SPN 7.01 ("Meet The New Boss") reactions, in total.
FUCK MY LIFE WHY ISN'T IT NEXT FRIDAY YET THIS IS NOT FUCKING FAIR WHAT
…I have other thoughts but I think that about sums it up.
Below the cut are somewhat more spoiler-y reactions.
Also: everything is [ship redacted to protect the spoilers] and nothing hurts. …for me. EVERYTHING hurts for [one member of said ship] but… it's a lot harder to care about that because I'm a fictional sadist. One hint: the ship is not Dean/Cas. Another hint: it might be my second-favorite angel-ship. Three guesses, and the first two don't count.
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………… Did you guess it yet?
…………… No, it's cool, keep working on it.
……………… I can wait.
………………… I mean, I'm not really going anywhere.
…………………… OKAY FUCK THE WAITING: EVERYTHING IS SAMIFER AND NOTHING HURTS. EXCEPT FOR SAM, BUT… I THINK THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE I KEEP MY SADISM LIMITED TO FICTIONAL CHARACTERS AND YELLING NASTY EPITHETS AT PEOPLE WHO DRIVE REALLY BADLY AND SOMETIMES DOING THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT MY MOTHER WANTS JUST TO SPITE HER AND THAT'S BETTER THAN DOING ANYTHING I COULD GET ARRESTED FOR OR SOMETHING BUT. BUT BUT BUT. OH MY GOD. SAMIFER SPOONING IS OFFICIALLY CANON. LIKE. LIKE IT ISN'T ENOUGH THAT LUCIFER DRESSED UP AS JESSICA TO GET IN SAM'S DREAM BED, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS A DREAM SO THE MIND-FUCKING WASN'T REALLY NECESSARY. AND MARK PELLEGRINO. AND AND AND DKFWRGKADFH. AND SAM NEVER REALLY LEFT HELL. AND LUCIFER. AND KSDHWGRLASFJGRHKSDHWG. ALL OF THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME FOREVER, YES PLEASE. LEAVE ME HERE TO CRY MYSELF TO DEATH WITH HAPPINESS FOR MY BEAUTIFUL FUCKED UP SHIP THAT WAS M-F-E-O LITERALLY AAAAAAAAAH.
……………………………………… oh, yeah, and I guess some Dean/Cas stuff happened too.
……… naturally, by that distressingly nonchalant comment, I mean that the only fucking place the writers have left to go now is actually having them make out, get naked, and take turns bending each other over one of Bobby's desks.
… so, you know… there's that.
… I mean. One of my only legit OTPs in any fandom ever is still DEFINITELY TOTALLY MARRIED, and trying to work through bad things and be less… emotionally inept assbutts to each other, and… y'know, that's a good feeling.
Also, also: yeah, no, cool, Misha. It's totally fucking fine that you incinerated my panties. It's not like I was using them or anything, you handsome jerk. As I said to my Pennylove: "…sighs. Like. …okay. Cas, for the most part, is way outside of the kind of guy Misha usually plays. and that's cool. I think it shows his versatility as an actor. ……but watching him go crazy does things for me, so fuck versatility."
Also, also, also: ……it needs to be like. Noon. Or noon-thirty. Or sometime when I can reasonably expect a GOOD download of this week's "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" to be online so I can watch it. Because… I loved the EVERLIVING FUCK out of this episode of SPN. I expect that I will probably convert it to an mp4 and put it on my ipod and maybe listen to it in my car when I have to drive places, and I haven't done this since, "Live Free Or Twi-Hard," which kinda says a lot about how badly the creative team handled the jigsaw puzzle plot of season six - or, well… how they could've handled it a lot BETTER, seeing as… in retrospect? They actually handled leaving the clues and stuff pretty damn well… it's just that, in the process, they made a lot of episodes seem like pointless filler.
and, to be fair, a lot of them WERE pointless filler, and unlike the pointless filler (okay, only some of it… like "Sex and Violence" comes to mind: mediocre episode, writing kinda on the blah side, hunt not that important… but the emotional, brotherly relationship and exploring the differences between how Sam and Dean handle things, and reaffirming that they put family first? that stuff was solid), that was, you know… generally sort of decent and vaguely relevant to the overall plot by way of the "the boys sit on the car and talk about their feelings" scenes or SOMETHING. …and a lot of the s6 filler didn't have that, at least… not enough of it, or it didn't do the right things with it. …It did the right things with it with Robo!Sam, more than Berlin Wall!Sam, which is really saying something.
and, credit where it's due: Jensen and Jared really brought it to the table as best as they could on the acting front, given what they had to work with on the writing front, since… SPN has never been all that great at subtlety, so the writing didn't always get the, "WE ARE TRYING TO PRETEND EVERYTHING IS LE FINE WHEN IT IS LE OBVIOUSLY NOT" to come through as much as it felt like, "LOL LA LA LA ISSUES WHAT ISSUES THEY DON'T HAVE ANY ISSUES DUH WE WRITERS CHOOSE TO IGNORE THESE SO-CALLED ISSUES OF WHICH YOU SPEAK LOOK EVERYTHING IS HUNKY DORY EXCEPT WHEN IT IS EVER SO BRIEFLY NOT EVEN THOUGH WE APPEAR TO BE WRITING ABOUT CARICATURES OF SAM AND DEAN, AS OPPOSED TO ACTUALLY WRITING ABOUT SAM AND DEAN LOOOOOL HEY FANDOM HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT SOME MOTHERFUCKIN' COWBOYS :D"
…but, you know… the thing about making a prom dress out of carpet remnants is that its STILL JUST A BUNCH OF CARPET REMNANTS. Not really a dress. So… they did their best. But the writing was still way subpar… especially considering that seasons four and five (well, most of them. …we do not speak of incidents like "Swap Meat" and "Monster Movie." They never happened. Ever. And they never happened because, see, this is a collective agreement to purge them from our minds and happily pretend that they never happened… especially fucking "Swap Meat." Even if Sarah Drew is a stone cold fox) …anyway. s4 and s5 set the bar like… "Yao Ming, Abraham Lincoln, the most ginormous Tyrannosaurus rex in the fucking world EVER, and Shaq could stand on each other's shoulders and they STILL wouldn't be tall enough to reach it"-level high. And the quality of episodes in s6 was SUPER VARIABLE, and even worse than that, SUPER FUCKING NOTICEABLE.
But, um. All of that said? …I thoroughly fucking enjoyed this episode, even if I need my new Ponies now because this episode sort… walked in, told my brain to drop its panties (which it did willingly), fucked my brain rotten, and walked out the door WHILST lighting its post-coital cigarette.
This episode pushed, like, ALL of my dirtybadwrongfuuuuckhot and, "…I was raised Catholic, of COURSE I have a fucking kink for that" buttons in a way that, if Meggles pushed them that way, I'd go, "mmmmm, that's NIIIIIIICE."
I would rip my heart out of my chest and hand it over if this episode asked me to do it. Like. Quality. ALL OF IT. dkfwjrghsdfkwrgjsgrgh. And I'm not just talking about blatantly pandering to all of the kinks that make me a terrible, horrible, awful person who is going to Hell when she dies, like… this may be up there with "Lazarus Rising" and "In My Time Of Dying" on the list of BEST SEASON OPENERS EVER FUCK YEAH because every. single. fucking. moment of it was just so, so perfectly crafted in every way and ksdgfjrghsdg, once I'm over my acting-gasm, I'm going to need to have a fucking design-gasm.
Also? …Everything is [character name redacted because spoilers but you know him. you love him. he's been away for a while but he's baaaaack and POSSIBLY RECURRING IF I CAN TRUST WIKIPEDIA AND HIS DIALOGUE IN THIS EPISODE] and NOTHING HURTS AT ALL. …well. …except for Sam. …meh, he's really pretty when he cries anyway.
…I have other thoughts but I think that about sums it up.
Below the cut are somewhat more spoiler-y reactions.
Also: everything is [ship redacted to protect the spoilers] and nothing hurts. …for me. EVERYTHING hurts for [one member of said ship] but… it's a lot harder to care about that because I'm a fictional sadist. One hint: the ship is not Dean/Cas. Another hint: it might be my second-favorite angel-ship. Three guesses, and the first two don't count.
…
……
………
………… Did you guess it yet?
…………… No, it's cool, keep working on it.
……………… I can wait.
………………… I mean, I'm not really going anywhere.
…………………… OKAY FUCK THE WAITING: EVERYTHING IS SAMIFER AND NOTHING HURTS. EXCEPT FOR SAM, BUT… I THINK THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE I KEEP MY SADISM LIMITED TO FICTIONAL CHARACTERS AND YELLING NASTY EPITHETS AT PEOPLE WHO DRIVE REALLY BADLY AND SOMETIMES DOING THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT MY MOTHER WANTS JUST TO SPITE HER AND THAT'S BETTER THAN DOING ANYTHING I COULD GET ARRESTED FOR OR SOMETHING BUT. BUT BUT BUT. OH MY GOD. SAMIFER SPOONING IS OFFICIALLY CANON. LIKE. LIKE IT ISN'T ENOUGH THAT LUCIFER DRESSED UP AS JESSICA TO GET IN SAM'S DREAM BED, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS A DREAM SO THE MIND-FUCKING WASN'T REALLY NECESSARY. AND MARK PELLEGRINO. AND AND AND DKFWRGKADFH. AND SAM NEVER REALLY LEFT HELL. AND LUCIFER. AND KSDHWGRLASFJGRHKSDHWG. ALL OF THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME FOREVER, YES PLEASE. LEAVE ME HERE TO CRY MYSELF TO DEATH WITH HAPPINESS FOR MY BEAUTIFUL FUCKED UP SHIP THAT WAS M-F-E-O LITERALLY AAAAAAAAAH.
……………………………………… oh, yeah, and I guess some Dean/Cas stuff happened too.
……… naturally, by that distressingly nonchalant comment, I mean that the only fucking place the writers have left to go now is actually having them make out, get naked, and take turns bending each other over one of Bobby's desks.
… so, you know… there's that.
… I mean. One of my only legit OTPs in any fandom ever is still DEFINITELY TOTALLY MARRIED, and trying to work through bad things and be less… emotionally inept assbutts to each other, and… y'know, that's a good feeling.
Also, also: yeah, no, cool, Misha. It's totally fucking fine that you incinerated my panties. It's not like I was using them or anything, you handsome jerk. As I said to my Pennylove: "…sighs. Like. …okay. Cas, for the most part, is way outside of the kind of guy Misha usually plays. and that's cool. I think it shows his versatility as an actor. ……but watching him go crazy does things for me, so fuck versatility."
Also, also, also: ……it needs to be like. Noon. Or noon-thirty. Or sometime when I can reasonably expect a GOOD download of this week's "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" to be online so I can watch it. Because… I loved the EVERLIVING FUCK out of this episode of SPN. I expect that I will probably convert it to an mp4 and put it on my ipod and maybe listen to it in my car when I have to drive places, and I haven't done this since, "Live Free Or Twi-Hard," which kinda says a lot about how badly the creative team handled the jigsaw puzzle plot of season six - or, well… how they could've handled it a lot BETTER, seeing as… in retrospect? They actually handled leaving the clues and stuff pretty damn well… it's just that, in the process, they made a lot of episodes seem like pointless filler.
and, to be fair, a lot of them WERE pointless filler, and unlike the pointless filler (okay, only some of it… like "Sex and Violence" comes to mind: mediocre episode, writing kinda on the blah side, hunt not that important… but the emotional, brotherly relationship and exploring the differences between how Sam and Dean handle things, and reaffirming that they put family first? that stuff was solid), that was, you know… generally sort of decent and vaguely relevant to the overall plot by way of the "the boys sit on the car and talk about their feelings" scenes or SOMETHING. …and a lot of the s6 filler didn't have that, at least… not enough of it, or it didn't do the right things with it. …It did the right things with it with Robo!Sam, more than Berlin Wall!Sam, which is really saying something.
and, credit where it's due: Jensen and Jared really brought it to the table as best as they could on the acting front, given what they had to work with on the writing front, since… SPN has never been all that great at subtlety, so the writing didn't always get the, "WE ARE TRYING TO PRETEND EVERYTHING IS LE FINE WHEN IT IS LE OBVIOUSLY NOT" to come through as much as it felt like, "LOL LA LA LA ISSUES WHAT ISSUES THEY DON'T HAVE ANY ISSUES DUH WE WRITERS CHOOSE TO IGNORE THESE SO-CALLED ISSUES OF WHICH YOU SPEAK LOOK EVERYTHING IS HUNKY DORY EXCEPT WHEN IT IS EVER SO BRIEFLY NOT EVEN THOUGH WE APPEAR TO BE WRITING ABOUT CARICATURES OF SAM AND DEAN, AS OPPOSED TO ACTUALLY WRITING ABOUT SAM AND DEAN LOOOOOL HEY FANDOM HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT SOME MOTHERFUCKIN' COWBOYS :D"
…but, you know… the thing about making a prom dress out of carpet remnants is that its STILL JUST A BUNCH OF CARPET REMNANTS. Not really a dress. So… they did their best. But the writing was still way subpar… especially considering that seasons four and five (well, most of them. …we do not speak of incidents like "Swap Meat" and "Monster Movie." They never happened. Ever. And they never happened because, see, this is a collective agreement to purge them from our minds and happily pretend that they never happened… especially fucking "Swap Meat." Even if Sarah Drew is a stone cold fox) …anyway. s4 and s5 set the bar like… "Yao Ming, Abraham Lincoln, the most ginormous Tyrannosaurus rex in the fucking world EVER, and Shaq could stand on each other's shoulders and they STILL wouldn't be tall enough to reach it"-level high. And the quality of episodes in s6 was SUPER VARIABLE, and even worse than that, SUPER FUCKING NOTICEABLE.
But, um. All of that said? …I thoroughly fucking enjoyed this episode, even if I need my new Ponies now because this episode sort… walked in, told my brain to drop its panties (which it did willingly), fucked my brain rotten, and walked out the door WHILST lighting its post-coital cigarette.
This episode pushed, like, ALL of my dirtybadwrongfuuuuckhot and, "…I was raised Catholic, of COURSE I have a fucking kink for that" buttons in a way that, if Meggles pushed them that way, I'd go, "mmmmm, that's NIIIIIIICE."
I would rip my heart out of my chest and hand it over if this episode asked me to do it. Like. Quality. ALL OF IT. dkfwjrghsdfkwrgjsgrgh. And I'm not just talking about blatantly pandering to all of the kinks that make me a terrible, horrible, awful person who is going to Hell when she dies, like… this may be up there with "Lazarus Rising" and "In My Time Of Dying" on the list of BEST SEASON OPENERS EVER FUCK YEAH because every. single. fucking. moment of it was just so, so perfectly crafted in every way and ksdgfjrghsdg, once I'm over my acting-gasm, I'm going to need to have a fucking design-gasm.
Also? …Everything is [character name redacted because spoilers but you know him. you love him. he's been away for a while but he's baaaaack and POSSIBLY RECURRING IF I CAN TRUST WIKIPEDIA AND HIS DIALOGUE IN THIS EPISODE] and NOTHING HURTS AT ALL. …well. …except for Sam. …meh, he's really pretty when he cries anyway.