I feel that this is mostly coherent....mostly (fever, remember, fever)
Alright, so, we've got
Sam the Dark Messiah - or not, given the fact that I think the dark Messiah is rising over Hollywood in the west, but the symbolism with his being tied up and nailed to the ground as though he was on a cross was kind of loud and blaring, etc. Plus, evil dude tried to break his legs. Interesting that he defeated the evil guy with the exact same thing that threatened to defeat Dean, a cruel father. More rumblings of Cain and Abel. Also the whole, 'I am a god, you're an insect' thing (btw, was that supposed to be what Bobby's house looked like outside before it became a lot full of dead cars?), given that Sam reversed their positions, makes you think. Would Sam's powers eventually take him to that place? He's already lost a lot of that gentleness and respect for human life as it is and he doesn't even think he still has his powers (although I'm sure that's what came through for him here). If Dean's life is on the line and he ends up being uber!Sam, will he have to be talked down from attempting to actually be God? Or something like it? Am I reading too much into this?
Jensen Ackles in role of Acting God - I hope I'm not just a screaming fangirl at this point, because it means anything I squee over will have pretty much no value. But seriously, he had me on the edge of tears in That Scene (you better know which one I'm talking about). It hurt, it just hurt so much to watch that I was actually whimpering. And I mention it especially because the dialogue wasn't particularly original there; they pretty much had him spitting accusations but Jensen made it work so well. I kind of felt that Dean's reaction was a bit too...exact; all things considered, he could have been slightly less articulate, but even then, EVEN THEN, I think I was holding my breath. Just watching him stand there and take it with that little Dean smile on his face...oh, God. And he sold demon!Dean, too. I feel like most actors would have over/under-acted that and it would have come off as cheesy because the dialogue was, again, so simple, but Jensen was absolutely chilling there. Even moreso than Jared omg i did not just say that because comparing them is WRONG, wrong I tell you...XD That 'You're gonna die' is kind of haunting me. Like, right now. What was that again about Dean having no emotional baggage? I have to say, though, that if Jared hadn't been so subtle when Dean said he wanted to live, that scene in the car would have fallen flat next to the revelation in Dean's head so props to Padalecki for that. The way his face just softened was perfect in its subtlety, and he managed to put a lot of determination (and menace) behind that 'Ok' when saying they'd find a way.
There is no escape - seemed to be The Theme, since hunters are the ultimate escapists and dreams the ultimate route to escape. Also...because I'm digging that deep, alcohol (Heineken - really, why'd they have to go after the Heine, it's my fav) is another route to escape, and one Sam seems to try and use (like dear old dad). You've got Bela, Sam, John and psycho kid who all started running from what they knew and all got other people hurt in the process (to greater and lesser degrees of culpability). And then you've got Dean and Bobby who imbibed all those feelings of failure and ended up only hurting themselves. I guess Bela and the psycho kid parallel more since neither one stopped running and both seemed(seem) to see their own goal as a right and any collateral damage (which they both could clearly see) as irrelevant since they view themselves as above other people because of what was taken from them(perhaps the kid's death is foreshadowing....please, let it be foreshadowing). Sam and John I think honestly didn't mean to hurt anyone in their approach, and I don't think realized that that was what they were doing at the time, it was just the inevitable fallout in both cases. Sam and Dean are also kind of in their own categories because of each other; Sam couldn't keep running because Dean wouldn't let him and Dean could never completely isolate himself like Bobby did because he always had Sam. So where Bobby, John, Bela and the kid all sort of got caught up in their escapes to the point where they were just locked in another trap, Dean and Sam always had a way out in each other, even if ultimately, the trap had to be sprung individually. Running leaves you alone, I guess (as do dreams, despite how nice they may be), given that the only way Dean was able to bring Bobby back was by telling him that he wasn't alone and that there were people he hadn't failed.
Yes.
I still have no idea what the Sam/Bela scene was supposed to mean unless they were just trying to get us to connect both of their efforts to escape what they know about the Supernatural world (Bela by selling off objects willy-nilly, Sam by pretending he didn't know what he did and going to college...uh, in case I didn't make that clear). Um...meaningless sex is an escape? I'm really digging here, folks, really.
The Little Things - I miss Ruby. Yay acid trip? The bright colors didn't really bother me all that much for once (although they did in the hospital, just because Bobby's situation reminded me of IMTOD and that hospital was so much darker). Regardless of how pointless that Sam/Bela scene was, Jared was hilarious about it, which was how I swallowed it. Yay happy upbeat music during the depressing bar scene in the beginning (does anyone know what song that was because I kind of want it). And...um, that's it, I suppose. Unless I think up more later.
Surprisingly, they weren't tacky enough to actually play that 'dream a little dream of me' song in this episode. I remember someone saying, while we were watching Faith that only SPN would be special enough to play 'Don't Fear the Reaper' just as Dean announces it's a reaper they're looking for, SO DO NOT LAUGH AT MY SHOCK.
Sam the Dark Messiah - or not, given the fact that I think the dark Messiah is rising over Hollywood in the west, but the symbolism with his being tied up and nailed to the ground as though he was on a cross was kind of loud and blaring, etc. Plus, evil dude tried to break his legs. Interesting that he defeated the evil guy with the exact same thing that threatened to defeat Dean, a cruel father. More rumblings of Cain and Abel. Also the whole, 'I am a god, you're an insect' thing (btw, was that supposed to be what Bobby's house looked like outside before it became a lot full of dead cars?), given that Sam reversed their positions, makes you think. Would Sam's powers eventually take him to that place? He's already lost a lot of that gentleness and respect for human life as it is and he doesn't even think he still has his powers (although I'm sure that's what came through for him here). If Dean's life is on the line and he ends up being uber!Sam, will he have to be talked down from attempting to actually be God? Or something like it? Am I reading too much into this?
Jensen Ackles in role of Acting God - I hope I'm not just a screaming fangirl at this point, because it means anything I squee over will have pretty much no value. But seriously, he had me on the edge of tears in That Scene (you better know which one I'm talking about). It hurt, it just hurt so much to watch that I was actually whimpering. And I mention it especially because the dialogue wasn't particularly original there; they pretty much had him spitting accusations but Jensen made it work so well. I kind of felt that Dean's reaction was a bit too...exact; all things considered, he could have been slightly less articulate, but even then, EVEN THEN, I think I was holding my breath. Just watching him stand there and take it with that little Dean smile on his face...oh, God. And he sold demon!Dean, too. I feel like most actors would have over/under-acted that and it would have come off as cheesy because the dialogue was, again, so simple, but Jensen was absolutely chilling there. Even moreso than Jared omg i did not just say that because comparing them is WRONG, wrong I tell you...XD That 'You're gonna die' is kind of haunting me. Like, right now. What was that again about Dean having no emotional baggage? I have to say, though, that if Jared hadn't been so subtle when Dean said he wanted to live, that scene in the car would have fallen flat next to the revelation in Dean's head so props to Padalecki for that. The way his face just softened was perfect in its subtlety, and he managed to put a lot of determination (and menace) behind that 'Ok' when saying they'd find a way.
There is no escape - seemed to be The Theme, since hunters are the ultimate escapists and dreams the ultimate route to escape. Also...because I'm digging that deep, alcohol (Heineken - really, why'd they have to go after the Heine, it's my fav) is another route to escape, and one Sam seems to try and use (like dear old dad). You've got Bela, Sam, John and psycho kid who all started running from what they knew and all got other people hurt in the process (to greater and lesser degrees of culpability). And then you've got Dean and Bobby who imbibed all those feelings of failure and ended up only hurting themselves. I guess Bela and the psycho kid parallel more since neither one stopped running and both seemed(seem) to see their own goal as a right and any collateral damage (which they both could clearly see) as irrelevant since they view themselves as above other people because of what was taken from them(perhaps the kid's death is foreshadowing....please, let it be foreshadowing). Sam and John I think honestly didn't mean to hurt anyone in their approach, and I don't think realized that that was what they were doing at the time, it was just the inevitable fallout in both cases. Sam and Dean are also kind of in their own categories because of each other; Sam couldn't keep running because Dean wouldn't let him and Dean could never completely isolate himself like Bobby did because he always had Sam. So where Bobby, John, Bela and the kid all sort of got caught up in their escapes to the point where they were just locked in another trap, Dean and Sam always had a way out in each other, even if ultimately, the trap had to be sprung individually. Running leaves you alone, I guess (as do dreams, despite how nice they may be), given that the only way Dean was able to bring Bobby back was by telling him that he wasn't alone and that there were people he hadn't failed.
Yes.
I still have no idea what the Sam/Bela scene was supposed to mean unless they were just trying to get us to connect both of their efforts to escape what they know about the Supernatural world (Bela by selling off objects willy-nilly, Sam by pretending he didn't know what he did and going to college...uh, in case I didn't make that clear). Um...meaningless sex is an escape? I'm really digging here, folks, really.
The Little Things - I miss Ruby. Yay acid trip? The bright colors didn't really bother me all that much for once (although they did in the hospital, just because Bobby's situation reminded me of IMTOD and that hospital was so much darker). Regardless of how pointless that Sam/Bela scene was, Jared was hilarious about it, which was how I swallowed it. Yay happy upbeat music during the depressing bar scene in the beginning (does anyone know what song that was because I kind of want it). And...um, that's it, I suppose. Unless I think up more later.
Surprisingly, they weren't tacky enough to actually play that 'dream a little dream of me' song in this episode. I remember someone saying, while we were watching Faith that only SPN would be special enough to play 'Don't Fear the Reaper' just as Dean announces it's a reaper they're looking for, SO DO NOT LAUGH AT MY SHOCK.