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three oh six, red sky at morning
Dude, it's Thursday in the p.m. You think this is going to be about anything other than Supernatural?
To get the icky out of the way - gratuitous shower scene = FAIL. Even worse than gratuitous shower scene? Woman lingering in said shower with mouth hanging open in the spray (and subsequent inevitable not-so-subtle spitting) b/c apparently it is teh sexy thing to do in showers except WHO DOES THAT REALLY? No really. Show of hands. Do you enjoy choking in the shower? No wonder she drowned. ARGH.
Anyway. Other than that, I did like it, even if apart from the scenes in the car, it felt a teeny bit like some other show. Not a bad show, mind, but not exactly Supernatural either. I don't know, maybe I'm crazy. I laughed, and I liked Bela, and it made sense within the story for her to feature so prominently, but I have to say I hope she goes away for a few episodes now and that when she returns she gets way less screentime, because while I enjoy recurring characters the show is SAM AND DEAN THAT IS WHY I WATCH IT K? K.
OK now the car scenes. But wait first, the ghosts. Because there were two, and they were brothers, and one was all angsty and vengeful because his brother killed him but wait the other brother only did it because he had to and I am terrified to imagine the possible foreshadowing implications!
OK now really car scenes. Which I actually have nothing to say about except - oh BOYS. I like that the deal is hanging over them in every episode so far - that it's not just being dropped to be brought up again when the plot calls for it - because it's showing, in a totally painful and angsty way, just what the deal is doing to them.
Sam, obviously, is losing it in a very scarily controlled sort of way, because how much Dean loves Sam (i.e. enough to sell his soul) is how much Sam loves Dean, and it's not even letting go of Dean as much as knowing what's coming for him in the dark. And how why couldn't Dean have just understood that it would've been better for Sam to stay dead, which would at least have been a normal human kind of dead. And the only thing that would maybe help at all is Dean talking to him, listening to him, but Dean is so completely incapable of that right now and so instead Sam just goes further down the path of kinda nuts and a little scary. His FACE at the end, god, when Dean just shut the conversation down, it killed me dead. He could handle this if they were in it together like they've always been in everything together, but he's completely alone (except for the Ruby on his shoulder, whispering things about bystanders and acceptable losses) and it is taking a frightening toll.
And Dean. Who, no, is not nearly so okay with his fate as he pretends to be - he loses his grip on that facade for a minute there when he asks Sam whether it had worked. I think the apology at the end was heartfelt, if clumsy, but even that's about Sam, not him. And he can't give Sam what he wants - and not just because he's afraid of breaking the terms of the deal, but even more, I believe, because if he lets himself think about how he actually feels he will COMPLETELY LOSE IT. (I mean BOTH of them are total walking PTSD cases as it is. And, yeah, damaged, very.)
There's no middle place for them to meet on this, and it's just going to get worse. And it's going to hurt to watch - but in that totally awesome way.
And okay I totally lied, I had way too much to say about those scenes after all. Supernatural, why do you make me go so tl;dr?
To get the icky out of the way - gratuitous shower scene = FAIL. Even worse than gratuitous shower scene? Woman lingering in said shower with mouth hanging open in the spray (and subsequent inevitable not-so-subtle spitting) b/c apparently it is teh sexy thing to do in showers except WHO DOES THAT REALLY? No really. Show of hands. Do you enjoy choking in the shower? No wonder she drowned. ARGH.
Anyway. Other than that, I did like it, even if apart from the scenes in the car, it felt a teeny bit like some other show. Not a bad show, mind, but not exactly Supernatural either. I don't know, maybe I'm crazy. I laughed, and I liked Bela, and it made sense within the story for her to feature so prominently, but I have to say I hope she goes away for a few episodes now and that when she returns she gets way less screentime, because while I enjoy recurring characters the show is SAM AND DEAN THAT IS WHY I WATCH IT K? K.
OK now the car scenes. But wait first, the ghosts. Because there were two, and they were brothers, and one was all angsty and vengeful because his brother killed him but wait the other brother only did it because he had to and I am terrified to imagine the possible foreshadowing implications!
OK now really car scenes. Which I actually have nothing to say about except - oh BOYS. I like that the deal is hanging over them in every episode so far - that it's not just being dropped to be brought up again when the plot calls for it - because it's showing, in a totally painful and angsty way, just what the deal is doing to them.
Sam, obviously, is losing it in a very scarily controlled sort of way, because how much Dean loves Sam (i.e. enough to sell his soul) is how much Sam loves Dean, and it's not even letting go of Dean as much as knowing what's coming for him in the dark. And how why couldn't Dean have just understood that it would've been better for Sam to stay dead, which would at least have been a normal human kind of dead. And the only thing that would maybe help at all is Dean talking to him, listening to him, but Dean is so completely incapable of that right now and so instead Sam just goes further down the path of kinda nuts and a little scary. His FACE at the end, god, when Dean just shut the conversation down, it killed me dead. He could handle this if they were in it together like they've always been in everything together, but he's completely alone (except for the Ruby on his shoulder, whispering things about bystanders and acceptable losses) and it is taking a frightening toll.
And Dean. Who, no, is not nearly so okay with his fate as he pretends to be - he loses his grip on that facade for a minute there when he asks Sam whether it had worked. I think the apology at the end was heartfelt, if clumsy, but even that's about Sam, not him. And he can't give Sam what he wants - and not just because he's afraid of breaking the terms of the deal, but even more, I believe, because if he lets himself think about how he actually feels he will COMPLETELY LOSE IT. (I mean BOTH of them are total walking PTSD cases as it is. And, yeah, damaged, very.)
There's no middle place for them to meet on this, and it's just going to get worse. And it's going to hurt to watch - but in that totally awesome way.
And okay I totally lied, I had way too much to say about those scenes after all. Supernatural, why do you make me go so tl;dr?