Lawdy, Lawdy ...

[dodger_winslow]

After a season filled with one great episode, two half-way decent episodes (if I'm being generous), and 9 craptastic mockeries of what once was, we now have ... two great episodes. THANK you, Supernatural. For reminding me why I'm still willing to hang on by my fingernails long after I should have just turned off the lights and gone home.

Because

Comments

[azinazelle]

Amen! Here's to hoping for more of eps like this (although they did need more real dragons).

[dodger_winslow]

I actually liked them not showing the dragons, but rather leaving their non-human form open for our mythic imaginations to fill in. With so much lore on the appearance of dragons, and without a huge budget to employ to creating something really cool digitally, I preferred the "just enough of an image" implied with the "looked like a huge bat" description over some hokey looking critter that would have blown the illusion of reality SPN is pretty good about maintaining visually, even if they aren't always as good about maintaining it plot-wise.

But for this ep, I thought they were aces on all fronts.

[leelust]

Interesting... while this ep gave you a hope it took it from me :( Didn't like it at all, it was boring, repetitive, with OOC writing.

[dodger_winslow]

Different strokes for different folks I suppose. If I recall correctly, you've been relatively happy with the last year and a half, too, while I've been working hard to sanitize the rancor of my vehement dissatisfaction as much as I'm ever willing to do.

My lack of comment and/or review of much of S5 and virtually all of S6 has not been due to lack of opinion -- far from it in fact --- but rather a reflection of the reality that I've had nothing positive I can say about these eps to counterbalance the multitudinous negatives I would feel obliged to note were I to post anything at all that even nominally represents the truth of how I feel. All of which should serve as a stick of measure for how deeply dissatisfied I've truly been this last year or so, given some of the harsher criticisms I have let fly while keeping my less charitable observations to myself out of deference to those who can and are still enjoying the show even if I'm not

[saberivojo]

I loved it and am almost as happy knowing you did too. Don't jump ship my friend.

Oh, and didn't you promise some John fic?

*crosses arms much like old John Winchester himself*

That's right. I said it. And I'm gonna hold you to it too.

*now a John Winchester stare of disapproval*

[dodger_winslow]

Good news and bad news on the John fic front. Which do you want first?

The good news it is.

Good news: you're gonna fucking LOVE the Sammy/hospital sequences I was teasing about earlier. It hits every one of your kinks right on the nose. Bad news, but with sprinkles of good? I was having so much fun writing BadAss!John that I wrote twice what I intended to on the subject (that's the sprinkles of good), which actually detached it from the scene it was in, requiring it to move a bit farther down the timeline for pacing purposes. Which means, while that scene is now finished and ready to post, I can't post it until I finish the 3 scenes that precede it, of which only 1 is close to done.

But I'm working on it. As someone wise once told me: don't jump ship, my friend. And as I would add my own damn self: I'll make it worth your wait, I promise.

[saberivojo]

I would never jump the Dodger ship. *giggles*

I can't wait but am willing to for this!

[dodger_winslow]

You'd better not. I'd have to go in after you ... :)

[qultng1]

I am a happy camper! :D

[dodger_winslow]

Me, too. VERY happy.

[arwenangel87]

I enjoyed this episode too!

My only problem with it was the fact that they didn't show an actual dragon. (Yes, I know they don't have that kind of budget, but I really like dragons! Haha.) I guess that's a pretty minor thing, though, so I'll let it pass. :)

[dodger_winslow]

I was glad they didn't show the dragon. Without a movie budget to accommodate both a unique design and an adequately realistic articulation of that design? The Hitchcock Axiom of Less is More was the way to go IMO.

[arwenangel87]

I suppose that's true, but when I read the spoilers for this episode, I thought I'd see a dragon. When I saw the guy personifying the dragon, I was a bit disappointed. Plus, I don't tend to think about their budget or anything. Ha.

[dodger_winslow]

I never read spoilers so I had no expectations of dragon awesomeosity to match. Which is actually one of the reasons I don't read spoilers. While I do prefer to not know anything about the episode going in for other reasons, too, I have found that spoilers tend to fill me with a certain expectation that, particularly if I am jazzed by the spoiler, are never met. And unfortunately, with a show I've already bonded to the way I've bonded to SPN, sometimes specific expectations are my worst enemy simply because they lead me to be disappointed if my expectations are not me where, had I no expectations, what they did would have been fine, or even good