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Knocking on Heaven's Door

Apr 02, 2010 11:58

Here be a nonsensical and rambling list of things that were awesome about last night's ep. because it was made of awesome <3

( Cut for lots of words with little point. And SPOILERS, clearly. )

ep. review, squee!, spn

Comments 6

tifaching April 3 2010, 03:00:56 UTC

See, I want Dean to go all bad ass on Walt and Roy. The look on his face when he said he'd come back pissed? He really, really wasn't kidding. I also loved the way the shot went right into the title card. Really nifty effect. Sam's heaven being Dean's hell and Sam finally realizing this was HUGE! Poor, poor Castiel. So betrayed by the Father he believed in. And Dean dropping the amulet. He's hurt and beat down and it's not just God he's throwing away, it's Sam too. Sam seems more on board with ending this themselves now and he needs to get into Dean's head and maybe deal with the issues he's been ducking up until now. I loved this episode, even as heartbreaking as it was.

blubird_pie April 3 2010, 17:25:27 UTC

Yeah, Dean at the beginning was clearly in BAMF mode! The whole opening was wonderfully tense. I'll second the "yay!" for Sam learning something about his brother from the whole experience, and being all hopeful about TFW winning out! It's kind of weird because Dean's the one who gives the original "can-do attitude" speech to Bobby and even comes up with the name "team free will" but he's never really believed in it the way Sam does. I'm really hoping that the rest of the episodes this season are going to be this good, haha.

melanth0 April 3 2010, 12:09:52 UTC

oh man, Dean's face when he was telling Walt and Roy he's gonna be pissed...I don't care whether the Winchesters just say hi or beat their asses, but I really want a follow-up.

and ASH. Even though I knew already that he was coming up, I was so surprised to see him, and so happy that he was still completely awesome.

Yeah, I'm very enthused about Zachariah right now. He had a great entrance, with the threats in the woods, and also I'm pretty sure that the woods where the boys got found by Ash were the exact same woods where Dean was running from the hellhounds way back when in NRFTW.
but anyway.

Creepy Mary made me very happy...especially because Dean-and-Mary scenes always make me kind of uncomfortable, and these really took the cake (no crusts? seriously?), so when she started taking him down a peg (and YED-eyes <3333) I was actually very relieved.

Oh, god, Sam's face when Dean threw away the amulet. Just thinking about it is still a little bit upsetting. I mean, it's pretty much a defining symbol of their relationship, what ( ... )

blubird_pie April 3 2010, 17:36:58 UTC

It's funny, I always really like the Dean and Mary stuff (maybe because Mr. Ackles looks so nice when he's doing "innocently enthralled"?) but now that you mention it, there IS something a bit unpleasant about a grown man gleefully taking up the role of a toddler- or maybe about just generally being that obsessed with his mom *coughoedipuscough*. Haha, and I bet you're right about the woods being the same. I think the road looked pretty familiar in parts too, maybe from the pilot?

So yeah, deeply upsetting episode for the win! My melodrama-loving heart hopes hopes hopes that they make it up to us in shmoop and Sam gets to give Dean the amulet again, in some heartwarming re-affirmation of their bond. That would happen, right? D:

lexhibition April 4 2010, 09:39:50 UTC

I reeeaally like your thoughts on the problems with Sam and Dean's relationship. The one thing that really made me happy about this episode (well, okay, there was Ash as well and he was just FANTASTIC) was that Sam really seemed to understand why his happy memories upset Dean, and at the end he was trying to be the strong one, keep Dean fighting. I want him to finally save his big brother. Oh, Sammy. So precious.

Zachariah as the bad guy for season 6 would be amaaaazing! He's got such a tap into Dean's brain, knows exactly where to stick the knife to make it hurt.

blubird_pie April 5 2010, 19:31:50 UTC

Saving Dean is something I've been musing about... like, S1 is about finding (saving) Dad, and in the finale he is saved when they don't shoot him with the colt. S2 is saving Sam from his destiny, and in the finale he escapes death, too. Then S3 was about saving Dean...but it didn't happen*. S4 was ostensibly about saving the world, but because they never actually saved Dean, he was still a mess, and Sam was a mess, and their relationship was a mess, and they failed a second time. So S5 is like, take two on saving the world. But I don't think they can really do that 'till Sam goes back and saves Dean from hell, metaphorically, because that failure is still eating both of them from the inside out. *shrugs* IMO, anyways ( ... )