SPN Reaction: Episode 3.05
Contains Spoilers for the episode
Reaction to Episode 3.05
"Bedtime Stories"
First and foremost and entirely unrelated to the episode, I would like to say that 8 hour VHS tapes freaking suck. The tape is wound on the reels so tight that the VCR figures the tape has jammed and completely shuts down without warning. I'm glad I was home to convince the VCR to suck it up and soldier, or I would have missed taping the latter third of the episode, and that would have been a very serious crime indeed.
So, on with the episode.
-I'm really glad I remembered to not watch the previously. Though even with my eyes mostly shut only seeing the bottom strip of the screen and my fingers in my ears and going "lalalalalalala", I caught enough to know the Colt and RED would be involved somewhere. Darn it, previouslies!
-Good god I love the premise! Brothers Grimm original stories are seriously. Messed. Up. Not for kids. At all. I even love the kitsch, nearly over-the-top way it was done. On second watch I'm surprised I didn't catch on sooner than I did. 'Once upon a time Estates' was it?
-You all caught that the one builder guy had a thing for bricks, the other one had a thing for wood, and the third one had... a drink with a straw in it. Hee. Too damn cute. I guess it would have been pushing it to make the straw guy be more into interior design and have an obsession with Tatami mats.
-Ooo! The guy with the brick obsession screams well! They've lucked out on screamers so far this year, between Grossman, the nun, and now this guy.
-Shouty fight between the boys over the deal! I love that fight. I love it like I love breathing. *sigh*
-Another reuse of driving shot! That one was from... dammit. I am sucking at the driving screencap location thing this season. Somewhere in early season one I think. I know exactly where it is in one fanvid. I am actually really glad they're finding ways to cut costs like that, although now that I think of it I want to go back and check to see if they remembered to change the plates, but I'm scared my frigging stupid 8-hour tape will explode or something. Meh. Anyway, yay for cost-cutting!
-Hehehe, sketch artist Sammy and his sausage-limbed big bad wolf perp drawing are too damned cute for words. It's such a good thing the brick guy is so easy-going. And has a head wound. And is probably on some good drugs. *nods*
-"Well, uh, see... I got nuthin'" Poor stumped Sammy. *pats*
-When the guy and girl come out of the woods and see the cottage in the woods, that's when I caught on to the Grimms' tales premise, so I was slow on the uptake on that tonight.
-It is so awesome that the house actually had a bit of "gingerbreading" up at the peak! The set design people rock hardcore! :-D
-YAY!!! PSYCHO SWEET OLD LADY WITH DRUGGED PIES AND SHARP OBJECTS!!! All sweet old ladies were once pre-adolescent girls. It's a known, scientifically proven fact. *nods*
-The actress playing the old lady looks like she's having a hell of a pile of fun with it. I like her!
-And there's a creepy pre-adolescent girl too! Bonus!
-At about 15 minutes in I noted down my guess for the end. I guessed 'girl in a coma and a kiss will set her free'. *wibble*
-I like those suits. I like that they re-use those suits. I think those are the same suits? I love the wardrobe continuity in this show!!!! I always have, right from the beginning.
-Frog!!! Giant belching frog! Hee.
-Sam knowing Disney movies inside and out. Someone wrote a fic somewhere where Jess had had an obsession with Disney movies or something and Sam picked up the habit while in college. I swear I've read that somewhere!
-Anyone else keep saying "Don't eat the apple! Don't touch the apple! Put the apple down and walk away!" because, y'know, poison, yeah, but also because where the hell did that apple come from? That's like an apple-shaped chunk of pure ectoplasm or something! Seriously! Am I right, or am I crazy?
-Poor little Red. I had a jacket exactly like that all through elementary school. Makes you a nice, bright easy target. Like life wasn't miserable enough back then. :-P
-The kid? Getting into granny's mini-van, and finding psycho freak behind the wheel and getting locked in by him? Most seriously real-world scary crap I've seen on the show. (Including the guy beating up granny earlier, by a narrow margin. That was brutal, and real-world horrific, and all the more so for being in broad daylight in both cases.) I'm not anybody's mom, but that has to have freaked the crap out of some moms out there.
-Sam's face as he's trying to convince the doctor guy he's not nuts, and what's going on with his daughter and stuff... some very good stuff in there.
-Dean! Door-kicking! Hand-to-hand combat! *glee* That's about all I have to say on that. :-)
-And then at the last minute the show turns around and just tears my freaking heart out. Or the last fifteen minutes. OMG.
-That conversation about Sam letting Dean go. Owww. Ow.
-And then the big ow. Sam standing alone in the hospital lobby very pointedly alone and in (if my memory doesn't fail) almost exactly the same stance as in IMToD, only aimed the other direction (facing left side of frame instead of right) and less beat up and more... suit-y. And Dean. OMG ow, Dean. Walking away down a darkening hallway. Ow ow ow ow. And that moment is IMToD all over, with Sam weeping like a child outside Dean's hospital room as he watches them resuscitate Dean, and Dean is facing his reaper down for the first time. Only Sam's not openly weeping and Dean's not invisible and the reaper's something else entirely and I think I was going somewhere with that but it kind of got away with me. *scratches head* Does any of that make sense?
-Dean has the fugliest yellow blanket ever. That thing's so loud, it'd keep a person awake.
-And then of course Sam does what he does. And I lose my mind. Here's a direct transcript of the first part of that: "Sam... WTF Sam? What? NONONONONONONONONONO! Dude! Don't do it, moron! Throw the box away! OMG you idiot. Oh wait, maybe it won't work because he's- aw damn."
-RED3 is cute in an evil sort of way. I still like RED1 best of the three, I think.
-Sam is so intense in this bit, and kind of chilling, actually. Well done Jared.
-I wonder... I've heard that Kripke's policy is to keep the knowledge the actors have limited to what their characters would know about as much as possible. How cool would it be if Jensen wasn't given the last fifteen minutes of script and had no idea Sam went and did what he did? So very unlikely, and totally impractical. Also, Dean'll probably be sitting up wondering where the hell Sam went and grill the crap out of him when he comes back.
-Kripke would be an evil game-master is all I'm saying.
-So, right. Meanwhile back at the crossroads, Sam is being all intense and RED3 is running her mouth off about Dean. And totally not cute at all.
-Of course RED is only collecting for her boss. And there's only one RED, sure. And killing her won't end Dean's deal. Knew it all along. Yeah... *scribbles out some notes and makes new ones*
-Now, as RED started running down Dean, and going on about how Sam really wants Dean out of his life or whatever, here is a second transcript of me losing my mind some more: "Ooo, step off, RED. Shut up, cow! Shoot her! Shoot her anyway! SHOOT HER! Thank you... uh... HOLY CRAP, SAM!!!"
-That sound you heard? That was the sound of about a thousand fics getting Kripke'd. Or going AU. Including one of mine but I think I can retcon the hell out of it in advance.
In summary: Build your houses out of bricks. Sam can't draw people. PIE IS EVIL! Don't kiss the frog. Don't assume the helpful guy in the parking lot is safe. Don't assume a familiar vehicle contains a familiar person. Don't read freaky crap to your comatose loved ones. Don't tell people to let you go; it makes them hold on harder. Don't trash talk a Winchester to his brother while he's holding a weapon that will kill you. And RED's dead, baby. RED's dead.
ETA: As a sign of how successfully unspoiled I was for this ep, I had no idea RED3 was Sandy, Jared's girlfriend Sandy, McCoy. *considers* I thought she was very effective at being an antagonistic character and my desire to see the character shot was brought on entirely by the effectiveness of her playing the RED snide, "poke the oozing wound" monolog, a making it entirely believeable to me that Sam would be sufficiently motivated to shoot her, so I think she did quite well. *nods*
Belated theory... Anyone get the sudden vague feeling that Sam is actually technically RED's boss, and that he already has Dean's soul if he steps up to the 'boss of the demons' plate?
NO SPOILERS FOR UNAIRED EPISODES, PLEASE!!!
Reaction to Episode 3.05
"Bedtime Stories"
First and foremost and entirely unrelated to the episode, I would like to say that 8 hour VHS tapes freaking suck. The tape is wound on the reels so tight that the VCR figures the tape has jammed and completely shuts down without warning. I'm glad I was home to convince the VCR to suck it up and soldier, or I would have missed taping the latter third of the episode, and that would have been a very serious crime indeed.
So, on with the episode.
-I'm really glad I remembered to not watch the previously. Though even with my eyes mostly shut only seeing the bottom strip of the screen and my fingers in my ears and going "lalalalalalala", I caught enough to know the Colt and RED would be involved somewhere. Darn it, previouslies!
-Good god I love the premise! Brothers Grimm original stories are seriously. Messed. Up. Not for kids. At all. I even love the kitsch, nearly over-the-top way it was done. On second watch I'm surprised I didn't catch on sooner than I did. 'Once upon a time Estates' was it?
-You all caught that the one builder guy had a thing for bricks, the other one had a thing for wood, and the third one had... a drink with a straw in it. Hee. Too damn cute. I guess it would have been pushing it to make the straw guy be more into interior design and have an obsession with Tatami mats.
-Ooo! The guy with the brick obsession screams well! They've lucked out on screamers so far this year, between Grossman, the nun, and now this guy.
-Shouty fight between the boys over the deal! I love that fight. I love it like I love breathing. *sigh*
-Another reuse of driving shot! That one was from... dammit. I am sucking at the driving screencap location thing this season. Somewhere in early season one I think. I know exactly where it is in one fanvid. I am actually really glad they're finding ways to cut costs like that, although now that I think of it I want to go back and check to see if they remembered to change the plates, but I'm scared my frigging stupid 8-hour tape will explode or something. Meh. Anyway, yay for cost-cutting!
-Hehehe, sketch artist Sammy and his sausage-limbed big bad wolf perp drawing are too damned cute for words. It's such a good thing the brick guy is so easy-going. And has a head wound. And is probably on some good drugs. *nods*
-"Well, uh, see... I got nuthin'" Poor stumped Sammy. *pats*
-When the guy and girl come out of the woods and see the cottage in the woods, that's when I caught on to the Grimms' tales premise, so I was slow on the uptake on that tonight.
-It is so awesome that the house actually had a bit of "gingerbreading" up at the peak! The set design people rock hardcore! :-D
-YAY!!! PSYCHO SWEET OLD LADY WITH DRUGGED PIES AND SHARP OBJECTS!!! All sweet old ladies were once pre-adolescent girls. It's a known, scientifically proven fact. *nods*
-The actress playing the old lady looks like she's having a hell of a pile of fun with it. I like her!
-And there's a creepy pre-adolescent girl too! Bonus!
-At about 15 minutes in I noted down my guess for the end. I guessed 'girl in a coma and a kiss will set her free'. *wibble*
-I like those suits. I like that they re-use those suits. I think those are the same suits? I love the wardrobe continuity in this show!!!! I always have, right from the beginning.
-Frog!!! Giant belching frog! Hee.
-Sam knowing Disney movies inside and out. Someone wrote a fic somewhere where Jess had had an obsession with Disney movies or something and Sam picked up the habit while in college. I swear I've read that somewhere!
-Anyone else keep saying "Don't eat the apple! Don't touch the apple! Put the apple down and walk away!" because, y'know, poison, yeah, but also because where the hell did that apple come from? That's like an apple-shaped chunk of pure ectoplasm or something! Seriously! Am I right, or am I crazy?
-Poor little Red. I had a jacket exactly like that all through elementary school. Makes you a nice, bright easy target. Like life wasn't miserable enough back then. :-P
-The kid? Getting into granny's mini-van, and finding psycho freak behind the wheel and getting locked in by him? Most seriously real-world scary crap I've seen on the show. (Including the guy beating up granny earlier, by a narrow margin. That was brutal, and real-world horrific, and all the more so for being in broad daylight in both cases.) I'm not anybody's mom, but that has to have freaked the crap out of some moms out there.
-Sam's face as he's trying to convince the doctor guy he's not nuts, and what's going on with his daughter and stuff... some very good stuff in there.
-Dean! Door-kicking! Hand-to-hand combat! *glee* That's about all I have to say on that. :-)
-And then at the last minute the show turns around and just tears my freaking heart out. Or the last fifteen minutes. OMG.
-That conversation about Sam letting Dean go. Owww. Ow.
-And then the big ow. Sam standing alone in the hospital lobby very pointedly alone and in (if my memory doesn't fail) almost exactly the same stance as in IMToD, only aimed the other direction (facing left side of frame instead of right) and less beat up and more... suit-y. And Dean. OMG ow, Dean. Walking away down a darkening hallway. Ow ow ow ow. And that moment is IMToD all over, with Sam weeping like a child outside Dean's hospital room as he watches them resuscitate Dean, and Dean is facing his reaper down for the first time. Only Sam's not openly weeping and Dean's not invisible and the reaper's something else entirely and I think I was going somewhere with that but it kind of got away with me. *scratches head* Does any of that make sense?
-Dean has the fugliest yellow blanket ever. That thing's so loud, it'd keep a person awake.
-And then of course Sam does what he does. And I lose my mind. Here's a direct transcript of the first part of that: "Sam... WTF Sam? What? NONONONONONONONONONO! Dude! Don't do it, moron! Throw the box away! OMG you idiot. Oh wait, maybe it won't work because he's- aw damn."
-RED3 is cute in an evil sort of way. I still like RED1 best of the three, I think.
-Sam is so intense in this bit, and kind of chilling, actually. Well done Jared.
-I wonder... I've heard that Kripke's policy is to keep the knowledge the actors have limited to what their characters would know about as much as possible. How cool would it be if Jensen wasn't given the last fifteen minutes of script and had no idea Sam went and did what he did? So very unlikely, and totally impractical. Also, Dean'll probably be sitting up wondering where the hell Sam went and grill the crap out of him when he comes back.
-Kripke would be an evil game-master is all I'm saying.
-So, right. Meanwhile back at the crossroads, Sam is being all intense and RED3 is running her mouth off about Dean. And totally not cute at all.
-Of course RED is only collecting for her boss. And there's only one RED, sure. And killing her won't end Dean's deal. Knew it all along. Yeah... *scribbles out some notes and makes new ones*
-Now, as RED started running down Dean, and going on about how Sam really wants Dean out of his life or whatever, here is a second transcript of me losing my mind some more: "Ooo, step off, RED. Shut up, cow! Shoot her! Shoot her anyway! SHOOT HER! Thank you... uh... HOLY CRAP, SAM!!!"
-That sound you heard? That was the sound of about a thousand fics getting Kripke'd. Or going AU. Including one of mine but I think I can retcon the hell out of it in advance.
In summary: Build your houses out of bricks. Sam can't draw people. PIE IS EVIL! Don't kiss the frog. Don't assume the helpful guy in the parking lot is safe. Don't assume a familiar vehicle contains a familiar person. Don't read freaky crap to your comatose loved ones. Don't tell people to let you go; it makes them hold on harder. Don't trash talk a Winchester to his brother while he's holding a weapon that will kill you. And RED's dead, baby. RED's dead.
ETA: As a sign of how successfully unspoiled I was for this ep, I had no idea RED3 was Sandy, Jared's girlfriend Sandy, McCoy. *considers* I thought she was very effective at being an antagonistic character and my desire to see the character shot was brought on entirely by the effectiveness of her playing the RED snide, "poke the oozing wound" monolog, a making it entirely believeable to me that Sam would be sufficiently motivated to shoot her, so I think she did quite well. *nods*
Belated theory... Anyone get the sudden vague feeling that Sam is actually technically RED's boss, and that he already has Dean's soul if he steps up to the 'boss of the demons' plate?
NO SPOILERS FOR UNAIRED EPISODES, PLEASE!!!