Rewatch #4
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borgmama1of57.07 The Mentalist
Subtle little thing that caught my attention--when Dean is checking out the dead psychic's set-up and he finds the knocker under the table, he jokingly asks, 'Am I going to win the Powerball?,' makes it knock--and then he looks up over the table at...nothing where Sam should have been giving Dean an eyeroll.
Ouch.
When Dean accidentally finds Sam in the restaurant in Lily Dale, Dean is a jerk. Seriously, 'I'm just going to keep talking at Sam until he gives up ignoring me.' No recognition of the past issue, let's completely ignore that Sam might have a reason to be pissed, just steamroll him right back together with me...
Later, when they've figured out (wrongly) that they have to go torch Kate's bones and Sam walks off to get started, Dean decides to call Sam out, telling Sam he's being a dick. This is one of those moments where I really want to sit them on my couch and make them listen to each other--Dean, it's you feeling like a dick projecting onto Sam!
Sam is still "You lied to me and you killed my friend." So Dean tries to play both the high moral and big brother cards, saying he did it for Sam because Sam was too close to see that Amy was still a monster, and that Dean did the dirty work for Sam .And then Dean goes on to say he would have told Sam but he was worried Sam's mental state couldn't handle it.
I get very frustrated here, because Sam hasn't been acting like anything is going on in his head! Show let the ball drop here--why haven't we seen Sam spacing out? What would have been perfect would have just been to have Lucifer's voice being heard--I get that having Pellegrino around would have been a challenge, but we could have had his voice!
I get frustrated because I know Supernatural can do better! And it makes all of Dean's anxiety over Sam's mental state seem bogus because we don't see anything wrong with Sam. Sigh.
Melanie, and her friend Camille too, were awesome. Melanie had spunk--a bit like Sarah from season 2, now that I think about it.
And then we get the bizarre conversation at the end, where Sam says maybe Dean was right, Sam was too close to make a good decision about Amy--and Sam forgives awfully easily here, especially since Dean never really says he's sorry for lying to Sam's face...and Sam jumps to Dean has to stop lying about being all right. And I was kind of 'What?'
Again, I understand that show is setting up Dean to fall apart when Bobby dies, but it's much more effective to give us the tortured, despairing Dean close-ups than have Sam pester Dean about concealing his depression. Because exactly what is supposed to happen if Dean says, 'Yeah, Sam, I'm depressed.' Sam isn't the person who's going to give Dean counseling!
Thing is, I know and love these characters enough to rationalize the OOC bits for myself--it's just that I shouldn't have to do it so much!
7.08 Time for a Wedding
I cringed at the thought of watching this one again...In my head, this is the episode that never happened. Except for giving us Garth :)
Although, I have to admit that it wasn't quite as painful as I expected...except for the trashing of Becky's character. The episode could have worked if it had just been a random chick spelling Sam because she wanted to look good at the reunion. Sam under the love spell worked. Garth worked. Dean's reactions to Sam's hasty marriage worked (his physical reaction in the wedding chapel was priceless!) And the smarmy crossroads demon worked. Just...why did you have to pick on Becky, guys? She stands in for us, remember?
7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters
We go back to the season arc and the Leviathans here. I don't have much to say about it, other than stoned-Dean :)
And I keep trying to figure out how, when a Leviathan has to eat himself because he's being bibbed, does he actually consume the last part of himself? (If I admit to laying in bed thinking about how that physically can be done, will you wonder at my sanity?)
The Leviathans were a very different type of monster than the big bads of the past. Clearly show was trying to do social commentary about the current American lifestyle. I'm just not sure it made for the most exciting season-long monsters...
Subtle little thing that caught my attention--when Dean is checking out the dead psychic's set-up and he finds the knocker under the table, he jokingly asks, 'Am I going to win the Powerball?,' makes it knock--and then he looks up over the table at...nothing where Sam should have been giving Dean an eyeroll.
Ouch.
When Dean accidentally finds Sam in the restaurant in Lily Dale, Dean is a jerk. Seriously, 'I'm just going to keep talking at Sam until he gives up ignoring me.' No recognition of the past issue, let's completely ignore that Sam might have a reason to be pissed, just steamroll him right back together with me...
Later, when they've figured out (wrongly) that they have to go torch Kate's bones and Sam walks off to get started, Dean decides to call Sam out, telling Sam he's being a dick. This is one of those moments where I really want to sit them on my couch and make them listen to each other--Dean, it's you feeling like a dick projecting onto Sam!
Sam is still "You lied to me and you killed my friend." So Dean tries to play both the high moral and big brother cards, saying he did it for Sam because Sam was too close to see that Amy was still a monster, and that Dean did the dirty work for Sam .And then Dean goes on to say he would have told Sam but he was worried Sam's mental state couldn't handle it.
I get very frustrated here, because Sam hasn't been acting like anything is going on in his head! Show let the ball drop here--why haven't we seen Sam spacing out? What would have been perfect would have just been to have Lucifer's voice being heard--I get that having Pellegrino around would have been a challenge, but we could have had his voice!
I get frustrated because I know Supernatural can do better! And it makes all of Dean's anxiety over Sam's mental state seem bogus because we don't see anything wrong with Sam. Sigh.
Melanie, and her friend Camille too, were awesome. Melanie had spunk--a bit like Sarah from season 2, now that I think about it.
And then we get the bizarre conversation at the end, where Sam says maybe Dean was right, Sam was too close to make a good decision about Amy--and Sam forgives awfully easily here, especially since Dean never really says he's sorry for lying to Sam's face...and Sam jumps to Dean has to stop lying about being all right. And I was kind of 'What?'
Again, I understand that show is setting up Dean to fall apart when Bobby dies, but it's much more effective to give us the tortured, despairing Dean close-ups than have Sam pester Dean about concealing his depression. Because exactly what is supposed to happen if Dean says, 'Yeah, Sam, I'm depressed.' Sam isn't the person who's going to give Dean counseling!
Thing is, I know and love these characters enough to rationalize the OOC bits for myself--it's just that I shouldn't have to do it so much!
7.08 Time for a Wedding
I cringed at the thought of watching this one again...In my head, this is the episode that never happened. Except for giving us Garth :)
Although, I have to admit that it wasn't quite as painful as I expected...except for the trashing of Becky's character. The episode could have worked if it had just been a random chick spelling Sam because she wanted to look good at the reunion. Sam under the love spell worked. Garth worked. Dean's reactions to Sam's hasty marriage worked (his physical reaction in the wedding chapel was priceless!) And the smarmy crossroads demon worked. Just...why did you have to pick on Becky, guys? She stands in for us, remember?
7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters
We go back to the season arc and the Leviathans here. I don't have much to say about it, other than stoned-Dean :)
And I keep trying to figure out how, when a Leviathan has to eat himself because he's being bibbed, does he actually consume the last part of himself? (If I admit to laying in bed thinking about how that physically can be done, will you wonder at my sanity?)
The Leviathans were a very different type of monster than the big bads of the past. Clearly show was trying to do social commentary about the current American lifestyle. I'm just not sure it made for the most exciting season-long monsters...
