Supernatural 4x17

[sholio]

... damn you, show! Just when I decide to stop watching, here you go with the best episode in years! Seriously, I loved it; I had a few problems with the big reveal (and the lack of Dean/Sam interaction at the very end) but this is the show I miss, the show that could balance funny and serious and angsty, the show that was unpredictable and fun and even subtle on occasion.

Maybe I'll have more thoughtful reactions later, but for now, I can haz squee? Yes I can haz. *g*

Comments

[ratcreature]

Yeah, it was nice to have an ep not closely related to the mytharc. I rather like having a mix in shows, not the mytharc taking over completely (far too often they are kind of like the blob that way, swallowing up everything). Actually I would have liked it even better had it not some angel causing this (because the message that Dean just ought to "get over" hell is a bit problematic, IMO).

But yeah, it was a fun episode. And it's nice to have some humor without my embarrassment squick being triggered or their unfortunate "rape is funny" plots.

[sholio]

Yeah; I think one of my big problems with SPN over the last couple of seasons is that I'm just not really finding the demon/angel mytharc particularly interesting. So the episodes that I've enjoyed most have been the ones that didn't relate to it in a major way. I'm also starting to feel like they really don't have anywhere else they can go with Sam and Dean that they haven't gone, except to the very dark place where it's starting to look like they're headed. So having them interacting in a very different way in this episode was pretty awesome for me; it recaptured some of the freshness of the first season.