Dude. There's a Gabriel big bang in the works. WTF? He's fun and stuff, but four eps, right? Gimme a Harvelle big bang.

HE KILLED DEAN.

And she was absolutely enamoured that Dean went to be with the woman with the kid who looked like Dean. I think she's the only one in fandom who more than not hates the idea of Dean with Lisa.

I worry about execution but I share your mom's POV Juliebird.

Dude. There's a Gabriel big bang in the works. WTF? He's fun and stuff, but four eps, right? Gimme a Harvelle big bang.

Amen. I loves me some Ellen, and I would love to see more of Jo. And there's all sorts of lovely room to play with Mr. Never Actually Appears in the Show Harvelle.

I think the tagging at Groped by an Angel is out of hand. I can't just click "au/ar" anymore for one stop shopping. It wouldn't be so bad if all the fics were required to tag with that one in addition to any other fine-tuning like "crime/detective" or "highschool". As it is, they don't all do that. And then there's the murky definition of au/ar. Some writers, while not necessarily tagging their fics as such, still include "au after ep blah blah" in the warnings/notes/summary. Um, it's all a fucking alternate universe when it comes to fic. Unless it's a coda or an interlude inbetween eps that doesn't mess with the canon. Now there's a freaking tag for "au/canon change". Come on! ALL FIC IS AU, all fic is canon change/modification/reinterpretation, so let's be a little more choosy about what we actually label as AU. Pretty please.

And she was absolutely enamoured that Dean went to be with the woman with the kid who looked like Dean. I think she's the only one in fandom who more than not hates the idea of Dean with Lisa.

I'll be on the bench with ehab.

After watching Swan Song a couple times in the last few days, I think I may ship Dean/Lisa as much as Dean/Carmen, who is my OTP. I agree that execution may be problematic and I don't want to watch the Dean and Lisa Story, but she is The One for him -- for me.

I dunno. It's way too tidy. It creeps me the hell out. Cassie is the one true woman for him for me, if I had to pick. I just never want to see that actress again. Or maybe the chick from Monster Movie. I mean, it's not that much more random than Lisa.

I mean, it's not that much more random than Lisa.

Exactly!

He can romanticize the hell out of a bendy weekend in his head but that doesn't make it Real. (sorry for the Pooh Caps, ita.)

The more I think about it, the more I can believe that Dean and Lisa did have some sort of connection besides that weekend of very bendy sex. Would Dean have sought her out like he did in the year of his deal just because the sex was that great?

Edit: contradictory xpost!

Would Dean have sought her out like he did in the year of his deal just because the sex was that great?

Then they should have articulated it. Because that's Exactly (see I can do it too) what he did say. I only got the impression he thought of her again was because of Ben and the near miss paternity wise, and that she wasn't otherwise disgusting.

Even if the reason they didn't have Dean pin the fantasy on Cassie is because of the poor reception to the actress, I'm willing to accept as canon the fact that they were young, they didn't work out, blah blah, and he was over it.

In my head, he was all bendy-weekend-yay! only until he met Ben, and *then* he started to romanticize it. Not just her (not even her, specifically, awesome as she seems) but the whole Life He Didn't Have.