100 Days of Happy Day #42 : Rewatching the early seasons...
My first day of work was good! I really enjoyed being back in class with the kids. Today we also had our first choir practice of the year. The challenge now is the claps that we have to fit into the Spanish piece.
So, I really should be working on that first draft of my Season 8 rewatch review but I've been bulldozing through Season 1 and 2 and just now finished watching Roadkill. It might be making me more blind than I already am, but watching these eps on my phone is sort of heaven. Those beautiful faces right up close you know?!
All those lovely eps of Season 1 went by like a whirlwind, and I was going to pop in a bit earlier but Roadkill was what made me stop. I know many people don't like Roadkill, but I've always loved ghost stories - give me some Jennifer Love Hewitt! - and I love those eps where the boys talk with the ghosts and help them move on. I also love that there are two ghosts - one vengeful and one just worried about her husband. But what hit me today was not anything about the ghosts, but rather about those that were left behind. Grealy's wife committed suicide - hung herself - because she could not live without her husband. But David, Molly's husband, said his goodbyes and moved on. Grealy was killed by Molly's crash so, I guess his wife must have been shocked and devastated, whereas David may have also felt guilty for making his wife take her eyes off the road. David is more to blame for the deaths than Molly is, that's for sure. I guess it also suggests that a woman might hold on tighter to a relationship than a man. Both men moved on (one to revenge and one to a new life/new wife) while the women couldn't.
I also thought Sam and Dean's conversation about whether Molly went to a better place was interesting, as was Father Gregory and the question of whether there is really such a thing as angels in Houses of the Holy. Dean says to Sam, I guess we won't know until we get there ourselves... which reminded me that they would have a chance to find out later on and live again to tell the tale.
I reread my rewatch review of this ep and noticed it was written when I didn't have many readers - well, I guess I still don't LOL - but I really enjoyed reading the review as well. If any of you are interested - HERE's the link.
I've been loving all the eps so much! I actually enjoyed Simon Says much more than I did on a previous rewatch - I've always loved the Roadhouse scenes of that ep, but I just enjoyed it all this ep.
I was also hit by how, in Croatoan, Dean must have been acting exactly according to what dad told him after Sam was infected - he couldn't save Sam from the infection, so he was ready to die along with him. So... if Sam had become infected, Sam would have made it his business to infect Dean, then they would have both gotten out (there was a glass window... Dean could have shot it out) and infected everyone else probably LOL Good thing Sam wasn't infected.
But it's also the fun of knowing exactly what was in store for them in the future - that Sam would be taken over by Lucifer and if he was, Dean was supposed to be Michael's vessel and kill Lucifer/Sam you know? THAT is what all that meant actually but Dean chooses to die trying to save Sam instead.
I also got a new idea for my WIP from the clowns ep hehe. Thinking about that, I guess I got a lot of ideas from that ep, from the idea of evil hiding in a circus, to Dean and Sam wandering around the funhouse. It's not a favorite, but it sure had an impact.
I thought it was significant in Crossroads Blues that Dean was given the option of bringing dad back - which according to the demon would have given Dean 10 years. Of course, Sam would have probably still died, and Dean would have gone to hell earlier anyway probably. That made me think back at John saving Dean in IMTOD and how it should have been Dean to die all along. They didn't really need John. Because they knew that John wouldn't give in to the torture but Dean would.
I LOVED Usual Suspects <3<3 and Nightshifter <3<3 Why can't they make more of these kinds of eps?! Our first intro to Henriksen<3
I also noticed that the magazine in Tall tales, "World Weekly News"... or "Weekly World News"?LOL was mentioned by Sam and Dean in Bloodlust, when they were interviewing the Sheriff as reporters XD It sounded like a legit magazine to me then, but we find in Talltales that it's a tabloid magazine telling all kinds of crazy stories not the least of which are crocodiles in the sewers, aliens, and ghosts haunting a school building.
Oh.. and Sam/Meg's conversation with Jo in Born Under a Bad Sign... I wonder if it is possible that he was not talking about John but about Azazel (Meg's dad) when he said, "My daddy shot your daddy in the head."
Well, now I think I need to work a bit on Season 8 and finish off that ep review... Wait... next in Season 2 is Heart?...
So, I really should be working on that first draft of my Season 8 rewatch review but I've been bulldozing through Season 1 and 2 and just now finished watching Roadkill. It might be making me more blind than I already am, but watching these eps on my phone is sort of heaven. Those beautiful faces right up close you know?!
All those lovely eps of Season 1 went by like a whirlwind, and I was going to pop in a bit earlier but Roadkill was what made me stop. I know many people don't like Roadkill, but I've always loved ghost stories - give me some Jennifer Love Hewitt! - and I love those eps where the boys talk with the ghosts and help them move on. I also love that there are two ghosts - one vengeful and one just worried about her husband. But what hit me today was not anything about the ghosts, but rather about those that were left behind. Grealy's wife committed suicide - hung herself - because she could not live without her husband. But David, Molly's husband, said his goodbyes and moved on. Grealy was killed by Molly's crash so, I guess his wife must have been shocked and devastated, whereas David may have also felt guilty for making his wife take her eyes off the road. David is more to blame for the deaths than Molly is, that's for sure. I guess it also suggests that a woman might hold on tighter to a relationship than a man. Both men moved on (one to revenge and one to a new life/new wife) while the women couldn't.
I also thought Sam and Dean's conversation about whether Molly went to a better place was interesting, as was Father Gregory and the question of whether there is really such a thing as angels in Houses of the Holy. Dean says to Sam, I guess we won't know until we get there ourselves... which reminded me that they would have a chance to find out later on and live again to tell the tale.
I reread my rewatch review of this ep and noticed it was written when I didn't have many readers - well, I guess I still don't LOL - but I really enjoyed reading the review as well. If any of you are interested - HERE's the link.
I've been loving all the eps so much! I actually enjoyed Simon Says much more than I did on a previous rewatch - I've always loved the Roadhouse scenes of that ep, but I just enjoyed it all this ep.
I was also hit by how, in Croatoan, Dean must have been acting exactly according to what dad told him after Sam was infected - he couldn't save Sam from the infection, so he was ready to die along with him. So... if Sam had become infected, Sam would have made it his business to infect Dean, then they would have both gotten out (there was a glass window... Dean could have shot it out) and infected everyone else probably LOL Good thing Sam wasn't infected.
But it's also the fun of knowing exactly what was in store for them in the future - that Sam would be taken over by Lucifer and if he was, Dean was supposed to be Michael's vessel and kill Lucifer/Sam you know? THAT is what all that meant actually but Dean chooses to die trying to save Sam instead.
I also got a new idea for my WIP from the clowns ep hehe. Thinking about that, I guess I got a lot of ideas from that ep, from the idea of evil hiding in a circus, to Dean and Sam wandering around the funhouse. It's not a favorite, but it sure had an impact.
I thought it was significant in Crossroads Blues that Dean was given the option of bringing dad back - which according to the demon would have given Dean 10 years. Of course, Sam would have probably still died, and Dean would have gone to hell earlier anyway probably. That made me think back at John saving Dean in IMTOD and how it should have been Dean to die all along. They didn't really need John. Because they knew that John wouldn't give in to the torture but Dean would.
I LOVED Usual Suspects <3<3 and Nightshifter <3<3 Why can't they make more of these kinds of eps?! Our first intro to Henriksen<3
I also noticed that the magazine in Tall tales, "World Weekly News"... or "Weekly World News"?LOL was mentioned by Sam and Dean in Bloodlust, when they were interviewing the Sheriff as reporters XD It sounded like a legit magazine to me then, but we find in Talltales that it's a tabloid magazine telling all kinds of crazy stories not the least of which are crocodiles in the sewers, aliens, and ghosts haunting a school building.
Oh.. and Sam/Meg's conversation with Jo in Born Under a Bad Sign... I wonder if it is possible that he was not talking about John but about Azazel (Meg's dad) when he said, "My daddy shot your daddy in the head."
Well, now I think I need to work a bit on Season 8 and finish off that ep review... Wait... next in Season 2 is Heart?...