last night's SPN
I never want to have to go through an ep like that alone again. *still all teary* I knew there was a certain amount of doom in place as soon as the concept of hearts being ripped out was introduced. I did not, however, expect mine to be one of the ones removed by the end of the ep. JP's delivery of "Just wait here" and Sam's little face at Dean and Dean's one tear and OMG HOW COULD THEY GIVE US AN ENDING THAT OVERSHADOWED SAM GETTING NAKED AND LAID LIKE THAT?
I've noticed a trend with this show: with the exception of "Tall Tales," the cuter and dorkier the boys are, the more traumatic the ep itself will be. Even the little touch of having Madison wearing Sam's shirt in her last scene...holy god. This show is so relentless. They at least confirmed that Sam has not asked something of Dean that he (Sam) couldn't do when asked. No, it's not the same to kill a one-night stand as it is to kill your brother. The parallel is there, though.The thing that scares me is that I don't remember if Sam extracted a promise from Dean that, after killing Sam (in that hypothetical Unfixable!Evil scenario), Dean won't turn the gun on himself. Because it will be that smooth and that simple and probably the only real moment of serenity Dean would have in that situation. Or maybe Sam knows that will be a little too much to ask.
But I need to step away from the emo for a second. Let us return to Sam. Naked. And having Teh Seks. That boy's body is made of GUH. Why did so much of it have to be shot so tight? I wanted more skin! More shots of how his hand was bigger than her whole back! More of the delightfully non-traditional-for-network-TV sex positions! And, having watched enough outtakes and interviews, I gotta wonder how many times JP got the giggles while filming the porny bits.
I liked Madison (and, man, another lucky broad who's had the opportunity to make out with multiple CW hotties and get paid for it) but I officially ♥ed her for dumping her complete underwear collection on the table in front of Sam and, later, for reading him the riot act about why she would be getting to watch Her Show. I was not at all surprised that Sam got totally caught up in the soap. I imagine both those boys can get completely transfixed by the most mundane things. Plus? It was that little touch of being at home with a girl that loosened him up -- Sam knows his way around that territory although it's been a while since he visited it. *cuddles*
Dean rocked so damned hard in this ep. He's at his best when we get to see him be The Older Brother, a dorktastic horndog, and a completely professional killer all at once. I have a special place in my heart for him always choosing scissors, btw. I don't think he did it solely so that Sam could hang out with Madison -- I think he is much like me (A Simple People) and a fairly hopeless creature of habit when it comes to some stuff. This is WONDERFUL. I adore having sweetly goofy aspects to a character who really does know his shit so well, he can take in a strip show while staking out a dude. Ditto his utter lack of subtlety when it comes to bowing out of a situation. d;jklflaj That fist-pump of victory was pure AWESOME. The emo stuff aside, you can absolutely see how Sam and Dean have the ability to drive each other so exquisitely bugfuck in a brotherly, dudeful way.
As I play this ep backwards in my head, I like the bittersweet contrast of Dean's initial excitement about hunting a werewolf and his later glimpse into the fact that not all of the monsters they hunt are just monsters. That said? The show gives us this information without making the boys have reason to doubt what they do is right. They may, like Sam did, have moments where they doubt whether they can do what has to be done, but they don't doubt the rightness of what they do. And, yeah, I'm even thinking of the Lenore ep here. They do have reason to think about what they're killing and whether other options exist, but hunting itself? Is not a bad thing. I very much appreciate not having this show bog down in moral quagmires about its basic premise which, in lesser hands, it could totally do.
Finally, nice touch of continuity in only having Sam go to the morgue. Dean's still not in the clear to be able to safely bullshit his way into situations where there's a high probability that he'll be recognized. Even Sam's taking a chance, but a lesser one. The only downside to this is that very few things in this world are better than Dean and Sam being all squicked and horrible to each other while they deal with a body in a morgue. They've been trained enough that the visceral quality of finding someone freshly killed in the field is one thing; they're running on adrenaline and training. But when they actually have to slow down and just look at human remains in a sterile, non-hunting environment? We get gag reflexes and Silence of the Lambs references. \o/ I adore that so much.
All right. I have RL stuff to do, then a newsletter to code. I'll catch y'all later. Cheers!
I've noticed a trend with this show: with the exception of "Tall Tales," the cuter and dorkier the boys are, the more traumatic the ep itself will be. Even the little touch of having Madison wearing Sam's shirt in her last scene...holy god. This show is so relentless. They at least confirmed that Sam has not asked something of Dean that he (Sam) couldn't do when asked. No, it's not the same to kill a one-night stand as it is to kill your brother. The parallel is there, though.The thing that scares me is that I don't remember if Sam extracted a promise from Dean that, after killing Sam (in that hypothetical Unfixable!Evil scenario), Dean won't turn the gun on himself. Because it will be that smooth and that simple and probably the only real moment of serenity Dean would have in that situation. Or maybe Sam knows that will be a little too much to ask.
But I need to step away from the emo for a second. Let us return to Sam. Naked. And having Teh Seks. That boy's body is made of GUH. Why did so much of it have to be shot so tight? I wanted more skin! More shots of how his hand was bigger than her whole back! More of the delightfully non-traditional-for-network-TV sex positions! And, having watched enough outtakes and interviews, I gotta wonder how many times JP got the giggles while filming the porny bits.
I liked Madison (and, man, another lucky broad who's had the opportunity to make out with multiple CW hotties and get paid for it) but I officially ♥ed her for dumping her complete underwear collection on the table in front of Sam and, later, for reading him the riot act about why she would be getting to watch Her Show. I was not at all surprised that Sam got totally caught up in the soap. I imagine both those boys can get completely transfixed by the most mundane things. Plus? It was that little touch of being at home with a girl that loosened him up -- Sam knows his way around that territory although it's been a while since he visited it. *cuddles*
Dean rocked so damned hard in this ep. He's at his best when we get to see him be The Older Brother, a dorktastic horndog, and a completely professional killer all at once. I have a special place in my heart for him always choosing scissors, btw. I don't think he did it solely so that Sam could hang out with Madison -- I think he is much like me (A Simple People) and a fairly hopeless creature of habit when it comes to some stuff. This is WONDERFUL. I adore having sweetly goofy aspects to a character who really does know his shit so well, he can take in a strip show while staking out a dude. Ditto his utter lack of subtlety when it comes to bowing out of a situation. d;jklflaj That fist-pump of victory was pure AWESOME. The emo stuff aside, you can absolutely see how Sam and Dean have the ability to drive each other so exquisitely bugfuck in a brotherly, dudeful way.
As I play this ep backwards in my head, I like the bittersweet contrast of Dean's initial excitement about hunting a werewolf and his later glimpse into the fact that not all of the monsters they hunt are just monsters. That said? The show gives us this information without making the boys have reason to doubt what they do is right. They may, like Sam did, have moments where they doubt whether they can do what has to be done, but they don't doubt the rightness of what they do. And, yeah, I'm even thinking of the Lenore ep here. They do have reason to think about what they're killing and whether other options exist, but hunting itself? Is not a bad thing. I very much appreciate not having this show bog down in moral quagmires about its basic premise which, in lesser hands, it could totally do.
Finally, nice touch of continuity in only having Sam go to the morgue. Dean's still not in the clear to be able to safely bullshit his way into situations where there's a high probability that he'll be recognized. Even Sam's taking a chance, but a lesser one. The only downside to this is that very few things in this world are better than Dean and Sam being all squicked and horrible to each other while they deal with a body in a morgue. They've been trained enough that the visceral quality of finding someone freshly killed in the field is one thing; they're running on adrenaline and training. But when they actually have to slow down and just look at human remains in a sterile, non-hunting environment? We get gag reflexes and Silence of the Lambs references. \o/ I adore that so much.
All right. I have RL stuff to do, then a newsletter to code. I'll catch y'all later. Cheers!