More random thinky (IMTOD)
I've been re-reading the stuff I posted last year, and I'm wondering: Where did my squee go? Has my mind not been on the eps as I re-watch them? Has S5 stolen some of the magic? Am I just too familiar with my fave eps, having re-watched them many times, that I've stopped seeing new things?
One thing I noticed this time around was that when Dean wakes up skipping the veil, the first person he calls for is Sam. Not Dad. Sam. Dad is second. Traveling with Sam for the past year, unable to reach John even from Lawrence, even when Dean was dying . . . Dean has always trusted John and followed his orders without question. But the past year has shown him that Sam is the one actively looking out for him and supporting him. Hm . . .
Something that did come to me as YED told John he needed to "sweeten the pot" . . . I thought to myself, "Ah! You want John's soul because you're hoping he'll be the 'righteous man' who breaks the first seal."
I'm finding the first couple (and three) seasons to be a disconnect from S5. I'm finding that I'm having trouble watching these early seasons as part of the same continuous arc that concluded with S5. Maybe that will change by the time I actually get to S5, but right now, I'm not seeing where S5 was all that informed by S1 or S2. And I have a huge problem imagining Chuck writing any of this stuff in his books. As I'm in the midst of S1/S2, the idea of Chuck just . . . doesn't thrill me. I mean, it's cute, and it's fun, but it also feels almost like a parallel universe, if that makes any sense.
Anyway, there ya go. The show has come a long way from the point I'm watching now, and these early seasons seem like a different life.