If Ithuriel Actually Would Be Derren Brown, However, Introduce Away.
There are probably quite a few things to be said about this episode, but all I can really say about it is asdjkahjhgjdgh fandom! Fandom leaping onto the screen! I would have preferred a slightly more clear definition of 'slash', as someone unfamiliar with the term could easily go away thinking it specifically means incest, and I know that some of you were made very uncomfortable by the references, but in all I was rather delighted; I do love being made fun of, and it didn't seem mean-spirited. Although that must have been really confusing for people who are not in fandom. Part of an episode written in our language! What madness is this?
Man, I can't just make a one-paragraph entry! What else can I say? I don't want to talk about unrelated topics outside the cut, because then people who haven't seen the Supernatural episode may try to comment and catch sight of the bit beneath the cut and be spoiled.
I KNOW: I SHALL TALK ABOUT ANGELIC DERREN BROWN. (I am attempting to write the fic about the adventures of Derren and Castiel. I just don't know what to do with it.) Sorry, people with no interest in Derren. Feel free to skip the rest of this entry.
I think that Derren is a dissident angel, but not one who wants to bring about the Apocalypse; just one who does not believe in God and does not carry out his orders if he doesn't feel like it. He doesn't dislike humanity; in fact, he absolutely loves it and spends far more time than his superiors realise on Earth. He has no plans to fall, which appears to be a conscious decision in the world of Supernatural; he likes his grace just where it is, thank you very much. Losing his angelic powers would make playing with humans much less fun. Disobedience, however, is punishable by death amongst angels, so if Derren isn't going to fall he has to keep his atheism and frequent excursions to inflict angelic weirdness upon unsuspecting humans very quiet. Possibly he can manipulate other angels into forgetting or deciding to leave him alone if he lets something slip.
Also, Derren probably has sex whilst he is in human form, which I am sure angels frown upon. What I am trying to work out is how he would treat the possessing-a-human-body aspect of it, because obviously having sex using a body one has possessed raises many uncomfortable moral questions. I don't think he would ignore the host's situation entirely, but I'm not sure he would go the possessing-a-corpse route. Perhaps he would in some way blank out the host's consciousness whilst doing things with which the host would probably be uncomfortable, which is still morally questionable but not entirely reprehensible. MUCH LIKE MOST OF DERREN BROWN'S ACTUAL WORK.
Derren-as-Ithuriel is definitely going onto my list of Characters Who Totally Exist In The Supernatural Universe, Good Luck Convincing My Mind Otherwise. Delaware Singer is the only other character on that list at the moment, but I am sure it will grow. (Now I just have to hope that Supernatural does not actually introduce an Ithuriel, because if they do and he is not Derren Brown I shall cry.)