Yeah, this was a "meh" episode for me. I didn't hate it, but not up to their usual standard. OTOH, We had four in a row that were pretty great, and that's more than most shows get.
The grenade launcher scene was priceless! I hope Dean gets off the "I killed Hitler" kick and switches to "Yeah, but I used a grenade launcher."
As for Hitler, evidence has been circulating for some time that toward the end of the war he was using cocaine and other drugs to keep going and was extremely paranoid. Modern psychologists have suggested he was headed for a nervous breakdown as the Reich fell apart, because he was in complete denial about the possibility they could lose. They've even postulated he was delusional and had a total break with reality. Add 70 years of your soul being locked in what is basically a sensory deprivation chamber, and I could see him being completely bonkers.
I've enjoyed Dean bragging about having killed Hitler more than I enjoyed him actually killing Hitler, but I like your grenade-launcher-bragging idea.
This is very interesting info about Hitler! It only makes sense that he'd be all drugged up and melting down, after all he'd done and the way the whole world was gunning for him by the end. Knowing this helps me feel a little better about that portrayal, because feeling like it came out of nowhere just for comic effect made it so hard for me to enjoy.
I am so here for random hipsters being killed instead of random women being killed tbh. SPN seems to be actively trying to do better on that front? Case in point, male gay characters in this season and the last one that actually didn't become the punch line of a joke for it. :D
Also IMHO Sam's hair has recently been looking better than it has in aaaaaaaaages.
I think the episode setup was alright, but, hell, do we actually need Hitler on our screens? In any incarnation? Just. Cringe. Stay dead, please.
Bahaha the random hipsters. I probably shouldn't find that so amusing, but I do. (I admit, I utterly recoiled when she called his beard hot.) S8-S11 when random people died, it hurt, but this season, you get your teaser kill and it's just entertaining.
Yeah, there's that, too. Hitler was already dead, killed by exactly the right person, HIMSELF; it felt so forced and pointless to bring him back for ten whole minutes just to have a Winchester kill him again. Ugh.
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The grenade launcher scene was priceless! I hope Dean gets off the "I killed Hitler" kick and switches to "Yeah, but I used a grenade launcher."
As for Hitler, evidence has been circulating for some time that toward the end of the war he was using cocaine and other drugs to keep going and was extremely paranoid. Modern psychologists have suggested he was headed for a nervous breakdown as the Reich fell apart, because he was in complete denial about the possibility they could lose. They've even postulated he was delusional and had a total break with reality. Add 70 years of your soul being locked in what is basically a sensory deprivation chamber, and I could see him being completely bonkers.
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This is very interesting info about Hitler! It only makes sense that he'd be all drugged up and melting down, after all he'd done and the way the whole world was gunning for him by the end. Knowing this helps me feel a little better about that portrayal, because feeling like it came out of nowhere just for comic effect made it so hard for me to enjoy.
Thanks for the comment!
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Also IMHO Sam's hair has recently been looking better than it has in aaaaaaaaages.
I think the episode setup was alright, but, hell, do we actually need Hitler on our screens? In any incarnation? Just. Cringe. Stay dead, please.
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Yeah, there's that, too. Hitler was already dead, killed by exactly the right person, HIMSELF; it felt so forced and pointless to bring him back for ten whole minutes just to have a Winchester kill him again. Ugh.
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