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hells_half_acre

Quick Reaction: 15x17 Unity

Oct 29, 2020 23:05

Hello!!!

Jumping right in, because it's once again already 11pm, and I'm already tired.. this working until 7pm, having dinner, watching the show, and then writing it up, isn't easy to pull off every week - but I have a TRADITION DAMN IT.

Episode....

( I was obsessed with fractals )

season 15, quick reaction

Comments 6

borgmama1of5 October 30 2020, 07:32:08 UTC

The title cards confused the heck out of me--when the first one for Amara showed up I thought someone had made an error in the editing and left in a marker for her scene to go there. In talking with Sandy we wondered, because Chuck was actually 'writing' the events of this episode, if the title cards were meant to be nods to his chapters ( ... )

hells_half_acre October 30 2020, 07:53:20 UTC

Yeah, so the title cards were definitely to explain why the events weren't necessarily happening in order. It's a device they've used before (and other media has used - such as Reservoir Dogs). Basically, Amara and Chuck WEREN'T in the Bunker that long - we just saw their part of the story before we saw Sam and Dean's part of the story. They arrived while Sam was in Death's library ( ... )

missyjack October 31 2020, 02:46:19 UTC

I loved the return of Chekov's key! I mean they coulda chucked a line in saying "hey we never found that key even though we looked for it, lets try again" coz its not believable that they wouldnt have!

I love that we don't know how much of Dean's actions is him, and how much is what Chuck is writing. I also wish someone would point out that even without Chuck, there are going to be structural forces that impact and constrain Deans life. Maybe after all this Sam can go back to college and study some Marx.

Also in a nice bit of continuity, Crowley back in S10 had mentioned that the fruit in Eden was a quince!

hells_half_acre November 6 2020, 08:23:31 UTC

Maybe after all this Sam can go back to college and study some Marx.

In 'Merica?! Unlikely :P

Also in a nice bit of continuity, Crowley back in S10 had mentioned that the fruit in Eden was a quince!

Nice! I had forgotten about that! I probably made the exact same comment about the mistranslation then too.

kailita November 2 2020, 06:05:50 UTC

I appreciate this tradition, because MY tradition is to immediately go to your Quick Reaction after I finish an episode. :) I don’t always comment (sometimes my positives don’t balance out my negatives), but I always read ( ... )

hells_half_acre November 6 2020, 08:21:53 UTC

Yay for traditions! (And thanks for abiding by my positivity rule ;) )

Chuck also has his part to play in setting up these scenarios, but I don’t think he’s determining their actions. He has some level of omniscience...knowing how characters will respond if he pushes them into the right situations...but their actual actions are still their choice.

Yeah, I think that counts as manipulation though - like, if you know someone well enough, you really can just push them into all sorts of behaviour, because you know exactly how to do it... at which point, yes, they're making the choices (as Dean does here when he eventually stands down), but at the same time, you've made it VERY HARD for them to make the right choices.

I found it veryyyyyyyyy interesting that Sam didn’t have a whole long list of all the things Dean has protected him from, he just went straight for LUCIFER and DAD. You know, the (equally?) BIG ONES. Stab me in the heart.I KNOW! I was like "yikes!" because you know Sam's made peace with John at this point, but to be ( ... )