Purgatory? Flashbacks!

This has not been the greatest week. Rainy, nail-breaking, sick and crappy, lying on the couch. On the other hand, it's been Supernatural for days up in here, and 1/4 of the way into Season 8, my raging crush on Dean Winchester continues unabated. Not looking forward to the part where either he or Sam is forced to gank Benny (not spoiled on that, I've just watched TV before). But I am looking forward to more Purgatory flashbacks to see what happened to Castiel--because those are the scenes with Castiel in them.

Purgatory itself? Other than that incredibly sweet visual effect of the Leviathans smash-landing in the clearing, I'm not that intrigued. Ah, but Sam's flashbacks with Amelia? Sorry. I would have a difficult time being less intrigued. And it's not that I don't want to see the guys happy with girlfriends or whatnot; I just specifically do not like Amelia. Like, the first few times we saw her she spent the whole time putting words in Sam's mouth and insulting him. And not in a funny 'oh the jolly misunderstandings, but we can't resist this chemistry' kinda way. She's just ragging on him, being all judge-y and caustic...and I know it's because she's in pain and she's been hurt and they're starting to open up to each other and share their loss and it's gonna be lurve and whatnot, but I'm not invested in her pain. I just don't care. I mean, it's a bummer and all, but she hasn't given me anything about herself to like, any reason to hang on through the awkward, bitchy phase. We stick with Dean and Sam through their bad times, we stuck with Cas through his terrible decisions, because we know them, and we care. We want to see them get past it. Amelia, though... I know that, obviously, Sam is going to fall in love with her, and he's gonna hate to leave... but that's just it. Sam says he "had" someone. Did they break up? Did she die? Did she tell him he had to choose between her and Dean? I think Sam left her and "Dog" in bed at the beginning of the season or something? Honestly, though, I just don't care.

Please, please, Season 8, stop cutting away from actual Supernatural to spend time to following the uninteresting tale of How Sam Fell in Love With a Wet Blanket. In the last episode, when Sam looked at...I don't know, some other random object that filled him with soooo much wistful nostalgia...I literally groaned out loud because OMG, please not another chapter of the totally entertaining story of how Sam was nice to this grouch who turned out to be okay or whatever. We already know it's over, so without some spark of interesting or fun personality, without something to like about Amelia, we have no reason at all to get invested.

In general I think the flashback technique just isn't doing much for me. The things happening in them aren't intriguing enough to make me all excited about finding out more. I wanna find Cas, and...yeah, that's about it. I can't fault them for trying it out, though, because if LOST taught us anything, it's that PURGATORY = FLASHBACKS.

Radio Is the Super-Scary Boss Of Me

I'm too scared to watch Supernatural tonight, but I don't think it's up to me. Heading back to base again, listening to a totally different station this time, thinking, "Okay, so, a little packing and then maybe more Supernatural?" And that's when I lose several years off my life because there's a burst of static, and another station starts bleeding through...

"Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor..."
I am officially terrified of this radio.

Radio Is the Boss Of Me

About 20 minutes ago I was driving back to my parents', where I've been visiting for the last few weeks, and I'm thinking, "Hmm, maybe some Supernatural tonight? I think I'm almost to the S7 finale..." And then the next song starts playing on the radio.

"Carry on, my wayward son..."

So I guess that answers that question.

Deja Vu and Doctor Who

To my wonderful friends Television and Pinterest, thank you so very much. This is what you've done to me.

Sitting at my computer, I started having deja vu, and my sense of normal was not helped by the fact that it was a deja vu about a deja vu I could swear I'd had before. But it made me think of some pin I saw about...can't remember exactly, something like...what if deja vu happens because you died and are restoring from your most recent backup? And my addled brain actually took the time to consider this as a possibility.

"Hm, I don't think anything happened. I certainly don't remember anything that would have killed me..." But of course rather than shut down this nonsense train, I pounced immediately upon the most obvious and likely conclusion. "Crap, if I don't remember dying...did I get killed by a Silent?!" And yes, oh my sweet, embarrassed lord, yes, I CHECKED MY ARMS FOR HASH MARKS. Didn't see any, though. Why not? "Duh, brain, why do you think you don't have hash marks on your arms? It's because you don't have any pens in here!"

I really should keep a pen handy, just in case.

Professor Lockhart's Robes

I am currently re-reading the Harry Potter series for the eleventy-jillionth time. I just finished reading Chamber of Secrets, during which I noticed something that I can not believe I hadn't seen before...

Desktop Wallpaper

Unrelated to anything, I threw together a new desktop wallpaper for myself...

If anyone wants, please help yourself (I didn't "sign" it because I hate downloading wallpapers with URLs on them). I was aiming for something that was a little bit grunge and a little bit bright, and this was very simple to make--mostly I went nuts with the filters in Photoshop and then threw some candy colours at the clouds. ^_^

Gregception

Meanwhile on Pinterest...

PS: DI Greg Lestrade? Totally My Division.