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[oselle]

That was a very odd episode and I don't quite know what to make of it yet.

The first thing I have to do is give ghyste a giant pat on the back for having insisted all season that we were going to get socked with some Bela sob story. We did, and it was even sobbier than I expected...I mean, child molestation? Really? Boy, they sure weren't taking any chances on Bela's twagic stowy, were they? Now with extwa twagedy!

Yawn. I'm glad she's gone. Poor Dean has to face the possibility of seeing her in Hell, as if Hell itself wouldn't be bad enough.

Oh, and another shoutout to ghyste -- if twagic Bela's telling the truth, then Lilith is the contract holder and I CALLED IT.

*does the I CALLED IT dance*

Then again that could be a red herring. But it doesn't seem like Bela would have had any reason to lie when she only had three minutes to live.

Steven Williams was awesome as Rufus. I hope they're planning on bringing him back.

Dean's "I could never stay angry at you" line to his sandwich was either an homage to or complete ripoff of The Simpsons. Do you know the episode? Homer can't take his kids to Duff Gardens because he's gotten sick from eating a rotting six-foot hero left over from the company picnic, and he blames the sandwich and says, "This is all your fault!" but then picks it out of the garbage and tells it, "I could never stay angry at you!" One of the all-time great Simpsons episodes.

Heh -- Lariat Car Rental. Nice little X-Files shoutout there.

Sam's proposed solution to Dean's deal -- keeping Dean alive forever? I think (I hope) that we're supposed to assume that Sam is completely wigged out and desperate at this point, because THAT IS A HORRIBLE IDEA. I mean A REALLY HORRIBLE IDEA. And I can't believe that he thought Dean would go for it.

I had to laugh at Dean finally bringing up the consequences of the "welching clause," which the writers seem to have forgotten about for most of this season. Okay so...Dean living forever would be welching, but Dean trying to execute his supposed contract-holder last week wasn't? I'm just gonna handwave this puppy.

Why on earth did they just bury the doctor? Wouldn't it have been more effective to chop him up and burn him and scatter him? There's no way he could put himself back together after that.

I hope they cut back on the gore next season. Scary is good but I can live without all the Eli Roth-style grossout. Did we really need two episodes with maggots this season?

Finally, it's official -- Dean is definitely getting prettier with every single episode. Gee, I guess it's a good thing this was a short season. Allowing Dean's prettiness to have twenty-two whole episodes of exponential growth would have been lethal.

That's all I got for now. Like I said, a pretty odd episode. I've already got a knot in my guts for next week. You know exactly how they're going to leave us, don't you?

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[pensive]

*I fangirled over S Williams
*I totally fangirled over Dean's sammich line
*Thank god Bela is gonnnnnnnnneeeee!!!!!!!
*Sam is desperate...but to the point of stupidity? I also thought they should have burned the frankenstein doc. Plus, this leaves the possibility that Sam can come back, exhume the book, and "save" Dean????
*the Cleveland Steamer line grossed me out *shudder* Oh Dean, you sex-encyclopedia you

Yes Dean gets prettier (wasn't that his original deal?)

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you've GOT to have sold your soul to SOMEONE to be THAT pretty. Jeez!

I missed the Cleveland Steamer line. I don't think I want to know what it is. I'm still traumatized over finding out what "Two Girls, One Cup" meant.

[pensive]

Yeah... save yourself and don't google it! A friend of mine told me about it last year just when I thought I'd forgotten about it *shudder*

[ghyste.livejournal.com]

I’m commenting without seeing the episode (obviously) since given what I’m doing this weekend there’s little point in me trying to stay unspoiled.

If Bela’s sob story is that she was molested as a child then I’m disappointed at the writers. It’s the kind of heavy-handedness that I’d expect from your average ff.net fanbrat and smacks of petulance – you didn’t love our new sparkly princess so we’re going to give her the one backstory you’re not allowed to criticise.

Kudos on the Lilith thing, though I hope they explain why she wanted to keep Sam alive. Speaking of Sam, if I could spot that selling your soul =/= selling your life, then Sammy and his massive brain should have done too!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

If Bela’s sob story is that she was molested as a child then I’m disappointed at the writers.

Yes, Ghyste, they went there. It was more than implied that Bela's fabulously wealthy Daddy was diddling her and so when a little demon-girl came along and tempted her to sell her soul in return for dispatching both Mummy and Daddy in a horrific car crash, poor twagic Bela went for it. I don't think it was petulance, I suspect they had this super-sobby sob story in place all along. And that makes me happier than ever that she's dead. If I want to see this kind of crap I'll go watch the Lifetime channel.

The girl who played Little Bela (whose real name was Abby, btw) in the flashback looked an awful lot like a younger Emma Watson. She was supposed to be fourteen but she didn't look a day over twelve.

though I hope they explain why she wanted to keep Sam alive.

Maybe she just thought he's as dumb as he's been acting all season?

Have fun at Asylum!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Oh, and now that we know Bela's family was FABULOUSLY WEALTHY, I think she was supposed to have been modeled on Lara Croft more than Elizabeth Hurley.

You know, if they HAD to give her a twagic backstory I would have preferred her to be some piece of white trash from Kentucky or something, clawing her way out of the trailer park, faking that posh accent, and doing everything she had to do out of pure hatred of poverty. THAT would have been way more interesting than Poor Little Molested Rich Girl, and also would have given her at least SOMETHING in common with the Winchesters' gritty upbringing. But whatever. She's gone. Buh-bye.

[ghyste.livejournal.com]

Still not seen the ep (in an hour or so, I hope) but I'd have infinitely preferred it if they'd done something like you're suggesting or even had her as just an unpleasant child who wanted her parents out of the way because they wouldn't give her a pony.

I'll be doing a proper report on Asylum idc, but Lauren was a good guest and if she'd used her real accent (sort of half-way across the pond) Bela wouldn't have sounded quite so much like fingernails on a blackboard.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Probably some American idiot told her that she didn't sound "English enough" and she should play up the accent. Which pretty much made her sound neither English nor American, just wholly annoying. But the accent was the least of what was wrong with that character. Good lord.

[nymisys.livejournal.com]

THAT IS A HORRIBLE IDEA. I mean A REALLY HORRIBLE IDEA. - I can't believe Sam even *suggested* it. I see the "logic" of the idea, but you know, living forever would be a kind of Hell of its own. I think you're right about the panicking-and-clutching-at-straws idea, but ffs. I thought he was much brighter than that. (He probably IS and it's just something else to blame on the writers' sudden attack of copping-out fever.)

/soapbox

I strongly suspect that I Will Not Be Pleased at the finale - I actually get butterflies thinking about it. (It's nice to be caught up enough in something to care - haven't been this invested in anything since LOTR.)

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I'm excited about the finale if only for the guaranteed angst of Dean's death. It's that first 35 minutes of the episode that I'm worried about...

[the0neru.livejournal.com]

not gonna miss bela, tbh. and sorry, but i call lame on the whole child-molestation angle; it's so cliched i can't believe the writers even went there.

*agrees with you about wigging-out-and-desperate sam, even if only because i want so badly to believe he wouldn't really suggest such a stupid plan*

less gore would be good, as gore tends to obscure teh pretteh.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

There's just no way that Sam could have looked at the doctor and thought that would be a good way for Dean to wind up. Not to mention there was NO guarantee that keeping Dean's body alive would have kept his soul out of Hell. So I have to think that the writers wanted us to understand that Sam is utterly at the end of his rope.

Still doesn't explain why they buried the doctor alive rather than dispatching him altogether. That route seems both ineffective and inhumane.

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

Oh no. I was so distracted by my hatred toward Bela that I forgot to see Dean's prettiness! Bad me. :(

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Dean's prettiness was most evident in the scene where he was tussling with Doc Benton and Bela wasn't around so it was easy to focus on that. He was also very pretty in the scene with Rufus and I really liked the interaction there, too. I always enjoy Dean's scenes with older characters -- his father, Ellen, Bobby, now Rufus. There's some extra chemistry there. I think it's because Dean is so often in the guardian role that it's nice to see him be "the kid" for a change. At the same time, because he seems so much older than he is, there's a sort of equal footing between him and other characters that he doesn't have with characters his own age or younger. I dig it a lot and I'm looking forward to seeing more of Rufus.

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

Oh, how this makes me love him more. :)

Thank you so much, Oselle! ♥ you

[oxer12.livejournal.com]

The doctor totally creeped me out. I can't believe Sam thought for one second that he wanted Dean to end up like that. Gross!

Heh heh, I remember that Simpsons line. :-)

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I can't believe Sam wanted THAT to happen to his brother's BEAUTIFUL FACE! DON'T MESS WITH THE FACE!