It's a little flinchy, every time the Impala takes a hit.

Poor Impala.

Damn, I love that scene beyond reason.

It hurts so good bad in that "you always hurt the ones you love" way.

Yes, boy is grieving. Oh yes. (And apparently up to the anger stage.)

That anger stage, it lasts a while with him.

Bless.

I'm failing to thinky my own thinky. Hmm. Must think about this.

I'm working on the thinky right now! It might be really obvious thinky, but whatever.

I'm also listening to Kane, which is All Cass's Fault, as so many (good) things are.

Central time: Anne? Zenkitty? Sail?

Yup. Central, but I'm so much a morning person (I'm usually drifting awake of my own accord between 4:30 and 5:00 that you may as well count me as East Coast.

I'm failing to thinky my own thinky. Hmm. Must think about this.

Me too. I keep trying, but today is a magpie (ooh, shiny over there, no over there, ooh no over there) day.

I'm also listening to Kane, which is All Cass's Fault,

::is chopped liver::

See if I send you links again.

Oh! No, it's Bev's fault, too! I swear!

::snuggles up to Bev and turns up "Spirit Boy"::

Bev has been linkalicious lately.

Family Sacrifice: Compare and Contrast. John Winchester vs. Angel; Dean Winchester vs. Buffy Summers. Discuss!

JOHN VS ANGEL

Both are the leaders of their families, the alphas, if we want to use that terminolgy (which works better for SPN than BtVS or Angel). Both of them separate themselves from their families for their own safety/good -- John when he thinks the YED is too close, too dangerous, and Angel after his choice with the Wolfram and Hart, um, banquet.

John is willing to sacrifice his boys' innocence and freedom in service to his own need for vengeance, but Angel is not, especially at first -- he accepts help from Cordy and Doyle, and then from Wes and Gunn, and later Fred, but he clearly believes that while he is stronger with their help, he should fight alone.

The difference, maybe, is that Angel has guilt that John doesn't have to deal with (John has only been WRONGED, and doesn't realize for years and years that he is wronging his sons in the same way Angelus wronged his own blood kin, and later the scores of innocents who crossed his path, if not quite as violently).

Of course, they both sacrifice the chance of love in service to the cause. John believes his role as part of a pair dies with Mary; Angel believes that love is out of the question (although, for me, there's a helluva lot of handwavium there -- once the curse takes effect and turns him into Angelus, he could never *truly* have another moment of perfect happiness with Buffy, could he, because he would alway be afraid of the consequences, meaning they probably could have been together anyway, but ... sprinkles Handwavium Powder liberally over plot hole).

Of course, the biggest difference is that John is looking for vengeance, while Angel is looking for redemption -- their motives wrt to sacrifice come from entirely different places. Angel sacrifices his own happiness EVERY BLOODY MINUTE, while John never makes a sacrifice that affects HIM personally until he chooses to separate himself from the boys late in S1.

Coming soon! My two cents on Dean vs. Buffy!

(Amy, I did get your e. Real life ate me this week. I will e you back soon. Promise.)