Hieroglyfics Recs

Supernatural vid. This is the one in which Dean and Sam watch various incarnations of “their show” on TV, set to various TV show theme songs. If you’re in SPN, you’ve seen it already, I’m sure; if you’re like me, and don’t know which one is Dean and which one is Sam, you might enjoy it anyway if meta games appeal to you. I love the way this vid recontextualizes the show into multiple show-lets of differing genre, using both theme music and clip choice. I only recognized a few of the themes, not being a TV watcher, but I could instantly tell what type of show each was - the police drama, the soap, the sci-fi (okay, everyone ought to recognize the Twilight Zone theme!)

Hot Fuzz, Nicholas/Danny. This story walks the perfect line between tentative awkwardness and outright silliness, and it’s sweet and gentle and has awesome characterization through dialogue.

The Quest finishes when Ray runs out of vacation time, but every year for the next ten years, he returns to Canada and he and Fraser do their three weeks of searching for the Hand. But when Diefenbaker dies [because I don’t want people going OMGDIEF, can’t read, woe!: this is futurefic, Dief is old, it’s not unexpected - but the lost of his best buddy devastates Fraser, and Ray’s the only one who really understands], they have to rethink their plans and their relationship. I have never seen a “same time next year” scenario with them post-CotW before, and I really liked the idea, seeing them older and more settled in their new lives, yet only really feeling alive with each other once a year. Wonderful dialogue and a thoughtful plot make for a very satisfying story.