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

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

Obviously I don't approve of anyone, angelic or otherwise, patronizing a brothel and it does sort of strike me as odd that Dean is portrayed as being fairly familiar with the scene since he doesn't seem to have much difficulty getting sex for free...but buying his angel a hooker just sounds like something Dean would do, to me.

Agree to all points here. (Though it did bother me more than just a smidge.)

I totally believe that Dean is familiar with the brothel scene. Which doesn't mean he's had to patronize it. (I actually had a nebulous fic in the back of my mind a long while ago wherein one of John's shadier cohorts buys Dean a hooker to congratulate him on his first successful hunt--as a teen, possibly Dean's first time--and . . . John finds out. And things do not go well for Shady Cohort.) And it does sound like something Dean would do.

What we have going here for me is double discomfort. A) The scene itself, which I might be able to take more lightly, as you yourself do, were it not for the fact that B) it feels like fic. This fic has been written at least twice that I've run across. Probably more.

The Sam-is-Lucifer's-vessel surprised me not at all. I've heard it kicked around the fandom for quite some time. I don't even remember the first place I heard it.

Re: shirtless Sam . . . he is very pretty . . . He doesn't look too bad in the t-shirt, either.