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[laurificus]

It is snow day once again! Well, actually, before the snow, work was cancelled due to lack of heating, but the outcome is the same. Also, now there is all the snow in the world outside my door. A tree has fallen down in my garden. I really do think we might have entered end times. But what glorious, wintery end times they are

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[teand]

I've been dipping in and out of Merlin this season for the moments. A little banter between Arthur and Merlin, a little Tony Head just because, knights being all caped and armoured and swishy -- in a trailing vast swaths of fabric sort of way -- but I just can't maintain the love I had in season one.

And as always, your view of SPN gives me both joy and hope!

[laurificus]

Yeah, it started out with such promise, but somewhere in S2, it just got stuck in a place of blah and repetition. Maybe I will ditch it, and just let fandom fill in what it could have been.

And I am glad it makes you hopeful! I was gonna tell you today that I didn't think 6.10 was bad at all, but I don't know if you're avoiding it through fear of Sam and Dean stuff, or because of the sexist/misogyny stuff. If it's the latter, I can't say it wasn't there. I just, um, have given up pretending I don't have a huge double standard where SPN is concerned.

Dude, I have no idea why that comment posted with a weird subject line. I only know I didn't do it. *is bemused*

[dotfic]

Dean missing Sam and going around knocking heads together and refusing to give up no matter what on getting his Sam back makes me feel all goopy inside. <3 and I'm right with you feeling that the weird and offness is making the relationship they do really have normally loom larger and it's this very pointed absence that just magnifies its importance. I'm still unhappy they're doing this kind of story but also sort of appreciate how they're doing it and I miss Sam so much it hurts, which I think was the intended effect.

But sooner Sam's soul is back the better. Soulless Sam scares me and not all in fun ways. D:

[laurificus]

I know, right? I don't think it would have been the story I'd have picked, but there is something very lovely about Dean so determined to have him back. And while it isn't the happiness I want for them, I just can't feel the angst that much, either. I don't know if this is me being really stupid and far too optimistic, but after S4, this feels positively sweet. They aren't working against each other! They're being totally honest with each other! And Sam not being right, as far as we know, isn't any kind of choice Sam is making. As stories to tell go, I think it could have been a lot worse. And I really do like the scaled back feel of it--there's enough there about angels and demons to make it interesting, but it's personal in a way that S1 and S2 were, and that S4 and S5 couldn't quite pull off

[dotfic]

Haha, I know, I keep saying, well at least it's not...and they're not going to...and them I'M SCARED THEY WILL.

I love the scaled down feel, how this season has pulled back to having smaller battles and there's much more time in domestic spaces or awesome old decrepit buildings and it's so character-focused. These earth-shattering moments are happening and it's just two people and, like, a tiny room. Which was always Supernatural's MO but it's good to see it return more to those roots.

Sam and Dean are being honest and it's true, since it's not all Sam, it's less hurty.

IDEK. I change my mind every other week about how happy I am with the season. This week I don't feel soul-crushing despair. \o/

[laurificus]

But you saw the spoilers from yesterday, yeah? Well, I mean, the one good thing. I don't know what else was in the article, and that is the way I'm planning to keep it, but I was told all I needed to hear to feel the very opposite of soul-crushing despair. OMG BOYS! ♥ ♥