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withdiamonds ([personal profile] withdiamonds) wrote2010-04-08 12:19 pm
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Things I should never have to say to my cat: Get your foot out of my salad. (There's tuna in it.)

This weather is not normal! Also, I have a pretty Spring jacket, but I can't wear it when it's so damn hot? And my treadmill is in the sunroom, which means it's like 100 degrees out there. Makes it hard to run, and I'm not ready to transition to pavement yet. Although, the Flying Pig is in 25 days, I might want to get on that.

ETA: Okay, I went and ran 3 miles outside, and holy crap. February was not kind to my cardio capacity. I mean, I set the incline on my treadmill to 1 or 2 to mimic wind resistance, whatever, but there's something so different about pavement. It was still fun, though.

Why would I want to read someone's J2 AU if I first have to endure a lecture the author's notes telling me why they don't like "real" RPS but are okay with the AU kind? In great detail?

Lois and Horace came over last night to watch DSotM. We had crabmeat and asparagus salad over grilled radicchio, then pound cake with blackberries and whipped cream. Tonight they'll be back, but I haven't decided what to make for dinner yet. Two Winchester nights in one week is awesome.

8000 words. It's getting there.





Dean's always telling people who are dead/dying that they're going to a better place. Even when he didn't know what he was talking about, he thought he was lying. And I think he still thinks that it's not true. Because Heaven in the SPN 'verse kind of sucks. It's lonely and isolated. (Except for SOULMATES, of course.) And for me, that's a good thing, and I assume they've done it on purpose.

Heaven has to be a somewhat dreary prospect, otherwise life and death don't mean very much, do they? Who cares if someone dies, if Heaven's the most fabulous thing ever? Heaven has to be ambiguous at best, so that there is still some sort of stake in being alive. Otherwise, why save the world, and humanity, from death?

Pamela was so wrong, she's definitely drunk the Kool Aid. Well, she's dead and stuck at a endless rock concert, I guess she has to make the best of it.

Anywhoo, I also think they've come dangerously close to overdoing the Sam and Dean die thing, because it loses its emotional impact if every time they die, someone reanimates them. So it helps that Heaven ain't all it's cracked up to be. Gives them a reason to cling to life on Earth, for themselves and everyone else. I'm hoping that once all this angel vessel stuff is done with, we can go back to having death mean something. There's only so many times Dean can be devastated at Sam's death before he's like, ho hum, if I just wait here, someone will bring him back for me. And before we as the audience no longer care as much, either. Like, if it's Tuesday, Sam must be dead again. That was such a powerful motivator for Dean in AHBL, and set all of this in motion, and they've almost taken the power of that away.

Like, if they kill Castiel, who cares, he's already died and been saved once, why not again, based on Misha's contract, you know?

And I've heard rumors of Adam coming back, and yes, Winchester bloodline and all, but again, that was so tragic, to kill him that way when Sam and Dean had just found him, and so now, what, hey, sorry for all the grief and angst, I'm baaaaack?

I feel like if they kill Bobby, he would at least have the decency to stay dead. I imagine Ellen and Jo will, too.

I mean, I love seeing all the characters, dead or alive, I just think it lessens the impact of death as a really big deal if it can be reversed at the snap of someone's fingers.

Wow, I didn't realize I felt that strongly about it until I started typing.

Other things I think/want:

God can't fix this for them, otherwise that negates Team Free Will. Dean and Cas should know that, but I'm guessing neither one of them is able to see the big picture right now.

Dean is ready to say yes, way more than Sam is. I thought Sam was getting ready, being all fatalistic about it, but now I think he's ready to fight for his brother. Sam will try to stop/save Dean. I want Sam to save Dean, because Sam so deserves to be able to do that, after everything.

I think the season is going to end badly for SamnDean, I think that would be staying true to the story, but S6 will fix them. I can wait. Fandom may not like it, but I think that's the way it has to go.

Now, Criminal Minds last night. First word that comes to mind is boring. Based on what I saw, I'm not excited about the spinoff. What makes CM so awesome, what makes it more than just another procedural, are the characters. I mean, the plots are darker than CSI, for example, and the plane setup is fun, but it's the characters, and the actors who play them, that make it special.

So, while I may like Forrest Whitaker, the new group seemed pretty generic. Which is not really my point, I mean, it was a typical episode introducing a spinoff, whatever, it could get better.

But what the heck was up with Prentiss and that British sniper guy? Was that supposed to be flirting there at the beginning, and if it was, why? Why would Emily Prentiss act that way, asking smirking/confrontational personal questions of some other FBI agent she just met and is working a case with? While they're out working the case?? And then he saved her life at the end, which was obnoxiously stupid.

The whole thing was totally off, and didn't make me happy at all.