I think you summed up just about everything I felt about this episode as well -- especially Sam's hair -- someone needs to chain that boy into a barber's chair and snip it into submission.
For a long time I actually thought that the people who do hair on the show (whatever they're called, I can't be bothered to care) actually thought they were making him look good. But now I understand that no, he's actually meant to just have consistently stupid hair, that it's a major character trait and it was always deliberate. Because sweet mamma-jamma, that was traumatizing.
ooo I love the idea of Jo kind of being Tessa 2.0.
I definitely agree that Sam isn't 'fine', but I do believe him that he's done with the guilt.
And with Dean, I kind of hope that what they're going to do is show him basically hitting rock bottom this season but then being able to at least see that 10% of himself that he doesn't believe is crap. Like, not overly happy but not as depressing as it is right now, either.
A Sam without guilt is like a...well, I don't know what it's like, actually, because I'm having a tough time picturing it. ;p But I suppose it's possible. (Grudgingly.)
Mmm, Dean angst will never, ever get old. Does that make me a hopeless fangirl? Whatever, I've made peace with it.
If Dean ever got to a place where he wasn't perpetually at least borderline suicidal, it'd be the closest thing to a happy ending I'd ever expect for any of them. No foolin'.
I've definitely already seen this episode of Red Dwarf before.
Another review I read said it was a Star Trek plot. Ahhhhh tropes. I've got my fingers crossed for a musical episode, myself.
As for Osiris -- he was tooooooooooootally hamming it up. That's part of why I loved him! If I were an Egyptian god who's spent untold centuries running around fucking with people, I'd be just as hamtastic and charming.
What I don't get about Osiris is...if he's a god, why is he literally running round doing all his own dirty work?Shouldn't he have like minions of the underworld for that? Or something? And we're supposed to think he's lurking outside bars, literally grabbing people with his bare hands (something Gabriel didn't even have to do) and rushing them off to the barn where he then quickly changes into his godly duds and sits in a fancy chair? The logistics are confusing me...
And dammit, why are all the gods of the underworld charming? (Though I do think Osiris should be able to take Lucifer in a fight.)
As I recall from my limited studies of Egyptian mythology (mostly in the course of studying many mythologies concurrently), Egyptian deities were never much for having minions. They were hands on kinds of folks. Maybe Osiris just gets a kick out of hanging out in dive bars and abducting people with his bare hands. And, of course, this is a canon in which pagan gods in general can be offed using bits of broken up Christmas tree, soooooo. (How glad am I that they specified stabbing him with the shofar wouldn't be permanent? I cannot even describe. The whole "killing gods with sticks" thing has been a thorn in my side since season two.)
The whole barn thing kind of loses me, too. Maybe he felt it was homey.
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But yeah, it was sorta adorable back then. Now it just...aigh!
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I definitely agree that Sam isn't 'fine', but I do believe him that he's done with the guilt.
And with Dean, I kind of hope that what they're going to do is show him basically hitting rock bottom this season but then being able to at least see that 10% of himself that he doesn't believe is crap. Like, not overly happy but not as depressing as it is right now, either.
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Mmm, Dean angst will never, ever get old. Does that make me a hopeless fangirl? Whatever, I've made peace with it.
If Dean ever got to a place where he wasn't perpetually at least borderline suicidal, it'd be the closest thing to a happy ending I'd ever expect for any of them. No foolin'.
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Another review I read said it was a Star Trek plot. Ahhhhh tropes. I've got my fingers crossed for a musical episode, myself.
As for Osiris -- he was tooooooooooootally hamming it up. That's part of why I loved him! If I were an Egyptian god who's spent untold centuries running around fucking with people, I'd be just as hamtastic and charming.
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What I don't get about Osiris is...if he's a god, why is he literally running round doing all his own dirty work?Shouldn't he have like minions of the underworld for that? Or something? And we're supposed to think he's lurking outside bars, literally grabbing people with his bare hands (something Gabriel didn't even have to do) and rushing them off to the barn where he then quickly changes into his godly duds and sits in a fancy chair? The logistics are confusing me...
And dammit, why are all the gods of the underworld charming? (Though I do think Osiris should be able to take Lucifer in a fight.)
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The whole barn thing kind of loses me, too. Maybe he felt it was homey.
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