Though I'm tempted to say "Drvvvvvvv" instead! Hope you're having a wonderful day, with appropriate caking and universal kindness and nothing remotely like suspicious breakins or the like
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"let's talk about the elephant in the room. not you." hee. i really liked the brief elephant appearance of the elephant god. and props to the ptb for finally demonstrating an awareness that there are other powerful gods and other major belief systems out there besides the christian one, altho i was annoyed they had to make them all people-eaters. seriously, guys? cannibals? it was like code for "these are monsters and must be put down" which is lazy writing and a bit offensive, and kind of demotes them from "gods!" to just "eh, demons
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They finally acknowledge other belief systems (aside from their demons and baddies, which they've completely abandoned in the last 2 seasons), but then they do it badly. Argh! Just a little more effort, and that would have been a universal win. :(
I think Gabriel would have had to pretend to be Loki since the beginning of time-- and maybe he has. The real mistake, I think, was making the Trickster turn out to be an archangel (ouch), and then additionally retconning him to be Loki. Stem the fail-bleed, please! Don't deepen the wound!
I loved Sam's comment, because Dean rarely listens to him and this is a clear-cut example of when he should have. :D
>>The real mistake, I think, was making the Trickster turn out to be an archangel<<
i was so, so annoyed when they did that. a lot of people seem upset that gabriel's dead now because they'll miss him, and all i can think is "the ptb should've let him be the trickster and introduced someone else as the archangel" and i can't bring myself to be too bothered. i liked him as the trickster. and i might've liked him as gabriel better if the retcon hadn't come across as the ptb trying to shoehorn EVERYTHING from previous seasons into the biblical apocalypse mytharc and make it all fit their celestial-brother-issues storyline.
dear dean,
LISTEN TO YOUR BROTHER OCCASIONALLY, OK?
younger siblings everywhere went "yeah, i know how that goes...."
I feel your pain about the trees. I used to have three poplars in front of my living room and bedroom windows. Said windows face a high school playground, and a couple of years ago, the high school's peeps started rebuilding and adding buildings. Here went the poplars :-( I now have a view on a always-under-construction playground and I had to kiss good bye the nice freshness the trees provided in the summer. Two years later, I'm still ranting about it at the first occasion I have - as you can see ^_^
Trees, especially the big ones, can provide beauty, hide the ugly, and give lovely shade/scent/atmosphere.
There's an eyesore house in our neighborhood, where I finally decided that the owner was likely manic. She had every single possible variety of daylily planted and labeled, while the rest of the garden was overgrown and full of weeds. What a mess!
The people across the street from her planted a grove of redwoods (these are evergreen connifers) that both screened out the view of her yard, gave the illusion of personal privacy, and helped block out the scorching Western sun in the summertime.
The new owners cut the trees down and relandscaped this past year, and I could not believe they'd done that. Why would you expose that view, after someone conveniently took care of it for you? o_O
Fringe! Oh gosh, as soon as Peter woke up, I could tell he knew, and I was so upset that Walter didn't get to tell him in his own way. And the look on Walter's face when Peter said, "I am not your son!"? *wibbles* John Noble is phenomenal.
This season has just been incredible, from a dramatic standpoint. the woo-woo "science" so strains credibility that I just let it roll over me, but the underlying family story... *wibble*
Oh, Walter, I feel your pain, and yet I understand Peter's too. *cries*
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I think Gabriel would have had to pretend to be Loki since the beginning of time-- and maybe he has. The real mistake, I think, was making the Trickster turn out to be an archangel (ouch), and then additionally retconning him to be Loki. Stem the fail-bleed, please! Don't deepen the wound!
I loved Sam's comment, because Dean rarely listens to him and this is a clear-cut example of when he should have. :D
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i was so, so annoyed when they did that. a lot of people seem upset that gabriel's dead now because they'll miss him, and all i can think is "the ptb should've let him be the trickster and introduced someone else as the archangel" and i can't bring myself to be too bothered. i liked him as the trickster. and i might've liked him as gabriel better if the retcon hadn't come across as the ptb trying to shoehorn EVERYTHING from previous seasons into the biblical apocalypse mytharc and make it all fit their celestial-brother-issues storyline.
dear dean,
LISTEN TO YOUR BROTHER OCCASIONALLY, OK?
younger siblings everywhere went "yeah, i know how that goes...."
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Two years later, I'm still ranting about it at the first occasion I have - as you can see ^_^
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Trees, especially the big ones, can provide beauty, hide the ugly, and give lovely shade/scent/atmosphere.
There's an eyesore house in our neighborhood, where I finally decided that the owner was likely manic. She had every single possible variety of daylily planted and labeled, while the rest of the garden was overgrown and full of weeds. What a mess!
The people across the street from her planted a grove of redwoods (these are evergreen connifers) that both screened out the view of her yard, gave the illusion of personal privacy, and helped block out the scorching Western sun in the summertime.
The new owners cut the trees down and relandscaped this past year, and I could not believe they'd done that. Why would you expose that view, after someone conveniently took care of it for you? o_O
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Oh, Walter, I feel your pain, and yet I understand Peter's too. *cries*
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