So Star Trek was shiny and lots of fun (although personally I
would have liked a few more female characters who weren't just there to
be love interests/sources of angst for the men; thankfully I am not the only one),
but it made me wonder where I'd heard Simon Pegg do a Scottish accent
before, and then I realized it was in one of my favourite Big Train sketches:
The silliness! I LOVE IT.
Oh yeah, and then there was the SPN finale which had
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DEAD
WOMEN EVERYWHERE! Slaughtered nuns and nurses stuffed in car boots and
Ruby killed in a disturbingly sexual way and Lilith wearing the
traditional SPN sacrificial white nightie! ARGH! And still I continue
to love this show even though it constantly makes me feel like a
traitor to my gender.
Stuff in no particular order:
- Dean's
gleefully wanton destruction of property and subsequent completely
unsubtle guilty expression when Castiel turns up. He is five. ♥
- I know EVERYONE'S said this, but: jacket clutching! ♥ ♥ ♥
- OH. SAM.
- In Sandman,
when Lucifer left Hell, he buggered off to Australia and bummed around
on a beach for a while, grudgingly admiring God's sunset work, and then
he opened a nightclub in LA. Sort of want something like this to happen
on SPN. Like, Lucifer's all, OH BUGGER THE APOCALYPSE FOR A GAME OF
SOLDIERS I JUST WANT A HOLIDAY.
- I LOVE that Dean broke the first seal and Sam the last. And now they are equally matched in their guilt and self-doubt.
- I
thought at first that it was the angels who had altered Dean's phone
message, because they SO WOULD, but rewatching, Ruby's smirk when Sam
listens to it seems to suggest otherwise. We are going to get some
closure on that, aren't we? Sam is going to find out what Dean really
said, yes? Fic, glorious as it is, will only satisfy me so much.
- I sort of want the spin-off Chuck and Castiel Show. Chuck would be going "Don't look at me like that, man. I can't write when you're looking
at me like that. God I need a drink. Do you eat pizza? I think I have
some leftover somewhere..." and Castiel would be all *headtilt*. Yeah,
I dunno. Needs some work.
- It's interesting that Zachariah is constantly trying to lead Dean into temptation.
- God has left the building? Why is no one writing SPN/Preacher
crossovers? They are PERFECT for one another. Fallen angels, absent
Gods, Vietnam vet dads called John, Western themes, towns called
Salvation, dog collars...
- I'm so sick of the word "bitch" being
flung around. More creative, less gendered insults please! And doesn't
Sam calling Ruby a bitch at the end just seem horribly... inadequate? Evil Counselors and Deceivers go to the 8TH CIRCLE OF HELL Sam!
- Part
of me is gleeful that Ruby was playing the long con, the rest of me is
pre-emptively wearied by the idea that this will allow the more
misogynistic elements of fandom to feel justified in hating her. I've
already seen too many icons taking pleasure in her demise.
- I do quite like the poetic justice of Ruby dying by her own knife, though.
- Extreme
close-ups a-go-go! I liked the sense of claustrophobic tension this
lent things, much like last season's finale. I also liked all the push
focusing.
- Next season: Hugging! Flaming swords! Zacharia gets his! Apocalypse! Hugging!
In conclusion: PILLOW FORT.
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