Hands off my MOTW!
Regarding my own bad timing and Spn 6.08.
I'm not even joking. I just finished writing a fic about Skinwalkers on Wednesday. Just my bad luck, because now not only has my story (a remix- the original dealt with a skinwalker also) been Kripke'd, but because I put so much effort into researching skinwalker lore for my story, the show's version seems extremely lazy in comparison. I mean, I've just read a lot of really interesting stuff about Skinwalkers, some of which I incorporated into my remix, some of which was already part of the original fic. But this week's show basically presented them as werewolves' domesticated cousins. Get bit, you turn, shoot 'em with a silver bullet, bada boom-bada bing. And there's nothing about why the dudes they work for look like the gangsters from Grand Theft Auto. All we know is that they have some cock-eyed plan to turn a bunch of families they've "infiltrated". But clearly their plan is deeply flawed: If all the guys they're recruiting are in a similar situation, won't they too have a hard time gnawing down on the necks of the families who have been cuddling them for weeks or months? Yeesh.
Anyway, Navajo Skinwalker lore is very cool and Skinwalkers, or yee naaldlooshii are only one type of evil-doers who practice the "Witchery Way", based on the subversion of Navajo traditions and the acting out of taboos like the killing of sacred animals and family members as well as necrophilia. They're extremely smart and notoriously hard to catch. And I guess I just feel like they got the shaft. Though, to be fair, if I had just watched it cold, without knowing shit about skinwalkers, I would have loved it.
Because there were things to LOVE:
SLEEPY!GROGGY!DEAN! I'd be very okay with every episode starting like this. NOM.
PUPPY! I am a sucker for dogs, and Lucky was awesome.I really felt for him.
LISA! Dean is still thinking about Lisa! Oh, heart!
STRAY PUPPY METAPHOR! Because what are Sam&Dean if not the ultimate...
SMART!DEAN! We are getting so much of him these days! I APPROVE!
SHARPSHOOTER!DEAN! Yes. Show, remind me that this is totally cannon as often as you please. Smokin' hot.
Vague allusions to the incompetence of the US criminal justice system/Guantanamo:
Dean: No, we make sure.
Sam: Really?
Dean: Before we hand him over to a lifetime of demon rape? Yeah, really.
If only everyone dragged into an interrogation box was handled by folks with Dean's kind of common sense/compassion.
And there were also things to THINK ABOUT:
How long is it gonna take for the boys to snag an Alpha?
Will Crowley really give Sam his soul back after just that, or will he string them along?
Is Sam still bullshitting Dean about... everything?
Is Dean buying it?
What the hell is a mouth-breathing dick-monkey?
Is it possibly for Dean to BE ANY HOTTER looking through the sight of a rifle?
Anyway, I'm gonna stick my neck out here to say that I doubt we should take Sam's roadside confession to Dean at face-value. I just can't believe Sam when he vaguely states that there's other stuff he remembers that makes him think he'd be better off with his soul. He can't even articulate one example, and I think it's because he doesn't know, because HE DOESN'T HAVE A SOUL.
This idea may be troubling to those fans who are itching for bro-bonding happy times to return. But the way I see it is, Show loves drama, and this season seems to be all about double-crosses, spies and lies and moles and Noir drama. If that's really the case, then wouldn't it be much more Noir-ish if it turned out that soulless!Sam has just been telling Dean what he wants to hear this whole time, culminating in some kind of dramatic scene where the boys finally have Sam's soul in their grasp and Sam snags it and attempts to destroy it somehow? OH THE DRAMA!
I'm not saying I'll be unhappy if Sam turns out to NOT be lying again. I'm just sayin', if I was writing the show, I wouldn't be expecting anything Sam says to be taken at face-value. Not when he has a soul, and ESPECIALLY without one.
Also also also!!! THE LITTLEST HOBO. ANYONE? Until tomorrow I'll just keep movin' on....
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