My favorite SPN episode -- from before they finally made the decision that God was indeed a bad guy -- was the S11 episode "Don't Call Me Shurley", which introduced a lot of cool ideas that the rest of the season had no idea what to do with
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
But it's the one episode we get where we actually see the show mostly from Chuck's perspective Trying to get us to sympathize with this deadbeat dad who literally creates a bar to sit in and watch the end of the world on TV because he just refuses to take responsibility
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Addressing all this fan shit about speculating whether Chuck was really God in a very blithe way People saying Chuck couldn't be God because Sam had the magic amulet that was supposed to glow in God's presence (and had never glowed in thousands of years)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Chuck just shrugs "Yeah, I turned it off I mean, I'm God Look, see, I can turn it back on" *snaps fingers, amulet glows bright as the sun*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
It turns out Dad didn't "disappear" so much as just block your number on his cell
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The end of that episode was this huge tearjerker, at least if you'd watched the show a long time Just once, for seemingly no reason (because of the unseen drama between God and Metatron in God's secret heaven, which is a sports bar), out of nowhere, God finally answers a prayer
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
The one thing we'd been waiting and waiting and waiting for The sun comes out and everything is suddenly just okay, the supernatural threat just vanishes Everyone who was killed in the episode is alive and well like nothing happened He just *fixes* it, because he always could
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
And Chuck just walks out of nowhere and quietly offers to explain everything
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Of course, because they continued the show for four season past this, it was not to last As often happens with dads who appear out of nowhere to cover your emergency bills and take you out to a nice restaurant and offer an explanation for your terrible childhood
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
This terrible pang of mixed emotions when just once a miracle occurs You're filled with gratitude, you cling to it, you're terrified of jinxing it And yet it just sharpens the grief and the rage Because it means he *could've* helped all the other times and just *didn't*
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(How Christians feel about miracles is eerily similar to what therapists say about abusive relationships That desperate, overwhelming need to cling to the "good days" even as the good days just sharpen the contrast with the awful everyday)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
"I thank God that he spared my house from the hurricane" with no mention of "guess didn't like my neighbors"
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Replying to @CuddlePotato @Nymphomachy and
Forrest Gump leaned right into that, the scene where Lieutenant Dan screams that he wants God to sink their boat and kill him, he's been waiting for it for twenty years, just fucking do it already And then we pan across all the other boats sunk and destroyed *except* theirs
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