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[halfshellvenus]

I've had trouble sleeping since the Daylight Savings Time shift, and that was what, a month ago? I love "fall back," but not so much "spring forward." The curse of being a night owl!

We enjoyed our trip to Santa Cruz/Capitola for Spring Break, despite the rain. The kids had a couple of good beach days, a little time at the Boardwalk before the

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[tsuki_no_bara]

i don't think you have to be christian or a believer in any particular religion in order to find the whole gods/angels/lucifer/demon biblical apocalypse mytharc interesting. i'm agnostic and i think some of revelations is pretty cool. i'm annoyed that every end-of-the-world storyline seems to default to the biblical god-vs-lucifer/satan story, tho. make something up! use another paradigm! especially when you're spn and you've cheerfully used creatures from non-christian, non-western mythos before. one of the big bads in s1 and s2 was zoroastrian.

i think heaven - or at least zachariah - was screwing with the boys' happiest memories, and deliberately manipulating which ones they saw. i find it very hard to believe that all of sam's happiest memories from when he was a kid revolve around getting away from his family. not just dad - i mean, we all know he hated being john's kid and really, really, really wanted a different life - but dean too. i can't imagine sam has no happy memories that involve his brother, and that he'd revisit his childhood and ignore any happy sam&dean moments.

but the thing is, sam isn't that person any more. he knows it, we know it, zachariah probably knows it. yeah, he wants to be independent and forge his own path, but he's also living the life john raised him to, by his own choice. but zachariah's agenda is best served by amping up dean's angst and hopelessness (and no doubt showing sam that he really loved not being a winchester, and then splitting the boys up) and he knows bringing up sam leaving is a good way to do it.

(and dean dropping his amulet in the trash can felt like ptb-manipulation and excessive angst to me, like they want to make sure we know how very very hopeless and very very broken dean is. yeah yeah, we get it, is he going to mope around the rest of the season or is he going to fight back? it was an anvil.)

i did like a lot of the episode, tho. i loved seeing ash again (i love that he's still so himself), i liked the idea that there are thousands of different heavens, and i liked that the boys' path thru heaven was an asphalt road. what else would it be, y'know? i may or may not have sniffled at the first memory of the boys setting off fireworks. also castiel talking thru the radio and then the tv was kind of cute. don't go into the light! heee.

[halfshellvenus]

i'm annoyed that every end-of-the-world storyline seems to default to the biblical god-vs-lucifer/satan story, tho. make something up! use another paradigm! especially when you're spn and you've cheerfully used creatures from non-christian, non-western mythos before.
Exactly! That's part of it-- the show had baddies from every corner of earth history before S4, and suddenly we're locked into a solely christian paradigm. I preferred it the other way. Plus (sacrilege warning!), sometimes I find that the Apocalypse gets old for me.

i find it very hard to believe that all of sam's happiest memories from when he was a kid revolve around getting away from his family.
Oh surely-- he must have had some great memories about other times (where was Jess, for instance?) We didn't see very many of their individual moments-- maybe 3 apiece-- so there's lots of unexplored territory there. I just enjoyed the juxtaposition of Sam's reality against Dean's, in part because I still don't think Dean ever fully "got" why Sam found the Winchester life so utterly intolerable.

yeah yeah, we get it, is he going to mope around the rest of the season or is he going to fight back? it was an anvil.
Exactly. An anvil that was heavier than necessary, given that only Castiel wanted to use it as a God-finder. For Dean, it's always been a form of protection (not to mention a gift from little Sammy!)

i liked the idea that there are thousands of different heavens
Me too-- that was one of the best aspects of the episode. It makes sense that heaven should be "personalized," in a way. I mean, if MY heaven were full of country music and nekkid wimmin and cigarette smoke and Funions and borscht, I would NOT be happy. ;)