I'm watching Wishful Thinking on the new tv, and just asked DH to come watch with me, since it has the prettiest location of any episode ever. He came and took a look, said, "I live here." He got the map and looked up Concrete, WA, and is plotting a road trip as we speak.

Bwahahaha! Don't you REMEMBER my rantycakes oblig CONCRETE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THAT! fit???

Do you want to have YOUR OWN???

Seriously, though, you guys NEED to do the North Cascades drive. It's just so very beautiful.

So I rewatched Death Takes A Holiday, On The Head of a Pin and The Monster At The End Of This Book yesterday AND saw It's A Terrible Life for the first time. I had totally forgotten that IATL even existed, and was absolutely tickled pink by it. It was adorable! With its bright sunny colours and well-groomed rather-more-Ackles-ish Dean, and Tech!Sam, and the splattery blood. That was a FANTASTIC run of episodes.

And I understand why TMATEOTB made lots of people's heads explode, either for Fourth Wall Breaking or for Sam/Dean squishing, and I have no way of knowing how I'd have felt about it if I'd encountered it unspoiled, but I found it hilarious upon first watching (Chez Reason) and every bit as hilarious last night. Just hilarious. And I also loved the way that Kripke got to insert himself into the text and apologise to the characters for fucking them over, 'cause, c'mon, writers - you KNOW you've wanted to apologise to your characters a time or two. I certainly have.

I think I heart The Prophet Chuck. Lots. I want to see him meeting Jo and Ellen, and you just KNOW he used the word 'MILF' in his description of Ellen, and he's going to SO feel he owes Jo an apology for the Dean thing.

::smishes Chuck::

Mind you, I am still bemused by the Lillith actress, because she looks like a gelfling, and I get the impression she's supposed to be hot, but she REALLY isn't. She's odd-looking.

That's unkind of me, isn't it? But I guess what I'm commenting on is that they appear to have tried to cast someone explicitly with the intention of being wildly hot and sexy and seductive, and what they ended up with was someone who looks like a plastic doll. (Which makes sense, if, as Pete assured me, she had the 'look' of a person who's had lots of plastic surgery.)

Traci Dinwiddie - WAY hotter. Alas, poor Pamela. RIP. (Also less hot but very endearing on Twitter, and has a bunch of YouTube vids that make me want to smish her cheek and feed her soup. (From a safe distance. Because she is bonkers.)

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No, Concrete really doesn't look like that, but that's okay, we're planning a roadtrip to Squamish! Where the ep was *really* filmed.

We have to go back to Concrete, with the camera, and take a picture of the 1930's-style safety monument and rusty abandoned flagpole in their weedy patch of grass. The site of the old concrete plant, with its still-standing rank of concrete silos reminiscent of Laputa, or some (again) 1930s era Science Fiction story of ruined civilizations, is now called "Silo Park", and has some few play frames for children in the silos' shadow.

There were four small churches of differing denomination in two residential blocks, and approximately two blocks of a single street of "downtown." The newly-built elementary and high schools are on opposite sides of the two-lane highway, and joined by an enclosed arial bridge. I find it poignant that a child "crosses the bridge" as s/he graduates from one school to another.

And the drive to and from was absolutely gorgeous.

...I am embarrassed by how gleeful I was that Misha finally started Twittering again. And I am highly amused that he has set up Mishaland proper, is getting people to design flags, getting them to pin themselves onto a map and is laying down the law and demanding tithes.

::flails::

...he's such a fantastic shiny toy! With the pony, and the photoshop skillz, and and and

::flails some more::

Shoot me, stuff me, mount me. I am totally a minion, much as my dignity rebels.

Hee! He is charming.

I just watched the last ep of S2 Deadwood, to refresh myself before getting S3 (which we never saw). I had completely forgotten Jim Beaver was in it, because when we watched it as it was airing, he wasn't Bobby!

He's so wonderful in it, plays a fabulous character, but boy is it funny to hear him say "cocksucker" on the screen.

I need to try and watch Deadwood again. I've tried twice, and I just haven't been able to watch long enough to force myself through that curtain of profanity to the other side, where it recedes into the vernacular of that world.

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...okay, I lied about the without comment.

1) Jesus, Jensen is pretty.

2) And SO VERY VERY MUCH not Dean Winchester even a little bit that it always makes me laugh. And want to pat him on the head and build a little fence around him to stave off the crazier elements of fandom. (Like the people who apparently insisted, at some Con, that he perform that Eye of the Tiger routine, and then booed him when he didn't. For the love of FUCK, people!)

3) ...in spite of which, I cannot deny that the RPS writes itself.

hangs head

4) Jesus, Jensen is pretty.

in spite of which, I cannot deny that the RPS writes itself

Thanks to the ginormous puppy he works with, yeah. Silly boys. I love them so.

And if you haven't see this one, Fay, talk about fanfic writing itself. Oh, JARED. Part II is just as funny.