lots of fannishness in a small space
so rich-the-coworker is catching up on cm, and he tells me today "i don't think i like new!elle". and i say "!!! that's prentiss! prentiss is awesome!" and then it comes out that he's never actually seen any of the episodes she's in, and he's getting this vague dislike from the internet. hmph. i have now supplied him with episodes thru 4x12, so he has a lot of opportunities to see how fabulous prentiss really is. 'cause i'm helpful like that. :D
this is the thing i want to remember about last night's spn:
that after four and a half fucking seasons dean finally had some positive emotional growth towards his brother. i think he's always been kind of emotionally stunted and stuck at the point at which sam abandoned him and went off to stanford, and finally, FINALLY, it took you fucking long enough, show, you let him grow the fuck up and see his brother as an adult and someone he can love and trust and work shoulder-to-shoulder with. they're no longer at cross-purposes because dean finally let go of (at least some of) his issues to realize that maybe he should have some faith in his baby brother, because his baby brother has faith in him, and as it turns out sam's faith was not actually misplaced.
i bitch about the biblical apocalypse mytharc a lot but one of the things i've really disliked about the past almost-two seasons is that dean's relationship to sam hasn't changed at all. sam grew up and matured past the emoboy of s1 - boy howdy, did he ever - and i'd even argue he's changed from the path-to-hell-is-paved-with-good-intentions-and-demon-blood secretive!sam of s4. dean? not so much. yes, he's had some character growth, i won't dispute that, but a lot of it is, like, john-related and hunting-related and there's been almost no change in how he relates to his brother, except to distrust him more.
and finally the show gave us the boys as equal partners on equal footing, and dean telling sam "your faith in me kept me from following THE DUMBEST PLAN THAT EVER WAS, and because you're my baby brother and you love me, and i'm your big brother and i love you, i'm going to repay your trust with my own".
oh, and sam got to be pretty awesome. :D i've liked him more than dean this season, and as someone who's been a deangirl from the get-go, that kinda hurt. which is not to slam any samgirls in the audience! 'cause i like sam. he got to fuck up and he got to grow up, and i hate his hair but i love him. dean just got to be tired and angsty and emotionally stagnant, and that's boring.
(and adam, i apologize in advance to anyone who thinks he's great, but i'm not fond of that particular storyline, him being some random son of john's and suddenly reappearing and being "family", and i'm not interested in a final showdown that includes michael wearing adam's body. call me a winchester family purist, whatever, "family" is sam and dean. period. and anyone who tries to convince the boys - or us - otherwise is lying.)
(and oh my god, how many times have they been lied to, and they STILL occasionally listen to what comes from an angel's mouth. YOU TRUST NO ONE, OK? JUST EACH OTHER AND POSSIBLY BOBBY. and castiel, i guess.)
ok, maybe that was a couple of things. it was longer than my reaction posts for the past few episodes combined. heh. clearly i talk more about stuff i actually like.
obama orders hospitals to allow visits by partners of gay and lesbian patients - and also, hospitals will be required to respect patients' wishes as to who's responsible for their medical decisions. so your partner of fifteen years can come see you in the hospital and if necessary be your health care proxy, rather than the parents who haven't talked to you in the twenty years since you came out.
an interview with andrew zimmern - his five-year-old son gave him a new appreciation for cap'n crunch. and he'd marry anthony bourdain in a heartbeat. (me too, andrew. me too.) and he hates walnuts. this is a man who has cheerfully eaten cow butt sandwiches and more forms of animal protein than i even thought existed, and he won't eat a walnut. i love him so much.
this is the thing i want to remember about last night's spn:
that after four and a half fucking seasons dean finally had some positive emotional growth towards his brother. i think he's always been kind of emotionally stunted and stuck at the point at which sam abandoned him and went off to stanford, and finally, FINALLY, it took you fucking long enough, show, you let him grow the fuck up and see his brother as an adult and someone he can love and trust and work shoulder-to-shoulder with. they're no longer at cross-purposes because dean finally let go of (at least some of) his issues to realize that maybe he should have some faith in his baby brother, because his baby brother has faith in him, and as it turns out sam's faith was not actually misplaced.
i bitch about the biblical apocalypse mytharc a lot but one of the things i've really disliked about the past almost-two seasons is that dean's relationship to sam hasn't changed at all. sam grew up and matured past the emoboy of s1 - boy howdy, did he ever - and i'd even argue he's changed from the path-to-hell-is-paved-with-good-intentions-and-demon-blood secretive!sam of s4. dean? not so much. yes, he's had some character growth, i won't dispute that, but a lot of it is, like, john-related and hunting-related and there's been almost no change in how he relates to his brother, except to distrust him more.
and finally the show gave us the boys as equal partners on equal footing, and dean telling sam "your faith in me kept me from following THE DUMBEST PLAN THAT EVER WAS, and because you're my baby brother and you love me, and i'm your big brother and i love you, i'm going to repay your trust with my own".
oh, and sam got to be pretty awesome. :D i've liked him more than dean this season, and as someone who's been a deangirl from the get-go, that kinda hurt. which is not to slam any samgirls in the audience! 'cause i like sam. he got to fuck up and he got to grow up, and i hate his hair but i love him. dean just got to be tired and angsty and emotionally stagnant, and that's boring.
(and adam, i apologize in advance to anyone who thinks he's great, but i'm not fond of that particular storyline, him being some random son of john's and suddenly reappearing and being "family", and i'm not interested in a final showdown that includes michael wearing adam's body. call me a winchester family purist, whatever, "family" is sam and dean. period. and anyone who tries to convince the boys - or us - otherwise is lying.)
(and oh my god, how many times have they been lied to, and they STILL occasionally listen to what comes from an angel's mouth. YOU TRUST NO ONE, OK? JUST EACH OTHER AND POSSIBLY BOBBY. and castiel, i guess.)
ok, maybe that was a couple of things. it was longer than my reaction posts for the past few episodes combined. heh. clearly i talk more about stuff i actually like.
obama orders hospitals to allow visits by partners of gay and lesbian patients - and also, hospitals will be required to respect patients' wishes as to who's responsible for their medical decisions. so your partner of fifteen years can come see you in the hospital and if necessary be your health care proxy, rather than the parents who haven't talked to you in the twenty years since you came out.
an interview with andrew zimmern - his five-year-old son gave him a new appreciation for cap'n crunch. and he'd marry anthony bourdain in a heartbeat. (me too, andrew. me too.) and he hates walnuts. this is a man who has cheerfully eaten cow butt sandwiches and more forms of animal protein than i even thought existed, and he won't eat a walnut. i love him so much.