Show! spn 5x22

[roxy]

Still thinking about it. At first I was upset and may have abused my ancient TV set, but after niece and friend and I discussed it, I had to step back and think. The best way to watch Show? With someone who loves it madly. I wanted to have every single question resolved but have to live with the fact that I might not ever get some questions answered...but that's okay. :)

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[cha.livejournal.com]

or maybe not answered till later???

*is hopeful*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I'm *hoping* so much that they'll be answered later--but I'm not going to bitch if they're not. I want the impossible--I want Jesse the Anti-Christ to show up again, I want Adam to be whole and healthy and hunting with Sam and Dean...I want so much!!!

[cha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was wondering about Jesse.... but maybe that's it - maybe Sam has to go and yank DEAN out of his life to deal with jesse

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

no no! Jesse will be a good guy--he'll make the right choices and he'll come and *fix* Sam and Dean and Cas...*G* Heck yeah!

omg, can you write it for me???????

*i'll make cooooookies...*

[cha.livejournal.com]

hahahahah

*grin*

[twinsarein.livejournal.com]

Why wouldn't you get some questions answered? Have they decided not to do a season six after all?

I had very mixed feeling for this episode as well, which is a first for me. Usually I just either like them or love them. This one...I'm not too sure.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have goofy questions I want answered, like is Jesse the Anti-Christ ever going to show up again, will Adam return, whole and healthy, what's up with Bobby's deal...stuff like that that I kind of doubt S6 will address.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

I have been super annoyed about the Jesse thing since the day it aired. For one thing, are they re-using the Jess/Jessica/Jesse name deliberately? It was Sam's girlfriend's name, the name in Pamela's tattoo, the name of of the woman loved by the big scary ghost they had to hideously re-drag to his ghostly death in that weird S4 episode, AND the name of the anti-Christ. Not only does it mean something like "God exists" in Hebrew, but jesses are the hood-thingies by which trained falcons are controlled and kept from flying.

I can't STAND the idea that they laid out all that symbolic richness of clues by pure fucking stupid accident. But I suspect they did.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Oh crap...I didn't realize all that. Lord, donn't tell me they wanna bring that woman back at some point. I prefer to believe it was by fucking stupid accident. Jesse was the love of Sam's life in the same way Cassie or Lisa was the love of Dean's.

[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

It's Show. *shrugs* I love it unconditionally, and I always come around in the end.

I did bawl like a little, wet, angry baby, though. So much Pain! Holy fucking fuck! I am gutted, just like I was last year at this time and the year before (oh, Lordy! remember that season three final? *whistles*) and the year before *that* and. . .

Supernatural is a cruel Mistress BitchFace, but when you catch her at the right moment. . . well, that's when it's more than TV. *pat pat*

*clings*

*takes bottle of booze back from twinsarein and passes it right along to you*

i'm okay now!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I've watched it again and it just makes me cry more, but it also made me more happy. I think, given where we were, that was the best we could hope for. Dean's alive, kept his promise and Sam was badder than a bad thing--he was THE bad thing. He kicked ass like no one ever had before. And just about every story ever written about these guys is canon now.

*hugs*

*passes on the booze but enjoys a lovely hazelnut coffee with you*
*sip--ahhhhhhh*

Re: i'm okay now!

[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

Well, good for you, hon! *pat pat*

I don't get why everyone is all. . . weird about it. I really loved that showdown in the cemetery. It was more than worth the price of admission right there. . . IMO.

Mmmmm. Coffee. *drools*

ETA: I don't know if you've seen or read this yet, but. . . you REALLY fucking should, hon: http://community.livejournal.com/herostratic/55129.html

Re: i'm okay now!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

JESSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: i'm okay now!

[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

Told ya!

*takes care of Mama*

[tabaqui]

Ooooooooooh, Show. BOYS.
Omg.

I cried, no lie. Thank fuck no one else was around. It was just so....

IMPALA BACKSTORY! LOVE WINS THE DAY!!
Oh, man.
*twirls you*

It was so fucking awesome and now, now, now.....four months and we get *another season*.
YES!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I cried, I won't even front. And I *loved* the Impala backstory and I was willing to go with it all the way--star gazing! AWWWWWWW! Is that Kripspeak for "made out like horny teens on the hood of the Impala"?

[tabaqui]

I WOULD CERTAINLY HOPE SO!
:)

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

I've been sort of retrospectively watching it with everyone on my flist who has posted positive reviews and love. I left the ep feeling disappointed, and other people's happiness with it has helped me feel better about it.

Mind you, I still want those answers, too, and somehow Kripke's handwaving, via Chuck, of the difficulties of writing an ending and making the pieces fit and satisfying the fans was distinctly Joss manqué and not actually the Jossiness he was aiming for and therefore fairly lame and annoying and condescending.

But Dean still loves Sam, and Sam still loves Dean, and if it was utter retconning fanservice to show them carving their initials into the Impala, and utter crap to say that Dean left a plastic toy soldier in an ashtray of a completely totalled car, it still kind of made me smile, you know?

Yeah, mixed feelings. Definitely.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I was torn up at first and really angry but rewatching it, talking about it and reading other folks reaction has helped a lot.

and if it was utter retconning fanservice to show them carving their initials into the Impala, and utter crap to say that Dean left a plastic toy soldier in an ashtray of a completely totalled car, it still kind of made me smile, you know?

I kind of ended up loving that, because that's just so...darling. And sure, we non-paid, amateur and on the whole disrespected fanwriters would have been handed our hats and shown the door for that by our readers but I loved it. And don't get me started on the car. Even the Show doesn't know what happened to the car!

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

I promise to stop editing this comment now that I've got it in the right place.


I was actually lying there last night thinking about Dean bashing up the Impala at the beginning of S2, there in Bobby's wrecking yard. I know I'm way too literal in my thinking sometimes, but how the fuck many 1967 Impalas are in wrecking yards nationwide to supply all those body parts AGAIN?

Then I got to thinking about the old conundrum of George Washington's apocryphal hatchet--the one he could not tell a lie about chopping down the cherry tree with, you know? It lived a long and useful life before it went into the museum, and during that time, the ash handle had to be replaced, and finally the axe-head was honed down to the point where it, too needed to be replaced. But it's in the museum as Washington's hatchet...why, exactly?

Dean's Impala is now something like that. Actually sticking the toy soldier back in the ashtray and, what? re-carving childish initials into the replacement rear dash? would seem to be distinctly unmagical.

But, like I say, I think too much. What do I know? I'm only a fan.

One thing I do know is that your damn icon is too hot for words. *guh*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Remember, we're here for the magic--repeat that until you've hypnotized yourself.

Now I'm curious. I want to work out just how much and what kind of damage the Imapla actually had, or would have had, if it happened RL. I always figured if that accident had happened in RL, the frame would have been shot and that would have been it but now, I wonder....*G*

Right??? That icon is hot! I have it credited to lightthesparks.