Oh, man. That's creepy and sad, Matt. But I can see what you mean.
It sort of reminds me of that movie, The Seventh Sign, with Demi Moore. Where the Guff was empty?
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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Amy - Oct 04, 2009 7:10:07 am PDT #3793 of 30002
Because books.
SailAweigh - Oct 04, 2009 8:26:03 am PDT #3794 of 30002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Oh, yeah. That's something to give you shivers.
P.M. Marc - Oct 04, 2009 9:00:01 am PDT #3795 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My thought had been (after Samifer's speech) that where the 20th Century exceeded all others was in the damage, not just to ourselves, but to the planet. The technology-enhanced cruelties and horror. Sure, we've been ghastly to each other all over the place, and man's inhumanity to man is nothing new.
But the 20th Century basically production lined it.
Lee - Oct 04, 2009 9:18:41 am PDT #3796 of 30002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I think the damage to the planet was key--Samifer called it the last thing God did or something to that effect, and made it clear the hairless apes were screwing it up.
Amy - Oct 04, 2009 9:23:28 am PDT #3797 of 30002
Because books.
Yeah, I got that impression, too -- he kept calling it this "beautiful thing".
JenP - Oct 04, 2009 9:39:13 am PDT #3798 of 30002
Samifer
Ha! Excellent. JP was just fantastic in that scene, I thought.
Also, since my name is Jennifer, I can read it as a different portmanteau, and one that I find particularly appealing. I wonder why? No, I don't.
Amy - Oct 04, 2009 9:41:53 am PDT #3799 of 30002
Because books.
On rewatch, I think he overplayed the first couple lines, but once he got into the scene it was gorgeous.
I wonder why? No, I don't.
I can't imagine why!
P.M. Marc - Oct 05, 2009 9:08:25 pm PDT #3800 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I rewatched this morning.
Now I want the Watsonian explanation for both last week's dayenu and the kibbutz reference from this episode. (Neither of which I'd expect to hear out of the mouth of a midwestern boy from a generic culturally Christian background.)
Amy - Oct 05, 2009 9:13:20 pm PDT #3801 of 30002
Because books.
Yeah, he could have said commune for kibbutz. That is weird.
I had no idea what the dayenu expression was, and I didn't understand what he was saying when he said, but that one is really sort of obscure for him.
Although it is a religious thing. And he and Sam do know something about religions, so.
P.M. Marc - Oct 05, 2009 9:27:46 pm PDT #3802 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Although it is a religious thing. And he and Sam do know something about religions, so.
He's also, over the years, sprinkled a fair amount of Yiddish into his conversations.
Sam, on the other hand, not so much. It doesn't seem like something Dean would just pick up in research or on his own. Seems like something he picked up from someone, somewhere.
This feels like fertile plot bunny ground that someone should plant and harvest! Someone other than me, as apparently, my writing mojo left the building and is out there on a flatbread somewhere or something.