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Entry tags:
- ponderings,
- s3,
- spn
Continuing apace with S3
I wrote about "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Kids Are Alright" last year.
M7: I still miss Ruby 1.0. Also? The apocalypse as introduced in S3 after the opening of the Devil's Gate is, for my money, more anxiety inducing than the apocalypse we ended up with. I'll have to think more on why this is.
TKAA: When I popped this in, Geo asks, "Oh, is this the one with the table saw?" "Yes," says I, cringing. "That is why I will never get a table saw," says he.
Then Geo says, "Oh! This is a really important ep, isn't it." "Yes," says I, "it is." "They introduce Lisa and the kid in this one," says Geo.
TKAA is still one of my favorite eps, simply for the humor content. Because we always laugh at Dean's discomfort at the party, and Geo is particularly amused (or perhaps pleased) with Dean as father figure, teaching Ben how to get his game back. I think Geo is most amused by how Jensen plays Dean's reaction to Lisa when she finds them. He knows he's in trouble. Heh.
Dean as family man brings me to a point I've been pondering, in that SPN is all about the role reversal.
In S1, we have Sam as the central figure and, I believe, the character to which the audience was supposed to relate to. He's the one who wants "normal." He's been to school, he has a girlfriend, he left the seedy, nomadic life on the road. We're introduced to the Winchesters through Sam. And Dean is the hunter, the one embracing the hunting life.
But we very soon find out that Sam has a vengeful streak in him, and that Dean is in it for the family loyalty and the saving people.
Then we discover that Sam has visions, and as S2 progresses, we find that Dean is the one who wants to step back and lay low, while Sam is gung ho with the hunt for the demon and, if not embracing the life, at least accepting it. Come the end of S2, we discover that Sam has ingested demon blood, and now Dean is the "normal" one with problems the audience can relate to.
S3 sees even more of this with Dean, with his admission that he'd be proud to be Ben's dad, and his admission that he'd like to believe in God, etc. More and more, he wants normal, but he knows he can't have it. Meanwhile, Sam is keeping company with a demon in the hopes of being able to help Dean out of his deal.
The whole thing is much more layered than what I've outlined here, but I think it's interesting that Sam was introduced to us as the "normal" one, when deep at their innermost core, Dean is the one who craves stability.
Or something.
M7: I still miss Ruby 1.0. Also? The apocalypse as introduced in S3 after the opening of the Devil's Gate is, for my money, more anxiety inducing than the apocalypse we ended up with. I'll have to think more on why this is.
TKAA: When I popped this in, Geo asks, "Oh, is this the one with the table saw?" "Yes," says I, cringing. "That is why I will never get a table saw," says he.
Then Geo says, "Oh! This is a really important ep, isn't it." "Yes," says I, "it is." "They introduce Lisa and the kid in this one," says Geo.
TKAA is still one of my favorite eps, simply for the humor content. Because we always laugh at Dean's discomfort at the party, and Geo is particularly amused (or perhaps pleased) with Dean as father figure, teaching Ben how to get his game back. I think Geo is most amused by how Jensen plays Dean's reaction to Lisa when she finds them. He knows he's in trouble. Heh.
Dean as family man brings me to a point I've been pondering, in that SPN is all about the role reversal.
In S1, we have Sam as the central figure and, I believe, the character to which the audience was supposed to relate to. He's the one who wants "normal." He's been to school, he has a girlfriend, he left the seedy, nomadic life on the road. We're introduced to the Winchesters through Sam. And Dean is the hunter, the one embracing the hunting life.
But we very soon find out that Sam has a vengeful streak in him, and that Dean is in it for the family loyalty and the saving people.
Then we discover that Sam has visions, and as S2 progresses, we find that Dean is the one who wants to step back and lay low, while Sam is gung ho with the hunt for the demon and, if not embracing the life, at least accepting it. Come the end of S2, we discover that Sam has ingested demon blood, and now Dean is the "normal" one with problems the audience can relate to.
S3 sees even more of this with Dean, with his admission that he'd be proud to be Ben's dad, and his admission that he'd like to believe in God, etc. More and more, he wants normal, but he knows he can't have it. Meanwhile, Sam is keeping company with a demon in the hopes of being able to help Dean out of his deal.
The whole thing is much more layered than what I've outlined here, but I think it's interesting that Sam was introduced to us as the "normal" one, when deep at their innermost core, Dean is the one who craves stability.
Or something.