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[oselle]

OK, overall, one of the most fun episodes ever. Dean was just a delight to watch during the whole thing, as was Sam. This episode was like...really, really fun fanfic.

Highlights:

- Sam and Dean discussing Ruby at the beginning. Nice to see them together after last week's strangely alienated episode.
- All damn-near seven feet of Sam repeatedly crashing to the ground.
- Dean having great success (and one hell of a closeup!) with his little "you're a thief" speech the first time...not quite pulling it off the second time he trucks it out.
- Deranged Jesus-freak hunter complete with Blues Brothers shoutout. You would think there would be a lot more hunters who were religious maniacs, wouldn't you?
- Deranged Jesus-freak hunter enthusing over the deep-fried onion on the BigGerson's menu. Somehow this made me feel like this is what a hunter's life would be like. Living in an RV. Digging on deep-fried onions. Plastering the walls with Jesus memorabilia. Being completely fucking crazy.
- Dean: "I'm Batman!"
- Sam: "I lost my shoe."
- Dean: "SONOFABITCH!" (If you recorded the ep, PLEASE watch this bit in slo-mo, because you'll catch Jared Padalecki helplessly cracking up in the face of Dean's outrage.)
- Queensboro Bridge shot. I know it's stock. So what? Dean's in Queens! (Makes me wonder what motel he'd have left poor Sammy at -- the shithole Whitestone Inn perhaps?).
- Dean's brain freeze. ADORABLE!!
- Dean plugging away at the scratch-off Lotto right up to the last minute. Man's got his priorities straight!
- I really like thinking that the boys will get a free meal anytime they want as long as they eat at BigGerson's. That luck won't run out, will it?
- Wondrously scruffy Bobby, finally saying what we've all thought at least once: "Ya idjit!" PERFECT!!

And because I have to bitch about something...

- Bela. She was fun in this episode and at least she's not a teenager and has a better wardrobe than just about any other woman who's ever appeared on this show. But I'm not at all sure about her as a recurring character. She seems like a femme fatale who accidentally wandered in from a James Bond movie and that sort of glamorous heist stuff really seems to clash with this show. I'm not too interested in "Supernatural Meets The Thomas Crown Affair." I can't see where they're going with her at all.
- And if she's so rich, why is she living in Queens? Sure it gave me a thrill to hear Dean say, "She lives in Queens"...I was bouncing up and down on my couch shouting "I live in Queens!!!" But yeah...I live in Queens. So why would she? Whatever.
- WTF was John Winchester's problem? If Bobby can so readily figure out a way to destroy these cursed objects, why was John stashing them in some storage locker? Douche. Bag.
- Where is the classic rock??? That's TWO episodes in a row without it.
- Shooting Sam. I thought the whole episode was taking a sudden dark turn but everyone was pretty cavalier about it. I guess it's no big deal for Dean considering that Sam shot him in the exact same shoulder last year, but still...getting shot ain't exactly small potatoes.
- THESE TWO GENIUSES (interstate federal fugitives, need I remind you?) letting their PICTURES GET POSTED on a chain restaurant's website. To quote Bobby: "YA IDJIT!!"
- They seem to be adding a lot of extra characters -- Ruby, Bela, the Jesus-freak and his pal, and now Gordon's back, too. It's getting kinda crowded in here, ain't it?

That's it for me. Nighty-nite.

Comments

[fictualities.livejournal.com]

All damn-near seven feet of Sam repeatedly crashing to the ground.

This was adorable. Particularly since Sam got to look bemused for the entire episode. He's incredibly good at looking bemused. For him to look any more bemused he'd have to have actual muses pasted on him.

And if she's so rich, why is she living in Queens?

She looked like a Manhattan girl to me. And I love Queens, but where can you get an apartment like that in Queens? Is there something I don't know about Queens? Maybe she hides there from enraged clients.

As for where they're going with her, from the way she and Dean were glaring meaningfully at each other over their weapons, I'd say they're going for prolonged UST interspersed with witty banter and quarreling. More like "Supernatural Meets Moonlighting."

Courage, though. Let's remember that any plot development that might conceivably lead to Dean without his shirt is good.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Is there something I don't know about Queens?

Actually, within the past year they've started building a lot of luxury high-rises in Long Island City, on the Queens waterfront. But it's still Queens. They're luxury high-rises for the B&T set. The sort of place where a glamorous globetrotting cat burglar wouldn't be caught dead. Or talking to the dead.

More like "Supernatural Meets Moonlighting."

Okay to shudder now? Even Dean's shirt off won't make up for that. Besides, Dean's shirtlessness is best depicted in angsty scenes...wounds, defibrilation, etc. Speaking of which, we're three eps in and I'm waaay overdue for some good Dean abuse. Damnit.

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

Damn, I saw this post the other day and somehow RL intervened and I never did get back to read the whole thing.

I fell in love with Sammy all over again in this episode. He was so funny and endearing all the way through it. And Dean was Dean, which is always perfect. That "I'm Batman" line just did me in. I cracked up. And the Jesus Freak hunter was great, although I'm not sure just what the show's producers are planning with all these new characters being introduced. Bela's interesting, and maybe they'll tell us how she got to be what she is. Maybe she's a real vampire? Ooh, that'd make me happy. Bela sort of nibbling on Dean, with her fangs starting to show. Sam to the rescue, for once.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't think Bela's a vampire at all, though nibbling at Dean is never a bad thing. I'm not feeling very positive about Bela, about the type of character that she is. I don't see how a glitzy Bond-girl wannabe fits into the Supernatural universe or mood at all and I'm worried that her insertion as a regular character points to a fundamental change from the Supernatural of Seasons One and Two. Ruby may be a sulky and overly coiffed (lord, her megawatt glossy curls are distracting) little girl but at least her character fits into the show.

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're right. Maybe they have plans that will just blow us away when they're revealed. I know AHBL was just boggling to me, and I loved it. Just have to wait and see what the writers will do.

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

I finally saw the episode!!! *bounces like crazy*

- Sam: "I lost my shoe."

And the pout! goody!

- Dean's brain freeze. ADORABLE!!

When is that?

Dean burst out, "You opened it!" just so... *sighs* He can really deliver emotions.

But don't blame them for getting photographed. They were as astounded. :D

- Dean: "SONOFABITCH!" (If you recorded the ep, PLEASE watch this bit in slo-mo, because you'll catch Jared Padalecki helplessly cracking up in the face of Dean's outrage.)

I especially waited to see this (yeah, got spoiled a bit and all). And I thought, I thought, uhh, what did I think?

*wipes tears just for remembering the ep* :D