6.15 reaction...

[ash48]

I just. O_O

I think I might be the only one around at the moment not squealing over that. In fact... I'm sure I spent the first half with my head in my hands - not sure IF I could continue watching. Then I decided to chill out and just go for the ride but even then I felt like I needed whatever they were on. And holy crap - they were on some heavy duty stuff..

I mean. I get. I do. There were moments that I seriously laughed out loud. My fav moments were Jared and Jensen playing Sam and Dean trying to be Jared and Jensen acting. Jensen putting on the "serious" face and Jared shuffling about was hilarious.

And Misha. Misha tweeting was priceless. But Misha overacting at the end just left me wondering what the fuck that was all about. The whole thing.

Kinda makes me feel like a killjoy. I know it was a bit fun. A chance for show to play with itself (and yep, I do mean it like that..) and chance to say "HI" to the fans. *waves* hi show! Thanks for recognising us in your show..*feels special*

I suppose I've never been good with forth wall breaking. Well, obliterating. I hated Hollywood Babylon and the whole SPN book thing, so yeah it's probably not surprising that this just didn't do it for me.

I loved the idea of an alternative universe though. If they had seriously gone into another universe (bit like It's a Terrible Life,) I would have been in heaven. Especially as they were making comparisons. I did love Dean thinking this would be a better place for Sam to live. And the acknowledgement that they weren't even brothers in this universe. It had some sweet moments and it was nice to see Gen again. But I'm not sure if she actually played herself and that's what she is like or just a, idk, kinda sour version of herself.

I'm sure the folk at Supernatural Magazine will be thrilled though. That was a nice shout out.

I'll stop here. I obviously didn't have the right brain on for this episode. Especially as I know so many people loved it. I'm thinking this should have been an episode I spoiled myself with. Maybe if I had gone in prepared I might not have spent the whole episode going... what the fuck..?!

Dear Show,

I know you are a TV Show. I do. Weird eh? But hey.... thanks for reminding me.

Yours strangely miffed.


It's likely that once I start reading some posts and picking up on everyones squee I will be able to take this episode how it was intended.

Sorry I'm not dancing about the place...I know it's not much fun to reading reactions like this but I gotta write it as I feel it.

ETA: Due to awesome flist comments I am beginning to feel better about this ep. There's more to it then first meets the eye it would seem. (yes, yes.. takes time for the penny to drop /o\) I may well process this some more and revise my feelings on this ep.

Comments

[el1ie.livejournal.com]

Well there were a couple of scenes that made me smile, most of them though made me want to squirm - but fair play to them at least they spent the time poking fun at themselves and not us, so that part pleased me.

However it was once again the total disrespect of another female character that turns my stomach.. The whole REAL LIFE WIFE was bad enough, I get the joke but knowing that IS real was disconcerting to say the least, but Sam obviously going upstairs to sleep with another man's wife, without her knowledge or consent? - *OUCH* NO NO NO!!! I don't know how Show can keep on doing this shit. I console myself in thinking he locked himself in the bathroom...he did didn't he?

[ash48.livejournal.com]

but Sam obviously going upstairs to sleep with another man's wife, without her knowledge or consent?

OMG! I didn't even consider that. My brain was still computing that this was Jared and Gen together in the same scene. And squirming over that. But yes... of course....that wasn't very well thought through because Sam wouldn't do that. Soulless!Sam would... but not our Sam.

I'm going to believe that he somehow managed to get out of it. Yes... bathroom sounds good to me. *g*

Oh show.

And yes.. they sure did make fun of themselves. I had problems with the way they did that but have since reconciled it with my latest post. I think..

Very weird episode.
xx

[el1ie.livejournal.com]

**nods** Bathroom it is, I'll cut show a break and not harp on about it, but I am extremely pissed about it, I really thought they might have got the point over the consent problems and issues by now but I'm mostly disappointed that it's raised it's head again and with Gamble at the helm.

SPN, by it's very nature is an extremely violent show, but somehow, despite the alternate, alternate universe we were in, they were still using that level of violence, in slow motion - as a means to make ME laugh. **shudder**

Anyway, it's done now, I'll look forward to getting a better episode next week - that's if we have one scheduled.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about the violence aspect in this episode.

The slo mo in particular was a homage to (I'd say) the western genre. Maybe even The Godfather. (I haven't seen the Godfather but because it is referenced in the beginning I figure there must be some reference to it somewhere in the ep...).

I think.. MAYBE... they were showing us a glorified violence as a way of making a kind of meta comment on the actual violence in the show. A bit like cartoon violence. It's excessive and over the top and therefore acceptable. Or something. I certainly wasn't laughing during that final shoot 'em scene. I found it quite disturbing - but I thought that was the whole point. Ack! Maybe I should have been laughing...

Oh noes! I'm watching the show wrong... /o\ (that's in reference to recent comments about fans watching the show "wrong" sometimes... which makes me laugh...)

xx

[el1ie.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think that slo-mo stuff was a sort of homage to several movies, although I'm not sure WHY they included it. You have a point in seeing it linked with the refs to The Godfather at the beginning, but I have to say I found Balthazar's delivery of those lines kind of muttered, so I missed some of that on first viewing.

I'm also thinking now that some of the meta over taking Kripke down was talking about how BIG the BOSS is and how much fire power you'd have to have to drop him - that kind of thing.

Self indulgency is one of those things that is either going to make you laugh or cringe and understand only if you follow a lot of set gossip, which I don't, although I have since hunted down a lot of it - and yeah, I STILL don't want to know THAT ok?

As for the watching it wrong faction - gets right up my nose, it's so stupid, either put forward your own views or discuss a point, but if someone wants to vent about how much they hated it they have just as much right as someone flailing all over how much they loved it. We all have the right to watch and have an opinion, just because it's not the same one how can that translate to watching it "wrong" - pppphhhht, doesn't surprise me though, it goes on in ALL fandoms as far as I can tell, bet soon someone will unwittingly break out the "true fan" book of rules and regulations and the shit will hit the other kind of fan! Hehe, too old to bother about really and hey I'm only 15!!

[yourlibrarian]

I wondered why I hadn't seen anyone mention that scene until now. However, if it makes you feel better, Sam tells Dean the next day that he spent most of the night doing online research so presumably he did get out of it.

(You'd have also thought Dean would have been way more upset at seeing Sam going off with Ruby again, too, regardless of the alternate universe issue).

[ash48.livejournal.com]

You'd have also thought Dean would have been way more upset at seeing Sam going off with Ruby again, too, regardless of the alternate universe issue).

That could have been really interesting.... Dean trying to stop Sam not only because she looks like Ruby but because she's someone else's wife.

Missed opportunity I'd say.