I assume that involves self-destruction?
We've been shown bibbing. It's when Dick forced a leviathan to eat himself.
I dunno. I find the leviathans mysterious, but not random. They're making corporate power plays, and stretching out in many arenas to aggregate influence, but it's all very...businesslike. It seems consistent to me, and aligned with not running around and terrifying people.
I just don't have any idea what the endgame is. That could be revealed and I find it not in line with what we've been shown to date. But everything so far seems to be of a kind. And I like the difference. I like that it's not violence. I like that it's not personal. Not magical. And that they only really consider there to be two threats in the entire world: Winchester 1, and Winchester 2. Apart from that, Dick seems to be set for smooth sailing, doing whatever he's doing, that's going to take decades to accomplish or to keep benefiting from. Because it's not like angels who were going to remake the world and then apparently live on earth on their own terms. George was going to keep
pretending
to be a specific human for a long time. So not only do they intend to be here for ages, they intend to be on the down low for ages too.
I find it fascinating, the fact that the oldest thing we've seen has made the most seamless mass adaptation into our contemporary life. It's so much creepier that way. It makes humanity seem, I dunno, incredibly vulnerable and transparent, if we can get beaten at our own game so easily. And we don't even know we're playing.
I suppose from their perspective 30 years is even less time than it is to anything else we've seen (excepting Death). I hope they play that up more. For all the angels' cosmic power, they seemed to operate in the moment on a human timescale and grow impatient quickly. It'd be interesting to see the attitude that 30 years is the wink of an eye to these monsters influence how they operate, rather than just be used as background.
Fucking hell. My tumblr feed is full of
reactions
to a new promo/sneak peek/something, but I can't find the source, just a repeated Cas quote from it. Fucking driving me nuts.
eta: Aha! The web is my bitch: [link]
Okay, I got a couple feels now. I'm ready, Sera, bring it on.
Well, one way or another, everyone on my dash seems to have found something to freak out about for this week. I can't wait.
Some time back Death said God was afraid the Levs would "eat the petri dish". The picture I got from that was if left unchecked, the levs would eat every living thing on earth, then turn and eat one another until there was immortal starving leviathan left to suffer eternally on an empty earth. Since the leviathans are actually thinking beings it makes sense that they would look for away around that. It would make sense that if they want to turn people into a permanent meat source, the plan will need to put some kind of infrastructure in place that probably is easier to do secretly.
They might not devour each other as a matter of course - they were imprisoned in Purgatory for at least 375 million years (probably much longer) and didn't winnow themselves down to a single survivor. Though perhaps Mother-of-All prevented them from doing so while she was conscious.
Judging from that trailer my
"Thank dog Sam didn't get into an auto accident" relief
might have been short-lived. Ouch.
Same as the first one I linked to upthread, FTR.
Sorry, either I must have missed it.
