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Picspam Reaction: Supernatural 5.15

Mar 29, 2010 13:10

Heh. Not only am I out of practice after the hiatus, I forgot that at this time of year I have less than half the usual length of 'weekend' and totally miscued on my scheduling. *facepalm*

Posting in a rush, may edit later.

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irismay42 March 30 2010, 16:58:14 UTC

You know when you mentioned zombies in your previous post I was jumping up and down thinking - THAT'S NEXT WEEK'S EP!

I'm still not sure about the headshot thing as Sam told Dean he'd been watching too many Romero movies when he suggested it in CSPWDT (and I believe the zombie chick actually got shot in the forehead and survived!), but I have to say the headshots were absolutely awesome in this ep!

eilonwy March 30 2010, 18:26:31 UTC

I'm still not sure about the headshot thing as Sam told Dean he'd been watching too many Romero movies when he suggested it in CSPWDT (and I believe the zombie chick actually got shot in the forehead and survived!), but I have to say the headshots were absolutely awesome in this ep!

I was thinking about that, too, but handwaved it retroactively that apparently Death's zombies are different than the CSPWDT raised-by-spells zombies... Or the zombies from ItGP,SW, since those, too, got spikes through them...

elliemurasaki March 30 2010, 18:30:13 UTC

It's not a handwave--the zombie from Children Shouldn't was visibly allergic to silver, even if it couldn't actually hurt her, and Karen wasn't. Haven't seen Great Pumpkin recently, though. (Wasn't that today's on TNT? Bah ten am classes.)

irismay42 March 30 2010, 18:58:03 UTC

Yeah I guess they weren't actual real zombies just Death's version!!

caffienekitty March 31 2010, 05:42:28 UTC

Well, Angela was a one-off custom-made Greek-tradition ritual-raised zombie, so I buy there being a specific ritual way to put her down. Death-raised mass-production zombies, I can totally buy headshots.

The ones Samhain SAM HANE, AWESUM DEMON PARTEE LORD raised seemed to respond to spiking by ceasing to be an immediate pain in Dean's ass, but since they were animated by teh awesum pwrz of SAM HANE I suspect other methods might have worked on them too (headshot, fire, peanut allergy, stiff breeze). They didn't have any semblance of their prior personalities either, so they were leaning more towards plain animated flesh than zombie. Dean torched all of them in the end which either worked or SAM HANE getting sent back to his room Hell ended the effect.

eilonwy March 31 2010, 06:06:58 UTC

BWAH. Mostly I'm responding to this comment because it made me laugh.

And to agree with you. I totally buy the various methods for killing the varying zombies. The only thing that in retrospect seems a little odd was the lack of comment on how easy the headshot thing was, given how much trouble they went through to find a solution to Angela in CSPWDT. In that episode it seemed pretty clear that they'd never dealt with any zombies, and so were running through a variety of methods that might work on all zombies, and came up with nailing-to-grave-bed.

Anyway, during the episode it only struck me as fortunate that headshots worked for this particular Brand o' Zombie-- not as odd. :)

Braiiinnzzz. Or, well, in this case more like "visceraaaaa".

caffienekitty March 31 2010, 06:25:06 UTC

Very lucky for Sam that it worked too, or Ol' Ezra would have been chowing down. Although from a sheer physics perspective, if you shoot something at close range, even if it doesn't kill it, it might knock it backwards or off you or distract it so a secondary action (like running like the wind) can be taken. Same with spiking to a gravebed. Even if it doesn't kill it, the zombie'll be pinned there for a while trying to wiggle off the spike.

Pragmatism. Use tools at hand any way possible, figure out what to do next while running. *nods*

caffienekitty March 31 2010, 05:39:56 UTC

You know when you mentioned zombies in your previous post I was jumping up and down thinking - THAT'S NEXT WEEK'S EP!

Hee! I didn't think things would be coming off the wall so soon. :-D

I'm still not sure about the headshot thing as Sam told Dean he'd been watching too many Romero movies when he suggested it in CSPWDT (and I believe the zombie chick actually got shot in the forehead and survived!)

I'm gonna respond to this further down the thread since there's a bit of a discussion happening.

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