Supernatural - 5x02 - "Good God, Y'All!" Thoughts
Seriously, if every episode this season keeps up the standard of these two so far, S5 is going to be TOTALLY EPIC!!!
First off, using Foreigner for the recap? AWESOME! I fucking love that song.
I'm going to go backwards again, and start at the end of the episode, because again, it was just heartbreaking and made me go "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" As much as I hated Sam for what he did last season, I didn't want him to leave!!! The boys should be mad at each other TOGETHER, not apart from each other. Don't they know by now that seriously bad shit happens whenever they're separated? This kind of thing NEVER ends well! Oh, boys :-(. My heart broke for the bajillionth time, I swear. I love how the whole scene was played out though. For once, Sam actually told his brother the truth about his blood-drinking urges, and he faced up to the feelings rather than hide away and deny them. The fact also that he talked about having good intentions but admitting he just missed feeling powerful suggests he actually paid attention when War called him out on exactly the same thing - "Lust for power...good intentions. Quick slide to hell, buddy boy." Gotta say, it's ABOUT TIME. It only took unleashing Lucifer and going full-fledge black eyes to make you see sense, but never mind.
Uh, anyway, I digress. Back to the boys - GAH!!! No matter how little Dean trusts Sam, he clearly still loves him, and it was obvious how much it pained him to have to let him go. He knows it has to be done, but it wasn't easy, and it was obvious in the way he couldn't look his brother in the face when he said "you too, Sammy", but stared at him unwaveringly as he left. I'm getting a damned lump in my throat just thinking about it! Sam running a hand over the car's trunk tugged on my heartstrings, and I love that Dean offered her to him in the first place. Maybe it's stupid but I see it as a way of giving something of his back to Sam, since Dean himself had to part with the precious necklace Sam gave him.
Seriously Kripke, stop it. This isn't funny anymore - it wasn't funny in the first place, but especially not now, you evil bastard!!! How much more are you going to put us through before the boys reconcile!? I swear to God, if he goes down the route of almost killing one or both of them again, and they can't save each other, I'll kill him myself.
Speaking of the necklace though, WTF?!!?! Who saw that coming?! I can't believe Dean's had a God-EMF around his neck this entire time, that's crazy! It makes me more hopeful that he has some sort of specific higher purpose in this whole thing, because it can't just be a coincidence that he happened to have this...connection to God, right? Right? I hope we get to see it in effect *bounces* I absolutely adored the way Dean instantly snapped "no!" when Castiel asked if he could borrow the amulet, anyway, and the way he warned him not to lose it...total love ♥ It made me laugh how Castiel at first asked for it formally, and then was just like "give me it" when that didn't work XD. He's so much more impatient and emotive now, I love it! Being exploded really opened him up to his feelings :-S. But apparently he's still clueless about sarcasm, I almost died laughing at his "no, he's not on any flatbread" line!
But oh, crap. Bobby's still in a wheelchair! :-( Did I not say in last week's review that this was the thing really worrying me? Shit. DAMN YOU ZACHARIAH! Please tell me that Castiel gets his mojo back and can heal Bobby, because I can't bear the idea of him never being able to walk again. That just sucks ass. Bobby is still made of win though - "when you find God, tell him to send a pair of legs!" XD Genius. Nothing will ever take away his attitude.
As for the major theme of this episode - one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, War himself? Holy. Shit. *thuds* I loveloveLOVE this notion and concept, and how they executed it here. Why the hell wouldn't the Horsemen be a part of the upcoming battle? It's all in the name! I know it's weird but it actually makes me anticipate how we might be introduced to the other three :-D (and randomly, on a silly note, I wonder if they'll also have a horse-themed car that corresponds in colour to them individually :-P). The bright red Mustang was so fucking cool, I didn't make the War connection but instead I saw it and thought "I want that car" XD. The guy who played him was AWESOME, very convincing, I wonder if we'll see him again since he technically didn't die. The Four Horsemen together would be terrifying and epic. By the way, the whole cutting his ring finger off, and Dean's "So, pitstop at Mount Doom?" thing? WIN! LOTR IS AWESOME! ♥
I love Ellen, by the way. From her throwing holy water in Dean's face (it's always gonna be you, Dean XD), to hugging him and then slapping him in almost the same instant, and her general badassery throughout the episode ("now you listen up, Joanna Beth Harvelle"), she was just legendary. I hope we see her again! And surprisingly, Jo didn't bug me, but that's maybe because she was barely in the episode, did her own thing competently when we did see her, and also wasn't following Dean around annoyingly. Gotta love the fact that they nipped the love-interest thing in the bud when they called her his sister in "It's A Terrible Life", huh? ;-) And Rufus!! He's such a hardass, but I like him, I hope we see him again too. But all these familiar faces just make me pine even more for JDM - SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE IT HAPPEN!!! At least before the end of the show as a whole :-(.
Again, it was just an awesome episode, and the whole "fake demon" thing was clever - I totally didn't realise what was happening, not even when the knife didn't do its fancy, flashy thing when Sam killed the teens in the store. Crappy SPN!fan is crappy *sheepish* Anyway, I can't wait to see what the new episode brings!
On a random, geeky note, before I forget - the fact that the title of this episode is a reference to the song War by Edwin Starr is MADE OF WIN. It's small, but I love the details like that :-D.
First off, using Foreigner for the recap? AWESOME! I fucking love that song.
I'm going to go backwards again, and start at the end of the episode, because again, it was just heartbreaking and made me go "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" As much as I hated Sam for what he did last season, I didn't want him to leave!!! The boys should be mad at each other TOGETHER, not apart from each other. Don't they know by now that seriously bad shit happens whenever they're separated? This kind of thing NEVER ends well! Oh, boys :-(. My heart broke for the bajillionth time, I swear. I love how the whole scene was played out though. For once, Sam actually told his brother the truth about his blood-drinking urges, and he faced up to the feelings rather than hide away and deny them. The fact also that he talked about having good intentions but admitting he just missed feeling powerful suggests he actually paid attention when War called him out on exactly the same thing - "Lust for power...good intentions. Quick slide to hell, buddy boy." Gotta say, it's ABOUT TIME. It only took unleashing Lucifer and going full-fledge black eyes to make you see sense, but never mind.
Uh, anyway, I digress. Back to the boys - GAH!!! No matter how little Dean trusts Sam, he clearly still loves him, and it was obvious how much it pained him to have to let him go. He knows it has to be done, but it wasn't easy, and it was obvious in the way he couldn't look his brother in the face when he said "you too, Sammy", but stared at him unwaveringly as he left. I'm getting a damned lump in my throat just thinking about it! Sam running a hand over the car's trunk tugged on my heartstrings, and I love that Dean offered her to him in the first place. Maybe it's stupid but I see it as a way of giving something of his back to Sam, since Dean himself had to part with the precious necklace Sam gave him.
Seriously Kripke, stop it. This isn't funny anymore - it wasn't funny in the first place, but especially not now, you evil bastard!!! How much more are you going to put us through before the boys reconcile!? I swear to God, if he goes down the route of almost killing one or both of them again, and they can't save each other, I'll kill him myself.
Speaking of the necklace though, WTF?!!?! Who saw that coming?! I can't believe Dean's had a God-EMF around his neck this entire time, that's crazy! It makes me more hopeful that he has some sort of specific higher purpose in this whole thing, because it can't just be a coincidence that he happened to have this...connection to God, right? Right? I hope we get to see it in effect *bounces* I absolutely adored the way Dean instantly snapped "no!" when Castiel asked if he could borrow the amulet, anyway, and the way he warned him not to lose it...total love ♥ It made me laugh how Castiel at first asked for it formally, and then was just like "give me it" when that didn't work XD. He's so much more impatient and emotive now, I love it! Being exploded really opened him up to his feelings :-S. But apparently he's still clueless about sarcasm, I almost died laughing at his "no, he's not on any flatbread" line!
But oh, crap. Bobby's still in a wheelchair! :-( Did I not say in last week's review that this was the thing really worrying me? Shit. DAMN YOU ZACHARIAH! Please tell me that Castiel gets his mojo back and can heal Bobby, because I can't bear the idea of him never being able to walk again. That just sucks ass. Bobby is still made of win though - "when you find God, tell him to send a pair of legs!" XD Genius. Nothing will ever take away his attitude.
As for the major theme of this episode - one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, War himself? Holy. Shit. *thuds* I loveloveLOVE this notion and concept, and how they executed it here. Why the hell wouldn't the Horsemen be a part of the upcoming battle? It's all in the name! I know it's weird but it actually makes me anticipate how we might be introduced to the other three :-D (and randomly, on a silly note, I wonder if they'll also have a horse-themed car that corresponds in colour to them individually :-P). The bright red Mustang was so fucking cool, I didn't make the War connection but instead I saw it and thought "I want that car" XD. The guy who played him was AWESOME, very convincing, I wonder if we'll see him again since he technically didn't die. The Four Horsemen together would be terrifying and epic. By the way, the whole cutting his ring finger off, and Dean's "So, pitstop at Mount Doom?" thing? WIN! LOTR IS AWESOME! ♥
I love Ellen, by the way. From her throwing holy water in Dean's face (it's always gonna be you, Dean XD), to hugging him and then slapping him in almost the same instant, and her general badassery throughout the episode ("now you listen up, Joanna Beth Harvelle"), she was just legendary. I hope we see her again! And surprisingly, Jo didn't bug me, but that's maybe because she was barely in the episode, did her own thing competently when we did see her, and also wasn't following Dean around annoyingly. Gotta love the fact that they nipped the love-interest thing in the bud when they called her his sister in "It's A Terrible Life", huh? ;-) And Rufus!! He's such a hardass, but I like him, I hope we see him again too. But all these familiar faces just make me pine even more for JDM - SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE IT HAPPEN!!! At least before the end of the show as a whole :-(.
Again, it was just an awesome episode, and the whole "fake demon" thing was clever - I totally didn't realise what was happening, not even when the knife didn't do its fancy, flashy thing when Sam killed the teens in the store. Crappy SPN!fan is crappy *sheepish* Anyway, I can't wait to see what the new episode brings!
On a random, geeky note, before I forget - the fact that the title of this episode is a reference to the song War by Edwin Starr is MADE OF WIN. It's small, but I love the details like that :-D.