"Vampires... That just gets funnier every time I hear it."
The Alias tape was fine, so I watched it before Supernatural last night.
Sadly, as usual, Sydney herself was the most annoying part of the episode. Followed closely by Syd 2.0 Rachel. But everything else... pretty good.
Random observations:
Little blinky twinkle-light sonogrammed Rambaldi-baby. Don't tell me it isn't. Because you can't expect me to believe something called Prophet 5 doesn't have to do with the old geezer this late in the game. That baby is some kind of Rambaldi weirdness.
Weiss rocks. Loved seeing him so confident and in charge. And snarky. "Next time, just call." Hee!
I love Marshall on missions. He always seems to get such a kick out of it.
Dixon's new hair style. Cool, but when was he supposed to have had the time to grow it out like that?
Oh, Sydney honey. Please exhibit some signs of sanity and maternal protectiveness. You are ginormous and cannot rationally believe you ought to still be allowed out on missions. "Let's be honest, Sydney... Right now, you waddle." *snerk* I love Dixon.
Oooh! It's Jack-logic! I love Jack-logic! Why spend days skulking around obtaining information subtly when you can just call everybody together in one room and then shoot one of them? Hee! I'm going to miss Jack.
Hmm... Guess Tom isn't completely linguistically inept after all. Even if his accent is frightening. And he can lie through his teeth like a pro too. Poor dim Rachel. See, I knew Tom was more interesting.
Speaking of languages... If even I -with my two years of high school French- can tell that the subtitles don't match the dialogue, you know it's bad.
"You question Irina Derevko's loyalty?" Hee! Dude, everybody should question Irina Derevko's loyalty.
The Family Bristow is a riot. When Jack and Sydney play the father-daughter roles to run scams it's funny enough, but to add Irina to the mix... It doesn't get any more hilarious than that. All the doting and the beaming and the charmingness... "She has two such lovely role models." Oh, the irony. Hee!
Aww, I love my SpyParents. Irina still refers to Jack as "my husband" and everyone still knows exactly who she means. The sappy little smiles they exchange in Sydney's apartment are adorable. "Look at us. We're about to become grandparents." "I'm doing my best to ignore that." Heh. No matter how many times they try to kill and/or betray one another, nothing is really ever going to destroy their relationship. What could either of them ever possibly do to the other that they haven't already done?
Irina called Marshall to go fetch Jack and Sydney and baby Rambaldi-girl. Aww. Grandma does care. Hee!
Vaughn is alive. *yawn* Like anybody really dies on this show. I'm pretty sure he's close personal friends with Duncan McLeod anyway. What else could explain how he's managed to last this long despite all the times folks have tried to get rid of him?
And then there was Supernatural. Not bad either. Not brilliant though. It felt a little rushed.
More random observations:
Dean merely reading a newspaper should not be that hot.
Will have to go back with the Closed Captioning later to figure out what was under the storm warnings. Something about Elkins name in John's journal?
Floor-scratchings and pencil etchings. I think Dean has a knack for seeing patterns.
Lock-picking is a misdemeanor at the very least. It shouldn't look so hot either.
Hi, John! Interesting how much Dean starts muttering to himself once you show up. Like he knows the storm is already brewing between you and Sam again.
Sammy, you're not wrong. But wow, little brother, way to be a brat about it.
Interesting that Sam is the one driving while Dean is the one reading notes. *ponders* John's notes? Or did Dean bring Elkins' journal with him? I like the idea of Elkins' journal. And the thought of a Winchester Family archive that gets handed down to the next generation of ghostbusters. John's journal, Dean's journal, other hunters' journals...
Love how concerned Sam is about how long Dean is taking at the funeral parlor. Nice nod to how much of a team the brothers have become. Love that John doesn't even bother to look up when assuring him that Dean can handle it.
Good, long-overdue talk about college and leaving the family. Yes, Sam and John are far more alike than they are different. Reminds me of how much my mother and the mei-mei used to fight. Not because they were so different but because they were so similar. Of course, they never discussed college funds being spent for ammunition. Heh. Sammy, did you really think that money was still just lying around somewhere? He looked so momentarily... hopeful. But then the chuckling between the two of them over the absurdity of it all was cute.
Love how both boys slip into Southern Boy/Good Soldier mode when talking to their father. Really love how Sam still manages a "Yes, sir" so quickly even after he's been arguing with Dad, but how Dean stands stiff-jawed several times when he passive-aggressively disagrees.
Love that the sounds of Dean playing mediator can be heard throughout the Sam-John argument. It's so dreadfully obvious that this isn't the first time he's had to stand between these two.
Love that Dean has clearly been doing some hard thinking between "Shadows" and this ep. Love that he finally calls John on his crappy logic. Love that he doesn't shout about it the way Sam does, just firmly states it. And totally surprised both father and brother. Heh. The fact that neither John nor Sam expected that sort of thing from him bears further pondering. As does the fact that Dean was totally expecting an argument over it, but said it anyway. For He-Who-Does-Not-Rock-The-Boat, that was a big step.
Love the Gun. The little flashback montage was a bit confusing, but still sort of cool. Not so sure about how it's all supposed to work though. Is it just the gun or is it the thirteen bullets that are so special too? Six were used before the gun disappeared. Can't remember how many Elkins put into it or if there seemed to be anything unusual about them. Was the one John used special?
Love the crossbow too. And the machetes. And Dean's obvious envy of the truck's weapons locker. Hee!
Still, for all the things I loved about it, it didn't completely floor me or anything. Of course that could simply be because after two hours of Alias I was just tired.
The vampires threw me a little every time they were onscreen. I kept irrelevantly pondering why these people had become vampires and their general mythology. Do vampires only make other vampires out of people who are suitably skanky and inclined toward murder and mayhem to begin with? (Random aside: It amused me far more than it should that the woman Sam tries to rescue is the one who gives them away. Was she vamped and then left tied up because they didn't know how she'd "turn out" yet? Or was she not vamped and just totally freaked by waking up to find Sam three inches from her nose? Oddness.) Does something about the act of becoming a vampire change them (besides in just the obvious ways)?
Interesting how there was -just for an instant- something almost sympathetic about Luther and his plaintive question of "Why can't you just leave us alone?" Until, of course, you remember the whole killing and eating people thing and then you think okay, yeah maybe destroying them all is still a pretty good idea. And it was also interesting how they've set it up for a potential new confrontation in the future, what with the "once they have your scent, they have it for life" thing and the fact that they know the Winchesters by name now. On the other hand, they also know what a family of bad-asses the Winchesters are and might be quite inclined to stay out of their way, especially considering that they know the bad-asses also have a wicked killer Colt too. Still, I'm leaning more toward future confrontation than not.
Sadly, as usual, Sydney herself was the most annoying part of the episode. Followed closely by Syd 2.0 Rachel. But everything else... pretty good.
Random observations:
And then there was Supernatural. Not bad either. Not brilliant though. It felt a little rushed.
More random observations:
Still, for all the things I loved about it, it didn't completely floor me or anything. Of course that could simply be because after two hours of Alias I was just tired.
The vampires threw me a little every time they were onscreen. I kept irrelevantly pondering why these people had become vampires and their general mythology. Do vampires only make other vampires out of people who are suitably skanky and inclined toward murder and mayhem to begin with? (Random aside: It amused me far more than it should that the woman Sam tries to rescue is the one who gives them away. Was she vamped and then left tied up because they didn't know how she'd "turn out" yet? Or was she not vamped and just totally freaked by waking up to find Sam three inches from her nose? Oddness.) Does something about the act of becoming a vampire change them (besides in just the obvious ways)?
Interesting how there was -just for an instant- something almost sympathetic about Luther and his plaintive question of "Why can't you just leave us alone?" Until, of course, you remember the whole killing and eating people thing and then you think okay, yeah maybe destroying them all is still a pretty good idea. And it was also interesting how they've set it up for a potential new confrontation in the future, what with the "once they have your scent, they have it for life" thing and the fact that they know the Winchesters by name now. On the other hand, they also know what a family of bad-asses the Winchesters are and might be quite inclined to stay out of their way, especially considering that they know the bad-asses also have a wicked killer Colt too. Still, I'm leaning more toward future confrontation than not.