SPN 5:17

[oselle]

Okay, I liked that episode, in spite or maybe because of the very unfortunate coincidence that a genuine backwoods Apocalypse-fanatic militia was busted by the Feds last week, which means that Kripke was just Kripked...BY REAL LIFE!!!! And which also means that in America 2010, fiction's got nothing on reality, but I sort of knew that already.

I liked everything up until that baffling head-scratcher that was inexplicably tacked onto the end. Did you have any idea that the yoga instructor that Dean remembered most fondly as "Gumby Girl" was, in fact, the great love of his life? Because I sure didn't.

I mean, like I've been saying, I think the series is definitely heading in a direction where Dean's going to wind up settling down but...I thought they'd build up to that. You know, as in over time. I should know by now that SPN never "builds up" to anything, it's always just POW BETCHA DIDN'T SEE THAT COMIN' DIDJA!?!

I never imagined that Dean's feelings for a girl he had a brief, torrid fling with nearly ten years ago went so deep that she would be the one person in the world he most wanted to see before he went and offered himself up to the will of heaven. And that the protection of Gumby Girl and the boy who may (or may not) be his son would be numbered among the "conditions" that would be attached to his sacrifice. POW BETCHA DIDN'T SEE THAT COMIN' DIDJA!?!

Just for that, Show? You're sleeping on the couch tonight.


Sidebar One: Dean totally let that really cute blonde kid die because only Dean's allowed to be the prettiest.

Sidebar Two: The big marquee above Madison Square Garden today was advertising that tonight was the 100th episode of Bones (how is it possible that show's been on that long? I feel like it premiered two years ago). I'd love to think I'll see one up there next week for SPN but I'm pretty sure the CW is too damn cheap to rent that kind of real estate.

Comments

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of Dean "filling in the blanks of his life" but man, that seems way too subtle for SPN. Lisa's THE ONE. Ben IS his son. Do you want to place bets now on whether Dean will be married to Lisa at the end of this series?

Re: i assume lucifer will kill them

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Please remember that Sera Gamble is the new showrunner, and Lisa and Ben were first introduced in one of her episodes. They are not going to be killed. They are being set up as a major part of Dean's future.

[iontas.livejournal.com]

I'll take that bet, because I couldn't stand it if it turned out that way! As far as the subtlety, I want to believe!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I couldn't stand it if it turned out that way!

*gazes into crystal ball*

I see disappointment in your future, Iontas. Grave disappointment...