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apocalypsos-- Urgh, I was planning on working on my Big Bang or ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
apocalyptothon assignment today, but I think I'm going to hold off because I'd rather get the Heroine Addiction edit done ASAP and I didn't get nearly as much done of it yesterday as I wanted. Frankly, I'd really like to get it done by next weekend, but I doubt that'll happen, no matter how little it feels like there is to do on my end.
-- So there's a con this weekend, huh? Eh, I think I'm just apathetic about the whole thing because at the rate I'm going I won't be able to afford to go to a con until the show ends and Jared and Jensen stop going to them.
Anyway, I guess Misha made a crack about Castiel and the apocalypse and ... eh again. It's not like I don't get that Castiel had a part in the apocalypse. Opening that door was Castiel playing his part. But it was opening a door. It was an angel with no free will opening a door. The entire apocalypse does not rest on his head. Hell, HALF of the apocalypse doesn't rest on his head. Maybe ten percent.
My thing is, if we're going to argue "Team Free Will" with the humans being special because they have the free will to say no as per Biblical whosits, it puts Castiel's part in the apocalypse as minor compared to Dean and Sam's. They both had free will when they broke their respective seals. They were manipulated as fuck-all, but they had free will. Castiel, who got his keister whupped to here and back when he showed the least sliver of free will while still under angelic orders (*points to icon*) didn't. I know I've said in the past that it bothers me when "I was only following orders" gets treated the same when Castiel does it and when humans do it, because it's not the same. There's a reason Castiel's been losing his powers this season -- because he chose free will by bringing Dean out of the Gilded Cheeseburger Room, and by extension he chose to (eventually) become human.
I think that's probably why Castiel hasn't brought it up -- because as far as he sees it, he was only following orders, and while if he said that as a human he'd be condemned, as an angel he didn't have the free will to say no. I feel like the reason that he turns his ire on the Winchesters for causing it is because they had a choice and -- at the time -- he didn't. And to be fair, all three of them were being played by forces greater than themselves.
-- On a vaguely related note, I was thinking while reading spoilers about the finale, and how I almost wish they'd kill everybody off. Well, not the boys, obviously, but everybody else. Chuck, Bobby, Castiel ... everybody. God knows I love them all, but I think my brain sort of seized on the post-apocalyptic bent season six could possibly take and sort of ran with it, and now I kinda desperately want to see a season six where Dean and Sam say yes, and Michael and Lucifer go at it, and when the boys both come to the planet is trashed and the few people left alive know what happened and goddamn it, I've got other things to write about, brain.
-- I've been thinking about changing my username. I have a journal name lying around that I'm not using that I like and every once in a while I think of trashing the journal and keeping the name and I guess the past day or so has been "every once in a while."
-- Where the hell did spring go? *pokes the Weather Channel with a sharp stick*
apocalyptothon assignment today, but I think I'm going to hold off because I'd rather get the Heroine Addiction edit done ASAP and I didn't get nearly as much done of it yesterday as I wanted. Frankly, I'd really like to get it done by next weekend, but I doubt that'll happen, no matter how little it feels like there is to do on my end.-- So there's a con this weekend, huh? Eh, I think I'm just apathetic about the whole thing because at the rate I'm going I won't be able to afford to go to a con until the show ends and Jared and Jensen stop going to them.
Anyway, I guess Misha made a crack about Castiel and the apocalypse and ... eh again. It's not like I don't get that Castiel had a part in the apocalypse. Opening that door was Castiel playing his part. But it was opening a door. It was an angel with no free will opening a door. The entire apocalypse does not rest on his head. Hell, HALF of the apocalypse doesn't rest on his head. Maybe ten percent.
My thing is, if we're going to argue "Team Free Will" with the humans being special because they have the free will to say no as per Biblical whosits, it puts Castiel's part in the apocalypse as minor compared to Dean and Sam's. They both had free will when they broke their respective seals. They were manipulated as fuck-all, but they had free will. Castiel, who got his keister whupped to here and back when he showed the least sliver of free will while still under angelic orders (*points to icon*) didn't. I know I've said in the past that it bothers me when "I was only following orders" gets treated the same when Castiel does it and when humans do it, because it's not the same. There's a reason Castiel's been losing his powers this season -- because he chose free will by bringing Dean out of the Gilded Cheeseburger Room, and by extension he chose to (eventually) become human.
I think that's probably why Castiel hasn't brought it up -- because as far as he sees it, he was only following orders, and while if he said that as a human he'd be condemned, as an angel he didn't have the free will to say no. I feel like the reason that he turns his ire on the Winchesters for causing it is because they had a choice and -- at the time -- he didn't. And to be fair, all three of them were being played by forces greater than themselves.
-- On a vaguely related note, I was thinking while reading spoilers about the finale, and how I almost wish they'd kill everybody off. Well, not the boys, obviously, but everybody else. Chuck, Bobby, Castiel ... everybody. God knows I love them all, but I think my brain sort of seized on the post-apocalyptic bent season six could possibly take and sort of ran with it, and now I kinda desperately want to see a season six where Dean and Sam say yes, and Michael and Lucifer go at it, and when the boys both come to the planet is trashed and the few people left alive know what happened and goddamn it, I've got other things to write about, brain.
-- I've been thinking about changing my username. I have a journal name lying around that I'm not using that I like and every once in a while I think of trashing the journal and keeping the name and I guess the past day or so has been "every once in a while."
-- Where the hell did spring go? *pokes the Weather Channel with a sharp stick*
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Date: 2010-03-28 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-28 05:20 pm (UTC)Assuming he's not screwing with us, that is - which does seem to be the national pasttime for these guys when it comes to spoilers.