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remindmeofthe) wrote2009-11-06 01:21 am
remindmeofthe) wrote2009-11-06 01:21 am
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Supernatural!
HI. JOHN WINCHESTER IS GOD'S VESSEL. I'M GONNA KEEP SAYING IT UNTIL IT GETS LESS FUCKING OBVIOUS.
Seriously. I know JDM doesn't really fit the show's budget these days (which admittedly is a fact that I am more or less making up, but you just gotta think that he's commanding a little more than the CW is gonna wanna spend these days), but they keep building John up and up and up and now they've got Gabriel drawing (obvious) parallels that put in him the role of God?
Wonder if maybe Kripke's socking away a little something extra on the side?
I'm gonna keep saying it until I am proven spectacularly wrong. Except I'm starting to wonder if I really will be.
NOTE PLEASE: If this somehow becomes true and spoilers leak out, I DO NOT WANT CONFIRMATION OF ANY KIND. Casting spoilers can vary in importance, but that would be a REALLY FUCKING BIG ONE and I would be pretty pissed off to hear about it in advance. Unless they do a press release or some dumbass thing like that. Then I'll be pissed, but not at any one person.
ANYWAY. In other news of me being prescient, after having a couple different episodes where the Trickster was so obvious a candidate for baddie that even the boys finally noticed, it was nice to have him finally show up. And while I remain unsure of whether the Trickster-as-angel twist was planned from the beginning, upon reflection for like forty-five, fifty seconds, I decided it was a really sweet bit of storytelling. It always bugged me, just a tiny bit, that the Trickster was conveniently impervious to what was supposed to kill it; it felt so much like a clumsily obvious way to keep him around for future comedy filler episodes. The discovery that he is not, in fact, the Trickster explains that away neatly, in a way that doesn't annoy me, and serves as a way to further the impression that Heaven is falling apart at the seams. It's starting to look an awful lot like Anna and Castiel's rebellions aren't as anomalous as they've seemed.
Also, creative use of such a well-known figure in Christian mythology. SPN has quite a job for itself in making all these ancient figures and stories feel fresh and different, and for all my cracks about Good Omens, I think they've done pretty well with it so far.
Plus, the funny shit was funny. I'm actually glad I've watched some of Grey's Anatomy so I could better get the jokes. And the shout-out to JDM in the form of the doctor hallucinating that ghost was excellent.
This was a really good episode, and after the last one that was so boring that I forgot, in the midst of awesome SJA and Evita and The Thick of It, that I'd even watched it, I am very glad of that.
And SPEAKING of SJA, I do love two weeks in a row dealing with stories about very different Tricksters on very different shows. And tonight's revelation is an interesting, if inadvertent, callback to Peter Dalton initially welcoming SJA's Trickster as "the angel."
HI. JOHN WINCHESTER IS GOD'S VESSEL. I'M GONNA KEEP SAYING IT UNTIL IT GETS LESS FUCKING OBVIOUS.
Seriously. I know JDM doesn't really fit the show's budget these days (which admittedly is a fact that I am more or less making up, but you just gotta think that he's commanding a little more than the CW is gonna wanna spend these days), but they keep building John up and up and up and now they've got Gabriel drawing (obvious) parallels that put in him the role of God?
Wonder if maybe Kripke's socking away a little something extra on the side?
I'm gonna keep saying it until I am proven spectacularly wrong. Except I'm starting to wonder if I really will be.
NOTE PLEASE: If this somehow becomes true and spoilers leak out, I DO NOT WANT CONFIRMATION OF ANY KIND. Casting spoilers can vary in importance, but that would be a REALLY FUCKING BIG ONE and I would be pretty pissed off to hear about it in advance. Unless they do a press release or some dumbass thing like that. Then I'll be pissed, but not at any one person.
ANYWAY. In other news of me being prescient, after having a couple different episodes where the Trickster was so obvious a candidate for baddie that even the boys finally noticed, it was nice to have him finally show up. And while I remain unsure of whether the Trickster-as-angel twist was planned from the beginning, upon reflection for like forty-five, fifty seconds, I decided it was a really sweet bit of storytelling. It always bugged me, just a tiny bit, that the Trickster was conveniently impervious to what was supposed to kill it; it felt so much like a clumsily obvious way to keep him around for future comedy filler episodes. The discovery that he is not, in fact, the Trickster explains that away neatly, in a way that doesn't annoy me, and serves as a way to further the impression that Heaven is falling apart at the seams. It's starting to look an awful lot like Anna and Castiel's rebellions aren't as anomalous as they've seemed.
Also, creative use of such a well-known figure in Christian mythology. SPN has quite a job for itself in making all these ancient figures and stories feel fresh and different, and for all my cracks about Good Omens, I think they've done pretty well with it so far.
Plus, the funny shit was funny. I'm actually glad I've watched some of Grey's Anatomy so I could better get the jokes. And the shout-out to JDM in the form of the doctor hallucinating that ghost was excellent.
This was a really good episode, and after the last one that was so boring that I forgot, in the midst of awesome SJA and Evita and The Thick of It, that I'd even watched it, I am very glad of that.
And SPEAKING of SJA, I do love two weeks in a row dealing with stories about very different Tricksters on very different shows. And tonight's revelation is an interesting, if inadvertent, callback to Peter Dalton initially welcoming SJA's Trickster as "the angel."
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It always bugged me, just a tiny bit, that the Trickster was conveniently impervious to what was supposed to kill it
Excellent point. I tend to think that they think this stuff ahead well in advance and then laugh at all the people who whine or complain that they're ruining good characters by making them OOC or hiring bad actors (a la Ruby/Genevieve) or making up shit as they go along like hacks as opposed to people who get paid to do this stuff. /mini-rant