Picspam Reaction: Supernatural 5.20

[caffienekitty]

Well, I'm reacting live to this one (as in, typing up things as I watch it, because I missed the boat for actual "live" live by several days), so it may be even more scattered and random than usual. Also, alcohol may be involved

Comments

[irismay42]

I don't think the gun Bobby had was The Colt - I think it was the same one he had in Point of No Return when he was telling Dean about wanting to off himself. So we can still trust Crowley. Sorta.

And yay! A Brit character who says Brit things! ("Fag" and "buggered" being particularly squeesome!) Ben Edlund's come a long way since Bela! (Although it was the bloke who wrote RSAM who made her say "You're two for oh, boys," which a Brit would NEVER say!)

It's interesting that Mark Sheppard's actually been allowed to keep his Brit accent. I do wonder whether that's a deliberate throwback to Bela, because she was also a "Do we trust her / don't we trust her" character. And according to Becky, she also gave Crowley the Colt instead of giving it to Lilith. Go the Brits! Maybe they knew each other. We all do you know.

I LOVED the whole logic of Brady having been the one who killed Jess! When I first saw the promo for this ep it totally didn't make sense to me, but now I've seen the whole ep, it really really does. Jess being killed like that was always a bit of a "Huh?" point because she wasn't trying to protect a baby, hadn't disturbed anyone. So just the sheer sick genius of killing Sam's girlfriend in the exact same way his mother was killed just to piss him off and set him back on the road the YED had planned for him? Wow. That makes my head hurt.

I also liked the symmetry between Brady's, "You let us do this, this and this, Sam...why is that?" speech and Fake!Mary's "Everybody leaves you, Dean...why is that?" from Dark Side of the Moon. Don't the angels realise antagonising Dean, or the demons realise antagonising Sam, isn't really going to get the boys on their respective sides???

[silviakundera]

It's interesting that Mark Sheppard's actually been allowed to keep his Brit accent.

I think it's because his namesake Crowley (the demon who teams up with an angel to stop the apocalypse in the popular novel "Good Omens"), is British.

[irismay42]

Oh is that who he's named after? I presumed it was Aleistor Crowley the occultist!

[silviakundera]

I don't remember if the writers have admitted to this in interviews or not, but it seems to be assumed in articles I've read since 5x10 that mention the character... And the fact that aspects of 'Hammer of the Gods' seemed that they could have been inspired by another book by that same author ('American Gods') makes the demon Crowley helping to stop the apocalypse = demon Crowley helping to stop the apocalypse case even more likely. (The character personalities aren't similar at all, apart from the delight in evil-doing, the wise cracking, and the fear of his fellow demons due to working against Hell-- so a very loose homage is all.)

[caffienekitty]

Yep. I'm still hoping for an angel named Aziraphael to turn up.

[dragons_shadows]

I wonder what Aziraphael would think of Crowley wearing a literary agent, would he be pleased that Crowley was taking an interest in books, or annoyed at the mess?

[caffienekitty]

I think it would depend what sort of books he was an agent for. :-)

[caffienekitty]

Don't the angels realise antagonising Dean, or the demons realise antagonising Sam, isn't really going to get the boys on their respective sides???

For the most part, they seem to miss the very obvious ways to get Sam and Dean to side with them, which is probably a good thing. I sometimes wonder if Zachariah wasn't assigned to the Winchester's because he'd be so hopeless at the job there would be no way he'd be successful.