Oh, Misha and twitter, it cracked me the fuck up - I wondered if he was actually tweeting. :D
I got it, I mean - I know what they were going for and I think they achieved it - it's just not what I wanted. There were some things, the sets especially, Jensen's trailer and Jared's house, that I think were hilarious, and I got most of the in-jokes, I think. It was just that the best eps of SPN, the ones that are laugh-til-you-choke funny, almost always also have a whole lot of heart, and I feel like that was sorely lacking from this one. There's usually a pathos for the people who get dragged into something they weren't expecting, and the show totally fell down on that front. I would have gone with the Kripke bit - I think it was funny and also a hat tip to author-as-god - but the random shooting of the stage hands and things seemed cruel and unnecessary. And there wasn't any resolution or feeling for the completely innocent people who got killed. The joke about Misha's death making, what was magazine was it?, that was too much for me - or at least, I would have liked at least a moment of sincere grief somewhere (Gen's wrecked makeup aside - that was also OTT for me). Or surprise or fear - the universe wasn't human enough, at least for me.
And wow, that... was surprising. But hey. Meta at 2am and WHY THE FUCK AM I UP UNTIL 2am again? AAAAAAAAAAARG.
ETA: And all that is not to say that I didn't love the ep! I did! I laughed a lot, and loud enough for my neighbor to bang the wall. I just wanted more. Demanding fan is demanding.
So anyway, my fic would be exactly that, it'd be Jensen and Jared in Supernatural-world, and then through coming back and dealing with everything. It's be horribly angsty and whatnot. There's got to be a good fic like that somewhere. Right?
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I got it, I mean - I know what they were going for and I think they achieved it - it's just not what I wanted. There were some things, the sets especially, Jensen's trailer and Jared's house, that I think were hilarious, and I got most of the in-jokes, I think. It was just that the best eps of SPN, the ones that are laugh-til-you-choke funny, almost always also have a whole lot of heart, and I feel like that was sorely lacking from this one. There's usually a pathos for the people who get dragged into something they weren't expecting, and the show totally fell down on that front. I would have gone with the Kripke bit - I think it was funny and also a hat tip to author-as-god - but the random shooting of the stage hands and things seemed cruel and unnecessary. And there wasn't any resolution or feeling for the completely innocent people who got killed. The joke about Misha's death making, what was magazine was it?, that was too much for me - or at least, I would have liked at least a moment of sincere grief somewhere (Gen's wrecked makeup aside - that was also OTT for me). Or surprise or fear - the universe wasn't human enough, at least for me.
And wow, that... was surprising. But hey. Meta at 2am and WHY THE FUCK AM I UP UNTIL 2am again? AAAAAAAAAAARG.
ETA: And all that is not to say that I didn't love the ep! I did! I laughed a lot, and loud enough for my neighbor to bang the wall. I just wanted more. Demanding fan is demanding.
So anyway, my fic would be exactly that, it'd be Jensen and Jared in Supernatural-world, and then through coming back and dealing with everything. It's be horribly angsty and whatnot. There's got to be a good fic like that somewhere. Right?