SPN 5:08

[oselle]

I don't really know what to say about this week's episode. I laughed a lot at all the show parodies and I'm sure everyone involved had a fun time making this one. My own personal favorite moment was Jensen doing the medical side-effects voiceover on the herpes commercial. His voice is just far, far too sexy for warnings about diarrhea. I mean, he almost makes it sound like something you'd want to get. Ooh, baby...diarrheaaaaaahh...

But it seems like every single episode since "The End" (including next week's offering) has been kind of gimmicky and jokey. Sure they try to slip in some serious stuff, but it gets buried under all the yuks. What stood out about this week's episode? The serious part about Gabriel or the riffs on Grey's Anatomy and CSI? What stood out about last week's episode besides Old!Dean is funny? And then before that we had Paris Hilton, and whoopee cushions and next week we've got some self-referential tomfoolery about fandom, which I may skip altogether because you know how I feel about that stuff.

They usually slip in at least a couple of funny episodes per season but next week's episode will mark a string of 5 episodes since "The End" that have either been completely or partially silly. And the "serious" parts of these episodes haven't even been working for me...the Trickster was really the angel Gabriel all along? Bzuh? Sam and Dean were "always" meant to be Lucifer and Michael's vessels? Double-bzuh? What about Azazel and the psychic kids contest? What was the point of all that if Sam was "always" the one? And wasn't Azazel supposed to be Lucifer's enemy? Or was he on Lucifer's side? Or does it even matter? Did it ever matter?

Seriously (no pun intended), I want them to quit fooling around. I like my laffs just as much as the next gal but you can't give us something like "The End" and then crank out 5 consecutive episodes that feel more like crackfic than the show. Unless they're getting all the hilarity out of the way so we can get down to business in the latter half of the season. That would be cool.

ETA: Okay, I did laugh at the "prettyboy angel" crack. Who couldn't?

Comments

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. A little humor is a good thing, but this is just getting boring.

[oxer12.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this one, too. I did like the episode, and I haven't minded the meta stuff about fandom, but when I saw the promo for next week, I said, "Again?" It's getting old.

[tskterata.livejournal.com]

I agree, while I enjoyed watching it, I felt kind of empty after. Kind of the way I feel after eating pancakes for breakfast, like if I don't eat some real food soon, I'll never make it 'til lunch.

[ariadnes-string.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree more. There's been absolutely no forward movement on the narrative. It's like watching Scooby Doo and Shaggy run away from something, and their little cartoon feet just dig them a big hole in the ground and they don't go anywhere at all.

I also may not watch next week. I usually don't mind the fandom thing, but this one might put me over the edge....

[mangokulfi.livejournal.com]

I loved this episode and I'm just relieved that it surpassed the quality of the last three which I found seriously lacking in the writing department. Also fanboy Dean and a Dean who is just irrationally irritated by police procedurals, are quite possibly the most adorable things on the planet. Sam as KITT isn't far behind.

You know I get the feeling that The End was so epic and awesome and took so much out of the writers that they were totally punch drunk in the writers' room when they came up with this latest batch of episodes. Like you, I hope this where they get their jollies out for the rest of the season and get back to the srs bzns of the apoklips for the rest of the year.

I actually haven't minded the meta too, too much until now mostly because I think some segments of this fandom are so ridiculously entitled that it doesn't bug me if Kripke wants to thwat them gently on the nose with a newspaper. But I do admit that I am extremely nervous about next week's episode and I've never even been to a convention.

But I do admit that I am deeply amused at how butthurt TWoP Demian already seems to be, that his namesake is being portrayed as an overweight lout. That might make all the rest of the possible cringing, worth it for me.

Petty? Who me? *snerk*

[layne67.livejournal.com]

But at least this one is good!!

5.05 and 5.06 are so-so, 5.07 was mind-numbingly boring, but yeah, I thought this one was excellent :)