you didn't need the feather to fly, Dumbo
OH JESUS.
Fuck, did I feel stupid when Zach started talking. Really? It's like I never subscribed to the Jesus newsletter, never was told that the apocalypse was a good thing, never grew out of the church because despite what they said they were about, come to the bottom line, their views were always kind of misanthropic. Yay for rapture, fuck what happens to the schmucks not like us shining bright Jesus kids. (Please don't read that as a categorical condemnation of faith. My feelings are ambivalent when it comes to the big picture; all that is is my brush with seemingly respectable religious folks who were a touch heavily into Judeo-Christian eschatology.)
Or, you know, it's like I haven't worn through a couple of copies of Good Omens. Or any number of stories in that vein. Point is, the possibility that the angels were pushing for the apocalypse just as much as the other side entered my mind when Lucifer's rising was first brought up, and I dismissed it and forgot to reevaluate at any point. I thought it was significant that most angels didn't have personal contact with God, and we saw Heaven clearly has factions. But, no. I was so utterly duped into thinking the official agenda was earnestly to put a stop to the apocalypse. I WAS SO PLAYED. I AM SO GLAD.
Because holy fuck, though it started slow and even infuriating to me (gratuitous sexualized death and torture of women, just what I always wanted!) once it got to the part where it fucked with my heart, IT REALLY FUCKED WITH MY HEART. Zach's huge big exposition scene rocked. Everything about Dean and Castiel's interaction, Cas's unwillingness or inability to look at Dean, OH MY HEART. "It's armageddon, Cas, you need a bigger word than sorry." Prophet Chuck's HAND ON CASTIEL'S SHOULDER. ♥
So... Zack was saying that in Heaven's plan, Dean is Michael? Note to self, apocalyptic literature is such a mess that you don't want to go reading it just because you're now wondering if the Michael of the Apocalypse is always the same Michael as the one who originally fought Lucifer, or if it's like... a title, symbolic, something.
As with the ineffable plan, I was completely fooled by Ruby. I'm still thinking about that one, how I feel about the game she was playing. And was I reading her too resistantly all along thanks to the baggage the show has with failing at female characters? Would she have come across as more poisonous if I hadn't insisted on interpreting her actions in the best possible light? Uhh. I still like her. Force of habit.
Really, really importantly and shockingly: raise a hand if you thought the cliffhanger would involve the brothers still broken up? Me too. I want to shower Kripke & co. in awesome things for not making it so. I was wrong,
cosmic, they were not beyond saying sorry and hugging it out! ♥♥♥
THEY'RE TOGETHER. Fuck the apocalypse, they're together! And they have Castiel. Unless Kripke kills him off in the season premiere, in which case I am never touching this show again ever. BUT LET'S NOT BE PESSIMIST.
&SHOW;
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