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alexseanchai) wrote2009-11-10 09:25 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2009-11-10 09:25 pm
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SPN: 5x08 reaction
I want to like this ep. I want to like this ep a lot. But.
OBVIOUS RETCON IS OBVIOUS.
Gabriel. Explained the acid trip in the Book of Daniel to the title character Gabriel. Told Mary she'd be the Virgin Mother Gabriel. Gave the Qu'ran to Muhammad Gabriel. Will/did blow the trumpet announcing the End of Days Gabriel.
The Trickster.
There is no shortage of other angels the Trickster could hypothetically be, should the Trickster actually be an angel instead of Loki or Anansi or Coyote. (I like Ariel, myself.) And it's not like the writers don't know where to look to find these other angels—nobody knew the name Castiel till he turned up on SPN.
STUPID RETCON IS STUPID.
Also now our tally of nonAbrahamic deities and demideities has just gone from five (Vanir, Trickster, both Carrigans, Paris) to four, and our tally of survivors of said list has gone from one to none. FAIL.
I love the premise of the ep, the execution was fabulous, the herpes commercial (and this is an official first for me: I wish I'd seen it live so I could have seen the commercial in its proper place among other commercials, and I might actually try to figure out video editing just so I can splice commercials into my copy of the ep)—asniqaeli points out, who's Sam supposed to be sexing if not Dean? (because it's been a while since Lindsey, assuming he actually sexed Lindsey which is not a given because that scene was not in the ep, and even longer since Ruby, and the only characters in S5 he's looked twice at in a potentially-sexing way are Dean, Lindsey, and the slap-happy chick this ep, whom we can probably safely assume Sam wasn't sexing)—I really want to put this ep on my favorites list.
BUT THE FUCKING RETCON.
No coda fic at the moment, but I'm poking through![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clex_monkie89's The "Kripke Started It" Changing Channels Free For All Meme and maybe a bunny will bite.
OBVIOUS RETCON IS OBVIOUS.
Gabriel. Explained the acid trip in the Book of Daniel to the title character Gabriel. Told Mary she'd be the Virgin Mother Gabriel. Gave the Qu'ran to Muhammad Gabriel. Will/did blow the trumpet announcing the End of Days Gabriel.
The Trickster.
There is no shortage of other angels the Trickster could hypothetically be, should the Trickster actually be an angel instead of Loki or Anansi or Coyote. (I like Ariel, myself.) And it's not like the writers don't know where to look to find these other angels—nobody knew the name Castiel till he turned up on SPN.
STUPID RETCON IS STUPID.
Also now our tally of nonAbrahamic deities and demideities has just gone from five (Vanir, Trickster, both Carrigans, Paris) to four, and our tally of survivors of said list has gone from one to none. FAIL.
I love the premise of the ep, the execution was fabulous, the herpes commercial (and this is an official first for me: I wish I'd seen it live so I could have seen the commercial in its proper place among other commercials, and I might actually try to figure out video editing just so I can splice commercials into my copy of the ep)—as
niqaeli points out, who's Sam supposed to be sexing if not Dean? (because it's been a while since Lindsey, assuming he actually sexed Lindsey which is not a given because that scene was not in the ep, and even longer since Ruby, and the only characters in S5 he's looked twice at in a potentially-sexing way are Dean, Lindsey, and the slap-happy chick this ep, whom we can probably safely assume Sam wasn't sexing)—I really want to put this ep on my favorites list.BUT THE FUCKING RETCON.
No coda fic at the moment, but I'm poking through
clex_monkie89's The "Kripke Started It" Changing Channels Free For All Meme and maybe a bunny will bite.