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[oselle]

I had a little trouble following this one and I'm concerned that means I'm getting too dumb for Supernatural. The last two episodes ("Fresh Blood" and "A Very Supernatural Christmas") just knocked my socks off. Now that I think about it I was kind of inebriated the first time I watched both of those episodes -- maybe a few belts helps you overlook the goofy stuff and concentrate on the pretteh?

As to the goofy stuff, I felt like there was plenty in this week's episode. The scene between Sam and Dean in the motel room didn't seem as well executed as similar scenes in the last two episodes. Sam's bitching to Dean that he's going to leave him alone "in this craphole of a world" seemed excessively whiny and I think the writer should have found a different way to express that. It also seems like Sam has misjudged Dean quite a bit if he thinks that becoming "more like Dean" means that he just has to be a ruthless killer. That was Gordon's deal, not Dean's. Sam needs some schooling from fangirls.

I loves me some Dean coughing up blood but the conclusion of that scene was kind of klutzy -- Sam makes a less-than-half-assed search for the hex bag and then rushes off to find the coven. When the other victims had died (or almost died) within minutes, why would Sam assume he had time to go barrel-assing across town and have a long chat? And I don't think it was very compassionate (or in character) for Sam to leave his brother to die alone on some motel room floor.

And addressing that point, why would that witch/demon have hexed Dean anyway? Isn't Sam the one she wanted to get rid of? I was kind of thinking it was Ruby who had hexed Dean because she wanted Sam to go off and prove his mettle by blowing those witches away, and also because she had a personal beef with the head witch/demon. The way Ruby rushed in and saved Dean seemed to support that. But then the witch/demon goes and says something to Sam about how Dean's already dead so that blew my Ruby theory to hell.

As for Ruby, I kind of like her place in the show. She actually seems to be there for a reason. I liked her chat with Dean at the end even though I'm not really grasping what she wants from Dean. I think I have to go back and watch that again. I got the idea that she wants Sam to toughen up a little and she's counting on Dean's help for that. But then she's gone and told Dean that she lied to Sam about being able to get Dean out of the deal. So you think that Dean would be telling her to go fuck herself at this point, even though she did save his life. I iz confuzed.

Finally, I just have to accept that this show is making up its own "lore" about all things supernatural/paranormal/occult. First the show tells us that selling your soul involves some big crossroads ritual. But those poor suburban housewives seem to have unwittingly sold their souls just by sitting around and chanting for better mortgage rates and winning raffle tickets. I'm hand-waving that, just as I'm hand-waving the notion that this witch/demon was somehow more powerful than the ol' Yellow Eyes himself.

Next week's episode looks awesome but I think the atrociously annoying and dull Bela is making a brief appearance in it. All I know is it's dream-stuff, which I love, and Dean looks super creepy and super hot. YES!

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[mews1945.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping they have good reasons for all the things they're doing, but I don't think I pay as close attention to the details as some people do. I just let it flow over me and eat my brain. I loved the episode, but I have no problem buying into their slapdash approach to some things. They keep it moving fast, and there was lots of Dean suffering in this one, so that was good. And I think Sam's not nearly as resigned to Dean's dying as he acts.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

The only reason the slapdash approach bothers me is because it prevents a good show from being a GREAT show. I love the boys and I think Dean is bloody frigging gorgeous but I wish I didn't have to ignore so many things or do so much filling in with my own speculations in order to make the show work. I like feeling like the writers know what they're doing and are going to take me along on a great ride...I don't like feeling like the writers are just as clueless as I am.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I've been talking about this to a friend. And we were thinking that the strike may have something to do with it. I mean, Kripke most probably had known that the strike was going to happen, and they had so much to do in so little time, hence the slapdash approach ? It's not like they have different writers or different directors, everything's the same, except for the network executives, perhaps? Do you think the people in suits have something to do with how season 3 is being handled?

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Honestly, who knows? I think there are a lot of factors at work. The strike is probably one of them. Having to fit in two entirely new characters is another. I don't think the writers/producers of the show are all that free to do what they want and I think the network probably dictates more than is creatively healthy. And I think the CW is kind of a cheesy network that doesn't really know what to do with the shows they inherited from the WB. But even all that sometimes can't excuse what just seems like clumsy plotting -- like having Sam abandon Dean in that motel room so that they can set up a big expository scene. Ouch -- was there no more graceful way to handle that? That scene could have used a serious rewrite.

[ghyste.livejournal.com]

My only answer to "why Dean?" as the target of the hex is that of the two he looks the prettier when he's suffering...

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

Wow. I have to agree with you with that. :D

[ghyste.livejournal.com]

The forces of evil are not entirely stupid :D

[oselle.livejournal.com]

No argument here.

[ghyste.livejournal.com]

Apropos to nothing in this thread, a while back you said you wouldn't mind taking once-over of any SPN fic I wrote to make sure the boys didn't sound like they'd spent time at a top British drama school they came from the SE of England.

I'm going to a little fan get-together next month and they've asked everyone to write a little fic for the con booklet, so I wondered if the offer was still open?

[oselle.livejournal.com]

As long as it's not Wincest and doesn't involve any member of the male sex giving birth (caesarean or otherwise...shudder), I'd be delighted. Just keep in mind that:

It's a flashlight, not a torch.
It's a hood, not a bonnet.
It's a trunk, not a boot.
They're tires, not tyres.

:D

You can send it to oselleg at hotmail.com.

[ghyste.livejournal.com]

There's no sex at all, though the characters do share a bed for humourous purposes, and certainly no giving birth. It also has the virtue of being very short... much like Dean :D

[oselle.livejournal.com]

PS: If Bela's in it, you're responsible for her. Top British drama school and all.

[ghyste.livejournal.com]

No Bela. There is an OFC, but... well, you'll see :)