Hi. I guess it's Friday. I have no idea what's happening to all my time. It just... whooooosh... vanishes somewhere. Also, during the week I have all kinds of great ideas on what to talk about but then when I open up the new post page, nada. It's starting to get annoying.
I'm hungry, I should probably eat something. Oh well, I have ice tea. Also pepsi MAX, whoo!
Speaking of pepsi, when I told my friends that Gabriel is probably coming back in season nine, the reaction was pretty much "ugh, they just bring him back 'cause the fans like him, why can't they keep dead people dead?" Which is kinda, I mean, sure the fans love him, but so does the production team and the writers and basically everyone because Richard Speigh Jr. is a great guy. And Supernatural has a bit of a track record on not keeping dead guys dead. You know, that's kinda the unofficial point of the story. "Getting killed, being resurrected, the family business." But my point was, that whatever the reason for bringing Gabe back to our lives, I actually find it plausible that he is, in fact, still alive.
So let's talk about Gabriel. (And pardon my French, haha...)
In the Beginning, God creates stuff, I guess, and after the failed Project Leviathan, comes angels. First the Archangels, Mike, Lucy, Gabe, Raffy (who are the four archangels of the SPNverse) and soon after the other angels. During this time Lucifer takes a liking to Gabriel and they be like best bros, while Michael manages Heaven and Raphael does who the fuck cares. Angels are happy in Heaven, like a fairly normal family at this point, and God turns to Earth and starts to create stuff there. Now, I like to think that instead of creating things and putting the ready products on Earth, God made a sort of manual to how to get the products using millions and millions of years worth evolution. (What Cas says in Reading is Fundamental, 7.21, "You know, we weren't sure at first which monkeys were gonna make it. No offense, but I was backing the Neanderthals [...] But in the end, it was you – the homo sapiens sapiens. You guys ate the apple, invented pants.", would back that up.) So I'm guessing God made a plan and set it in motion and then turned to the angels and said "Yo, make sure these things don't do nothing stupid, k? These are to be my master piece, but they are stupid little shits and you need to guide them. So make sure you treat them with love, yeah?" Now, this is the point when Lucy goes, "But Daaaa-ad, I don't wanna love stupid monkeys, I wanted a unicorn!" and gets thrown into Hell. (This conversation is legit. That's totally how it happened.)
Ok, so this is somewhere during the time all apes were pretty much the same one. Which would mean some 22 million years ago. (Of course it's possible that Lucy didn't rebel until humans actually "ate the apple", which would be like 50,000 years ago, but what Cas said would suggest that they knew beforehand that one of the great apes would become the "one to inherit the land", so I'm guessing either Lucy did it way back then, or his favorite apes didn't win and he's just a really sore loser.) But what has this got to do with Gabriel? I'm getting to that.
In Hammer of the Gods, 5.19, Lucifer says "Don't forget, you learned all your tricks from me, little brother", which strongly suggests they were very close in Heaven, before the whole falling and stuff. Lucifer is admitted, by almost everyone, to being really strong and creative, so it's no wonder he learned and created all kinds of magic. And Gabriel, being the little brother, wanted to learn everything. And he does have a knack for being a trickster, he is very creative and has a twisted kind of humour, which he takes out on the one's he thinks deserve it, ie dicks, so Lucifer teaches him trickster-magic and all is well. But then the new baby comes home and Lucy doesn't like it. Cue temper tantrum and a super long time out (in Hell).
Now, Gabriel doesn't really like confrontation, that much is clear. His coping mechanism is to either make a joke out of everything or escape, and when all else fails he fakes his death and digs himself deeper into "witness protection". We've seen him do this before, you know, on two separate occasions. And he did try to stay out of it, only pushing Sam and Dean a little in the "right" direction because they happened on his path (in Changing Channels, 5.08) because he just wants it to be over. He wants the fighting to stop. He is like a little boy cowering in the corner, covering his ears when big brothers fight. And he knows he can't do anything about it, so first he tries to force Sam and Dean to accept their part and make the fighting escalate to of one of them dying, but in the end is forced to think about the situation and what it would really mean. Now, before and during 5.19, he mentally grows up (if only just a bit) and actually manages to face Lucifer, telling him to grow up as well and get over it. He is facing his biggest fear, and confronting the brother he loved most (and judging by the face Lucy makes when he stabs Gabe, he really did love him back). He is standing up from the corner he's been hiding from the very beginning when he skipped town after the fighting begun.
Ok, but how does that make it plausible that he could be alive? I've just told you a bunch of stuff that has been basically said in the show itself. I'm getting to it, really.
After Lucifer get's his ass sent to Hell, there is bound to be some form of uprising in Heaven. So not only did Gabriel's big brothers fight, but now the whole family is in chaos and he freaks and skips town, as mentioned above. So basically, he's been down on Earth for approx. 22 million (or 50,000) years before his supposed death. That's a pretty long time, even for an angel. And during that time Lucifer sits in Hell, Gabriel practices using his skills. He goes undercover, into a "witness protection", as a trickster and keeps doing what he knows best. But he's not just any trickster, oh no, he is a god, he is The Trickster, he is motherfucking Loki. One does not simply be a pagan god of mischief and fire for 800 years and not learn a few new tricks. Not to mention all the millennia he spent before he became Loki. Basically what I'm trying to say is that when Lucifer says "Don't forget, you learned all your tricks from me, little brother" in 5.19, it is utter bullshit. Yes, he's learned all your tricks from you, Lucy, but you've been gone for quite a while, he's probably hanged around other people in the mean time. Learned something new along the way. Because if he hasn't, boy, that would be a let down.
But Lucifer wouldn't get that, would he? He is very self centered. Also very prideful. He easily dismisses the pagan gods as "worse than demons", which is a real low coming from him, but he doesn't get that even if they are often fighting and selling each other out, they are still pretty damn powerful, and probably think very differently. They will come up with all kinds of nifty little things Lucifer would never even think about. And Gabriel has spent a lot of time with them. He thinks like them. The Gabriel that faced Lucifer wasn't the younger brother that Lucifer left behind before his fall. And even if he says "I know where your heart truly lies", he doesn't. It's not the same heart.
tl;dr: Gabriel was a pagan god, for someone's sakes! He's got a few new aces up his sleeves. I have no problem believing that his death was another trick.
Well, that escalated quickly. I really wasn't supposed to talk about that for so long. But whatever, I've been dying to talk to someone about Gabe.
While I'm on the subject, I really liked this weeks episode. It was funny, it was dramatic, it was hear clenching. Nora was a nice female character. It was a nice change, given the track record of women in Supernatural, haha. Also, I think she thought Cas was gay? That would explain some of the odd behaviour. I mean, how else is the whole "Are you free tomorrow night?" scene supposed to be interpreted than being asked out? But if she thought he was gay, ie in no way interested in her romantically, that would explain it a bit, right? I dunno, she was a bit weird. But in a lovely human way. It was also nice to get some Dean/Cas time as well as Sam and Kevin interaction. I think they would be good friends, in an odd way. Like, Sam would be Kevin's mentor or tutor or sth. Hm, that would make a great detail to a highschool!AU. Also Crowley what are you even doing?? Things are happening aaaaaaa help!
Next weeks episode looks damn scary. Woohoo, we haven't had a proper horror episode since... season 3, basically.
Sorry, this post is all Supernatural. I'll write about something else next week.
Pie out.
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