A quickie, because I can...
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phantomasTWU WUV...because fandom is what it is and there is place for everyone. Yes. Everyone. Even GRUBOID LURVE!
There's a songvid, too, but not on the site (yet), as far as I can see. I wonder if someone asked for it for Yuletide, it sure is an obscure fandom :)
As last year, I am pinch hitting for Yuletide. Not committing to anything, because my track record is horrible, but pinch-hitting usually works out well, and last year was the best fun in a long time, both for pinch hitting and the free-for-all sockfillers last minute rush :D
I have, however, in an obvious moment of desperate clinging to my sanity and identity, committed to![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
mini_nanowrimo..erm. I haven't yet written a word for it. I'll see what I can do. Something's gotta give and it won't be me, dammit.
I also caught up with SPN. OHMY. SO much to say! SO little time, and I know you all SPN f-listers have probably been discussing it all already :(
Briefly, do I like the new season? In general, yes. BUT. It still isn't what season 1 and most of season 2 were. In a way, going for the Hell vs. Heaven fight sort of ...dimish the whole premise, for me, and also, going for the Huge Apocalyptic Final Battle kind of thing (no spoilers here, I am spoiler-free, but it looks that way, doesn't it?)...again, it moves the focus from the boys (and their family dynamics) to a wider landscape. Something inevitably goes missing. (and although I am thinking about him, I don't necessary or only mean John Winchester...)
Castiel? I do quite like him.*grins* Misha Collins plays the angel well, and I do (like many, I suppose) adore the fiercer version of Angels as opposed to the cheerful-dogooders one. Definitely a pivotal character.
I LOVED Sammy's expression while watching Dean during a certain specific moment in the most recent ep: it was vulnerable, little brother Sammy, there, for a moment. Again, though, I feel as if there is something missing between the brothers...which, yes, I can see that it would fit with what has been happening to them recently, and the way they are being carefully placed on opposite sides of the field, slowly but surely, both tainted in one or the other...
And yes, YES, YES. I do miss John Winchester. I will get any minute reference to him - like Castiel mentioning him to Dean and Dean changing subject, making his stand with the angels right away. Dean tells me a lot, with his decisions and his expressions; whether Jensen Ackles means to get across what I get, I do not know, but to me, Dean is thinking that Yes, he obeyed his father's orders, but John never ordered him to leave and let people die. Even in DaLDoM, Dean goes to Dream!John's grave and mimics his father's voice/speech pattern, telling himself what John woudl have said: your happiness against people's lives? No contest.
Dean NEVER just obeyed John. The whole image of the perfect little soldier always came from Sam, and demons (whose words played on Dean's fears and insecurities, yes, and whose words have also been inspired to a certain extent by what fandom has clamored loudly about in most forums), but Dean NEVER was a puppet. John didn't make a puppet of him, he made a soldier. There is a world of difference, I believe, and Dean's behaviour with Castiel and Uriel's trying to give him orders, well, I think it proves me right.
There's a songvid, too, but not on the site (yet), as far as I can see. I wonder if someone asked for it for Yuletide, it sure is an obscure fandom :)
As last year, I am pinch hitting for Yuletide. Not committing to anything, because my track record is horrible, but pinch-hitting usually works out well, and last year was the best fun in a long time, both for pinch hitting and the free-for-all sockfillers last minute rush :D
I have, however, in an obvious moment of desperate clinging to my sanity and identity, committed to
mini_nanowrimo..erm. I haven't yet written a word for it. I'll see what I can do. Something's gotta give and it won't be me, dammit.I also caught up with SPN. OHMY. SO much to say! SO little time, and I know you all SPN f-listers have probably been discussing it all already :(
Briefly, do I like the new season? In general, yes. BUT. It still isn't what season 1 and most of season 2 were. In a way, going for the Hell vs. Heaven fight sort of ...dimish the whole premise, for me, and also, going for the Huge Apocalyptic Final Battle kind of thing (no spoilers here, I am spoiler-free, but it looks that way, doesn't it?)...again, it moves the focus from the boys (and their family dynamics) to a wider landscape. Something inevitably goes missing. (and although I am thinking about him, I don't necessary or only mean John Winchester...)
Castiel? I do quite like him.*grins* Misha Collins plays the angel well, and I do (like many, I suppose) adore the fiercer version of Angels as opposed to the cheerful-dogooders one. Definitely a pivotal character.
I LOVED Sammy's expression while watching Dean during a certain specific moment in the most recent ep: it was vulnerable, little brother Sammy, there, for a moment. Again, though, I feel as if there is something missing between the brothers...which, yes, I can see that it would fit with what has been happening to them recently, and the way they are being carefully placed on opposite sides of the field, slowly but surely, both tainted in one or the other...
And yes, YES, YES. I do miss John Winchester. I will get any minute reference to him - like Castiel mentioning him to Dean and Dean changing subject, making his stand with the angels right away. Dean tells me a lot, with his decisions and his expressions; whether Jensen Ackles means to get across what I get, I do not know, but to me, Dean is thinking that Yes, he obeyed his father's orders, but John never ordered him to leave and let people die. Even in DaLDoM, Dean goes to Dream!John's grave and mimics his father's voice/speech pattern, telling himself what John woudl have said: your happiness against people's lives? No contest.
Dean NEVER just obeyed John. The whole image of the perfect little soldier always came from Sam, and demons (whose words played on Dean's fears and insecurities, yes, and whose words have also been inspired to a certain extent by what fandom has clamored loudly about in most forums), but Dean NEVER was a puppet. John didn't make a puppet of him, he made a soldier. There is a world of difference, I believe, and Dean's behaviour with Castiel and Uriel's trying to give him orders, well, I think it proves me right.
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Date: 2008-11-09 11:54 pm (UTC)and hot.while a lot of people don't like the filler eps, i tend to be driven more towards those only because at the very least we take a break from the OMG APOCALYPSE freak out and just have the boys hunting demons or monsters or ghosts. which is exactly why i loved the first season so much.
shannon
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Date: 2008-11-10 12:00 am (UTC)AAAAND. Why is there no Gabriel(The Prophecy)/Castiel (SPN) crossover? Why, I ask, whyyyy? Or, you know, Gabriel/Dean/Castiel or whatever combo :)
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Date: 2008-11-10 12:05 am (UTC)have you seen the movie gabriel? terrible acting, but the guy who plays gabriel is HOT as all hell. <33
shannon
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Date: 2008-11-10 12:28 am (UTC)Hell fucking yes!!
I come to SPN fandom by way of Stargate fandom, and all those guys are either soldiers or scientists. And while the soldiers may have had rules and regs they were up against, if they had been puppets, they would've been pretty damn worthless.
That's what I see in Dean, a soldier, who has a certain set of guidelines for his behavior, but who goes against them when the sitch calls for it.