Go watch it - by the talented proofpudding
casey, 'sin city'
summary: You know, war, it has no heart.
music: no one would riot for less. bright eyes.
size/format/length: 73MB, wmv, 5:05
for rivkat ♥
Floppy, long hiatus hair, hiatus stubble and that smile that makes me break out in my own scrunchy nose type grin.
I'm so looking forward to the last four episodes of this season - it's going to be so hard to narrow down my top five Season 5 episodes only because of the fabulous reason that the quality of the episodes has been just that great. Dark Side of the Moon, Point of No Return, Changing Channels, The End, The Song Remains the Same, My Bloody Valentine, The Real Ghostbusters, Sam Interrupted .... the list goes on - I have a feeling if I exclude any of those from my top five it will be for rather petty and somewhat lame reasons!
I mentioned a song - well it has to be two because I can't decide which one I like better right now (and they're both pretty much on repeat times forever) - this one by OneRepublic - Say (All I Need) from Dreaming Out Loud
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MEO1QTBX
or this one by OneRepublic - Made For You from Waking Up (and if this isn't a Sam n Dean song for 5.18 I don't know what it is, check the lyrics)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FNWIY9K3
Lyrics for Made For You
I was writing
Thinking with my long hand
Put pen to paper
Everything was sinking
Then you start to wonder
How you gonna handle me?
When I'm under
Swimming in the dark sea
Everybody wants you to make it
Its all yours
Everybody wants to take it
Its all yours
Everybody wants you to make it
Its all yours
Everybody wants to T-t-t-take it
Can you feel all the love
Can you feel all the love?
Can you feel all the love
Can you feel all the love?
Like it was made for you
Like it was made for you...
Tell me something
Something that can move me
Dont tell me lies
Or I swear you're gonna lose me
Guilty? like an ocean
Jealous of the fish it feeds
Your devotion
Swimming inside of me
So on the real life front I have my new car, it's very pretty and it's a blue Clark Kent would approve of and if I'm honest about it all it's basically just luxury accomodation for dogs on wheels. Seriously. I've been driving it everywhere because I think I'm in love with it. It's big and blue and has blue tooth and it goes fast - maybe I should call it Clark? Here's a couple of pics of it - since then it's been upgraded with internal crating fitted for the dogs. Air con unit still to be fitted. I'll post some pics of the dogs in there when I'm at next weekend's trials.
And this is who it is for:
Miss Spryte! This picture taken last Saturday by her breeder at the State Agility Trials in which Spryte did some very good stuff winning
the morning qualifying heat and finishing in 3rd in the finals. A good rehearsal for our Nationals being held here in Perth
the weekend after next. Well the new blue Clark is for her and her daughter Savvy and the mere male Cypher. They all approve of their new transport vehicle.
I wanted to posted a couple of pictures of another dog I handle - I don't own this boy but he certainly gets a lot of comments
around the grounds as he is really one of a kind in terms of his looks. This is Axl - he is a Koolie of around four years of age
and he is obsessed with toys of any variety. He's also a lot of fun to run in agility and his owner is a good friend who lets me
play with him in agility. Koolies originated in Germany and are said to have derived from a number of different breeds including
the Australian Shepherd and the Kelpie and the Border Collie.
Doing the seesaw here (or teeter totter in American ;-)...)
Coming out the tunnel with my probably uneccessary hand signal there.
In conclusion I love playing agility and it's nothing but for the next month - on the weekends at least in between that time I actually
have to go to work so I can pay for my agility addiction - and being a high school teacher right now is intense - National testing is
coming up very shortly for my Grade 9s and of course the Education department and the Union are clashing heads over it - Union says teachers won't be a part of it whereas my Principal has different ideas and then there's the teachers and kids stuck in the middle.
It's ridiculous!
I am going to have mainline and marathon my Smallville episodes so I can catch up - I'm missing you Smallville! And I have the distinct feeling due to not having any free weekends for the next month I may not get to watch Supernatural as it airs too (well as much as you can when you live in Australia and pray at the altar of channel Bit Torrent ;-)...) I need a fairy godmother...or a dragon. I'm sure that will solve all my time (or lack thereof) issues.
BACKLIT HANDS!
Many thanks to elsiecat and her wonderful con photography. You can see all the originals for these and many many more wonderful shots at her lj.
In conclusion I am forced to acknowledge that there are signs that I may just have a teeny tiny crush on Jared Padalecki. But it's a teeny one - like this big *pinches thumb and forefinger together*. Oh yes. You're all shocked - I can tell.
It's been three days now since the end of the 2010 Australian Agility Nationals held here in Perth this year.
And I'm still in a funk...I got up Monday morning to go back to work after taking most of the previous week off in order to compete and was beset with this feeling of BLAH. I so wanted to go back to the showgrounds and do it all over again!
I have never had so much fun with four days of my favourite sport EVER! Perth saw over 180 handlers arrive from every state in Australia (including Tasmania and the Northern Territory) and nearly 300 dogs of all shapes, breeds, cross breeds and sizes. Nearly 3000 runs were completed by the end of the four day event.
I was running with three dogs this year - my young girl Spryte (3 years old), my boy Cypher (5 years old) and my borrowed playmate Mr Axl (The Koolie who is just three). Over the course of the four days I ran 46 different courses and competed in three different finals.
The upshoot of it all was my little girl Spryte - made three finals - she came second in two of them. One of them we came second by 0.08 of a second (it's that accurate because we have laser electronic timing gates). I'd love to do it all again but now we have to wait another two years - June 2012 - in Sydney.
Highlights of the weekend was the event being so well organised I was able to watch so many of my fellow competitor runs - seeing dogs from all over the country compete was a real treat. And here I give the photographic highlights.
Spryte - finishing her run in the Masters Jumping final - she knocked the first bar down
but finished in style.
Spryte in the Open Jumping Final - now I just wonder where could we have shaved 0.08 of a second on our time!
My friend's dog - Terra who won two finals - an awesome dog to run, such an adrenaline rush!
A bearded collie - aka A Beardie known as Sonic. All the way from Queensland he was magnificent to watch!
Snazzy - a blue merle Border Collie who is doing his best to hug those weave poles tight.
Merlot - A big chocolate and white Border Collie telling his handler how he really feels!
Jezabel - the Smithfield, from Canberra she was a delightfully happy dog to watch - always had a smile on her face.
Once all the gear is packed away - puppy Neala is allowed out to play with her big sister Kwyk.
I managed to finish off three masters titles - one with Spryte and two with Axl - and over the whole weekend qualified in around 15 runs. The courses were great, the judges very nice and the socialising with friends from all over the country fantastic. I talked nothing but dogs and agility for four whole days and never got tired of it. Admittedly by the finals day I was feeling my energy levels drop but a can of Red Bull fixed all that straight away. Mr Redteekal spent four days taking photos ringside and is currently busy fulfilling everyone's orders.
The event has inspired me to work even harder towards the next one - there's no such thing as too much training or conditioning or learning when it comes to this sport and I hope to have young Savvy (a Spryte daughter) competing by then - who knows - maybe she'll even make the Masters class by then? We can but try. So now it's back to reality and daydreaming about how I could make this sport my well paying job!
First off – I have never felt so relieved to hear Chuck’s voice in my life. His interludes into the history and the significance of the Impala were sweet blessed relief to the constant sense of impending doom and the stress of watching the finale. Those little vignettes on the Impala were when I felt like I could breathe. I am beginning to think that when I am experiencing such physical symptoms (thudding heart, feeling of tightness in the chest and the beginnings of an almighty emotional overload stress head ache) that perhaps some TV show has maybe got its claws into one just a little more deep than is healthy. That finale made my face hurt. ..I think I would be in bed with all the curtains drawn and a veritable plethora of headache meds swallowed if it weren’t for those brief (and utterly light hearted in comparison) forays into Impala back story.
In a way I’m glad I’m a part of the fandom – because there were moments in this episode where I could detach from all the stress and angst and just think about all the fangirls (and fanboys no doubt) out there and what their instant reaction to certain events might have been. This was the perfect distraction for me from my own emotional distress. When Lucifer exploded Cas all I thought was Fuck! the Misha/Cas girls are gonna break the internets with the rioting and then when Bobby was killed I was Jesus Christ I hope Kripke has good personal security.
I think the hardest part for me to bear was the Lucifer laying into Dean part. What Dean was saying was absolutely slaying me with the pain. Here the guy is being beaten bloody, his face one huge haematoma of mashed pulp and he’s letting Sam know he’s always gonna be with him. Whoever wrote that scene is a psychological manipulator of the most deviant kind. The kind that probably writes ads for health insurance using personal stories of cancer. Yeah - that kind of evil. I was sucha puddle of relieved goo when Cas came back and fixed him. Looking at Jensen’s face like that really made me wince and cringe on his behalf.
As an aside I was so impressed with Jared’s acting in this. It was such a heavy episode for him and there was not a single teeny tiny millisecond of any of his scenes where I felt he’d missed it. There was so much to laud in this. Some perfect line deliveries that I’m gonna have to rewatch and enjoy again. Friggin’ awesome. I hope he got a lot of personal and professional satisfaction out of watching the job he did.
I loved how this episode did not, for one beat, let up with the intensity of the sense of series finale. Not season finale but series. From go to woah it was all about the last five years and the story of Sam and Dean. The feeling of this is the end was so well constructed that even though I knew there is a Season 6 it felt like a five year long story had ended. Chuck was right – endings are the biggest pain in the ass there is in terms of story writing and for all the reasons he gave to us. At a number of moments within Chuck’s scenes I sat there and thought with a wry smile that Chuck is totally Eric Kripke talking to those fans who’ve watched every single episode of this show.
I did predict in my last post here in my journal that Sam would pop straight back up out of the cage – and he did! Sans the smouldering of course and possibly Himself had a fair bit to do with this but it really was because it was Sam FUCKING Winchester folks and that boy is special. Himself doesn’t intervene for just any hero who saves the world. He does for Sam FUCKING Winchester though.
I did seriously spend the last five minutes of this episode having minor heart palpitations that the whole thing was going to end on a cliff hanger. Once again Eric never does things the easy way or the less traumatic way. Somehow Eric has a cliff hanger without having a cliff hanger. I’m not sure that there will ever be another show that manages the balance of keeping your average viewer happy and your hardcore fans just as enthralled (and yes ‘enraged at times’ also works here). This episode ended with just enough loose threads to keep your usual run of the mill type viewers (ie viewers who haven’t watched every single episode obsessively multiple times over) interested in tuning in next season. The only rope I wanna know about is how many episodes till they fix the boys and give us back Sam and Dean. I guess I’m not really taking the whole Lisa/Apple pie life thing seriously. I like the attempt at trying to get me all angst ridden over the boys being apart but I’ve been there done that and got the t shirt that says “Sam and Dean can last less than two whole episodes apart EVER”. And I’m fine with all that. When I say I like the attempt I like it because it’s a simple attempt – it doesn’t leave me wringing my hands concerned for the boys. Maybe Kripke thinks he’s done that to us enough this season and is cutting us a break. I’d be surprised at any of fandom buying the Lisa/Apple pie distraction as a serious attempt to split the boys up. I’m purely speculating here (as I haven’t waded through my 380 skip flist yet) but I can imagine there might be some offended souls out there who are a little insulted by the simplicity of it all. As if we’d buy it. I have an affinity to the ostrich in this respect – the fact that it is so flimsy and clearly lacking in substance makes it perfectly easy to dismiss. I admit I am looking forward to the reunion once Dean spirals into self destruct without his Sammy though. This is all Eric's influence talking now.
I’m really fascinated by the Impala story in all this though. For so long it has been such a huge symbol in Sam and Dean’s lives that it has always felt like that it should be treated with the same sort of significance as any Winchester family member. I loved the way Chuck wrote about it and can’t wait to listen and watch all that over again. I can feel that more consideration of the Impala’s role in Sam gaining hold over Lucifer is going to be happening soon. Any kind of glimpses into the boys’ childhoods and growing up just make me flail in delight especially when I consider all the fodder for my favourite writers in the fandom. *Does the Snoopy happy dance*
This was a fitting and so very satisfying finale for me, I could probably be accused of lacking critical thought on the clearly OOC behaviour of Dean at the end but to me it’s just not important enough. There was too much to squee about to allow that to intrude on all the happy heart-warming gratitude I felt for the show. A letter for Eric:
Dear Eric
Thankyou for:
1) Not leaving Sammy in the pit
2) For not leaving Bobby with his neck snapped and dead
3) For not leaving Castiel exploded
4) For not making Dean kill Sam
5) For not letting Lucifer kill Dean
6) Getting Chuck to tell us The Story of Sam and Dean and The Impala
Best of luck for your future endeavours, may they all revolve around Supernatural forever.
Love Me