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withdiamonds at 09:55am on 09/03/2011
withdiamonds at 09:55am on 09/03/2011I should be answering comments and working on either of the stories I'm writing. Also, I should be cleaning my house and looking for Fred. Not to mention working out and prepping for class tonight.
To that end, I am thinking about either switching out a bunch of icons, or uploading more stories to AO3. I have 31 left and everything will be there, all in one place.
I can't find my Season 5 SPN DVDs. I know I bought it. I need to do some "research" for BB, but I have no clue.
Obviously someone in the writer's room is an Agatha Christie fan. And Then There Were None, (the original title was "Ten Little Indians," based on a poem by that name) is one of my favorite of her books. In my younger days I read Christie obsessively and have a whole library of her books.
If you're not a Christie reader, know that in And Then There Were None ten people are lured under false pretenses to an isolated island, where they quickly realize they're going to be killed off, one by one. The murderer has to be one of them and they start looking at each other with suspicion, yet they also have to work together to try and figure out who is killing them.
They listen to a recording on their first night there, which accuses each of them of being responsible for the death of another person or persons. So while they are the victims in this story, none of them is innocent.
The murderer is a retired judge, who always wanted to know what it was like to kill someone, and who is both terminally ill and guilty of sentencing an innocent man to death. So he knows he deserves to die, too. He kills the people he considers the least guilty first, so they don't have to suffer, to be afraid, for as long a time as those he thinks are more culpable.
He arranges his own death, which looks like murder, while there are still two, maybe three, my memory is a little fuzzy, people left, secure in the knowledge that they will kill each other, and they do. The last person left hangs herself.
So obviously, in 6.16, Sam, Bobby and Dean didn't kill each other once the slug/murderer was gone. I was thinking about the order in which the others died, and while Gwen was probably the least "guilty" among the six of them, certainly Samuel was more "wrong" than Rufus was.
But none of them were innocent victims, same as in Christie's book. The difference is, the three that were left are able to live with that, and in fact, led by Dean, they could, if not absolve themselves, were at least able to forgive each other, while in the book, they weren't.
I think there are too many commas in that sentence.
Also, I recently watched "In the Beginning" and Samuel's character there is so different than his character this season. I'm wondering why, if you come back to life 37 years after your death, you just start hunting again. I get that he went around and found the Campbell cousins and convinced them of who he was, but, I don't know, wouldn't you try to live some other kind of life? Unless Crowley told him immediately that if he found him alphas, he'd bring Mary back. How did he and Sam hook up? Did Sam tell him everything, about Mary's deal, and about John, and Dean's deal, and Lucifer? Why would Samuel think Mary would want to be brought back at the expense of her sons? And in ItB, sure, he was gruff and didn't trust other hunters, but he was kind of funny and obviously an okay guy who loved his family, not the unmitigated asshole of season 6, who used Sam while never trying to figure out what was wrong with him, who treated Dean like shit from the moment they first met, who sold them both out to Crowley. I understand that the last time he saw John, he was just some naive kid who Samuel didn't think had it in him to be a hunter, but surely Sam set him straight on that one. And why were all the Campbells always so contemptuous of Dean? I just never got that whole Campbell thing and I'm glad they're gone. I think Mitch did an awesome job, but it's not what I expected when I heard he was going to be on the show this season. The whole situation seemed false, or something.
And that's the end of my Samuel ramblings. I guess I just want to know what kind of person Samuel really was.
To that end, I am thinking about either switching out a bunch of icons, or uploading more stories to AO3. I have 31 left and everything will be there, all in one place.
I can't find my Season 5 SPN DVDs. I know I bought it. I need to do some "research" for BB, but I have no clue.
Obviously someone in the writer's room is an Agatha Christie fan. And Then There Were None, (the original title was "Ten Little Indians," based on a poem by that name) is one of my favorite of her books. In my younger days I read Christie obsessively and have a whole library of her books.
If you're not a Christie reader, know that in And Then There Were None ten people are lured under false pretenses to an isolated island, where they quickly realize they're going to be killed off, one by one. The murderer has to be one of them and they start looking at each other with suspicion, yet they also have to work together to try and figure out who is killing them.
They listen to a recording on their first night there, which accuses each of them of being responsible for the death of another person or persons. So while they are the victims in this story, none of them is innocent.
The murderer is a retired judge, who always wanted to know what it was like to kill someone, and who is both terminally ill and guilty of sentencing an innocent man to death. So he knows he deserves to die, too. He kills the people he considers the least guilty first, so they don't have to suffer, to be afraid, for as long a time as those he thinks are more culpable.
He arranges his own death, which looks like murder, while there are still two, maybe three, my memory is a little fuzzy, people left, secure in the knowledge that they will kill each other, and they do. The last person left hangs herself.
So obviously, in 6.16, Sam, Bobby and Dean didn't kill each other once the slug/murderer was gone. I was thinking about the order in which the others died, and while Gwen was probably the least "guilty" among the six of them, certainly Samuel was more "wrong" than Rufus was.
But none of them were innocent victims, same as in Christie's book. The difference is, the three that were left are able to live with that, and in fact, led by Dean, they could, if not absolve themselves, were at least able to forgive each other, while in the book, they weren't.
I think there are too many commas in that sentence.
Also, I recently watched "In the Beginning" and Samuel's character there is so different than his character this season. I'm wondering why, if you come back to life 37 years after your death, you just start hunting again. I get that he went around and found the Campbell cousins and convinced them of who he was, but, I don't know, wouldn't you try to live some other kind of life? Unless Crowley told him immediately that if he found him alphas, he'd bring Mary back. How did he and Sam hook up? Did Sam tell him everything, about Mary's deal, and about John, and Dean's deal, and Lucifer? Why would Samuel think Mary would want to be brought back at the expense of her sons? And in ItB, sure, he was gruff and didn't trust other hunters, but he was kind of funny and obviously an okay guy who loved his family, not the unmitigated asshole of season 6, who used Sam while never trying to figure out what was wrong with him, who treated Dean like shit from the moment they first met, who sold them both out to Crowley. I understand that the last time he saw John, he was just some naive kid who Samuel didn't think had it in him to be a hunter, but surely Sam set him straight on that one. And why were all the Campbells always so contemptuous of Dean? I just never got that whole Campbell thing and I'm glad they're gone. I think Mitch did an awesome job, but it's not what I expected when I heard he was going to be on the show this season. The whole situation seemed false, or something.
And that's the end of my Samuel ramblings. I guess I just want to know what kind of person Samuel really was.
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