Yessss. I fucking *sobbed* when I thought Benny was about to be killed and I just---where did that come from?! (I just rewatched it so I am on feelings overload at this point sorry...)
the intense, aesthetically pleasing Americana of it all.
^^^THIS. SO MUCH. It's possibly my favorite thing about the show, after the characters.
I also am really happy that they seem to be spending more time in the south lately. I'm (halfway---it's a torn between which of two places I could think of as home thing) from the south, and it's amazing how much less I hate it the older and more nostalgically inclined I get. :P But I think it's similar to what you said about driving across the country; there's something really great about the roots of a thing being a familiar to you... (is that what you said? Or am I totally reading into it?)
I'm so jealous of your childhood right now, by the way. ;)
I don't even know what to say about the cliffhanger. I'm so confused. I don't know what it says about me that I'm somewhat pissed off because I'm not dying about some cliffhanger right now, but...
I'VE MISSED TALKING TO YOU TOO (bloody school, getting in the way of more important things...)
Funnily, the South is the only major region of the country I've never been to (Tennessee really doesn't count, does it?), but I totally understand the feeling of nostalgia that comes with seeing a place you've got ties to faithfully rendered in fiction. And even though I've never been there, I adored the gorgeous dreamy, romantic quality the setting gave to that episode.
Honestly, though, it's not so much the actual places they visit that make me nostalgic for my childhood. It's the traveling, the bad fast food and the new skeevy motel room every night, the feeling of passing through a place and getting a sense of it without really knowing it, the sense of your entire world condensing to the size of one tiny car...that's what reminds me of growing up, and that's what made me fall in love with the show in the first place, and UGH I JUST REALLY MISS SEASON 1 RIGHT NOW.
Okay, sorry about the text dump. I swear, I'm making my childhood sound way, way more romantic than it actually was. We took a long road trip every summer. I got ridiculously invested in it. That's all.
Um, it's totally reasonable to be pissed off about lack of cliffhangers. A series is meant to maintain suspense in its audience, especially over a hiatus. Aside from good storytelling and literary technique and all that jazz, it's just sound economic sense. I mean, writing is hard and I'm forgiving, but they did kind of fail to maintain that suspense here. Better luck next time, I hope.
(Maybe we're meant to take the promo as our cliffhanger? Aaaand not knowing your policy on promos, I will not pursue that line of thought.)
I'm no expert on Tennessee. :P Gah, yeah, but I feel like that tone is in a way a "setting" of its own. Motel-land. Road-land. Places-are-indistinguishable-land. It's not one I really know, except for the car as an entire world... (I used to hide out in the car while my mom worked because she couldn't afford a baby-sitter. I think that's part of why I started writing, to be honest.) But. Yes. I MISS SEASON ONE TOOOO OMG. I just had a dream that I was trying to show some people the Pilot but the DVD wouldn't cooperate so they decided to watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory instead... //random sidenote.
THAT SOUNDS PLENTY ROMANTIC TO ME.
True... But if there was a cliffhsnger, I'd be SO FREAKED OUT RIGHT NOW. Instead I'm depressed. Whee. Maybe the cliffhanger is supposed to be how messed-up things are between the brothers right now... although I have a feeling we're just supposed to care about the secondary characters a lot more than I think anyone does. (This is Supernatural, we're ridiculously invested in OUR BOYS.)
Thus far I haven't watched any of the promos. Maybe I will, though... (cliffhanger, you say? I honestly never thought I would actively seek out a cliffhanger.) On the other hand, it's been a really long time in this show since I've not known what was going to happen...
the intense, aesthetically pleasing Americana of it all.
^^^THIS. SO MUCH. It's possibly my favorite thing about the show, after the characters.
I also am really happy that they seem to be spending more time in the south lately. I'm (halfway---it's a torn between which of two places I could think of as home thing) from the south, and it's amazing how much less I hate it the older and more nostalgically inclined I get. :P But I think it's similar to what you said about driving across the country; there's something really great about the roots of a thing being a familiar to you... (is that what you said? Or am I totally reading into it?)
I'm so jealous of your childhood right now, by the way. ;)
I don't even know what to say about the cliffhanger. I'm so confused. I don't know what it says about me that I'm somewhat pissed off because I'm not dying about some cliffhanger right now, but...
I'VE MISSED TALKING TO YOU SO MUCH. ♥ ♥
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Funnily, the South is the only major region of the country I've never been to (Tennessee really doesn't count, does it?), but I totally understand the feeling of nostalgia that comes with seeing a place you've got ties to faithfully rendered in fiction. And even though I've never been there, I adored the gorgeous dreamy, romantic quality the setting gave to that episode.
Honestly, though, it's not so much the actual places they visit that make me nostalgic for my childhood. It's the traveling, the bad fast food and the new skeevy motel room every night, the feeling of passing through a place and getting a sense of it without really knowing it, the sense of your entire world condensing to the size of one tiny car...that's what reminds me of growing up, and that's what made me fall in love with the show in the first place, and UGH I JUST REALLY MISS SEASON 1 RIGHT NOW.
Okay, sorry about the text dump. I swear, I'm making my childhood sound way, way more romantic than it actually was. We took a long road trip every summer. I got ridiculously invested in it. That's all.
Um, it's totally reasonable to be pissed off about lack of cliffhangers. A series is meant to maintain suspense in its audience, especially over a hiatus. Aside from good storytelling and literary technique and all that jazz, it's just sound economic sense. I mean, writing is hard and I'm forgiving, but they did kind of fail to maintain that suspense here. Better luck next time, I hope.
(Maybe we're meant to take the promo as our cliffhanger? Aaaand not knowing your policy on promos, I will not pursue that line of thought.)
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THAT SOUNDS PLENTY ROMANTIC TO ME.
True... But if there was a cliffhsnger, I'd be SO FREAKED OUT RIGHT NOW. Instead I'm depressed. Whee. Maybe the cliffhanger is supposed to be how messed-up things are between the brothers right now... although I have a feeling we're just supposed to care about the secondary characters a lot more than I think anyone does. (This is Supernatural, we're ridiculously invested in OUR BOYS.)
Thus far I haven't watched any of the promos. Maybe I will, though... (cliffhanger, you say? I honestly never thought I would actively seek out a cliffhanger.) On the other hand, it's been a really long time in this show since I've not known what was going to happen...
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