Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?

'Time Bomb'


Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?  

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Amy - Jan 09, 2011 2:40:15 pm PST #16924 of 30002
Because books.

JOSE CHUNG! God, I miss that show.

SPN's mytharc has at least been largely coherent and focused

They take a stab at it anyway. One of the reasons I haven't bought any X-Files DVDs (aside from how obscenely expensive they were in the beginning) is that I really only want MOW episodes.


Laga - Jan 09, 2011 2:42:27 pm PST #16925 of 30002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

But even when X-Filed did MOW episodes, rarely was anything resolved.


Anne W. - Jan 09, 2011 2:44:45 pm PST #16926 of 30002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

They take a stab at it anyway.

I think the writer's strike in S3 really threw things off in a way that they had to pick up slack for in S4 with marginal success. I do think that if Kripke et.al. had thought through their cosmology a bit more and to greater depth, some of the buggier parts of the overall mytharc wouldn't have been quite so, well, buggy.


Amy - Jan 09, 2011 2:47:21 pm PST #16927 of 30002
Because books.

Oh, I agree, Anne. But they've definitely made an effort to tie things together in a way Chris Carter either gave up on or couldn't manage.

I think that's why Jesse's one-off (when he was SUCH a smoking gun) bothered me. I'd have to look up the episode of X-Files, but the one with the little boy who was, like, the key to the whole world or whatever, and who disappeared into the ether never to be picked up on again.


Anne W. - Jan 09, 2011 2:50:02 pm PST #16928 of 30002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I think that's why Jesse's one-off (when he was SUCH a smoking gun) bothered me.

I'm still holding out hope they'll revisit the Jesse idea, but I also got the idea that Jesse used his power in the end to deliberately and permanently remove himself from the conflict, giving destiny the kind of 'screw you' that Dean and Sam were not yet able to pull off.


Amy - Jan 09, 2011 2:53:31 pm PST #16929 of 30002
Because books.

I loved the idea, though, and I think it would be a shame if they didn't revisit it. Demons and humans breeding? There should be more Jesses around, really.

And didn't someone mention it's almost a nephilim thing, since all demons can be traced back to Lucifer, who is in fact an angel?


Anne W. - Jan 09, 2011 3:03:03 pm PST #16930 of 30002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

And didn't someone mention it's almost a nephilim thing

Ooh. Yes. Was it ever said that Lucifer was the only fallen angel, or did others fall with him? I've somehow managed to come up with head!canon regarding Azazel being an angel who was corrupted by Lucifer much as Lilith was corrupted.


§ ita § - Jan 09, 2011 3:13:43 pm PST #16931 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Current fic peeve: "whilst". Just don't.

Why? It's a word.


Amy - Jan 09, 2011 3:43:44 pm PST #16932 of 30002
Because books.

It's always seemed pretty British to me, though.


Juliebird - Jan 09, 2011 3:51:42 pm PST #16933 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Well, if it's a cultural slip, I won't beat on it too much.

As a non-Brit, to me it just reads archaic, especially when none of the wordage around it seems to match.