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the_revDW crossposting now available to me! Huzzah. Was not last week for some irksome reason.
I am days late, but... Jump the Shark
I was honestly prepared for this to be a silly episode and I could not have been more wrong. Super heavy seriousnes ftw. What a great Dean episode! The writers go back and forth between Dean being made of awesome angsty win, and silly pie-eating, skirt-chasing fluff. I love both Deans, but prefer episodes where they decide to put some meat on his character!bones. This was one of those. Oh! Was it!
Can these people fuck with Dean's life any more? Is it possible? Dead mom, jerk dad, death and hell and torture and an ungrateful probable anti-christ brother? Of course they can! They can take away what little relationship he had with his father by throwing in another brother with whom John spent birthdays and probably real Christmases, and took to baseball games!
I can't hate John entirely. Having another son, another family, wholly separate from life-defining tragedy and hunting and monsters and reallyreally heartbreaking things. I can understand the appeal of that. His own little selfish corner of hope. I bet Dean can understand that too. But that doesn't make it hurt less.
They're leading up to something, those rascally writers. I think it's what I've assumed for a while now. Every season, practically every episode now, takes something from Dean, big or small. They're stripping him down, giving him fewer reasons to exist. So few loved ones, no family but Sam and Sam's slipping away, less gradually now than ever. (They're even taking his angel away next ep!) Even his memories are spoiled. Since season two he's been ready to give it all up. And now, knowing that practically everything that has gone wrong with his family and now possibly the end of the world is ALL HIS FAULT, combined with loss after loss.... Until, eventually, the only "good" ending for Dean will be death, rest, and the "better place" he keeps talking about. They're going to kill him, and they're going to expect us to be happy about it!
I don't think Sam will, though. Die, I mean. I think he'll go darkside, and Dean may even die stopping him. But as much as Padalecki seems jazzed for a Butch/Sandance style ending, I think, and I hope, that Sam survives, if only to be left behind with his sorrow and guilt. He deserves it.
(Seriously? While watching On the Head of a Pin when Sam tried to get all pushy with Castiel, all "Miracle! Now!" I was thinking: really? Do you really want him saved? Don't you really just want him out of the way, Sammy? Do you really expect me to believe that you still care that much?)
But that's probably a season away? Can they really stretch this apocalypse thing that long?
I hope Bobby comes back next week. Dean need some tough Bobby!love.
I am days late, but... Jump the Shark
I was honestly prepared for this to be a silly episode and I could not have been more wrong. Super heavy seriousnes ftw. What a great Dean episode! The writers go back and forth between Dean being made of awesome angsty win, and silly pie-eating, skirt-chasing fluff. I love both Deans, but prefer episodes where they decide to put some meat on his character!bones. This was one of those. Oh! Was it!
Can these people fuck with Dean's life any more? Is it possible? Dead mom, jerk dad, death and hell and torture and an ungrateful probable anti-christ brother? Of course they can! They can take away what little relationship he had with his father by throwing in another brother with whom John spent birthdays and probably real Christmases, and took to baseball games!
I can't hate John entirely. Having another son, another family, wholly separate from life-defining tragedy and hunting and monsters and reallyreally heartbreaking things. I can understand the appeal of that. His own little selfish corner of hope. I bet Dean can understand that too. But that doesn't make it hurt less.
They're leading up to something, those rascally writers. I think it's what I've assumed for a while now. Every season, practically every episode now, takes something from Dean, big or small. They're stripping him down, giving him fewer reasons to exist. So few loved ones, no family but Sam and Sam's slipping away, less gradually now than ever. (They're even taking his angel away next ep!) Even his memories are spoiled. Since season two he's been ready to give it all up. And now, knowing that practically everything that has gone wrong with his family and now possibly the end of the world is ALL HIS FAULT, combined with loss after loss.... Until, eventually, the only "good" ending for Dean will be death, rest, and the "better place" he keeps talking about. They're going to kill him, and they're going to expect us to be happy about it!
I don't think Sam will, though. Die, I mean. I think he'll go darkside, and Dean may even die stopping him. But as much as Padalecki seems jazzed for a Butch/Sandance style ending, I think, and I hope, that Sam survives, if only to be left behind with his sorrow and guilt. He deserves it.
(Seriously? While watching On the Head of a Pin when Sam tried to get all pushy with Castiel, all "Miracle! Now!" I was thinking: really? Do you really want him saved? Don't you really just want him out of the way, Sammy? Do you really expect me to believe that you still care that much?)
But that's probably a season away? Can they really stretch this apocalypse thing that long?
I hope Bobby comes back next week. Dean need some tough Bobby!love.
