The difference in Dean is so noticeable (well, in both of them, really). All attitude with "outsiders" but none of the bitterness, none of the weight -- what they're doing is just what they do, and unquestionably the right thing in his eyes.
Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.
'Shindig'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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Amy - Jan 12, 2010 6:14:16 am PST #4636 of 30002
Because books.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2010 6:30:30 am PST #4637 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I enjoyed the messed up dynamic between them too, but it's nice to see it so simple, back in the day.
Cass - Jan 12, 2010 10:35:59 am PST #4638 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.
plus I always love weapons being tossed, for reasons I'm not sure of.
Me? I am *very* sure of the reasons I like watching it. Mmm, hot.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2010 11:03:18 am PST #4639 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't think of any articulable reason throwing weapons around should be hot, but I know when Spike tossed Buffy the knife in the snotmonster from space episode I became a Spuffist there and then.
Watching Sam and Dean do a single-hand exchange of the gun and the necklace just made my knees weak. But the whole last ten minutes of that episode is powerful great.
Amy - Jan 12, 2010 11:41:55 am PST #4640 of 30002
Because books.
It's the competence thing for me. Weapons are dangerous, and to see them tossed so confidently, by people who know how to use them -- ROWR.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2010 11:44:51 am PST #4641 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Throwing weapons is dumb! I know that...and yet...
Amy - Jan 12, 2010 11:45:36 am PST #4642 of 30002
Because books.
It is! But they're not tossing them to ME, so.
Ginger - Jan 12, 2010 11:50:25 am PST #4643 of 30002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Throwing a weapon to someone who can catch it can be a good move. Throwing a weapon to try to impale your opponent is a good way to lose a weapon.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2010 11:51:42 am PST #4644 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Throwing a weapon to someone who can catch it can be a good move
Too many variables in the catching, I think.
However, if you're trained, a shuriken or throwing knife at a foe is a reasonable option.
Cass - Jan 12, 2010 12:32:16 pm PST #4645 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.
Throwing a weapon to try to impale your opponent is a good way to lose a weapon.
If this is the most SPN asks of my suspended disbelief in an ep? I am okay with that. It looks damn good and I don't really care if it took the actual boys dozens of takes to get the shot. *My* boys, Sam and Dean? They are competent and damn sexy doing it.