S6.03 Stream of consciousness reactions

[brosedshield]

Finally an episode I can sink my teeth into! I think, sometimes, that the things I adore instantaneously reveal me to be a shallow many times. That doesn't change the fact that I like me the special effects. 

COMMENTARY OF RANDOM:

Oh, Sam, you are so hot.

Wow, Sam, having sex, good times, paying a PROSTITUTE!!! And then throwing her number away. Not good.

“I like to work”

“Still driving the plastic piece of crap?” “What’s your mileage again?”

Oh my gosh!! They have a freaking apartment, a really classy sort of thing, not a cheap hotel!

Awww, Cas didn’t answer Sam!!

“Dean and I do share a more profound bond.”

SAM LOOKS SO SAD!!

And Castiel is stressed and irritated

Hahaha, “I think can rule out Moses as a suspect.” I really hope that that was a joke, and I suspect it was.

“Sam, Dean, my ‘people skills’ are ‘rusty’.” Hahahh, Cas is so angry. Love the air quotes when Cas does them

HAH. And Aaron has the staff of Moses. Appropriate.

Aaaand, Cas is back to being his slightly painfilled, tortured self.

You know, I like Heaven’s Civil war a lot better than an Apocalypse. Oh, crap, it might cause another Apocalypse. NOT FUN.

“I was ashamed, I expected more from my brothers.”

“[My blood] wouldn’t work [Dean]. I’m not human.” Interesting to think that of the three of them, ONLY DEAN IS. (Sam would be out, eh?)

“Don’t you think the police would take him home?” I think the police are going to shoot him. Because that’s just the way SPN rolls these days. I don’t feel that children are safe on this show anymore.

And, I also like the random toad. Random.

Ah, frog. 'Scuz me

“Even I know that’s a bad joke.”

Oh, poor Cas. He can now blame himself for the mess-up of the world. Because Cas never really meant to break things, he just stopped trusting his leaders.

Hahah “My advice, grab something valuable and fake your own death.”

This is rapidly becoming my kind of episode. Smashing, bashing, chaos. Angst clearly spelled out. LOVE. And enjoy. And the overarching plot is appearing and there are so many S4 parallels (and Sam has not yet become very evil, so that is good).

AAAAAAAHHH Sam’s gonna get in the car! He’s going to get in the Impala again! Come on boys, just get in the Impala.

And we have traditional S1-2 angst. Aw, Sam. He’s wiggling, an doesn’t want his brother to hate him. NO YOU AREN’T GETTING THE WHOLE SCOOP.
Sam: “To you. You know what [Hell] does to you.”

And it would makes sense that Dean would be sensitive about torture. Wow, Sam NOT wanting to talk about something is horrible. This is EXACTLY the same as the stonewalling Dean gave him S4, except not

PREVIEW

Dean: "Vampires, these aren’t vampires man, these are douchbags." Ah, Twilight! *cackles*

Lisa, I can’t bring this crap home to you.”
“You’re talking about your work?”
“I’m talking about my LIFE.”

OH FUCK Dean is going to get ANSWERS next week. And apparently there is a goddess people in a town pray to (Veritas) and if you ask for it, she will SLAM you with it, and Dean is demanding answers. And he’s in TEARS, talking to Bobby “Bobby, it’s [about] Sam.”

It’s also the ep where Dean is punching Sam, I think.

There are going to be DANGEROUS things happening next episode, man. Dangerous things.

In short, I'm finally getting excited. *hums happily to self*

Comments

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

There are going to be DANGEROUS things happening next episode, man.

The truth episode is actually 6.06. WE HAVE TO WAIT SO LONG.

[brosedshield.livejournal.com]

Seriously? Then why were they bringing it up in the PREVIEWS of for 6.04? *wails* I want these painful confessions NOW. And then maybe there will be sunshine and happiness and mass evil-monster slaughter. And the boys happy. AT LAST.

Wait, how do you know that 6.06 is the truth episode? Is this advance info or a historical precedent. *gets nervous all over again*

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

The soon promos are always for a bunch of episodes, usually three. 6.04 is with Bobby and Rufus, 6.05 is with the vampires and 6.06 is the with the veritas. (I just went and checked before you posted 'cause I want that truth episode so baaaaad.)

I agree! I want all the bad stuff OUT OF THE WAY.

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

I've given up. I've just given up. I could manufacture reasons for what canon is doing to Sam, but at this point I can't even pretend to believe them. And I don't see why I should doTPTB the favor of pretending that I trust them or think they are intelligent or sympathetic or decent writers. I'll just read fic. Because at least some of fandom I actually like.

The truth episode is going to be all about how hard it is for Dean that Sam is such a bastard.

Yes, I'm bitter. I'm tired of pretending I'm not bitter.

[brosedshield.livejournal.com]

I'm still holding out for Dean going crazy, neurotic and demanding this truth that just crushes both of them and shows Sam to be the amazing person he was S5, and Dean to be untrusting fellow. OR to show that Sam has problems but that his big brother can make them better by LOVING HIM. These are my hopes.

When they are crushed, I will join you in the bitterness. I'm currently just excited that I'm not feeling apathetic. I have felt many things about SPN, but I think apathy hurts the most because then I look back at the energy poured into it and wonder if it was worth it (of course, I look back at other seasons and the answer is YES, but, you know, it's hard to remember when it just all feels slow)

Oh, another shred of hope I get is because I've been re-watching S4, and these two beginnings feel very similar. There is the "hiding what happened in Hell" and there is the distrust and self-loathing/dissatisfaction on both their sides. And I really didn't like S4 until it got to S5, and now I thoroughly enjoy rewatching it sooooo...they MAY make up for it later.

All that said, don't hold the bitterness in. Pour it out (I'll probably agree with most of it, in a saddened apathetic way) and then we can go out for drinks when all our fragile hopes come crashing down and shout "I told you so!" to people who have no idea what we're talking about and generally make a nuisance of ourselves.

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

You are very sweet.

At the moment I am kind of distrusting the whole drinking strategy, since a nasty cold plus two hard ciders seems to have been a bad decision. But tomorrow I will wake up happy and trustful and won't go back to being bitter till 6.11 or so. : )

[brosedshield.livejournal.com]

I'm happy that the bitterness will pass! I think I hit my bitter/hatefull "You writers of the show suck" phase in S5. There were a few episodes that I saw and I didn't hate them, didn't love them, wasn't confused, I just thought it was the stupidest, most pointless thing ever.

Since then, I think that if they do something stupid, I fall back on "Well, you failed so badly in the past, what else do I expect?" Hahah. Depressing myself now.

Well, perhaps around 6.11 or so we can wail, gnash our teeth and share a digital bottle of vodka to drive away our sorrows.

Hahh, unless there are monsters (I'm a monster girl, down to the made-for-Syfy-channel cheesy movies). Man-eating bugs and skin sloughing can push me into the "The writing doesn't have to be good, as long as there is ridiculous gore!" happy space. Which may, honestly, be another reason this ep. didn't hit me as hard. *grin*

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

I should just listen to the brain-eating locusts. It's all good, as long as the brain-eating locusts say so.

Was it just me, or were those just grasshoppers and not real, biblical, BAMF locusts at all?

[brosedshield.livejournal.com]

Well, they were LARGE grasshoppers, if that's any consolation.

Never having seen an actual locust, I couldn't get a scale. I was just confused...why was the man erasing the faces of the people in pictures. And...how did he keep talking so long with locusts in his head? I mean, you think that they'd have eaten through the brainstem just to get to the top....

*thinks hard and remains confused*

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm not sure I've seen an actual locust, either. But did those look like they'd be good with honey? No, they looked like they'd not only be gross with honey, they wouldn't even be filling.

It is possible that I have locusts confused with cicadas.

[brosedshield.livejournal.com]

Hahah, and I don't think that man lives by locust and honey alone (as for the filling issue) And I don't know that they ever look good? Because, ofter all, they are bugs?

Bugs are on the list of food I will try when someone hand me a plate and says: "I like these, eat it! It won't kill you." I'm hoping that day arrives soon, but until then I remain in ignorance.

Drat now I'm curious *goes to look up locusts*

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

There is the "hiding what happened in Hell" and there is the distrust and self-loathing/dissatisfaction on both their sides.

The thing is I get the feeling that Dean is judging Sam for hiding what he went through, while Sam didn't judge Dean. He wanted to shoulder some of Dean's burden. Dean seems to want to know simply because Sam's acting weird and Dean's getting suspicious that weird means evil. I hope this isn't what the show does, but these are the kinds of problems you get when your show is mainly from the point-of-view of one character.

[brosedshield.livejournal.com]

Absolutely agreed. And the longer we are in Dean's head, the more I see him as a judgmental jerk. Which, he is also the most human, compassionate person on the show (toward strangers) but...alas. Come on, Dean, just snap and realize you are dead wrong and start loving your brother again. Or else you will become YOUR FATHER, and you will piss off everyone you meet. Ala, Bobby, and Ellen, and most other folk that John had stopped talking to by the time S1 started.

Grrrrr.

[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

Second ALL OF THIS. Seriously, in the last scene, as the camera zoomed in on Dean's face, I was yelling, "STOP. BEING. SO. DEAN. CENTRIC." Don't care about his doubt and distrust, I want to know how Sam feels about being doubted and distrusted!

But yeah, definitely getting the feeling Dean is (and will be more) pushy with Sam, while even as fucked up as Sam was S4, he never pushed Dean about Hell.

PLEASE be wrong when he hits Sam...please please please...

[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

Forgot to tell you how much I love this:

“Don’t you think the police would take him home?” I think the police are going to shoot him. Because that’s just the way SPN rolls these days. I don’t feel that children are safe on this show anymore.

Because yeah, it rings of so much truth. POOR AARON, I hope he got home safely. D: