Though I'm tempted to say "Drvvvvvvv" instead! Hope you're having a wonderful day, with appropriate caking and universal kindness and nothing remotely like suspicious breakins or the like
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"let's talk about the elephant in the room. not you." hee. i really liked the brief elephant appearance of the elephant god. and props to the ptb for finally demonstrating an awareness that there are other powerful gods and other major belief systems out there besides the christian one, altho i was annoyed they had to make them all people-eaters. seriously, guys? cannibals? it was like code for "these are monsters and must be put down" which is lazy writing and a bit offensive, and kind of demotes them from "gods!" to just "eh, demons".
i couldn't figure out if gabriel was saying he just pretended to be loki (altho wouldn't other norse gods have realized he was faking it?) or if the show was trying to make them the same person.
but i loooooved matt frewer as pestilence. he has the perfect face for it. and hey, sam and dean working together! like brothers! without all their angsty baggage weighing them down! it was a little like a throwback episode that way. and sam saying "the next time i say we keep driving, maybe we should KEEP DRIVING" was adorably little-brother-i-told-you-so.
They finally acknowledge other belief systems (aside from their demons and baddies, which they've completely abandoned in the last 2 seasons), but then they do it badly. Argh! Just a little more effort, and that would have been a universal win. :(
I think Gabriel would have had to pretend to be Loki since the beginning of time-- and maybe he has. The real mistake, I think, was making the Trickster turn out to be an archangel (ouch), and then additionally retconning him to be Loki. Stem the fail-bleed, please! Don't deepen the wound!
I loved Sam's comment, because Dean rarely listens to him and this is a clear-cut example of when he should have. :D
>>The real mistake, I think, was making the Trickster turn out to be an archangel<<
i was so, so annoyed when they did that. a lot of people seem upset that gabriel's dead now because they'll miss him, and all i can think is "the ptb should've let him be the trickster and introduced someone else as the archangel" and i can't bring myself to be too bothered. i liked him as the trickster. and i might've liked him as gabriel better if the retcon hadn't come across as the ptb trying to shoehorn EVERYTHING from previous seasons into the biblical apocalypse mytharc and make it all fit their celestial-brother-issues storyline.
dear dean,
LISTEN TO YOUR BROTHER OCCASIONALLY, OK?
younger siblings everywhere went "yeah, i know how that goes...."
i couldn't figure out if gabriel was saying he just pretended to be loki (altho wouldn't other norse gods have realized he was faking it?) or if the show was trying to make them the same person.
but i loooooved matt frewer as pestilence. he has the perfect face for it. and hey, sam and dean working together! like brothers! without all their angsty baggage weighing them down! it was a little like a throwback episode that way. and sam saying "the next time i say we keep driving, maybe we should KEEP DRIVING" was adorably little-brother-i-told-you-so.
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I think Gabriel would have had to pretend to be Loki since the beginning of time-- and maybe he has. The real mistake, I think, was making the Trickster turn out to be an archangel (ouch), and then additionally retconning him to be Loki. Stem the fail-bleed, please! Don't deepen the wound!
I loved Sam's comment, because Dean rarely listens to him and this is a clear-cut example of when he should have. :D
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i was so, so annoyed when they did that. a lot of people seem upset that gabriel's dead now because they'll miss him, and all i can think is "the ptb should've let him be the trickster and introduced someone else as the archangel" and i can't bring myself to be too bothered. i liked him as the trickster. and i might've liked him as gabriel better if the retcon hadn't come across as the ptb trying to shoehorn EVERYTHING from previous seasons into the biblical apocalypse mytharc and make it all fit their celestial-brother-issues storyline.
dear dean,
LISTEN TO YOUR BROTHER OCCASIONALLY, OK?
younger siblings everywhere went "yeah, i know how that goes...."
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