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tahirire

5.17 Episode Review, part 1/3

Apr 12, 2010 12:16

Episode reviews by tahirire and blacklid are located here, at my master list.

5.17 : "99 Problems"

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The Far Side of The Dark Side of the Moon

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Comments 22

borgmama1of5 April 12 2010, 17:12:16 UTC

Your analysis is, as usual, spot on.

And this:
"It's an interesting parallel to say that Dean doesn't see giving up as giving up on SAM in the same exact way that Sam never saw leaving for school as leaving DEAN."

YES!

izhilzha April 13 2010, 03:39:22 UTC

You beat me to it. Because I didn't actually think of Dean's giving up as giving up on Sam....but it really is sort of true, and the parallel is fantastic, isn't it?

tahirire April 13 2010, 23:37:52 UTC

Dean's too close to the situation to ever get that. He takes things to heart too much. Can't be objective. *sigh*

tahirire April 13 2010, 23:37:13 UTC

Yeah. The effed-up-edness of all their self esteem issues is epic. EPIC, I TELL YOU.

alwaysenduphere April 12 2010, 17:21:17 UTC

I love that the water cannon was essentially Jensen's idea forever ago, too.

Psalm 69 = Oh, Deann. D:

Yeah, I don't get why Dean acted so surprised to see a pastor with a gun holster. Did he just have a lapse of remembrance of Pastor Jim?

etoile444 April 13 2010, 22:54:48 UTC

yeh, that was a weak spot. Dean should have known that Jim was a hunter and a reverend.

tahirire April 13 2010, 23:40:55 UTC

Of course he knew. I highly doubt that, in Jim's day, he would have walked around the town with a holster on his hip. He was an undercover hunter from what we know. In my head he was more like another Uncle to the boys - they were so young. They probably never saw him get into much action.

Either way, this guy isn't Jim. I think it's more like he's seeing the future he is trying to prevent come to life anyway right in front of his eyes. *wibble*

tahirire April 13 2010, 23:39:43 UTC

IKNOWRIGHT!! Jensen must have been so happy, lol.

I think he just wasn't expecting it. And I highly doubt that, in Jim's day, he would have walked around the town with a holster on his hip. He was an undercover hunter from what we know. In my head he was more like another Uncle to the boys - they were so young. They probably never saw him get into much action.

lovetheguys April 12 2010, 19:32:45 UTC

Brilliantly done! Loved every single word and picture, they worked together so well!

Love, Robin

tahirire April 13 2010, 23:41:33 UTC

Thanks! I have WAY too many for part 3, LOL.

*deletes things*

blacklid April 12 2010, 20:15:22 UTC

Dean KNOWS how hard Sam is trying, he KNOWS Sam is in it for the long haul - he just doesn't think Sam's resolve, in the end, matters.

GOOD POINT. Oh, BOYS. Why you gotta kill me liek dis? *sobs*

tahirire April 13 2010, 23:41:59 UTC

Because everyone but us is either a zombie or an asshole.

blackcat333_99 April 13 2010, 02:44:54 UTC

Dean seems awed/amused/astounded by the holster on his hip. He could be thinking how strange it seems for a Pastor to have a gun so readily accessible, or he could be seeing his future self, like I was.

I vote for the seeing echoes of 2014 coming to life right in front of him. Which in turn slowly acts to further his perspective that he needs to do something different to try preventing 2014 from coming about. Again. Because he's tried changing one thing, sticking with Sam instead of cutting him completely out, a'la The End, but that doesn't seem to have changed anything. So... what's left to try?

Oh yeah, back to Lucifer's taunt, "I know you'll never say yes [to Michael]... I win, so - I win."

Hmm. No wonder 'Michael stupid' thinking is starting to win out in Dean's mind.

tahirire April 13 2010, 23:42:37 UTC

I agree %100. OH DEAN. *sobs and clings*