FINALLY seeing "Heart"!
Let me just preface this by saying: Jared Padalecki should be illegal. Jensen is hot, yes, but he's almost too pretty. And I like Jared's voice much better. I'm watching "Heart" on my brother's laptop with my headphones on for the audio (ostensibly, in case someone else wants to watch TV, because I'm sitting on the couch) and it's like he's talking right to me. It's sending my brain to all kinds of naughty places. Mmm, Jared.
Kripke, ALWAYS with the slow-mo dropping of the container of liquid! (See: IMTOD)
*flaily hands* Can I just say that I love detective!Sam? It's for a variety of reasons-- it reminds me of miss_begonia's Noir AU, and Life on Mars and the first episode of Torchwood ("Everything Changes"), and Sam's just so damn hot. I have the feeling that a lot of this post is going to be related to Sam/Jared and his sexiness. I think it's becacuse knowing that he's going to be having sex in this episode just automatically makes me think about sex, and also my hormones are all out of whack, and did I mention the headphones? It's like he's talking in my ear, guys.
Okay, so when Sam was rifling through that book? I thought it was a diary. "Dear Diary, today I turned into a werewolf!" (Or: "Dear Diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy." Oh, Firefly. Hi Edlund!)
True story: Yesterday in gym class, another girl and I were team captains getting ready to pick our teams for volleyball. We did rock-paper-scissors to see who'd pick first. I, having seen the director's cuts (of the rock-paper-scissors scene) picked rock. The other girl did scissors. I got first pick and my team trounced her team. SAMMAY!
Aaaand cue the sexy music. OH JARED WHAT IS THAT FACE? WHAT IS THAT FACE? It's like the inverse of the bitchface! WHAT IS IT? I need a "many faces of Jared Padalecki" icon, featuring that face (at about 11:56 in the commercial-free download, for those of you playing along at home) and then the bitchface and the "you're too precious for this world" face from "Tall Tales." And maybe one of the nostrils flaring.
Also, is that entire moment reminding anybody else of the montage from Beauty and the Beast, with the snowball fight and Belle teaching the Beast to eat his soup with a spoon?
Who the hell folds their lacy, satiny blue THONG in front of a man they barely know? WTF, Evil Mrs. BarringerMadison?
SO MUCH LOVE for Dean's "Aww, Sammy!"
I'm glad that Sam's jacket perfectly matches the green flowers on that pillow. *giggle*
JARED. I can appreciate that Sam is nervous. But. WHAT IS YOUR MOUTH DOING OMG? Actually, I think that at any other time/place/setup combo, I'd be impressed, because that's kind of how people are in real life, sometimes. I mean, Jared really is a good actor, especially when it comes to the nonverbal stuff. (The last Rory & Dean breakup? He kills me every time I see it. I mean, you can literally see Dean realize that he and Rory are really from two different worlds, and with where she is right now they just can't make it work. And it's fucking heartbreaking.) But already knowing that they're gonna have sex? I'm like "Uh... what?"
Okay, Jared's little exasperated grunt of his cell phone ringing and pre-empting whatever he was going to say? SO HOT.
DEEEEEEEEEEAN. At a strip club. Oh, Sera, I love you. I really, really do. (And you're hot. ...I would probably do EVERYBODY involved with this show. Good lord.)
I need an icon of Sam staring at the moon with the Romeo and Juliet quote "swear not by the moon, th'inconstant moon..."
Hokay, who knows what movie (TV show?) Sam's watching?
HEYYYY, it's like Roadkill, Part Deux! She doesn't know she's a werewolf? ...Or does she?
"I'm not what you think I am. I'm not." I'm not the man you think I am. And sorrow's Nature's son. He will not rise for anyone. And pretty girls make graves. Actually, that song's pretty damn perfect for Sam, isn't it? Aw, Sammy.
The dog whisperer! Sera, I love you (part deux)!
And mad props to Jensen, too. "Sam, she's a monster. Are you feeling sorry for her?" "Maybe I understand her." And you just see it smack him across his face. His very pretty, freckled face.
I love the way they say "waste" instead of "kill." Just an aside.
"Lycanthropy might have a cure if you kill the werewolf that bit her, severing the bloodline." Or not, since it's really a magical alien disease. Right, Doctor?
"But I'm doing this because I'm trying to help you." It's an INTERVENTION!!! "...if this goes the way I pray it does..." Sammy said PRAY!
Look! It's Starla! *amuses self*
Wow, I liked that Glen was the other werewolf. Mmm, twisty.
Can I just say that the cheekbone claw marks look very, very sexy on Jared? Because they do. Very, very sexy.
And now, things I love about the Sam/Madison sex scene:
(A) He slammed her against the wall.
(B) Mole!
(C) Enormous hands of enormity, doing what they do best.
(D) Kissing her NECK.
(E) Jared's ARM HOLY FUCK.
(F) Actual SLEEPING together! Adorable! YAY!
I'm literally fanning myself with my hand, guys. I'm pretty sure my temperature just went up by, like, three degrees.
Oh, good God, I need to get some action. For serious.
Aww, everybody Sammy has sex with dies. Who thinks he was a virgin before Jess? Any takers?
MADDY! He called her MADDY! Fucking ADORABLE!
They're using music that Dean (and Kripke) would hate. Therefore I feel justified in potentially including The Smiths and Vertical Horizon in a potential fanmix.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELKFJAELFJASDKFJAFJASDFKJASLDFJASDFJASLKDJFSWINCHESTERSDAJFSDLFJSLFJSDJFSSSSERAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALDFJASLJFLADJFJDLSKJDEEEEEEEEEANDLFKJADFLJSLFJSDLKJSAMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!111eleventeen! DEAN!
I like that the whole episode seemed very Sam-centric, but then at the end, BAM! It was all Dean, baby. It took me totally by surprise. My dad's down here now and a "DEAN!" sneaked out before I clapped my hand over my mouth. And then there was whimpering.
I think I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now.
--
In the middle of the episode, I somehow managed to distract myself with my own meta about themes, continuity, and suspension of disbelief. I decided to put it under a separate cut because it's pretty heavy (and slightly rambly).
Kripke & Co. are really winning this season, I think, in terms of working this thematic element in of supernatural not necessarily being evil-- and then you get all of these subdivisions of what exactly evil is, and even if Madison's killing people, it's not intentional, and does that make it her fault?-- and I think they've done a good job with the progression of it. First they introduced it with "Bloodlust," and then came at it from a different angle with the stupid kid in "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" and with Andy and Ansom in "Simon Said," and then took it from a sort of general, practical problem in terms of hunting to a personal, immediate problem in "Hunted," and then "Houses of the Holy" and "Born Under a Bad Sign," and now "Roadkill" and "Heart." I mean, from where I'm standing, it looks like Kripke & Co. really have their shit together. They've been able to keep with the user (and new viewer)-friendly MOTW format but introduce and develop and sort of get the audience thinking about mytharc-related themes.
And I'm sure that there are some continuity issues, or things that you look at and go "WTF?" but as I've mentioned before, my last big fandom was The O.C., where things like "continuity" and "planning" and "storyline" were either obscenities or a foreign language. I mean, even in the fourth season, when it started getting better-ish, Schwartz & Co. were still doing things like making major revisions and contradictions of well-established and important pieces of first-season canon. So when on Supernatural I see recurrent thematic elements even in episodes that are technically non-mytharc-oriented, I'm quite impressed.
Of course, I also think that ties in to a little pet theory I have regarding believability, suspension of disbelief. The pilot of a TV show essentially establishes the characters and their roles on the show and shows you what you can expect. (It's kind of like the way the first few pages of a book establish your mindset for the rest of it.) I believe that establishes a baseline level of suspension of disbelief, and that if you like a show, you're prepared to suspend your disbelief to that baseline level, but not much more. This means that if a show starts out with a really cracky premise, like "4400 people who have disappeared over the past 50 years reappear over a lake in a ball of light," you'll be able to believe anything else that happens in that 'verse as long as you don't think it's crackier than 4400 people who have disappeared over the past 50 years reappearing on a lake in a ball of light. But if a show's basic premise is "a rich lawyer in Orange County takes in a delinquent kid," and it's supposed to take place in the real world, when really cracky things like an underground prostitution ring start happening, they're kind of hard to swallow unless you take a step out of yourself and force yourself to suspend your disbelief.
I guess what I'm getting at is that in the pilot, The O.C. said: "this is taking place now, in Orange County in California under the present laws and conditions of America, etc," and then it just went all these crazy places and things happened that couldn't happen in the real world, under the conditions the show had already established. This resulted in me not being able to follow it anymore because Marissa wouldn't really get kicked out of fancy-schmancy private school for shooting Trey to save Ryan if she wasn't in jail for it, you know? But Supernatural essentially established a policy of "this is America, now, and laws, etc, have to be dealt with, but anything fantastical you've ever heard of goes*" but is managing to put together what are, in my mind, really polished, focused storylines within those constraints.
*except unicorns, apparently...
Kripke, ALWAYS with the slow-mo dropping of the container of liquid! (See: IMTOD)
*flaily hands* Can I just say that I love detective!Sam? It's for a variety of reasons-- it reminds me of miss_begonia's Noir AU, and Life on Mars and the first episode of Torchwood ("Everything Changes"), and Sam's just so damn hot. I have the feeling that a lot of this post is going to be related to Sam/Jared and his sexiness. I think it's becacuse knowing that he's going to be having sex in this episode just automatically makes me think about sex, and also my hormones are all out of whack, and did I mention the headphones? It's like he's talking in my ear, guys.
Okay, so when Sam was rifling through that book? I thought it was a diary. "Dear Diary, today I turned into a werewolf!" (Or: "Dear Diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy." Oh, Firefly. Hi Edlund!)
True story: Yesterday in gym class, another girl and I were team captains getting ready to pick our teams for volleyball. We did rock-paper-scissors to see who'd pick first. I, having seen the director's cuts (of the rock-paper-scissors scene) picked rock. The other girl did scissors. I got first pick and my team trounced her team. SAMMAY!
Aaaand cue the sexy music. OH JARED WHAT IS THAT FACE? WHAT IS THAT FACE? It's like the inverse of the bitchface! WHAT IS IT? I need a "many faces of Jared Padalecki" icon, featuring that face (at about 11:56 in the commercial-free download, for those of you playing along at home) and then the bitchface and the "you're too precious for this world" face from "Tall Tales." And maybe one of the nostrils flaring.
Also, is that entire moment reminding anybody else of the montage from Beauty and the Beast, with the snowball fight and Belle teaching the Beast to eat his soup with a spoon?
Who the hell folds their lacy, satiny blue THONG in front of a man they barely know? WTF, Evil Mrs. BarringerMadison?
SO MUCH LOVE for Dean's "Aww, Sammy!"
I'm glad that Sam's jacket perfectly matches the green flowers on that pillow. *giggle*
JARED. I can appreciate that Sam is nervous. But. WHAT IS YOUR MOUTH DOING OMG? Actually, I think that at any other time/place/setup combo, I'd be impressed, because that's kind of how people are in real life, sometimes. I mean, Jared really is a good actor, especially when it comes to the nonverbal stuff. (The last Rory & Dean breakup? He kills me every time I see it. I mean, you can literally see Dean realize that he and Rory are really from two different worlds, and with where she is right now they just can't make it work. And it's fucking heartbreaking.) But already knowing that they're gonna have sex? I'm like "Uh... what?"
Okay, Jared's little exasperated grunt of his cell phone ringing and pre-empting whatever he was going to say? SO HOT.
DEEEEEEEEEEAN. At a strip club. Oh, Sera, I love you. I really, really do. (And you're hot. ...I would probably do EVERYBODY involved with this show. Good lord.)
I need an icon of Sam staring at the moon with the Romeo and Juliet quote "swear not by the moon, th'inconstant moon..."
Hokay, who knows what movie (TV show?) Sam's watching?
HEYYYY, it's like Roadkill, Part Deux! She doesn't know she's a werewolf? ...Or does she?
"I'm not what you think I am. I'm not." I'm not the man you think I am. And sorrow's Nature's son. He will not rise for anyone. And pretty girls make graves. Actually, that song's pretty damn perfect for Sam, isn't it? Aw, Sammy.
The dog whisperer! Sera, I love you (part deux)!
And mad props to Jensen, too. "Sam, she's a monster. Are you feeling sorry for her?" "Maybe I understand her." And you just see it smack him across his face. His very pretty, freckled face.
I love the way they say "waste" instead of "kill." Just an aside.
"Lycanthropy might have a cure if you kill the werewolf that bit her, severing the bloodline." Or not, since it's really a magical alien disease. Right, Doctor?
"But I'm doing this because I'm trying to help you." It's an INTERVENTION!!! "...if this goes the way I pray it does..." Sammy said PRAY!
Look! It's Starla! *amuses self*
Wow, I liked that Glen was the other werewolf. Mmm, twisty.
Can I just say that the cheekbone claw marks look very, very sexy on Jared? Because they do. Very, very sexy.
And now, things I love about the Sam/Madison sex scene:
(A) He slammed her against the wall.
(B) Mole!
(C) Enormous hands of enormity, doing what they do best.
(D) Kissing her NECK.
(E) Jared's ARM HOLY FUCK.
(F) Actual SLEEPING together! Adorable! YAY!
I'm literally fanning myself with my hand, guys. I'm pretty sure my temperature just went up by, like, three degrees.
Oh, good God, I need to get some action. For serious.
Aww, everybody Sammy has sex with dies. Who thinks he was a virgin before Jess? Any takers?
MADDY! He called her MADDY! Fucking ADORABLE!
They're using music that Dean (and Kripke) would hate. Therefore I feel justified in potentially including The Smiths and Vertical Horizon in a potential fanmix.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELKFJAELFJASDKFJAFJASDFKJASLDFJASDFJASLKDJFSWINCHESTERSDAJFSDLFJSLFJSDJFSSSSERAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALDFJASLJFLADJFJDLSKJDEEEEEEEEEANDLFKJADFLJSLFJSDLKJSAMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!111eleventeen! DEAN!
I like that the whole episode seemed very Sam-centric, but then at the end, BAM! It was all Dean, baby. It took me totally by surprise. My dad's down here now and a "DEAN!" sneaked out before I clapped my hand over my mouth. And then there was whimpering.
I think I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now.
--
In the middle of the episode, I somehow managed to distract myself with my own meta about themes, continuity, and suspension of disbelief. I decided to put it under a separate cut because it's pretty heavy (and slightly rambly).
Kripke & Co. are really winning this season, I think, in terms of working this thematic element in of supernatural not necessarily being evil-- and then you get all of these subdivisions of what exactly evil is, and even if Madison's killing people, it's not intentional, and does that make it her fault?-- and I think they've done a good job with the progression of it. First they introduced it with "Bloodlust," and then came at it from a different angle with the stupid kid in "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" and with Andy and Ansom in "Simon Said," and then took it from a sort of general, practical problem in terms of hunting to a personal, immediate problem in "Hunted," and then "Houses of the Holy" and "Born Under a Bad Sign," and now "Roadkill" and "Heart." I mean, from where I'm standing, it looks like Kripke & Co. really have their shit together. They've been able to keep with the user (and new viewer)-friendly MOTW format but introduce and develop and sort of get the audience thinking about mytharc-related themes.
And I'm sure that there are some continuity issues, or things that you look at and go "WTF?" but as I've mentioned before, my last big fandom was The O.C., where things like "continuity" and "planning" and "storyline" were either obscenities or a foreign language. I mean, even in the fourth season, when it started getting better-ish, Schwartz & Co. were still doing things like making major revisions and contradictions of well-established and important pieces of first-season canon. So when on Supernatural I see recurrent thematic elements even in episodes that are technically non-mytharc-oriented, I'm quite impressed.
Of course, I also think that ties in to a little pet theory I have regarding believability, suspension of disbelief. The pilot of a TV show essentially establishes the characters and their roles on the show and shows you what you can expect. (It's kind of like the way the first few pages of a book establish your mindset for the rest of it.) I believe that establishes a baseline level of suspension of disbelief, and that if you like a show, you're prepared to suspend your disbelief to that baseline level, but not much more. This means that if a show starts out with a really cracky premise, like "4400 people who have disappeared over the past 50 years reappear over a lake in a ball of light," you'll be able to believe anything else that happens in that 'verse as long as you don't think it's crackier than 4400 people who have disappeared over the past 50 years reappearing on a lake in a ball of light. But if a show's basic premise is "a rich lawyer in Orange County takes in a delinquent kid," and it's supposed to take place in the real world, when really cracky things like an underground prostitution ring start happening, they're kind of hard to swallow unless you take a step out of yourself and force yourself to suspend your disbelief.
I guess what I'm getting at is that in the pilot, The O.C. said: "this is taking place now, in Orange County in California under the present laws and conditions of America, etc," and then it just went all these crazy places and things happened that couldn't happen in the real world, under the conditions the show had already established. This resulted in me not being able to follow it anymore because Marissa wouldn't really get kicked out of fancy-schmancy private school for shooting Trey to save Ryan if she wasn't in jail for it, you know? But Supernatural essentially established a policy of "this is America, now, and laws, etc, have to be dealt with, but anything fantastical you've ever heard of goes*" but is managing to put together what are, in my mind, really polished, focused storylines within those constraints.
*except unicorns, apparently...