rionaleonhart | 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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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.

What, you believe in demons but not aliens? And you think I'm wierd?

Hey, demons I've seen. We've heard about an alien abduction once before, and you know what that turned out to be? Yeah, a Trickster. So your 'he's an alien' thing's really not making this guy sound any less Tricksterish.

And Tricksters aren't really demons. They're more like demigods.

Look, all I know is, if he comes from another planet, he's an alien. (He even has an entry in the Hitchiker's Guide.)

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?

Well there's seven known Stigs so far; Black Stig, White Sig, Red Stig, African Stig, Australian Stig, Big Stig, and Rig Stig. Since you don't want to get on a plane (what's with that, anyway?) then Big Stig is your best bet. He's the one stationed in America. Last known location was somewhere in Alabama, though that might have changed since then.

Hey, planes crash. And anyone could be flying those things. When I'm driving my baby, at least I know the only hands my life is in are mine. Unless a freaking truck crashes into her.

There are seven of them? All over the world, with freaky magical powers? Okay, I really hope you're right when you say they don't need to be killed.

There are seven known. There're probably more that the boys haven't introduced us to yet. They were sent to Earth because Earth has a high concentration of reality breaches. It's their job to fix them.

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