SPN: The Rapture

[norwich36]

Well, I'm waiting for the implosion from Dean/Castiel writers

I mean, I realize in the course of true love there's no obstacle that can't be written around, but so many of them have been totally jossed to hell: Jimmy is a happily married (well, formerly happily married) man, with living family, and he doesn't get to die while Castiel is inhabiting the vessel for the next thousand years or so, so...there goes 99% of the fandom explanations for how Dean/Castiel sex isn't exploiting the vessel. As someone who has read a LOT of Dean/Castiel, I'm very curious to see where it's going to go from here.

And speaking of Castiel

What a fucking dick. I love the Castiel of fic, but the Castiel of canon? Taking a happily married man away from his family, exposing them all to terrible danger while having promised to keep them all safe? That's made of FAIL, Castiel, totally made of fail. And I get that apparently angels need to possess people with specific bloodlines, so what--there are no single people in the whole world he could possess?

I get that he took some sort of risk to help Dean and got yanked back to heaven and reprogrammed, but still--I think I'm pretty annoyed that he promised protection to Jimmy's family, since the angels can't even protect themselves, much less humans getting in the path of random demons. And since I don't think Jimmy would have really made the choice he did had he known what the consequences would be for his family, I repeat: MADE OF FAIL.

Jimmy, on the other hand, was entirely made of win. Ok, maybe it was unwise of him not to heed Sam's advice, but who could blame him for wanting to see his family after all this time? And he even managed to concoct a fairly decent story for his wife. But of course what I love him most for is rescuing his daughter from the fate he hated by resuming it himself. Oh, Jimmy. I also loved his refusal to pray before dinner and his angry prayer to Castiel right before walking into the trap.

Emilia was also pretty kickass. One can hardly blame her for kicking Jimmy out when she thought he was crazy--and I like that she was willing to give him a second chance but was very cautious about it. (Well, assuming that was her and not a demon the whole time--I guess it's hard to tell. And I guess it was the demon and not really Emilia who didn't want Jimmy to leave them, but still, the actress was pretty awesome). I'm glad that in the end, she didn't die and she at least got to keep her daughter, rather than losing both husband and daughter.

Sam Yeah, yeah, sucking demon blood is bad, demon blood addiction blah blah blah. I didn't like this plotline when season 6 Buffy did it. Though next week's episode may be fun just for bondage!Sam.

All that demon-blood drinking is apparently a downer, though, since the speech he gave to Jimmy about how he'd never be able to see his family again was even more depressing than the speech he gave Adam last week.

Dean You tricksy bastard! I did not see that coming, I have to say. When you said "I'm done, I'm just done," that felt real to me, so I was not at all expecting the trap.

And can I say, it makes me happy that you don't always dream of hell--sometimes you just dream about fishing! Though I'm a little perturbed that all the angels apparently like to spy on your brain, if Castiel (pre-reprogramming) is to be believed.

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[norwich36.livejournal.com]

That's a good defense of Castiel--I certainly agree with you that he never intended to expose Jimmy's family to harm. I think my frustration is a little more bigger picture, though; I feel like at the very least Castiel should have hedged his promises, and more than that I think he might have clued Jimmy into the length of the commitment he was making, if it really could be a thousand years.

Of course, it is also possible that Castiel really believed he would only need to be inhabiting Jimmy for a short time, and it was something related to his most recent trip to heaven that makes it necessary to hold on to Jimmy for so long, in which case I will withdraw the criticism.