GIP

[jmtorres]

(On DW this is a GIP post. I haven't bothered to update my icons on LJ and probably won't.)

So I had the experience, watching Farscape, of being spoiled with spoilers so over-the-top unbelievable that I did not believe them and therefore I watched events unfold essentially unspoiled. It was early season three, there had been two Johns for an episode or two, and I asked ysobel how long until one of them died? She asked me where I was and I told her and she told me I had to wait for an episode near the end of the season and I did not believe her. At all. I thought she was being cryptic so as not to spoil me. I thought she was making it up. The more of the season I watched the more incredulous I got until eventually I said to her, "You... you told me." To which her response was sort of, "Giggle? Yes?"

At the time I treasured that phenomenon. Dear show, you went there, I didn't expect you to, I so far didn't expect you to that even being told you would I didn't believe it. Yeah.

I say "at the time" because I've had this experience, both in the hearing about and the telling about, about fourteen times since I've started watching Supernatural. I feel like most statements about the show should be prefaced with "And I mean this literally." I have a new apology in my fannish vocabulary: "I thought you were kidding. Apparently I was wrong."

So this icon is about one of those moments. I'd been told the demon Crowley makes an appearance, in extreme Good Omens homage fashion, and since I already knew about the existence of Alistair, torturer par excellence, I assumed that Alistair was Alistair Crowley, and the Good Omens-ness was mostly fandom going EEE at the mere name Crowley for a demon.

But no. No, what Castiel is watching and commenting on in that icon there is the demon Crowley (who is not Alistair!) making a deal with a corporate asshat to bail his company out, with requisite deal-sealing kiss and homophobia mockery. BAIL-OUT. That... that is Good Omens Crowley all over. It really is. It is exactly the kind of minor, annoying evil he specializes in. And Supernatural's Crowley is British, and he wants them to stop the apocalypse. Yeah, so, Supernatural wrote a Good Omens crossover.

I had to apologize to grey_bard for not believing her about that one.

Secondarily: Castiel. SQUISH.

Comments

[giandujakiss]

I had to post not long ago to make it clear to non-Merlin watchers that when we said there was a slash dragon, we meant that literally. Because apparently, there was a similar misunderstanding.

Not that comment is all that on topic, it's just that that memory still makes me laugh.

[jmtorres]

You are two sides of the same coin!

Yes. Yes, another one that needs clarification. *G*

[ysobel]

Bweeee. ♥

[jmtorres]

*smooch*

[gelasius]

Hee. Going Down. And lo, there was much asquee when suddenly CROWLEY. I was only disappointed that his appearance in that episode was so brief, because I'd been spoiled about the character and was expecting him to be more integral to the plot. But then that just made it seem even more like a cameo appearance.

[jmtorres]

Clearly Crowley had to run away with his boyfriend, Aziraphale. All will become obvious when next Castiel looks for angels who might help him.

[gelasius]

CLEARLY he was too distracted to interact more with the mere mortals. I do maintain that Aziraphale is out there in SPN-verse somewhere, and that Castiel will meet up with him in a backroads diner somewhere for Purpsoses :D

[gelasius]

Purposes, even.

[jmtorres]

"Aziraphale! I need that book you have on the origins of the nephilim!"

"You... you want one of my books."

"It's a matter of life and death!"

"I fail to see how an angel/human sex primer could be a matter of life and death."

"I. I can get you original inkjet printed manuscripts of the Winchester gospel?"

"...signed?"

"By the Winchesters *and* the Prophet."

"Hmm. Perhaps I could be persuaded to part with that one volume..."