SPN 5:20

[oselle]

I've received one question wondering where my usually timely episode review is. Well...I was really tired on Thursday night and seriously, didn't find the episode interesting enough to post about. Not only was it boring but I couldn't follow it. It just seemed really disjointed and pointless to me. I don't know why they teased us with that nifty 28 Days Later-style opening bit and then dropped it altogether. I did enjoy Crowley an awful lot but he dominated the episode so much that he seemed to be doing a one-man show. I don't know why Brady mattered at all, and I don't know why they made such a big deal out of Sam and Dean ganging up to shiv him in that alley. And where the fuck was Pestilence? I thought after last week's ending, Pestilence would be the focus of this episode. I thought this episode would mark the beginning of the Croatoan epidemic that would eventually lead to the world we saw in "The End." Are they anticlimactically going to gank Pestilence offstage so they can just go after Death unimpeded?

Another few things. I've often (and fondly) mocked the way Dean can come out of crushing physical abuse with nothing more than a few flattering abrasions, but they gave up on even that much in this episode. Dean gets beaten to a pulp by Brady, we see him wiping his face but then, literally moments later, he doesn't have a scratch on him. Where's my pouty split lip? Where's my pretty little Mary-Sue cheekbone scratch? I don't think it's too much to ask that the show at least live up to my expectations on this score. The next time Dean gets a pounding he'd better have a nice, photogenic laceration to show for it.

Also: twice now they've shown that flashback to Famine's ring, which makes me LOL because one of the really annoying things about that episode was that we never saw Dean cutting off Famine's ring. In fact, I recall bugging out because Dean was just standing there the whole time and I was like, "The ring, Dean! Get the ring!!" Key details like that should happen onscreen, I think.

Finally, I mysteriously have NO recollection of Bobby ever being possessed and trying to kill Dean. When the hell did that happen? And what on earth would make Sam think that he's capable of booting Lucifer out once he's in, just because Bobby was able to do that to Meg? That's stupid.

Finally, I also had to laugh at the preview of next week, with Death telling Dean, "You can't cheat death." Does he have any idea who he's talking to? Dean has literally cheated death three times, and that doesn't even include all of the massive injuries that would instantly kill or irreparably maim any lesser human, but are basically the equivalent of a papercut for Dean. A pretty papercut.

Comments

[fates3.livejournal.com]

Yea, that was a lameass episode. Crowley was amusing, but he's about the only character who DID anything! Oy!

As to Bobby being possessed: in "Sympathy for the Devil," the first episode of this season, Bobby was possessed by some lower level demon. It wasn't by Meg. He was WITH Meg, but he wasn't possessed by Meg. She was played by Rachel Miner.

Anyways, Bobby was possessed, he and Meg and a couple of other demons were there with Dean. (Sam had left the room earlier) Meg ordered the demon inside Bobby to kill Dean, but instead, Bobby managed to take control for a second and stab himself in the gut instead. That's where he ended up paralyzed.

What is really ass lame about this is that Sam seems to conveniently be forgetting about the fact that he WAS possessed before, by Meg herself, and he didn't do jackshit in the way of controlling her. She murdered a man, tormented Jo, shot his brother, and beat his brother to a pulp, and Sam wasn't able to control her once.

If he couldn't control a lower level demon like Meg, when she almost killed his brother, how the hell does he think he's going to control the frakking DEVIL, when he's trying to destroy THE WORLD!!

*bangs head on keyboard*

And maybe someone should remind Sam that he wasn't able to control the Devil in the future, when the Devil stepped on his brother's neck and broke it :-/

This Show. If it weren't for my love of Dean and Jensen, I swear, I think I would have quit a long time ago. It's idiocy is getting a wee bit ANNOYING!

And, oh yea, LOVED the snippet of scene with Dean and Death! I totally LOLed over Death saying that to Dean, but I get the feeling he's talking about a deal Dean's making, not about Dean actually dying.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Bobby's possession clearly made a HUGE impression on me. That's not at all how I remember Bobby becoming paralyzed. I though Zachariah had had something to do with it. Whatevs.

Sam seems to conveniently be forgetting about the fact that he WAS possessed before, by Meg herself, and he didn't do jackshit in the way of controlling her.

I guess we're supposed to assume that this is the new-and-improved post-Ruby Sam. It sure seems like Sam is assuming that.

[fates3.livejournal.com]

Actually, it could be open for interpretation. I always thought it was Bobby stabbing himself that did it, and the show has always seemed to act like that's it. But yea, Zach did use that as a threat against Dean when he was trying to "convince" Dean to say yes to Michael. But his threats to Dean and Sam were ended, so I don't know that his threat to Bobby really went through...but not sure.

I guess we're supposed to assume that this is the new-and-improved post-Ruby Sam. It sure seems like Sam is assuming that.

Well, Sam always does like to think a LOT of himself, LOL! Boy is never short of arrogance. So, yea, doesn't surprise me that he thinks he can handle it. Idiot never learns. I just hope Show doesn't actually have him be able to control Lucifer in some way, even for a second, cause I'm gonna cry "FOUL" and "BS" as loud as I can if they do.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

We've seen time and again that Sam's pride and arrogance get him in hot water. Of course this time, I'm sure it'll be juuuust fine.