Rewatch S6: Appointment in Samarra (6x11)

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Ok, after the controversy that was yesterday's rewatch - let's continue with something a little more light-hearted and filled with puppies!

Notes:
1)Clothes were once again easy. They both wore the exact same thing the entire episode.
2)My rewatch notes are pretty short, so I might not actually have that much to say about this one - that doesn't

Comments

[franztastisch]

Death and Tessa are wonderful because they have no agenda. Like Fate. They're part of the natural order and just doing their jobs. I think the reason Tessa is the only girl reaper is because the first time she appeared, she said that reapers took a form that the person who dies will find comforting/apporachable/whatever, and that's what she looked like for Dean. And then to have the continuity they kept that actress. OR because she's the one that turns up for Dean, she looks like how Dean first saw her. Maybe the other reapers look as they do because 1. most of the time they haven't turned up because someone's dying (like when Death was in Chicargo) and/or 2. that lady in Faith expected to see an old man in a suit, so that's what we got

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Death and Tessa are wonderful because they have no agenda. Like Fate. They're part of the natural order and just doing their jobs.

Yes, this is exactly why I like them so much. They aren't a villain even though they aren't human.

OR because she's the one that turns up for Dean, she looks like how Dean first saw her.

Good option. I wonder if people get assigned a particular reaper, and Tessa has been assigned to Dean.

He was selfish and meddling. And maybe Gabriel was selfish, but he also had Daddy issues and a complex backstory and intentions and overall kept to himself or... he wanted to lay low. Balthazar wanted to have threesomes and get drunk. Gabe wanted to teach people a lesson and eat sweets. And I like Gabe's motives better.Yes, I think this is my problem with Balthazar too. I mean, once you knew Gabriel's backstory, you felt sympathy for him - but with Balthazar it's hard to feel sympathy for someone who is just eschewing his responsibilities because he wants to have sex and get drunk...and buy human souls for power.

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I can't think that you'd get assigned a reaper. And I was going to explain why I think that, but then I got confused and couldn't. So I'll not, cos I can't. I just don't think you're assigned a reaper.

I actually had this think about Gabriel, Balthazar and Castiel and Free Will, and how really, Gabriel is the only one who got Free Will right. Cas was basically forced into having Free Will, through association with the Winchesters and everything they stood for. And it worked for him for a while, but mostly because he had Bobby, Sam and Dean to provide a moral compass and stuff. When they went, he degenerated. Balthazar had no one and equated Free Will with Doing What The Fuck You Want. Which it sort of is, and which it sort of isn't. And he turned out to be a bit for a fucktard. Gabriel got Free Will sort of right really, and maintained it for the longest. And I think it's cos originally, when he decided to disappear from Heaven, he created this plan of being Loki and then followed the rules of this plan. So he ws still following

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I can't think that you'd get assigned a reaper. And I was going to explain why I think that, but then I got confused and couldn't. So I'll not, cos I can't. I just don't think you're assigned a reaper.

Haha, it's ok, you don't have to explain. You can just say "I don't think you are assigned a reaper" and that's a valid enough opinion. ;)

Re: Free Will and Angels - I think you are quite smart and correct there. It makes a lot of sense. I wish I had anything to add, but I really think you covered it well and succinctly.

It's sort of like when you go to uni and suddenly go HEY I CAN DO WHAT I WANT. And for some reason that often involves getting drunk, throwing up in a bush and passing out. Just for angels it's more... extreme. :PApparently I was the Gabriel version of a uni-student. Haha... but I knew many a Castiel and Balthazar :P

[franztastisch]

Yey! Something I thought up turned out to not actually be contradictory! (That happens a lot to me).

Apparently I was the Gabriel version of a uni-student. Haha... but I knew many a Castiel and Balthazar :P

Haha as I was writing that I was thinking, "I really wasn't like this at uni" so that makes two of us! Yey! Though I think for me it was because I don't really like the loss of control that comes with being drunk. I'm not really a control freak, I just don't like that. And starting uni I didn't have anyone I trusted enough to look after me if that was to happen. I got drunker more often in my third year than my first. :P

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Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of being drunk either. I got drunker during my Masters (I guess my fifth year?) than I did before that - and yeah, that was mostly because I trusted the people I was hanging out with, and I was in Newfoundland, which happens to have the street with the highest concentration of pubs in...the world, I think. Also, I had one friend who would buy my drinks as long as I was drinking Strongbow. I gained like 20 pounds that year - Strongbow isn't exactly light on the calories.

[franztastisch]

Eew Strongbow is rank, why would you drink that? :P Well, I guess cos it's free... but still. :P

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Haha, yeah... the things we do when we are young and foolish. :P

[franztastisch]

I had my Strongbow phase at 16... That's a point, what's the legal drinking age in Canada? Is it 21 like the States?

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Drinking age is 19 in Ontario where I grew up, and 18 just across the border in Quebec. I didn't drink Strongbow until that year in Newfoundland. I was mostly a beer person when I first started drinking, well, beer and anything-with-vodka.

My parents let me have beer before I was 19 though, if I wanted. And I was never much of a party-person, so even when I was legal drinking age, I didn't go crazy. I was old going to university, so I was already legal drinking age - but I guess nowadays kids aren't. My older sister was only 17 when she went to uni, and she had a miserable time of it, because she WAS a party person, but wasn't old enough to party. My older sister was very much the more stereotypical teenager all around though. She still is.

[franztastisch]

My parent's don't drink much at all. I drank with friends and as a result basically only drink spirits. Just not vodka. I hate vodka. Whiskey and rum. I don't really know why though. I just really hate beer. I only drink Guinness.

There's also the fact that I am the biggest lightweight you have ever seen in your life...

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Oh man, I'm quite the lightweight too. I'd say we should compete to see who is worse, but that competition would end pretty quickly and horribly. :P

I hate gin. Can't stand it. Other than that, I'm alright with basically anything. My parents don't drink much either, at least, not at home. They both really only drink if they are out at a pub or restaurant.

[franztastisch]

I get boneless and floppy and hilarious and then I throw up. People seem to find this entertaining for some reason. At least I don't get hangovers.

Oh god gin. No no no no no. A friend made me a gin and tonic once, like a pint of the stuff. And I really didn't like it. So I left it. And the next day I asked him what happened to it. He said he had it for breakfast. I HOPE HE WAS JOKING.

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Ewww, throw-up...yeah, I'm not going to be challenging you to any drinking contests. :P

I didn't used to get hangovers, but now I do. I guess it's one of the first signs of old-age.

When I get drunk, I get overly cuddly, and my speech-impediment comes back, and then I start being far too honest (though, that happens when I'm sober too sometimes.)

My eldest sister loves gin. I do not understand. It is vile.

[franztastisch]

I'd be spectacuarly bad. :P

Well here's to hoping I don't get that yet.