Work all night, sleep all day...

[waterofthemoon]

I hope everyone's seen LJ's awesome Halloween site scheme. No lie, I switched to Horizon just for that, although I can't find anything now. Tradeoff, I suppose.

So last night I worked SMU Rides by myself. We got exactly one real call (the rest were all playing the call-and-hang-up game), and he called back to cancel, so I ended up spending almost the entire time listening to Launchcast and surfing pictures of the Padalecki for service hours. Does that mean I win? :D

Speaking of Paddywhack (what is up with that nickname?), SPN this week? DUDE. Y'ALL. *flails* This is entirely incoherent because I won't be able to think logically about this episode until I see it again, but I'll try.

• Okay, first, Sammy episode!! Y'all, Dean's the one who breaks me every week, and I love them both to death, but you know I'm really a Sam girl at heart. *_*
• Mind control! Evil twins! I LOVE how they paralleled the Winchesters with Andy and what's-his-name. Like Max from "Nightmare," Andy is what Sam might have been if he didn't have Dean--that much is implicit in the episode, I think. But check out the "evil" brother. Check out his motivations for wanting the girl to jump off the bridge. He has this dangerously intense sense of family kinship and loyalty, and to him that means protecting Andy by any means he deems necessary--he's the might-have-been Dean if Dean hadn't had Sam and John and that sense of a larger purpose instilled in him (and, uh, had had mind control powers), which I find really, really interesting.
• I LOVED that "tell the truth" scene where Dean just starts monologuing about their whole mission and Sam's like, "Dude! Stop it!" I saw it on the CW website this past week, but it was much, much funnier in context. :D
• Sort of related to both those points, I thought the thread running through this episode over whether Sam is a potential murderer was very well-played, especially in Sam and Dean's conversation on the bridge. I think Dean trusts Sam by instinct, but he doesn't know WHAT to think about his brother at this point, and he's SO afraid of what the truth might be that he plays it off with anger, platitudes, and immaturity when Sam wants to talk about the larger issues (which is, as we've seen before, a classic Dean non-coping mechanism). And as always, Sam sees right through this, but they let it go and drive on another day, because it's more important to them to stay strong and work together than to ponder the Moral Ramifications. (Hey, that's our job, yeah?) I think it's also really interesting how post-"Bloodlust," Dean still thinks in terms of that strong "us" and "them" dichotomy when it comes to the things they kill, while Sam is very much living in the gray areas.
• IMPALAAA. I YELLED at Dean when he just handed her over to Andy, heh. And wtf was Andy thinking, just leaving her on the street with the keys in? I understand that it was more about him seeing if he could do it than actually wanting the car, but if the boys had been delayed, she'd have been long gone by the time they showed up. I'm just saying. Yeah, yeah, delaying the main plot action and all that, but a little Earth logic wouldn't kill them, ya know?
• DEAN. SINGING. :D :D :D For my own sanity, I will pretend that he chose that particular song because it was stuck in his head and not because it made him think of Jo, although I suspect we were meant to assume the latter. But DEAN. SINGING SPEEDWAGON. AND HE KNOWS ALL THE WORDS. *DIES* Sam is SO holding this over his head for, like, EVER.
• I'm happy to see Sam reluctantly accepting his destiny. He's showing real character growth and maturation this season: he doesn't get sullen/angry about hunting on principle anymore, he doesn't act like he just wants to get this whole thing over with, and as much as the visions confuse and frustrate him, he's clearly starting to think of his psychicness as just another part of himself. After meeting Andy, he wants to test his own limits, find out what the purpose of all this is. Sam belongs in the hunting world--we all know this, no matter how many times he's left it behind. He hasn't always known it, of course, but he's starting to figure out that even if he tries to leave again when this whole thing is done, he won't ever be able to really get away. (Insert obligatory Brokeback joke here.) What's brought him to this point is all a part of what makes him who he is and who he will become, and he's starting to be okay with that. I hope we see more of this as the season continues, because bravo, Sam. :D
• I was SO with Dean when he was getting pissy with Ellen for not minding her own fucking business re: Sam. She may have known John, and she may know all about the hunting lifestyle, but she is NOT PART OF THE WINCHESTER INNER CIRCLE WTF. You know, the roadhouse was cute the first couple of times, but man, do I ever miss the boys' sense of independence. They have their strength, wits, and knowledge. They have the Book. They can get a new laptop or use public computers. Why do they need Ash and Ellen to do their background research and tell them how to kill things? Why does Ellen think she needs to be a mommy figure for the poor, sad, orphaned boys, and why are we ending up at the roadhouse at the end of every other episode? It is NOT HOME, and it rings falsely for it to have become such a comfortable "landing spot" for them after so short a time. Trust no one, boys. Trust no one.
• On the more serious!meta level, I think this episode did an excellent job of transitioning back into the mytharc and the demon's larger purpose and so on. That one line, the one they used in the promo--"The demon said he had plans for me"--gives me chills to think about what that might mean for Sam and the others like him. I'm currently convinced that Sam's human and a Winchester through and through, partly because of what Dean said last week, that John was Sam's dad too. I know that "dad" doesn't necessarily equal "biological father," but I don't think he would have said something like that if he had just found out a few weeks ago that Sam wasn't actually John's bio son, you know? (Or maybe he was just trying to convince himself and reassure Sam. I DON'T KNOW.)
  
  So there's gotta be another explanation for the demon's motives--why these kids? Are there any girls with Teh Power? Why enhanced mind abilities, and why has it manifested differently in all of them that we've seen? And seriously, dude, why the women on the ceiling? Maybe it's like, the kids had the potential, and the demon just unlocked it for his own evil purposes. Like the Slayers, uh, except not. Or maybe it's more along the lines of what the Alliance did to River and the other Academy "students," without the torture and the making them crazy--he's developing an army of psychic!soldiers. That sounds sort of cracked even for this show, though. :P

Uhh. That's it for now; as always, I was more long-winded than I intended to be. I hope we eventually end up getting some answers to this mytharc they're building, because I'm way intrigued. And I wish the girl I watch it with could remember the names "Sam" and "Dean" from week to week. o.O