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

[ariadnes-string.livejournal.com]

OMG, I saw it in real time tonight--for the first time since, um, October. And on the big TV, not my computer screen!

*ahem*

You are so right about the rhythm of SPN--it's always like that--except when something takes, say, 4-5 years to happen...

As for Lisa--at least there's precedent for her coming out of left field like that: he's just telling the truth about what she's become in his (poor, addled) subconscious--it was just like her appearance in DaLDoM...You're so right about where the show's headed in terms of Dean's "happiness."

Also: absolutely fixated on those beautiful hand this week ;) I need a new icon!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

he's just telling the truth about what she's become in his (poor, addled) subconscious

You're thinking about this with complexity and I don't think you're supposed to. The message you were meant to take away from that scene was not one about the sorry state of Dean's subconscious but OMG LISA IS THE ONE OMG BEN'S TOTALLY HIS KID OMG POW BETCHA DIDN'T SEE THAT COMIN' DIDJA!?!?

I noticed this week that Misha has very shiny fingernails too. Perhaps they all go to the same manicurist. Between all the prettyboys and polished nails, that set sounds like metrosexual heaven.

[ariadnes-string.livejournal.com]

a day at the spa with those boys? now that sounds kind of heavenly ;)