Eat Your Food And Break Your Heart.
Back in 2011, I made an entry on The Mentalist in which I said the following about Lisbon's niece, Annie:
She's so sneaky and manipulative and mischievous and confident; she has the sort of cocky charm that you often see in male characters but rarely in female. I think she should leap from The Mentalist over to Supernatural and become a hunter; she'd love it.
How did nobody tell me that there is a Supernatural episode ('Adventures in Babysitting') in which Annie's actress plays a fourteen-year-old hunter? (Not that I am actually complaining about not having been told, because it was such a great surprise.) Thank you, reality; this was not a dream I expected to have fulfilled!
(She reminded me at times of Ellie from The Last of Us, which is no bad thing. Has anyone written fanfiction about Ellie as a hunter? Perhaps someone should. A rare instance in which a hunter AU would be slightly less depressing than canon.)
I love, love, love the way Sam is falling apart at the beginning of the seventh season. Yes. When we first started learning things about the Hell of Supernatural, I was disappointed by the fact that there seemed to be so much emphasis on physical torment, when psychological torment is much more interesting. Episodes like 'Hello, Cruel World' (7.02) have all the psychological torment I've ever wanted.
Seriously, I adored 'Hello, Cruel World'. I didn't particularly care about the Leviathany bits, but both of the boys were going to pieces, which makes it the absolute best sort of episode.
Regarding 'Defending Your Life': it was so good to see Jo again! I was worried at first, given the circumstances under which she appeared, that she'd be a cruel illusion, or that she'd be like Henriksen and Meg in 'Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester' - lashing out in pain, not really themselves - but no; she was very lucid and very much our Jo. And as stubborn as ever! I loved that she wasn't going to put up with any leading questions from Osiris.
She's quite like Sam in some respects. A sort of mirror image of him. They're both stubborn and rebellious, but Sam rebelled by running away from hunting; Jo rebelled by running towards it.
Supernatural kills off practically all of its characters, but I don't feel it ever really forgets about them, which is nice. We see Ash in Heaven; we see Rufus in Bobby's memories; we meet Jo and Henriksen as ghosts; a medium delivers a message from Ellen (and of course there's that bizarre Titanic universe). Jess, who died in the first episode, could have been forgotten about entirely after fulfilling her narrative role as a catalyst for Sam to start hunting again, but Sam still talks about her even now. These characters aren't just treated as narrative devices, to be abandoned as soon as their stories end; they're remembered as friends who have been lost. It makes them feel much more real.
I got so upset at the end of 'Death's Door'. I haven't yet reached the dizzying levels of emotional investment in Supernatural that I had back in 2009, but - but it's Bobby.
Bobby, you are the best. I've known for a long time that this day was sure to come (I'm actually astonished he survived for so long), but it still hurts.
(I watched it a couple of hours ago, as of typing this, and I keep intermittently thinking of it and getting teary. Bobby saying that he adopted two boys. Oh.
Maybe I'm a little more emotionally invested than I thought.)
I'm really enjoying the seventh season so far! I didn't think I'd ever really get back into Supernatural; I'm very glad I was wrong.
She's so sneaky and manipulative and mischievous and confident; she has the sort of cocky charm that you often see in male characters but rarely in female. I think she should leap from The Mentalist over to Supernatural and become a hunter; she'd love it.
How did nobody tell me that there is a Supernatural episode ('Adventures in Babysitting') in which Annie's actress plays a fourteen-year-old hunter? (Not that I am actually complaining about not having been told, because it was such a great surprise.) Thank you, reality; this was not a dream I expected to have fulfilled!
(She reminded me at times of Ellie from The Last of Us, which is no bad thing. Has anyone written fanfiction about Ellie as a hunter? Perhaps someone should. A rare instance in which a hunter AU would be slightly less depressing than canon.)
I love, love, love the way Sam is falling apart at the beginning of the seventh season. Yes. When we first started learning things about the Hell of Supernatural, I was disappointed by the fact that there seemed to be so much emphasis on physical torment, when psychological torment is much more interesting. Episodes like 'Hello, Cruel World' (7.02) have all the psychological torment I've ever wanted.
Seriously, I adored 'Hello, Cruel World'. I didn't particularly care about the Leviathany bits, but both of the boys were going to pieces, which makes it the absolute best sort of episode.
Regarding 'Defending Your Life': it was so good to see Jo again! I was worried at first, given the circumstances under which she appeared, that she'd be a cruel illusion, or that she'd be like Henriksen and Meg in 'Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester' - lashing out in pain, not really themselves - but no; she was very lucid and very much our Jo. And as stubborn as ever! I loved that she wasn't going to put up with any leading questions from Osiris.
She's quite like Sam in some respects. A sort of mirror image of him. They're both stubborn and rebellious, but Sam rebelled by running away from hunting; Jo rebelled by running towards it.
Supernatural kills off practically all of its characters, but I don't feel it ever really forgets about them, which is nice. We see Ash in Heaven; we see Rufus in Bobby's memories; we meet Jo and Henriksen as ghosts; a medium delivers a message from Ellen (and of course there's that bizarre Titanic universe). Jess, who died in the first episode, could have been forgotten about entirely after fulfilling her narrative role as a catalyst for Sam to start hunting again, but Sam still talks about her even now. These characters aren't just treated as narrative devices, to be abandoned as soon as their stories end; they're remembered as friends who have been lost. It makes them feel much more real.
I got so upset at the end of 'Death's Door'. I haven't yet reached the dizzying levels of emotional investment in Supernatural that I had back in 2009, but - but it's Bobby.
Bobby, you are the best. I've known for a long time that this day was sure to come (I'm actually astonished he survived for so long), but it still hurts.
(I watched it a couple of hours ago, as of typing this, and I keep intermittently thinking of it and getting teary. Bobby saying that he adopted two boys. Oh.
Maybe I'm a little more emotionally invested than I thought.)
I'm really enjoying the seventh season so far! I didn't think I'd ever really get back into Supernatural; I'm very glad I was wrong.