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.spn 5.06; or, "so this is where they've been hiding the crack"
Shit, you guys, it's been a week :( It's wrong and unnatural, is what it is.
Speaking of unnatural...
Oddly, the first things on my list are a couple of my last impressions:
This episode, while I liked it (reasons to appear below), felt way unbalanced to me. It read almost like "Mystery Spot," with the crazy/cracky first half and then the Sobering Realization that shapes the action in the second, but it didn't really have the emotional continuity (the fact that Sam spends the entire episode becoming progressively more freaked out and desperate) to tie the two halves together. I did like Jesse, and god knows Dean talking to him made my atrophied ovaries quiver a bit, but I still need to think over his character a bit more before I can have that sense of him that I had of Sam that made "Mystery Spot" so easy to assimilate.
Second, with Jesse out there... I really really hope that he's not going to turn into the deus ex machina who saves the day. I know, I know he won't--it's this spur-of-the-moment thought that, despite being ridiculous, won't leave me alone. I mean, if he can bend reality and destroy the entire angelic host, is there some kind of Lucifer exemption, a threshold where his power stops? Like Jesse disappearing at the end, it's way too much of an unanswered question for me. While I can appreciate that he needs to be out of the way for Dean and Sam to do their thing and be awesome (which sort of begs the question, why introduce a more-or-less all-powerful character? You can't have a gun like that on the mantel and not use it), and I'm not sure Bobby would be totally cool with babysitting the Antichrist (and another parenthetical statement! Wasn't Sam supposed to be the Antichrist?)... I don't know, it just felt very awkward to me, and I'm vaguely annoyed that I can't figure out what the point of Jesse is, other than to say "Hey look, Sam! Someone, *cough* unlike yourself *cough* didn't make a shitty and self-serving choice."
Anyway, I suppose I will take this opportunity to say that this episode was the first episode in, oh, a really really really long time that I liked Sam. He and Dean just clicked the entire way through, and he seemed to be--finally--extremely cognizant of exactly what it was that he did, and how his choices have damaged himself and his brother. It seems like Castiel's parting shot actually managed to sink in and stick: that Sam was given the chance to make the right choice and didn't. I don't think it's a revelation as such, more like the final realization of something Sam's been fumbling around with since he and Dean parted ways in 5.02, that (weirdly enough) what he did wasn't just "starting the Apocalypse," but making a choice--which, again weirdly, seems to be much more momentous and earth-shattering than letting Lucifer out. I don't know if the mind, even a mind trained to the supernatural, can quite assimilate "hey, I started the Apocalypse today," but it can think about choice and struggle to come to grips with choice.
Enough fakey-meta blathering! Onto the fun stuff:
Despite my reservations about the episode's flow, oh my god did I love the case. (And I knew it wasn't to be, but I hoped for the Trickster anyway! He'd be so proud.) I spent pretty much the entire first part cackling madly, at times even in front of my extremely inconvenient roommate. I mean... electrocution by joybuzzer! THE HAM (and now my hatred of ham is for all intents and purposes consolidated)! Dean's crazy-ass face! And I need to take time-out for the phantom itch because it is actually pertinent to my bizarre and macabre interest in people who have actually scratched through to their brains, and it's possible I was inappropriately horrified/delighted at the manner of the babysitter's death. (I'm sorry, I can't help these things. Also, don't click the link if you're squeamish.) Time in: HAIRY PALMS. DEAN'S EVILLY SHIT-EATING GRIN. "DON'T USE MY RAZOR."
Aaaand... oh Cas. You are a seriously awesome angel for not smiting the hell out of/putting the fear of God into Dean and Sam for the whoopie cushion. And your sad, sad face when you were trying to make yourself kill Jesse... oh, my heart. You aren't as smitey as you think you are sometimes. And even though he torments you a lot, Dean's still your friend. *wonders what's wrong with her that she's apostrophizing a fictional character* Ahem. CAS. NOT ENOUGH CAS.
That's also one of my concluding thoughts on the episode, so I shall conclude this review with that: NOT. ENOUGH. CAS.
And I want a Cas action figure, damn it.
Next week Two weeks from now: WHOA. BE TWO WEEKS FROM NOW IMMEDIATELY.
Speaking of unnatural...
Oddly, the first things on my list are a couple of my last impressions:
This episode, while I liked it (reasons to appear below), felt way unbalanced to me. It read almost like "Mystery Spot," with the crazy/cracky first half and then the Sobering Realization that shapes the action in the second, but it didn't really have the emotional continuity (the fact that Sam spends the entire episode becoming progressively more freaked out and desperate) to tie the two halves together. I did like Jesse, and god knows Dean talking to him made my atrophied ovaries quiver a bit, but I still need to think over his character a bit more before I can have that sense of him that I had of Sam that made "Mystery Spot" so easy to assimilate.
Second, with Jesse out there... I really really hope that he's not going to turn into the deus ex machina who saves the day. I know, I know he won't--it's this spur-of-the-moment thought that, despite being ridiculous, won't leave me alone. I mean, if he can bend reality and destroy the entire angelic host, is there some kind of Lucifer exemption, a threshold where his power stops? Like Jesse disappearing at the end, it's way too much of an unanswered question for me. While I can appreciate that he needs to be out of the way for Dean and Sam to do their thing and be awesome (which sort of begs the question, why introduce a more-or-less all-powerful character? You can't have a gun like that on the mantel and not use it), and I'm not sure Bobby would be totally cool with babysitting the Antichrist (and another parenthetical statement! Wasn't Sam supposed to be the Antichrist?)... I don't know, it just felt very awkward to me, and I'm vaguely annoyed that I can't figure out what the point of Jesse is, other than to say "Hey look, Sam! Someone, *cough* unlike yourself *cough* didn't make a shitty and self-serving choice."
Anyway, I suppose I will take this opportunity to say that this episode was the first episode in, oh, a really really really long time that I liked Sam. He and Dean just clicked the entire way through, and he seemed to be--finally--extremely cognizant of exactly what it was that he did, and how his choices have damaged himself and his brother. It seems like Castiel's parting shot actually managed to sink in and stick: that Sam was given the chance to make the right choice and didn't. I don't think it's a revelation as such, more like the final realization of something Sam's been fumbling around with since he and Dean parted ways in 5.02, that (weirdly enough) what he did wasn't just "starting the Apocalypse," but making a choice--which, again weirdly, seems to be much more momentous and earth-shattering than letting Lucifer out. I don't know if the mind, even a mind trained to the supernatural, can quite assimilate "hey, I started the Apocalypse today," but it can think about choice and struggle to come to grips with choice.
Enough fakey-meta blathering! Onto the fun stuff:
Despite my reservations about the episode's flow, oh my god did I love the case. (And I knew it wasn't to be, but I hoped for the Trickster anyway! He'd be so proud.) I spent pretty much the entire first part cackling madly, at times even in front of my extremely inconvenient roommate. I mean... electrocution by joybuzzer! THE HAM (and now my hatred of ham is for all intents and purposes consolidated)! Dean's crazy-ass face! And I need to take time-out for the phantom itch because it is actually pertinent to my bizarre and macabre interest in people who have actually scratched through to their brains, and it's possible I was inappropriately horrified/delighted at the manner of the babysitter's death. (I'm sorry, I can't help these things. Also, don't click the link if you're squeamish.) Time in: HAIRY PALMS. DEAN'S EVILLY SHIT-EATING GRIN. "DON'T USE MY RAZOR."
Aaaand... oh Cas. You are a seriously awesome angel for not smiting the hell out of/putting the fear of God into Dean and Sam for the whoopie cushion. And your sad, sad face when you were trying to make yourself kill Jesse... oh, my heart. You aren't as smitey as you think you are sometimes. And even though he torments you a lot, Dean's still your friend. *wonders what's wrong with her that she's apostrophizing a fictional character* Ahem. CAS. NOT ENOUGH CAS.
That's also one of my concluding thoughts on the episode, so I shall conclude this review with that: NOT. ENOUGH. CAS.
And I want a Cas action figure, damn it.
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Dean's hairy palm seriously cracked me up!