I see the words and yet...i can't understand them!

It's what Jessica said in Movies about the Hunger Games. Everyone talks about so much, I now have no desire to ever watch it. And I don't see the appeal of Cumberbatch at all. He looks like a kid who ate paste.

Everyone talks about so much, I now have no desire to ever watch it.

again something i've never understood.

And I don't see the appeal of Cumberbatch at all.

I don't watch because i think he's attractive(i really don't think he is). i watch because he makes laugh(and cry).

I think that Sherlock is interesting enough, but I am not in love. It's a bit overwhelming to care a bit, but nowhere near as much as most of the people commenting. I feed like an odd sort of wet blanket. More so than if I didn't watch the show, or if I didn't like it.

But I have decided to not avoid things just because other people talk about them all the time. Not least of all because finding out I dislike them, which happens sometimes, is a weird rush.

Yeah, that's mature of me.

I'm in a discussion with someone who's sad at the idea that Bobby might not come back as Bobby. Like, the idea that Jim Beaver might be back on the show in a way that's not Bobby's resurrection is upsetting to them.

I don't mind if Jim comes back, in general, but the least happymaking way of that happening is Bobby being alive again. It's just the worst of the ways I can conceive of the actor returning. I like him having died the way he died, and resurrecting him would retroactively erode that. Ghost or flashback or revenant would be much better.

I'm usually curious if everyone else is talking! But this time there was a bit too much of the "this is the best thing EVER IN THE HISTORY OF TIME" and "IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE," and it made me irrationally resentful and uninterested. Now I'm just plain uninterested.

I like him having died the way he died, and resurrecting him would retroactively erode that. Ghost or flashback or revenant would be much better.

Exactly.

Yeah, Bobby got to go out swinging, I don't want to see that overturned and diluted the way just about all the meaningful deaths in comic books have. Ghost or Heaven-dwelling soul is fine, flashback is fine, an Old One being played by Jim so as to mess with the guys' heads is fine (if painful), but I don't want Bobby to get better.

I just realized that things weren't necessarily as dire for Dean in "Time after Time after Time" as Sam and Jody Mills assumed. Back in 1944 Castiel definitely exists with the power to transport people through time.

Which would make for some excellent angst if the thought were to occur to Dean now, after the fact.

Sherlock isn't all that. I mean, it's not like it's Community or anything (which I'm pretty sure we must have put someone off by now).

Back in 1944 Castiel definitely exists with the power to transport people through time.

But I think that's off the plate for a number of reasons, including the fact that they could theoretically go back in time anywhere before 2010 and get a "good" Cas, bring him forward and use his juice. And by juice I mean...no, never mind. 1940s Cas has no vessel, isn't on Earth, doesn't necessarily have his "save Dean" papers yet, all sorts of stuff. I think tapping into his past opens up so many wormholes that it's best they (the writers) don't go there at all.

I suspect a pre-show Castiel could be intrigued into answering a prayer from someone who is otherwise invisible to him (it?), and upon finding an anachronistic Dean with masking spells engraved on his ribs by Castiel's own power might be inclined to help. But it probably was best for the story to avoid going that route.

But it probably was best for the story to avoid going that route.

What they seem to be doing this season is leaving the boys without any easy rescues, too, which I appreciate.

I think if they were going to bring Cas back, they'd need to be focused on him and what happened with the Leviathans, rather than using him as an escape route again, too.

I suspect a pre-show Castiel could be intrigued

I like to think that he couldn't. Because he's a by the book upper middle rank soldier, and nothing special.

It all started to go downhill the 18th of September (don't ask my why I typed Supertember, just don't) 2008. Until then, he follows orders from above, and coordinates those below.

Sherlock is all about the relationship between Watson and Sherlock, for me.

on topic? my Dean Winchester calendar is finally hanging in my work cubicle. it makes work life prettier.