It does seem kind of odd that they wouldn't come back to the Antichrist, but I suppose that Jesse might be even harder to find now that he's actually hiding. I guess I wasn't all that surprised by Castiel, who has shown a willingness to go for expediency in the past.

ION, I think I may have a toaster already. Whee! I think I have my cousin hooked, even though she tends to be more of a procedurals fan.

And, completely OT, has anyone figured out cutting and pasting from previous posts and reading white font with an iPad? I lurve the iPad for most things, but reading and posting here with it is getting frustrating.

I think they miscalculated when they put that sort of power on the show (and the relatively simple premise of making an antichrist) because there should be more Jesses all over the place as power plays, being controlled by the bad guys. I don't think my reasoning is the same as Matt's, but I don't see how they could dig themselves out from underneath that one, unless you end up with a new passell of special kids. They'd be jumping through hoops explaining why the series isn't over yet, so banishing him to Australia narrative is the best they could do.

No, that's pretty much my objection to it too.

See, I go back and forth. In my mind, sometimes writers are gods, who can do anything, and I want to see them do their magic. I want to see ideas that I can't even imagine, with impossible situations fixed, no, better than fixed, made whole and perfect. In this world, I'd like to see what they could do with Jesse. But, in my mind, sometimes writers are people. This side has grown, since I know some. They may be good, brilliant even, but they still must work within certain parameters, and cannot necessarily make a story work just by willing it so. In this world, I'm sadly with ita and Matt. Not that I would be sad to be with ita and Matt, just...

I just watched The Song Remains The Same. It was so heartbreaking. I think it was one of the most depressing eps so far. It's not that anything so bad actual happens, I suppose, it's just so hopeless. Also, I can understand angels being shits. I can understand why it's good for the show for them to be not good, even bad. But it just breaks my heart to see their soullessness. And I just can't wrap my brain around angels without god in this world, Sharon Shinn's books notwithstanding. I seem to be ok with demons without god, or at least without an active, present god, but not angels.

I like angels without God for a few reasons--I think God also unbalances the story, and his absence from exactly where you expect him, from his not designed for facets original creations conjures more questions than us without him--I can theorise that we were created to grow to a point where we don't need him anymore because we are in his image, but what if he doesn't clean up after himself? Are they our crossing guards? Chamber maids? What drives and rewards them?

And I never really articulated that angle before, but that's what I'd been getting out of the show through the end of S6. And I'm good with that. In fact, it gives the story more reason to go past S5 for me.

I irritated myself by reading a fic I knew had the potential, but I'm just chilling myself out with two things a) I knew she was doing this to John and b) maybe this is just the John she needs for the story, not the John she sees in the show.

Nevertheless, fuck this John:

It’s also that Sam’s point about their father, about how unimportant Dean and Sam had been to him, is still eating at him. He can’t stop thinking about it. And not just in an all over… haunting type of way, every once in a while something sticks him like a goddamn knife. He’d known that his father was possessed because he’d told Dean he was proud of him. He’d called his father for help a hundred times and he’d been ignored. He’d had a son that he’d actually taken out for father-son things that didn’t involve knives and gore and never told Dean that he had another younger brother.

Why you gonna make him out of canon? What'd he do to deserve that? Die to save Dean or something? Sam reach a point where he could articulate both forgiveness and love for him? Pfah. Irrelevant.

Excuse me while I go post to [link] It's been way too long.

Hey, if anyone wants to submit any nice, juicy, complex meta about John, I'm trying to make a bit of a diverse queue. And if you have favourite John-related fanworks or screencaps or anything--I'd be so grateful.

ita !, I submitted a link to the Tumbler for a gen fic that was wee!Sam POV, but shed a positive light on John. Should I have gotten permission from the author? Did you not get the link, or did it not meet the criteria? I don't think I can find it again now, but in case something useful comes up, It would be good to know what you don't want or can't use. Thanks.

Oh. Mail. That.

Oops?

Whoa.

I've always wondered what Jared would look like with short hair.

Those look....whoa.

The hair on Jensen looks even more like the guy who briefly faked me out for Jared on an ad for Revenge/666 Park Avenue: [link]