SPN 8.12 Recap

[tebtosca]

My super-late recap of 8.12 up now at The Home Planet!

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[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

LOL no one will ever make literal angel feathers okay with me, especially considering how important the true forms (and their destructive power) are supposed to be. It just.does.not.make.sense.

*renders garments*

And, please, that's Sam's trunk too. Sassy, obviously.

But, yeah, maybe this is a way to get Sam back into things. I can see that being a good catalyst, although I hope they don't make it all black'n'white brawn vs. brain thing with the two brothers. They should be a mix of both things.

I disagree with your disagreement (lol) re: John. I think the retcon changes him psychologically, and that's the difference. And I'm not really using "normal" meaning "not supernatural" but rather as a guy who started out with issues from an early age vs. a guy who did not. Dean always had issues (obvs) so he's never normal in that context. I mean, I don't hate the retcon, I just prefer the other way, you know? It still works more or less with John's characterization, and you could actually fanwank that Dean was projecting himself on John's situation and that John wasn't as lonely and angry of a boy as he thinks.

Incest threesomes though, yes.

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'd be all over Sassy but Dean's too jealous to share this season.

OK, yeah, you're right about John and normal--I was missing your point.

I think this is one of those retcons that I'll accept (re: John) because honestly the happy puppyish John of In the Beginning never worked for me. I mean, wasn't he supposed to be a war vet at that point? Getting from him to the John Winchester we see is such an epic characterization leap that it crosses the line from "tragic story" to "a little unbelieveable". Getting there from a more cautious, more independent John Winchester who never felt quite like he fit in (loving Twitter stepfather aside) makes a little more sense to me.

That being said, I still don't like how black and white-ly they handled it re: the boys' reaction, AND it broke continuity like whoa. Your postcard made me LOL.

The most tragic thing is that any number of us fans would provide these analytic services for FREE--they could improve their characterizations/continuity so easily with essentially slave labor. We are slaves to our love.