9.01, or, Carver does it again

Just saw 9.01 and loved it. And wow, my previous two posts sure did get jossed a lot, occasionally more or less word for word .... Ah, well; I always seem to find my way to the same wavelength with the writers. Consider this a blanket warning that any of my future fics (now that I'm keeping up with the show in real time) may end up spoily.

So apparently Sam really DOES only want death. And is his request for assurance from Death that he STAY DEAD the whole reason he didn't look for Dean when he "thought he was dead"--Sam assumed that Dean must feel the same way he does and want to stay dead? Makes sense. (I heard Carver said they would continue to go into that issue in the show, yay!) "Sacrifice" was magnificent, and 9.01 was all I would have hoped for out of a follow-up. Hurt!Sam and hurt!Cas and hurt!Dean, oh my! And feels, all the feels! *drooooool*

Loves me some Tahmoh! And ooh, as hurt!Dean scenes go, his angel beatdown was imo one of the BEST. EVER. I may even get to see 9.02 next week on something bigger than a teeny screen!!

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And dear god, how did I forget to mention shirtless!Cas?! Yes, shiiiirrrrtlesssssss ....

S8 and stuff

Whew! Well, I guess I needed to get all that off my chest, because somehow, in writing it, I found my way back to loving the show, even S8. The last three eps were utterly magnificent. Holy crap, Crowley's "I deserve to be loved" scene!!

I literally COULD NOT SAY ENOUGH about Sam and Dean's talk in the church when Dean saves Sam's life. I also unreservedly adored Amelia, Benny, Garth (always), "Bitten," "Everybody Hates Hitler," "Hunteri Heroici," "LARP and the Real Girl," and "Pac-Man Fever." I still feel like some episodes could have been done better (and some could have been not done at all *coughmansbestfriendcough*), but now I see where they're going with things like killing all their friends and allies, Dean's appalling behavior, the off-ness between the brothers, etc. I guess I summed it up pretty well in a comment to indiachick on my meta/author's note post:

"I feel like I was watching from the outside looking in, and after writing and posting this and the fic, I'm back inside the flow and really experiencing it like these guys are myself, which is how I love Show to be and how it was before I started watching S8. ... I agree with you that it's dogged and OTT on purpose, and in fact, I want to say that writing this meta and the related fic actually brought me to a point where I love S8! Well ... to a degree. I'm not gonna go back and watch "Torn and Frayed" ever again as long as I live any time soon, and I do think they could have done things a little more ... subtly or realistically or something, but then again, now the OTT-ness seems to work for what they're going for, somehow. I guess I just had to get all this stuff off my chest and really dig deep into the issues and explore it all before I could figure out where they're going with everything S8 and beyond."

THANK GOD, because loving show is so near and dear to my heart, and is a prerequisite to being a part of fandom, which is also near and dear to my heart, so I'm sending out love to you tonight, my friends here. Glad I met ya, and glad for the show that brought us all together here to talk about important matters like who was clothing-challenged in this episode and So. Much. Fun. Squee!