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lunasarielWell, that's it. This is the first time I've been involved with a TV series to this extent, where I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the season finale, and I was just dying of anxiety to see who makes it, and who doesn't. There was Doctor Who, of course, but that's different. The Doctor regenerates every so often, of course, but he never really dies; he's still essentially the Doctor. The Companion(s), as well, is/are usually safe. Not always happy or whole, I'll grant, but safe. The Doctor looks out for his own, I'll say that for him. But with Supernatural, it's a well-known fact that nobody and nothing is safe, or sacred. I fully expected him to kill Cas, or Bobby, or both, while leaving Sam and Dean alive, but battered in both body and soul.
But now, things are actually looking up, although Eric Kripke has trained (or traumatized) me too well to be too optimistic. It's great that Cas has his powers back, Bobby has his legs back, and Sam seems ("seems" being the operative word) to be out of Hell, but there's still the thorny question of, if Sam is indeed out of Hell, where Lucifer is, and if he's still in Sam, who's driving. And then, there's the intriguing concept that Chuck is God, or something to that effect. The writers are out of archangels, as far as I know, and they way he (Chuck) blinked out of existence didn't tally with either the angels' or the demons' modes of transportation. But if Chuck really is God, then whoever takes the reins from Kripke will have a hell of a job not turning him into one ginormous, literal Deus Ex Machina. I mean, what is there to fear when the omnipotent creator and ultimate master of the universe can fix any situation, no matter how seemingly hopeless, with the merest thought? Word of God, indeed. He has now brought each important character (barring Bobby, whose restoration is technically Cas' doing) back from the dead at least once, in some cases, from nothing more than a cloud of individual atoms and a few gobbets of god-knows-what (pun not intended).
That being said, it was nice to see Cas workin' the angel mojo again. I don't know what this means for him character development-wise, but it's always nice to have something more powerful than rock salt and Latin on your side. In every urban fantasy series I've seen or read, there is always at least one ally who has the ability to perceive enemies who can turn invisible, pass for regular humans, or otherwise cloak themselves from normal view. I gotta say, it's good to have that extra layer of insurance, to know that Our Boys aren't completely fangless (Nightrunner quotes ftw!).
I can't really tell where they're going to take this big, beautiful mess of a show. If this was business as usual, I'd say that Lucifer has been contained within Sam's head, but not defeated, and the next season's overarching plot would be the boys trying to find a way to kick him out for good, a lá Dean's impending death all throughout Season Three. Or maybe the entire issue would be (temporarily) hand-waved aside, a lá Sam's demon blood addiction at the beginning of Season Five. But it's not business as usual, so I don't really know what to expect. I know that there will be a Season Six, but that's about it.
...Oh, shit. I took a short break there to google "Supernatural season 6" to see if there was any official word. It seems that there is a very, very strong possibility of a sixth season, perhaps even a contract signed, but no official statements. What I did find was speculation on what direction Season the Sixth would take us in, and plenty of it. One idea, which I found both especially plausible, given this show's history, and especially disturbing, was that Sam is, in fact, still Lucifer, and the whole sixth season will revolve around Dean and Co. trying to pry him out of Sam's head, hopefully without killing and/or lobotomizing Sam in the process.
I dunno. Ultimately, I'm hopeful. Supernatural has a reputation for putting its characters through the wringer, but also for pulling them out again. I mean, look at what's happened to them: Dean has spent the equivalent of 40 years in Hell, Sam has been revealed to be a demon blood-drinking monstrosity and the reason for his mother's and girlfriend's horrible death, Bobby has had to shoot his wife (twice) and has been confined to a wheelchair (at least temporarily), and Cas has had his faith shattered and his powers stripped, but they're all still alive and kicking. Or are they? *DUN dun dun*
On a related note, H and I are still working our way through Bones, and I'll say again that it'll probably never be on my Top 10 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, but it's a credible piece of work. What really brings it alive for me, as I believe I've mentioned, is one Dr. Zachery Uriah Addy. I find it incredibly endearing that the most socially awkward and uncomfortable member of the team is the team's heart: Cam's surrogate son, Angela's project, Hodgins' best friend, Booth's sidekick and foil, and of course, Brennan's apprentice, protégé, and friend. They fall apart without him; they come together around him.
My two favorite scenes, throughout all five seasons, were Zach's two "return" scenes: the first at the beginning of Season Three, when he'd just gotten back from Iraq, and the second a ways into Season Four, when he breaks out of the loony bin to help the team solve an otherwise impenetrable case. It's truly amazing to see how he completely unknowingly restores a balance to the Jeffersonian Medico-Legal Lab that was noticeably lacking during his absence. In both cases, the lab was fraught with tension, disorder, and infighting, and seemed on the verge of collapse. Then we see him standing there, at the bottom of the steps, Brennan's face lights up like it doesn't do for anybody else (including Booth), the whole team rushes down to literally bring him back into the fold, and suddenly everything is all right again. Like Giles, there is a Zach-shaped hole in the team, a void that cannot be filled, no matter how many bright young grad students they trot out. They may be brilliant, they may be kind, they may be genuinely good people, but in the team's eyes, they all have one fatal flaw: they're not Zach. They may try to be, they may try *not* to be, but they're not, and they never will be. They won't play "King of the Lab" and design wacky experiments involving pigs and wood chippers with Hodgins, they won't fumble their way to Angela for desperately-needed dating or fashion advice, they won't ask Booth earnest-yet-awkward questions, but most of all, they won't do that thing where they seem to be the only other human being in the universe who is operating on the same strange channel as Brennan.
It's kinda funny; while I was typing this, a song from "Once More, With Feeling," "If We're Together," especially two certain lines: "What can't we do if we get in it?/We'll work it through within a minute," popped into my head and refused to leave. It's certainly applicable to Bones, especially the second of the two scenes I mentioned above, in that when Zach arrives, not only do the team stop fighting with each other, but, after an entire episode of fumbling around in the dark, they solve the case almost instantly.
This got me thinking about "If We're Together" in it's original context, which was actually somewhere between creepy and depressing. When watching "Once More, With Feeling," it struck me that, in earlier seasons, a song like "If We're Together" might have been an honest affirmation of friendship, solidarity, and trust, it's now bittersweet at best. Taken in context, it's the false bravado of a woman who has lost all hope, and is desperately trying to fool her friends by recalling the camaraderie and honor of the good ol' days, now only distant echos of a long-gone past.
Switching gears, Nightrunner is coming along pretty well; I'm now plowing my way through Stalking Darkness, although I might have to really push to get ready in time for the release date on the 25th. I'm not even a third of the way through, and Seregil and Alec are already, for all intents and purposes, a couple. I mean, Alec lies with his head in Seregil's lap while Seregil reads ancient histories to him, Seregil calls Alec talí, the Aürenfaie equivalent of "beloved," and even when Alec is being actively seduced by the sexy and traitorous Ylinestra, he manages to swim out of the spell she has him under long enough to note that the way she places her hand on the back of his neck is the exact same way Seregil does when he's saying something important, or mooshy, or both. Speaking of Ylinestra...oh, the jealousy! Oh, the cattiness! Oh, the possessiveness! Oh, the reluctance! To make a long story short, they're cuddly, they're insanely protective of each other, they operate on the same wavelength, they're not afraid to rib each other and joke around, they can practically read each other's minds from nothing more than the a quirk of the mouth or the set of the shoulders, they already have massive amounts of trust built up. All in all, they're well and truly primed for full couple-hood. They are my epic canon OTP. *heart*/fangirl
I know there are plans for a Nightrunner movie in the works, and this time around, I've really been reading with an eye towards that. Which scenes will be kept, which will be axed, which will be changed in this way or that. What with the U.S.'s somewhat Puritanical attitude towards alternative sexuality and all, my worst-case scenario is that they'll downplay the Alec/Seregil in favor of Alec/Beka, or even Alec/Klia. The fact is, he is great friends with both these women, and he does seem to initially find Klia highly attractive, but not only would either of these pairings muck up A/S, of course, but would also interfere with the eventual Beka/Nyall and (possible) Klia/Thero, both of which I love almost as much as A/S.
But now, things are actually looking up, although Eric Kripke has trained (or traumatized) me too well to be too optimistic. It's great that Cas has his powers back, Bobby has his legs back, and Sam seems ("seems" being the operative word) to be out of Hell, but there's still the thorny question of, if Sam is indeed out of Hell, where Lucifer is, and if he's still in Sam, who's driving. And then, there's the intriguing concept that Chuck is God, or something to that effect. The writers are out of archangels, as far as I know, and they way he (Chuck) blinked out of existence didn't tally with either the angels' or the demons' modes of transportation. But if Chuck really is God, then whoever takes the reins from Kripke will have a hell of a job not turning him into one ginormous, literal Deus Ex Machina. I mean, what is there to fear when the omnipotent creator and ultimate master of the universe can fix any situation, no matter how seemingly hopeless, with the merest thought? Word of God, indeed. He has now brought each important character (barring Bobby, whose restoration is technically Cas' doing) back from the dead at least once, in some cases, from nothing more than a cloud of individual atoms and a few gobbets of god-knows-what (pun not intended).
That being said, it was nice to see Cas workin' the angel mojo again. I don't know what this means for him character development-wise, but it's always nice to have something more powerful than rock salt and Latin on your side. In every urban fantasy series I've seen or read, there is always at least one ally who has the ability to perceive enemies who can turn invisible, pass for regular humans, or otherwise cloak themselves from normal view. I gotta say, it's good to have that extra layer of insurance, to know that Our Boys aren't completely fangless (Nightrunner quotes ftw!).
I can't really tell where they're going to take this big, beautiful mess of a show. If this was business as usual, I'd say that Lucifer has been contained within Sam's head, but not defeated, and the next season's overarching plot would be the boys trying to find a way to kick him out for good, a lá Dean's impending death all throughout Season Three. Or maybe the entire issue would be (temporarily) hand-waved aside, a lá Sam's demon blood addiction at the beginning of Season Five. But it's not business as usual, so I don't really know what to expect. I know that there will be a Season Six, but that's about it.
...Oh, shit. I took a short break there to google "Supernatural season 6" to see if there was any official word. It seems that there is a very, very strong possibility of a sixth season, perhaps even a contract signed, but no official statements. What I did find was speculation on what direction Season the Sixth would take us in, and plenty of it. One idea, which I found both especially plausible, given this show's history, and especially disturbing, was that Sam is, in fact, still Lucifer, and the whole sixth season will revolve around Dean and Co. trying to pry him out of Sam's head, hopefully without killing and/or lobotomizing Sam in the process.
I dunno. Ultimately, I'm hopeful. Supernatural has a reputation for putting its characters through the wringer, but also for pulling them out again. I mean, look at what's happened to them: Dean has spent the equivalent of 40 years in Hell, Sam has been revealed to be a demon blood-drinking monstrosity and the reason for his mother's and girlfriend's horrible death, Bobby has had to shoot his wife (twice) and has been confined to a wheelchair (at least temporarily), and Cas has had his faith shattered and his powers stripped, but they're all still alive and kicking. Or are they? *DUN dun dun*
On a related note, H and I are still working our way through Bones, and I'll say again that it'll probably never be on my Top 10 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, but it's a credible piece of work. What really brings it alive for me, as I believe I've mentioned, is one Dr. Zachery Uriah Addy. I find it incredibly endearing that the most socially awkward and uncomfortable member of the team is the team's heart: Cam's surrogate son, Angela's project, Hodgins' best friend, Booth's sidekick and foil, and of course, Brennan's apprentice, protégé, and friend. They fall apart without him; they come together around him.
My two favorite scenes, throughout all five seasons, were Zach's two "return" scenes: the first at the beginning of Season Three, when he'd just gotten back from Iraq, and the second a ways into Season Four, when he breaks out of the loony bin to help the team solve an otherwise impenetrable case. It's truly amazing to see how he completely unknowingly restores a balance to the Jeffersonian Medico-Legal Lab that was noticeably lacking during his absence. In both cases, the lab was fraught with tension, disorder, and infighting, and seemed on the verge of collapse. Then we see him standing there, at the bottom of the steps, Brennan's face lights up like it doesn't do for anybody else (including Booth), the whole team rushes down to literally bring him back into the fold, and suddenly everything is all right again. Like Giles, there is a Zach-shaped hole in the team, a void that cannot be filled, no matter how many bright young grad students they trot out. They may be brilliant, they may be kind, they may be genuinely good people, but in the team's eyes, they all have one fatal flaw: they're not Zach. They may try to be, they may try *not* to be, but they're not, and they never will be. They won't play "King of the Lab" and design wacky experiments involving pigs and wood chippers with Hodgins, they won't fumble their way to Angela for desperately-needed dating or fashion advice, they won't ask Booth earnest-yet-awkward questions, but most of all, they won't do that thing where they seem to be the only other human being in the universe who is operating on the same strange channel as Brennan.
It's kinda funny; while I was typing this, a song from "Once More, With Feeling," "If We're Together," especially two certain lines: "What can't we do if we get in it?/We'll work it through within a minute," popped into my head and refused to leave. It's certainly applicable to Bones, especially the second of the two scenes I mentioned above, in that when Zach arrives, not only do the team stop fighting with each other, but, after an entire episode of fumbling around in the dark, they solve the case almost instantly.
This got me thinking about "If We're Together" in it's original context, which was actually somewhere between creepy and depressing. When watching "Once More, With Feeling," it struck me that, in earlier seasons, a song like "If We're Together" might have been an honest affirmation of friendship, solidarity, and trust, it's now bittersweet at best. Taken in context, it's the false bravado of a woman who has lost all hope, and is desperately trying to fool her friends by recalling the camaraderie and honor of the good ol' days, now only distant echos of a long-gone past.
Switching gears, Nightrunner is coming along pretty well; I'm now plowing my way through Stalking Darkness, although I might have to really push to get ready in time for the release date on the 25th. I'm not even a third of the way through, and Seregil and Alec are already, for all intents and purposes, a couple. I mean, Alec lies with his head in Seregil's lap while Seregil reads ancient histories to him, Seregil calls Alec talí, the Aürenfaie equivalent of "beloved," and even when Alec is being actively seduced by the sexy and traitorous Ylinestra, he manages to swim out of the spell she has him under long enough to note that the way she places her hand on the back of his neck is the exact same way Seregil does when he's saying something important, or mooshy, or both. Speaking of Ylinestra...oh, the jealousy! Oh, the cattiness! Oh, the possessiveness! Oh, the reluctance! To make a long story short, they're cuddly, they're insanely protective of each other, they operate on the same wavelength, they're not afraid to rib each other and joke around, they can practically read each other's minds from nothing more than the a quirk of the mouth or the set of the shoulders, they already have massive amounts of trust built up. All in all, they're well and truly primed for full couple-hood. They are my epic canon OTP. *heart*/fangirl
I know there are plans for a Nightrunner movie in the works, and this time around, I've really been reading with an eye towards that. Which scenes will be kept, which will be axed, which will be changed in this way or that. What with the U.S.'s somewhat Puritanical attitude towards alternative sexuality and all, my worst-case scenario is that they'll downplay the Alec/Seregil in favor of Alec/Beka, or even Alec/Klia. The fact is, he is great friends with both these women, and he does seem to initially find Klia highly attractive, but not only would either of these pairings muck up A/S, of course, but would also interfere with the eventual Beka/Nyall and (possible) Klia/Thero, both of which I love almost as much as A/S.
