Yeah, you're right. Maybe we did indeed need a bit of escapism from actual show. It was certainly crack and I know I need to take it all with a grain of salt. :)
*yikes* I think I missed the extra plot points.. my brain was busy trying to compute the show. I have to confess I'm a bit confused about the war in heaven. Maybe because we are just getting snippets of it. I figure it'll all mean something at some point. Maybe.
I think Eric going out like that was pretty funny. Something I'm sure Eric would have loved. But.....
Nah. I'll stop there. The cast and crew would have had a ball. :)
I think meta eps are either people's thing (OMG ITS MY CRACK) or not. Personally i can't get enough of it! Am deliciously documenting every meta madness moment over at the Wiki and I am in fangirl heaven!
additionally i loved their concept that öur"world is one where magic doesn't happen and God really doesnt exist.
Yeah. I so desperately want to be in crack heaven with this. I have a feeling I will feel better about it once I start enjoying everyone's reactions.
But I suppose I've never really been one for these kind of episodes...so my reaction is pretty typical for me.
That's not to say I didn't appreciate a lot of the moments. The comparisons between the two worlds were great. And I love the confirmation that Supernatural is set in another universe. That works so well for me. It was the whole Jared and Jensen thing that had me squirming - even though a lot of it was hilarious.
And I did like the constant reference to them not talking. Maybe I liked more than I thought I did...*g*
Yeah. I too probably needed to be prepared. I mean, I did go along for the ride. Some bits were hilarious - so had me squirming.
Personally, I would really have liked Misha's death to have a real ring of truth about it. I'd love to have seen him play real fear. It really would have made this whole episode more worthwhile for me. But that whole killing spree what just some slap stick that really had me squirming. Sure - it was funny to see Kripke buy it. But I'd love there to have been some truth in there.
*shrugs* No biggie. I'm not nearly as pissed about it as I was before. That's why I love hearing other peoples thoughts.
Yeah. Good point. By making it over the top we didn't see the real death coming... which makes it more shocking.
But then to have a melodramatic Gen and Kripke being gleeful over the coverage...*shrugs* ACK! See... I keep missing the humour in this ep. Obviously that's the whole point. By faking it it shows us how unreal everything is..
or something..
I am NOT going to get all thinky thoughts about this.
I don't know how I feel! I probably need time to metabolize this episode. Also you should have heard me and spoiled yourself a bit because it helped knowing what it was about. I like saying 'I told you so'. ;)
There were parts that made me squirm (the GP and GC stuff was too real for me and I have a gossip squick so I didn't want to look, though I get the joke with fake Ruby), the rest was surprisingly good and even gave us a few interesting tidbits between Dean and Sam. I loved the staring contest between Dean and Castiel (both real and fake *g*) and I can't wait to know what's going on in Hevean that Cas can't share. Hurry up show.
HA! You! Yes... yes... I so should have listened to you. I knew we were in for a forth wall collapse but I had no idea how far they would take it. I most definitely think it would have helped me enjoy it more if I knew they were going down this route. Though - I've never been a fan of these eps really, so it's no surprise I squirmed a bit
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I think what I took from the episode was the stark parallels between a godless/magic-less world and their's where sure, Sam may have a mansion and photos of himself in every room (loved some of the camera angles in that house) and Dean might have a huge fish tank *g*, but life that meaningless is a life not worth having, especially if (and this being the tipping point for Dean, which I thought was lovely) they're not brothers there.
I have to admit I was waiting in horror for some odd moment where they stepped off set and were mobbed by fangirls screaming and waving manipped slashy photos at them, at which point I think even I would have had to stop watching. But in essence I see it as a further alternate reality in which things aren't positioned axactly the same as here and that helps it sit better. Not so much as poking fun at just 'omg we're a show!', but more so a 'what if?' And now I'm rambling... but yes, Misha's tweets were adorable and I shall leave it at that. :P
See... it irked me that they were showing us their lives. But really. They weren't. Just another version of their lives... I mean. If there's this alternate reality then there would be others. There's another J&J and co who are not these ones. That's why Gen was so... um... fake. And Jared had pictures of himself all over the place.
Fuck! Talk about take time for the penny to drop.
I think that makes it a bit better for me. Still not keen on the forth wall thing but I can go with this now.
And I agree... if they had gone down the wincest route I would most definitely have turned off. I may be into it - but I don't like it when they are. :)
You nailed it (here and in your later post) - it was essentially a mirror universe; one held up to our own with enough clarity that we could recognise and snigger at the in-jokes that were slid in for the fans, but with enough misty distortion to allow us to see this world's 'Jared' with an alpaca out the back instead of dogs, sixty billion artsy angles of himself framed on every possible wall and 'Jensen' with his playbacks on his own trailer television and magazines and framed photos strewn around featuring himself.
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*yikes* I think I missed the extra plot points.. my brain was busy trying to compute the show. I have to confess I'm a bit confused about the war in heaven. Maybe because we are just getting snippets of it. I figure it'll all mean something at some point. Maybe.
I think Eric going out like that was pretty funny. Something I'm sure Eric would have loved. But.....
Nah. I'll stop there. The cast and crew would have had a ball. :)
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additionally i loved their concept that öur"world is one where magic doesn't happen and God really doesnt exist.
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Yeah. I so desperately want to be in crack heaven with this. I have a feeling I will feel better about it once I start enjoying everyone's reactions.
But I suppose I've never really been one for these kind of episodes...so my reaction is pretty typical for me.
That's not to say I didn't appreciate a lot of the moments. The comparisons between the two worlds were great. And I love the confirmation that Supernatural is set in another universe. That works so well for me. It was the whole Jared and Jensen thing that had me squirming - even though a lot of it was hilarious.
And I did like the constant reference to them not talking. Maybe I liked more than I thought I did...*g*
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Personally, I would really have liked Misha's death to have a real ring of truth about it. I'd love to have seen him play real fear. It really would have made this whole episode more worthwhile for me. But that whole killing spree what just some slap stick that really had me squirming. Sure - it was funny to see Kripke buy it. But I'd love there to have been some truth in there.
*shrugs* No biggie. I'm not nearly as pissed about it as I was before. That's why I love hearing other peoples thoughts.
*smish*
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But then to have a melodramatic Gen and Kripke being gleeful over the coverage...*shrugs* ACK! See... I keep missing the humour in this ep. Obviously that's the whole point. By faking it it shows us how unreal everything is..
or something..
I am NOT going to get all thinky thoughts about this.
I'm not.
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There were parts that made me squirm (the GP and GC stuff was too real for me and I have a gossip squick so I didn't want to look, though I get the joke with fake Ruby), the rest was surprisingly good and even gave us a few interesting tidbits between Dean and Sam. I loved the staring contest between Dean and Castiel (both real and fake *g*) and I can't wait to know what's going on in Hevean that Cas can't share. Hurry up show.
Also Misha made me lol in each of his scene.
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I have to admit I was waiting in horror for some odd moment where they stepped off set and were mobbed by fangirls screaming and waving manipped slashy photos at them, at which point I think even I would have had to stop watching. But in essence I see it as a further alternate reality in which things aren't positioned axactly the same as here and that helps it sit better. Not so much as poking fun at just 'omg we're a show!', but more so a 'what if?' And now I'm rambling... but yes, Misha's tweets were adorable and I shall leave it at that. :P
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See... it irked me that they were showing us their lives. But really. They weren't. Just another version of their lives... I mean. If there's this alternate reality then there would be others. There's another J&J and co who are not these ones. That's why Gen was so... um... fake. And Jared had pictures of himself all over the place.
Fuck! Talk about take time for the penny to drop.
I think that makes it a bit better for me. Still not keen on the forth wall thing but I can go with this now.
And I agree... if they had gone down the wincest route I would most definitely have turned off. I may be into it - but I don't like it when they are. :)
THANKS!
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You nailed it (here and in your later post) - it was essentially a mirror universe; one held up to our own with enough clarity that we could recognise and snigger at the in-jokes that were slid in for the fans, but with enough misty distortion to allow us to see this world's 'Jared' with an alpaca out the back instead of dogs, sixty billion artsy angles of himself framed on every possible wall and 'Jensen' with his playbacks on his own trailer television and magazines and framed photos strewn around featuring himself.
*hugs*
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