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

[parakaleo.livejournal.com]

The demon said that Brady hadn't been Brady since the middle of their sophomore year. Sam had apparently known him enough to know when that had happened--Thanksgiving break when Brady came back totally changed (and not in a good way). He talked about Sam trying to help Brady thru this (drug/alcohol abuse, I think?).

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're right. Like I said, I wasn't entirely paying attention!