Supernatural, 13/22ths of a Season Behind
So, I've made it up to Episode 9 ("Home" which incidently is the same title for SGA's season 1, episode 9) and I have a few observations. I'm ONLY on 9 and I haven't seen anything past that so please keep that in mind when commenting and reccing. (Yes, yes, I cave like a flimsy card house.)
Yes, I'm still watching with the lights off. Candles, popcorn, blanket, etc. I don't know if it's me or the show, but it doesn't scare me. It startles me sometimes when something jumps out, but in general, we haven't gotten much of that. Mostly I think everything is hilarious and suspend everything I know about...everything, because dude, it's fun.
1. Dean Winchester is hilarious. He just is. Some of it is the way he's written, some of it is the faces Jensen Ackles makes. Some of it, I think, it probably unintentional, but I don't care. He's hilarious. Except when he's being a giant woobie.
2. This end thing where Sam is on the brink of peril and Dean rockets in with his shotgun to save the day? Seriously, is there an episode where that doesn't happen? (You can spoil yes or no, just not the details.) It has gone beyond "formulaic" into "trademark." (Still, not complaining. I suspect this will never get old.)
3. That icon that everyone has with the towel? You know what I'm talking about. Is that Dean or Sam? (Now that I know which is which.)
4. Sam occasionally looks six in some shots. It's vaguely disturbing.
5. Dean reminds me of Tim Drake. reccea and I were discussing this last night. John is driven by the loss of his wife. Sam is driven by the loss of Jessica. Dean...was what, five when his mother died? He saw it, he knows it was evil but...there's an issue of Young Justice where the kids are talking about how they want to do other things when they grow up and Superboy just wants to be Superman and Tim says something about how he would love to hang up the cape and stop being Robin. Because that would mean that everything in the world was right and there wasn't a need for him to do the job anymore. And I get the impression that Dean would be good with knocking back with a game and a beer, and his family...but only if there was nothing left to do. I feel a little sick for him, because nothing good can come of that.
6. Sam still needs a haircut. And some skillz, apparently.
7a. I so totally called the dark shape under the car in auto repair shop as John. I mean, c'mon.
7b. I'm not entirely convinced Sam couldn't sense John. I'm just not sure he knew what he was feeling. He seems to distrust his gut an awful lot for a paranormal expert.
7c. From John's last line in "Home" I sorta think Sam is the catalyst for something. HIS mother, HIS girlfriend, HIS desire for a normal life. (His name first in the credits but that's...supertextual?) HIS amazing latent psychic abilities. There's just something sorta wrong about it. (Don't tell me anything, I just want it on record in case I'm right.) ;)
8. Blood needs to stop dripping on people. I developed that squick somewhere in the last season of CSI: NY and...and no, just stop it. That said, the effect of repeating Mary's death with Jessica in the exact same sequence, 22 years later, was pretty effective. Woot.
9. There's this one scene in the introduction, in the replay of the events in Kansas, when Jeffrey Dean Morgan looks freakishly like Adam Arkin. Also, wow, they sucked at trying to differentiate "John, 1983" with "John, 2005."
10. Okay. Give me the Dean/Missouri. I mean, not actually romance, unless dude, there IS some, because that would be the most hilarious thing on the internet, but if there's a readable fic in which they both appear and exchange words? (And doesn't spoil anything terribly?) Hook me up. Sam's presence is negotiable.
Also, GIP, because reccea made me a shiny new present.
Yes, I'm still watching with the lights off. Candles, popcorn, blanket, etc. I don't know if it's me or the show, but it doesn't scare me. It startles me sometimes when something jumps out, but in general, we haven't gotten much of that. Mostly I think everything is hilarious and suspend everything I know about...everything, because dude, it's fun.
1. Dean Winchester is hilarious. He just is. Some of it is the way he's written, some of it is the faces Jensen Ackles makes. Some of it, I think, it probably unintentional, but I don't care. He's hilarious. Except when he's being a giant woobie.
2. This end thing where Sam is on the brink of peril and Dean rockets in with his shotgun to save the day? Seriously, is there an episode where that doesn't happen? (You can spoil yes or no, just not the details.) It has gone beyond "formulaic" into "trademark." (Still, not complaining. I suspect this will never get old.)
3. That icon that everyone has with the towel? You know what I'm talking about. Is that Dean or Sam? (Now that I know which is which.)
4. Sam occasionally looks six in some shots. It's vaguely disturbing.
5. Dean reminds me of Tim Drake. reccea and I were discussing this last night. John is driven by the loss of his wife. Sam is driven by the loss of Jessica. Dean...was what, five when his mother died? He saw it, he knows it was evil but...there's an issue of Young Justice where the kids are talking about how they want to do other things when they grow up and Superboy just wants to be Superman and Tim says something about how he would love to hang up the cape and stop being Robin. Because that would mean that everything in the world was right and there wasn't a need for him to do the job anymore. And I get the impression that Dean would be good with knocking back with a game and a beer, and his family...but only if there was nothing left to do. I feel a little sick for him, because nothing good can come of that.
6. Sam still needs a haircut. And some skillz, apparently.
7a. I so totally called the dark shape under the car in auto repair shop as John. I mean, c'mon.
7b. I'm not entirely convinced Sam couldn't sense John. I'm just not sure he knew what he was feeling. He seems to distrust his gut an awful lot for a paranormal expert.
7c. From John's last line in "Home" I sorta think Sam is the catalyst for something. HIS mother, HIS girlfriend, HIS desire for a normal life. (His name first in the credits but that's...supertextual?) HIS amazing latent psychic abilities. There's just something sorta wrong about it. (Don't tell me anything, I just want it on record in case I'm right.) ;)
8. Blood needs to stop dripping on people. I developed that squick somewhere in the last season of CSI: NY and...and no, just stop it. That said, the effect of repeating Mary's death with Jessica in the exact same sequence, 22 years later, was pretty effective. Woot.
9. There's this one scene in the introduction, in the replay of the events in Kansas, when Jeffrey Dean Morgan looks freakishly like Adam Arkin. Also, wow, they sucked at trying to differentiate "John, 1983" with "John, 2005."
10. Okay. Give me the Dean/Missouri. I mean, not actually romance, unless dude, there IS some, because that would be the most hilarious thing on the internet, but if there's a readable fic in which they both appear and exchange words? (And doesn't spoil anything terribly?) Hook me up. Sam's presence is negotiable.
Also, GIP, because reccea made me a shiny new present.