Since there's that movie Ted opening soon, Wishful Thinking has been on my mind, as an apex of teddy bear-dom (the teddy action in Chronicle was also good, but fake, so....)

I rewatched this: [link] and, good lord, do I love how they bounce off each other to get all the way to their lollipop disease quarantine requirements. I especially like the head gesture that means "Get out your ID and follow my lead, little bro".

Off topic, but the stuffing flying out of his head cracks me up every time.

Life is meaningless!

Also love when Teddy says to Dean, meaning what's on the news, "Do you believe this?" Dean's voice and the expression on his face when he says, "Not really," are fucking priceless.

It does make you wonder -- if they had cast different actors for Sam and Dean, even only one, would the show have lasted this long? Their chemistry together has been so obvious from the beginning.

I know people talk about the Christian Kane possibility, and I like the guy fine, loved Lindsay, still love Eliot, but I can't really think of anyone else in the Winchester shoes. I've seen them go through too much. Especially with Jensen, I don't think there's much room or much point doing it differently. Jared played catchup a bit, but their chemistry was always there, while he was getting better hitting the notes.

And I can totally handwave that as Sam being young and grieving and resentful. Because that's just the kind of fan I am.

The layout/type on this tumblr is horrifying, but what the poster is suggesting is sort of fascinating: that Crowley is not a demon, but an archangel, Samael.

I tend to not like Crowley-is-an-angel theories/stories, mostly because they tend to be Good Omen lifts, and/or a way to un-evil or further power him up.

The main reason I think that isn't true is because it's more attention to the lore than the writers have ever paid. I'd be surprised if they started how (or had been doing so on the down low the whole time).

Doesn't mean you can't fit it in, but I do seem to recall they established there were only four archangels, all of whom are spoken for at the moment.

Now that I look it up, she's wrong anyway -- Samael is an archangel, and the angel of death, in Talmudic lore, but in the New Testament he's essentially Satan, aka Lucifer.

It seems that Jewish scripture names a lot more archangels than the New Testament does, too.

I thought it was interesting for a minute, though. There are things they skipped entirely with Crowley, like no smoking out, no red eyes. At least they've consistently skipped them?

He hasn't smoked out because he's never abandoned a vessel. It's not a meaningful omission. And they seemed to imply that demons can appear and disappear just offscreen when they need to, but he's the only it's been stressed with.