SPN!
First of all, YAY WE ARE HOME SAFE! lazy-daze and I are, I mean! And of course our first order of business after a grueling 12 hours of driving was to download and watch the SPN episode we missed while camping. I don't think I did a proper reaction for the episode last week either (which I watched at Wincon!) so I will just mention what I remember of that one here, too.
WELL SO. I know there is a lot of garment-rending and teeth gnashing over Sam's desire for a normal life. I was legit almost teary when Dean told him the only thing he ever wanted was to be hunting next to Sam for the rest of his life and Sam was like ...nah. BUT! Here's the thing. After the first episode I was convinced they'd just fucked everything to hell and Sam was being written terribly and everything was ruined. AND NOW I AM NOT. Maybe it's just the magical healing powers of Wincon, but I am starting to have faith that they are going to fix this somehow. The scene at the end of the episode with Amelia and the dog in soft focus in the EMPTY park with the perfect picnic screamed false memory to me. It was so reminiscent of Dean's vision of Lisa in Dream A Little Dream of Me. I am convinced something weird is going on. And if it's not, honestly, that's okay too -- I have this strange welling up of hope that even if Sam really does want out of the life right now, he will figure out later that that's wrong and Dean has been where it's at the whole time. Every other season ends that way! I hate it and hate it and hate it and then BAM at the end it was all about Sam and Dean's love the whole time.
THEN THERE WAS THIS WEEK'S EP. Um. UM. Guys, I'm sorry, I love werewolves more than anything else in the world but I was SO BORED. Besides the occasional workplace romance comment and the spectacular Kripkeing of my Big Bang from year before last re: alpha werewolves and early generations, this was not a riveting episode for me. Tons of poor overacting, completely senseless decisions (WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY NOT HUNTING HER DOWN ALL OF A SUDDEN WHEN SAM HAD TO SHOOT MADISON IN THE FACE. THIS IS SO DUMB. JUST BECAUSE THERE'S SOME MEASURE OF CONTROL IN THE CLOSER RELATIVES OF THE ALPHA DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE NOT GOING TO KILL PEOPLE, THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT), and totally unnecessary scenes. I liked Michael's skinny jeans. Kate was gorgeous. BUT NO ONE LEARNS LORD OF THE FLIES IN COLLEGE, SORRY. That pretty much sums that up. Not enough Sam and Dean. Although lol that Dean awkwardly asked Sam if the "awesome" thing was true but neither of them even acknowledged the office romance thing.
So yeah. On the bright side, last week I inexplicably started looking forward to watching SPN every week again, but then this week they totally dropped the ball. Who knows if my trust and optimism will hold out another week, hahaha!
WELL SO. I know there is a lot of garment-rending and teeth gnashing over Sam's desire for a normal life. I was legit almost teary when Dean told him the only thing he ever wanted was to be hunting next to Sam for the rest of his life and Sam was like ...nah. BUT! Here's the thing. After the first episode I was convinced they'd just fucked everything to hell and Sam was being written terribly and everything was ruined. AND NOW I AM NOT. Maybe it's just the magical healing powers of Wincon, but I am starting to have faith that they are going to fix this somehow. The scene at the end of the episode with Amelia and the dog in soft focus in the EMPTY park with the perfect picnic screamed false memory to me. It was so reminiscent of Dean's vision of Lisa in Dream A Little Dream of Me. I am convinced something weird is going on. And if it's not, honestly, that's okay too -- I have this strange welling up of hope that even if Sam really does want out of the life right now, he will figure out later that that's wrong and Dean has been where it's at the whole time. Every other season ends that way! I hate it and hate it and hate it and then BAM at the end it was all about Sam and Dean's love the whole time.
THEN THERE WAS THIS WEEK'S EP. Um. UM. Guys, I'm sorry, I love werewolves more than anything else in the world but I was SO BORED. Besides the occasional workplace romance comment and the spectacular Kripkeing of my Big Bang from year before last re: alpha werewolves and early generations, this was not a riveting episode for me. Tons of poor overacting, completely senseless decisions (WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY NOT HUNTING HER DOWN ALL OF A SUDDEN WHEN SAM HAD TO SHOOT MADISON IN THE FACE. THIS IS SO DUMB. JUST BECAUSE THERE'S SOME MEASURE OF CONTROL IN THE CLOSER RELATIVES OF THE ALPHA DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE NOT GOING TO KILL PEOPLE, THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT), and totally unnecessary scenes. I liked Michael's skinny jeans. Kate was gorgeous. BUT NO ONE LEARNS LORD OF THE FLIES IN COLLEGE, SORRY. That pretty much sums that up. Not enough Sam and Dean. Although lol that Dean awkwardly asked Sam if the "awesome" thing was true but neither of them even acknowledged the office romance thing.
So yeah. On the bright side, last week I inexplicably started looking forward to watching SPN every week again, but then this week they totally dropped the ball. Who knows if my trust and optimism will hold out another week, hahaha!