OMG SHOW! ILU

[ratherastory]

I HAVE ALL THE FEELINGS ABOUT TONIGHT'S EPISODE!!!!

Dear Show, thank you for marrying me to Cas!!! \o/

Yes, for those of you who don't know, my first name is Daphne. I spell it Daphné, but I'll take it.

ME/CAS IS CANON! I CAN'T EVEN.

Okay, moving back into slightly less insane/delusional territory...

CAAAAAAAAASSSS...

I am inexpressibly sad! Yet the episode was filled with crazy!Sam and sleep-deprived!Sam and Sam looking scruffy and oh-so-scrumptious and STILL being a badass and helping the girl even though his ORGANS WERE SHUTTING DOWN, PEOPLE. COME ON.

Mark Pellegrino is the living embodiment of epic. So much love for this man, I tell you. SO. MUCH. LOVE. Lucifer, I will miss you so much!

I don't understand where the Dean-hate comes from. Dean was not being a dick, you guys, he is trying not to fall apart. I have many, many Dean/Cas feelings about this episode (TRENCHCOAT, OMG), and Dean acted pretty much in character given the circumstances. Dean doesn't deal well with feelings in general, and now he's faced with losing the very last person on earth he loves, only to be faced with the second-to-last person on earth he loves whom he thought was dead. So, yeah, shutting down is Dean's standard MO: get the job done, deal with the fallout later. Much, much later, preferably. I think we're all just lucky he didn't drown himself in a bottle of bourbon.

Also, I had ~ALL THE SASSY FEELS~ about this episode, too!

All that was missing was the hug.

There are gaping holes in the plot and the logic, and I don't understand how one can "shift" Lucifer, or the PTSD manifestation of Lucifer, and leave Sam intact. I don't buy it and therefore will probably write all the fic to make it work in my head.

Otherwise, I adored the episode.

Comments

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

HEAR HEAR.

[tabaqui]

YES!!!
There's Dean!hate? WTF?? HOW CAN THERE BE!!!!
*flails*

I couldn't watch live, i just watched now and OMG OMG OMG.
Show, how i love you, how you kill me, omg. SHOOOOOOOOW!
BOOOOOOOOYS!!!!
*flails*

[digitalwave]

Me too, sweetie! I loved it too! That was the only way that Dean could deal without falling apart into teeny, tiny pieces. I think what happened is that Cas took Sam's pain into himself but I can't wait to see the stories you spin out of this. It's something else wonderful to look forward to. Cas is not only our BA angel again, we've got our caring, hero Cas back as well!!

I had to edit to add many more !!!!'s :)

[cassiopeia7.livejournal.com]

I love this post in general, but this:

I don't understand where the Dean-hate comes from. Dean was not being a dick, you guys, he is trying not to fall apart.

OMG, thank you so much! Dean has always dealt with hurtful things like this. You'd think the Dean-haters had never watched the show before. :(

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

I am half avoiding the net like the plague b/c I DNW to hear the hate or the Cas zealots flipping their shit, and half GLEE BECAUSE OMG SO MANY PEOPLE ARE HAPPY LIKE MEEEE.

My personal theory is that, ok, like, the wall is just a wall, and it was meant to hold back Sam's memories of Hell, right? And the memories are the CAUSE that causes the hallucinations, which is the SYMPTOM. So, Cas couldn't rebuild the wall, so he took away the symptoms. But if the memories are indeed still there, the symptoms will slowly start coming back! :D

....

I mean D:

;)

[carocali.livejournal.com]

I LOVE your avatar. Oh. My. God! Beautiful!

[ramblin_rosie]

Since I actually dreamed an ending similar to what we got a day or two ago, here's how my line of thought re: the shift went:

- Sam's hallucinations could be seen as supernaturally-induced schizophrenia, which is technically a disease.
- I've heard of faith healers, especially of the shamanistic bent, "taking the disease into" themselves. The patient heals completely, and the healer bears the illness. (It's said something similar happened with C. S. Lewis and his wife; he prayed that God would let him suffer in her place, and as her bone cancer went into miraculous remission, his bones started losing calcium at the same rate hers were gaining calcium.)
- As a last, desperate, put-a-brace-on-it resort (that last being Jared's term), Cas might well take the schizophrenia into himself to save Sam's life at the cost of his own sanity.

As far as *how* it works? Your guess is as good as mine.
I agree heartily with everything else, though, *especially* Dean being 100% in character.

[naisica.livejournal.com]

I don't buy it and therefore will probably write all the fic to make it work in my head.

Yes, pleas!:))))

[cassiopeia7.livejournal.com]

Seconded!!

[monteseverus.livejournal.com]

Make that three of us who would love to read this!

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

I really loved it too! And I thought Dean was, y'know, being his normal "automatic shutdown sequence" self.

[hidden-easel.livejournal.com]

PLEASE Write the fic to make this work, because this episode had so much potential, but fell short IMO

[bellatemple]

Scruffy Sam is best Sam.

And, man, the closest I've gotten to Show using my name is the actress who played Ava using it for a last name. I'm jealous of your marriage, but in many states have been vested with the power of performing marriage, so if ya need an officiant in a foreign country. . . . ;D

(edited because I coulda sworn I mentioned the foreign countryness already but apparently didn't.]

[rayvlin.livejournal.com]

Mark Pellegrino is the living embodiment of epic. So much love for this man, I tell you. SO. MUCH. LOVE. Lucifer, I will miss you so much!
Only in this fandom can someone say stuff like that. I totally agree though Mark has been a wonderful addition to this season with the dark humor that he adds. Oddly enough I've yet to find many coda fics for the season featuring much of Lucifer.

I'm sure you could rationalize the how and whys, but seriously how would you depict a broken soul and try and not make it too gruesome and still have a functioning character? And seriously why isn't Michael in the mix as well in Sammy's head?

note too add- we can cross off Cas as being the "friendly ghost" back with the last obvious indecent. Leaves Bobby being Dean's stalker.

[cordelia-gray.livejournal.com]

You/Cas is totally canon! :DDDDDD

There's a theory being discussed over at [Unknown site tag]'s post that Lucifer is at least partly real, that what Cas shifted was a telepathic link of some kind to the Cage. Which makes a lot of sense.

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

that Lucifer is at least partly real, that what Cas shifted was a telepathic link of some kind to the Cage. Which makes a lot of sense.

I thought this, too! It makes a ton of sense.

[hsifeng.livejournal.com]

I approve this message...and all it's parts....

[4422shini.livejournal.com]

It was a pretty epic episode, with the exception of the last 5 minutes.

Yeah, the transference thing is pretty lame. It smells to me like the writers wrote themselves into a corner and couldn't figure out how to cure Sam so they're like, "give it to the amnesiac angel!"

How is it even possible to transfer a destroyed soul's pain? Isn't that part of the soul? Did Cas just do the equivalent of 'hacking the hell bit off'? *sigh*

I was enjoying insane!Sam way, way too much. I should have known they'd take it away.

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

People are hating on Dean? This is why I only read reviews from people I trust, LOL. I don't even want to know why they were hating, I thought Dean did great last night not to drink himself to death.

I would love Meg so much more if the actress playing her put any kind of life into her scenes but she was so flat that her scenes with Dean and Cas just made me want to change the channel.

Sam in those white hospital scrubs. I'm just saying. Even with the falling apart and organs shutting down he was adorable.

I loved Lucifer at first, but last night he was just too much. For me anyway. I'll be sorry to see him go, but it's time for that storyline to be over.

Basically I was okay with the ep, but it could have been better.

[heard_the_owl]

THIS.

When Dean went in the trunk and got Cas' trench coat, I CRIED.

[sistabro]

SAAAMMMMM <3333
CASSSS <3333
DEEEAANNN <33333
MEEEGGGG<33333
*handwaves plot holes and terrible hospital for now to better roll aroind in the awesome*

[shangrilada.livejournal.com]

AGREE WITH EVERYTHING

also

PLEASE WRITE ALL THE FIC

kthnx

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

I am so very, very sad that Sam is apparently not crazy anymore. This was the best episode for crazy!Sam, apart from 7.02, and now it's OVER? *sadface* Fortunately, there's lots of awesome crazy!Samfic out there.

I'm also confused about the shifting of Lucifer. How do one person's memories/hallucinations affect another person in the same way? Is Cas now remembering Sam's experiences in hell, or having his own complex relationship with Lucifer?

So, happy Cas is back, but sad that Sam is now magically healed.

[rumi-nyo.livejournal.com]

I loved the episode too. My feelings are all over the place. I can't wait for the fics you come up with. ^_^

[embroiderama]

I honestly believe at this point that some people hate the show but keep watching it just so that they can get righteously pissed off at how Sara Gamble did everything wrong and blahblahblah because it wasn't 42 minutes of how much Dean loves Castiel or 42 minutes of Sam and Dean hugging or that it had a female character or didn't have a female character or whatever. I thought it was a really good episode with EPIC mainpain all around and super-fun hallucifer.

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

I dunno, a lot of great things happened in the ep, but I'm pretty hung up on how rushed and sloppy the episode was. I would've liked to see more of amnesiac!Cas regardless, and how the episode resolved... yeah, that really made no sense? And now Cas is crazy and in a box, which SUCKS. D: ...I mean, I guess we'll see what happens in future episodes, maybe we'll see some satisfying resolution later in the season, but. It just felt like they crammed too much into this episode. ...And the Sam fix MADE NO SENSE.

But. I loved poor crazy organ-failure!Sam helping the girl with her ghost problem, and when Dean took Cas' trenchcoat out of the trunk of his car I AAAAWWWW'D out loud, and I always always ALWAYS loves me some Lucifer.

I am baffled to know there is Dean hate. I didn't notice that he'd done anything hateable...?

...Anyway, good things happened, and I'm so happy to see Cas back (loved the epic!Cas montage, hee~), but... I dunno. Again, we'll see what they have for us in the future, but I'm getting the distinct impression the creative team is writing themselves into a corner. : \

In the end, not my favorite episode, but I STILL LOVE YOU SHOW. ♥

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

It was sloppy and disjointed, I'll give you that. I was just overwhelmed by all the feelings anyway.

And, yeah, the Sam fix makes no sense at all. /o\

But overall the episode made me really happy.

[gidgetgal9.livejournal.com]

Agreed, so agreed with you about this episode. And squeeing over the thought of you doing a tag to this episode - fixing the problems!