SPN 5.05 "Fallen Idol"
No spoilers past tonight's episode. No spoilers for the "Soon."
Not a lot of time to post (still got 12 papers to grade, though fortunately only 6 of each 101 and 221, so I won't go too crazy and should make it to bed before it's tooooo late at night.)
I took neither laptop nor yarn!chesters with me to flurije's tonight, so you're getting ordinary responses without yarny antics. However, the pout I got from Flurry upon realizing that I was sans yarn!chester assured me never, ever to not bring them again. So you can expect antics next week.
I was spoiled for a few things. I'd read the casting call for both a Lincoln and a Ghandi, I'd read about James Dean's car, and of course I'd known about the Special Guest Star. I can't say I was jumping up and down in joy over that last, but I reserved judgment 'til the episode and found the whole thing to be perfectly fine.
I suspect I'll be in the minority, but honestly? I loved the episode.
Don't get me wrong, I like mytharc. But I can't eatsleepbreathe mytharc. I need roooom. And the first four episodes were mytharc in most ways. And yeah, like Sam pointed out, it's a little weird to go chasing a random monster when the apocalypse has shown up, but as the god-thing-paris-hilton pointed out, why wouldn't said apocalypse bring all sorts of things out to play?
Also, I'm grateful for the lack of Castiel. Again, I love Castiel (and Misha Collins), but he's the kind of character who is better in smallish doses, and the doses have been pretty damn big since "Heaven and Hell" and especially since "The Rapture."
Upon reading the casting call, I'd thought wax museum, so was pleased to see I was right. And doubly pleased at the House of Wax reference Dean threw in there (and Sam's metadramatic look.*) Similarly, the creature's reference to spray tans and little dogs pleased me (and made me think slightly more of Paris Hilton.)
I know in my response last week, at the end I was all, "Hug? Hug? Please hug?" but I agree with other people who wrote that that would have been too soon. Dean's giving the knife to Sam last week was a nice moment-- it was ambiguous at first (poor Sam, wary of the stabbity) but then a nice moment of reaching out. Similarly, even though I called it before it happened, Dean's suggesting that Sam drive was perfect.
Oh! Speaking of perfect! I actually shouted a THANK YOU when Dean said that he had a hand in the apocalypse, too, and that he'd broken the first seal. And upon Sam's pointing out that Dean didn't know, Dean saying that neither did Sam. Yeah, demon blood? Bad plan. But everything else? Made sense. Hurrah! Hurrah! Also, did I mention HURRAH?!
One moment I found really weird? The second victim's reaction to seeing Abraham Lincoln, zombified and in his house was, "You're supposed to be dead." Not, HOLY CARP, ABE LINCOLN'S IN MY HOUSE. That seemed ... odd.
Also odd, managing to find the seeds in the corpses' stomachs. But seeing Sam in scrubs again was nice, so I'm okay with it. :)
I was a bit surprised by the amount of gore in the opening moments. But am pleased, too, because it means Raoul has his GORE! WANTON ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND GOOOOOORE! So that's good. :)
Generally, I really really enjoyed the episode. I'd been looking forward to it since the beginning of the season because I knew it would be the first one that wasn't all MYTHARC OF DOOOOOOM and I was not at all disappointed.
Also, I so totally plan on rewatching most of the season thus far this weekend. I saw the first two twice each, but have only seen the rest when broadcast. Which is fine and awesome and such, but Thursday night's suck for me because my Fridays are always SO full so I can't really enjoy the telly.
I will probably write about the "Soon" tomorrow and in a separate and well labeled spoilery post. Labels are love.
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*Of course I love this show. I study metadrama whenever possible! Show is, occasionally, and just this side of too often, self aware. Even if I didn't adore it, I'd have to watch it! I should write a paper about how Supernatural utilizes the same kinds of metadramatic audience awareness that the early modern playhouses did. But not tonight.
Not a lot of time to post (still got 12 papers to grade, though fortunately only 6 of each 101 and 221, so I won't go too crazy and should make it to bed before it's tooooo late at night.)
I took neither laptop nor yarn!chesters with me to flurije's tonight, so you're getting ordinary responses without yarny antics. However, the pout I got from Flurry upon realizing that I was sans yarn!chester assured me never, ever to not bring them again. So you can expect antics next week.
I was spoiled for a few things. I'd read the casting call for both a Lincoln and a Ghandi, I'd read about James Dean's car, and of course I'd known about the Special Guest Star. I can't say I was jumping up and down in joy over that last, but I reserved judgment 'til the episode and found the whole thing to be perfectly fine.
I suspect I'll be in the minority, but honestly? I loved the episode.
Don't get me wrong, I like mytharc. But I can't eatsleepbreathe mytharc. I need roooom. And the first four episodes were mytharc in most ways. And yeah, like Sam pointed out, it's a little weird to go chasing a random monster when the apocalypse has shown up, but as the god-thing-paris-hilton pointed out, why wouldn't said apocalypse bring all sorts of things out to play?
Also, I'm grateful for the lack of Castiel. Again, I love Castiel (and Misha Collins), but he's the kind of character who is better in smallish doses, and the doses have been pretty damn big since "Heaven and Hell" and especially since "The Rapture."
Upon reading the casting call, I'd thought wax museum, so was pleased to see I was right. And doubly pleased at the House of Wax reference Dean threw in there (and Sam's metadramatic look.*) Similarly, the creature's reference to spray tans and little dogs pleased me (and made me think slightly more of Paris Hilton.)
I know in my response last week, at the end I was all, "Hug? Hug? Please hug?" but I agree with other people who wrote that that would have been too soon. Dean's giving the knife to Sam last week was a nice moment-- it was ambiguous at first (poor Sam, wary of the stabbity) but then a nice moment of reaching out. Similarly, even though I called it before it happened, Dean's suggesting that Sam drive was perfect.
Oh! Speaking of perfect! I actually shouted a THANK YOU when Dean said that he had a hand in the apocalypse, too, and that he'd broken the first seal. And upon Sam's pointing out that Dean didn't know, Dean saying that neither did Sam. Yeah, demon blood? Bad plan. But everything else? Made sense. Hurrah! Hurrah! Also, did I mention HURRAH?!
One moment I found really weird? The second victim's reaction to seeing Abraham Lincoln, zombified and in his house was, "You're supposed to be dead." Not, HOLY CARP, ABE LINCOLN'S IN MY HOUSE. That seemed ... odd.
Also odd, managing to find the seeds in the corpses' stomachs. But seeing Sam in scrubs again was nice, so I'm okay with it. :)
I was a bit surprised by the amount of gore in the opening moments. But am pleased, too, because it means Raoul has his GORE! WANTON ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND GOOOOOORE! So that's good. :)
Generally, I really really enjoyed the episode. I'd been looking forward to it since the beginning of the season because I knew it would be the first one that wasn't all MYTHARC OF DOOOOOOM and I was not at all disappointed.
Also, I so totally plan on rewatching most of the season thus far this weekend. I saw the first two twice each, but have only seen the rest when broadcast. Which is fine and awesome and such, but Thursday night's suck for me because my Fridays are always SO full so I can't really enjoy the telly.
I will probably write about the "Soon" tomorrow and in a separate and well labeled spoilery post. Labels are love.
------
*Of course I love this show. I study metadrama whenever possible! Show is, occasionally, and just this side of too often, self aware. Even if I didn't adore it, I'd have to watch it! I should write a paper about how Supernatural utilizes the same kinds of metadramatic audience awareness that the early modern playhouses did. But not tonight.