sailorhathor | Signs of the Apocalypse #45 and #372: Unicorns can read and Books write themselves

On the twelfth day of Christmas,

sailorhathor sent to me...

Twelve fanfic challenges drumming

Eleven toys piping

Ten miracles a-leaping

Nine crafts dancing

Eight unicorns a-reading

Seven books a-writing

Six squeegasms a-shopping

Five cla-a-a-assic sit-coms

Four urban legends

Three guinea pigs

Two paranormal subjects

...and a ringu in a victim's family.

Hahaha! FIIIIIIIIIIVE CLASSIC SIT-COOOOOOOOOOMSSSS!! And three guinea pigs, awwwww. *cuddles* The last line is especially fun to sing. Although, I would have liked for the thing to misinterpret Jensen Ackles as a plural on my meme too so I could have MORE THAN ONE of him, eeeeeeeee *makes a squeegasm come home from shopping so I can have it*

Today is one of my manic, hyper days, and it hasn't ended yet, so I'm going to take advantage of it and babble.

Babble about tonight's "Supernatural": It was a repeat, but I was still all excited for it when I saw the commercial. After experiencing my own giddy reaction to seeing that it was a repeat of "Bloodlust," I just had to acknowledge that Gordon is hands down my favorite extra character to date. Now, I may have forgotten someone, but I don't think I have. I'm still figuring out all the little nuancey reasons why. This episode was like two or three times more entertaining the second time around because I noticed all kinds of things I didn't notice the first time. Like, Sam was very obviously attracted to Lenore. He was so thinking with his dick. Downstairs brain said hello Sammy, did you forget about me? I'm still heeeere. I knew that was going on the first time around, but I didn't notice all the little acting things Jared Padalecki did to show it until this viewing. Like, when Lenore says, "We're letting you go," Sam makes all these impressed and confused faces. Oh COME ON, Sam, how do you know this whole thing wasn't a setup to fool you into a false sense of security? Sam believed her so quickly. That had *nothing* to do with how pretty he found her, oh noooo. Oh Sammy, Sammy, Sammy... I knew there was a hetero man in there somewhere. XD Anyway, I liked that. Lenore probably was a noble vamp, feeding off cows, but still, Sam shouldn't have let his libido get in the way of the job.

Again, I must say that I loved the big sarcastic cop. "And the bodily fluids seep into the ground because that's what GRAVITY does." XD XD XD His tone just kills me every time.

Other stuff I noticed about Dean and the way Jensen plays him: Jensen fucking ROCKS. His Dean is just so... UMMPH! Knocks it out of the park every time with just a look or a tone of voice or something else very small. Often, he doesn't even have to speak and you know exactly how he feels. Just a look speaks volumes. It's just so impressive, and makes Dean such a real character. I love him to pieces!

Watching Jensen do this, I think he was trying to nonverbally communicate certain things about why Dean held onto Gordon and his way of hunting so steadfastly for much of the episode. I don't think Sam was totally right. I don't think Dean was necessarily trying to replace their dad with Gordon. That might've been a tiny part of it, but I think it was more about Dean needing a friend, a buddy, with the same interests, whom he could talk to. He loves Sammy, and Sam's his friend, but a baby brother is sometimes the last person you feel you can talk to, especially when you're trying to keep up a brave face for that baby brother. Dean doesn't want to show too much weakness in front of Sam because he is the older brother, and he has to be strong for the sibling he's been responsible for since he was very little. Sam gets to bawl his head off all the time, but how often does Dean cry? Sam and Dean are also very different in several aspects. Although Sam seems to be settling into hunting and becoming a lot more comfortable with it, to the point that it's questionable now whether he would leave the life again or not, he doesn't love it like Dean does. Dean seemed to have a lot more interests and lifestyle choices in common with Gordon. Drinking, hunting, talking about hunting, strategizing about hunting, discussing all their tragic woes with as little emotion as possible and not a tear in sight, etc. It really felt like Dean wanted a hunter buddy to work with for a little while. But Gordon was nothing like John, except for the hunter mindset. John ordered Sam and Dean around. He hardly ever spoke to them as equals. That was a big difference; Gordon didn't order Dean around. So, if Dean was trying to replace John, he'd find someone to dominate him, not treat him like a friend.

Anyway, several times in the ep, Jensen did these lonely longing looks, as if Dean was inwardly sighing and going, "Gee, I wish I had a friend. Sam has friends outside of me. I want a friend he can't share in either, humph. Ho hum." (Except that Dean's inner voice wouldn't sound like that, lol. It'd be more like, "I WANT BEER AND CHICKEN WINGS AND A BLOWJOB, YUUUUMMMMM. THEN I WANT TO KILL SOMETHING. AND I WANT HIM TO HELP ME KILL IT. YEAH, YEAH, FUN!") It actually made me feel sorry for him, since it turned out so badly and he lost his friend. :( *pets*

There was another nonverbal thing Jensen did that I LOVED and will one day make my HUSBAND. Gordon grabs Sam's arm and drags him toward Lenore so he can do his little vampire experiment to show them that she's really an evil vamp. Dean pulls his gun and tells him to let Sam go. Gordon says something like, "If I wanted to kill him, he'd already be on the ground," and Jensen as Dean, with a dubious look on his face, does this head nod that says it all. I mean, he spoke absolute encyclopedias full with just that one nod! SWISH! Out of the park! I LOVED that. With one nod, Dean said, "Oh yeah? You think so? Who the FUCK do you think you're dealing with, Gordy? I am Dean Fucking Winchester. If you think you are a bad enough hunter to even get close to killing the thing I love most in this world - My Sammy - you are a dumb fuck who will wind up full of holes, my friend. Trust me, you are not faster than my bullet. And I will ENJOY it. Make no mistake on that."

That ROCKED.

I also adored how BAD Dean got after the fight started. He was like hey, I wanted to be your friend, but you turned on us, so now I gotta kick your ass from here to Sunday. And I gotta RUB IT IN as HARD as I can. I mean, I like Gordon's character A LOT, but Dean will always rule. He's freakin hilarious with that sarcasm and prick-waving stuff he does. That is seriously going to get Dean killed (or at least severely beaten up) one day, the way he shakes his ass in your face to rub it in. Ooh, I guess the beaten up thing has already happened. And, actually, he just about got killed for rubbing Ceiling Demon's face in it. So I'm right! XD And I love Dean for it.

ANYway, I was supposed to be discussing why I like Gordon so much. I just find him a really interesting character who was well acted and had a great deal of friendly chemistry with Dean. The actor was a very good choice. He's not, in my opinion, obviously hawt in his appearance, but it doesn't matter. Just the way Gordon was played, I couldn't stop watching. There was a lot of nonverbal stuff that Sterling Brown put into the character that I liked. Especially facial expressions. (Random aside: Now Sterling, THAT'S a cool name.) One minute, he looks friendly. The next, the face changes and he looks like he wants to rip your heart out through your sphincter. I LOVE actors who can do that. (Hello, Skeet...)

Another thing, I thought he worked really well with Jensen. They just made it all really believable. Lots of great nonverbal stuff.

There were a few moments that really stood out for me that I liked.
1. When Gordon hears Dean and Sam asking questions about the vampires, and he gets suspicious, and they have this shot of him smoking and just staring like, "Ooh, hmmm... are you vampires looking for your buddies?" all intense and wary.

2. After things go bad, and Dean and Gordon are fighting, and they're kicking each other's butts, but Dean starts winning. Gordon gets thrown into a cabinet, and Dean knows he's about to get the upper hand, but Gordon is still fighting. He's so weary, but he does this motion like he's still going to fight, and Dean has to hit him again. I loved that; it was so real. Like, Dean wants to tell him just to stay down, but Gordon's having none of that. That's very much like how Dean would be in a fight if the roles were reversed. You could tell Dean to stay down, but he'd never do it.

3. When Dean grabs Gordon around the neck to walk him over to the chair where he's going to tie him up, and Dean just CAN'T resist. And he deliberately walks Gordon into a wall, playing it off as a mistake (but you know Gordon knows he did that on purpose). First of all, that was a scream. The way Jensen played it, it was just great. But Sterling added to it by making this wonderful sound of pain when his head hit the wall... XD The combination of Jensen's Dean saunter ("Oh look, there's a wall there..." *sauntering beeline*) and Sterling's "ouch" noise was pure comic perfection for me. I mean, no matter how many times I watch that, I snort-laugh every time. (Making me snort when I laugh means you are a comic dynamo. It means you made me laugh so hard I couldn't freakin breathe.) Dean just CAN'T let it go. He has to rub it in. XD "I kicked your ass. BOOSH! Aw, did that hard wall run itself into your soft head? Isn't that something."

4. The way that even when things got really bad, Gordon was still trying to convince Dean that they were alike and so should stay friends. Of course, part of that was Gordon's deep psychological need to kill all the vampires to make up for his past failure to protect his sister, and to convince Dean that he should let him, even help him, kill Lenore. But that was interesting too! I likes me some psychologically scarred psychos. (Only fictional. In a real relationship, I get to be the crazy one.) Gordon just wants someone to relate to in his broken psychosis.

5. The looks of pure hatred, hurt, whatever you want to call it, that Gordon was giving Dean in that last scene. Dean was still sarcastic and funny as ever, and Gordon wouldn't even give him the satisfaction of answering him. You could tell he was just so PISSED. No doubt felt betrayed. Those looks actually scared me, because they promised great pain for Dean if Gordon could only get free, and my protective inner Dean lover said noooo, you will not hurt Dean! Stop looking at him like that and be friends again!

I have no idea if anyone else found Gordon as interesting as I did. (I know one person who didn't. *waves at

meredevachon* I think you hate him as much as I like him. ~_^) But I seriously would enjoy seeing a lot more of the character on the show. I don't know if it's at all possible, but I would love to see them make up with Gordon so he can become an alli. I think that's going to turn out really impossible, though. :(

Wow I talked about all that a LONG time. Talk about babbling. O_o I've got to print out some of this inner Dean voice to use in my fanfic that's being told from Dean's POV.

Other babble tomorrow. I babbled enough about SPN for tonight.