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aesc ([personal profile] aesc) wrote2009-03-19 10:00 pm
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SPN 4.16; or, this is REALLY why I usually don't write ep reviews


NO NO NO NO NO WHY THE FUCK DID YOU HAVE TO GO KILLING OFF URIEL????? [livejournal.com profile] aesc DISAPPROVES OF THIS VERY VERY VERY STRONGLY.

*heaves* Of course they do it in the episode when my Uriel!appreciation was grounded in more than just my perverse love of people I'm not supposed to like. He's the funniest angel in the goddamn garrison! He's starting to like Sam and Dean, even if he's totally sarcastic about it. WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME, WRITERS? SERIOUSLY! COME ON!

Even though I try to make it a policy not to hate on characters... I would have liked it if the culprit was Anna, despite the fact she's probably the obvious suspect, if it isn't a demon: known history of disobedience, questioning authority, that sort of thing. It sounds right up Lucifer's alley.

I will try, I will try to put aside my resentment of Uriel being killed off, because the rest of the episode is so deeply made of awesome. Why, you ask?

Because we got like, what, five times Dean calling him Cas? And I like to think that the angels picked up the habit of calling him that, since Anna and Uriel both use it once.

Because there's another layer in the angel/demon war, and lingering resentment among the host that's responsible for how royally fucked up things have become--why Castiel is being ordered to make Dean torture Alastair even though he really really sincerely wishes he didn't have to.

CASTIEL CASTIEL CASTIEL CASTIEL. I love how much development we got here, his fear, the resolution he's slowly starting to come to. How the People Upstairs have gotten wind of the fact that he's a bit too partial to Dean and think that's compromising his effectiveness, and he clearly resents it, and resents having Uriel in charge of him again.

THERE ARE GIRL ANGELS!

Sam and his fear for Dean, knowing that Dean's busted up and hasn't been himself. I was on the point of becoming truly exasperated with him, but this saved him for me. He knows Dean hasn't been himself since he came back--who would be?--and this is the only way he can see to deal with things, when strength beyond what Dean's physically and psychically capable of is required.(The bloodsucking thing, however, gross. And my distrust in Ruby = 100% renewed.)

And Dean. Dean all the way through, but especially at the end, broken, frightened, overwhelmed, oh my heart. I can't even talk about it.



In my head, just after the fade out, Castiel takes his hand and heals him, and things still suck in astronomical proportions, but there is, for one moment, a lessening of pain.
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[personal profile] elderwitty 2009-03-21 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
WHY THE FUCK DID YOU HAVE TO GO KILLING OFF URIEL?????

He really should've remembered those donuts. Is that wrong? I'm pretty sure this time that it's wrong.

On the Sam front... I so hope Sam is just using Ruby's blood to A) give him strength to save Dean (and, by extension) the world, and B) make the demons think that they have a handle on him, because if they have a handle on him and they think he'll fall into line with whatever superevil shit they have for him down the road - then there's no reason for them to send anybody after him, right? Sam has shown himself to be smart enough to have figured something like this out. Please God, let this be it. Sadly, in the face of what Pamela said, I'm doubtful. Hopeful, but doubtful.

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2009-03-21 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I still regard that scene with glowering dislike. Man, I can't believe they did that! (Actually I can, and I would have been more surprised if Uriel hadn't died, but still.)

Sadly, in the face of what Pamela said, I'm doubtful.

Me too. Ohhhh me too. Poor boys.

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[personal profile] elderwitty 2009-03-22 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
I read a spoiler a couple/three weeks ago that someone close to the boys was going to die and I was freaked that Kripke was maybe going to kill Bobby. I'm sad that Pam and Uriel had to go (and you're so right about the grumpy guy not needing to always be the bad guy), but I'm just so relieved that Bobby's still around to deus ex mechanic for the boys that it dulls the sting a little.

I've spun the happiest ending scenario I could for the boys. Then I factored in the Kripke effect, and had to start singing the la-la-la-la-fingers-in-ears song again.

Oh, boys.

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2009-03-22 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, I think Bobby's been around long enough that he'll be safe until (almost) the end. Although I have the feeling that all bets are off when it comes to Kripke, as you say :D
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[personal profile] elderwitty 2009-03-22 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know how safe Bobby is. Name another cool & sympathetic character who hasn't died a horrible death. Okay...Ellen, I grant you, but we haven't seen her yet this season, so who knows what could've happened in the interim.

There is to be NO Bobby-killing. I have decreed it! And you know that Eric and I are like this:

me<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Eric
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