My SPN day of awesomeness
First, when I got home there was a notification that my SPN DVDs + Impala were waiting at the post office for me. Finally!! Hubby picked up the package before fetching the kids while I took a little nap because I'm totally wiped out after this week. First thing I see on the envelope when he hands it to me? The little "Gift" ticky box ticked just as I told them it was. Really, someone should get these people some glasses. (No offense strawberrytatoo, I'm sure YOU have excellent eyesight. Can you come work at my post office? Third fricking time this happens!)
Inside, a shiny little '67 Impala and my DVDs!! *rubs them against bosom and places car in bra* Thank you, anteka!! *hugs*
Then, after the boy had been dumped at a friend's house and the girl had taken a drama fit and finally was off to watch High School Musical on some huge screen with all the girls in her school + hubby because she didn't want to go alone ("Hope your apple pie boys are fricking worth it!" he growled as he went off on his date with Zac Efron) I finally got to sit down, with a bag of Doritos, a KitKat Chunky and soda, to watch SPN 4.01. Had a small panic attack when I couldn't find it on the TV hard drive, only to realise hubby had put it in the House folder. Thank you, mr_felis for that heart attack! Consider us even.
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
S
P
A
C
E
I remember reading a fic where it happened pretty much like this, without the grave though, but Dean getting out and not remembering anything and I remember thinking, well since they DID send him to Hell this is really the only way they CAN go because we don't have time to spend the first fifteen episodes trying to heal Dean of the traumatic effects being even a single SECOND in Hell would have on a guy. So yeah, I anticipated that. I also hoped we'd still get some kind of flashbacks, which we did and I'm sure we'll get more of, because the guy still went to HELL and NOT showing any effects is just a waste of plot and a way too cheap way out.
Anyway...
I'm not gonna get into every single little detail here, everyone else has already and there's not much I can add. Although I might have to watch that hug scene about five thousand times more, just to be sure it was the best hug in the history of hugs. (A Winchester hug where no one is dead or making a WTF face? It's a miracle!)
I'd also like to point out that in this episode we got: Dean's bare chest, someone assuming they're gay, a HUG, and last but not least, Sam driving the Impala. All those little details we hope for, piled into one episode.
Ok, there's one thing and I know it's my issues and no one else minds but... Religion makes me really uncomfortable, ok? The whole, "It's God's will" mentality really bothers me. (This weeks OTH? Yikes.) Some kind of hell and demons from that hell and a possible lord of hell, Satan or whoever, in a supernatural show does not bother me at all. The idea of hell surpasses religion. It's when God (and not just A god but THE God, capital G) is put forward as a FACT and not just a possibility that I start to squirm. Which is why the theory that the Hand of God supposedly pulled Dean out of hell made me sit up and think, "Ok, wtf is this? I do not want a Holy Dean branding his sword against Satan Sam arc!"
But, because I know most people on LJ are more levelheaded than me, I decided, as soon as the episode was over, to log on and see what THEY were saying. And turns out I was right, you guys ARE smarter than me. See, I've never had much interest in the mythology of Christianity, all those saints and sinners and Liliaeth and Azazael blahblahblah. So when I hear the word "angel" I think of a woman in a white dress with wings on her back, coming to take you to Heaven or some equal romantic H.C. Andersen image. But you guys, because you are smart and well read, pointed out to me that that is not the case. Angels are scary creatures. And power, good or evil, is always a very tricky and dangerous thing. (Also, that guy's wings were black. Yes, maybe because they were just shadows of his invisible wings but still, black. Black wings do not spell harps and Birkenstocks to me.)
So for now I'm holding my judgement on whether Kripke accidentally stumbled upon a Jesus camp on the hiatus and accepted the Lord Jesus into his heart. I'm going to remember that our Eric is anything but simple and that he has plans for us and all the fangirls like us. Besides cutting down budget, forcing Jensen and Jared to move in together to save money. Speaking of which...
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
S
P
A
C
E
The third SPN awesomeness of this day. OMG, that new Buddy!TV interview (which is non-spoilery btw, in case you were wondering) is possibly the best thing since Elvis invented the hiproll! I can't even... *flails* *dies* They SO know what they're doing to us. *shakes finger at the Padaleckis* You boys!
I'm going to convert both the episode and the interview to an mp4 format for my iPod and will put that up to share when it's done (it takes a while) if anyone wants them.
Then I'm going to have some alcohol and rewatch the ep with hubby once the kids are asleep.
The days just don't get better than this.
Inside, a shiny little '67 Impala and my DVDs!! *rubs them against bosom and places car in bra* Thank you, anteka!! *hugs*
Then, after the boy had been dumped at a friend's house and the girl had taken a drama fit and finally was off to watch High School Musical on some huge screen with all the girls in her school + hubby because she didn't want to go alone ("Hope your apple pie boys are fricking worth it!" he growled as he went off on his date with Zac Efron) I finally got to sit down, with a bag of Doritos, a KitKat Chunky and soda, to watch SPN 4.01. Had a small panic attack when I couldn't find it on the TV hard drive, only to realise hubby had put it in the House folder. Thank you, mr_felis for that heart attack! Consider us even.
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
S
P
A
C
E
I remember reading a fic where it happened pretty much like this, without the grave though, but Dean getting out and not remembering anything and I remember thinking, well since they DID send him to Hell this is really the only way they CAN go because we don't have time to spend the first fifteen episodes trying to heal Dean of the traumatic effects being even a single SECOND in Hell would have on a guy. So yeah, I anticipated that. I also hoped we'd still get some kind of flashbacks, which we did and I'm sure we'll get more of, because the guy still went to HELL and NOT showing any effects is just a waste of plot and a way too cheap way out.
Anyway...
I'm not gonna get into every single little detail here, everyone else has already and there's not much I can add. Although I might have to watch that hug scene about five thousand times more, just to be sure it was the best hug in the history of hugs. (A Winchester hug where no one is dead or making a WTF face? It's a miracle!)
I'd also like to point out that in this episode we got: Dean's bare chest, someone assuming they're gay, a HUG, and last but not least, Sam driving the Impala. All those little details we hope for, piled into one episode.
Ok, there's one thing and I know it's my issues and no one else minds but... Religion makes me really uncomfortable, ok? The whole, "It's God's will" mentality really bothers me. (This weeks OTH? Yikes.) Some kind of hell and demons from that hell and a possible lord of hell, Satan or whoever, in a supernatural show does not bother me at all. The idea of hell surpasses religion. It's when God (and not just A god but THE God, capital G) is put forward as a FACT and not just a possibility that I start to squirm. Which is why the theory that the Hand of God supposedly pulled Dean out of hell made me sit up and think, "Ok, wtf is this? I do not want a Holy Dean branding his sword against Satan Sam arc!"
But, because I know most people on LJ are more levelheaded than me, I decided, as soon as the episode was over, to log on and see what THEY were saying. And turns out I was right, you guys ARE smarter than me. See, I've never had much interest in the mythology of Christianity, all those saints and sinners and Liliaeth and Azazael blahblahblah. So when I hear the word "angel" I think of a woman in a white dress with wings on her back, coming to take you to Heaven or some equal romantic H.C. Andersen image. But you guys, because you are smart and well read, pointed out to me that that is not the case. Angels are scary creatures. And power, good or evil, is always a very tricky and dangerous thing. (Also, that guy's wings were black. Yes, maybe because they were just shadows of his invisible wings but still, black. Black wings do not spell harps and Birkenstocks to me.)
So for now I'm holding my judgement on whether Kripke accidentally stumbled upon a Jesus camp on the hiatus and accepted the Lord Jesus into his heart. I'm going to remember that our Eric is anything but simple and that he has plans for us and all the fangirls like us. Besides cutting down budget, forcing Jensen and Jared to move in together to save money. Speaking of which...
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
S
P
A
C
E
The third SPN awesomeness of this day. OMG, that new Buddy!TV interview (which is non-spoilery btw, in case you were wondering) is possibly the best thing since Elvis invented the hiproll! I can't even... *flails* *dies* They SO know what they're doing to us. *shakes finger at the Padaleckis* You boys!
I'm going to convert both the episode and the interview to an mp4 format for my iPod and will put that up to share when it's done (it takes a while) if anyone wants them.
Then I'm going to have some alcohol and rewatch the ep with hubby once the kids are asleep.
The days just don't get better than this.