No Tall Tales talk?

I don't know what to make of it in light of him being Gabriel.

Actually, it makes me wonder even more what is up with Castiel. How come he has no libido and no sense of humour? Gabe's got junk...is Cas that much of a company man?

I've been poking around a lot of fic recently (oh, the trauma, oh the crack, oh the addictiveness), and I certainly get where a lot of the Dean-centric fics get their Sam and brotherly bond characterisation from.

Which is kind of a shame, although I enjoyed their repartee. And the fake fight at the end, and the emotionally stunted apology.

I don't know what to make of it in light of him being Gabriel.

Yeah, it is weird seeing it now with that knowledge.

Retcon. Handwavium. In other words, I really don't think Kripke and the writers had the Gabriel/Trickster identity planned out from the beginning.

Been out of the country for two weeks and am catching up. For the record? Last episode is a bad one to try watching while eating dinner.

I don't think it's that hard to retcon the Trickster as Gabriel. He'd broken with God/heaven/whatever, and was certainly indulging in carnal/human pleasures. And for his own amusement he was doling out poetic justice to a lot of assholes, which has a vaguely angelic, if twisted, vibe. Fucking with Sam and Dean was probably just an amusing bonus -- he doesn't kill them, after all, and maybe because he knows who they are?

That said, I don't think anyone writing the show had any idea he would wind up being Gabriel down the line.

Remember that the Castiel of 5 years in the future certainly seemed to have a libido and sense of humor. Maybe it just takes a little time to get out of formless-etherial-being-of-light mode and start enjoying life as a physical experience.

I think so, too, Matt. Plus, Castiel had no desire to be earthbound outside of his need to interact with Dean. Gabriel had obviously been eying the human buffet for a while.

Roadkill was on this morning. I rarely watch this one for whatever reason, and I really love the way Sam and Dean interact here. It's a solid, melancholy stand-alone episode.

I really need to rewatch Castiel's introduction again. I'm trying to be patient and go at TNT's pace (which, hell, so much faster than the first time round--but I didn't care this much the first time round).

But everything is so clearly coloured by what's come since. They obviously rewatched Houses of the Holy before they made their angelic decisions, but it's not clear how much other stuff they went back and looked at.

I wonder if the decision to make the Trickster Gabriel was because they liked the actor and wanted him back in the middle of an angel-heavy arc, or what? One more chance to drop a familial anvil? We could have had a Gabriel without him being a familiar face, we could have had a Trickster ep without it being part of the Apocalypse. Or maybe it was too cute not to do.

I'm only my typical halfway through this morning's episode. I like Tricia Helfer's turns away from BSG. She's much better than Katee Sackhoff at not being Galactican.

Is it wrong that I want a long white nightie?

It's not very empowering.

But I promise not to die in it.