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On The Working Title.

Okay, Supernatural. You know I love you, and considered episode-by-episode, rather than as a whole, Season Four is so far looking like one of the best series/seasons of anything I've ever watched. But three of the four most recent episodes have been silly episodes, and I am pretty desperate for some angst at the moment.

I am especially desperate for angst following the revelation that Dean remembers Hell. Dean has been suffering worse-than-imaginable torments for the equivalent of forty years, and yet three of the eight episodes since he rose have been light and silly? There's something not quite right there. (Has he been able to remember since 'Lazarus Rising'? I thought his Lilith-hallucination in 'Yellow Fever' might have represented the memories returning to him, but now it seems that perhaps he's had those memories all along. You'd think he'd be more messed up about it, surely.)

Incidentally (oh man there's a bad pun), I liked the music during that final scene. (The incidental music in Supernatural is often rather pretty. I sometimes want to rewatch 'Scarecrow' and 'Croatoan' purely for Christopher Lennertz's score.)

When the episode opened on a woman in the shower, I couldn't help rolling my eyes. For goodness' sake, Supernatural, you've already had two female-death-in-the-shower scenes! But then they didn't actually kill her, so I can sort of forgive them. (In fact, was that a rare 'everybody lives' episode? Er, well, Sam died, but he got better. So.)

Gigantic living teddy bear: possibly the weirdest thing Supernatural has ever come up with. I applaud you, writers. I back slowly away from you at the same time, but I applaud you.

AMAZING THINGS:

"Are we... should we... are we going to kill this teddy bear?"
"How? Huh? Shoot it? Burn it?
"I don't know. ...both?"

I laughed so hard.

Anyway, it was a fun episode (if one that felt at times as if it were trying a little too hard to be quotable), but I am so ready for an episode full of plot and pain and woe and Castiel and Ruby ~~and Castiel/Ruby~~ and tension in the Winchesters' relationship. (Seriously, where has Ruby gone?) Of course, knowing Supernatural, there's a more-than-fair chance that all the silly episodes are here to lull us into a false sense of security before the writers, I don't know, skin the Winchesters alive or something.

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At least you're sane. Who the hell wants that demon back? (You know this Riona chick personally? I think you should test her out with some holy water.)

I don't think Holy Water works on Time Lords.

Don't think we've hunted one of those before, but it sounds like a Trickster. How do you kill one?

Same as any other type of person, I suspect, although you'll have to do it a couple of times because they tend to regenerate. Twelve times, to be exact, for a total of thirteen forms.

Erm, it might be a bit trickier with this particular one though, as he (the Master, who was male before becoming Riona) has already used up his first thirteen forms and managed to find a way to get more. And then, after apparently refusing to regenerate and being cremated, still managed to regenerate some more. So this particular Time Lord will be a bit tricky to beat.

I would recommend getting the Doctor to help. He's good with this sort of thing.

Okay, things that've died more than thirteen times are definitely our business. But, what, you're friends with her? (...him? Did you say she used to be male?) You sure you know what you're getting into there? She ever done anything weird? You know, apart from the regeneration and the... sex change thing.

Well she has these crazy persuasive powers to make people write insane crackfic. See my icon? Her fault.

Dude, everything Riona says is wierd. S'part of the charm.

...'crackfic'?

Did Sam say something about that once?

Crackfic is really cracked out fanfic that people write. You get the usual stuff in most fandoms, like wingfic and mpreg and au and crossovers, but then Riona has also helped unleashed Zombie Piers Morgan, Prostitution-with-Giant-Squids, car transformation, and Jeremy/Top Gear Dog. And that's just Top Gear.

Okay, here is the list of stuff you just said that I don't understand:

- fanfic
- fandoms
- wingfic
- mpreg
- au
- crossovers

It sounds kind of like English, but I swear you're speaking a different language.

And I'm not totally sure about 'car transformation', but it sounds like something I'd like to know more about.

Car transformation is someone who turns into a car. Quite a lot of that in Top Gear, donchaknow.

Erm, it's probably for the best that you don't know what those things mean. You probably wouldn't like it much.

Okay, I've watched Top Gear, and I'm pretty sure nobody turned into a car in it. Don't think I've seen all the episodes, though. I'll have to find out whether shapeshifters can do that.

Well obviously they're not going to put it in the episode. Then they wouldn't keep getting awards for best factual program. And generally it's the Stig's doing. He's got mad reality altering powers.

Sounds like a Trickster to me. Fuck. Okay, we'd better - we can't go check it out, it's in England, we'd have to take a freaking plane -

Maybe we can stop him if we find some Trickster-summoning ritual or something, but I am not getting on a plane.

He's not a *Trickster,* okay? He's a Stig. Their job is to *protect* the fabric of reality, not destroy it. And he only abuses his powers in the best possible way. He does it to keep the TG3 together. They break the universe when they're together, but when they're apart is when the bad things start to happen. If that means occasionally turning one of them into a car, or a faun, or a woman, or several women, or whatever else, well, then whatever.

And you couldn't hurt the Stig anyway.

Wait, turning them into women? You think a Trickster could do that? I mean, the Stig sounds like a relative. Because that would be awesome. If he got Sam with it, I mean. Obviously.

Maybe I'd be okay with being a chick for, like, a day.

Stigs are aliens, not demons. (same goes for Time Lords) And yes, the TG3 get turned into women quite often. Richard moreso. Several women, in fact. (Richard Hammond is the only man in the world who has ever been described as several lesbian couples.)

Sam *should* get turned into a woman. It would be hilarious.

Aliens. Riiiiight.

Still, you get that Sammy needs to be a woman, so you're not totally nuts.

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I'm fairly sure that if you asked nicely, the Stig could give you a day as a spunky cheerleader. Or turn Sam into a woman for a week, and let you laugh.

Okay. One hand, I'm not sure I trust anything that's got powers like a Trickster. But Sam turning into a girl would be so great I might not even care.

Where can I find a Stig?

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Fanfic is that embarrassing Harry Potter stuff Sam writes on his laptop when he thinks you're not looking. Fandom are the people he argues about Harry Potter with. The rest is related to fandom and fanfic.

Someone who makes sense! Okay, thanks.

Dude, she's like a Trickster. Easier not to mess with her. She doesn't actually do much harm, and trying to get rid of her is hopeless.

She's not actually a Trickster, though. I'm pretty sure that's Castiel.

You're telling me Tricksters don't do much harm? The one we met killed two people and dropped one in a wormhole. I mean, okay, so they were dicks, but still. And Sam still won't tell me what he did the second time we met him, but he seemed pretty messed up about it.

...Castiel could totally be a Trickster, though.

Shit.

Well, they don't do much harm when you leave them alone compared to what they do when you try to kill them. And they don't stay dead.

Good luck with Cas!

That is not to say that I think you should go eliminating Riona, though, as I'm actually quite fond of her.

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