there will be a cut tag (SPN 4x01)
0. It was joyous and comforting to be back in marinarusalka's living room with her and eowyns, watching Supernatural. Now I'm home after my crazy summer of traveling. :)
1. Holy fuck, Jensen Ackles is pretty. I mean, I knew this, but damn. Dean looked fucking amazing after clawing his way to the surface. (Great setting, too -- I liked the gravesite and the gas station.) It was all I could do to not wave madly at the screen and shout, "Hi, Jensen, hi!" and "Dean Dean Dean Dean Dean Dean Dean..." Christ, was it good to have Dean Winchester back on marinarusalka's television screen. I really liked that whole opening sequence. It felt... actually suspenseful, drawn out just enough to get you going "what the hell" along with Dean, and evoking a subtly disturbing feeling of desolation. Coming back to life is scary, scary business, and few people would know that more than Dean. Which is of course why he needs the comfort of Busty Asian Beauties. Hee! Oh, and also -- Dean hot-wiring a car? Hot. I love competent Dean.
2. Bobby! How are you so consistently awesome? Is it just that Jim Beaver kicks so much ass that it covers up whatever flaws might exist in the writing for you? Or is it just that the writers and directors love you as much as I do? If someone had to pass Papa Winchester as most featured secondary character (though I do miss JDM), I'm glad it was Bobby.
3. Silver knife and holy water, okay then! It's good to know that those are pretty much the two definitive tests. I should get on that. You know, just in case.
4. Hiiiiiii, Sam. I don't trust you, looking that smooth and healthy and weirdly almost smug. And hot, of course. But, Wedge Antilles! Good choice. Boys, I love that you're such geeks. And that you love each other so damn much (amulet! ♥). Speaking of...
5. Heh. Now that we know that was Ruby (that was Ruby, right?), "Are you two, like, together?" takes on an even more amusing and bitter cast. I gotta say, miss Katie Cassidy. Jury's not out on the new girl yet, because I thought she was pretty before I knew she was Ruby, but she wasn't really compelling in any way. But you know, first ep. We'll see. At least the Sam/Ruby 'shippers have more to work with now, always fun.
6. Impala! Good choice for whatever it was Sam was playing (technosage says Jason Manns, who's a friend of Jensen's, I believe), very not-Dean. And I bet she did miss you, Dean.
7. Man, I wish Pamela the psychic had had time for a nice threesome before getting her eyes burned out. She was hot. Maybe it's still in the cards? Hurt/comfort, anyone? ("You are not invited!" may actually be my favorite line of the episode. Jensen looked so gleeful as he said it, too!) I do miss Missouri, though. Bobby mentioned a psychic and I had a brief yearning for it to be her, but of course it wasn't. Mrph.
8. I liked how creeped-out the rank-and-file demons were by the whole Dean getting pulled out of hell thing. And how upset Sam was at just leaving them (so not shocked he went back to take care of them). Incidentally, didn't Sam say he followed Lilith to Illinois? So where is she, I wonder. I hope that turns into something interesting later in the season.
9. Ah, there we go. Powers, excellent. Sam drifting dark, seduced by power, is one of my favorite Sams. Like a flawed Greek hero, full of hubris and snap judgments and good intentions.
10. Castiel is seriously gorgeous. All not quite human, not quite light, barely contained power and clean-cut good looks, kind of like a cross between The West Wing's Sam Seaborn (those pretty puppy-dog eyes eowyns exclaimed over on the way home) and Dark Angel's Ames White (who sometimes beats out Alec for my favorite character on that show, and that's saying something; he's second season's big bad, and I can't seem to look at anything else if he's onscreen). So fucking hot. And if he's really an angel, I have high hopes of him being the kind of angel I like best -- full of force and with an implacable edge sheathed over the compassion, or, you know, possibly fallen to one degree or another. The scary kind. *shiver* Mmmmm.
11. I hope Dean buys some sunglasses and wears them at night. I worry about him -- I'm pretty sure being one of god's chosen soldiers is going to be a lot less fun in Supernatural than in The Blues Brothers.
12. I love you, show. I was a little afraid we were drifting apart last season, but if you keep going like this, we should be back to near-unalloyed adoration and glee in no time.
1. Holy fuck, Jensen Ackles is pretty. I mean, I knew this, but damn. Dean looked fucking amazing after clawing his way to the surface. (Great setting, too -- I liked the gravesite and the gas station.) It was all I could do to not wave madly at the screen and shout, "Hi, Jensen, hi!" and "Dean Dean Dean Dean Dean Dean Dean..." Christ, was it good to have Dean Winchester back on marinarusalka's television screen. I really liked that whole opening sequence. It felt... actually suspenseful, drawn out just enough to get you going "what the hell" along with Dean, and evoking a subtly disturbing feeling of desolation. Coming back to life is scary, scary business, and few people would know that more than Dean. Which is of course why he needs the comfort of Busty Asian Beauties. Hee! Oh, and also -- Dean hot-wiring a car? Hot. I love competent Dean.
2. Bobby! How are you so consistently awesome? Is it just that Jim Beaver kicks so much ass that it covers up whatever flaws might exist in the writing for you? Or is it just that the writers and directors love you as much as I do? If someone had to pass Papa Winchester as most featured secondary character (though I do miss JDM), I'm glad it was Bobby.
3. Silver knife and holy water, okay then! It's good to know that those are pretty much the two definitive tests. I should get on that. You know, just in case.
4. Hiiiiiii, Sam. I don't trust you, looking that smooth and healthy and weirdly almost smug. And hot, of course. But, Wedge Antilles! Good choice. Boys, I love that you're such geeks. And that you love each other so damn much (amulet! ♥). Speaking of...
5. Heh. Now that we know that was Ruby (that was Ruby, right?), "Are you two, like, together?" takes on an even more amusing and bitter cast. I gotta say, miss Katie Cassidy. Jury's not out on the new girl yet, because I thought she was pretty before I knew she was Ruby, but she wasn't really compelling in any way. But you know, first ep. We'll see. At least the Sam/Ruby 'shippers have more to work with now, always fun.
6. Impala! Good choice for whatever it was Sam was playing (technosage says Jason Manns, who's a friend of Jensen's, I believe), very not-Dean. And I bet she did miss you, Dean.
7. Man, I wish Pamela the psychic had had time for a nice threesome before getting her eyes burned out. She was hot. Maybe it's still in the cards? Hurt/comfort, anyone? ("You are not invited!" may actually be my favorite line of the episode. Jensen looked so gleeful as he said it, too!) I do miss Missouri, though. Bobby mentioned a psychic and I had a brief yearning for it to be her, but of course it wasn't. Mrph.
8. I liked how creeped-out the rank-and-file demons were by the whole Dean getting pulled out of hell thing. And how upset Sam was at just leaving them (so not shocked he went back to take care of them). Incidentally, didn't Sam say he followed Lilith to Illinois? So where is she, I wonder. I hope that turns into something interesting later in the season.
9. Ah, there we go. Powers, excellent. Sam drifting dark, seduced by power, is one of my favorite Sams. Like a flawed Greek hero, full of hubris and snap judgments and good intentions.
10. Castiel is seriously gorgeous. All not quite human, not quite light, barely contained power and clean-cut good looks, kind of like a cross between The West Wing's Sam Seaborn (those pretty puppy-dog eyes eowyns exclaimed over on the way home) and Dark Angel's Ames White (who sometimes beats out Alec for my favorite character on that show, and that's saying something; he's second season's big bad, and I can't seem to look at anything else if he's onscreen). So fucking hot. And if he's really an angel, I have high hopes of him being the kind of angel I like best -- full of force and with an implacable edge sheathed over the compassion, or, you know, possibly fallen to one degree or another. The scary kind. *shiver* Mmmmm.
11. I hope Dean buys some sunglasses and wears them at night. I worry about him -- I'm pretty sure being one of god's chosen soldiers is going to be a lot less fun in Supernatural than in The Blues Brothers.
12. I love you, show. I was a little afraid we were drifting apart last season, but if you keep going like this, we should be back to near-unalloyed adoration and glee in no time.