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hells_half_acre

Quick Reaction: 15x04 Atomic Monsters

Nov 07, 2019 22:31

It's Supernatural Thursday again! Woo!

As usual, watched while drinking and taking bad notes.... before we get going though, my review is that I really liked this episode!

Now let's talk about it...

( I wake up scared; I wake up strange... )

season 15, quick reaction

Comments 14

borgmama1of5 November 8 2019, 09:32:40 UTC

This episode was awesome!!! (Why can't they all be like this???)

-Amazing fight scene at the start! Did you see this clip of Jensen rehearsing for it? https://www.instagram.com/p/B4lJa8Jgoet/ )Jensen with rolled up sleeves, Benny (from recent interview: In it, Ackles directed himself in hand-to-hand combat and stunts, as well as a couple of key emotional moments, including bringing back “a character who’s one of my favorite characters of all time,” Ackles says. “It wasn’t even on the page. I said, ‘Can we make this character this person?’ And they were like, ‘If you can get this person - I believe they’re working right now.’ I made the call. He was literally working one day, had the next day off, so he flew in, did one scene, flew out and was working on his other project the next day.”), Scary Samifer! (Had to be Samifer, it was exactly like back in season 5 after Sam said yes)--Hints of horror to come ( ... )

borgmama1of5 November 8 2019, 09:39:57 UTC

a terrifying melgomaniac--what he did to Becky--who had a perfect character arc from her last appearance--was appalling after she helped him!!!
-The ambivalence over killing the monster, they haven't given us that in a long time, and it was classic SPN (think Madison, the rugaru, even werewolf Garth) and Jensen's music during that scene!
-The brothers being honest with each other in the end car scene even though it hurt to see Sam so broken...

Man, this episode made me SO HAPPY!

And very scared for how the use of Chuck seems so meta for how Andrew Dabb is writing the end of the show...

hells_half_acre November 8 2019, 18:19:17 UTC

I'm not worried about Chuck's ending, because he's the villain to thwart, and the boys always thwart the villain - now, mind you, they never thwart them 100%... so, while I'm confident that we're not getting Chuck's ending, I'm also sure that we're not getting Becky's ending either (assuming that Becky's ending would be one involving talking and laundry.)

But yeah, I agree with you - this was a VERY SOLID EPISODE and really in keeping with classic SPN. Everyone did a really fantastic job.

I don't even have anything to add! Haha - you summed up everything I liked about it. :)

kailita November 11 2019, 01:32:04 UTC

Thank you for the link and the behind the scenes story! I love that Jensen loves Benny.

And what a rehearsal clip. His fight choreography borders on balletic, in the best way. :)

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galatera_grass November 8 2019, 10:50:14 UTC

Мой друг задается вопросом, может быть, то, что Сэм видит в видениях, это конец, который пишет Чак ...?!

I think so too

hells_half_acre November 8 2019, 18:16:30 UTC

I have absolutely no idea what that says. It is a cipher that uses Russian? Or have you written English with the Cyrillic alphabet?

galatera_grass November 9 2019, 07:47:34 UTC

"My friend wonders if maybe what Sam sees in the visions is the ending that Chuck writes... ?!"

Therefore, I rarely comment. Just reading )))

hells_half_acre November 9 2019, 16:40:39 UTC

Oh weird! I had tried to translate it, but Google didn't recognize it as words. So, that's confusing.

kailita November 11 2019, 01:26:36 UTC

I was all in on this one. Best episode of the season by far. Probably my favorite episode since "Lebanon." (Or the episode where Sam punches Dean and then hugs him...can't remember if that one came before or after "Lebanon.") Dean's full beard and scarf go solidly in the Positives column for me. Is Sam going full vegetarian now?? We are really embracing the fanfiction here, but I'm fine with it ( ... )

hells_half_acre November 13 2019, 01:42:24 UTC

I did that thing where I thought about replying to this and then believed I had, because I had thought about it ( ... )

kailita November 11 2019, 01:29:37 UTC

Do you have any insight on the title? Besides the film Atomic Blonde...I don't know what it could be in reference to.

borgmama1of5 November 11 2019, 02:55:42 UTC

Someone suggested it referred to the idea of the 'atomic family' that became the 'norm' after WW2--mom, dad, kids. And that this atomic family were atomic monsters.

kailita November 11 2019, 02:59:29 UTC

Huh...I’ve never heard it referred to that way, I’ve only ever heard “nuclear family”...but since those are synonyms, I guess I see the connection!