HAPPY MONDAY and random stuff (White Collar and Hawaii 5-o among the rest)
Hi flist
how are you doing?
Today it's sunny and warmer and I am gonna enjoy it, after two weeks of rain, rain, rain.
-Our weekend was good. Spent Saturday out of town, at friends new place. We had fun with good friends, kids, dogs and good food and tasty wine. It rained all day, but we didn't care. Good company can adjust everything.
On Sunday we stayed at home resting, I catched up with White Collar (I'm now at s02e1) and watched Hawaii 5-o first episode.
The show is fun and while Alex O'Loughlin is not exactly my kind of guy, I have to say he was way hotter than in Moonlight.
I think I will watch it.
-White Collar is great, I like everything in that show. The actors, the plot, the pacing, the lines. Everything.
It's not that kind of story and vibe that get me hooked to a show as SPN or TVD have, but it's definetly worth watching.
Expect lots of squee over it :)
-I read some spoilers about TVD and I liked them a lot. It's good to feel like this.
-SPN...ehem..the more I think about this second half of the season, the more I don't like it. they are all over the place...more under the cut.
As much as I didn't like the soulless storyline, because for me it didn't work, at least the first eleven episodes had a storyline.
Now I feel that this secon half of the season is completely disconnected.
Few things I'd like to point out:
- the big revelation of the lastest episode is that Eve wants the Winchesters dead and that she is running for humanity? Seriously? What's new? We had the whole HELL gunning for it.
- what's the point in killing interesting characters? Especially if they give them some background as the did with Rufus?
- what a great waste of awesome actors as Pileggi and Shepard (oh yeah I know the spoilers here).
-why killing Gwen? why don't give her a chance? What's the point with the Campbells?
-there is no tension, no personal growth, no rocking mytharc.
-Castiel is the faded stand in of who he used to be.
-Demons are basically disappeared and Heaven's war is all off screen.
-Lisa and Ben...I am not sure it was a closure but for now, bye bye.
I am sure there is more, I just can't recall the whole list I had in mind in the last few days.
Character wise, I still think they are doing asome good things with Dean.
I didn't think the speech he gave in the last scene of 6.16 was a regression and since my friend metallidean_grl said it perfectly, I'm going to quote her:
As to your thoughts about Dean's last words here, Dean has always been the one in the Winchester family that is more able to let go and forgive and forget. Sam and John were the more obsessive ones that let that anger/fear boil over into a path that led to very dangerous and catastrophic ends. Dean has been the one that as you said, can look more at the big picture and he is truly doing that here. What Dean is doing here, forgiving Sam and Bobby of everything from the past, which for Sam includes anything while Sam was without his soul, but I also believe it includes everything before that as well, that happened during his whole blood addiction in S4, is a great example for us all in the character of love and forgiveness. And I think he is hoping that Sam and Bobby will be able to do the reverse. Now someone else commented that she thought this was a digression for Dean. I don't believe or feel that. Dean at the beginning of S5 had a hard time forgiving and forgetting what Sam did. It took him the whole season to forgive Sam of what he did. Now, realizing all that they know and have done, we all have done things we need to be forgiven for, and Dean is the first one to step up to the plate and forgive. Now, you can never forget the hurts that others put upon you, but it takes great character for someone to carte blanche want to wipe the slate clean and start fresh. And that is, indeed, a wonderful show of growth for Dean. As he forgives, but not forgets, hopefully he will be able to use the lessons learned from these experiences as he, Sam and Bobby move forward.
I totally agree, Dean was not saying that everything was fine, he was not forgetting, he was not pretending that those things never happened...he was just moving forward, because there's no way to change them, there's now way to wash the hurt away. It doesn't matter how many words you can spend on your actions to apologize, it's useless to cry over spilled blood.
Having Sam apoligizing, or focusing on what he did to Dean would be good for Sam's personal growth, would help him to be a better person...wouldn't be anything new and so useful for Dean, because he already knows that Sam is sorry and that he loves him.
He knows his brother, he knows what Sam can do and what he is not able to do, to give. He doesn't expect what he can't get.
Ok enough rambling...
how are you doing?
Today it's sunny and warmer and I am gonna enjoy it, after two weeks of rain, rain, rain.
-Our weekend was good. Spent Saturday out of town, at friends new place. We had fun with good friends, kids, dogs and good food and tasty wine. It rained all day, but we didn't care. Good company can adjust everything.
On Sunday we stayed at home resting, I catched up with White Collar (I'm now at s02e1) and watched Hawaii 5-o first episode.
The show is fun and while Alex O'Loughlin is not exactly my kind of guy, I have to say he was way hotter than in Moonlight.
I think I will watch it.
-White Collar is great, I like everything in that show. The actors, the plot, the pacing, the lines. Everything.
It's not that kind of story and vibe that get me hooked to a show as SPN or TVD have, but it's definetly worth watching.
Expect lots of squee over it :)
-I read some spoilers about TVD and I liked them a lot. It's good to feel like this.
-SPN...ehem..the more I think about this second half of the season, the more I don't like it. they are all over the place...more under the cut.
As much as I didn't like the soulless storyline, because for me it didn't work, at least the first eleven episodes had a storyline.
Now I feel that this secon half of the season is completely disconnected.
Few things I'd like to point out:
- the big revelation of the lastest episode is that Eve wants the Winchesters dead and that she is running for humanity? Seriously? What's new? We had the whole HELL gunning for it.
- what's the point in killing interesting characters? Especially if they give them some background as the did with Rufus?
- what a great waste of awesome actors as Pileggi and Shepard (oh yeah I know the spoilers here).
-why killing Gwen? why don't give her a chance? What's the point with the Campbells?
-there is no tension, no personal growth, no rocking mytharc.
-Castiel is the faded stand in of who he used to be.
-Demons are basically disappeared and Heaven's war is all off screen.
-Lisa and Ben...I am not sure it was a closure but for now, bye bye.
I am sure there is more, I just can't recall the whole list I had in mind in the last few days.
Character wise, I still think they are doing asome good things with Dean.
I didn't think the speech he gave in the last scene of 6.16 was a regression and since my friend metallidean_grl said it perfectly, I'm going to quote her:
As to your thoughts about Dean's last words here, Dean has always been the one in the Winchester family that is more able to let go and forgive and forget. Sam and John were the more obsessive ones that let that anger/fear boil over into a path that led to very dangerous and catastrophic ends. Dean has been the one that as you said, can look more at the big picture and he is truly doing that here. What Dean is doing here, forgiving Sam and Bobby of everything from the past, which for Sam includes anything while Sam was without his soul, but I also believe it includes everything before that as well, that happened during his whole blood addiction in S4, is a great example for us all in the character of love and forgiveness. And I think he is hoping that Sam and Bobby will be able to do the reverse. Now someone else commented that she thought this was a digression for Dean. I don't believe or feel that. Dean at the beginning of S5 had a hard time forgiving and forgetting what Sam did. It took him the whole season to forgive Sam of what he did. Now, realizing all that they know and have done, we all have done things we need to be forgiven for, and Dean is the first one to step up to the plate and forgive. Now, you can never forget the hurts that others put upon you, but it takes great character for someone to carte blanche want to wipe the slate clean and start fresh. And that is, indeed, a wonderful show of growth for Dean. As he forgives, but not forgets, hopefully he will be able to use the lessons learned from these experiences as he, Sam and Bobby move forward.
I totally agree, Dean was not saying that everything was fine, he was not forgetting, he was not pretending that those things never happened...he was just moving forward, because there's no way to change them, there's now way to wash the hurt away. It doesn't matter how many words you can spend on your actions to apologize, it's useless to cry over spilled blood.
Having Sam apoligizing, or focusing on what he did to Dean would be good for Sam's personal growth, would help him to be a better person...wouldn't be anything new and so useful for Dean, because he already knows that Sam is sorry and that he loves him.
He knows his brother, he knows what Sam can do and what he is not able to do, to give. He doesn't expect what he can't get.
Ok enough rambling...