5.17 Reaction Post
UM. WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
Siege you almost had me there. You almost made me believe you were a capable writer.
And yet, here I am, feeling teased, put-out, unsatisfied, incredulous and just the dash of wtf. Thumbs up for giving it the good ol’ college try but let’s leave the important episodes to Sera Gamble and Ben Edlund from now on, like it’s supposed to be. Here is, in my usual way of expressing myself, how I felt throughout this episode:
I’m still trying to wrap my head around all this but here is a few points of FAIL, WIN and mediocre that Siege managed to score.
Plot- WIN
Execution of plot- mediocre
Directing- mediocre
Dean- FAIL
SAM- WIN
CAS- EPIC WN
Misha/Shanks scene- EPIC FAIL
Dean/Cas scenes- mediocre
~*SASSY*~ scenes- WIN : D
Samn’Dean scenes- mediocre
I think what I hate most about this episode is that there was gold here in these mines and they remain not only untapped but caved in by BS thrown in by Siege. I really enjoyed this episode despite Dean being a bitch and completely un-epithetic (AND I ALWAYS EMPATHIZE WITH DEAN, SEE WHAT YOU DO SIEGE!). The lack of Michael Shanks, a brilliant resource. And Lisa.
I liked Lisa, I really did. She’s one of the few spn gals that I do and I also prefer her to them bringing in a new gal for Dean to fall in love with but no. JUST NO. I tried. I sat at my computer after I watched it and I mulled it over for about a half an hour and I still came up no. See, right now I’m tossing it around in my brain and I’m making this face 8| . I’m sorry Lisa, your sweet hun and I adore Ben I really do but you and Dean? I just don’t see it. If Dean had a normal life from the get go then fine, have at it. But now? Nuh uh.
They hardly know each other. I mean really, they don’t. Friendly acquaintances who had a great sex run are all I see. They’re practically strangers and that’s just not how relationships work in the real world. Amazingly, you need more then great sex. Dean would make a great father to Ben and maybe even a great husband to Lisa and who knows perhaps he’d even be happy. But it would be shallow; it’d be too much like running away. And did I get around to the stranger part? Because really. That’s just not how it works. Give it a few years and massive about of counseling then come talk to me.
Most of all what the hell is with Dean going to some chick’s house that he knew years ago and telling her all the things he should be telling the people he really loves like Sam? Instead he ditches his brother and friend to promise protection to her? Okay, I’m sure he’s doing the same for Sam (but from the promos it doesn’t look like the same for Cas ; ~; ) but these are words and comfort he should be giving his brother. People who stood by him and fought for him and love him, not. random. chicks. That’s just lame. Really lame.
What I hate about this is that shows pull this shit all the time. The only way your heroes are going to ‘live happily ever after’ is if they have a romantic interest. Dean? All that horrific shit he went through? Would be all better if he had a gal waiting for him. Like a band-aid. Its pathetic storytelling and I thought I got away from it with Supernatural. The fact that the boys had no one, no happy ending tied up in a bow in the convenience of a pretty girl was one of its perks. I always, from the beginning, prayed that they wouldn’t take this turn for Dean. He always seemed the type who didn’t need it. A hero who’d be blissful if his brother was happy and healthy, the world in perfect shape and an open road of his own. But no. We’re going to have to go the ‘Hollywood’ way and have the prince save the princess from the dragon and, even though they know nothing about each other, they’re going to get married and live one of those endings are we?
I get that Lisa and Ben was his dream life. His white picket fence. He wants to protect the dream more than anything else but still. It’s like they’re trying to pull one over on us and I’m not buying into it.
This is why I don’t like Siege. Her themes are shallow. Predictable. Adolescent. And perfect for the channel she’s employed in. Its thing like this I expect out of the CW but not out of my show.
6.5 to 7/10
But, what ev. I’m probably just sprouting crankiness because it’s early in the morning and while it had so much going for it the episode has left me strung out. I’ll get my flail on about the preview for the 100th tomorrow.
Because really? DID YOU SEE THAT SHIT!? OMG. JUST- OMG. D:
Siege you almost had me there. You almost made me believe you were a capable writer.
And yet, here I am, feeling teased, put-out, unsatisfied, incredulous and just the dash of wtf. Thumbs up for giving it the good ol’ college try but let’s leave the important episodes to Sera Gamble and Ben Edlund from now on, like it’s supposed to be. Here is, in my usual way of expressing myself, how I felt throughout this episode:
I’m still trying to wrap my head around all this but here is a few points of FAIL, WIN and mediocre that Siege managed to score.
Plot- WIN
Execution of plot- mediocre
Directing- mediocre
Dean- FAIL
SAM- WIN
CAS- EPIC WN
Misha/Shanks scene- EPIC FAIL
Dean/Cas scenes- mediocre
~*SASSY*~ scenes- WIN : D
Samn’Dean scenes- mediocre
I think what I hate most about this episode is that there was gold here in these mines and they remain not only untapped but caved in by BS thrown in by Siege. I really enjoyed this episode despite Dean being a bitch and completely un-epithetic (AND I ALWAYS EMPATHIZE WITH DEAN, SEE WHAT YOU DO SIEGE!). The lack of Michael Shanks, a brilliant resource. And Lisa.
I liked Lisa, I really did. She’s one of the few spn gals that I do and I also prefer her to them bringing in a new gal for Dean to fall in love with but no. JUST NO. I tried. I sat at my computer after I watched it and I mulled it over for about a half an hour and I still came up no. See, right now I’m tossing it around in my brain and I’m making this face 8| . I’m sorry Lisa, your sweet hun and I adore Ben I really do but you and Dean? I just don’t see it. If Dean had a normal life from the get go then fine, have at it. But now? Nuh uh.
They hardly know each other. I mean really, they don’t. Friendly acquaintances who had a great sex run are all I see. They’re practically strangers and that’s just not how relationships work in the real world. Amazingly, you need more then great sex. Dean would make a great father to Ben and maybe even a great husband to Lisa and who knows perhaps he’d even be happy. But it would be shallow; it’d be too much like running away. And did I get around to the stranger part? Because really. That’s just not how it works. Give it a few years and massive about of counseling then come talk to me.
Most of all what the hell is with Dean going to some chick’s house that he knew years ago and telling her all the things he should be telling the people he really loves like Sam? Instead he ditches his brother and friend to promise protection to her? Okay, I’m sure he’s doing the same for Sam (but from the promos it doesn’t look like the same for Cas ; ~; ) but these are words and comfort he should be giving his brother. People who stood by him and fought for him and love him, not. random. chicks. That’s just lame. Really lame.
What I hate about this is that shows pull this shit all the time. The only way your heroes are going to ‘live happily ever after’ is if they have a romantic interest. Dean? All that horrific shit he went through? Would be all better if he had a gal waiting for him. Like a band-aid. Its pathetic storytelling and I thought I got away from it with Supernatural. The fact that the boys had no one, no happy ending tied up in a bow in the convenience of a pretty girl was one of its perks. I always, from the beginning, prayed that they wouldn’t take this turn for Dean. He always seemed the type who didn’t need it. A hero who’d be blissful if his brother was happy and healthy, the world in perfect shape and an open road of his own. But no. We’re going to have to go the ‘Hollywood’ way and have the prince save the princess from the dragon and, even though they know nothing about each other, they’re going to get married and live one of those endings are we?
I get that Lisa and Ben was his dream life. His white picket fence. He wants to protect the dream more than anything else but still. It’s like they’re trying to pull one over on us and I’m not buying into it.
This is why I don’t like Siege. Her themes are shallow. Predictable. Adolescent. And perfect for the channel she’s employed in. Its thing like this I expect out of the CW but not out of my show.
6.5 to 7/10
But, what ev. I’m probably just sprouting crankiness because it’s early in the morning and while it had so much going for it the episode has left me strung out. I’ll get my flail on about the preview for the 100th tomorrow.
Because really? DID YOU SEE THAT SHIT!? OMG. JUST- OMG. D: