Tonight's SPN

[feliciakw]

o.O



Sera has obviously been sharing Edlund's special brownies.

Smith and Wesson!!!! BWAH!!!

The boys looked good. Very good.

Interesting twist, though I'm not quite sure how I'm going to process it. *quietly processes*

Re: previews for next week . . . What are they smoking in that writer's room? O.o

More this weekend after the iTunes . . .

Comments

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

I just saw the preview for next week. I can't decide whether to scream with glee or hide. SPN does Wormhole X-Treme!

Can't wait to see tonight's ep! *bounces impatiently*

[leelust.livejournal.com]

I need to watch it myself. The way people talked in chat it was awful ep. :(

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wouldn't say it was awful. It was definitely lighter than we've had recently, and I imagine (though I've not read) that people want to get back to the story arc. But like I've said, I don't begrudge them a light-weight ep now and then. The stuff these boys have to play can really wear on a person.

But seriously, I think my favorite joke of the ep was the Smith and Wesson reference (Smith & Wesson, like Winchester, is a brand of gun).

[andromakhe001.livejournal.com]

I did not like this episode. It had some cute references but I hated the way it belittled Dean's pain. Sam's been whining for years and no one on the show ever tells him to "stop whining". Dean's sucking it up and getting on with the job his whole life - he deserves better treatment than that. Argh...you have no idea how much I disliked it.

They still could have had their lighthearted episode and actually show Dean a little compassion at the end. I really do not like Sera Gamble's episodes anymore. She always finds ways to belittle Dean in them.

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

What's starting to irk me is the depiction of angels. When Castiel came on at the beginning of the season, it was "I raised you from Perdition" and "You should show me some respect" and "Angels are warriors" and it was awesome. Then we got "Our orders were to follow your orders, this was a test," and it continued to be awesome. And I could even handle Uriel with his borderline blasphemy and pride and arrogance (which were kind of an issue with me).

Then we got Anna regaining her angelhood (bzuh?) without any indication of repentance or remorse for having disobeyed in the first place. Then we got Castiel being weaker than Alistair, which, again, I'm not down with. And we have Uriel's betrayal and all sorts of things that just make my brain hurt. And then last night we had Zechariah. I just . . .

The fact that Castiel seems to be the only angel without an attitude is really starting to bother me.

I've not re-watched the "moral of the lesson" yet, but "whiny" didn't ping my radar, probably because it got lost in the trying to find some redeeming qualities in this guy. In a way, I think that says more to the writing team's view of angels than it does their view of Dean.

And, yeah, you'll probably read all this again in my review, because as I said, it's starting to irk me.

As to belittling Dean's pain . . . if this is all we're gonna get to resolve last week's reveal . . . um . . . yeah. Not really gonna fly, guys. But given how they love to bring the angst, I kind of expect that this isn't it on the topic. At least, I hope not.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

if this is all we're gonna get to resolve last week's reveal

I sincerely doubt it, just given how much the show loves Dean's man pain. *g*

(Also, I didn't hear any belittling of Dean's pain in that speech. It was an encouraging pep talk, even if Mr. Angle didn't quite know how to deliver it. Heck, it was encouraging to ME, in a "God are you talking to me through Show again?" kind of way. Heh.)

No more comments here; we shall have to chat on the phone. I really quite liked this episode, although the actor who played Zechariah is driving me crazy trying to figure out where I know him from....

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

The guy who played Zech? I just looked him up on imdb. He's the sheriff on CSI. You might also know him from Alias.

Also? The guy who played Paul? He looks familiar to me because he was on TS, "Neighborhood Watch." Duh.

[kimmer1227.livejournal.com]

I have some issue with the wording of the pep talk, but I think he was trying to tell Dean that he was up for the hard task ahead, and wasn't really calling him a whiner. I think Dean ultimately got the message.

I really enjoyed the characterization of the boys. They still felt very much like Sam and Dean.

Like you, I'll have to process some more.

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

Well, the angel kinda bothered me the minute he wasn't Castiel. Heh. And as soon as he said he was Castiel's superior, my alarm went up because how do we know we can trust him. (Though I suppose the fact that he didn't try to kill Dean should indicate that he's not working in opposition.) Then . . . well, like I said. I'll have to re-watch and process. In theory, I get it, the whole "show him what he is by making him something he's not" type of thing, but . . .

Meh. We'll see.

But on the whole? The straight forward case and the putting the boys in a different environment? That I enjoyed. Up to a point.

[kimmer1227.livejournal.com]

I've watched the scene over a few times now, and I'm okay with it. Well most of it. I still wished it was worded better, but so be it.

In my mind, Zach wasn't minimizing Dean's experiences. He wanted Dean to find his fight again. To not only remind him that he is a born hunter, not because of his damn daddy or due to responsibilities to his family or even heaven. To tell him he is very capable, and in fact is the perfect man to face the challenge.