SPN Rewatch #21
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borgmama1of59.15 Thinman
Sam's on his laptop, Dean's heading out because he found a case.
DEAN: All right. I'll be back.
SAM: Wait. Where you headed?
DEAN: Washington. I caught a case.
SAM: You want me to come with?
DEAN: Do you want to come?
SAM: On a hunt? Why wouldn't I?
DEAN: I don't know, man. 'Cause lately with you, up is down and down is sideways, you know? I-I -- I don't know what you want. Okay. You want in? Fine. Sure thing.
The dialog alone doesn't convey the mixed messages going back and forth here...Dean is going to show Sam that Dean is capable of operating alone--and Sam is annoyed that Dean is doing a solo act. "Why wouldn't I?" Um. well you kind of indicated previously you're not that interested in being with Dean right now...Really, Sam, could you just give Dean a straight answer instead of making him guess what you want? I guarantee it will help matters!
Last season saw characters from the past come back to die. This season past characters come back to get their lives messed up--first Garth, now these guys...
Yet another ep that I liked better in the rewatch, though the Sam/Dean Harry/Ed parallels couldn't have been more blatant. But the actors who played Harry and Ed gave the emotional hurt scenes the gravitas needed to sell them.
I did love the reference to playing Superman and Batman as kids...though of course, Dean having to take Sam with the broken arm to the hospital on his bike begs the question of where was John...I presume Dean was speaking metaphorically about having that on video, btw, because who would have been taping it?
Ed confesses what he did...and it is very hard to watch as he tries to defend what he did as 'saving' Ed from a boring life and the wrong girl...and we're all thinking of Dean's defense for every time he's done some that impacted Sam's life under the belief it's for Sam's own good...ouch.
Sam going to talk to Harry after he finds out the truth about Ed's fakery--Look, there are things you can forgive, and there are things you can't.--what is going through Sam's mind as he says that?
Then we get to the real bad guys, who are human and scare the crap out of me because every time the show makes the monsters real people it's so much worse!
Thinman is ready to slash Dean's throat...and Dean doesn't fight...something's very wrong...
Dean stabs the one bad guy without a moment's hesitation, even though he's human. But it's telling to watch how Dean reacts after Harry has shot the deputy--carefully lowering Harry's hand with the gun, and the look on Dean's face says that he knows this is something Harry will never be the same from--killing another person.
Appreciated the exchange after everything went down where Dean says that he left the scene to look like the two men killed each other. It's one of those things we assume and it's nice to see it addressed very offhandedly because it is routine for them...
And Harry doesn't get back in the van with Ed, he walks away and the Winchesters silently let him get in the back seat. Dean asks his perennial question, "You okay?" and Harry gives an honest answer--no.
It could have ended there just fine...but show had to give us one more hit with the anvil:
You roll with a guy so many years, you start to think he's always gonna be next to you. Like, when you're old and you're drinking on the porch, he'll be in that other rocking chair. And then something happens, and you realize that other chair has gone empty.
So the unanswered question after all this is what will Sam and Dean do after seeing the parallels between Ed and Harry and themselves? Will they take away a lesson from the Ghostfacers breakup or will they keep being stubborn-ass Winchesters?
That was a silly question...
9.16 Blade Runners
Crowley as a junkie is an amusing--but still scary--mess.How the mighty have fallen...I wished a little that they hadn't 'fixed' him so fast, I liked the boys having the upper hand with him. Once they let him out into the bunker, they lost their leverage.
Sam was researching Cain and Abel when we first see him. Oh Sam, despite your hard line, you still are connected to your brother. Maybe seeing what happened with Harry and Ed is making you think about whether you truly want to never forgive? But Dean doesn't see that, he figures you've written him off, and his believing that you no longer care will end up doing him in...We're hitting the part of the season where the inevitability of how it's going to end is starting to gain irreversible momentum.
It's hard to watch...
Lots of research, dead ends, and humor (Snooki) tracking the Blade.
Once the boys enter Magnus' estate the episode becomes one of those urgent high-stakes ones. Sam on the outside, methodically figuring how to get back in...Dean defiantly refusing to have any part of Magnus...then the First Blade is put in his hand and everything changes.
We see its power over Dean, and it's scary because for all the time we've known him, Dean's never gotten a rush from power. It scares him and draws him simultaneously, and Dean fights it, manages to drop it...but then Magnus reveals his will-sapping spell and we are afraid Dean is in over his head...
Until Sam comes through and makes his way to Dean only to be captured for use as leverage to make Dean do as Magnus wants. We face Sam being tortured--but Crowley comes through, freeing Dean to seize the blade, decapitate Magnus, and stand, filled with the rush to use the blade again.
He stands before Sam and I wonder how many of us were afraid Dean was going to use Cain's weapon on his own brother as Sam quietly repeats "Dean" in an attempt to bring him back. It seems like it's not going to work and Sam escalates to a command: "Put the blade down, Dean!" and omygod he finally does.
For all that he is angry about Dean taking his choice away from him, it is Sam who holds the power in the tangled relationship between the two of them. Sam can exist without Dean. But Dean does not exist without Sam to give him a purpose.
They return to the vandalized Impala--poor Dean, he is having a very bad day--and Crowley unfortunately has regained enough awareness to know that he is the next target on the Winchester radar--at least on Sam's, and Dean is likely to roll with Sam's wishes right at the moment...so Crowley resumes his games by removing the Blade from the Winchesters' possession...and sets the next arc of Dean's downfall in motion.
9.17 Mother's Little Helper
It doesn't feel like much happens in this episode...
We see that Dean is feeling the effect of the Mark; he is not interested in a hunt Sam finds; Sam makes the leap to figuring out that the perps in the case are acting soulless--a convenient bit of deduction; Sam meets ex-nun Julia who tells us her story from 1958; we see a bit more of Henry Winchester and Josie pre-Abaddon (although her origin story here is different that the one we get earlier--in 8.21 Abaddon said that Father Thompson who was involved in the attempts to cure a demon introduced Abaddon to Josie...)
Best scene of the ep: Dean racking the pool table balls. I don't know why, but that was incredibly hot IMO.
Crowley is back to getting on my nerves and playing mind games with Dean who can't quite convincingly blow Crowley off...
Sam finds the bottles of souls, gets knocked aroudn and nearly strangled by the nun, but in a moment of sheer genius Sam has the exorcism on his cell phone!
I'm kind of lost at the end...there's a big reveal that Abaddon is stealing human souls to make an army of demons, that there are 'factories' doing this all over..and...that's it. Not another word about this idea for the rest of the season. Like there was a plan to do something more with Abaddon fighting for Hell but then TPTB decided to go in a different direction.
???
Last 6 episodes...
...
Sam's on his laptop, Dean's heading out because he found a case.
DEAN: All right. I'll be back.
SAM: Wait. Where you headed?
DEAN: Washington. I caught a case.
SAM: You want me to come with?
DEAN: Do you want to come?
SAM: On a hunt? Why wouldn't I?
DEAN: I don't know, man. 'Cause lately with you, up is down and down is sideways, you know? I-I -- I don't know what you want. Okay. You want in? Fine. Sure thing.
The dialog alone doesn't convey the mixed messages going back and forth here...Dean is going to show Sam that Dean is capable of operating alone--and Sam is annoyed that Dean is doing a solo act. "Why wouldn't I?" Um. well you kind of indicated previously you're not that interested in being with Dean right now...Really, Sam, could you just give Dean a straight answer instead of making him guess what you want? I guarantee it will help matters!
Last season saw characters from the past come back to die. This season past characters come back to get their lives messed up--first Garth, now these guys...
Yet another ep that I liked better in the rewatch, though the Sam/Dean Harry/Ed parallels couldn't have been more blatant. But the actors who played Harry and Ed gave the emotional hurt scenes the gravitas needed to sell them.
I did love the reference to playing Superman and Batman as kids...though of course, Dean having to take Sam with the broken arm to the hospital on his bike begs the question of where was John...I presume Dean was speaking metaphorically about having that on video, btw, because who would have been taping it?
Ed confesses what he did...and it is very hard to watch as he tries to defend what he did as 'saving' Ed from a boring life and the wrong girl...and we're all thinking of Dean's defense for every time he's done some that impacted Sam's life under the belief it's for Sam's own good...ouch.
Sam going to talk to Harry after he finds out the truth about Ed's fakery--Look, there are things you can forgive, and there are things you can't.--what is going through Sam's mind as he says that?
Then we get to the real bad guys, who are human and scare the crap out of me because every time the show makes the monsters real people it's so much worse!
Thinman is ready to slash Dean's throat...and Dean doesn't fight...something's very wrong...
Dean stabs the one bad guy without a moment's hesitation, even though he's human. But it's telling to watch how Dean reacts after Harry has shot the deputy--carefully lowering Harry's hand with the gun, and the look on Dean's face says that he knows this is something Harry will never be the same from--killing another person.
Appreciated the exchange after everything went down where Dean says that he left the scene to look like the two men killed each other. It's one of those things we assume and it's nice to see it addressed very offhandedly because it is routine for them...
And Harry doesn't get back in the van with Ed, he walks away and the Winchesters silently let him get in the back seat. Dean asks his perennial question, "You okay?" and Harry gives an honest answer--no.
It could have ended there just fine...but show had to give us one more hit with the anvil:
You roll with a guy so many years, you start to think he's always gonna be next to you. Like, when you're old and you're drinking on the porch, he'll be in that other rocking chair. And then something happens, and you realize that other chair has gone empty.
So the unanswered question after all this is what will Sam and Dean do after seeing the parallels between Ed and Harry and themselves? Will they take away a lesson from the Ghostfacers breakup or will they keep being stubborn-ass Winchesters?
That was a silly question...
9.16 Blade Runners
Crowley as a junkie is an amusing--but still scary--mess.How the mighty have fallen...I wished a little that they hadn't 'fixed' him so fast, I liked the boys having the upper hand with him. Once they let him out into the bunker, they lost their leverage.
Sam was researching Cain and Abel when we first see him. Oh Sam, despite your hard line, you still are connected to your brother. Maybe seeing what happened with Harry and Ed is making you think about whether you truly want to never forgive? But Dean doesn't see that, he figures you've written him off, and his believing that you no longer care will end up doing him in...We're hitting the part of the season where the inevitability of how it's going to end is starting to gain irreversible momentum.
It's hard to watch...
Lots of research, dead ends, and humor (Snooki) tracking the Blade.
Once the boys enter Magnus' estate the episode becomes one of those urgent high-stakes ones. Sam on the outside, methodically figuring how to get back in...Dean defiantly refusing to have any part of Magnus...then the First Blade is put in his hand and everything changes.
We see its power over Dean, and it's scary because for all the time we've known him, Dean's never gotten a rush from power. It scares him and draws him simultaneously, and Dean fights it, manages to drop it...but then Magnus reveals his will-sapping spell and we are afraid Dean is in over his head...
Until Sam comes through and makes his way to Dean only to be captured for use as leverage to make Dean do as Magnus wants. We face Sam being tortured--but Crowley comes through, freeing Dean to seize the blade, decapitate Magnus, and stand, filled with the rush to use the blade again.
He stands before Sam and I wonder how many of us were afraid Dean was going to use Cain's weapon on his own brother as Sam quietly repeats "Dean" in an attempt to bring him back. It seems like it's not going to work and Sam escalates to a command: "Put the blade down, Dean!" and omygod he finally does.
For all that he is angry about Dean taking his choice away from him, it is Sam who holds the power in the tangled relationship between the two of them. Sam can exist without Dean. But Dean does not exist without Sam to give him a purpose.
They return to the vandalized Impala--poor Dean, he is having a very bad day--and Crowley unfortunately has regained enough awareness to know that he is the next target on the Winchester radar--at least on Sam's, and Dean is likely to roll with Sam's wishes right at the moment...so Crowley resumes his games by removing the Blade from the Winchesters' possession...and sets the next arc of Dean's downfall in motion.
9.17 Mother's Little Helper
It doesn't feel like much happens in this episode...
We see that Dean is feeling the effect of the Mark; he is not interested in a hunt Sam finds; Sam makes the leap to figuring out that the perps in the case are acting soulless--a convenient bit of deduction; Sam meets ex-nun Julia who tells us her story from 1958; we see a bit more of Henry Winchester and Josie pre-Abaddon (although her origin story here is different that the one we get earlier--in 8.21 Abaddon said that Father Thompson who was involved in the attempts to cure a demon introduced Abaddon to Josie...)
Best scene of the ep: Dean racking the pool table balls. I don't know why, but that was incredibly hot IMO.
Crowley is back to getting on my nerves and playing mind games with Dean who can't quite convincingly blow Crowley off...
Sam finds the bottles of souls, gets knocked aroudn and nearly strangled by the nun, but in a moment of sheer genius Sam has the exorcism on his cell phone!
I'm kind of lost at the end...there's a big reveal that Abaddon is stealing human souls to make an army of demons, that there are 'factories' doing this all over..and...that's it. Not another word about this idea for the rest of the season. Like there was a plan to do something more with Abaddon fighting for Hell but then TPTB decided to go in a different direction.
???
Last 6 episodes...
...
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