But I don't think he would have told Dean and Sam, after he'd completed the objective that was the end to all those shitty means, that he'd kill them if they didn't worship him or swear loyalty and love.

But different things had happened to him by then. Before Dean and Sam betrayed him, he used them as bait. They betrayed him, he gained incredible power.

I'm not saying he's unaltered--but I am saying that it's *Cas* that made that decision. He's had a god fixation for most of the time we've known him. If Gabriel tried to assume the role, I'd think it was a change in character. Not Castiel. Having a God is very important to him, and suddenly he has power to change reality? And he's pretty crazed? Totally segues for me.

I'm starting the superhero story. Well, I will say the art's good! I totally don't know if I'm good enough to beta consistently (there are things that have been done for me that I can't do for other people), but it was an interesting and rewarding process, and she's an incredibly talented artist, so I'm flattered she even listened.

eta: Did you read the DC_everafter where *Sam* was Dean's horse?

Did you read the DC_everafter where *Sam* was Dean's horse?

wtf no! But I've proven fairly allergic to the ever after fics. I need insulin shots for those /mixes metaphors

That's just, so so wrong. No. No. They are equals. Sam is not Dean's beast of burden. That sounds like the shittiest sidelining "but he's still in the story and always between Dean's legs at Dean's side!"

I actually haven't been able to bring myself to rewatch the finale, if only because I'm offended by the misused Dutch Angle to close in on Castiel's nostrils.

I think I need to see what happens next with Cas before I can wrap my head around Godstiel. It was just a glimpse, and I need more. For that to be an honest cliffhanger, the next scene, if Dean and Sam and Bobby don't capitulate, involves Cas turning them to chunky soup. Unless there's more to this God!Cas than presented.

The horse wasn't named Samuel--it was named Sampson. But Dean called it Sammy the whole way through. I...just...you could leave him out, you know? Great art, though--dag_prime.

How do you *misuse* a Dutch Angle?

By staring too intently up someone's nose? I didn't find Cas menacing with that angle (maybe it wasn't so much the camera angle as it was the flat lighting), more, silly looking.

I've never met a camera angle that could turn me off an entire hour of TV if I liked the episode, but I'm not that sensitive.

Sometimes I feel people that write one of the Winchesters as an addict doesn't take into consideration that we know Dean's an alcoholic, we had a season of Sam's blood habit, and indications that John abused the bottle himself. They're a family of substance abusers. So often John's a prick, or Sam's an asshole, or Dean's a suffering martyr of addiction--it never seems to all be handled in perspective of all the male Winchesters.

Not that I enjoy moralistic addiction stories anyway. But given that I read mostly D/C, Dean's too often the hero dealing with a father or brother, or if it's gedry, his abuse is painted in a very different way from how the show handles it.

Me no likey.

I'm being mostly facetious by blaming my not rewatching on a camera angle, but it's my take-away. Awesome badass painful episode, but the final image is one I can't take seriously.

Superhero BB: Sam hasn't shown back up yet, nor Gabriel, and I wonder what was the point, as I'm almost done.

Aw crap, spoke too soon.

Okay, the "probie" thing? Dude, stop lifting from NCIS in the middle of my SPN fic. It's distracting.

Then again, I didn't mind the Regency story with a sudden Neal Caffrey reference.

eta: OMG, I'm having an emotional day, but I sure did not like the twist of the superhero story. It had all better turn out differently.

I didn't like the story in the end. Too many things, even with the worst averted.

Just clicked out of another fic a couple paragraphs in for the throwaway thought of Dean's "silly women".

The fic has a sort of middle of the road ending. Not schmoop, not angst, not HEA. It's kinda...flat. Also, a whole unexplored background infrastructure.

However, it was hot where it needed to be hot.

It was indeed hot.

But between Sam still being a fuck up drug addict who gets to spend the rest of his days in prison for the criminally insane (or a mental hospital for the criminally insane, whichever), and Dean having been a, what was it, butt battery? and so many things not really explained or explored.

a whole unexplored background infrastructure

Yeah, that.

I didn't mind that the ending wasn't happy with a bow on it. It just offended me in lots of little ways, even though some of the ideas were so close to what I would imagine for an AU where there are RL consequences, and to what I'd like out of a superhero AU.

I also don't get the wanting of a different body because it's more powerful, except that it's not powerful enough to stop the bad guy in the old/current body.

I did like the parts where Dean was breaking down as he began to suspect Cas, and how he wasn't all AWESOME WINGS!.

I'm still annoyed by Gabriel's presence. Although, well done for me not realizing that Sam and Gabe were the guns in the first act. That might just be me being lazy, though.