SPN - 5.03 - initial impressions

[feliciakw]

1. This is a very uncomfortable ep.
2. It hurts.
3. My brain hurts.
4. I don't know what to do with this information.
5. Fix story, plz?

I . . . there's stuff in this ep that I just don't know what to do with. It hurts. Obviously, I'm not down with Dean trying to corrupt Castiel. Aside from the obvious personal reasons, it feels like fic. In the same way that fic that retreads where Show has gone kind of annoys me, I find that Show retreading where fic has gone kind of annoys me, too. Which is silly, because Show has priority over fic, but, yeah. Not so much in the like department. Particularly with this particular little plot device.

And I'm sad to say that this ep has me re-evaluating my feelings about Dean. I'll have to re-watch the ep because I missed some of his lines, but . . . his attitude and behavior kind of unsettled me.

And Dean says he's fine alone? Yeah, Dean, like I really believe you on that one. Okay without Sam? Meh, yeah, whatever. But okay alone? I'm not convinced.

I just . . . I don't know what to do with this information.

And "Hector Williams" as Raphael. First, wow. So not the Hector I knew and loved. Also Raphael being so . . . disbelieving. And kinda mean-spirited. Ouch.

Lucifer and Sam . . . Someone fix the story, plz? I . . . Show is making me very nervous, and I don't like having to wait a week between eps. Neither am I particularly fond of the direction the story is going.

It all makes me very uncomfortable and makes me want to pull away from show.

It will get better, right? Right?

(As a completely speculative aside, I think I now understand why Jensen was quick to point out at VanCon that they will be doing some old school stand-alones. The mytharc has taken some very dark and uncomfortable and awkward turns, and I just kind of wonder how the actors feel about it. I could be entirely reading my own interpretation into this, but I get the distinct impression that Jensen misses and/or prefers the old school storylines with Dean and Sam working together. Or maybe that's just me.)

Comments

[leelust.livejournal.com]

I for sure don't miss them working together :)
Anyway, i didn't see Raph as mean-spirited. More like tragic. He's lost. He's angry that he's lost. I likes his arc very much.
Not sure what unsettled you about Dean though. His attitude and his words about missing fathers gave Cas sp needed hope. And he clearly wasn't happy to be alone - watch the scene again. He can be partly right about not having sam around because sam (esp right now) is dead weight that drowning Dean but be alone? It's Dean's mask again. Bravado. Nothing else.

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

I can't really explain things until I watch the ep again (with clearer pic and better sound). *points to my response to Carol* That's about as close as I can get to explaining it right now.

I am curious, though. If you could write the story, would you run two separate storylines indefinitely, keeping Sam and Dean apart? Or would you write Sam out of the show?

I understand what you're saying about Raph, and I see where you're coming from. There was definitely a sense of tragic despair going there. Perhaps mean-spirited wasn't the right term. But I did take exception to his threat to deliver Dean to Michael.

(And I really did like seeing that actor again, and in such a completely different role than I was used to seeing him.)