At this rate Misha's going to convince himself he's turning into Arwen Evenstar

That reminds me - I keep wondering what sort of wonderful and bizarre things would happen if Misha Collins and Viggo Mortenson ever collaborated on anything.

I keep wondering what sort of wonderful and bizarre things would happen if Misha Collins and Viggo Mortenson ever collaborated on anything.

Or Misha and Mike Rosenbaum for that matter.

Viggo's similarly Renaissance Man-ish, isn't he? Does Collins do the photography thing as well as the poetry? Wouldn't be surprised.

I don't know very much about Rosenbaum, beyond the fact that he clearly has a well-developed sense of humour and is a hell of an actor. And lickable, obviously.

...God, I should rewatch/listen to the LoTR commentaries again. I've not done that in a while. Man, I have SO MUCH love for all the backstory of that movie. Viggo stomping around with his sword.

I'm watching the "Metamorphosis" rerun, and just got past the point where Dean punches Sam twice and then refuses to listen to his side or even have a conversation. Now I know that Dean's worried for Sam, and rightly so, but that whole segment just makes me cringe. Because it got me to thinking, and trying to remember how many times we've seen Dean get frustrated or angry and instead of talking he punches Sam (I know it happened in the episode where they met Gordon; has it happened anywhere else?)

Because a "what if?" portion of my brain suddenly began thinking -- you know, Dean manhandles Sam a lot (pushing him up against walls and so on) and punches him when Sam doesn't do what he wants... and if that is their relationship, that wouldn't have just started within the past two years or so... so for how many years has Dean been knocking Sam around? We all accept as canon that Dean was The Best Big Brother that ever existed, and served as brother, father, mother, and I don't know, tooth fairy, but what if? What if their relationship was a bit more rocky than that (which would kind of fit in with all the physical training and sparring and so on)?

Anyway. It was just a tributary my imagination started venturing down. I'm not particularly happy with my brain right at the moment.

Have we heard an angel lie?

Castiel faked a phone call in the episode where Pam dies. I'm foggy on the details, but I think he manufactured a phone message from Bobby to Pam to make her show up? Others will probably be more clear on the details than I am.

Also, if you consider a "lie of omission" a lie, then yes, we've seen the angels pull that kind of thing too.

Oh, yes, but commission. I know that there are any number of supernatural entities in various canons that can imply falsehood, but if they say it with their mouths, then it must be the truth. But I don't know if SPN angels are in that group.

It depends on whether he identified himself as Bobby with the fake phone call or just used Bobby's voice and let them draw their own conclusions.

Morgana - I think I can say with confidence (although it's not my cup of tea) that there is a MOUNTAIN of fic out there exploring that very possibility.

Eh, once siblings get to be the roughly the same size, I think they throw punches. Christ knows, my brother and I had some knock-down, drag-out brawls. (As did my husband and his older sister, and my best friend and her little brother, and my other friend and HER little sister, and on and on and on. There are reasons why I am fine with having an only child. Not having to break up battles is one of them.)

That said, I suspect pre-IMToD, sibling violence was generally the level you see in S1, where it doesn't really go beyond shoving, largely because it *was* presented as such a break in behavior, and such a part of how utterly fucked in the head and broken Dean was in S2.