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SPN 2x21
I ... I ... AAAUGH!
Oh, Sam!
Ohhhh, DEAN!
AAAAAAAAAAAAA!
IS IT NEXT WEEK YET???
Oh right... Rational reactions...
They did a really nice job with the Stephen King-esque "kids in a cornfield" plot (I'm a total sucker for those) and with the creepy suspense, and of course the tightening of the emotional screws. There were a few places (well, okay, a LOT of places) where the plot relied a little too heavily on the standard horror/suspense cliches -- i.e. something happens, and you know EXACTLY what's going to happen five minutes later because it ALWAYS happens that way in a show/movie/whatever of this type. I wouldn't even mention it, because I *did* love love love the episode, except that it just happened SO MUCH! Have none of these people ever SEEN a horror movie before, let alone realize that they're living in one? Ash calls Dean, says he knows what's going on but he can't talk on the phone and he'll tell him everything later ... ASH, NO! The girl goes off alone in the woods ... DUH! It's late at night and everybody splits up and leaves the safe place ... GAH! Sam turns his back on his "dead" enemy ... AARGH!
But seriously ... I think it's been observed before that this show is not great literature, it's brain candy, and it's smart and awesome brain candy. And like I said above ... I'm a total sucker for fast-paced horror/suspense of the Stephen King variety. The show had me hooked right in from the moment the radio started to flicker and it didn't let go until that awesome, awful final scene with the hug and Dean starting to cry. NEXT EPISODE NOW PLEASE!
I have some completely unfounded speculation about next week's episode ... I haven't seen a single spoiler and don't have the foggiest clue what's coming, but ... what if the demon's really after Dean, not Sam? Is it possible that Dean is the perfect soldier it's been trying to create, and all the pain and manipulation up to this point has been meant to forge Dean into a weapon and then break him so that he'll respond to its machinations? I doubt if he's got any untapped psionic potential, but the demon's not necessarily after that. It told Sam what it's looking for, someone who's "tough, smart, well-trained". Possibly the seemingly random powers are just an accidental side effect of its selection process, not really a mark of anything specific.
Either that, or Dean just totally LOSING it and leveling the town...
"Darkside Dean" is a rather obvious next step after Sam's death though (or maybe I should put "death" in quote marks, because I don't for a minute believe that he isn't coming back shortly in some fashion -- hello, MAIN CHARACTER), but maybe it's a little TOO obvious to really be where the show is headed at the moment? I love not knowing, though. I've really been sucking at avoiding the spoilers for SGA, and it's fun to be in a fandom where I'm on tenterhooks and really don't have the slightest clue where the next episode's going to go.
Oh, Sam!
Ohhhh, DEAN!
AAAAAAAAAAAAA!
IS IT NEXT WEEK YET???
Oh right... Rational reactions...
They did a really nice job with the Stephen King-esque "kids in a cornfield" plot (I'm a total sucker for those) and with the creepy suspense, and of course the tightening of the emotional screws. There were a few places (well, okay, a LOT of places) where the plot relied a little too heavily on the standard horror/suspense cliches -- i.e. something happens, and you know EXACTLY what's going to happen five minutes later because it ALWAYS happens that way in a show/movie/whatever of this type. I wouldn't even mention it, because I *did* love love love the episode, except that it just happened SO MUCH! Have none of these people ever SEEN a horror movie before, let alone realize that they're living in one? Ash calls Dean, says he knows what's going on but he can't talk on the phone and he'll tell him everything later ... ASH, NO! The girl goes off alone in the woods ... DUH! It's late at night and everybody splits up and leaves the safe place ... GAH! Sam turns his back on his "dead" enemy ... AARGH!
But seriously ... I think it's been observed before that this show is not great literature, it's brain candy, and it's smart and awesome brain candy. And like I said above ... I'm a total sucker for fast-paced horror/suspense of the Stephen King variety. The show had me hooked right in from the moment the radio started to flicker and it didn't let go until that awesome, awful final scene with the hug and Dean starting to cry. NEXT EPISODE NOW PLEASE!
I have some completely unfounded speculation about next week's episode ... I haven't seen a single spoiler and don't have the foggiest clue what's coming, but ... what if the demon's really after Dean, not Sam? Is it possible that Dean is the perfect soldier it's been trying to create, and all the pain and manipulation up to this point has been meant to forge Dean into a weapon and then break him so that he'll respond to its machinations? I doubt if he's got any untapped psionic potential, but the demon's not necessarily after that. It told Sam what it's looking for, someone who's "tough, smart, well-trained". Possibly the seemingly random powers are just an accidental side effect of its selection process, not really a mark of anything specific.
Either that, or Dean just totally LOSING it and leveling the town...
"Darkside Dean" is a rather obvious next step after Sam's death though (or maybe I should put "death" in quote marks, because I don't for a minute believe that he isn't coming back shortly in some fashion -- hello, MAIN CHARACTER), but maybe it's a little TOO obvious to really be where the show is headed at the moment? I love not knowing, though. I've really been sucking at avoiding the spoilers for SGA, and it's fun to be in a fandom where I'm on tenterhooks and really don't have the slightest clue where the next episode's going to go.
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