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Supernatural: Lucifer Rising
YOU GUYS, WHY IS IT OVER ALREADY? WHY IS IT ALWAYS SHORTER THAN OTHER SHOWS? WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FUCKING COMMERCIALS AND HOW CAN WE WAIT ALL SUMMER FOR NEW SHOW?
Wow, Dean is pretty. (that is not a spoiler)
I feel like this was a very talky episode, considering we pretty much knew what was going to happen:
* killing Lilith frees Lucifer - check
* Ruby has her own agenda (the little fallen angel on Sam's shoulder) - check (I'm glad the personality change had a good reason, and yes Ruby, you really are freaking AWESOME)
* Ruby gets killed - check (and thanks for that return to season 3 form, guys. lovely.)
* Zachariah and the other angels want to bring on the apocalypse (I'm kind of sad he didn't actually say it was ineffable) - check
* God has left the building - check
* Dean's role is to be Michael the Archangel - check (I didn't recognize that particular painting, but Michael stepping on Lucifer's neck is a pretty famous subject of paintings - he's pretty much the original badass and smiter of evil)
* Likely against Sam as Lucifer's primed but unwilling vessel - well, we'll find out next season, won't we?
I'm sure people are going to be swooning over Castiel finally stepping up and doing something, but maybe if he'd butched up back in 4.16 they wouldn't be in this mess now, so no, sorry, no love for him from me. I still don't care about his doubts and his anguish and I was really happy when Dean slugged him (I was hoping he might do it a couple more times for good measure). I love that Dean told him to shove it.
I admit, when I first saw the clip of Bobby yelling at Dean, I wasn't pleased, but in context I think it works better, because I do feel for Dean and how Sam has lied and hidden from him at every turn since he's been back from hell, when what he's trying to do is protect Sam (and I still think he obviously has to come to some kind of understanding that he can't always do that - that sometimes he has to let Sam make choices, but Sam really did make the bad choice at every turn here, let himself be conned by Ruby, who told him everything he wanted to hear and played into his need for revenge and his desire to be the strong one and protect Dean, and also his belief that he always knows best - Pride goeth before a fall, Sammy, and you took a huge one, baby. *pets him* - but Dean really needed that kick in the ass. "I'm not sure if he's still my brother anymore. If he ever was." Oh, Dean. I feel you, but don't be an idiot. This is where the addiction storyline muddies the waters, and irritates me. Especially since it was apparently NOT EVEN NECESSARY (according to Ruby - he wasn't physically addicted? really? I just... ugh.)
I LOVED his phone call to Sam. (And HATED that the angels messed with it; I really wanted that to tip Sam off that it wasn't Dean, but I guess after last week, and his own hallucination of Dean saying those things, he was primed to believe it. I... have things to say about this, tied into my rant about the addiction storyline and the way it colors things.)
Zachariah's offer of Ginger (and MaryAnn) made me laugh extra hard, because of this. I could have done without his icky misogyny (two virgins and seventy sluts? I'd like to write it off as angelic disdain for humanity, but the show's issues make it hard to; same as Azazel's dismissal of the nuns as sluts - oh, Kripke, learn some new, non-gender-based insults, please?)
Why does Dean know The Suite Life of Zack and Cody? (Does this mean he's secretly a Hannah Montana fan? Wait, don't tell me. I really don't want to know.)
Of course, considering all the talky meat in this ep, when words were most necessary, Dean apparently didn't have any. Dean, honey, you are a MORON. You could have yelled, "SAMMY, LILITH IS THE FINAL SEAL! DON'T GANK HER!" Or something similar. I was sitting here yelling, "USE YOUR WORDS, DEAN!" I even said it to mousapelli on AIM.
I'm glad Dean didn't have to drink angel blood to do whatever it was he was going to do.
Oh, Sam, if you'd just listened to that little voice that said, "Maybe Dean was right about everything," things would have been better.
Zachariah mentioned senior management! WOLFRAM & HART! (I did think of Angel when Azazel killed all the nuns.)
I really liked Lilith's dress, though that actress's face is very odd. She looks like a cartoon. Or a muppet. It weirds me out.
I think you can tell how they had to string out the arc once they realized they were renewed. I wonder if the pacing will be wonky in marathoning the season. I feel like it might be.
Anyway, even if they are totally fucked with Lucifer showing up and Sam being an idiot for listening to Ruby and Dean being an idiot for not using his words, we got SAM AND DEAN TOGETHER AT THE END AND THERE WAS BROTHERTOUCHING so this summer is going to be a lot less fraught than I was afraid of.
It's going to be a long summer. Sigh.
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Um, I also watched Bones. I enjoyed it, though I thought it was kind of a weird episode to be a season finale. Now all I want is an AU Booth and Brennan BABY (I think it would be a bad idea in canon). And I kind of love that Brennan spends four days telling Booth about her CRAZY AU ID FIC that she's writing, where they're MARRIED and they OWN A CLUB and Booth would TOTES KILL FOR HER and everyone else would cover it up. And Cam is still badass as a lady cop and I'm so happy they brought Caroline back.
But still, generally aren't AU episodes supposed to tell us something new about the characters, show us some new angle? This just... let the cast have a lot of fun. I did enjoy seeing all the interns in a different light. Especially Clark Edison. He's a briefcase bomb!
I suppose the amnesia thing will kick off next season. Huh. Interesting.
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Now to stay up too late reading my flist to see what all y'all have to say.
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YOU GUYS, WHY IS IT OVER ALREADY? WHY IS IT ALWAYS SHORTER THAN OTHER SHOWS? WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FUCKING COMMERCIALS AND HOW CAN WE WAIT ALL SUMMER FOR NEW SHOW?
Wow, Dean is pretty. (that is not a spoiler)
I feel like this was a very talky episode, considering we pretty much knew what was going to happen:
* killing Lilith frees Lucifer - check
* Ruby has her own agenda (the little fallen angel on Sam's shoulder) - check (I'm glad the personality change had a good reason, and yes Ruby, you really are freaking AWESOME)
* Ruby gets killed - check (and thanks for that return to season 3 form, guys. lovely.)
* Zachariah and the other angels want to bring on the apocalypse (I'm kind of sad he didn't actually say it was ineffable) - check
* God has left the building - check
* Dean's role is to be Michael the Archangel - check (I didn't recognize that particular painting, but Michael stepping on Lucifer's neck is a pretty famous subject of paintings - he's pretty much the original badass and smiter of evil)
* Likely against Sam as Lucifer's primed but unwilling vessel - well, we'll find out next season, won't we?
I'm sure people are going to be swooning over Castiel finally stepping up and doing something, but maybe if he'd butched up back in 4.16 they wouldn't be in this mess now, so no, sorry, no love for him from me. I still don't care about his doubts and his anguish and I was really happy when Dean slugged him (I was hoping he might do it a couple more times for good measure). I love that Dean told him to shove it.
I admit, when I first saw the clip of Bobby yelling at Dean, I wasn't pleased, but in context I think it works better, because I do feel for Dean and how Sam has lied and hidden from him at every turn since he's been back from hell, when what he's trying to do is protect Sam (and I still think he obviously has to come to some kind of understanding that he can't always do that - that sometimes he has to let Sam make choices, but Sam really did make the bad choice at every turn here, let himself be conned by Ruby, who told him everything he wanted to hear and played into his need for revenge and his desire to be the strong one and protect Dean, and also his belief that he always knows best - Pride goeth before a fall, Sammy, and you took a huge one, baby. *pets him* - but Dean really needed that kick in the ass. "I'm not sure if he's still my brother anymore. If he ever was." Oh, Dean. I feel you, but don't be an idiot. This is where the addiction storyline muddies the waters, and irritates me. Especially since it was apparently NOT EVEN NECESSARY (according to Ruby - he wasn't physically addicted? really? I just... ugh.)
I LOVED his phone call to Sam. (And HATED that the angels messed with it; I really wanted that to tip Sam off that it wasn't Dean, but I guess after last week, and his own hallucination of Dean saying those things, he was primed to believe it. I... have things to say about this, tied into my rant about the addiction storyline and the way it colors things.)
Zachariah's offer of Ginger (and MaryAnn) made me laugh extra hard, because of this. I could have done without his icky misogyny (two virgins and seventy sluts? I'd like to write it off as angelic disdain for humanity, but the show's issues make it hard to; same as Azazel's dismissal of the nuns as sluts - oh, Kripke, learn some new, non-gender-based insults, please?)
Why does Dean know The Suite Life of Zack and Cody? (Does this mean he's secretly a Hannah Montana fan? Wait, don't tell me. I really don't want to know.)
Of course, considering all the talky meat in this ep, when words were most necessary, Dean apparently didn't have any. Dean, honey, you are a MORON. You could have yelled, "SAMMY, LILITH IS THE FINAL SEAL! DON'T GANK HER!" Or something similar. I was sitting here yelling, "USE YOUR WORDS, DEAN!" I even said it to mousapelli on AIM.
I'm glad Dean didn't have to drink angel blood to do whatever it was he was going to do.
Oh, Sam, if you'd just listened to that little voice that said, "Maybe Dean was right about everything," things would have been better.
Zachariah mentioned senior management! WOLFRAM & HART! (I did think of Angel when Azazel killed all the nuns.)
I really liked Lilith's dress, though that actress's face is very odd. She looks like a cartoon. Or a muppet. It weirds me out.
I think you can tell how they had to string out the arc once they realized they were renewed. I wonder if the pacing will be wonky in marathoning the season. I feel like it might be.
Anyway, even if they are totally fucked with Lucifer showing up and Sam being an idiot for listening to Ruby and Dean being an idiot for not using his words, we got SAM AND DEAN TOGETHER AT THE END AND THERE WAS BROTHERTOUCHING so this summer is going to be a lot less fraught than I was afraid of.
It's going to be a long summer. Sigh.
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Um, I also watched Bones. I enjoyed it, though I thought it was kind of a weird episode to be a season finale. Now all I want is an AU Booth and Brennan BABY (I think it would be a bad idea in canon). And I kind of love that Brennan spends four days telling Booth about her CRAZY AU ID FIC that she's writing, where they're MARRIED and they OWN A CLUB and Booth would TOTES KILL FOR HER and everyone else would cover it up. And Cam is still badass as a lady cop and I'm so happy they brought Caroline back.
But still, generally aren't AU episodes supposed to tell us something new about the characters, show us some new angle? This just... let the cast have a lot of fun. I did enjoy seeing all the interns in a different light. Especially Clark Edison. He's a briefcase bomb!
I suppose the amnesia thing will kick off next season. Huh. Interesting.
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Now to stay up too late reading my flist to see what all y'all have to say.
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