SPN!
Okay, the friendathon fic is dead, as in "ding, dong, the witch is," and I am free to catch up on episode reviews!
These are coming to you courtesy of feliciakw, who sent me a DVD of S3 eps. Sometimes I think that she and izhilzha are competing to see who can enable me more in the area of Supernatural fandom.
The Magnificent Seven
Wow, the new title card is very...very. I think I liked the Season 2 titles better, this is just a little too much, with the swirly purpleness and the flashing Devil's Trap or whatever that is. And I am opposed to voiceovers, so I hope this one doesn't stick around for all the recaps from now on.
Boys! You are so pretty and funny, and I missed you! I think I was without brand new eps for all of, what, three or four weeks? Whatever, I'm a Winchester junkie.
I think I'm going to like this season, if Dean continues to react to having a single year to live by being this happy-go-lucky. Last season was so rough on him, and while he is very pretty while angsting, I missed happy!Dean.
Okay, I really wanted to like Isaac and Tamara. A married couple that hunts monsters together is hard for me not to like. But for some reason, they just didn't work all that well for me. I don't even know why, really.
Aaand what's the deal with everyone (including, apparently, Sam) seeming to think that it's the Winchesters' fault that the Devil's Gate got opened? Did I miss something? Because I distinctly remember them trying to prevent it from being opened, albeit they didn't know exactly what they were trying to prevent at the time. Even if you count the fact that the YED wouldn't have had the Colt if it weren't for John (a fact I rather question anyone else knowing) that still doesn't make it the boys' fault, unless Hunters reckon things according to some very antiquated system of blame-laying wherein the sins of the father are visited upon his offspring, or something. This annoys me. But anyway.
Bobby inna suit! Ha!
The scene in the bar with the drain-o? Reeeally freaked me out. To a surprising degree. *hides under couch cushions*
I love that Dean persists in making pop culture references at inappropriate times despite the fact that nobody else ever gets them. *pets him*
I like how they turn that whole building into a Demon Slaying House o' Fun. Good times.
Alright, I liked Tamara for a minute when her husband's possessed corpse was hollering to be let in. Bobby reminded her "That's not Isaac," and she nodded and squeezed her eyes shut, as if to say "I know, but that doesn't make this any easier." That was a really cool little bit for her, but then she ruined it a few seconds later, when the demon started spouting off about some vow made at Lake Michigan, and she's all "How could it know that?" As if somehow that really could be her husband, still, despite drain-o chugging and everything. Hello? Demon possession? You are a hunter, are you not? How are you this easily gotten-to?
So, Ruby. I don't know when we finally find out her name, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't have one, yet, but I already knew that's who she was, so we're going to use the name, here. All I'm going to say right now is that having a little blond chick sweep in, out-fight and out-cool the heroes, unload some cryptic and too-cool-for-school one-liners, and sweep back out? That is edging reeeeally close to Mary Sue territory, right there. Really, uncomfortably close.
Ubiquitous Debrief With Car: *hugs them both liek whoa*
The Kids Are Alright
To quote ambderdulen: OH MAN, YOU GUYS!
I will never stop flailing. Ever. Dean + kid is always equal to happiness and squee. Dean + Ben the Preternaturally Dean-like Child basically nuked my brain. So. Much. Flail.
On a slightly more critical note, they really laid it on a little thick, making Ben so very much a tiny caricature of Dean, in that first scene where they meet. I mean really, people. The cake with race cars and the identical scoping-out-hot-chick postures were one thing. But how does a kid that age get exposed to AC/DC if he has no dad? And where does he pick up the casual use of the term "hot chicks"? There's a point at which it's over the top, guys.
But really, it's hard to care too much about any of that. Because FLAILING AT THE CUTE!! Dean's expression as he does the math in his head is priceless. And Ben is so cute and squishy and punky and I want twelve of him, plzkthnx!
(You guys, I need to have a kid. Really. The baby fever is getting sort of ridiculous, now.)
Most disgustingly precious and made-me-flail exchange in this whole episode:
BEN: No, don't go over there. Only bitches send a grown-up
DEAN: You're not wrong.
BEN: And I am not a bitch.
For more made-me-flail-omg, see the final scene with Dean and Lisa. Guh. With Dean being more than halfway disappointed that Ben's not his kid, after all, and the whole "It's not my life" thing, and. Just. Guh.
Oh, Sam was in this episode, too, wasn't he? So sorry, Sam, dear. Let's see. In this episode, Sam had angst, did research into breaking Dean's deal, tried not very successfully to conceal said research, encountered Ruby (who ate his fries) again, did more research, and made some troubling discoveries.
Also, there was this whole thing with changelings, which was notable mostly for the fact that it made Ernie nearly crawl under the couch because creepy little kids are her terror trigger.
So something's up with the demon and Mary and all of Mary's friends and relations. I'm assuming this will be important later, so hopefully I won't forget all about it.
Ruby again: I like her rather better in this episode, at least in the diner scene where she's stealing Sam's fries and squeezing out a gallon of ketchup and being snarky and sort of amusing. Still giving off a slight whiff of Sue, but I could get over it if she starts being amusing like this on a regular basis. Also, she says she can save Dean, which would be good. Though as it turns out, she's a demon, so maybe not. Hm. A demon who kills other demons? Not hunts them, it seems, since she only seemed to care about killing the ones who were gunning for Sam, and that is...worrying. Hm, again.
Bad Day At Black Rock
*collapses in helpless giggles*
Dear Sam Winchester: Please be my tv boyfriend forever and ever. Love, Marie.
I really just spend this whole episode giggling and wanting to pet Sam on the head. Dean is hilarious, too ("I am Batman!") but Sam is the one who really gets me, with the whole fall-down-go-boom routine. It's like he spends the entire episode vaguely channeling David Boreanaz as Angel, and being mildly bewildered. Oh, Sam.
John's storage compartment is six kinds of cool, isn't it? I like that he has one, because really, even he would need more space to keep things than just his truck. The boys seem to make do with the Impala, though that seems to have as much to do with the fact that there's a freaking TARDIS in the trunk as their ability to keep their material possessions to a minimum. But John was at this for a long, long time, and he would eventually have needed someplace like this. I love the fact that the curse boxes, the weird schtuff, the back-up arsenal, are thrown in with random items of sentimental value. Like even John Friggin' Winchester can't escape the odd piece of dust-collecting nostalgia, but he's still John Friggin' Winchester, so the nostalgia had better get comfy rubbing elbows with ammo and monster bones.
"I lost my shoe," is now a confirmed inclusion in the Anderson Family Lexicon of Movie and TV Quotes for All Occasions.
Also: Bobby is awesome. Just because I hadn't said it in a while.
So, Bela. *considers* Again, I was kind of disposed to dislike her initially on the principle that her debut sort of reeks of Mary Sue. Perhaps more so than it would normally thanks to the fact that she comes in right on Ruby's heels as it were. Also, her under-bite sort of gets underfoot, sometimes. However, of the two characters, I like Bela's better. The whole Vala Mal Doran thing she has going on works well, I think, and it's fun seeing her and Dean bounce off of each other verbally. I especially loved "It was a shoulder hit, I can aim." Hee. So I guess how much I end up liking Bela will depend on where they go with her. As long as her eyes don't start changing purple when she's angry, or anything, I think I'll be fine with her. Anyway, it just occurred to me that I was 100% okay with Gwen, the cat burglar with Jenny Sparks-style powers and vinyl hot pants, when she showed up on Angel, so how could I possibly have a problem with Bela? We shall blame it all on Ruby, who is a demon, after all. Yes. That makes sense.
I think that's all for the day, I have all kinds of plot bunnies that have been gnawing at me while I wrote my friendathon fic, and I'd like to go play with a few of them, now.
These are coming to you courtesy of feliciakw, who sent me a DVD of S3 eps. Sometimes I think that she and izhilzha are competing to see who can enable me more in the area of Supernatural fandom.
The Magnificent Seven
Wow, the new title card is very...very. I think I liked the Season 2 titles better, this is just a little too much, with the swirly purpleness and the flashing Devil's Trap or whatever that is. And I am opposed to voiceovers, so I hope this one doesn't stick around for all the recaps from now on.
Boys! You are so pretty and funny, and I missed you! I think I was without brand new eps for all of, what, three or four weeks? Whatever, I'm a Winchester junkie.
I think I'm going to like this season, if Dean continues to react to having a single year to live by being this happy-go-lucky. Last season was so rough on him, and while he is very pretty while angsting, I missed happy!Dean.
Okay, I really wanted to like Isaac and Tamara. A married couple that hunts monsters together is hard for me not to like. But for some reason, they just didn't work all that well for me. I don't even know why, really.
Aaand what's the deal with everyone (including, apparently, Sam) seeming to think that it's the Winchesters' fault that the Devil's Gate got opened? Did I miss something? Because I distinctly remember them trying to prevent it from being opened, albeit they didn't know exactly what they were trying to prevent at the time. Even if you count the fact that the YED wouldn't have had the Colt if it weren't for John (a fact I rather question anyone else knowing) that still doesn't make it the boys' fault, unless Hunters reckon things according to some very antiquated system of blame-laying wherein the sins of the father are visited upon his offspring, or something. This annoys me. But anyway.
Bobby inna suit! Ha!
The scene in the bar with the drain-o? Reeeally freaked me out. To a surprising degree. *hides under couch cushions*
I love that Dean persists in making pop culture references at inappropriate times despite the fact that nobody else ever gets them. *pets him*
I like how they turn that whole building into a Demon Slaying House o' Fun. Good times.
Alright, I liked Tamara for a minute when her husband's possessed corpse was hollering to be let in. Bobby reminded her "That's not Isaac," and she nodded and squeezed her eyes shut, as if to say "I know, but that doesn't make this any easier." That was a really cool little bit for her, but then she ruined it a few seconds later, when the demon started spouting off about some vow made at Lake Michigan, and she's all "How could it know that?" As if somehow that really could be her husband, still, despite drain-o chugging and everything. Hello? Demon possession? You are a hunter, are you not? How are you this easily gotten-to?
So, Ruby. I don't know when we finally find out her name, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't have one, yet, but I already knew that's who she was, so we're going to use the name, here. All I'm going to say right now is that having a little blond chick sweep in, out-fight and out-cool the heroes, unload some cryptic and too-cool-for-school one-liners, and sweep back out? That is edging reeeeally close to Mary Sue territory, right there. Really, uncomfortably close.
Ubiquitous Debrief With Car: *hugs them both liek whoa*
The Kids Are Alright
To quote ambderdulen: OH MAN, YOU GUYS!
I will never stop flailing. Ever. Dean + kid is always equal to happiness and squee. Dean + Ben the Preternaturally Dean-like Child basically nuked my brain. So. Much. Flail.
On a slightly more critical note, they really laid it on a little thick, making Ben so very much a tiny caricature of Dean, in that first scene where they meet. I mean really, people. The cake with race cars and the identical scoping-out-hot-chick postures were one thing. But how does a kid that age get exposed to AC/DC if he has no dad? And where does he pick up the casual use of the term "hot chicks"? There's a point at which it's over the top, guys.
But really, it's hard to care too much about any of that. Because FLAILING AT THE CUTE!! Dean's expression as he does the math in his head is priceless. And Ben is so cute and squishy and punky and I want twelve of him, plzkthnx!
(You guys, I need to have a kid. Really. The baby fever is getting sort of ridiculous, now.)
Most disgustingly precious and made-me-flail exchange in this whole episode:
BEN: No, don't go over there. Only bitches send a grown-up
DEAN: You're not wrong.
BEN: And I am not a bitch.
For more made-me-flail-omg, see the final scene with Dean and Lisa. Guh. With Dean being more than halfway disappointed that Ben's not his kid, after all, and the whole "It's not my life" thing, and. Just. Guh.
Oh, Sam was in this episode, too, wasn't he? So sorry, Sam, dear. Let's see. In this episode, Sam had angst, did research into breaking Dean's deal, tried not very successfully to conceal said research, encountered Ruby (who ate his fries) again, did more research, and made some troubling discoveries.
Also, there was this whole thing with changelings, which was notable mostly for the fact that it made Ernie nearly crawl under the couch because creepy little kids are her terror trigger.
So something's up with the demon and Mary and all of Mary's friends and relations. I'm assuming this will be important later, so hopefully I won't forget all about it.
Ruby again: I like her rather better in this episode, at least in the diner scene where she's stealing Sam's fries and squeezing out a gallon of ketchup and being snarky and sort of amusing. Still giving off a slight whiff of Sue, but I could get over it if she starts being amusing like this on a regular basis. Also, she says she can save Dean, which would be good. Though as it turns out, she's a demon, so maybe not. Hm. A demon who kills other demons? Not hunts them, it seems, since she only seemed to care about killing the ones who were gunning for Sam, and that is...worrying. Hm, again.
Bad Day At Black Rock
*collapses in helpless giggles*
Dear Sam Winchester: Please be my tv boyfriend forever and ever. Love, Marie.
I really just spend this whole episode giggling and wanting to pet Sam on the head. Dean is hilarious, too ("I am Batman!") but Sam is the one who really gets me, with the whole fall-down-go-boom routine. It's like he spends the entire episode vaguely channeling David Boreanaz as Angel, and being mildly bewildered. Oh, Sam.
John's storage compartment is six kinds of cool, isn't it? I like that he has one, because really, even he would need more space to keep things than just his truck. The boys seem to make do with the Impala, though that seems to have as much to do with the fact that there's a freaking TARDIS in the trunk as their ability to keep their material possessions to a minimum. But John was at this for a long, long time, and he would eventually have needed someplace like this. I love the fact that the curse boxes, the weird schtuff, the back-up arsenal, are thrown in with random items of sentimental value. Like even John Friggin' Winchester can't escape the odd piece of dust-collecting nostalgia, but he's still John Friggin' Winchester, so the nostalgia had better get comfy rubbing elbows with ammo and monster bones.
"I lost my shoe," is now a confirmed inclusion in the Anderson Family Lexicon of Movie and TV Quotes for All Occasions.
Also: Bobby is awesome. Just because I hadn't said it in a while.
So, Bela. *considers* Again, I was kind of disposed to dislike her initially on the principle that her debut sort of reeks of Mary Sue. Perhaps more so than it would normally thanks to the fact that she comes in right on Ruby's heels as it were. Also, her under-bite sort of gets underfoot, sometimes. However, of the two characters, I like Bela's better. The whole Vala Mal Doran thing she has going on works well, I think, and it's fun seeing her and Dean bounce off of each other verbally. I especially loved "It was a shoulder hit, I can aim." Hee. So I guess how much I end up liking Bela will depend on where they go with her. As long as her eyes don't start changing purple when she's angry, or anything, I think I'll be fine with her. Anyway, it just occurred to me that I was 100% okay with Gwen, the cat burglar with Jenny Sparks-style powers and vinyl hot pants, when she showed up on Angel, so how could I possibly have a problem with Bela? We shall blame it all on Ruby, who is a demon, after all. Yes. That makes sense.
I think that's all for the day, I have all kinds of plot bunnies that have been gnawing at me while I wrote my friendathon fic, and I'd like to go play with a few of them, now.