One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!

Mal ,'War Stories'


Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?  

[NAFDA]. This is where we talk about the CW series Supernatural! Anything that's aired in the US on TV (including promos) is fair game. No spoilers though — if you post one by accident, an admin will delete it.


ehab - Nov 09, 2009 11:01:26 am PST #4156 of 30002
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala

I was way too late to Buffy fandom to know/hear anything about that side of it, and I'm glad, I think.

I know I'm glad I missed it. I did not know there was such a thing as fandom when I watched Buffy.

Supernatural has taken tinhattery to new and disturbing levels. I cannot look away though. I am guilty of some major rubber-necking.


sumi - Nov 09, 2009 12:23:17 pm PST #4157 of 30002
Art Crawl!!!

Sneak Peek.


SailAweigh - Nov 09, 2009 12:41:08 pm PST #4158 of 30002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

:puts on educators hat and pulls out pedantic voice::

You can put oil fires out with water. In fact, the Navy fire fighting school teaches you just how to do it. The practice situation they use is a pool of oil under an airplane and they have to continuously feed oil into the pool during the training sim to keep the fire burning or the students would put the fire out before each student had a chance to man each hose position. The fire is actually put out once they stop the flow of oil.

That said, no, water is not the best way to put out an oil fire as the water spreads the oil around and can make the fire spread over a larger area. But, if you have enough of it and it's the only thing you have, use it, don't burn.


Kalshane - Nov 09, 2009 3:04:06 pm PST #4159 of 30002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

That said, no, water is not the best way to put out an oil fire as the water spreads the oil around and can make the fire spread over a larger area. But, if you have enough of it and it's the only thing you have, use it, don't burn.

Well, it seriously depends on the amount of water you have in comparison to the fire. The Mythbusters recently created some terrifying fireballs by dumping water onto burning oil.


le nubian - Nov 09, 2009 3:21:58 pm PST #4160 of 30002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

The thing that bothered me is that this ep felt like a serious retcon of the trickster. I re-watched the previous 2 trickster eps and while the second one (the one from season 3), one could argue that Gabriel may have behaved in that way, it is unclear why Gabriel would act the way he did the first time around (season 2). I mean, the trickster acted in ways that I would consider "evil" - and yet he is supposed to be an angel?


-t - Nov 09, 2009 3:24:49 pm PST #4161 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

He's an angel in his own private witness protection program. How that is different from fallen, I don't know.


§ ita § - Nov 09, 2009 3:25:15 pm PST #4162 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

it seriously depends on the amount of water you have in comparison to the fire

They did have a lot more water than fire in this scenario.


Cass - Nov 09, 2009 5:32:56 pm PST #4163 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I mean, the trickster acted in ways that I would consider "evil" - and yet he is supposed to be an angel?

Zechariah seems pretty evil to me. And he's an angel. ::shrugs::

They did have a lot more water than fire in this scenario.

And it filmed gorgeously. I will seriously lower my standards for the pretty.


P.M. Marc - Nov 09, 2009 5:43:25 pm PST #4164 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

And it filmed gorgeously. I will seriously lower my standards for the pretty.

::high fives::

Often, when Jilli's complaining about occult stuff, as I roll my eyes with love, I tell her, "Yeah, but doing it THAT way would have been a crappy shot!"


Ailleann - Nov 10, 2009 4:14:16 am PST #4165 of 30002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

I mean, the trickster acted in ways that I would consider "evil" - and yet he is supposed to be an angel?

I agree with Cass, bad guys don't have the market cornered on being dicks.

The first thing we saw the Trickster doing was killing the adulterous professor: punishing him for his crimes, albeit in a really funny way (for values of funny that probably only apply to omnipotent beings). One can assume that, while Gabriel probably wasn't doing that a lot because he was trying to stay under the radar, he couldn't in good angel-y conscience let that guy continue doing what he was doing when he was right in front of him.

Makes a kind of sense to me.