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maychorian) wrote2011-10-11 06:11 pm
maychorian) wrote2011-10-11 06:11 pm
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Supernatural 7.03
It's just really wonderful that just as I decide to blog more often, I wake up with a painful wrist that makes typing painful. Curses to you, body. You stink like a stinking thing.
Still. Cannot stop the THOTS.
So, let us take a moment to mourn the episode that didn't happen, the one where Dean and Sam struggle to survive in a hospital full of monsters, Dean limping and crutching, Sam blacking out and seizing, both of them hiding in closets and stairwells and scrounging medical supplies and begging help from those personnel they dare to trust, all while trying to stay one step ahead of Dr. Dead Sexy Monsterface and his cohorts. Because that would have been an awesome, amazing episode.
However. We did get woobie drugged-up Dean, omg, so adorable, and Bobby patting his face, and a nice, tense few minutes there before they escaped. So that was okay, though far too brief.
And then! TELENOVELAS. How much do I love Dean and Bobby getting addicted to trashy TV? SO MUCH. Dean's eyes were so liquid with sympathy, watching that poor lady cry over her dead whatever (husband, lover, son?). And poor Sam, forced to hole up with these media junkies. But Dean the fanboy is the cutest thing ever. I do have a theory that Dean gets so engrossed in these schlocky dramas (Dr. Sexy, this telenovela), because it's an escape from the horrors he faces daily, and what he actually not-so-secretly longs for... A life full of relationships as well as hook-ups, where the worst thing that ever happens is someone doesn't tell someone that they're going to be a babydaddy until the child is already born. I think maybe Dean would sort of like that life, but he thinks he can never have it.
Teen!Sam was, indeed, impossibly adorable, as was his first fling. That opening conversation with John on the phone kind of bummed me out, though. So much pressure to put on a kid. "Yes, I know people are dying." And I know John was only doing what he had to do, but I still couldn't help feeling bad for the Winchester boys and their truncated childhoods. For most kids and their parents on the phone, that would have been more like, "Yes, I know I have school tomorrow. I won't stay up late, I promise." or something like that. :( I also loved how very, very nineties everything looked in the flashback scenes, especially little Sammy's hair. That art direction was wonderful.
Also, "How do you talk to girls?" was the cutest wee!Sam thing ever, and I could just imagine Dean's advice. "Well, you go up to her and smile, and be real confident, dude! You gotta own your awesomeness. And you go 'How you doin'?' and then you offer pizza and free ice. Works every time."
And I want to write a whole meta about the end of this episode. I really, really do. But my wrist hurts, and most of what I think has been said better by people like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
smilla02 and bellatemple and other fantastic people on my flist. So maybe later. Suffice to say that I condemn neither Winchester boy for their actions, but my sympathy comes down with Dean, in the end, and it all made me very sad.
Still. Cannot stop the THOTS.
So, let us take a moment to mourn the episode that didn't happen, the one where Dean and Sam struggle to survive in a hospital full of monsters, Dean limping and crutching, Sam blacking out and seizing, both of them hiding in closets and stairwells and scrounging medical supplies and begging help from those personnel they dare to trust, all while trying to stay one step ahead of Dr. Dead Sexy Monsterface and his cohorts. Because that would have been an awesome, amazing episode.
However. We did get woobie drugged-up Dean, omg, so adorable, and Bobby patting his face, and a nice, tense few minutes there before they escaped. So that was okay, though far too brief.
And then! TELENOVELAS. How much do I love Dean and Bobby getting addicted to trashy TV? SO MUCH. Dean's eyes were so liquid with sympathy, watching that poor lady cry over her dead whatever (husband, lover, son?). And poor Sam, forced to hole up with these media junkies. But Dean the fanboy is the cutest thing ever. I do have a theory that Dean gets so engrossed in these schlocky dramas (Dr. Sexy, this telenovela), because it's an escape from the horrors he faces daily, and what he actually not-so-secretly longs for... A life full of relationships as well as hook-ups, where the worst thing that ever happens is someone doesn't tell someone that they're going to be a babydaddy until the child is already born. I think maybe Dean would sort of like that life, but he thinks he can never have it.
Teen!Sam was, indeed, impossibly adorable, as was his first fling. That opening conversation with John on the phone kind of bummed me out, though. So much pressure to put on a kid. "Yes, I know people are dying." And I know John was only doing what he had to do, but I still couldn't help feeling bad for the Winchester boys and their truncated childhoods. For most kids and their parents on the phone, that would have been more like, "Yes, I know I have school tomorrow. I won't stay up late, I promise." or something like that. :( I also loved how very, very nineties everything looked in the flashback scenes, especially little Sammy's hair. That art direction was wonderful.
Also, "How do you talk to girls?" was the cutest wee!Sam thing ever, and I could just imagine Dean's advice. "Well, you go up to her and smile, and be real confident, dude! You gotta own your awesomeness. And you go 'How you doin'?' and then you offer pizza and free ice. Works every time."
And I want to write a whole meta about the end of this episode. I really, really do. But my wrist hurts, and most of what I think has been said better by people like
smilla02 and bellatemple and other fantastic people on my flist. So maybe later. Suffice to say that I condemn neither Winchester boy for their actions, but my sympathy comes down with Dean, in the end, and it all made me very sad.