Belated SPN stuff
Playing catch-up with my SPN episode musings. Various combinations of exhausted, busy, and FUCKING SPOILERS made me fall behind on the watching.
Lots of LOL in this episode. The boys were spot-on with their dialogue and interaction, and some of the lines were HILARIOUS. Didn't stop the plot itself from being boring as hell, but good snark can make any lurching plotline bearable.
Wow, I didn't realise how many people hated Bella until I went looking for episode reviews. Why all the hate? She's supposed to be a bitch, and I think she does it pretty damn well. Yeah, there's plenty of room for improvement. Not every line is a winner, she does seem to get in the boys' way just for the sake of it, there's cliché abound, and her character screams GENERICALLY BRITISH. But unlike Ruby, her actress DOESN'T annoy the shit out of me. And I dig a lot of her interaction with Sam and Dean, since it seems to lead to a non-stop barrage of snark on both sides. I'm looking forward to seeing Bella again WAY more than I'm looking forward to seeing Ruby.
Horrible death in intro? Check. Sam and Dean bitching at each other in the beginning to further the story arc? Check. More bitching at the end of the episode? Check.
"Can I shoot her?"
"Not in public."
Uh, Sam... Why don't you TRY CPR ON THE GUY? He just "drowned" about ten seconds ago. Try a little resuscitation, eh?
I figured pretty early in the episode that Bella was going to have to come begging for help when she saw the ghost ship. No points for originality, but a few points for a creative solution to the problem.
Nice CG on The Black Pearl the ghost ship. Death omens are getting showier.
They have the weirdest musical cues sometimes this season. The music when Dean came down in his tux? Uh...interesting. Still. TUX.
"When this is over we should really have angry sex." Heh. Dean's huge pause before answering? HA. Your smirk gave it away, Dean.
Tired as it is to repeat the SAME DAMN CONVERSATION every episode, it's still a big step up from last season when it comes to the boys keeping secrets (or not). Dean knew right away that Sam used the Colt, and he 'fessed up most of the details about the Crossroads Demon encounter rather than LYING about it. Yet even when him admitting it and working his ass off to help his brother, Dean still doesn't care. I'm expecting Sam to cash in his rain check on that punch in the face any episode now.
Another episode without a big Silent Hill Moment jumping out at me. I had to settle for ghost ships. Espirito Santo, meet the Little Baroness.
And on to the next episode...
I was spoiled for most of the major things in this episode: the whole "Sam is the anti-Christ" direction, the vampy guest star, Gordon getting vamped out and killed with wire, and the Impala bonding at the end. Was there much else to this episode than that?
Ha, Gordon vs. Bela! Two recurring characters I like that no one else seems to, sharing the same scene. I was totally expecting one of them to waste the other.
"Sam's the anti-Christ"? At least Gordon cuts to the chase.
Hi, Harmony! Still playing ditzy vampires, I see. I notice that Sam felt way worse about killing her than he did about killing Gordon later in the episode. Human ≠ moral true north, Sam. You've met a lot of monsters who deserved your sympathy way more than most of the human enemies you've fought, and it's about damn time you realised it.
Sam is getting more and more awesome as the season goes on. Probably the lack of whining (as Dean so aptly pointed out) and +10 bonus to BADASS.
I was spoiled for Gordon becoming a vampire. That's what I get for browsing the TWoP motivators thread before watching a new episode. Still. For a cliché plot twist, it was done pretty damn well. Well enough that I liked it, for whatever that's worth. (That's the thing about clichés; they can still be good if they're done in a halfways interesting way.)
I could have done without Mr. Generic Angsty Vampire #45596, though. Gordon's angst and gore at least sold me because it was INTERESTING. Hell, even not!Harmony at the beginning was more interesting than Mr. Generically Angsty Vamp. This is why I'm not a huge fan of vampires unless they're done really, REALLY well. I'm just not interested in that "OMG I'm young and beautiful forever, WOE IS ME!!!" crap.
Bye, Jesus-man. You should have just helped Gordon and spared yourself a gory death. Or at least, postponed your gory death.
I have to wonder if Gordon would have actually followed through on all the promises he was making that he'd off himself when the job was done. While it sort of gave him free license to act like a douchebag, I like that he didn't have any illusions about not being a monster. He wasn't all "NOEZ, I'M NOT A MONSTER!!! *WOE*" He was all, "Motherfucking RIGHT I'm a monster, bitch. But I'll still stick around long enough to kill the anti-Christ before I cut my own head off." I mean, it's totally his "monsters=evil, humans=good" bias going. The vamps last season weren't exactly warm and fuzzy, but they weren't out doing evil either. He might have been able to reign himself in if he gave it a chance, but I like that he didn't. It fits his character: biased (species-ist?) and black-and-white to the bitter end.
See ya, Gordon. You and your batshit crazy monster-hating will be missed.
When Sam was strangling Gordon with the wire, I wrote "GORE!" on my notebook and kept writing Os until it was finished. I got up to 11. And that was with a few seconds delay starting. BRING ON THE GORE, YO.
"183 days without an accident." *snicker*
Lots of good brother moments in this episode. Sam's still hammering away at Dean's "I don't care that I'm going to hell" front, and he actually managed to make some progress. Mostly by playing the Little Brother Card and throwing up a puppy face of DOOM.
Loved that last scene. Dean must REALLY believe he's going to die if he's willing to let Sam work on the Impala.
Silent Hill Moment? Easy. Did someone say "gratuitously gory death by barbed wire"? Oh yeah, we've got that.
Lots of LOL in this episode. The boys were spot-on with their dialogue and interaction, and some of the lines were HILARIOUS. Didn't stop the plot itself from being boring as hell, but good snark can make any lurching plotline bearable.
Wow, I didn't realise how many people hated Bella until I went looking for episode reviews. Why all the hate? She's supposed to be a bitch, and I think she does it pretty damn well. Yeah, there's plenty of room for improvement. Not every line is a winner, she does seem to get in the boys' way just for the sake of it, there's cliché abound, and her character screams GENERICALLY BRITISH. But unlike Ruby, her actress DOESN'T annoy the shit out of me. And I dig a lot of her interaction with Sam and Dean, since it seems to lead to a non-stop barrage of snark on both sides. I'm looking forward to seeing Bella again WAY more than I'm looking forward to seeing Ruby.
Horrible death in intro? Check. Sam and Dean bitching at each other in the beginning to further the story arc? Check. More bitching at the end of the episode? Check.
"Can I shoot her?"
"Not in public."
Uh, Sam... Why don't you TRY CPR ON THE GUY? He just "drowned" about ten seconds ago. Try a little resuscitation, eh?
I figured pretty early in the episode that Bella was going to have to come begging for help when she saw the ghost ship. No points for originality, but a few points for a creative solution to the problem.
Nice CG on The Black Pearl the ghost ship. Death omens are getting showier.
They have the weirdest musical cues sometimes this season. The music when Dean came down in his tux? Uh...interesting. Still. TUX.
"When this is over we should really have angry sex." Heh. Dean's huge pause before answering? HA. Your smirk gave it away, Dean.
Tired as it is to repeat the SAME DAMN CONVERSATION every episode, it's still a big step up from last season when it comes to the boys keeping secrets (or not). Dean knew right away that Sam used the Colt, and he 'fessed up most of the details about the Crossroads Demon encounter rather than LYING about it. Yet even when him admitting it and working his ass off to help his brother, Dean still doesn't care. I'm expecting Sam to cash in his rain check on that punch in the face any episode now.
Another episode without a big Silent Hill Moment jumping out at me. I had to settle for ghost ships. Espirito Santo, meet the Little Baroness.
And on to the next episode...
I was spoiled for most of the major things in this episode: the whole "Sam is the anti-Christ" direction, the vampy guest star, Gordon getting vamped out and killed with wire, and the Impala bonding at the end. Was there much else to this episode than that?
Ha, Gordon vs. Bela! Two recurring characters I like that no one else seems to, sharing the same scene. I was totally expecting one of them to waste the other.
"Sam's the anti-Christ"? At least Gordon cuts to the chase.
Hi, Harmony! Still playing ditzy vampires, I see. I notice that Sam felt way worse about killing her than he did about killing Gordon later in the episode. Human ≠ moral true north, Sam. You've met a lot of monsters who deserved your sympathy way more than most of the human enemies you've fought, and it's about damn time you realised it.
Sam is getting more and more awesome as the season goes on. Probably the lack of whining (as Dean so aptly pointed out) and +10 bonus to BADASS.
I was spoiled for Gordon becoming a vampire. That's what I get for browsing the TWoP motivators thread before watching a new episode. Still. For a cliché plot twist, it was done pretty damn well. Well enough that I liked it, for whatever that's worth. (That's the thing about clichés; they can still be good if they're done in a halfways interesting way.)
I could have done without Mr. Generic Angsty Vampire #45596, though. Gordon's angst and gore at least sold me because it was INTERESTING. Hell, even not!Harmony at the beginning was more interesting than Mr. Generically Angsty Vamp. This is why I'm not a huge fan of vampires unless they're done really, REALLY well. I'm just not interested in that "OMG I'm young and beautiful forever, WOE IS ME!!!" crap.
Bye, Jesus-man. You should have just helped Gordon and spared yourself a gory death. Or at least, postponed your gory death.
I have to wonder if Gordon would have actually followed through on all the promises he was making that he'd off himself when the job was done. While it sort of gave him free license to act like a douchebag, I like that he didn't have any illusions about not being a monster. He wasn't all "NOEZ, I'M NOT A MONSTER!!! *WOE*" He was all, "Motherfucking RIGHT I'm a monster, bitch. But I'll still stick around long enough to kill the anti-Christ before I cut my own head off." I mean, it's totally his "monsters=evil, humans=good" bias going. The vamps last season weren't exactly warm and fuzzy, but they weren't out doing evil either. He might have been able to reign himself in if he gave it a chance, but I like that he didn't. It fits his character: biased (species-ist?) and black-and-white to the bitter end.
See ya, Gordon. You and your batshit crazy monster-hating will be missed.
When Sam was strangling Gordon with the wire, I wrote "GORE!" on my notebook and kept writing Os until it was finished. I got up to 11. And that was with a few seconds delay starting. BRING ON THE GORE, YO.
"183 days without an accident." *snicker*
Lots of good brother moments in this episode. Sam's still hammering away at Dean's "I don't care that I'm going to hell" front, and he actually managed to make some progress. Mostly by playing the Little Brother Card and throwing up a puppy face of DOOM.
Loved that last scene. Dean must REALLY believe he's going to die if he's willing to let Sam work on the Impala.
Silent Hill Moment? Easy. Did someone say "gratuitously gory death by barbed wire"? Oh yeah, we've got that.