it's me, dean winchester
Sep. 25th, 2008 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesseOh. My. God. Show.
This was so totally what I wanted. The ghosts were creepy, upsetting - though I might have wished for Jess or Madison or John or Pastor Jim or any of the other people around the Winchester boys who have died tragic, bloody deaths. Or Bobby's wife - Joanna, wasn't it?
That terribly elegant little thing show did with Meg's sister, Dean's face, that moment of oh god Sammy - that was really satisfying. Also! Sam got bashed into things! Although alas not choked, come on Kripke, what gives? Loved the eternal Dirty Sink of Sammish Forboding.
Bobby Bobby Bobby! Bobby has a supernatural panic room! With guns and pentacles and centerfolds and and and!
Again, the tiny little moment when they're packing rocksalt shells and Dean is looking at Sam. There's deepdown damage there, and I'm having much more faith this week that show's going to deal with it in a satisfactory manner.
I was really hoping, when the little girls had Sam pinned down and helpless, that there would be Sam!Powers. A callback to Max - move the table with your mind, Sammy! Dean's in peril! But they are doing better with the secrets tan I had hoped, because Dean told Sam about Castiel. Show remembered that Dean's the Doubter and Sam's the Believer, which I liked very much.
Castiel was genuinely scary as all fuck. Yeah, I'm guessing angels aren't necessarily our good guys, here. And I still think that Sam would be able to see his true face, and that Castiel is hiding from him because there wold be fallout from that seeing. I don't think he looks like anything we expect underneath that very pretty suit.
I remain deeply dubious about the apocalypse. I don't like that sort of thing. I liked it when SamnDean were only a few steps removed from the rest of us - sure, they knew about the things that went bump in the night, but they were still plagued by the same anxieties about the human condition that we all deal with. If they get drawn up into some sort of holy war, that kind of automatically AUs their universe - because before, they could easily have lived in our world. They could have been real. An end-of-the-world plot kind of erases that possibility. There might be angry spirits in our world, but there sure isn't any kind of apocalypse brewing. I'm also kinda irritated by the Christian-centric-ness of it. Book of Revelations, Angel of the Lord. Can't we have a non-denominational apocalypse here?
Kudos to show on trying to deal with the reality of possessed demon bodies - not perfect, but at least they're trying.
At the end of the day, the most important thing that I have to say in reaction to this episode is this: THANK GOD THEY DID SOMETHING WITH SAM'S HAIR. Ahem. In fact, he looked remarkably and completely edible throughout. Top marks, show. Top marks. NOM NOM NOM.
Next week ... The only thing I'm betting on at this point is that Mary wasn't human. Dunno if she's angel or demon, but there's something about Mary, if yanno what I mean. Eeee!
This was so totally what I wanted. The ghosts were creepy, upsetting - though I might have wished for Jess or Madison or John or Pastor Jim or any of the other people around the Winchester boys who have died tragic, bloody deaths. Or Bobby's wife - Joanna, wasn't it?
That terribly elegant little thing show did with Meg's sister, Dean's face, that moment of oh god Sammy - that was really satisfying. Also! Sam got bashed into things! Although alas not choked, come on Kripke, what gives? Loved the eternal Dirty Sink of Sammish Forboding.
Bobby Bobby Bobby! Bobby has a supernatural panic room! With guns and pentacles and centerfolds and and and!
Again, the tiny little moment when they're packing rocksalt shells and Dean is looking at Sam. There's deepdown damage there, and I'm having much more faith this week that show's going to deal with it in a satisfactory manner.
I was really hoping, when the little girls had Sam pinned down and helpless, that there would be Sam!Powers. A callback to Max - move the table with your mind, Sammy! Dean's in peril! But they are doing better with the secrets tan I had hoped, because Dean told Sam about Castiel. Show remembered that Dean's the Doubter and Sam's the Believer, which I liked very much.
Castiel was genuinely scary as all fuck. Yeah, I'm guessing angels aren't necessarily our good guys, here. And I still think that Sam would be able to see his true face, and that Castiel is hiding from him because there wold be fallout from that seeing. I don't think he looks like anything we expect underneath that very pretty suit.
I remain deeply dubious about the apocalypse. I don't like that sort of thing. I liked it when SamnDean were only a few steps removed from the rest of us - sure, they knew about the things that went bump in the night, but they were still plagued by the same anxieties about the human condition that we all deal with. If they get drawn up into some sort of holy war, that kind of automatically AUs their universe - because before, they could easily have lived in our world. They could have been real. An end-of-the-world plot kind of erases that possibility. There might be angry spirits in our world, but there sure isn't any kind of apocalypse brewing. I'm also kinda irritated by the Christian-centric-ness of it. Book of Revelations, Angel of the Lord. Can't we have a non-denominational apocalypse here?
Kudos to show on trying to deal with the reality of possessed demon bodies - not perfect, but at least they're trying.
At the end of the day, the most important thing that I have to say in reaction to this episode is this: THANK GOD THEY DID SOMETHING WITH SAM'S HAIR. Ahem. In fact, he looked remarkably and completely edible throughout. Top marks, show. Top marks. NOM NOM NOM.
Next week ... The only thing I'm betting on at this point is that Mary wasn't human. Dunno if she's angel or demon, but there's something about Mary, if yanno what I mean. Eeee!