Later in the Summer and it's still all about Bucky, with a little Natasha added in...

Seriously, I have an addictive personality.  After watching the movie "Captain America:  The Winter Soldier" a record 4 times in the theatre I got into the comics.  It was a good run.  James Buchanan Barnes gets a great story and also a romance with Natasha.  Some highlights:

The movie is different in some ways that are better. such as Steve and Bucky being childhood friends.  I think that long deep relationship is the secret to Steve getting through the programming.  However, in the movie, the writers chose to include Natasha and also a scene where the Winter Soldier chooses to go after her rather than Steve.

It would be nice if this was not just a nod to the comics, but also a hint of what might happen in the next movie.  The two of them are cut from the same cloth.  They could be good for each other.

Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers broke me

Just like Kyp Durron did in 2006 and like Supernatural did in 2008, the Winter Soldier owns my soul.  The idea that a good man is captured by the enemy and tortured and mind manipulated into an assassin for the enemy....OMG...the feels!

And Steve wanders around lost.  He's lost the two people he knew and loved the most...Bucky and Peggy.  He meets Sam, who is the perfect balance of calm and sass and he works with Natasha!  But he is really this stubborn guy with his own beliefs who will do things his way.

And they fight.  At first, Steve has no idea who he is up against.  

The Winter Soldier has all his skills and strengths.  Then he realizes...

His mind is so strong that despite the wipes he remembers his friend Steve.  But it takes more than that to release him from his conditioning.  Steve is too stubborn to let go and he makes the ultimate choice.

"I will not fight you!"

And then he remembers, and oh god the music is so heartbreaking and Steve falls to his death, but Bucky can't let that happen a second time.  Can't let someone fall, he must protect Steve....and so he plunges into the Potomac.

End credits show a free Bucky at the Smithsonian, he's trying to view himself and he looks quite pensive.

Just another misunderstood anti-hero

I saw Captain America The Winter Soldier a week ago and became somewhat obsessed with Sebastian Stan the actor who plays Bucky Barnes.  I like the idea that the character was once a totally good guy but that he got captured, tortured and brainwashed into an assassin.  I love the idea that he could be redeemed due to the love of his friend.

Anyhow, this is the repository of my geek.  So a few Winter Soldier gifs...

This is Bucky in WWII.  He's already been experimented on...but he's just an American Soldier on a mission.  Here he is shooting a sniper who had his sights on Steve.  I love that they made Steve and Bucky best friends (early comics made Bucky into a scrawny teen who adored Steve) and equals.

Here, he looks just a bit...ruthless.  His looks hint toward the man he will become:

The Winter Soldier when we first see him (standing in the street staring directly at Nick Fury).

There are a ton of fight scenes in the movie.  In fact there is a lot more shooting, punching, running, driving, then there is dialogue.  So the intensity of body language is key, especially for Sebastian Stan, who has few lines in the whole movie, yet lends a gravitas to the whole thing.

"Who the hell is Bucky?"

Everything changes when Steve realizes the Winter Soldier is his best friend.  I am a sucker for that kinda of devotion.

Steve won't kill Bucky, he wants to break through to him, have him remember the good man he once was.  Finally something does stop Bucky from delievering the killing blow.  And when Steve falls to his death in the water, you just know that Bucky will remember just enough to jump in and save him.

I love this fanart from sandara at deviantart It's called The Light Before We Land.

I'm hoping that we get to see Bucky and Captain working together in the next movie.  

Because there is never a shortage of questionable dark tortured souls to fan girl over....

His name is Loki, the god of mischief from the Norse legend.  Except he is a creation of Stan Lee and Marvel comics brought to life in the movie Thor.  He is played by the charismatic Tom Hiddleston and he is delightfully damaged!

I've seen Thor about 4 times, the Avengers and Thor the Dark World twice, yeh it's a problem.

Brothers.  Need I say more.  You know one who errors and the other who forgives, yet they would do anything for each other.  Something like that.  

I find the action figure strangely reminiscent of Kyp Durron.  Just swap out the sword for a lightsaber.

Marvel, knowing that Loki is a virtual comic cash cow, is starting Agent of Asgard in February.  Hope it's drawn well.

The cartoon was fun, but the women were too scantily clothed.  It's something I liked about the movie.  the women were all well dressed and Sif was a warrior.

Some love for Star Wars and the idea of what could have been

For some reason I have been thinking of Star Wars again. Specifically I was thinking about the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker. I enjoyed watching the first 27 minutes of Revenge of the Sith and watching Obi-Wan and Anakin banter about and just be cool. Then I turned it off. I wasn't in the mood for the sadness. Due to the magic of Google I was busy looking up pictures of Anakin and Padme together with their children. If only....right? So here are some that were culled from a search. Many are from tumblr and are lovely bits of art.

My favorite for its simple sweetness.

Leia, is your lightsaber pink or red?  LOL!

 

Grumpy Leia and happy Luke!  The second one is just, I mean Jedi with baby slings?  Yoda would have blown a gasket!

Somehow these make me want to write stories!  Maybe I'll at least write them in my head.

Excited About Jeremy Carver

In the life parallels art category is the change in show runners just as I have a change in co-teachers: swapping out disorganized for orderly. Just as the show is on a new night, I am in a new room! Love those parallels....season 8 here we come. Jeremy Carver knows how to write a good story and from "Being Human" I know he knows how to craft a season. He has also stated that he has a three year plan. That's what you need to do, long term plan. Here's a picture from episode three which Jensen Ackles directed:

Sam is looking fine with his longer hair. Sam and Dean have been apart again and this time when they reunite they are said to be more mature. Sam has moved on and Dean has come back from purgatory stronger.

This totally doesn't fit here, but its the only place I have to put it

And it's kinda fangrly so there! Just some random pictures of Jared Padalecki and family from July 2012.

Coming Soon! My favorite book series!!!!

I soooooo adore Cal Leandros and his brother Niko! This will be the 7th book in this series about two brothers who fight the supernatural. Yes, one is half-monster, but his brother loves him anyways, and yes, they have friends who support them. Imagine that!!!!

This series always sends out the new book just before my birthday. YAY! I will cry when it is over!!!!!! Love my bad ass Cal!

Supernatural is breaking my heart

I just can’t bring myself to accept what happened to my show.

I’ve been watching Chuck. Over the summer I started with season one and kept on going and now am watching it live. I’ve really enjoyed that show for what it is and not for anything too lofty. Chuck is a comedy speckled with drama. It’s a problem with a solution in a 40 minutes slot, however, it does carry storylines onward from week to week so there is the sense of a complete tale being told. Sure, I think Chuck peeked in coolness in season 3, but season 4 was enjoyable as five has been, even if Chuck no longer has the intersect. I don’t feel that Chuck and the team have a pointless existence. They know what they want from life and they have family and friends to support their decisions. Yes, Chuck is more a show about family than Supernatural is. The most recent episode: “Chuck versus the baby” ended on a happy note with Sarah reuniting with her mother and the whole “family” sitting down to dinner.

Can’t say that’s going to happen on Supernatural. Sam and Dean are family to each other, but have no one else; so how can this be a show about family? It’s a show about co-dependent brothers. Hell, that wouldn’t be an issue if it wasn’t for this. I feel that the writers don’t respect their characters. Sera Gamble has laughed in interviews and said: “we’re going to take everything away from them.”

Ok, if there was a reason for this, or if this loss was a catalyst to storytelling, I’d say, “bring it.” But it’s not. It’s her idea of fun. It’s not fun, it’s crappy story telling. Given this is a show with five seasons of a story so solid it could have been a book series, it’s crap.

I’ve enjoyed Season seven more than six, but I don’t trust that the writers have any plan in mind. I think they are making it up as they go along. I miss when the brothers were special and had a destiny. I miss the angels, the apocalypse, the Impala. I miss Dean being a wise-ass and Sam being prissy one minute and cold and scary the next.

With Chuck, the characters have changed in that they have matured, but they never lost who they are. Chuck is still a nerd who loves video games, Sarah is still a badass who is afraid to let go. John Casey is still funny and scary, but loves his daughter very much. Crazy Morgan went from annoying twit to loyal and trustworthy friend.

Sam went from vengeful mourner to frightening badass to whimpering penitent to soulless to bland…bland…bland………

Dean went from lascivious hero to frightening badass to whimpering co-dependent to PTSD sufferer to heaven’s rebel to family man…to suicidal alcoholic……..

I wish I felt better now after this rant, but I don’t. I expect nothing from this show. I might like an episode, but it’s as dull as anything else on TV.

One last thing. I've cried numerous times while watching Chuck, but never when watching Supernatural. Why is that?

Season Six Ended in Dissappointment

Soulless Bastard !!!! Lucifer wanna be!!! I loved you!!!!

Maybe like the fact that Kyp Durron hasn't had more than a line or two in the most recent set of books, my hero Sam Winchester hasn't had a spine or an ounce of darkness since his resouling. This sadddens me. In supernatural fiction, typically one of the "good guys" has powers, abilities, secrets, connections to the supernatural, etc.... Sam was that character. Season Six gave us Sam as a soulless thing, and that provided mystery and tension, but then he got his soul back and Sam lost any amount of chutzpah he ever had on his wimpiest day. He was as much fun to watch as Kyp the wise (and calm) Jedi master on a diplomatic mission (this happened in the recent book).





As if that was bad enough, the only conflict turns out to be straight forward. Cas turns to the darkside (yawn)! Seriously!!!!!! That's it? So Cas swallows all the purgatory souls and is this new unstoppable creature. He was their friend! That's like character assassination to the 1,000,000 th degree!!!!!





Bastards!





Where is Death in all of this? Shouldn't he want an apocalypse? It's kinda his job. He wants balance, right? Then he needs to show up in season seven. I am happy there will be more, but I am worried that Sam will no longer have powers or connections to Hell. This would bore me. However, if he has Hell memories, perhaps we can hope that he will have that internal conflict and struggle.

Dean must die

How does it all end? Here in I dare to speculate once again. Frankly, it's like this:

Dean must die.

Dean has escaped a natural death twice and countless unnatural ones. But let's talk about the natural deaths. In "Faith" Dean's electrocution was severe enough to damage his heart. The doctor told him he had about one month left to live. The injury was electrocution, an accident, no act of god, angels or demons. In "In my time of dying" Dean is near death due to a head injury from a car accident. In both cases he cheats death.

In the next episode fate is messed with by the angel Baltazar and Fate comes to call. Will she be angry at Dean who has been given two free passes in his life plus all the angelic interference on his multiple deaths and avoidances of fate? One does wonder.

And what lies behind Sam's wall?

The New Big Bad

Supernatural was postponed this week by the CW! That was the anguished cry of 5 million fans heard round the world. We are slowly gtting over it as we know we will get our beloved show on February 4th, but still, the pain!

All that aside, we have been tempted by a story that there will be a new "big bad" introduced in the upcoming episode. I've been thinking hard about what type of creature we have yet to see. Mom actually went there and said:" What about the queen of heaven?" Woah, deep!

Then I was thinking about which entity would be upset that DEan and Sam constantly upset the natural order of things. This, coupled with a spoiler for a character named Atropos, led me to speculate that the Fates themselves may ge t involved in a world where the natural order is denied. The following was my thoughts:

I think I figured it all out.

There is going to be a new big bad. What entity have we not yet seen? Will it be female or male? What mythology will it derive from?

I think the Supernatural writing team has put their Bible back on the shelf and taken down a new tome to study. I’m going to speculate that they are going to use western mythology next and bring us a big bad that’s not so much evil, as it is grandiose.

I think it’s going to be the 3 Fates. Why? There was a character name spoiler for 6.16 “Your Time is Gonna Come.” The character was Atropos. That’s the Fate that cuts the thread of life. She is inevitable, she can not be escaped.

It is said she is even more powerful than God. So it wouldn’t be a stretch to say she is more powerful than Death. Nor would we be stretching if we said she was the entity making the list of who must be reaped. It would follow that she would be invested in the natural order of things and that the Winchesters, who have repeatedly broken the natural order, would be on her radar. I’m not completely sure what she would want, besides things to be as they are destined to be!

I also would speculate that no matter who the big bad turns out to be, it’s the 5th entity that can not be killed by the Colt (God, Death, Angels, Reapers, being the first four). Perhaps that’s why Sam and Dean travel back in time to meet Samuel Colt and learn the secrets of the gun.

You can't handle the speculation!

You’re living in a godless universe says Raphael.

Maybe if we have an apocalypse He’ll return.

I think Death thinks the same thing. He’s missing that other half.

Like Dean missed Sammy.

Except Sam’s body was resurrected by Lucifer, who had the juice to spit the body up top, but not the soul.

And Sam stands under a light, that flickers, because behind him is an angel or a demon. Castiel has done regrettable things.

Death’s little lackey Crowley proved foolish and unreliable as he thought he would. Crowley couldn’t get what Death really needed, an alpha monster powerhouse to raise all the dead. So Death wasn’t heart broken at that loss.

Sam can do the same work, if he can access what lies behind the wall. And Death knows it won’t be long before his little protégé and intrepid detective Dean finds out that secret. The secret that Sam is hiding inside.

And then Sam will offer to open the dam and let out the secret that will find purgatory and Mommy and inadvertently release Lucifer and Michael and continue the apocalypse which is suppose to happen but can’t because the Winchesters are always upsetting the natural order of the universe.

And then maybe those squirrelly archangels will zip off to the heavens eventually and Death will go on doing what he does until the end of time.


And how will it end for the brothers Win? Well, here’s to some crazy ideas:

• After having upset the natural order from the get-go, Death transports both Sam and Dean to that fateful day in 1973 when Mary made the deal with Azazel. Mary says “No” and the boys flicker out as we fade to black

• After having upset the natural order from the get-go, Death transports Dean to Cold Oak where he burns his brother’s remains on the funeral pyre. Dean returns to Lisa and lives happily ever after.

• After having upset the natural order from the get-go, Death transports Sam to Nebraska where he spends three weeks amusing his dying brother Dean. After Dean’s passing, Sam returns to Stanford and the apocalypse is derailed.

• After having upset the natural order from the get-go, Death transports Dean and Sam to that fateful day when they realized Azazel was possessing John. Sam kills Yellow eyes and gets Dean safely to a hospital. The two continue their lives as hunters, serving their father’s memory.

And in the cracktastic version:

• To complete the balance, Dean must pay his debt to the fairy realm and travels there to service Oberon, meanwhile, Sam, in lonely despair, hunts down Lucky, gets turned into a dog, and wanders the back roads of America…furry.

A little speculation...

We are a few days less than 4 weeks from the return of season six of Supernatural. Or in golf terms, the back nine. We've had all our preliminary lessons on the monster breeding and world domination theory, we've seen that angels fall into 3 camps, and we've also seen that there is a high value on the human soul. Death, himself appeared and encouraged Dean to continue his "intrepid" detective work in finding the meaning behind these souls. And Death, a being clearly as powerful as God willingly retrieved Sam's soul from the Cage.

Along the journey we found that Crowley was behind finding alpha monsters and supposedly getting Sam's body out of Hell, but then we learned he was all talk and no abilities and Castiel fried him up extra crispy. So I guess he's out of the game. Alpha monsters not only have taken a liking to Dean, they seem to have a connection to him also. Once you are in their camp, I guess it builds a connection to you. Perhaps this will come into play as Dean's story of discovering not only the deal with souls, but why the Alphas are on the rise. And I can't help but wonder if the answer to the location of purgatory is related to the idea that the fairy realm is an ultraterrestrial location overlapping our own.

Maybe Dean will need to explore his connections to the monsters.

I could say the same for Sam. After spending considerable time in the cage likely attacked by two angry archangels on a daily basis, all parties involved say he is likely very damaged. I believe Death said his soul was "filleted". So Death puts up a protective barrier in Sam's mind so he will be shielded from the worst of his memories of his torture. But what if the answers that Sam and Dean need are found behind that wall? Sam is a constant liar, will he hold back on what he knows or go the self-sacrifice route? Will he want to go there to retrieve it and Dean will protest, and there we have our season cliff hanger.

Until 28 January! Peace, love, and speculation!

How Sammy got his groove, I mean, his soul back

I guess that the Supernatural powers that be thought having Sam resouled just before hiatus was a suitable cliffhanger. But really, the resouling was not a shock or surprise. Of course he would get it back.

The question is, how will his experience in the Cage start to leak out? Will he be a bit of a conduit for Lucifer? And what did Michael and Lucifer think when Death simply entered their cage and took Sam out? Or was Sam stashed elsewhere?

And what does Death want? Is he God's brother? Is he looking for God?

The Real Long Con

Dean Winchester's soul is priceless. His soul is the Hope diamond of souls, the largest pearl, the clearest ruby, it is more precious than gold. Dean Winchester's soul is the soul that broke the first seal that locked Lucifer in his cage for millenia. It is the soul that has shared space with the body of the one true vessel of Michael. Dean, the servant of Heaven, the righteous man who opened the gates of Hell.

Dean Winchester's soul would be the most desired soul, the most powerful soul in the universe.

It would be coveted by both Heaven and Hell.

Dean would risk his soul to search high and low for the lost soul of his brother. He would separate from his body to search the spirit world for Sam's soul. In that state, he could be captured.

I can't predict what angels or demons want with souls, but whatever it is, you can bet Dean's is the primo soul to steal. Even the monsters want him to join their growing families.

So what of Sam? His soul is worth a lot too and whomever really holds it (I have a hard time believing it is a demon) must be gettting something from this. All these monsters recognize Sam is soulless, but Cas can not? Why? Are the angels in on a plan to use the Winchesters? Cas did say he was doing "regrettable things".

I do believe the body that looks like Sam is really a golem. I think that when Sam fell into the cage his body died and his soul was spit out either to purgatory or Heaven. I think only angels can put a soul into a body. I think they have Sam's soul hostage to be leverage to Dean.

Dean has always had his strength in this soul, and Sam in his body, but this Sam, who is ruthless, is not using magic mojo, that's fishy. Thus, the golem theory.

Dean will be likely visiting the spirit would soon. Hope he isn't kidnapped.

Heaven and Hell Never Looked So Good

This is an official promo from the CW for the best show on TV! Supernatural!!!

In which I wonder as I wander

Sam Winchester has been my favorite since I heard he had a dark destiny he didn't want to deal with....In 6.05 "Live Free or TwiHard" Sam did something so evil and selfish I actually hated him. He let Dean get turned into a vampire.

In 6.06 "You Can't Handle the Truth" we learn that Sam is missing a part of himself, he's not human, and that made me feel compassion for him. Sam sacrificed his body and soul to get Lucifer back into his cage. Sam is a hero and he deserves either a reward of eternal peace in Heaven or at least complete oblivion. It's now painful to see that he behaves on selfish instinct rather than human compassion. Now we viewers know the seasonal arc for the show.

Jensen does evil so well!

This Friday Dean gets turned into a vampire! Oh noes! Will it be like "Lost Boys" where if you kill the Alpha vamp the half turned go back to normal?

If that face doesn't fit the criteria for this blog, well then I just don't know!!!!!

The Intrigue

Sam Winchester does not pay for sex.....so who is this mysterious man?

The look in his eyes is at once lustful and vacant. And thus I will speculate heavily, twist myself into circles and come out of this with no answers....none at all.

Sam has always been the driving force and the mystery of the show Supernatural, but this season, it's even worse!!!!!

Who the Hell is Sam and what happened to him???????

Multiple Theories:

1. He's Lucifer, no...he's Michael

2. He has no soul

3. Parts of him are in the Cage

4. Parts of his soul are elsewhere

5. He has a marker on his soul

6. He's an Alpha monster

7. He came back wrong

8. He didn't suffer in Hell

9. He never went to Hell

10. The Campbells found him feral

11. His humanity was burned out

12. Sam is the King of Hell

13. Sam is out on loan

14. Sam has a mission to complete and then he will return to Hell, his true home. He has nothing to loose so he does not care.

15. We finally learn that Azazel fed Sam Lucifer's Grace via the blood

16. Sam secretly sups demon blood

What seems true thus far, is that God did not raise Sam. Angels can barter for souls like cross roads demons, and souls are worth a lot.

Who are you????