Last Night's Supernatural
Apr. 23rd, 2010 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielRarr. This morning sucks and I am subbing middle school PE this afternoon (it was that or 7th grade science).
I might have fic later.
There are three episodes of season five left. I'm hiding from the rest of LJ until it's over. I don't want to know anything about the rest of the season, including how people are reacting to spoilers. Hiding from the internet in general seems the best way to do this.
Supernatural - "Hammer of the Gods"
I'm trying to have a more meaningful reaction to the episode, but I'm kind of failing. Gabriel's death was upsetting, but not surprising given the way the episode was heading (among other things). I think they lost the potential for something really great there, especially with Gabriel finally taking a stand.
But as an episode I enjoyed it.
- I think I could stick Richard Speight Jr. in my pocket. He was delightful last night. Though during the seduction scene all I could think was that he should at least take of his jacket.
- It was a Battlestar Galactica night on my TV. First James Callis on FlashForward, then Rekha Sharma in SPN. (The gods are actually Cylons, oh noes.)
- I loved Dean finding Gabriel in the back of the car and Gabriel's thing about making a copy of himself out of a can of diet orange slice. Hee. Also calling Lucifer a big bag of dicks. If I had someone I disliked, I would totally call them that but--oh. Wait. Thought of someone. Awesomesauce. (The break-in I mentioned last week? Yeah. The person we suspect.)
- Gabriel and Lucifer also got some really great non-funny lines in general. Like Lucifer's line when he sliced his hand through Baldur like a warm knife through butter. I can't remember the line itself now, but it was a good one. And Gabriel's about "no one makes us do anything." Oh, Gabriel.
I really was hoping he'd take what Dean said in "Changing Channels" to heart. I'm just sorry it had to go the way it did.
- Sam's face was killing me when Dean decided to be all "Yeah, you're all a bunch of douchecanoe dicks, let's work together."
- Lesson learned: Brother or no, you'd better be prepared to kill Lucifer because he will kill you no matter what.
- I find Lucifer's sores somewhat distracting.
- I liked that the hotel was the Elysian Fields. I had a moment of giant geekery.
- I'd say I've been waiting forever for other gods to get all "What the hell? Apocalypse?" but I've only been watching since last season. Sentiment stands though; I've been waiting. And on the one hand, yea. Even though I'm not entirely sure how it all makes sense/fits together, but that's no different than dealing with multiple belief systems outside of TV. One the other hand, I dunno. They couldn't have tried to work together more? With the Winchesters and with Gabriel, that is. Apparently age does not equal wisdom.
The violence wasn't surprising. Everyone reacts to everything with violence.
- Are those archangel swords a dime a dozen now? Can you get a good deal on them at Wal-Mart? I thought they were supposed to be, y'know, rare.
- Matt Frewer! As Pestilence! What a nice surprise! I've liked him since Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Also, totally gross. I did serious honest-to-god get-away flaily hands when he sneezed in that guys face. Blood and gore, whatever. Slimy, sticky snot? Someone get me an industrial-sized bottle of hand sanitizer.
- Oh, look! A plan that might actually work. If they can get the other two rings (Death's is the one that worries me) and lure Lucifer back in.
- That reminds me, I liked that this episode began like a Monster of the Week ep and then turned into something that fit right in with the overall season arch. As opposed to "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," which I felt was kind of, I dunno, shoe-horned in a bit. The connection to the rest of the season felt a little "Oh, by the way..."
I might have fic later.
There are three episodes of season five left. I'm hiding from the rest of LJ until it's over. I don't want to know anything about the rest of the season, including how people are reacting to spoilers. Hiding from the internet in general seems the best way to do this.
Supernatural - "Hammer of the Gods"
I'm trying to have a more meaningful reaction to the episode, but I'm kind of failing. Gabriel's death was upsetting, but not surprising given the way the episode was heading (among other things). I think they lost the potential for something really great there, especially with Gabriel finally taking a stand.
But as an episode I enjoyed it.
- I think I could stick Richard Speight Jr. in my pocket. He was delightful last night. Though during the seduction scene all I could think was that he should at least take of his jacket.
- It was a Battlestar Galactica night on my TV. First James Callis on FlashForward, then Rekha Sharma in SPN. (The gods are actually Cylons, oh noes.)
- I loved Dean finding Gabriel in the back of the car and Gabriel's thing about making a copy of himself out of a can of diet orange slice. Hee. Also calling Lucifer a big bag of dicks. If I had someone I disliked, I would totally call them that but--oh. Wait. Thought of someone. Awesomesauce. (The break-in I mentioned last week? Yeah. The person we suspect.)
- Gabriel and Lucifer also got some really great non-funny lines in general. Like Lucifer's line when he sliced his hand through Baldur like a warm knife through butter. I can't remember the line itself now, but it was a good one. And Gabriel's about "no one makes us do anything." Oh, Gabriel.
I really was hoping he'd take what Dean said in "Changing Channels" to heart. I'm just sorry it had to go the way it did.
- Sam's face was killing me when Dean decided to be all "Yeah, you're all a bunch of douchecanoe dicks, let's work together."
- Lesson learned: Brother or no, you'd better be prepared to kill Lucifer because he will kill you no matter what.
- I find Lucifer's sores somewhat distracting.
- I liked that the hotel was the Elysian Fields. I had a moment of giant geekery.
- I'd say I've been waiting forever for other gods to get all "What the hell? Apocalypse?" but I've only been watching since last season. Sentiment stands though; I've been waiting. And on the one hand, yea. Even though I'm not entirely sure how it all makes sense/fits together, but that's no different than dealing with multiple belief systems outside of TV. One the other hand, I dunno. They couldn't have tried to work together more? With the Winchesters and with Gabriel, that is. Apparently age does not equal wisdom.
The violence wasn't surprising. Everyone reacts to everything with violence.
- Are those archangel swords a dime a dozen now? Can you get a good deal on them at Wal-Mart? I thought they were supposed to be, y'know, rare.
- Matt Frewer! As Pestilence! What a nice surprise! I've liked him since Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Also, totally gross. I did serious honest-to-god get-away flaily hands when he sneezed in that guys face. Blood and gore, whatever. Slimy, sticky snot? Someone get me an industrial-sized bottle of hand sanitizer.
- Oh, look! A plan that might actually work. If they can get the other two rings (Death's is the one that worries me) and lure Lucifer back in.
- That reminds me, I liked that this episode began like a Monster of the Week ep and then turned into something that fit right in with the overall season arch. As opposed to "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," which I felt was kind of, I dunno, shoe-horned in a bit. The connection to the rest of the season felt a little "Oh, by the way..."
