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[oselle]

First off, Ruby's a breath of fresh air after all that high-toned glamour crap from Bela last week. I was actually happy to see her. So at least there'll be one new character this season that I can tolerate and that actually seems to have something plausible to do with the SPN universe. Personally, I'd be happy if I never saw Bela again. Even her name annoys me.

I enjoyed Dean's scene with Casey (heh, not that Casey!). I loved the little change that flickered over Dean's face when he asked her what Hell was like -- Jensen Ackles does subtle like no one else. You know what else he does like no one else? GETS HIS ASS KICKED. And except for some minor strangling action, this is the fourth week in a row that Dean hasn't sustained any serious injuries. I don't even think I've seen him with blood picturesquely trickling down his perfect face once. WTF??

Why oh why are we now supposed to empathize with demons? I don't want to hear about their belief systems or relationships or anything. THEY'RE DEMONS, OKAY? I'm not going to have had these guys running around for two years exorcising them and shooting them only to find out they're...what? Tragically misunderstood!?

What also bothered me about Dean's scene with Casey was that it didn't tell us anything that we don't already know. OK, maybe we got a little exposition on demons, found out Lucifer is real and that Dean's not exactly going to have a cakewalk in Hell -- but hey, I just saw Constantine on Tuesday and they pulled this off a lot better. There was nothing unexpected in Casey's speech. And Dean's already told us that he's tired and kind of looking forward to shuffling off this mortal coil, so there was nothing new there either. Sort of a waste of what could have been really powerful stuff.

Speaking of a waste, I felt like the scene between Sam and Ruby at the end was a rehash of the scene we just saw in another motel room two weeks ago. I am not so dimwitted that I don't remember that Ruby is dangling Dean's salvation before Sam's eyes. Whatever though, I was just so happy that Ruby was keeping Bela away. If she's Bela-repellent she can totally stay. Especially now that they've done away with those super-shiny banana curls.

Still loves me some Bobby but, umm...didn't he just murder the poor girl that Ruby is possessing? And didn't the Colt need magic bullets to work, too? Have they just revised their own mythology or did I miss something?

Oh, god. Frigging Supernatural is making me feel stupid!

At least there was some real music in this episode. Though not enough. Not enough by far. I long for the days of "Carry On My Wayward Son" and "Renegade." OMG.

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[fictualities.livejournal.com]

Why oh why are we now supposed to empathize with demons? I don't want to hear about their belief systems or relationships or anything. THEY'RE DEMONS, OKAY? I'm not going to have had these guys running around for two years exorcising them and shooting them only to find out they're...what? Tragically misunderstood!?

Well, they could always be lying. "Demons lie" came up twice tonight as a line.

What DOES interest me about this plot line is the idea that demons might be fighting among themselves. That seems to me pretty realistic - why should demons, being after all demons, get along with each other better than people do? I expect there'd be all kinds of backstabbing and infighting in demon social relationships. And now Sam and Dean might get to be trapped in the middle of all this. Cool.

I agree that Ruby's hair was a lot better in this scene. It was impossible to take her seriously with the banana curls. She would make a threat it just wouldn't come across as threatening while she was standing there channelling Mary Pickford.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Well, they could always be lying.

I don't think Casey was lying. I think they are trying to give some dimension to these demons, if only because Ruby is one of them and, at some point, we're going to be asked to empathize with her. So I think they're setting up that foundation of "demons are more like us than you realize." Which is good planning on their part, but still not a direction that wholly interests me.

The whole demon mythology/war in Hell/apocalypse thing is going to be very difficult for this show to pull off. It's a cinematic thing that I just don't think works on television. I got pretty sick of Buffy saving the world from what looked like a bargain-basement apocalypse all the time. Not to mention that it launches the show into a religious, or at least pop-religious, territory that they couldn't ever fully embrace. My head's still so full of Constantine and its astounding imagery. If you want to "go there" with the demons and hell stuff, that's the way to do it.

[caoil.livejournal.com]

Oselle, do you have any interest in the spn soundtracks?

[oselle.livejournal.com]

baylorsr very kindly compiled all of the music from the first two seasons onto CD for me and I love almost every song on them. That's a big part of what's been not-so-great about this season so far. Where are the tunes???

[caoil.livejournal.com]

Okay - I just thought I'd check, as a comm I'm on has a recent post with all the music from S1-now, and if you didn't have it I'd grab it for ya.

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

I'm still not sure whether or not I liked the episode as a whole. Parts of it were good. Jensen Ackles gets better all the time. Everything is happening internally with him, and he lets us see that, and I know that's got to be the hardest thing an actor has to do. Sam shocked me with the way he blew Casey away. He looked so cold. And I thought, that's the way Dean's always been. Blow 'em to hell. But this time, he was the one saying "Wait." Interesting switch there.

I like the dialogue about how the demons are having power struggles amongst themselves. And for me, that gives credence to Ruby's helping them. She's not doing it out of some altruistic motive. She's doing it because she hopes to get something out of it that'll put her on top. That makes sense to me.

I'm glad they used music in the show too. That's one of the things that makes the show work so well. And I really liked that scene with Dean and Bobby, when Dean was asking him whether something is wrong with Sam. It seems to me that the demons are working to drive a wedge between the brothers, and it's starting to work. Or is that something I'm imagining?

I'm hoping the writer's will explain why the gun worked.