fannish nonsense

[aria]

While I was in the shower this morning, the plumbing made a sudden alarming gurgling noise. I turned off the water, listened for a puzzled moment, and then shrugged and turned the shower back on, with the vague expectation that the water was going to turn into blood and murder the fuck out of me. Obviously it did not, and I am not a horrifying ghost in a computer. The actual reason for this is that I live in the real world, but while I was in the shower I was mostly convinced on the logic that while I might be in the right age bracket to be murdered by the occult in the shower, I am not of the appropriate beauty standards or presentation of femininity. Nor am I blonde, although I bet that's just a bonus and only worth ten points.

So, um, I'm in season four! I am skipping fewer and fewer episodes as I go on, but I am also going faster and laughing more and clutching at my face a lot. I am still delighted that there is actual COLOR, and I am also delighted that the angels are terrifying and inhuman and that the poor Winchesters are bewildered because angels are supposed to be made of sparkles and light. NOPE.

I have come to the exciting revelation that Dean is my character type. I was confused for a while, because although he has the emotional inarticulation down, he is neither achingly morally upright nor an evil overlord. (SAM IS BOTH, so we've got those bases covered.) But filia_belialis pointed out to me that Dean is basically Kara Thrace, minus abusive mom plus little brother to look after, and EVERYTHING MADE SENSE. Dean is totally one of my character types, he's just been disguising it by being a bro.

I suspect he also has some overlap with Ray Kowalski, except I say that and then my brain goes on a delightful tailspin. It is a tailspin where Caroline Fraser still dies when Benton is very little, which is a bit frustrating because I'm not subverting anything, but in any case Bob goes off to be a hunter instead of a Mountie, and Fraser is raised by his grandparents but eventually goes off to be a hunter as well when his dad goes missing, you know the story, came to Chicago on the trail of the demon killers of my father. The family Vecchio runs an Italian restaurant that's a road stop for hunters, but eventually Frannie gets tired of all that and runs away to become a hunter herself. Ray Kowalski and Stella also used to be hunters together, but Stella got tired of Ray running stupid risks and acting like he'd sell his soul to save her, so they split up and now Kowalski does stupid things for Fraser instead. Presumably Vecchio is Bobby in this scenario, although I'd be equally happy to have Thatcher be Bobby in this scenario, and they are equally likely to call Fraser and Kowalski idiots on a regular basis. I am not sure if there are any angels, though, no matter how hilarious it would be for Kowalski and Castiel to hang around in awkward silence.

ANYWAY. Yeah, I don't even know.

Comments

[whitecollarcrimegirl]

THE ANGELS, ARIA, THE ANGELS!!!!

I looooooooove the mythology the show turned to. UGH IT JUST BLENDS SO WELL

Oh, Dean

[gehayi]

THE ANGELS ARE AWESOME.

WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE GABRIEL.

AND LUCIFER. OMG, MARK PELLEGRINO CAN TOTALLY CARRY THAT ROLE.

[innocentsmith]

how hilarious it would be for Kowalski and Castiel to hang around in awkward silence

OMG WANT.

The angels are my favorite part of SPN, I have to say. Well, the angels and the meta episodes. And the crossovers with Good Omens.

So basically all the stuff that the classic show-loving people despise. I just...the whole "Oh, look, an attractive lady is dying horribly. Again. But Sam and Dean will come to save the day! ...Sort of. And there will be at least one moment of extreme facepalm in the dialogue," thing is enormously offputting. And though I do quite like the whole "America and its demons, figurative and literal!" aspect, I tend to think a whole lot of that ground was covered earlier, and with less misogyny, by The X-Files, American Gods, and even Due South. [/grumpypants badfan]

But the angels, yes, squee! Winged dysfunctional inhuman badasses! Just as they should be, and as they'd have to be in the Supernaturalverse. Plus I am very fond of apocalypses in fiction. I blame C.S. Lewis and Stephen King.

I suspect he also has some overlap with Ray Kowalski

I can see that.

I played Ray Kowalski at a multifannish RP for a little while, and one of the most interesting conversations he had was with Sam Winchester regarding why there was this whole secret network of vigilantes instead of anyone trying to alert the police and/or inform the populace. Sam's position was that law enforcement and/or the media would never believe them, which I suspect in his 'verse would be true. But Ray was like, "After the evil voodoo sweatshop? There's not a lot I wouldn't buy."