In which I need a kick to the butt (also almost-meta and a rec)

[emmram]

I just realised that I have about a day to submit my springfling fic, and that I have barely anything written. Instead, I have been distracted by other things, and urgh. Sometimes I just stare at the word document and go, "Sam and Dean, I love you, but it's 110 degrees outside and I am not in the mood for writing you two not-dealing with your

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[quickreaver]

I LOVE THE WAY YOU THINK. Even if it is 101 degrees outside and you're probably roasting in your own skull.

(Close your eyes, Season Six spoiler-phobes...)

This is why Soulless!Sam has such appeal, albeit darkly. He is the perfect beast. Man, could you imagine if the Alpha vampire had managed to turn him? Hoooooly sh*t...

[monicawoe]

Man, could you imagine if the Alpha vampire had managed to turn him? Hoooooly sh*t...

Why yes, yes I can! ; )

[quickreaver]

Ha! This is true! :D

[emmram]

It's 110 degrees, actually. And, haha, 'roasting' is a word for it. :p

Exactly. The Alpha-Vamp could see through all his layers of bullshit to what he really was. He would've made for a kickass vampire.

[monicawoe]

Brilliant! I love the idea of Soulless!Sam coming back - even as a leviathan! What I was wondering is if Sam would have yet another breakdown after Dean's disappearance and revert into soulless!Sam (or possibly even Lucifer, because I know he's still in there). Ohhhh I so hope they give him time to show us the angst. Padalecki does it SO WELL.

[emmram]

yet another breakdown after Dean's disappearance and revert into soulless!Sam

Oooh yes. But at this stage I'm hoping for at least a couple of episodes where Sam and Dean are separated and desperately trying to find their way to each other, and, y'know, Hallucifer makes a triumphant return. Instead of a flashback midway through the season like in s4.

[rokhal]

Sometimes when you combine two great ideas, you end up with something derivative and lame. Sometimes when you combine two weird ideas, you end up with a perfect logical synthesis, rich in poetry, symmetry, and raw terror.

You're making me want Robo!Levi!Sam so bad.

[emmram]

\o/

I didn't realise how much I wanted that myself before writing this out.

[vail_kagami]

Robo!Sam!Leviathan could be the cingle most coolest villain of anything ever. I want it.
Too bad it won't happen, but it would be great anyway. Write for the show!

[emmram]

He would spend less time gloating and more time doing, which would instantly make him more terrifying than most of the villains out there.

Write for the show!

Haha. :D Unenviable job, that.

[amberdreams]

Yes to all of the above! Especially to the kudos to Jared for all the different versions of Sam he's played. It's beyond me that a hard core of Jared haters still insist he is a plank as an actor. What the hell are they watching? Because it smacks of willful blindness to me. I really can't understand why if you are a self professed Dean!girl that means you can't possibly recognise the awesome work Jared does as Sam.

I'll always love Dean best but boy, does Jared knock his Sams out of the park week after week.

[emmram]

I've never understood where all the "Jared is a bad actor" stuff came from in the first place. He's been decent right from the outset, and has only gotten better. I have a feeling it's because most of Supernatural is told from Dean's point-of-view, and it's just a little harder to pick up on Sam's emotions and motivations. But whenever we've been thrown into Sam's head, or when Jared's got the opportunity to really stretch the boundaries of who Sam is, he's been frankly brilliant. It's also risky playing a protagonist whose motivations are deliberately obfuscated (as in s4 and early s6), whose faults are not--I can't seem to think of a better word--attractive, like Dean's is, and who gets called out for his mistakes on the show far more often than other characters in the show. It's often rewarding to go back and rewatch some of the stuff he's done with the knowledge of what's really going on--like I did here--because then you can appreciate the kind of work he's put into the character.