Gripped You Tight

[annundriel]

I'm having one of those days where I just want to surround myself with comfortable things and things that make me happy.

So I'm indulging myself with Dean and Castiel.

I've been re-watching bits of season one lately and thinking about the amazing luck SPN had when they cast Misha Collins. Before I'd seen any of the show, I'd read his first line several places. "I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition."

Reading that? And not knowing the character? It's got the potential for massive fail. How do you make something like that sound...not ridiculous? I am convinced no one but Misha could make that line work because, omg, does it ever on the show itself. Now I read it/hear it and instead of thinking, "Who says stuff like that?" I become a quivering mass of flaily fangirl.

Besides which: best, most badass introduction/entrance of a character ever y/y? Seriously. He's got two of my favorite entrances on TV.

Also! Whenever I write a Dean line and go, "Ugh, that's pretty dirty. Even for Dean," I think about the deleted stuff from that scene and go, "Okay, maybe not too dirty for Dean."

CASTIEL: Finding a human vessel durable enough to contain me...it's not easy.
DEAN: I have that same problem with women.

SO MAYBE VESSELS CONTAINING ANGELS WILL WORK BETTER FOR YOU, DEAN. YOU SHOULD TRY IT.

OH LOOK. A CONVENIENTLY VESSELED ANGEL! ::smushes them together::

Um. Anyway. I almost couldn't believe he said it. Almost. Oh, Dean.

Also, this deleted scene from "Heaven and Hell." I just love how...subtly pleased/amused Castiel looks over telling Uriel to keep his hands off Ruby.

I have no really appropriate end for this post, except that the hiatus is surprisingly not torture. I think it's because a) I have lots of fic I want to write about them that works well with not worrying about new canon information and b) I am afraid the whole season is going to end in an epically bad way and if I can put that off, I'm good. I have no basis for this fear other than it's SPN and, well, look at the subject matter. But it's still there.

Comments

[shetiger.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I absolutely love it when you indulge yourself with Dean and Castiel. :)

Now I read it/hear it and instead of thinking, "Who says stuff like that?" I become a quivering mass of flaily fangirl.

OMG yes, exactly. It's like they wrote that wtf? line just to prove how massively awesome Misha/Castiel is, because dude, it works. It so works. And absolutely best introduction of a character ever. *flail*

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Yea!! ::hugs:: Because I basically want to indulge myself with Dean and Castiel, like, all the time and I really don't want to be annoying. But, jeesie-creesie, I just cannot help myself. (In all honesty, I don't really want to.)

I could just watch that introduction over and over. (Okay, I could watch all of their scenes over and over.) There's just...so much going on there, on the surface and just beneath it. From Dean/Jensen and Castiel/Misha. They both kinda floor me. Especially Misha, though.

I still want fic that addresses specifically Castiel's whole, "Hey, I saved you from Hell! Neat, right?" expression and Dean's reaction of STAB and how that must have just thrown Castiel off. Dean just continually leaves Castiel's expectations of him in the dust.

I love them SO HARD.

[ember-firedrake.livejournal.com]

Gaaah! Now I kinda want to rewatch all the Castiel bits of Season 4...

Also, I absolutely love pissy!Uriel in the deleted Heaven and Hell scene. "WhhhhyyYY?!" He really was fantastic too, I almost wish he hadn't turned out evil.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who finally accepted she needed to see SPN when she saw those promo pics for "Free to Be You and Me" (the ones of Dean and Castiel doing the whole FBI thing). After that, I got her to watch one random earlier episode and then we spent an evening doing nothing but skipping through season four watching all of the Castiel bits. Most fun ever!

I thought Uriel was great, too. He had a lost of presence. It's also kind of interesting that he seemed just that much more human than Castiel does...but that might just have been his apparently perpetual crankiness.