Playthings & Nightshifter

[feliciakw]

I made a couple comments about "Playthings" last year, and again, I don't really have a whole lot to add.



I like this one. Good, solid stand-alone case but with back story and character developments.

I'd waited since the beginning for them to do something with voodoo or hoodoo. This isn't exactly what I had in mind (I want an all-out trip to New Orleans), but it's a start.

I love the classic haunted hotel, and the twists in the case.

I figure they were watching The Shining when they wrote this one. That bar/dining room is clearly Shining inspired.

And of course we have the key exchange in the ep, wherein Sam, in a drunken stupor, makes Dean promise to kill him (Sam) if Sam ever becomes something not!Sam. They just keep piling on the angst, and poor Dean's got no choice but to carry on (wayward son).



Nightshifter

Now, I did do a fairly thorough write-up of this one last year.

Another favorite amongst the people I know, with a great case (both supernatural and non-), delightful guest character(s), and more angst and oh!noez!

Oh, Ronald. We hardly knew ye. You would have been great in R&D, and I was going to hook you up with Ash when this was over. Y'all would have geeked out together something fierce. (Ronald kind of reminds me of some of the guest characters in N3.)

Ah, Hendricksen. I learned to love you, but here, you scare me. Well, you scare me for Dean.

Oh, Dean. You just can't catch a break, can you. And the look on your face, your body language, when the SWAT guy finds you with the dead 'shifter. You know what's waiting for you, don't you. You're resigned to not having much of a future. Lucky for you, the SWAT guy is really your brother with an escape plan.

And Sam. Oh, Sam. Knowing your brother is a wanted felon. Knowing y'all are trapped like rats with no way out. You're becoming quite a force to be reckoned with, what with taking out not one, but two SWAT guys, then scaring your brother by showing up in disguise before the two of you make your escape.

*cue Styx*
*cue me flailing*

Comments

[girlyghoul70.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I still gotta go with the Mean Little Girl theory. There had to have been some reason the Hoodoo Nanny was keeping her away and Rose continued to do so for so many years. She must have been causing trouble from the get-go. She not only killed innocent folks who were just trying to do their jobs, but she was ready to kill her nieces and/or hold them hostage until her sister agreed to give up her own life to keep her company.

She may have been a sad little girl ghost who died young and tragic and just didn't want to be alone. But then you get into that slippery slope of "Well, Jason Voorhees was just a poor little kid who drowned", "Candyman was just a tragic victim of a lynch mob", "Hannibal Lecter was just a little hungry", etc. Nah. She was a Mean Little Girl!

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

You do have a point about the nanny, so maybe Maggie was causing mischief and Nanny didn't want it to escalate. But for future reference, perhaps the Winchesters should hold classes on how to put restless spirits to rest, rather than just warding them off and making them even more restless . . . and angry . . . and murderous.

Hey, Candyman was the tragic victim of a lynch mob . . . who grew angry and murderous and iirc obsessed with someone not his girl, and he needed to be put down.

Hannibal Lecter is in a different class, though. He's alive and kickin' and human and cannibalistic. Brilliant, but sociopathic. And outside the Winchester mission statement. Now, if he ever becomes an angry spirit, then yeah, they can toast him.

Jason . . . Well . . . are we talking ghost Jason of the original series, or not-so-ghost Jason of the remake? Because depending on which version we're talking about will determine the approach.

And speaking of restless spirits, this story (http://apocalypsos.livejournal.com/1132238.html) will make your heart a little hurty.