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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32315164

All of the facial expressions and incredibly cheesy jokes are unmatched.

Misha was definitely having a lot of fun.

Happy Pride everyone!

So their three strengths:

-"Invulnerability" -Shapeshifting/Mind Melding -Physical strength that surpasses any monster Sam and Dean have faced

Their weaknesses:

-Borax is basically more powerful holy water to them -Decapitation immobilizes them -They don't have humanity or human creativity -Their viciousness causes them to get caught easily

Compare them to demons, who can do anything they can do, without needing to clean up a body afterwards.

They're also literally just suped up humans, they have that creativity that Leviathans are jealous of, in fact, their creativity is encouraged in terms of torture, and it's been shown that some demons train up psychopaths to prep them to torture in hell.

Point is, demons have the things Leviathans have and don't have, that they want.

Demons may be weak in the fact that most lower level demons will walk straight into a devil's trap, but it's also really worth mentioning that a witch was able to completely paralyze a leviathan for a day, and take its super strength away for several, all of this without a single incantation (He didn't even know what a leviathan was either).

Witches just siphon off some power from demons, so lower level leviathans have no shot against more powerful demons.

Lower Leviathans can't do anything against higher demons, but lower demons can just get a bucket of cleaner and do the ice bucket challenge with whatever Leviathan they come across (Then rip their heads off with brute strength).

Same thing goes with monsters too, which are BY BLOOD, supposed to be significantly weaker than Leviathans.

All they need is some Borax and their brute strength to take out most Leviathans, and this isn't even talking about Alphas which are the fastest and strongest things we've seen in the series, next to Eve (Who's literally supposed to be the younger sibling of Leviathans)

Who is your favourite?

Claire is potrayed to be an angry, selfish, rebellious character in the show, but I still love her.

She has to watch her father, or rather, the body of her father, walking around, alive, knowing and understanding that it's not him anymore.

Same eyes, different gaze.

Same arms, different embrace.

She also lost her mother not long after she found her 😢

She leads Cas on, and basically asks him on a date.

Never once mentioned she needed a babysitter.

Her child is a fucking baby.

How would she not ask if he can take care of a baby!?

I hate her. 😅

S9 E6 "Heaven Can't Wait"

I’m in season 14 and Jesus Christ he is guaranteed cannon fodder / absolutely will get knocked out every single time.

It’s so frustrating.

Anyone else feel this way?

What’s one character you would’ve chosen to take off the show, or not include at all?

Can be a poorly written, or oddly placed, character, or even just someone you personally don’t like, and you have no reason why, lol

I especially loved Dean and Krissy, I think that Dean saw a lot of himself in her. Claire as well. It’s honestly so healing for me personally to see them be such great girl dads.

Honourable mention: Amelia and her dad

What if Hades is actually Zelena’s father? And Once Upon a Time accidentally wrote a perfect Greek myth?

In Once Upon a Time Zelena’s father Cora calls him a “drunken gardener” or a peasant.

What if Zelena’s father was Hades all along?

It explains so much:

1. Zelena was born with raw, powerful magic but neither of her parents (officially) had magic when she was born.

That level of innate power has to come from somewhere. And Cora wasn’t magical until she trained with Rumple. If her father was a god, that tracks. OUAT never gives people born with magic unless it’s bloodline-based.

2. Hades is a master manipulator who often disguises himself and plays long games.

What if he foresaw the need for a magically powerful heir, came to the mortal realm in disguise, seduced Cora (who wanted power above all), and left her pregnant knowing the child would one day be useful?

OUAT is full of these long-game mythic setups: Rumple manipulating bloodlines, Pan being Rumple’s father, etc.

3. Zelena’s green magic, her fiery red hair, and her obsession with death and rebirth all align with Hades’ domain.

Sure, the color is “Wicked Witch” branding, but her actual magic? Elemental. Explosive. Realm-hopping. Time-traveling. And her hair stands out in a family of brunettes. Symbolically, she’s fire and destruction incarnate.

Also who else cheats death more times than Zelena? She’s practically Underworld royalty.

4. Hades and Zelena have undeniable chemistry, but their relationship has always felt… off.

What if it’s because he saw her as something more than a lover - a creation, an heir? What if he knew all along she was his daughter and was trying to pull her into his rule? Greek mythology is riddled with gods seducing or using their offspring — and OUAT already leaned into mythological themes hard in Season 5.

5. And finally: Zelena kills him.

Just like Kronos, just like Zeus, just like every god-child-destiny story ever written — the child destroys the parent to reclaim autonomy. it’s mythology 101.

So well OUAT tells us Zelena’s father is Johnathan a gardener pretending to be a prince so a liar and a manipulator. Who else lies and manipulates more than any other. Hades fits perfectly: her power source, her thematic opposite, her manipulator, and ultimately her victim. She’s not just the Wicked Witch of the West. She’s the daughter of death who killed the god that made her

What’s going on??

Why would they be promoting the show this many years after it ended?

And it comes after the actors said they would love to come back not too long ago??

There’s something new, I can feel it.

In the latest season, we meet Adam, the first man.

But through the serie, angels often referred about human as the descendant of apes.

In this very season, Fortuna tells Sam and Dean about "when you came down the trees", therefore admitting that God didn't directly create human, but created apes that eventually evolved into human (not exactly how evolution worked for us, but you get my point).

So : how are the two compatible ?

I'm on my 2nd rewatch and I'm just realizing that even knowing her whole scheme I would have fallen for it.

Like the first time I watched I truly thought she was just a good guy.

She was literally my favorite character until the twist.

All this to say she seemed to me she actually did like Sam.

She was evil asf but I wonder if she wasn't just doing it for her ulterior motive, or if she truly loved his power and the fact that he was Lucifer's vessel.

Or maybe she didn't care at all, and like all demons is pure evil.

I don't know, what do yall think?