Supernatural 1X20 - 1X22
You boys are supposedly professionals, and you've never heard of The Key Of Solomon before? Dudes. I have a couple pages of it in my nighttable drawer right now, and I'm just an armchair enthusiast.
Dean. I never dreamed when I saw those first few eps that you really *would* break my heart into little bitty pieces. Two standout moments of heartbreak (besides the obvious one): (1) When Dean says something like "You and Dad are so willing to sacrifice yourself for your revenge, but I'm the one who's going to bury you!" (2) When John is talking about how he wants all this to be over, and he says something like "I want Sam to be able to finish school. I want Dean to have a home." And it's just, yeah -- that's what he wants, more than anything. A real home. A real family. And then of course the big one: begging Sam to pick family over revenge, even as John is insisting "Kill me! Kill me and end it!" And Sam listens to Dean.
Between that and the car crash, I now understand the many cryptic "!!!!!" cut tags that appeared on my flist when that finale aired.
Also, now I can finally watch the Supernatural vids from VVC. Quick comments: "Ghost Song": the lyrics made no impression on me whatsoever, but the slow lurching rhythm was perfect for the creepiness of the show, and was used very effectively in the visuals. Definitely the eeriest of the vids. "Evening On The Ground": although I've heard the song before, I haven't listened to it often enough to really be able to parse it, lyrically or musically. It's sort of subtle and dense. So for me, this vid was all about the narrative and the visuals, and on that basis, it really worked, but I'll have to watch it several more times (what a hardship!) to be able to verbalize an explanation for why. "Seems Like A Long Time": I haven't heard this song in years, and I'd forgotten how much I love it. The soulfulness really captures the essential goodness of the Winchesters. This song is like a mirror image of "Evening...": they both focus on the family triad, but whereas "Evening..." seems to be saying "Look how fucked-up these relationships are, and it's only going to get worse," this one is more like, "Look how much they love each other -- surely there's got to be *some* way to overcome their increasingly fucked-up circumstances."
When you include "God Says Nothing Back" (which didn't make a strong impression on me, either positive or negative), there were two Sam POV vids, and two sort of omniscient POV focusing on the whole family. Where were the Dean-centric vids?
And one last piece of SPN trivia: John Winchester looks an awful lot like one of my favorite professors from grad school, though it's not as easy to see the resemblence in that picture, since he's ten times happier there than John ever looks.
Dean. I never dreamed when I saw those first few eps that you really *would* break my heart into little bitty pieces. Two standout moments of heartbreak (besides the obvious one): (1) When Dean says something like "You and Dad are so willing to sacrifice yourself for your revenge, but I'm the one who's going to bury you!" (2) When John is talking about how he wants all this to be over, and he says something like "I want Sam to be able to finish school. I want Dean to have a home." And it's just, yeah -- that's what he wants, more than anything. A real home. A real family. And then of course the big one: begging Sam to pick family over revenge, even as John is insisting "Kill me! Kill me and end it!" And Sam listens to Dean.
Between that and the car crash, I now understand the many cryptic "!!!!!" cut tags that appeared on my flist when that finale aired.
Also, now I can finally watch the Supernatural vids from VVC. Quick comments: "Ghost Song": the lyrics made no impression on me whatsoever, but the slow lurching rhythm was perfect for the creepiness of the show, and was used very effectively in the visuals. Definitely the eeriest of the vids. "Evening On The Ground": although I've heard the song before, I haven't listened to it often enough to really be able to parse it, lyrically or musically. It's sort of subtle and dense. So for me, this vid was all about the narrative and the visuals, and on that basis, it really worked, but I'll have to watch it several more times (what a hardship!) to be able to verbalize an explanation for why. "Seems Like A Long Time": I haven't heard this song in years, and I'd forgotten how much I love it. The soulfulness really captures the essential goodness of the Winchesters. This song is like a mirror image of "Evening...": they both focus on the family triad, but whereas "Evening..." seems to be saying "Look how fucked-up these relationships are, and it's only going to get worse," this one is more like, "Look how much they love each other -- surely there's got to be *some* way to overcome their increasingly fucked-up circumstances."
When you include "God Says Nothing Back" (which didn't make a strong impression on me, either positive or negative), there were two Sam POV vids, and two sort of omniscient POV focusing on the whole family. Where were the Dean-centric vids?
And one last piece of SPN trivia: John Winchester looks an awful lot like one of my favorite professors from grad school, though it's not as easy to see the resemblence in that picture, since he's ten times happier there than John ever looks.