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[feliciakw]

What can I say about "Home"? I mean, really. Back before Kripke went a little (or a lot) wonky with the mytharc. This is a choice piece of . . . lots of stuff.

We get Sam telling Dean for the first time that his nightmares sometimes come true, and that they have to go back to their old house. And we have Dean trying not to freak out accordingly.

We have Dean as the only witness to what happened, and he was only four at the time, and didn't actually see what happened.

Sam learns that it was Dean who carried him out of the fire. Dean calls and leaves a heart wrenching message for John to please come help.

Also? We have Missouri. Her interplay with Dean is highly amusing, but in retrospect, it hurts just a little bit. But you know? After thinking about it, it's exactly right, I think. Missouri is gentle with Sam and with Jenny (I think the mom's name is), because they'll accept it. But with Dean she's tart and firm and snarky. Because really, would Dean have accepted "gentle" as graciously as Sam? Particularly from a woman he doesn't remember, perhaps never even met? I . . . don't think so. (Btw, for all we know, she knows what the boys looked like as kids from photos John showed her at the time, or from photos displayed around the house when she came to investigate the fire. Nothing says she actually met them). Besides, pouty Dean is amusing.

But in spite of the snark and scoffing of the EMF reader and the "He means well. He's just not the sharpest tool in the shed" and "Dean will clean this up," Dean is the one who helps her down the steps when they leave the house, and when Missouri says, "Don't you boys be strangers," she's looking at (addressing) Dean.

Also also? When she tells Sam, "I know I'm supposed to have all the answers, but I don't know" or whatever the exact line is, Geo is convinced that's Kripke speaking though the character. I tend to agree. Heh.

Also x3? This ep hits two of my freak factor buttons. 1) I still, to this day, cannot watch the scene with the repair guy putting his arm in the garbage disposal, and what I can watch of it, I start cringing and flailing and hiding as soon as he reaches the sink in the kitchen. 2) The little boy trapped in the refrigerator. Anyone trapped in an airtight box, or trapped in a box they can't get out of is an issue with me. *sits cringing even as I write this* So, yeah.

So here we go: the ep that takes us into the mytharc where we are now: Mary tells Sam, "I'm sorry." Sam comes clean about the big secret he wouldn't tell Dean in "Bloody Mary." AND John makes an appearance, hinting that he knows something, but he's not sure what.

Lots of chewy stuff here.

Comments

[leelust.livejournal.com]

I love Home to the bits. I like the show from the Pilot, i was starting to love it in DitW, i got suspicious of that guy played Dean in Skin because there was something in his as an actor that put him in front and in Home i was sure i'll be watching this show cos of Dean and Jensen. That phone call to John kills me every time.
I can't stand Missouri, for a psychic she's dumb (sorry). I can see your poin that Dean wouldn't appreciate gently approach but still Anna tried it and it worked. Plus i think Missouri was too much harsh with Dean. Plus she couldn't see another ghost in the house, psychic my a.... pfff.
And that was the first time i was mad at John.

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

You mean Anna the fallen angel? Remember, Dean has changed a lot from the time he saw Missouri to the time he saw Anna. If he'd been to Hell for forty years when Missouri saw him, I expect she'd be gentle to Dean, too. But at this point in the show, Dean still isn't acknowledging (might not even know) he's got issues with his dad, and he hasn't sold his soul, and he hasn't been to Hell. At this point in the series, I think Missouri was appropriately tart with Dean.

Besides that, Missouri doesn't have any romantic designs on Dean. :-)

Yeah, Missouri's psychic powers are lacking, but in a way, I kind of like that because it means Sam and Dean can't depend on something just because a psychic tells them. (Pamela, too, had her own lack of judgment problems, but I'll get into that when we get to that part of the series.)

But, too each her own. I'm pretty sure you're not the only one in the fandom who doesn't like Missouri. :-)

Next up: Asylum. What an excellent creepy episode!

[leelust.livejournal.com]

Oh, i agree that part of the fandom likes her and part hates her. And i was the one who liked her at first. And i agree Dean wasn't in hell yet and didn't sell his soul but he already had an awful childhood and crappy attitude from John and his family used him as a tool not a man - how could she ignore all that? And fond over Sam like his traume was the worst in the world? It's beyond my understanding...

Yeah! I've read your Asylum post - awesome observation.