Catching up in the thread...

But if she just got killed by some random demon she knew nothing about one night, apologising is kinda weird, no? Especially just to Sam.

Azazel showed Sam a "high-def instant replay" of the night Mary died in AHBL part the first. She ran back into the bedroom for Sam and recognized Azazel, saying "It's you," and Sam then learned that Mary knew Azazel. For me, that answered the question as to why Mary said "I'm sorry" to Sam in Home.

Julie: metamorphagi's crossover, Julie? I didn't feel that happened, so much. I never got the impression Max likes him. I'm feeling the Alec/Max pretty hard, in fact. But Alec's totally gone for him, as he should be.

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Azazel showed Sam a "high-def instant replay" of the night Mary died in AHBL part the first. She ran back into the bedroom for Sam and recognized Azazel, saying "It's you,"

But that doesn't happen in Home, though. We don't get that for quite the while. So was that already in Kripke's head?

That's my thinking. He planted the question in Home and answered it (as well as how Sam got his psychic abilities) in AHBL.

I'm using the phrase "in love" very loosely, ita. Just how, despite everyone's best efforts to hate him, they develop soft squishy spots for him.

I still didn't think Max developed a soft squishy spot for him, though, Julie.

Disappointing fic: [link]

Man, it started out so great. The first two sections (pretty long) have great Dean, great Sam, great D/C chemistry, great surrounding characters, original or no (Tamara!). And then, in the final section, blam! Dean is Michael, fallen. WTF? I tried to stick with it, but I really couldn't care anymore. I am a huge Dean girl, as is obvious, but I hate when people do shit like that with his character. It just erases him. And the author spends little to no time on how this would affect Sam (answer=HUGE) despite having a strong Sam presence up until that point in the story. Too much time on how it affected Castiel. Whatever, honestly. And they also did a little too much to Cas: making him the newest angel is a bit too special snowflake for me too.

Man, I was *really* liking it up until that whiplash turn. Really really.

How can you say that, ita? First Max is all "this dude is dangerous, no likey" and then inexplicably she's all "I have to save him!" (and let's not forget the initial "soothing the caged animal" scene). I swear it was evenly explicitly stated once or twice that she cares about him.

Max is mother hen, and I think it's perfectly in character for her to extend her web to someone else not properly human. I don't see her as liking him particularly much, but maybe I'm forgetting something from an earlier chapter where she was dealing with him. She's only been thinking of Alec and the immediate issues of her team in the most recent chapters.

She got over her initial dislike, but it seemed perfectly standard "we must fight, we are now on the same team" dynamics from every show ever, not to mention most fics.

Max is mother hen, and I think it's perfectly in character for her to extend her web to someone else not properly human.

Haven't read the story in question, but yeah. That's sort of the typical Max pattern. Her operating mode is, for better or worse, by S2, SAVE ALL THE THINGS!

I think my whiplash is that she started off considering Dean a threat to safety of all her other Things. And then, without even having seen him for more than five minutes, let alone conscious, she's all "Fellow cock-a-roachies, we must save DEAN!"

Disappointing fic: [link]!

Well, crap. I just started it yesterday, and I did like the opening scenes a lot (although I was a little confused about where exactly in the story she was starting, and the whole dragons! and apocalyptic shit raining from the skies! was a little startling, too.)