heidi | I liked it!

I liked the episode! I've enjoyed Cas as a character in many of the episodes and I definitely think Misha is a tulpa, and there was MPREG (well, angel-preg) and implied tentacles, brotherly banter, Sam's legs, Dean suppressing everything he's feeling because he needs just a little bit of hope inside the Pandora's Box of his mind, wangst, CROWLEY being un-awesome to the degree that it is truly awesome and there is a mystery and someone on my flist (but it's locked so I won't link) said that she thought that Cas's soul - and possibly Jimmy's if it was still in there which I doubt - were part of the glowey thing sucked into Purgatory and part of the second-half arc may be to get Cas out of there (but even if it isn't, then I'm okay with that because Casviathan is brilliant and that creepy smile is just fantastic.

And it's consistent with what Show does.

On Show every single significant actor has played characters other than the "main" one - Jared's played Soulless Sam, Lucifer and Meg, Jensen has played Demonic!Dean (as well as vamp!Dean) and Future!Dean, Misha's played Jimmy and Cas and Future!Cas and Godstiel, so why not play a completely different character for an episode before everything changes again. (Oh, and Jim's played a demon and I am not even talking about anyone in The French Mistake.)

Jared looks even taller, but slimmer which I (a) like and (b) is canon-justifiable given that the episode takes a few weeks to happen and Sam could be losing some of his strength from what he's going through. In

lazy_daze's post here because of the angle it looks like his legs come halfway up Jensen's chest!

Um, I should be less superficial for a moment. I'm slightly spoiled about future episodes - character/special guest casting, mostly - but I am completely unspoiled as to the character arcs for *anyone*, and I am really, insanely looking forward to seeing how it goes.

It's weird, but I didn't love the editing in the Season Finale, a fact which was made clearer to me when I was editing my Tubthumping vid - the angles and shots were, at times, completely unmatched to the script and emotional levels and it didn't work for me in some frustrating ways even though I found the twists to the storyline intriguing, and I had to mentally fanwank some of the more temporal elements but this episode was so well shot and well edited and well composed that it was just so good to watch. Aesthetically pleasing elements, you please me! And the final shot in this episode was what the final shot of 6.22 should have been.

And, really? Fucking hell, season seven. Little show that could, you still really, really can. (and I sort of like how S7OMG looks like a l33t version of ZOMG. Appropriate!)