Originally published September 17 2013 on Tumblr. “Yes, they are STILL bothered by the Grand Canyon thing…” (x) There are two continuity errors in season 8 that have been acknowledged and spoken about with the writers. (These are not, of course, the only ones, but for my purposes, these are the ones that have been …
Monthly Archive: May 2015
May 25
Alternate Universe Models & Possible Futures: Authorial Intent in “The End”
Originally published January 26 2014 on Tumblr This is primarily lengthy excerpts from the 5×04 commentary, as well as an excerpt from an interview with Edlund–which I’ve posted before–on time travel in “The End.” Plus some commentary of my own about what was said. Longish post shorter: Edlund’s detailed explanation in an interview of how time …
May 25
You’ll Be Better, When You Aren’t Yourself: Implications of Castiel Falling
Originally published April 24 2013 on Tumblr. There has been a great deal of speculation about Castiel falling at the end of this season. We know he will be a regular character next season, and the writers notoriously have difficulty in fitting a high-powered being intoSupernatural’s world. Therefore, for Castiel to fall – not only …
May 25
“Fall From Grace With Me”: Free Will, the Golem, and the Angels
Originally published March 19 2013 on Tumblr. Golem: Yifalkhunbi! Aaron:Enough! Please! Quiet time! Sam: All right. What was that? What was he saying? Aaron: It’s Hebrew for something like “take charge,” but I have no idea what he means. The Hebrew “word”/ phrase that the Golem speaks to Aaron, Yifalkhunbi—most likely ‘פלחנב’ in the Hebrew— is an interesting one. It presents …
May 25
Castiel, Autism, and “The Man Who Would Be King”
Originally published November 26 2012 on Tumblr. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Castiel and “The Man Who Would Be King”, especially in light of a quote by Ben Edlund that I posted a while back. So I wanted to write a little bit about Castiel, the ways in which Supernatural has explicitly associated his character …
May 25
Intentions, of sorts
This blog is intended as an archive of sorts for the meta I’ve written and posted to my Tumblr blog, as well as a place for writing that for various reasons I don’t want to post there. At the moment, I’m still mostly posting my old meta, so much of what’s here was written a couple of years …