Supernatural 4:12-16

So I'm skipping over the episode-by-episode review to just say that as much as I love this show and love this project, I'm emotionally exhausted. So brief (and by brief I truly mean brief) notes for this group of episodes...

• Angel Anna - Possibly the coolest frackin thing to happen to this series.
•  I love the moment(s) with Dean and his Reaper. It reminded me of the section of His Dark Materials when the children meet people who keep their Deaths in their lives. It's comforting for them, and I loved Dean's acknowledgment that his Death (Tessa) was the thing missing from his life. Their connection... I believed it. Truly, honestly. And it was needed.
• I actually enjoyed the flashback episode. It was Sam-centric, sure. But I think we learned just as much about Dean. Or maybe I'm looking for things about Dean :) I thought it was wonderful to see the moment in which Sam was told not to be in the family business (why we still dwell on that, not sure - this reveal should have happened in S1) and the moment when Dean stopped feeling like the hero of the family. That it happened so young - and that it was in a moment of extreme teenage douchebaggery - makes a lot of sense.
• I got annoyed with Sam's "Dean's not strong enough" bullhookey. Yes, Dean should not have been sent to torture a demon by the angels... but Castiel knew that. It seemed more like a test for Castiel than Dean in the long run. In the end, it's because of this trauma that Cas begins to doubt his world --- unfortunately, it ends up just being Uriel. Oh well, the possibility for development is still there.
• Oh yeah - drinking demon blood? Gross, Sam. Supa gross.

I'm loving this show right now. I promise better reviews soon... but I'm not even doing my hmw right now, let alone keeping up with SPN and blogging.

Someday I'll adjust to the single life.

Saying what's easier to hear

When I was growing up, my favorite fairy tales were "Bluebeard" and "Donkeyskin" ... Yet, had I been asked I would have told you "Beauty and the Beast" was my favorite.
I have always attributed this reaction to the fact that generally young girls are asked "Who's your favorite Disney Princess" not "What is your favorite fairy tale" ...
Today it occurred to me that it was easier to say that I vocally identified with Beauty because, let's face it, isn't a rebel. She's basically the perfect model of femininity. She bends the rules, but doesn't break them. Her skills and interests Rene toward the domestic. She is "the angel in the house" that I aspired, my entire childhood, to emulate and be. Because that's what good little Mormon girls do.

Donkeyskin and Bluebeard are stories about women who break the rules, rebel, take their lives in their own hands... And aren't punished. They live, they survive, and they don't need a bloody fairy godmother or singing rodents to accomplish their goals. And they frackin rock.

And another semester begins...

RL things... In list-form!

- Last Thursday my boyfriend of five years broke up with me. It wasn't unexpected and pretty mutual. He's still my #1 fan, and I his, but... Still, emotional heartbreak thy name is Kelpy.

- Monday classes started again. I am excited for my classes. I am excited to start working on my prospectus for the awesome thesis I'm about to write (that is crazy and out of my field and really scary and god I'm in way over my head and it is fantastic)... But the stress! Oh the stress will be large this semester:

* Victorian Texts and Sex
* The Gothic Novel

Each with a reading list that would scare undies away from the Engl program for life. I love being an MA student ;)

- I've decided to do a Lost IntroCast starting in Jan/Feb of next year.

- Carnivale might be the best thing that has ever happened to me.

- I have some amazing RL friends that are very helpful in this time of transition... Thank goodness.

- I have thinky thoughts about just about everything... But not today.

- I finished a disc of SPN somewhere in the middle of this mess... Do not expect an analysis. I liked it. I'd like to now move on.