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If I was going to accuse the show of jumping the shark, I would have done it back around the time Castiel gripped Dean tight and raised him from perdition. I don't dislike Castiel. I'm just saying.
I liked this episode, mostly. This is because I like Winchester Family Tragedy and I remain skeptical of Epic Wars Between Heaven and Hell. Interesting point though: Sam bringing up calling in a favor w/Castiel to bring Adam back. Reminiscent of deals with demons, no?
Also interesting: characters of the week are avatars for Sam and Dean. Usually the innocent people they're saving fill that role. Here, the ghouls were avatars for Sam and Dean.* Which . . . is just interesting because the ghouls were also used to emphasize the ITS ALL ABOUT FAMILY point. And yes. It is. And both Sam and Dean are fucked up (with Sam getting gradually crazier on top of that) and they will (and are) doing doing anything for each other. I liked Dean wanting to protect Adam and Sam being the cynical one and then Sam ending up being right because Adam arguably died in part because he didn't know what was out there in the dark or how to protect himself. Which means John was right too. It's never over? Is that the take-away message here?
I . . . still think this show is a tragedy, you guys.
In conclusion, I have not been reading SPN fic at all recently (because I have been feeling VERY STRANGE about the fandom in general) but I would read so much angsty gen fic about Sam and Dean's inner pain right now.
* Granted this is not the first time since in "Metamorphoses" the Rugaru was an avatar for Sam.
Today I went to the IP/Gender: Female Fan Culture and Intellectual Property conference (or what I could make of it after dealing with mechanic - I should have my car back tomorrow *fingers crossed*) and met . . . a lot of people, actually. It was fun. When quality write-ups appear on the internet I will link to them. \o/
Afterwards, in a LONG fannish conversation with fiercynn, zephryprince and another girl whose LJ name I forgot because I didn't write it down so hopefully she finds me, I had something of a fannish epiphany about myself. After my brief moment of interest in Veronica Mars, I never really had an all consuming fandom until bandom. I TRIED for two years to make BSG, SPN or Dr. Who be my fandom, and I loved all of three of those shows and paid attention to their fandoms, and I tried but those fandoms never really felt like home to me. This is because I am really a shipper to the core and I - always - enter fandoms through a ship. I eventually get something else out of it, obviously, and that ship may not even be the one I stay with (Spuffy, what?) but that's always how it starts. The shows I mentioned above? I don't ship in them. (Jack/everyone doesn't count. And while there are ships I *like* in BSG, there were none that really gave me the fic impulse beyond a *very* brief flirtation with Kara/Lee). Oh, Supernatural, that's why we were just never really meant to be.
I feel like this is a very obvious observation and that I should have known this about myself before today.
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I had to cross post manually because DW crossposting is failing me. >:(
I liked this episode, mostly. This is because I like Winchester Family Tragedy and I remain skeptical of Epic Wars Between Heaven and Hell. Interesting point though: Sam bringing up calling in a favor w/Castiel to bring Adam back. Reminiscent of deals with demons, no?
Also interesting: characters of the week are avatars for Sam and Dean. Usually the innocent people they're saving fill that role. Here, the ghouls were avatars for Sam and Dean.* Which . . . is just interesting because the ghouls were also used to emphasize the ITS ALL ABOUT FAMILY point. And yes. It is. And both Sam and Dean are fucked up (with Sam getting gradually crazier on top of that) and they will (and are) doing doing anything for each other. I liked Dean wanting to protect Adam and Sam being the cynical one and then Sam ending up being right because Adam arguably died in part because he didn't know what was out there in the dark or how to protect himself. Which means John was right too. It's never over? Is that the take-away message here?
I . . . still think this show is a tragedy, you guys.
In conclusion, I have not been reading SPN fic at all recently (because I have been feeling VERY STRANGE about the fandom in general) but I would read so much angsty gen fic about Sam and Dean's inner pain right now.
* Granted this is not the first time since in "Metamorphoses" the Rugaru was an avatar for Sam.
Today I went to the IP/Gender: Female Fan Culture and Intellectual Property conference (or what I could make of it after dealing with mechanic - I should have my car back tomorrow *fingers crossed*) and met . . . a lot of people, actually. It was fun. When quality write-ups appear on the internet I will link to them. \o/
Afterwards, in a LONG fannish conversation with fiercynn, zephryprince and another girl whose LJ name I forgot because I didn't write it down so hopefully she finds me, I had something of a fannish epiphany about myself. After my brief moment of interest in Veronica Mars, I never really had an all consuming fandom until bandom. I TRIED for two years to make BSG, SPN or Dr. Who be my fandom, and I loved all of three of those shows and paid attention to their fandoms, and I tried but those fandoms never really felt like home to me. This is because I am really a shipper to the core and I - always - enter fandoms through a ship. I eventually get something else out of it, obviously, and that ship may not even be the one I stay with (Spuffy, what?) but that's always how it starts. The shows I mentioned above? I don't ship in them. (Jack/everyone doesn't count. And while there are ships I *like* in BSG, there were none that really gave me the fic impulse beyond a *very* brief flirtation with Kara/Lee). Oh, Supernatural, that's why we were just never really meant to be.
I feel like this is a very obvious observation and that I should have known this about myself before today.
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I had to cross post manually because DW crossposting is failing me. >:(