SPN 9.19 (I think)

[cordelia_gray]

I've lost track of what episode we're on. I feel like I've also lost track of what's supposed to be happening anymore. I have a pretty high tolerance for the meta episodes generally, Monster at the End of This Book is in my top five for the whole show. But I just don't know what they're trying to say here.

[But Why?] What is Metatron's actual plan? Why doe

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[de_nugis]

I am thinking of getting Robbie Thompson's phone number, just so that he can be Not Edlund on my cell phone

[cordelia_gray]

Not Moose was one of my favourite things this season.

And they could still bring the concepts of the two halves of the season together by drawing on the noncon-salvation-by-fratricide aspect of Cain.I'm still very intrigued by this aspect of it, but I feel like it will probably get lost. Though I could see a version where (echoes of Swan Song) Dean is influenced by the Mark to believe he needs to kill Sam, and Sam refusing to fight, and being able to get through to Dean that way, which could work

[de_nugis]

At the moment I'm almost relieved that they are doing so little with Sam, because it makes him much more potentially writable for me than Dean -- between the squick of feeling that the most disturbing aspects of Dean's choices will never be confronted and the feeling of knowing quite a lot about his current state and finding it dull, I've developed total Dean-related writer's block. But if I think of it as a viewer it drives me insane, and it reminds me how little in the way of sheer pleasure and admiration there is in my watching of Spn these days. It's not like going for a stroll in the woods, it's more like going to a woodpile that may be infested by snakes to get cooking fuel. /wild metaphor

[killabeez]

but s9 still makes me want to write All The Sam.

I would like to encourage this in any way possible. :)

I've developed total Dean-related writer's block

Yes. Or rather, I keep starting things, getting two pages in, and then remembering that I can't actually go anywhere meaningful with it. I've been thinking about making a Dean vid, actually, because nothing makes me empathize with a character faster and more intensely than vidding them. And I have a song! But then I remember that I don't have a life or that thing called "free time."

[vyperdd]

Sam literally had nothing to do this week but stand around and look worried, though. And that sucks. Gadreel was inside his head for months. There could have been SO MUCH JUICY STUFF FOR THEM TO SAY TO EACH OTHER. And instead Sam gets sent away so that we can have a scene of Gadreel and Dean talking about what Sam thinks, because it's not like Dean could just, you know, ASK. He and Sam have separate rooms now, they're only together like 15 hours a day instead of the usual 24. How could he find the time?

THIS!!!! I just want to roll around in this forever and ever. It sure as hell beats reading how nasty and hateful (and other worse words that I won't repeat here) Sam is. And how he's only NOW starting to show concern for Dean and what the MoC is doing to him, now that Cas has told him to keep an eye on Dean.

And WTF with Sam NOT knowing that Gadreel was working for Metatron when Crowley told him that he could remember everything from being possessed and we were shown Sam flashing back through his memories.

Apparently, the writer