Supernatural ramble
I’ve been having a fangirl day of major proportion but I will confine this post to my Supernatural commentary.
Watched the latest Supernatural, Dark Side of the Moon and it had to be the most gripping episode that I have seen from this show. First “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”- what a great song for this episode. In addition to it being one of my favorites (and brings back memories of cute guitar boy playing it for me), the line “Ma, take this badge off of me, I can’t use it anymore…” slid in perfectly in the fireworks scene. To see Dean’s face lit up like that was a delight. The joy spread for those few seconds and Sammy hugging Dean, so poignant. With all he’d been through, he must be wanting to get rid of the mantel of responsibility for all he’s taken on. Reverting back to such a warm childhood memory, a time of as close to innocence as he ever got made sense. Skipping to the end, I do hope that Dean cherishes that he had those fleeting happy times, that he finally grabs onto them and not just the despair.
I loved Sam’s happy moments even though Dean found himself cut by them. The whole piece of heaven was great because the two of them were smiling and we don’t see enough of that. I do think that even though they were the Winchesters’ happy times, they were manipulated to a degree by the angels, Zacharia in particular, to tear the boys apart a bit more. The one of their mother, well, that was pure manipulation as neither would see that as a happy time, hearing those words come out of their mom’s mouth.
Cas’s voice coming from the car - shades of Sam’s previous adventure - was a great giggle.
The whole show was filled with references to what their dad did and didn’t do, wouldn’t allow them to do which was really heartbreaking. The statement from Sam that Dean was basically cleaning up his dad’s messes from a younger age than he realized, well, it seems to me that Sam learned a lot more about Dean and gained more respect for him. On the other side, Dean was shattered learning that Sam looked at getting away from the family as his happy. Dean put so much into protecting Sam. I won’t say that he doesn’t have the maturity to see it for what it was, Sam’s need to break away from almost two fathers, but that seems to be what it was, because Dean wasn’t his father. It’s all pretty dysfunctional and the angels are just taking advantage of it all. Since Dean is the one that they want, makes sense that they would target him, twisting the memories to their advantage.
Other random stuff: Sam’s astonishment at where he was and his question, “How did I get to heaven” and the road to heaven not being paved with good intentions was adorable. And Dean’s idea of heaven being triplets and latex - lol! I loved the effects in heaven, the stars mimicking the fireworks and I think there was a huge moon too.
The end though, the loss of faith of both Castiel and Dean was so sad. When Dean dropped the amulet into the trash, especially after we’d seen the heaven memory when Sam gave it to Dean, well, I was in tears. I do hope Sam retrieved it from the can. The fact that Dean and Castiel have both seemingly given up, because that was what it looked like to me, means that Sam is hooped. It seems that he lost Bobby in the last one too. How is he going to fight Lucifer now, keep him from taking him?? I’m a Dean/Cas fan all the way, but I felt for Sam in this one. Yes, I felt for Dean too, for the pain he was feeling, the revelations that he seemingly was presented with but Sam, there’s good in him still. (Terrible theft from another fandom there!)
As much as I wanted to see God show his face (and the face of JDM would have been perfect), that they have him as the passive participant, taking the back seat is the way it should be. It would be too easy if they had the all-powerful come and fix things. That, my friends is not going to happen and it shouldn’t. The story is about mankind’s struggle. Free will comes into play here and I think that is a big focus. As much as the angels, including Michael want to deny that there is free will, that all things are predestined, we all - okay, I want to see Dean and Sam have control of their destiny. To have God interfere, to fix it all, takes away that element of free will. I have no idea how the writers are going to deal with the end, but I’m looking forward to it.
Great episode!!
Watched the latest Supernatural, Dark Side of the Moon and it had to be the most gripping episode that I have seen from this show. First “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”- what a great song for this episode. In addition to it being one of my favorites (and brings back memories of cute guitar boy playing it for me), the line “Ma, take this badge off of me, I can’t use it anymore…” slid in perfectly in the fireworks scene. To see Dean’s face lit up like that was a delight. The joy spread for those few seconds and Sammy hugging Dean, so poignant. With all he’d been through, he must be wanting to get rid of the mantel of responsibility for all he’s taken on. Reverting back to such a warm childhood memory, a time of as close to innocence as he ever got made sense. Skipping to the end, I do hope that Dean cherishes that he had those fleeting happy times, that he finally grabs onto them and not just the despair.
I loved Sam’s happy moments even though Dean found himself cut by them. The whole piece of heaven was great because the two of them were smiling and we don’t see enough of that. I do think that even though they were the Winchesters’ happy times, they were manipulated to a degree by the angels, Zacharia in particular, to tear the boys apart a bit more. The one of their mother, well, that was pure manipulation as neither would see that as a happy time, hearing those words come out of their mom’s mouth.
Cas’s voice coming from the car - shades of Sam’s previous adventure - was a great giggle.
The whole show was filled with references to what their dad did and didn’t do, wouldn’t allow them to do which was really heartbreaking. The statement from Sam that Dean was basically cleaning up his dad’s messes from a younger age than he realized, well, it seems to me that Sam learned a lot more about Dean and gained more respect for him. On the other side, Dean was shattered learning that Sam looked at getting away from the family as his happy. Dean put so much into protecting Sam. I won’t say that he doesn’t have the maturity to see it for what it was, Sam’s need to break away from almost two fathers, but that seems to be what it was, because Dean wasn’t his father. It’s all pretty dysfunctional and the angels are just taking advantage of it all. Since Dean is the one that they want, makes sense that they would target him, twisting the memories to their advantage.
Other random stuff: Sam’s astonishment at where he was and his question, “How did I get to heaven” and the road to heaven not being paved with good intentions was adorable. And Dean’s idea of heaven being triplets and latex - lol! I loved the effects in heaven, the stars mimicking the fireworks and I think there was a huge moon too.
The end though, the loss of faith of both Castiel and Dean was so sad. When Dean dropped the amulet into the trash, especially after we’d seen the heaven memory when Sam gave it to Dean, well, I was in tears. I do hope Sam retrieved it from the can. The fact that Dean and Castiel have both seemingly given up, because that was what it looked like to me, means that Sam is hooped. It seems that he lost Bobby in the last one too. How is he going to fight Lucifer now, keep him from taking him?? I’m a Dean/Cas fan all the way, but I felt for Sam in this one. Yes, I felt for Dean too, for the pain he was feeling, the revelations that he seemingly was presented with but Sam, there’s good in him still. (Terrible theft from another fandom there!)
As much as I wanted to see God show his face (and the face of JDM would have been perfect), that they have him as the passive participant, taking the back seat is the way it should be. It would be too easy if they had the all-powerful come and fix things. That, my friends is not going to happen and it shouldn’t. The story is about mankind’s struggle. Free will comes into play here and I think that is a big focus. As much as the angels, including Michael want to deny that there is free will, that all things are predestined, we all - okay, I want to see Dean and Sam have control of their destiny. To have God interfere, to fix it all, takes away that element of free will. I have no idea how the writers are going to deal with the end, but I’m looking forward to it.
Great episode!!