Oh, er, yeah. I probably should have stipulated on my thoughts about Jimmy: that is, after the events of Lucifer Rising (his body exploding "like a can of chunky soup" - which, by the way, ew), he died. The Flying Spaghetti Monster brought Cas back, but not Jimmy. (I also hold that Jimmy's family was killed by demons after the events of the earlier Jimmy episode, because for spite or tactics, it's unlikely that they're just going to let them go; not unless the angels hid them from the demons somehow, which I doubt is possible, because if it were, they'd have done it on the Winchesters a long time ago. Works on angels, but not their kin.*)
Ahahaha. I can't really blame people feeling that way, considering events that came AFTER that! Point.
Also, "reward"? I so desperately want it for poor Jimmy, but I doubt he's going to get anything than the standard package, i.e. a reaper and a smile. But then again, that's kind of comparing apples to black holes, isn't it. I mean, what on earth does "reward" mean to a soul, or spirit, or whatever's left? Do the dead even have a concept of bad or good, pain or pleasure, anymore? Ghosts do, obviously, but they seem to kind of dead folks trying to still be alive, and it drives them insane. Then again - I could see Jimmy choosing to stay behind. If he thought Amelia was in danger and he could protect her somehow - not even rationally, just that parent's bone-deep assumption that "if I'm around, everything will be okay" - he might do it.
*Which for me raises a lot of interesting thoughts about the demon-commanding and angel-commanding symbol systems, and how they're probably sort of related - they both have "get the fuck out of here" commands, for example, though one is more permanent than the other (exorcism vs. the bloody-hand angel whoosh) - but obviously not exactly, as there's some discrepancy between them. Are they like language families? Did one grow out of the other? Personally, I think that what these symbols represent, the "rules" angels and demons refer to, has always been there, even before they created the symbolic representations of them - concept before word, in a way, except that's arguable. Is a table a table, before it's a table, or is it a flat surface supported by four long, thin blocks of wood? You see what I mean. Maybe it is possible to create new commands, because the concept behind them has always been there (somewhere between the way that time is not linear, but rather things are and always have been, will be, and Schrodinger's cat), and you're just figuring out a way to write them up.
Oh, erk. Metaphysics. I doubt any of that made any sense.
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Except for the part where I've got to finish it by Thursday & get it Jossed, or work with new canon.
Date: 2010-01-30 02:14 am (UTC)Ahahaha. I can't really blame people feeling that way, considering events that came AFTER that! Point.
Also, "reward"? I so desperately want it for poor Jimmy, but I doubt he's going to get anything than the standard package, i.e. a reaper and a smile. But then again, that's kind of comparing apples to black holes, isn't it. I mean, what on earth does "reward" mean to a soul, or spirit, or whatever's left? Do the dead even have a concept of bad or good, pain or pleasure, anymore? Ghosts do, obviously, but they seem to kind of dead folks trying to still be alive, and it drives them insane. Then again - I could see Jimmy choosing to stay behind. If he thought Amelia was in danger and he could protect her somehow - not even rationally, just that parent's bone-deep assumption that "if I'm around, everything will be okay" - he might do it.
*Which for me raises a lot of interesting thoughts about the demon-commanding and angel-commanding symbol systems, and how they're probably sort of related - they both have "get the fuck out of here" commands, for example, though one is more permanent than the other (exorcism vs. the bloody-hand angel whoosh) - but obviously not exactly, as there's some discrepancy between them. Are they like language families? Did one grow out of the other? Personally, I think that what these symbols represent, the "rules" angels and demons refer to, has always been there, even before they created the symbolic representations of them - concept before word, in a way, except that's arguable. Is a table a table, before it's a table, or is it a flat surface supported by four long, thin blocks of wood? You see what I mean. Maybe it is possible to create new commands, because the concept behind them has always been there (somewhere between the way that time is not linear, but rather things are and always have been, will be, and Schrodinger's cat), and you're just figuring out a way to write them up.
Oh, erk. Metaphysics. I doubt any of that made any sense.