Favorite TV Night of the Week Probably
Oct. 15th, 2009 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielTurned into kind of thinking out loud beneath the cut. I'm tired. And have Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" stuck in my head because I had to listen to it FIVE BAZILLION TIMES over the middle school gym sound system. (I don't hate the song with a burning passion, I just want it to leave me alone for a bit.)
Supernatural - "I Believe the Children Are Our Future"
I don't really have anything of import to say, so let's just be random, 'kay?
- Very muted color palette in this one, especially noticeable when they were outside. It reminded me of looking through haze, the type we had here today because there was too much cloud cover for the general agricultural haze to lift. Or looking through the air during a dust storm.
- Sam and Dean have coordinating ties.
- It was a new experience seeing Sam and Castiel have a staring match, Dean left out in the cold this time. (Or out of the cold, depending on whether we're going to describe Castiel's intense annoyance fiery or icy.) New experience for all involved.
I can kind of see Sam turning to Dean after Castiel's left and being all, "How do you deal with that?"
And Dean shrugging in response. "I'd say you get used to it, but you really don't." Except that Dean kind of likes it. Likes the fact that he can argue with Cas like that and Cas is still going to come back. Because Cas is his buddy.
- "He's kind of a buddy of mine." You said it, Dean! Can't take it back now! You were being all truthful to the crazy powerful anti-Christ kid!
- When Sam went back to looking at Jesse's empty room, Dean stayed focused on Castiel for a while. I'm just sayin'.
- The whole argument with Sam, I kept waiting for Castiel to make the parallels between Sam and Jesse obvious. And then he did.
There are intelligent things to say about those parallels, but I'm either not smart enough or too tired to go there. Except that I enjoyed this episode and those parallels as well as the set-up for a potential return of Jesse somewhere down the road.
- I was glad they told Jesse the truth and that Sam was the one who went there, since he's the one who recognizes the place Jesse is starting from. Sam was there once, too, and he made the wrong choices and took the wrong road. Of course, I think it gets complicated by the fact that you can do what you think is right given the facts and still end up doing everything that's wrong.
We all think we're on the right side of the war. Nobody thinks they're the villain of the piece.
- Oh, Castiel's face when he was going to kill Jesse. He knew there was something wrong about what he was doing, but was going to do it anyway. (Or try at least.) And that's complicated, too, because do you go ahead and take out the threats you can before they become a real danger? Or do you go on believing in the capacity for good? And does it mean anything that Sam and Dean won't kill him because he's a child and half-human and can see the potential for the human choice there and Castiel will kill him because he can only see the half-demon part?
- Lexi from Eureka went off and had a demon baby!
- I...may have gotten a little teary when Jesse said he had to go say good-bye to his parents. And then he walked upstairs and watched them and went away. It made me sad, like Sam finding out the truth in "A Very Supernatural Christmas" and shouldering it. These kids are all forced to grow up too fast.
- Dean and all the joke shop stuff, the face-pulling. The hairy palms. The HAM. Geeez, he was just going to keep stuffing that in there, wasn't he? How does he CHEW and SWALLOW? Castiel and the whoopee cushion. "That wasn't me." Oh, Dean. You really are a twelve year old boy.
There were several moments where he actually reminded me of a younger Dean. There was a moment in the joke shop where he grinned at Sam (over the whoopee cushions) and it reminded me of freshly laid Dean in "Hollywood Babylon." These guys deserve a freaking vacation where they can relax and joke around and smile and drink a few and not feel guilty or scared or become hurt.
But since that won't happen,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sdrohc_ratiug getting into the show gives me an excuse (like I needed one) to rewatch the earlier episodes where they were slightly more carefree.
ETA: Also, Castiel came right out and said the Bible gets more wrong than it gets right. I love that they are okay saying things like that.
And Dean was al up for going to Castiel for help. Because Castiel is his buddy.
Supernatural - "I Believe the Children Are Our Future"
I don't really have anything of import to say, so let's just be random, 'kay?
- Very muted color palette in this one, especially noticeable when they were outside. It reminded me of looking through haze, the type we had here today because there was too much cloud cover for the general agricultural haze to lift. Or looking through the air during a dust storm.
- Sam and Dean have coordinating ties.
- It was a new experience seeing Sam and Castiel have a staring match, Dean left out in the cold this time. (Or out of the cold, depending on whether we're going to describe Castiel's intense annoyance fiery or icy.) New experience for all involved.
I can kind of see Sam turning to Dean after Castiel's left and being all, "How do you deal with that?"
And Dean shrugging in response. "I'd say you get used to it, but you really don't." Except that Dean kind of likes it. Likes the fact that he can argue with Cas like that and Cas is still going to come back. Because Cas is his buddy.
- "He's kind of a buddy of mine." You said it, Dean! Can't take it back now! You were being all truthful to the crazy powerful anti-Christ kid!
- When Sam went back to looking at Jesse's empty room, Dean stayed focused on Castiel for a while. I'm just sayin'.
- The whole argument with Sam, I kept waiting for Castiel to make the parallels between Sam and Jesse obvious. And then he did.
There are intelligent things to say about those parallels, but I'm either not smart enough or too tired to go there. Except that I enjoyed this episode and those parallels as well as the set-up for a potential return of Jesse somewhere down the road.
- I was glad they told Jesse the truth and that Sam was the one who went there, since he's the one who recognizes the place Jesse is starting from. Sam was there once, too, and he made the wrong choices and took the wrong road. Of course, I think it gets complicated by the fact that you can do what you think is right given the facts and still end up doing everything that's wrong.
We all think we're on the right side of the war. Nobody thinks they're the villain of the piece.
- Oh, Castiel's face when he was going to kill Jesse. He knew there was something wrong about what he was doing, but was going to do it anyway. (Or try at least.) And that's complicated, too, because do you go ahead and take out the threats you can before they become a real danger? Or do you go on believing in the capacity for good? And does it mean anything that Sam and Dean won't kill him because he's a child and half-human and can see the potential for the human choice there and Castiel will kill him because he can only see the half-demon part?
- Lexi from Eureka went off and had a demon baby!
- I...may have gotten a little teary when Jesse said he had to go say good-bye to his parents. And then he walked upstairs and watched them and went away. It made me sad, like Sam finding out the truth in "A Very Supernatural Christmas" and shouldering it. These kids are all forced to grow up too fast.
- Dean and all the joke shop stuff, the face-pulling. The hairy palms. The HAM. Geeez, he was just going to keep stuffing that in there, wasn't he? How does he CHEW and SWALLOW? Castiel and the whoopee cushion. "That wasn't me." Oh, Dean. You really are a twelve year old boy.
There were several moments where he actually reminded me of a younger Dean. There was a moment in the joke shop where he grinned at Sam (over the whoopee cushions) and it reminded me of freshly laid Dean in "Hollywood Babylon." These guys deserve a freaking vacation where they can relax and joke around and smile and drink a few and not feel guilty or scared or become hurt.
But since that won't happen,
sdrohc_ratiug getting into the show gives me an excuse (like I needed one) to rewatch the earlier episodes where they were slightly more carefree.ETA: Also, Castiel came right out and said the Bible gets more wrong than it gets right. I love that they are okay saying things like that.
And Dean was al up for going to Castiel for help. Because Castiel is his buddy.
