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Dear Mr. Kripke...

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.

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I loved it, and I love the angel angle. And I am NOT a fan of angel lore (read: crap) as a rule. But I think they are going to do something interesting with this angel. I have a suspicion that god is nowhere to be found in this mythology...we only have a new class of powerful, dangerous beings that believe they're on the side of virtue. Not sure they're in touch with god. I have faith in Kripke on this one.

I am so looking forward to Dean developing a relationship with this Castiel dude. I can see the angst coming, oh, please. "Don't you think you deserve to be saved, Dean?"

I see Castiel/Dean fic in my future.

By the way, I'm sure the location for the opening scene was somewhere near Vancouver, regardless of how southern it looks. There are rural spaces like that all over North America.

LOVED IT. All of it.

Complete thievery of your fic, though. Guess Kripke's running out of material and needs to "borrow" from the fans. ;-)

I thought the same thing when Dean the "girl." Oy...

Jared and Jensen are totally married! TV Guide says so!

Agreed, Sam's reaction was flat, but I also think it's on purpose. He has to hide all the ESP stuff, and Ruby, and God knows what else. And I think if my sister, whom I thought was dead and gone, suddenly showed up at my door, I think I would be so freaked out that it would read as flat. I think Sammy's just shell-shocked still.

If the rest of the season is as good as this episode, we're in for a treat. :-)

Sam has secrets and doesn't know how he's going to tell Dean, and will Dean explode when he realizes he's not only learning about the "psychic stuff" but he's still with Ruby, and he's letting her teach him? Boy howdy. Still don't trust her, and Dean is going to be one pissed off dude when he finds out.

But, wow, I loved it all. The first few minutes, with Dean all alone in that eerie landscape were everything I hoped for. And I was thinking, Jesus, Oselle must've channeled somebody or something, because this is her fic!

I think Castiel may be an angel, all right, but his god isn't the god Dean may think he's talking about.

I don't really dig this whole angel thing but I did see it coming when no talismans worked on him. This lord stuff is thin ice I tell you!

LOVED Pamela. Her whole "you're invited too" to Sam??? Good lord I had to contain my kink excitement because I was watching this with my stepdad in the room(!)

And cut Dean a break, he's been in hell for the whole summer (read:eternity) and needs to get laid!

I am more than happy to oblige him XD

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.

I think they nailed it. Yes, with a bigger budget and more time it could have been even more but, I've just finished watching - on the computer which doesn't give the greatest atmosphere - and it blew me away.

Now it's just waiting for what's coming, because something sure is!

I haven't seen the epi yet, still waiting the download to complete, which currently 7 hrs to go, according to torrent downloader.
But I "saw" it from screencaps and yes Castiel is smoking hot! I think you're right, Kripke picked Castiel just because he's an angel of Thursday. SPN is on every Thursday!
Dean slept on the couch? It's really cute! Kim Manners knew what we fan-girls need to see. ~~Too bad Sammy didn't join him there.~~

Thank you for the review, Oselle. ♥

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Ah boys - welcome back! I loved the first few minutes - when I was like - is it a dream? is he still in hell? is he in a coma? what? what? what? And I don't for one second believe he's not gonna remember what happened to him while he was in hell. Can anyone say PTSD?

I thought Sam's reaction to Dean left me wanting a bit more - he seemed pretty unimpressed that his brother was standing in front of him, but then, Kripke didn't show us all the mourning that Sam may have done over the last couple of months. So - Sam may have been more mad at himself for not being the one to save Dean and his anger overrode his happiness?

In my own, un-theologically researched way - it seems we're being led to believe one brother was touched by good and one touched by evil - and is Kripke setting them up to "battle" each other? seems a bit cliche, doesn't it? Oh well - whatever - if Dean's abs are gonna be there, sign me up!

But why didn't they bring Missouri back?

And so much between them has changed after only four months?

Btw, I thought you already knew the title of the premier when you wrote your own Lazarus!

I do think that was on purpose about Sam's coldness, and I'm a bit afraid about it. Sam vs. Dean, everybody?

I thought that was Jensen

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeee :D

I love Jensen and always will.

Thank you for the great review.

Yep - totally loved the new episode...Castiel as the angel of Thursday - that just sounds perfect.

While Sam's reaction to Dean seemed a little flat (which I think was totally planned), the returning of the locket was the brother moment for me in the episode.

Can't wait to see where Kripke takes the rest of this season.

And can't wait for the next installment on your Lazarus series too :)

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