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Two random, unspoilery observations:
Titling the episode "Good God, Y'all," while pleasing me to a ridiculous degree, has subjected to me to several egregious misspellings of the word "y'all" on live journal. The apostrophe redacts the "ou" in "you"; it's not accenting the A. We're writing in southern English here, y'all, not Klingon.
Every time the show uses Foreigner's "Long, Long Way From Home" I feel a proprietary "Hey! That's mine! I put that on my SPN mix way back in Season 2!" And then I realize that it's Foreigner and not like, Captain Beefheart or something, and I'm not the most special snowflake who still thinks classic rock is just "rock." (In related news, I still sing along to "Long, Long Way From Home" as Waiting, hours of waiting I could feel the tension click click click click click click *pause* *metallic clink* I was longing for home because that's the way it played on my cousin's Foreigner 8-track tape.)
Having seen an episode reaction of "OH NO!!" on live journal just prior to watching the ep (damn me for checking LJ on a Thursday night) I spent the entire episode waiting for Bobby or Ellen to die. When it was just another Sam/Dean break-up scene, I amused myself by picturing all the icons I'd see of the picnic table shot.
When Sam got into the camper at the end of the ep, Caza said, "Wait, who's that? Who is Sam leaving with?" I replied, "Oh, it's just some random camper. Sam looks like a harmless, hot college student, he wouldn't have to do a lot of song and dance to score a ride. Plus, it looks like he just got dumped by his boyfriend -- the driver probably didn't want to ask too many questions."
Caza looked at me askance (I'm not a Wincest 'shipper, but I play one when I watch TV) and then agreed that it totally looked like that.
I don't really have a lot of thoughts on the episode itself beyond the fact that I liked it, enjoyed seeing Ellen, Jo and Rufus again and I thought the "no one here is a demon" storyline was intriguing (even if it reminded me of SK's "Needful Things" at times.) I'm enjoying the apocalyptic storyline to a degree, although perhaps not with the same framework many of my fellow online SPN fen are. Their references all seem to stem from apocalyptic fiction ("Good Omens," et al) whereas I'm drawing on a Pentecostal upbringing and a literal interpretation of the Book of Revelation (although a sometimes surreal one -- one church camp told me that The Beatles were the Four Horsemen.)
And to be honest, my Pew Jumper antecedents aren't all that helpful with the Kripke 'verse. Pentecostals aren't too terribly interested in angels, unless they're in ceramic form. Demon possession was a popular theme, but you could avoid that by trading in your AC/DC 8-tracks for Debby Boone ones. It's possible the Porum Assembly of God is on to something there, Dean.
But if Kripke wants some atmospheric hints, I'm willing to describe how I wet myself the first time I heard someone "slain in the spirit" (i.e. speak in tongues) at a revival. I was five. I have a high tolerance for horror because I've yet to see/hear anything creepier.
And to wrap up this disjointed ramble, my brother called last night (he's been calling nightly since he went back to school to get his BSN. I'm his touchstone -- it's very Sam/Dean, minus the Wincest and washboard abs.) He visited for a week last month and I had shown him random episodes of Season 3 (I had previously shown him random episodes of Seasons 1 & 2) until he asked to just the watch the entire season.
When I told him last night that Season 5 started last week, he asked me to catch him up on the previous ep so he could watch 5.2. I explained that he had missed all of Season 4 and he said, "So? Catch me up." So while I sliced Jonah's zucchini and squash ala Sue, I ran through a winding and probably totally incomprehensible overview of Season 4 with a lot of, "And then Dean was...and Sam was all...and Bobby said idjits and oh! Castiel! He gripped Dean tight and pulled him from perdition. Oh! And Chuck! Oh, wait, so they got these tattoos and so the fangirls..."
I almost went into a frame by frame discussion of "Sex and Violence" (the one with the male siren and the Sam and Dean sandwich) until I realized that my brother just doesn't care and he was not, perhaps, the most receptive audience for my casual acceptance of subtextual incest.
Besides, when we watched the end of Season 3's "Bad Day at Black Rock" and I pointed out that Jared broke character and laughed at Dean's exuberant "Son of bitch!" my brother was all, "So?" I explained, "Well...because it's Jared...not Sam. Laughing at Jensen...not Dean. So it's funny. And, you know, adorable." He stared at me for a minute and then clicked to the menu and said, "You're a good person, Sis. I just try to remember that."
Titling the episode "Good God, Y'all," while pleasing me to a ridiculous degree, has subjected to me to several egregious misspellings of the word "y'all" on live journal. The apostrophe redacts the "ou" in "you"; it's not accenting the A. We're writing in southern English here, y'all, not Klingon.
Every time the show uses Foreigner's "Long, Long Way From Home" I feel a proprietary "Hey! That's mine! I put that on my SPN mix way back in Season 2!" And then I realize that it's Foreigner and not like, Captain Beefheart or something, and I'm not the most special snowflake who still thinks classic rock is just "rock." (In related news, I still sing along to "Long, Long Way From Home" as Waiting, hours of waiting I could feel the tension click click click click click click *pause* *metallic clink* I was longing for home because that's the way it played on my cousin's Foreigner 8-track tape.)
Having seen an episode reaction of "OH NO!!" on live journal just prior to watching the ep (damn me for checking LJ on a Thursday night) I spent the entire episode waiting for Bobby or Ellen to die. When it was just another Sam/Dean break-up scene, I amused myself by picturing all the icons I'd see of the picnic table shot.
When Sam got into the camper at the end of the ep, Caza said, "Wait, who's that? Who is Sam leaving with?" I replied, "Oh, it's just some random camper. Sam looks like a harmless, hot college student, he wouldn't have to do a lot of song and dance to score a ride. Plus, it looks like he just got dumped by his boyfriend -- the driver probably didn't want to ask too many questions."
Caza looked at me askance (I'm not a Wincest 'shipper, but I play one when I watch TV) and then agreed that it totally looked like that.
I don't really have a lot of thoughts on the episode itself beyond the fact that I liked it, enjoyed seeing Ellen, Jo and Rufus again and I thought the "no one here is a demon" storyline was intriguing (even if it reminded me of SK's "Needful Things" at times.) I'm enjoying the apocalyptic storyline to a degree, although perhaps not with the same framework many of my fellow online SPN fen are. Their references all seem to stem from apocalyptic fiction ("Good Omens," et al) whereas I'm drawing on a Pentecostal upbringing and a literal interpretation of the Book of Revelation (although a sometimes surreal one -- one church camp told me that The Beatles were the Four Horsemen.)
And to be honest, my Pew Jumper antecedents aren't all that helpful with the Kripke 'verse. Pentecostals aren't too terribly interested in angels, unless they're in ceramic form. Demon possession was a popular theme, but you could avoid that by trading in your AC/DC 8-tracks for Debby Boone ones. It's possible the Porum Assembly of God is on to something there, Dean.
But if Kripke wants some atmospheric hints, I'm willing to describe how I wet myself the first time I heard someone "slain in the spirit" (i.e. speak in tongues) at a revival. I was five. I have a high tolerance for horror because I've yet to see/hear anything creepier.
And to wrap up this disjointed ramble, my brother called last night (he's been calling nightly since he went back to school to get his BSN. I'm his touchstone -- it's very Sam/Dean, minus the Wincest and washboard abs.) He visited for a week last month and I had shown him random episodes of Season 3 (I had previously shown him random episodes of Seasons 1 & 2) until he asked to just the watch the entire season.
When I told him last night that Season 5 started last week, he asked me to catch him up on the previous ep so he could watch 5.2. I explained that he had missed all of Season 4 and he said, "So? Catch me up." So while I sliced Jonah's zucchini and squash ala Sue, I ran through a winding and probably totally incomprehensible overview of Season 4 with a lot of, "And then Dean was...and Sam was all...and Bobby said idjits and oh! Castiel! He gripped Dean tight and pulled him from perdition. Oh! And Chuck! Oh, wait, so they got these tattoos and so the fangirls..."
I almost went into a frame by frame discussion of "Sex and Violence" (the one with the male siren and the Sam and Dean sandwich) until I realized that my brother just doesn't care and he was not, perhaps, the most receptive audience for my casual acceptance of subtextual incest.
Besides, when we watched the end of Season 3's "Bad Day at Black Rock" and I pointed out that Jared broke character and laughed at Dean's exuberant "Son of bitch!" my brother was all, "So?" I explained, "Well...because it's Jared...not Sam. Laughing at Jensen...not Dean. So it's funny. And, you know, adorable." He stared at me for a minute and then clicked to the menu and said, "You're a good person, Sis. I just try to remember that."
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Date: 2009-09-18 01:19 pm (UTC)From:*mwah*
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Date: 2009-09-18 01:40 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-09-18 01:48 pm (UTC)From:me
To make matters worse I love Jo. Not as much as I love Sam and Dean breaking up, but pretty damn close.
I do enjoy the show much the same way I enjoy Smallville - I watch to mock, and admire the manscaping when possible [the only time I find Padalecki attractive is when he's shirtless, then it's on baby!]
But I find I must mock in my own headspace or otherwise I would get my ass pwnd on the internet.
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Date: 2009-09-18 02:05 pm (UTC)From:I am fannish about the show the same way I am about "General Hospital" and "Little House on the Prairie." It's a dorky obsession I share with few and falls apart under academic scrutiny. But I will still lip quiver and make playlists (well, not so much for Little House, beyond "Highland Mary" and "Coming Through the Rye" -- see? obsessive.)
But I can't really fan with anyone but Vinnie. I don't want to harsh anyone's squee, I don't care about the reality of J2's love lives, I don't really think S/D are totally doing it and I don't need mytharc genfic. Which lives me with classic rock mix cds and J2 AU babyfic. Which is totally okay with me.
(The J2 has to be AU because setting Jensen and Jared in Texas and writing them with British slang makes me want to whoop some ass. But that's my own cross to bear, as it were.)
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Date: 2009-09-18 02:12 pm (UTC)From:There's nothing wrong CDs and babyfic. Well, the babyfic isn't my thing [usually there are some SV exclusions to that].
I hate to harsh people's squee too. I read friendsfriends today to see if SPN was going to implode because of the break up and read some things that made me think -- holy hell you people are NUTS
But I'm sure they feel the same way over me and FNL
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Date: 2009-09-18 01:45 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-09-18 01:56 pm (UTC)From:I love that the church (at least in my childhood) was pop culturally 20 years behind the times. This was in 1985 and I can remember looking at my friends and mouthing, "The Beatles? The Yellow Submarine guys? So are Christians the Blue Meanies?" And then we all went back to our bunks and listened to Ozzy on our smuggled in boom box. Trufax!
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Date: 2009-09-18 05:58 pm (UTC)From:Oh, man. See, Alistair could have brought about the Beginning of the End of Days *so much faster* if he'd just forced Dean to listen to Debbie Boone on endless repeat.
:)
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Date: 2009-09-19 03:21 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-09-19 12:19 am (UTC)From:I love me some Ellen! I love her bitchslapping Dean. Man, the Ellen/Dean shippers are gonna be so happy. :)
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Date: 2009-09-19 03:22 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-09-22 02:35 am (UTC)From:Hee! Indeed, possibly not the best plan. I can't see that coming across right, you know?
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Date: 2009-09-22 07:10 pm (UTC)From: