On The Working Title.
Okay, Supernatural. You know I love you, and considered episode-by-episode, rather than as a whole, Season Four is so far looking like one of the best series/seasons of anything I've ever watched. But three of the four most recent episodes have been silly episodes, and I am pretty desperate for some angst at the moment.
I am especially desperate for angst following the revelation that Dean remembers Hell. Dean has been suffering worse-than-imaginable torments for the equivalent of forty years, and yet three of the eight episodes since he rose have been light and silly? There's something not quite right there. (Has he been able to remember since 'Lazarus Rising'? I thought his Lilith-hallucination in 'Yellow Fever' might have represented the memories returning to him, but now it seems that perhaps he's had those memories all along. You'd think he'd be more messed up about it, surely.)
Incidentally (oh man there's a bad pun), I liked the music during that final scene. (The incidental music in Supernatural is often rather pretty. I sometimes want to rewatch 'Scarecrow' and 'Croatoan' purely for Christopher Lennertz's score.)
When the episode opened on a woman in the shower, I couldn't help rolling my eyes. For goodness' sake, Supernatural, you've already had two female-death-in-the-shower scenes! But then they didn't actually kill her, so I can sort of forgive them. (In fact, was that a rare 'everybody lives' episode? Er, well, Sam died, but he got better. So.)
Gigantic living teddy bear: possibly the weirdest thing Supernatural has ever come up with. I applaud you, writers. I back slowly away from you at the same time, but I applaud you.
AMAZING THINGS:
"Are we... should we... are we going to kill this teddy bear?"
"How? Huh? Shoot it? Burn it?
"I don't know. ...both?"
I laughed so hard.
Anyway, it was a fun episode (if one that felt at times as if it were trying a little too hard to be quotable), but I am so ready for an episode full of plot and pain and woe and Castiel and Ruby and Castiel/Ruby and tension in the Winchesters' relationship. (Seriously, where has Ruby gone?) Of course, knowing Supernatural, there's a more-than-fair chance that all the silly episodes are here to lull us into a false sense of security before the writers, I don't know, skin the Winchesters alive or something.