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Rewatch #5
Sep. 7th, 2014 02:26 am7.10 Death's Door
Bobby dies. And this is the kind of excellent episode SPN can deliver. Pretty much flawless...and heartbreaking. Dean and Sam in the waiting room--how lost they were every time we saw them. I could see Sam struggling with 'is this real' as he sat there in shock...and his attempt to confirm 'this is real' when he broaches Bobby might die with Dean, only for Dean to deny that might happen...
Dean's cold fury when addressing Dick Roman through the car window...Dick, the last time Dean looked like that was when he promised to kill Grandpa Campbell...and Grandpa ain't around no more, so I'd be a little more concerned.
And this line from the Reaper: "Bobby...you've helped. You got handed a small, unremarkable life, and you did something with it. Most men like you die of liver disease watching Barney Miller reruns. You've done enough. Believe me." OH!
They could have gotten kid who looked a little more Dean-like to play young Dean, though...
7.11 Adventures in Babysitting
Krissy! Love her, even when she is annoying :)
The opening, showing the boys not coping well really set the stage, and I am glad they took the time to show the time lapse!
And once more Sam is off and functioning even though his melon is supposed to be messed up. And I guess it's a measure of how revenge obsessed Dean is becoming that he lets Sam go off hunting alone.
Dean's interlude with Frank out in the field with the cherry-picker truck--what was the point of that scene??? Oh, to put Dean in a costume and throw some physical comedy in the show.
There are so many better things that could have been done with that screen time...
On the other hand, Frank's reveal of his past being used to motivate Dean--that was very well done and completely in character for Frank to use the tough love approach.
Loved the case, the twists, the scariness of first Krissy's dad, then Sam being taken...Heroic Sam getting the vetala to bite him to keep Krissy's dad alive longer...
And then there is the what? moment of Krissy running in and getting caught and the drama until she stabs the vetala holding her. And Sam tells the dad, and Dean admits to Krissy, that she saved their butts--NO SHE DIDN"T! Dean had the knife on the one vetala and clearly had the upper hand until Krissy bungled in! So why did she get credit for saving them? Didn't anyone watch what they filmed???
And otherwise it is such a good episode :(
7.12 Time After Time
Another solid and very clever casefic. Some of the visuals confused me--At the very beginning when the suspect is walking down an alley and Dean tells Sam to take the street--I didn't see the point of that, it looked like a straight open path the guy was taking. But when Dean does find him the guy is surrounded by brick walls. What did I miss? And when Ness and Dean run in the alley with their machine guns after the girl and the bad guy, it looks like they are standing right in the open--how come the girl and Chronos didn't notice them?
Ezra Moore rocked. I would love to know if there was any significance to her name being the same as Sam's Jessica.
And Jody Mills rocked. She should get the spinoff!
Then there is Ness giving Dean his variation of the 'suck it up' speech he got from Bobby and from Frank already. I wonder what point the writers were trying to make by inserting these bits...Were we, the audience supposed to feel that Dean was benefitting from these talks, or were we supposed to feel upset on Dean's behalf that no one understands how awful he feels? The irony is that we don't need verbal reminders of how bad it is for Dean, we just have to look at his face. But we sure could have used some extra cues for understanding what was going on in Sam's head.
Bobby dies. And this is the kind of excellent episode SPN can deliver. Pretty much flawless...and heartbreaking. Dean and Sam in the waiting room--how lost they were every time we saw them. I could see Sam struggling with 'is this real' as he sat there in shock...and his attempt to confirm 'this is real' when he broaches Bobby might die with Dean, only for Dean to deny that might happen...
Dean's cold fury when addressing Dick Roman through the car window...Dick, the last time Dean looked like that was when he promised to kill Grandpa Campbell...and Grandpa ain't around no more, so I'd be a little more concerned.
And this line from the Reaper: "Bobby...you've helped. You got handed a small, unremarkable life, and you did something with it. Most men like you die of liver disease watching Barney Miller reruns. You've done enough. Believe me." OH!
They could have gotten kid who looked a little more Dean-like to play young Dean, though...
7.11 Adventures in Babysitting
Krissy! Love her, even when she is annoying :)
The opening, showing the boys not coping well really set the stage, and I am glad they took the time to show the time lapse!
And once more Sam is off and functioning even though his melon is supposed to be messed up. And I guess it's a measure of how revenge obsessed Dean is becoming that he lets Sam go off hunting alone.
Dean's interlude with Frank out in the field with the cherry-picker truck--what was the point of that scene??? Oh, to put Dean in a costume and throw some physical comedy in the show.
There are so many better things that could have been done with that screen time...
On the other hand, Frank's reveal of his past being used to motivate Dean--that was very well done and completely in character for Frank to use the tough love approach.
Loved the case, the twists, the scariness of first Krissy's dad, then Sam being taken...Heroic Sam getting the vetala to bite him to keep Krissy's dad alive longer...
And then there is the what? moment of Krissy running in and getting caught and the drama until she stabs the vetala holding her. And Sam tells the dad, and Dean admits to Krissy, that she saved their butts--NO SHE DIDN"T! Dean had the knife on the one vetala and clearly had the upper hand until Krissy bungled in! So why did she get credit for saving them? Didn't anyone watch what they filmed???
And otherwise it is such a good episode :(
7.12 Time After Time
Another solid and very clever casefic. Some of the visuals confused me--At the very beginning when the suspect is walking down an alley and Dean tells Sam to take the street--I didn't see the point of that, it looked like a straight open path the guy was taking. But when Dean does find him the guy is surrounded by brick walls. What did I miss? And when Ness and Dean run in the alley with their machine guns after the girl and the bad guy, it looks like they are standing right in the open--how come the girl and Chronos didn't notice them?
Ezra Moore rocked. I would love to know if there was any significance to her name being the same as Sam's Jessica.
And Jody Mills rocked. She should get the spinoff!
Then there is Ness giving Dean his variation of the 'suck it up' speech he got from Bobby and from Frank already. I wonder what point the writers were trying to make by inserting these bits...Were we, the audience supposed to feel that Dean was benefitting from these talks, or were we supposed to feel upset on Dean's behalf that no one understands how awful he feels? The irony is that we don't need verbal reminders of how bad it is for Dean, we just have to look at his face. But we sure could have used some extra cues for understanding what was going on in Sam's head.
