about that in the focus on Purgatory and what it's for, so I'm happy we're returning to another major point in SPN's mythology. Now, if we could only get this explicated a bit more fully than Purgatory, that would be awesome.
trinityofone: you think anyone's surprised death is super hot?
aesc: ahahahaha omg, please let Death look like Dean Winchester
aesc: I would welcome my mortality in that case
trinityofone: deaaaaaaan
trinityofone: "is it a local place?"
aesc: bahahahaha
aesc: Kansas
trinityofone: <3
Seriously, Dean as Death? Not that I'd go running to make funeral arrangements or anything, but he would be something to look forward to.
aesc: dude, Sam, come the fuck on. I know you're soulless and all, but there are fucking limits!
aesc: YAY BOBBY
trinityofone: SAM YOU SUCK
trinityofone: he is going to be soooooooo emo when he gets resouled
aesc: Sam's back on my Needs To Get Punched In The Face List
trinityofone: the screen may explode from sad puppy face
aesc: ahahahahahaha
aesc: I would gladly welcome back emo!Sam at this point
trinityofone: me too!
aesc: HA Bobby: 2; Sam: 0
You'd figure that Sam (and Dean) would know by now that, nine times out of ten, Bobby is way too smart for them. Also, Bobby could have a second/third career as the designer of carnival funhouses. No child would leave one of those untraumatized.
trinityofone: dear local news: i srsly do not give a shit that miley cyrus took a bong hit
trinityofone: bring back dean
aesc: oh god the bong hit
aesc: also, I know it's LA and all, but HOW IS THAT NEWS
trinityofone: I DO NOT KNOW
aesc: actually, it probably made the news up here too
trinityofone: the other story was, "THERE WAS A LOT OF WIND!!!"
aesc: when the Concord station doesn't feel like reporting actual news, they'll have like 10 seconds on something totally inane, like DWTS or Lindsay Lohan
trinityofone: haha
trinityofone: it's back!
aesc: or Sarah Palin
trinityofone: thanks bobby, dean appreciates that [the "Heeeeere's Johnny!" reference]
aesc: heeeee :D
trinityofone: bobby don't open the door!
aesc: don't go down there!
trinityofone: you were doing so well, dude
aesc: honestly, Sam does not deserve the awesomeness that is Bobby
Am I right? I'm right. Yeah, I know Sam doesn't have a soul or anything, but that's still no excuse. For that matter, I wonder if parricide is the only crime horrible enough to prevent the return of a soul to a body, or if matricide is included in that. Relatedly, I just remembered that, in one of the circles of Dante's Inferno are the souls of men who are still alive, but, by violating the trust between host and guest, actually had their souls sent down to Hell ahead of time. Anyhow.
aesc: ouch, Tessa
aesc: nooooo Dean
aesc: I was wondering if it was going to come down to Bobby's number being up and Sam wanting to kill him, and What Would Dean Do. maybe it still will somehow
trinityofone: me too
trinityofone: that's what i thought
aesc: we shall see what happens
Poor Dean. He of course does know what happens when the natural order is violated; what's dead should stay dead, after all. But it's one thing to know that from personal experience when it happens to you, and another to know it by experiencing it from the other side. At least, I'm assuming that's the case, as I've never cheated Death, made deals with him, or been resurrected.
aesc: oh god Sam PLEASE DIE
trinityofone: he got punched again!
trinityofone: that's nice :)
aesc: YAY DEAN SPEAKS FOR ALL OF US!
aesc: and he got punched in the face, no less
aesc: here's my suggestion for the rest of the season: they keep Sam tied up in the panic room, and Dean and Cas go on and have awesome adventures
trinityofone: hahahahaha
aesc: Sam is a sacrifice I'd be willing to make
aesc: I love that Death loves junk food. and now I kind of want a bacon dog, even as I'm kind of horrified by the thought
aesc: oh god, emo!Sam in 3... 2... 1...?
Sigh, I guess I won't get my wish, but whatever. Maybe Sam could be traumatized enough that he won't go out hunting, so Dean and Cas go out to have excellent adventures. Death's final conversation with Dean was, well, on one hand it's stuff we all know already (along with what Tessa told Dean about destiny, and Dean secretly believing that there is such a thing as fate even as he rails against it). What Death said, about trying to clean up Winchester-instigated chaos, resonates in the context of the past couple of seasons; it's pretty clear that the monster-related weirdness is related to the Apocalypse, and Cas of course has been stuck on mop-up duty because of it.
That said, I kind of love the humanism in Death's description of the human soul: that it's perishable and fragile, but stronger and more valuable than we know. Thanks, Death.
Speaking of Death, he reminds me of an older version/ancestor of the guy who plays/ed the gothy British intern on Bones (also, the gothy British lab tech in Crossing Jordan).
And now... six weeks.
Oh, Dean. A short review tonight, interspersed with the exchange trinityofone and I had while we watched the episode together. We really only got started a few minutes into the episode, after Dean makes his deal with Death, so I will talk a bit first.
Okay, the first major observation I had was that the statue behind Dean looked weirdly like Boba Fett. In fact, my curiosity forced me to pause, rewind, and take a closer look. It wasn't.
The second one, more substantial than the first, is that... oh, Dean. Don't you know that these deals never end well for you, and that there's some hook planted in them that you'll never be able to work out until it's too late? I suspect that he does know, and like Death says, is kind of past caring; his fatalism suggests that, instead of being cool with his mortality, he knows more likely than not he'll wind back up in his body and either things will be fixed or they'll be fucked up. There is a very thin line between those two things.
aesc: ha, I love how Sam decides to call Balthazar, probably because he knows there's no way Cas is going to listen to him
aesc: oh dude no way, Sam
trinityofone: bad sam
trinityofone: also, cas is not sam's boyfriend
aesc: so true. WRONG, Balthazar, WRONG
trinityofone: he's not a student of human nature
aesc: and he clearly doesn't know Cas very well
"Boyfriend," Balthazar? Really? I thought you and Cas were friends. Pfft. Their exchange makes me wonder if Balthazar is going to be the Crowley of the second half of the season. CROWLEYYYYYYYYYYYYY *cry of despair* My sorrow over his passing is alleviated a bit by the fact that I just saw Mark Sheppard being diabolical and manipulative in BSG, which makes me wonder if I really miss Crowley as Crowley, or if I just miss Mark Sheppard being a conniving asshole.
Anyway, I'm very happy that we're going to get more stuff about human souls as commodities and objects of exchange. I'd actually almost forgotten about that in the focus on Purgatory and what it's for, so I'm happy we're returning to another major point in SPN's mythology. Now, if we could only get this explicated a bit more fully than Purgatory, that would be awesome.
trinityofone: you think anyone's surprised death is super hot?
aesc: ahahahaha omg, please let Death look like Dean Winchester
aesc: I would welcome my mortality in that case
trinityofone: deaaaaaaan
trinityofone: "is it a local place?"
aesc: bahahahaha
aesc: Kansas
trinityofone: <3
Seriously, Dean as Death? Not that I'd go running to make funeral arrangements or anything, but he would be something to look forward to.
aesc: dude, Sam, come the fuck on. I know you're soulless and all, but there are fucking limits!
aesc: YAY BOBBY
trinityofone: SAM YOU SUCK
trinityofone: he is going to be soooooooo emo when he gets resouled
aesc: Sam's back on my Needs To Get Punched In The Face List
trinityofone: the screen may explode from sad puppy face
aesc: ahahahahahaha
aesc: I would gladly welcome back emo!Sam at this point
trinityofone: me too!
aesc: HA Bobby: 2; Sam: 0
You'd figure that Sam (and Dean) would know by now that, nine times out of ten, Bobby is way too smart for them. Also, Bobby could have a second/third career as the designer of carnival funhouses. No child would leave one of those untraumatized.
trinityofone: dear local news: i srsly do not give a shit that miley cyrus took a bong hit
trinityofone: bring back dean
aesc: oh god the bong hit
aesc: also, I know it's LA and all, but HOW IS THAT NEWS
trinityofone: I DO NOT KNOW
aesc: actually, it probably made the news up here too
trinityofone: the other story was, "THERE WAS A LOT OF WIND!!!"
aesc: when the Concord station doesn't feel like reporting actual news, they'll have like 10 seconds on something totally inane, like DWTS or Lindsay Lohan
trinityofone: haha
trinityofone: it's back!
aesc: or Sarah Palin
trinityofone: thanks bobby, dean appreciates that [the "Heeeeere's Johnny!" reference]
aesc: heeeee :D
trinityofone: bobby don't open the door!
aesc: don't go down there!
trinityofone: you were doing so well, dude
aesc: honestly, Sam does not deserve the awesomeness that is Bobby
Am I right? I'm right. Yeah, I know Sam doesn't have a soul or anything, but that's still no excuse. For that matter, I wonder if parricide is the only crime horrible enough to prevent the return of a soul to a body, or if matricide is included in that. Relatedly, I just remembered that, in one of the circles of Dante's Inferno are the souls of men who are still alive, but, by violating the trust between host and guest, actually had their souls sent down to Hell ahead of time. Anyhow.
aesc: ouch, Tessa
aesc: nooooo Dean
aesc: I was wondering if it was going to come down to Bobby's number being up and Sam wanting to kill him, and What Would Dean Do. maybe it still will somehow
trinityofone: me too
trinityofone: that's what i thought
aesc: we shall see what happens
Poor Dean. He of course does know what happens when the natural order is violated; what's dead should stay dead, after all. But it's one thing to know that from personal experience when it happens to you, and another to know it by experiencing it from the other side. At least, I'm assuming that's the case, as I've never cheated Death, made deals with him, or been resurrected.
aesc: oh god Sam PLEASE DIE
trinityofone: he got punched again!
trinityofone: that's nice :)
aesc: YAY DEAN SPEAKS FOR ALL OF US!
aesc: and he got punched in the face, no less
aesc: here's my suggestion for the rest of the season: they keep Sam tied up in the panic room, and Dean and Cas go on and have awesome adventures
trinityofone: hahahahaha
aesc: Sam is a sacrifice I'd be willing to make
aesc: I love that Death loves junk food. and now I kind of want a bacon dog, even as I'm kind of horrified by the thought
aesc: oh god, emo!Sam in 3... 2... 1...?
Sigh, I guess I won't get my wish, but whatever. Maybe Sam could be traumatized enough that he won't go out hunting, so Dean and Cas go out to have excellent adventures. Death's final conversation with Dean was, well, on one hand it's stuff we all know already (along with what Tessa told Dean about destiny, and Dean secretly believing that there is such a thing as fate even as he rails against it). What Death said, about trying to clean up Winchester-instigated chaos, resonates in the context of the past couple of seasons; it's pretty clear that the monster-related weirdness is related to the Apocalypse, and Cas of course has been stuck on mop-up duty because of it.
That said, I kind of love the humanism in Death's description of the human soul: that it's perishable and fragile, but stronger and more valuable than we know. Thanks, Death.
Speaking of Death, he reminds me of an older version/ancestor of the guy who plays/ed the gothy British intern on Bones (also, the gothy British lab tech in Crossing Jordan).
And now... six weeks.