Quick Reaction: 5x01 Sympathy for the Devil

[hells_half_acre]

YAY SUPERNATURAL IS BACK!

THUNDERSTRUCK! Awesome! Blood effect for title: DOUBLE AWESOME!

The plane thing at the beginning was crazy! And...one little mistake: How did they get the car without going back to Bobby's? Unless that was 'divine' intervention too. Just looked at some caps - they aren't driving the Impala. It's some other car, yay...I guess they get the Impala back sometime when we aren't looking...maybe Demon!Bobby drove it over.

What to say, what to say....as I told my sister afterward, Supernatural always feels like watching a movie to me...at the end of it, it seems like the beginning was so long ago, I can barely remember what happened.

Susie likes the fact that the show can make fun of itself and it's fanbase, but not in a way that removes us from the show...not in a way that cheapens the overall plot. Personally, I just love the fact that the show actually had the guts to reference the weird slash subculture. Personally, I'm not a fan of Wincest, and I don't really like the idea of people solely associating Wincest with the fanbase, and not really realizing that there are fans who aren't into that....but I have to admit that having it on the show was hilarious...especially the fact that she used the word "clavical" in porn. And that her name was Becky (my apologies to anyone named Becky who reads this).

On more serious notes:

BOBBY!

Holy crap, my jaw dropped when he told Sam to lose his number...but then as soon as he started telling Dean that maybe John was right, I knew it wasn't really Bobby. I totally called it. I should have called it on his disowning of Sam, but I was too shocked to put two and two together at that point.

And the look on his face when he got enough strength to stab himself instead of Dean...man...I love the fact that both John and Bobby's love for Dean is enough for them to fight off demon-possession. And then that shot of them wheeling Bobby away in the hospital...and how Sam wanted to stay but Dean made them go to the storage locker...this show really grabs you by the heart and pulls!

Then the angels...

And man, the line before the commercial break of Dean being Michael's sword immediately cast my mind back to the line about being "Daddy's blunt little instrument", not a son but a weapon, not a person but a weapon....and I didn't know where they were going with it, but then we find out that he's the VESSEL for Michael...crazy! I think it's such a cool part of the mythology that it seems to be only select humans that can host angels, and then beyond that it seems to be SPECIFIC humans for certain angels - like Lucifer can ONLY be that dude he's messing with...and Michael can ONLY be Dean. Castiel can obviously be anyone - or at least, Jimmy or his daughter. And Castiel must have known Dean was Michael's vessel too, and that's why he tried to talk to him in 4x01 without a host....

Then we get Resurrected!Castiel. YAY! This wasn't a surprise, since I knew Misha had been signed on as a regular so Cas couldn't really be dead. But Cas finally gets to kick some ass, and then yell at Zachariah, and tell us that it wasn't the angels or demons that put the Winchesters out of harms way...which, to me, means that God hasn't left the building...and the fact that Zachariah is scared by that thought is awesome. But then Cas disappears again...

So John Winchester DID have the Michael sword the whole time, it just wasn't in storage...it was driving around in his car wearing his old leather jacket and listening to classic rock, and carrying half his DNA.

And Bobby might not walk again...oh man...there will be less Bobby Ex Machina, I guess.

I like the fact that Dean gave this whole motivational speech to cheer Bobby up...and doesn't actually believe it.

I like the fact that the whole episode the boys just DON'T TALK ABOUT IT - because honestly, anything else would be out of character. I like the fact that in the end, Dean tells Sam the truth though - that Sam choose a demon over family and that's a worse sin than letting Lucifer free in Dean's book, and the look on Sam's face when he realizes it's not Dean's anger he has to contend with, it's a deserved lack of trust...it's so much worse, given how those two have relied on each other their entire lives.

So, sure, they didn't address the Voice-mail Of Doom, but I'll forgive them for that - Dean doesn't know what Sam heard, and Sam obviously clued into the fact that Dean wasn't going to kill him, when Dean told him that they were just going to do what they always do. Who knows if it'll ever come up...I still want it to, but I'll forgive them if it doesn't.

Oh! And I forgot to say how much I LOVE Bobby for telling Sam that he'd never disown him. I <3 Bobby.

Oh! And best Dean line - the "Angel Condom" comment! lol.

And...we also learn that Dean has a GED :-)

Is it next week yet?
 

Comments

[jillsjourney.livejournal.com]

when demon!bobby first arrives, you see him exiting the driver's seat and walking around the front of the impala; he brought it to them.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Oh sweet! I must have missed that. Thanks! :)

[auriliawestlake.livejournal.com]

I always kinda figured that Dean went the whole GED route instead of sticking around school long enough to graduate, but that little detail just sorta got lost in the whole epicness of Show. Thanks for the reminder!

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was never sure if Dean got his high-school or if he just dropped out once he was legal age...the fact that he went to the trouble of getting a GED is a cool little factoid. He didn't really need to, given the life he chose.

It got lost in the epicness of the Show for me too...I was reminded by someone else's review and quickly added it in :-P

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

I could have done without the whole sad bit at the end. The episode was such high energy and fun (and I totally picked up on bobby being possessed when he started agreeing with john,) so I could have done without the practically trademarked two-minutes-of-angst. Or at least, I could have swallowed the betrayal stuff, but the whole "the pep-talk was a lie" was just a little too much at once, you know? It didn't really fit, IMO.

I really loved the scene with Dean saying no, and not just because Castiel showed up after apparently taking a few levels in badass. I'm a bit too tired to elaborate properly, but it felt like...the end point of a lot of character development. Well, maybe end point is the wrong word. payoff, maybe?

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

I agree with you on the awesomeness of Dean saying No scene. That was great, and I think I know what you are getting at...I'm a little tired to elaborate properly too.

I think we DID need the two minute angst at the end though, because as much as it was in-character not to talk about it, they NEED to talk about it to move on, and for me it wasn't a negative moment. Dean was being honest, and that's more than I can say for the Winchesters all last season. For me it was a good thing - you can't move forward unless you are honest about where you are.

As for "the pep-talk was a lie" thing...I think it's understandable. Ever since John died, Dean has been getting "tired", I don't think that's changed over the past year (it's probably just gotten worse)...so yeah, I understood why it was a lie.

But yeah, I think the writers were trying to cram a TON of stuff into that first episode, and some things got a little patchworked.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

i guess that it is. They were really cramming things in there. After the awesome, that no-thing, Bobby, the pep-talk, and the emotional consequences of betrayal, my mental plate was too full for "we're all doomed" or whatever it was (actually, I can't even remember what the gist of it was!). Plus they didn't really have the time to do it justice.

But still, maybe they could have stuck the emotional stuff somewhere in the middle, as to break the pattern. They've done it that way (Dean has an emotional moment at the very last minute) a few too many times. They need to shake it up a bit so it doesn't feel tacked on even when it's not.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

True, it's like a trademark for them since S2. It pissed me off last year when they did it two episodes in a row - 4x10 and 4x11. It's like someone made a rule: All Dean-angst goes in a 2 minute chunk at the end of the episode, and all Sammy-angst goes in the thick of things.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

Obviously, if they did it any other way around, we'd be confused about which character is which, and quite possibly we'd think that Sam's angst was Dean's angst and vice versa . It'd fry our poor little fannish minds. ;)

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

lol! you called it. ;-)

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

I agree with everything and am too lazy to expand on it. But I do love the Dean storyline here :)

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Me too! :)

[trystan830.livejournal.com]

So John Winchester DID have the Michael sword the whole time, it just wasn't in storage...it was driving around in his car wearing his old leather jacket and listening to classic rock, and carrying half his DNA.
OMGs, i LOL'd and almost spit out my water on the monitor (that would have been bad...) but me likie!

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Haha, I'm glad your monitor was spared ;-)

[trystan830.livejournal.com]

heh yeah. that'll teach me not to violate my own rule - No eating or drinking while reading LJ.