Rewatch #17
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borgmama1of59.06 Heaven Can't Wait
Sometimes when I rewatch an episode it's kind of like 'huh, so that happened...' The plot gets moved along, the characters do stuff, but I'm not emotionally engaged.
I didn't hate it...
It's a little sad seeing how far Cas has fallen...there's a little pride in how far he's come in being human...It's a little sad seeing Dean not sure how to feel about Cas 'growing up'...
It was fun seeing Crowley get his comeuppance, even if only temporarily...
Cas' boss is a dipshit for a) inviting Cas over without making it at all clear that she wanted him for a babysitter; b) leaving her baby with a stranger, I don't care how nice he is, she has no idea if he knows anything about caring for a baby; c) wearing a dress to go bowling.
OTOH that baby was completely adorable sitting on Cas' lap, looking around with her big eyes!
Cas rolled with the punches amazingly well in his unplanned role of babysitter--his empathy with the crying child:
Nobody told you. Nobody explained. You're just … shoved out kicking and screaming into this human life, without any idea why any of it feels the way it feels, or why this confusion, which feels like it's … a hair's breadth from terror or pain. You know, just when you think you do understand, it'll turn out you're wrong. You didn't understand anything at all. Guess that's just how it is when you're new at this. You know, it wasn't that long ago when all I'd need to do to ease your pain was touch you.
Trying to fight off Ephraim, using the rose thorns to draw blood--that was fast thinking. I think hanging around Sam and Dean, Cas absorbed a lot of smarts that he doesn't realize he picked up.
It ends with Dean lying by omission to Cas, hiding that Crowley says the spell closing heaven is irreversible. Why does he do that all the time? Dean never believes anyone else can handle being told the truth.
We know how that will bite him in the butt...
9.06 Bad Boys
I want to like this episode. I really, really do. And I can like the idea of it...
But the execution bugs me.
I wish I weren't so picky...
I can ignore the premise of an ex-con (Sonny) serving 15 years and then opening a boys' rehab farm.
I can ignore the inconsistencies of 16-yr-old Dean being impressed that Sonny knows how to pick handcuffs, and of becoming settled in school and as an athlete in a couple months.
I can ignore the patched together story of Timmy's mom being his protective ghost and thinking that everyone is threatening her son so she has to kill them.
I can ignore the unlikeliness of the idea that John Winchester would leave Dean in reform school for 2 months to 'teach him a lesson.'
I have a harder time ignoring that Dean was 16 and never kissed a girl. We see Dean in "After School Special" a about 18 months later and he is a real hound-dog. Making up for lost time, I guess?
I can try very hard to ignore supposed 12-year-old Sam nonchalantly playing with a toy airplane in the car when he hasn't seen his brother for 2 months...(I think it really was a mistake to change Dean's age in the flashbacks to 16. I would have accepted his behavior much easier as a 14-yr-old and Sam as 10.)
I can't ignore that John Winchester would leave Dean there while telling Sam that Dean was lost on a hunt. Sam has known about monsters being real for 4 years years at this point---HOW ON EARTH WOULD HE BE OKAY WITH THE EXPLANATION THAT DEAN WAS LOST ON A HUNT????
We end with typical Dean denial--no regrets over leaving Sonny's, or any feelings at all on the matter...when he so clearly does, he's just shutting Sam out again because Dean Winchester doesn't know what to do with feelings...Will someone please give Dean Winchester a smack upside the head and a therapy session!!!
The detail that stayed with me the most was that Timmy's action figure, his only remnant of his mom, was destroyed totally unnecessarily...I mean, Dean was working on a valid assumption, but turns out it wasn't involved...and it is ruined. I felt sad for Timmy.
9.07 Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aaand...I probably give this episode more of a pass than it deserves...it's borderline offensive in how it portrays the majority of the virgins, but Dean is both smart and genuine and briefly happy in this episode, and there are some awful but clever double entendres, and Sam is pretty smart too, and there's JODY...
What I liked best about Dean's characterization is his reaction to figuring out Suzy is his dream porn star:
Listen, uh, Suzy, I've seen a lot of awful things, stuff of nightmares, okay? But you -- you're the good dreams.
Not even leering, just honest appreciation!
I liked how Dean took charge of the civilians in the dungeon, and I don't know why, but it was just sexy watching him unscrew the bolts in the manhole cover and shoulder his way out.
Then we get Vesta surprised at Sam being able to function when he's so messed up inside, and the viewer has to extrapolate what the heck has been going on with Zeke's repair job? Did resurrecting Cas, and then Charlie, and then healing Sam of the mortal wound from the monster-man really not only slow down Sam's healing but set it back to how bad off Sam was at the beginning? We got Sam all full of energy and raring to go for a few episodes, and now he can't stay awake at the table? This is not good...
Finally Dean is tired of lying to Sam and ready to spill the beans at the end--and Zeke won't let him. And this is the start of wondering if Zeke is really being straight about what he's doing for Sam.
Watching that final scene now, I can't help but wonder how things would have gone differently if Dean had come clean then...
Sometimes when I rewatch an episode it's kind of like 'huh, so that happened...' The plot gets moved along, the characters do stuff, but I'm not emotionally engaged.
I didn't hate it...
It's a little sad seeing how far Cas has fallen...there's a little pride in how far he's come in being human...It's a little sad seeing Dean not sure how to feel about Cas 'growing up'...
It was fun seeing Crowley get his comeuppance, even if only temporarily...
Cas' boss is a dipshit for a) inviting Cas over without making it at all clear that she wanted him for a babysitter; b) leaving her baby with a stranger, I don't care how nice he is, she has no idea if he knows anything about caring for a baby; c) wearing a dress to go bowling.
OTOH that baby was completely adorable sitting on Cas' lap, looking around with her big eyes!
Cas rolled with the punches amazingly well in his unplanned role of babysitter--his empathy with the crying child:
Nobody told you. Nobody explained. You're just … shoved out kicking and screaming into this human life, without any idea why any of it feels the way it feels, or why this confusion, which feels like it's … a hair's breadth from terror or pain. You know, just when you think you do understand, it'll turn out you're wrong. You didn't understand anything at all. Guess that's just how it is when you're new at this. You know, it wasn't that long ago when all I'd need to do to ease your pain was touch you.
Trying to fight off Ephraim, using the rose thorns to draw blood--that was fast thinking. I think hanging around Sam and Dean, Cas absorbed a lot of smarts that he doesn't realize he picked up.
It ends with Dean lying by omission to Cas, hiding that Crowley says the spell closing heaven is irreversible. Why does he do that all the time? Dean never believes anyone else can handle being told the truth.
We know how that will bite him in the butt...
9.06 Bad Boys
I want to like this episode. I really, really do. And I can like the idea of it...
But the execution bugs me.
I wish I weren't so picky...
I can ignore the premise of an ex-con (Sonny) serving 15 years and then opening a boys' rehab farm.
I can ignore the inconsistencies of 16-yr-old Dean being impressed that Sonny knows how to pick handcuffs, and of becoming settled in school and as an athlete in a couple months.
I can ignore the patched together story of Timmy's mom being his protective ghost and thinking that everyone is threatening her son so she has to kill them.
I can ignore the unlikeliness of the idea that John Winchester would leave Dean in reform school for 2 months to 'teach him a lesson.'
I have a harder time ignoring that Dean was 16 and never kissed a girl. We see Dean in "After School Special" a about 18 months later and he is a real hound-dog. Making up for lost time, I guess?
I can try very hard to ignore supposed 12-year-old Sam nonchalantly playing with a toy airplane in the car when he hasn't seen his brother for 2 months...(I think it really was a mistake to change Dean's age in the flashbacks to 16. I would have accepted his behavior much easier as a 14-yr-old and Sam as 10.)
I can't ignore that John Winchester would leave Dean there while telling Sam that Dean was lost on a hunt. Sam has known about monsters being real for 4 years years at this point---HOW ON EARTH WOULD HE BE OKAY WITH THE EXPLANATION THAT DEAN WAS LOST ON A HUNT????
We end with typical Dean denial--no regrets over leaving Sonny's, or any feelings at all on the matter...when he so clearly does, he's just shutting Sam out again because Dean Winchester doesn't know what to do with feelings...Will someone please give Dean Winchester a smack upside the head and a therapy session!!!
The detail that stayed with me the most was that Timmy's action figure, his only remnant of his mom, was destroyed totally unnecessarily...I mean, Dean was working on a valid assumption, but turns out it wasn't involved...and it is ruined. I felt sad for Timmy.
9.07 Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aaand...I probably give this episode more of a pass than it deserves...it's borderline offensive in how it portrays the majority of the virgins, but Dean is both smart and genuine and briefly happy in this episode, and there are some awful but clever double entendres, and Sam is pretty smart too, and there's JODY...
What I liked best about Dean's characterization is his reaction to figuring out Suzy is his dream porn star:
Listen, uh, Suzy, I've seen a lot of awful things, stuff of nightmares, okay? But you -- you're the good dreams.
Not even leering, just honest appreciation!
I liked how Dean took charge of the civilians in the dungeon, and I don't know why, but it was just sexy watching him unscrew the bolts in the manhole cover and shoulder his way out.
Then we get Vesta surprised at Sam being able to function when he's so messed up inside, and the viewer has to extrapolate what the heck has been going on with Zeke's repair job? Did resurrecting Cas, and then Charlie, and then healing Sam of the mortal wound from the monster-man really not only slow down Sam's healing but set it back to how bad off Sam was at the beginning? We got Sam all full of energy and raring to go for a few episodes, and now he can't stay awake at the table? This is not good...
Finally Dean is tired of lying to Sam and ready to spill the beans at the end--and Zeke won't let him. And this is the start of wondering if Zeke is really being straight about what he's doing for Sam.
Watching that final scene now, I can't help but wonder how things would have gone differently if Dean had come clean then...
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Date: 2014-09-23 02:24 pm (UTC)It makes me want to rewatch along with you.
I knew the first five seasons like the back of my hand -- but 6 - 9 didn't get ingrained like the first ones did.
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Date: 2014-09-23 02:43 pm (UTC)I'm doing this because the first 5 seasons are so familiar to me that I know how the characters got to the emotional place they are when season 6 started. But I kept thinking about season 9 and not being able to track how the boys got so separated. This is my way of making it all make sense to me before embarking on a new season of having my heart torn out...
Again, thanks for letting me know your enjoying my rambling!