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supernatural 8x20 + birthday + meme + random stuff

Apr 28, 2013 00:07

1) First: happy birthday cassiopeia7! :DDD I hope you're having an awesome day, that you get a lot of books for gifts none of which by Jane Austen and that you get spoiled with as much cake as you'd like ( Read more... )

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aadarshinah April 27 2013, 22:27:06 UTC

Seconds you for Dean and Charlie being platonic life partners. There is just something about them together that makes me squee in a very brotp way. Charlie is just the friend Dean needs to embrace his inner geek (just as Benny was the friend he needed to embrace his warrior side) and, in a way, to help him recover from the trauma that was Hell and Purgatory (which, if you think about it, he's never gotten a chance to do, what with the Apocalypse/Godstiel/Leviathans to worry about) and finally accept himself for who he is.

I so agree. If the show could stay like this forever.... I'd be one happy fangirl. The only episode I've not wholeheartedly liked is "As Time Goes By" (as I think I've mentioned before). But other than that, the writing has been extremely solid. I don't think I've enjoyed the series this much since S4.....

::generally flails in agreement::

janie_tangerine April 29 2013, 16:20:45 UTC

Ikr? Do want. So much. They should just have the brother/sister thing going on forever and go to cons together for the rest of eternity, can I have it? Please? This thing with Dean accepting himself AT LAST is making me so happy, seriously.

Yeah same - well, I did like ATGB but really there wasn't an episode this year that made me want to shake my head in frustration or anything like that, so if they keep on like this I'll be extra delighted :D (and I don't think I've enjoyed it this much since S5, though I really*really* enjoyed some parts of S6 - I mean Frontierland should be my favorite episode ever just based on squee levels, so I can't say much, but I generally didn't like the show as much as I am right now in a long time SO I LIKE THIS ALL VERY MUCH)

aadarshinah April 29 2013, 16:27:00 UTC

Well, I didn't discover SPN until October of last year, when I mainlined all then-available episodes in a period of 2 weeks. I couldn't put S4 down - I mainlined it in 18 hours flat - but I agree with you on S5. And parts of S6 were really good, I agree. I think if the writers had given parts of it a little more attention, it would have been brilliant. It had such potential, and while I dislike certain parts of it, the overall storyline was brilliant.

And YES. Dean and Charlie as a fangirl-ing, con-going, LARP-ing brotp forever. And ever. And ever.

janie_tangerine April 29 2013, 16:33:08 UTC

S4 is still my overall favorite so I totally get it :D especially if you watched all in a row - my times of watching in a row sadly ended at... I think 3x08, it was the last one aired when I was catching up with it. ;) that said I thought that S5 was generally very good even if apparently it's not an extremely popular opinion, while S6 was half very good while half bored me to death.. but it still was better than S7, which I think just generally bored me with the exception of... maybe six episodes, so I'm totally good with how it's going right now.

I KNOW. I need all the fic where they go as Han and Leia and coax Cas into dressing like Obi-Wan or something ;)

aadarshinah April 29 2013, 16:40:49 UTC

people don't like S5? Enough for it to be an unpopular opinion? That's ridiculousness. I loved the Michael/Lucifer storyline and parallels, and have always kinda wished that they did more with that. (And some of my favourite fics are where we find out Dean is fallen!Michael, like Anna was). I agree wholeheartedly on S6... but S7 I generally enjoyed, even if I understand where you're coming from. I think it's a season that has to be taken as a whole, with the individual episodes kinda blending into the background. Not seeing the trees for the forest, if that makes any sense.

If you find a fic like that, I think I might die of squee.

janie_tangerine April 29 2013, 17:10:26 UTC

dunno? when it was on back then the opinion wasn't generally enthusiastic from the first half downwards (never got why), the old guard was all like UGH THIS APOCALYPSE THING WE WANT BACK THE MONSTER OF THE WEEK EPISODES WHYYYY, then there were people on the Cas side who complained about supposed characterization issues which I never even saw and then people got split on the season finale because half loved it and half loathed it, and in retrospective (now) when people talk about S5 are all like 'could have been better', but I thought it was awesome - actually it's my third-favorite after 4 and 2 so I never really got why a lot of people are... lukewarm towards it? And basically my problem with S7 is that for me it felt 90% like 'let's try to re-do S1/S2/S3' except that it really wasn't working for me, so I was.. mostly bored (and the episodes I actually liked were the 40s one and the ones with Cas/Bobby, which probably shows that I like this show better when there are more supportings)? It wasn't overall *terrible* and I really liked ( ... )

aadarshinah April 29 2013, 17:20:01 UTC

Don't get me wrong, monster of the week episodes can be good, but I love plot. I prefer plot. I love long, overarching story lines and multipart episodes and things that don't make sense until you've seen the whole season. It's part of why I loved S4 and S5 (and even parts of S6) so much. Admittedly, the very end of "Swan Song" isn't my favourite, but it's still a decent episode. (Though I'll admit to liking the S4 and S6 finales better ( ... )

janie_tangerine April 29 2013, 17:31:34 UTC

Nah I like them too but I like plot better and tbh I think that MOTW worked good in S1/2/3 but then they went on a bigger scale and they can't exactly go back to that like nothing had happened D: Swan Song isn't my favorite finale either tbh I don't think it was horrible or anything. :/

Yep exactly, that 100%. It wasn't *bad* per se, but they were trying too hard to please both sides and didn't do it too well in the first place.

okay so there is the SW one, I never went around to re-post it so it's probably full of typos - one day... and hahaha omg that'd be golden - damn I can't remember if anyone wrote something like that in S5 back when the con episode aired, but people were totally saying it'd have been awesome if they took him for someone RP-ing as himself, lol.

aadarshinah April 29 2013, 17:32:50 UTC

(nods in complete agreement)

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