Thoughts Before Going Offline
Sep. 20th, 2009 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oselleJust want to let you know that I'm going to be taking a little hiatus, at this time of undetermined length.
A giant thanks to everyone who posted such lovely birthday wishes for me last week!
For the record
Obviously, the big takeaway from the episode was the separation between Sam and Dean. I haven't been looking around to see how this was received, but personally, I think it's been a very long time coming. I've been expecting this to happen since the beginning of last season, since "Lazarus Rising," really. It was clear even then that their relationship had so drastically altered that the two of them were just together out of habit. I don't know for sure what good it will do to split up now, and I actually think this is going to be harder on Sam than on Dean. I think that Dean really, really needs some space and will benefit from being alone, but Sam, left to himself, is finally going to have to have a reckoning with himself. That too has been a long time coming.
As an old time Lord of the Rings junkie, I very, very much enjoyed the "Pit stop on Mount Doom?" crack -- and can't help smiling over the idea of Dean being a secret Tolkien fan. You know he'd never want to admit it because, well...elves and shit, but there's got to be a reason he loves "Ramble On" so much (that song is ALL ABOUT Bilbo Baggins, in case you don't know, and to hell with any infidel who says otherwise, damnit!!)
However, I'm not so excited about all these mystical tchotchkes coming into play all of a sudden. First we had Ruby's knife...okay. Now Dean's amulet is what? Some sort of conduit to the Almighty Himself? Gee, being in possession of such a powerful little knickknack doesn't seem to have done Dean much good, but maybe it does explain how Dean has sustained so many bone-cracking beatdowns in his lifetime and come away looking so consistently pretty. And then there's War's Ring -- why would one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse need a magical object anyway? And what are the good guys planning on doing with it now that they've got it? Does it have powers independent of its owner? And do the other three riders have their own? Jeez, keep this up and we're going to spend the rest of the season collecting Horcruxes.
One last point -- Misha Collins deserves an Emmy just for delivering that "flatbread" line with such deadpan perfection. The guy is just never not a delight to watch. He makes me think of W.C. Fields saying "Never work with dogs or children..." to which I'd add, "...or Misha Collins." Seriously, stealing the scene from someone as luminously pretty as Jensen Ackles? I didn't think it could be done.
Finally...I'm doing it. I'm reading Twilight. And it's worse than the movie, which I wouldn't have thought possible. Kristin Stewart at least brought a little bit of ingenuous charm to Bella but Book!Bella is quite possibly the most self-absorbed, shallow, judgmental, petulant and downright unpleasant creatures I've ever encountered in fiction. I wonder if it says something about our culture that a character who possesses virtually no admirable or remotely redeeming qualities is so widely accepted as a heroine.
Anyhoo...that's it from me. Be good, behave yourselves and have a lovely autumn. :)
A giant thanks to everyone who posted such lovely birthday wishes for me last week!
For the record
Obviously, the big takeaway from the episode was the separation between Sam and Dean. I haven't been looking around to see how this was received, but personally, I think it's been a very long time coming. I've been expecting this to happen since the beginning of last season, since "Lazarus Rising," really. It was clear even then that their relationship had so drastically altered that the two of them were just together out of habit. I don't know for sure what good it will do to split up now, and I actually think this is going to be harder on Sam than on Dean. I think that Dean really, really needs some space and will benefit from being alone, but Sam, left to himself, is finally going to have to have a reckoning with himself. That too has been a long time coming.
As an old time Lord of the Rings junkie, I very, very much enjoyed the "Pit stop on Mount Doom?" crack -- and can't help smiling over the idea of Dean being a secret Tolkien fan. You know he'd never want to admit it because, well...elves and shit, but there's got to be a reason he loves "Ramble On" so much (that song is ALL ABOUT Bilbo Baggins, in case you don't know, and to hell with any infidel who says otherwise, damnit!!)
However, I'm not so excited about all these mystical tchotchkes coming into play all of a sudden. First we had Ruby's knife...okay. Now Dean's amulet is what? Some sort of conduit to the Almighty Himself? Gee, being in possession of such a powerful little knickknack doesn't seem to have done Dean much good, but maybe it does explain how Dean has sustained so many bone-cracking beatdowns in his lifetime and come away looking so consistently pretty. And then there's War's Ring -- why would one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse need a magical object anyway? And what are the good guys planning on doing with it now that they've got it? Does it have powers independent of its owner? And do the other three riders have their own? Jeez, keep this up and we're going to spend the rest of the season collecting Horcruxes.
One last point -- Misha Collins deserves an Emmy just for delivering that "flatbread" line with such deadpan perfection. The guy is just never not a delight to watch. He makes me think of W.C. Fields saying "Never work with dogs or children..." to which I'd add, "...or Misha Collins." Seriously, stealing the scene from someone as luminously pretty as Jensen Ackles? I didn't think it could be done.
Finally...I'm doing it. I'm reading Twilight. And it's worse than the movie, which I wouldn't have thought possible. Kristin Stewart at least brought a little bit of ingenuous charm to Bella but Book!Bella is quite possibly the most self-absorbed, shallow, judgmental, petulant and downright unpleasant creatures I've ever encountered in fiction. I wonder if it says something about our culture that a character who possesses virtually no admirable or remotely redeeming qualities is so widely accepted as a heroine.
Anyhoo...that's it from me. Be good, behave yourselves and have a lovely autumn. :)