PSA: Don't put out oil fires with water.

That's all I've got right at the moment. I'm not sure how I feel about this Gabriel reveal.

I need way less meta in my narrative. Stop talking about the relationship of the creator with the text and the readers. Stop talking about narrative form. Just tell the friggin' story already!

Also, I actually think it's kind of irresponsible to show someone putting an oil fire out with water.

I wonder who Michael is, in this universe. I would love it if he were a black woman like Missouri, or frankly any character that wasn't a white male--and that survives.

Also, I actually think it's kind of irresponsible to show someone putting an oil fire out with water.

Because it's not irresponsible to show someone shoving a stake into someone? Or drinking blood (demon or not)? Or impersonating FBI agents, or committing credit card fraud? Just handwave that it's magic oil, and let it go.

If it weren't for the fact that Dean's amulet didn't get suspiciously warm in "Home," Missouri Mosely would be an interesting candidate for God.

Cas could be wrong about the amulet. It could just be a cheap imitation knockoff made in Tijuana. Although he's been right about other things, he's been wrong about some stuff. And I would LOVE to see a reappearance of Missouri.

Because it's not irresponsible to show someone shoving a stake into someone? Or drinking blood (demon or not)? Or impersonating FBI agents, or committing credit card fraud? Just handwave that it's magic oil, and let it go.

Thank you for telling me how I'm allowed to watch.

t backs out of the thread

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say it was irresponsible, but the sprinklers did make me cringe.

I was pretty invested, I guess, in the Trickster being outside this particular Good vs Evil apocalypse and I'm disappointed that he's just another archangel.

But if Dean hadn't turned them on purposely, the sprinklers would have come on anyway, yes? They react to smoke, not to the way a fire was set.

I like the way all the archangels are coming out of the woodwork. We've seen so much of Lucifer, or at least his followers, that it's interesting to me to see what the other side makes of all this.

They react to smoke, not to the way a fire was set.

I didn't see any smoke.

I think sending the message that you can put out holy fire with water will confuse people who were going to make some other sort of stupid Darwin award mistake in short order anyway. But it does annoy people who think literally about things.

Cas could be wrong about the amulet.

I'd really rather he were, as it makes no sense to me that some little trinket Dean got as a kid is somehow specifically designed to track down God - who may not even be incarnate as Castiel suspects. As preachy as it might be, I'd prefer for any reveal of YHVH to be speaking through multiple normal people, lecturing the angels that He's always been right there in everybody, and it's they who've lost their way to the point that they can no longer hear Him.

I'd really rather he were, as it makes no sense to me that some little trinket Dean got as a kid is somehow specifically designed to track down God

Remember, Sam got it from Bobby, and it was supposed to be for John. I'd have to rewatch, but I think he said it was supposed to be some kind of powerful protection amulet. Which is just what Bobby thought it was, I guess, although the idea that Bobby got something like that wrong bugs me more than anything else.