"So, when do we go on this little magical mystery tour?"

[llywela]

This has been a busy week, what with one thing and another. It isn't going to get any less busy, either. Tomorrow I have to get up at the crack of dawn in order to get into town to catch the megabus to London at 7.30am. I'm going to see the Terracotta Army at the British Museum with my family. It was originally going to be just me and Mum - we always try to have a day out together every year, just the two of us. We usually take in a flower show - it was Hampton Court Palace last year - but this year we decided on the Terracotta Army, while the exhibition is on this side of the globe. But then the rest of the family jumped on the bandwagon, so suddenly our mother-daughter outing has become a day for the entire family! It's going to be a long day. To catch the bus at 7.30, I'll have to leave by 6.50am. We probably won't get back into Cardiff until gone 11pm. But it should be a really great day.

Must remember to set up the DV-R for Ashes to Ashes.

Luckily I've taken the day off on Friday, as well. I've got a man coming to scrap my car - that old bomb my sister gave me two years ago that turned out to be about three times the size of the one I was learning to drive in and scared me too much to attempt to move ever. It's just been sitting there gathering rust ever since, so now I'm getting rid of it.

Man, the recap for this week's Supernatural really hated me. It did not want to be written, at all. I suspect my general business with work and job hunting and family commitments and whatnot had something to do with this. Plus stress, of course. It still managed to hit 30 pages, though! I'm not entirely happy with it - it could do with some polishing, still, but I don't have time before the next episode. I just couldn't seem to express myself properly this week. So I hope what I've written makes sense!

To read the recap, click the link below:


"No one can save you because you don't want to be saved."

The episode header was made using caps by marishna. There aren't any illustrative graphics again this week - I just don't have time to sit and make them at the moment. Maybe some other time I'll come back and edit them in.

Comments

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

*sneaks online for 5 minutes when I should be getting ready to catch that bus*

I also wonder what went on that, at the beginning of S1, Sam thought his dad hated him and Dean apparently thought John doted on Sam. Because that's a huge chasm of difference. I know John bragged about Sam to people, amd maybe he didn't really with Dean? *ponders that* I want more wee!chesters!!!!!!!
Just another sign of John's shaky parenting that he managed to leave both sons believing that he favoured the other! Dean because he saw John placing such emphasis on Sam's safety, while heaping nothing but responsibility and over-expectation onto his shoulders, and Sam because he saw John holding Dean up as the standard to which he must strive but never quite felt able to achieve, not least because he never had the same kind of motivation that Dean did.

John sold his soul to save Dean's life, so why would Dean think that? Is it something left over from before that incident? Something so deep-seated(sp?) that even his dad going to hell for him isn't able to get rid of it?
I'm gonna guess...Faith. Dean was dying, not just injured, but dying, and John never called back. Now, he might have been wrapped up in a job or something, but that shouldn't have stopped him anxiously checking in later to find out if he was all right. John might have considered contact too dangerous, except that he'd contacted the boys by text and then telephone on the last two episodes in a row to send them on jobs. We know from Salvation that it really hurt Dean that his father had never called to find out how he was. He's possibly also thinking about all those other dangerous jobs John so cryptically sent him on without touching base later to find out how they went, any one of which could have cost his and Sam's life, and the fact that John placed his quest for revenge ahead of his sons' wellbeing for 22 years, but I'm guessing Faith is at the root of it. IMTOD was too little too late, and the damage was already done.

It's kind of like they're willing to put the little things on hold in favor of the big picture, and Dean thrives on the little things.
Mmhmm. John and Sam was so very alike. They both look at the problem, often to the exclusion of all else, while Dean looks at the person, often to the exclusion of all else.

Gotta go.

[littlepunkryo.livejournal.com]

I'm sneaking on when my internet works - for some reason I get maybe half an hour on every few hours, and the rest of the time it doesn't work!

I'm also curious to see if Sam "dreamwalking" WAS part of the whole psychic thing, because he shouldn't have been able to affect Dean's dream, I don't think. Not the second time he did that, esp. considering he couldn't do anything at all the first time. I'm thinking his "gifts" gave him a boost.

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

*tries to understand the plotting* I think Sam's taking the dreamroot gave him the same power that Jeremy had to manipulate the dreamscape, he just had to tap into it and figure out how. I'm not too sure of the mechanics, though, if his latent psychic abilities gave him more control, if Jeremy's Charcot-Willebrand thing equally made him more able to control it, or what.

[littlepunkryo.livejournal.com]

Honestly I'm not completely convinced the writers knew what they were doing on that one. Maybe time and episodes will tell!

BTW, I know you get your SPN off torrents, but the community dean_sam has like 3 different posts with direct download links! (I usually use torrents too, but with my weird connection thing lately I decided to use those instead, and it was pretty fast!)

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Cheers for the heads up. I usually go with the torrent, if it's up nice and early, but there are a couple of other places I know I can go for more direct links, failing that - always good to know of more just in case!

[littlepunkryo.livejournal.com]

For like 2 days afterward there's always new download links for new episodes. People miss it or like me just like to have it in case I want to watch again. So if you're having issues or whatever, there ya go!

PS - did you know there's HQ versions?? A regular download of SPN is around 350 MB but the HQ version is over 1 GB!

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

I've seen the HQ versions, yeah, and dl'd one or two, but not as a general rule because they're so huge and I only have so much space on my harddrive! Gorgeous to have, though.

Me, I await the DVD release with great anticipation...