Dear Mr. Kripke...

[oselle]

Dear Mr. Kripke:

"Lazarus Rising?" Really, Mr. Kripke? Really? You ripped me off, douchebag. Oh, and Dean breaking into the deserted gas station? Really. It even looked like the Deep South. Illinois my ass. Email me and I'll tell you where to send my royalty check. I also take PayPal.

Best regards,
Oselle

PS: Castiel is a minor angel at best, there's virtually no lore on him whatsoever. My dictionary only lists him as "an angel of Thursday." Maybe that's why you picked the name? Hee...angel of Thursday. I thought that was Jensen! Nevertheless, the guy playing Castiel is kinda hawt. So good choice there.


But seriously...I enjoyed it very much. Thought the first ten minutes or so were great, loved the fact that they didn't have any soundtrack, just dialogue. Wonderfully creepy and atmospheric. Loved that we got to see Dean's magnificient torso and arms. Jensen is looking more spectacular than ever. Couldn't take my eyes off him.

Thought Pamela was fantastic...so of course they essentially eliminated her before we could really start digging her. Pamela had more character in five minutes than Bela did all last year. Feel almost sorry for Katie Cassidy -- they didn't get rid of Ruby, just the actress! The new Ruby is already an improvement (but still a little too much of a kid. Would love to see a tough cookie like Pamela playing Ruby).

Uh oh, Dean hit a "girl." Twice! Here we go again...

I don't mind the angel angle but Kripke is digging himself even deeper into theology and it might wind up burying him. At this point I'm expecting the Second Coming to happen sometime in Season 5...

Dean sleeping! On a pullout couch! I love having my sleep-kink satisfied!

Love Dean's mini-flashbacks and looking forward to more of them. Jensen is phenomenal. He just gets better and better.

Jared is looking rather hot this season as well. Oh and they're living together. HAD YOU HEARD? And may be married. Hee!

Could not believe that Dean actually said that a demon might have "rode him out" of Hell. Dirty, dirty thoughts. Oh...so dirty.

Sam "douching" up the Impala. FANTASTIC!

I think I liked the awkwardness and emotional distance between Sam and Dean. Sam's reaction to having Dean back was strangely flat, but I think that was on purpose. What do you think?

Overall, I found it very...powerful. Loved the tone and the gritty seriousness of it. Very, very promising. I want them to keep this up for the rest of the season. Please?

Your thoughts, people? Don't leave me to ramble on my own here.

Comments

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Here when I saw the title I thought you named your fic after what you knew would be the first ep! And yes, I did think about your fic. The ep had to convince me to get me to stop wishing it wasn't going to be that.

But I loved Castiel and if they're going to have Dean doing the Lord's work I like that it's Dean, somebody who's resistant. It seems like the kind of angel use I can get behind.

I thought Sam's flat-ness was intentional. He's hiding a lot. Dean will continue to have flashbacks of hell he's not sharing, Sam's got all the ways he "betrayed" Dean by going on without him I'll bet. Which is a great thing to do with the relationship, it seems to me. In that essay I just read the person pointed out that it's usually in eps that deal most heavily with family that the boys are most often mistaken for a couple. I remembered that during this ep.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I didn't know this was going to be the title of the premiere because I NEVER would have named my story that. And I was very attached to that title so you see how worthwhile it is to be spoiler free!! (Though I don't think the episode title was leaked as far back as June anyway).

I feel like Sam's hiding a lot and I'm wondering if Castiel brought Dean back to eventually face not Lilith but Sam. That's where the series has long been pointing so...

One has to wonder though...if Castiel could rescue Dean from hell, and if Castiel is more powerful than Lilith (as was claimed in the ep) why didn't he just bust Dean's contract in the first place? I know, I know, then there's no story...but still. Guess you could always argue that Dean had to go through the fire before he could become God's warrior or whatever they're setting him up to be. Frigging angels. They're worse than wizards.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the idea that Dean's going to hell is part of the plan isn't too hard to believe when you're dealing with an angel. It's possible they needed Dean to go to hell and needed Sam to do whatever Sam did while he was gone. I do know that the show has always pointed to the idea that Sam is the one he's got to go after, but given who Dean is and his relationship with Sam...this is going to be good. Because the two of them would have to find some other way.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the idea that Dean's going to hell is part of the plan isn't too hard to believe when you're dealing with an angel.

Like I said, worse than wizards. Or at least, as bad as wizards. ETA that I totally want Castiel to turn out to be a Tilday Swinton, Constantine-esque angel. So committed to a rigid divine agenda that he doesn't give a shit about the collateral damage.