i would give my life to find it, i would give it all
Am at the parents', and LJ is still running slow here - I've cleared the cache, reset the modem, rebooted...I do not know what else to do, because I cannot figure out what the problem is, and have heard nothing at all back from LJ support (which I expected; even though I am convinced the problem is somehow on their end) - and it's making me crazy. er. Crazier. It makes answering comments exceptionally difficult, and my flist takes forever to load. Grrr...
I am also having trouble writing, which on top of some real life crap, is making me needy and emo. Which I hate. So I'm annoyed at myself for succumbing. Meh.
So let's talk Supernatural, which is my current happy place. As a reminder, I am unspoiled for part two of the season finale, so if you spoil me for it, I will banninate your ass and shun you. *brandishes hammer of bannination*
Okay, I keep seeing people say that it's important that Sam didn't use his powers at all during the cage match and, um, when has Sam EVER been able to use his powers? The visions come, and he bears them. Once - once - as a result of a vision of Dean dying, he was able to bust out with some telekinesis, but in the actuality of Dean dying right in front of him, he was unable to replicate the event ("Make the gun float to you there, psychic boy" is one of my all time favorite lines from this show, btw).
Since that time, we've never seen Sam seriously attempt to control or understand his power(s). We've seen Dean joke about bending spoons and going to Vegas, and we've seen that Andy's power doesn't work on Sam, and we've seen Sam act as if it's something happening to him, rather than something he can do (which may not be far from the truth). (As an aside, we do not know if Meg was able to make it/them work when she was possessing him, but since he didn't appear to have any switches flipped, I'm guessing no.)
Now, the fact that he hasn't attempted to cultivate his power(s) may in fact be a good thing, if doing so allows the demon to take hold (though I am wary of assigning a moral value to a power in and of itself [aside from things like controlling demons, which can't ever turn out well, even if begun with good intentions, or killing people with a touch, which just SUCKS OUT LOUD for the person afflicted with it, and anyone who comes into contact with her before she covers up, but doesn't make you inherently evil. just really unlucky.]), but I'm not sure that's the case, necessarily.
Here's the other thing - while having visions of people's deaths might be useful to know who to protect and who to watch out for, the visions also leave Sam pretty freaking useless afterwards, and he didn't have Dean to watch out for him while he recovered, so why would he want to incapacitate himself like that, even if he were currently capable of having one on command?
All of the training John and Dean provided over the years served Sam in good stead, and he was clearly the top contender for Ava's position even without his power(s) manifesting, but I'm not sure it would have even ever occurred to Sam to use it/them, because he'd never been able to before. So I'm not sure he gets any... credit for that.
Of course, I also tend to think he had the TK before the demon arrived - that the kids have the powers, and the demon blood in the mouth is a tracking/marking system so he can keep watch over them. Or, as someone else mentioned in one of the approximately thousand posts I've read since Thursday, so sorry I can't remember who it was to credit, perhaps the demon blood is an immunization, the first test. (Though I am still wondering which Winchester boy was immune in Croatoan, because wouldn't it make sense for Sam to be immune, and be surprising for Dean to be? Ah, ambiguity...)
So what am I missing, that makes people think Sam would even have considered using his power(s) during AHBL1, or that he'd have been able to?
I need another Sam icon, I think. One where he's smiling, maybe. Also, I need a Claire Bennet icon. Hmm...
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I am also having trouble writing, which on top of some real life crap, is making me needy and emo. Which I hate. So I'm annoyed at myself for succumbing. Meh.
So let's talk Supernatural, which is my current happy place. As a reminder, I am unspoiled for part two of the season finale, so if you spoil me for it, I will banninate your ass and shun you. *brandishes hammer of bannination*
Okay, I keep seeing people say that it's important that Sam didn't use his powers at all during the cage match and, um, when has Sam EVER been able to use his powers? The visions come, and he bears them. Once - once - as a result of a vision of Dean dying, he was able to bust out with some telekinesis, but in the actuality of Dean dying right in front of him, he was unable to replicate the event ("Make the gun float to you there, psychic boy" is one of my all time favorite lines from this show, btw).
Since that time, we've never seen Sam seriously attempt to control or understand his power(s). We've seen Dean joke about bending spoons and going to Vegas, and we've seen that Andy's power doesn't work on Sam, and we've seen Sam act as if it's something happening to him, rather than something he can do (which may not be far from the truth). (As an aside, we do not know if Meg was able to make it/them work when she was possessing him, but since he didn't appear to have any switches flipped, I'm guessing no.)
Now, the fact that he hasn't attempted to cultivate his power(s) may in fact be a good thing, if doing so allows the demon to take hold (though I am wary of assigning a moral value to a power in and of itself [aside from things like controlling demons, which can't ever turn out well, even if begun with good intentions, or killing people with a touch, which just SUCKS OUT LOUD for the person afflicted with it, and anyone who comes into contact with her before she covers up, but doesn't make you inherently evil. just really unlucky.]), but I'm not sure that's the case, necessarily.
Here's the other thing - while having visions of people's deaths might be useful to know who to protect and who to watch out for, the visions also leave Sam pretty freaking useless afterwards, and he didn't have Dean to watch out for him while he recovered, so why would he want to incapacitate himself like that, even if he were currently capable of having one on command?
All of the training John and Dean provided over the years served Sam in good stead, and he was clearly the top contender for Ava's position even without his power(s) manifesting, but I'm not sure it would have even ever occurred to Sam to use it/them, because he'd never been able to before. So I'm not sure he gets any... credit for that.
Of course, I also tend to think he had the TK before the demon arrived - that the kids have the powers, and the demon blood in the mouth is a tracking/marking system so he can keep watch over them. Or, as someone else mentioned in one of the approximately thousand posts I've read since Thursday, so sorry I can't remember who it was to credit, perhaps the demon blood is an immunization, the first test. (Though I am still wondering which Winchester boy was immune in Croatoan, because wouldn't it make sense for Sam to be immune, and be surprising for Dean to be? Ah, ambiguity...)
So what am I missing, that makes people think Sam would even have considered using his power(s) during AHBL1, or that he'd have been able to?
I need another Sam icon, I think. One where he's smiling, maybe. Also, I need a Claire Bennet icon. Hmm...
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