Quick question: Does anyone have any thoughts (or any links to good meta posts) regarding the Trickster? I'm trying to figure out if he maps well onto a specific trickster figure (Coyote, Loki) or if he's just a mish-mash.

So far, I'm finding that he's a bit of a combo plate of certain tricksterish attributes.

So far, I'm finding that he's a bit of a combo plate of certain tricksterish attributes.

Pretty much this. He's more Americana Trickster (Anansi, Coyote, Raven) than Loki or Reynard, but there's no one flashing neon sign saying "He is this!!".

I know we talked about Trickster being a regular over on Jericho, but was the female demon that got most of the face time in front of the jail, Shoshannah Stern, Bonnie on Jericho? I've watched it a couple times and I can't tell because a) I don't know her that well and b) those demon eyes change people's appearance enough to mess with me.

If it was--cool.

Quick question: Does anyone have any thoughts (or any links to good meta posts) regarding the Trickster? I'm trying to figure out if he maps well onto a specific trickster figure (Coyote, Loki) or if he's just a mish-mash.

So far, I'm finding that he's a bit of a combo plate of certain tricksterish attributes.

Yeah, I think that's probably true. I was going through the Devil's Road Map featurette on the DVDs, which is AWESOME because it looks like they explain the lore and research behind every single episode. And they talk about how the Trickster figures into many different stories and mythologies, so I don't think they mapped him to one specific character. Just the general characteristics and whatever works for the story.

Trickster on SPN is not very Coyote. I did a bunch of Coyote research before writing a story where he appears, although most of my research was limited to California Mission Indian tales. In those stories, Coyote is a creator figure, very self-involved, varies from pretty sneaky to unbelievably stupid, and spends most of his time trying to get sex. And find food.

I don't see much overlap between Trickster on SPN, who really does have something of a moral code, even if the implementation is cruel, and the anarchic creative figure of (some) Native American legends.

Is it wrong of me to be so pleased that Supernatural was #2 AND #4 in the ratings for the CW?

Javier bardem & JDM separated at birth? (Scroll down for the picture.)

EVERYONE is saying that, it's so hysterical. Is there a market for movie with a character and his mysteriously-more-Spanish brother?

They could drive around the country in a cool muscle car hunting demons. . .

Holy cow, that's really compelling evidence, I must say. I think the dimples really do it.