Authorial waffling —nothing to see here, carry on

[ratherastory]

Dear Gabriel,

Dude, you were meant to be a Cunning Plot Device™. In no way, shape or form was I inviting you to take up residence in my head and start nattering at me about your motivations. I'm not supposed to like you: I find your character on the show insufferable, and I want to smack him repeatedly until he leaves Sam and Dean alone.

Please to be getting out of my head before I actually start to warm to you. No, I mean it. Do NOT have a heart-to-heart with the Castiel who has already wormed his way in there (yes, he did it too, and now he's in there permanently and I actually like him now, dammit). I don't have room for you. Stop trying to be sympathetic, damn you!

Did you hear me? PLOT DEVICE. Nothing more.

*headdesk*

Yeah, didn't think so.

No love,

Me


Umm, flist? Does anyone know if in "Tall Tales" we ever find out the name of the janitor? I'm happy to invent a name for him if he doesn't have one, but Super-Wiki and IMdB are being unhelpful.


So, yeah. "Take Me Home" was supposed to be a quickie, light-hearted little crack!fic, and now it's getting a little out of hand. I wouldn't be surprised if it hits 50K. Suddenly I have to think about characterization and motivations and PLOT, dagnabbit. Not to mention structure and underlying themes, and I'll be damned if the characters aren't all going and learning something from all of this.

*sigh*

Apparently I really AM incapable of just writing something silly and schmoopy.

Also, I blame roque_clasique for my new-ish kink of having Dean using forearm crutches. What the hell?

Comments

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

I know there are a lot of people who just love the antagonists that plague the protagonists in such a way that the protagonists just can't win against them in any shape or form, but it's so not me. I always end up sympathizing with the characters too much to like the tricksters and the bellas and all the rest. I always end up wanting to watch them get reduced to a greasy smear on the floor.

That said, while I haven't liked watching the trickster in the show torturing the boys and getting away with it, I find that I really, really, really like him in theory, off doing his own thing. He's kind of awesome.

That extremely length explanation is just my way of justifying this:

No! Don't kick him out of your brain! Let him run wild and awesome!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I'm right with you there: I need to believe that the characters do stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning, even if it's a really, REALLY slim chance.

That being said, I love the Trickster as a plot device, and now Gabriel has firmly taken up residence at the back of my head and is demanding to be three-dimensional.

I re-watched "Changing Channels" recently, for fic-writing purposes, and that look on Gabriel's face at the end... guh. It broke my heart. I'm talking Sam 'n' Dean levels of heartbreak, here. I have to attribute it to Richard Speight Jr.'s acting abilities that he managed to make me reconsider hating his character with one anguished look at the camera.

Okay, maybe I'm a bit of a sucker. ;)

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

Oh I agree. totally the acting.

I've been kind of bored with this season, though there have been some good performances. Because of that, I've been playing a little game of "imagine the spin-off." For example, I decided that Jesse did need to go live with bobby, and they'd become crimefighters of the: "one's a pint-sized anti-christ, the other's a good ol' boy demon-hunter. Together, they fight crime!" sort.

For the Trickster, I've decided he needs a single-camera sitcom ala "Scrubs." The fantasy sequences would be reality. It'd be fabulous. Perhaps Castiel could be the straightman.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

It would be awesome for the first few episodes at least. :D

I love your idea.

I was all on board with this season up to and including 5.04 (oh, GOD!), and enjoyed the rest in a way that wasn't the same single-minded obsession I had with the first four seasons. I'm still good to go for now. It's not brilliant, but it's solid. :)

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

We're of like mines on that. For the first few episodes- well. I was a happy little fangirl.

Since then? I must admit, I've been going through the motions. It's good, but not mindblowing awesome. And it's really, really, really hard to go from one to the other.

The one thing I am grateful for is that (so far) we haven't had the equivalent of "Heaven and Hell" which was like being on a bullet train of awesome that then crashed into a brick wall of suck.

Hm. I think I let that metaphor run a little too wild.

I think I too

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Hee! Metaphors are tricky things, aren't they? ;)

"Heaven and Hell" was a heck of a rollercoaster ride, I agree. There were parts which were awesome, and parts which were... not. :P

You didn't finish your last sentence. What do you think? :)

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

I think nothing! Actually, I think that little fragment of a sentence is the remnants of my copy-pasting from an email reply gone wrong into livejournal proper.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. I am well-versed in copy/paste attempts gone awry.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

argh! Minds! (Must.Get.More.Sleep).