7.19 reaction and review (with pics...)

[ash48]

Ok. So that was pretty darn cool. Some of it was a little ho hum (with a few inconsistencies = *handwaves*), but mostly I really enjoyed.

Counting the ways:

1. I'm thinking my response may well be a little shallow because really, any episode that starts with the BOYS EATING ON THE NOT!IMPALA is FINE with me! \o/ (Of course heaps better if it had been the Impala but I can settle for this). Look how cosy and relaxed they are. OH BOYS! <33333333



I'm glad Dean can still get a lot of satisfaction out of food. The world's going to shit (though...um...compared to the pending apocalypse I'm thinking it's not so bad at the moment *shrugs*) but Dean knows he can rely on his taco tasting awesome.

2. Loved this little moment too:



It's curious. Dean's phone rings and Sam checks his pocket. Either they have the same ring tone (awwwwww) or Sam sometimes carries Dean's phone (awwwwww). I'm actually thinking it's something Jared thought as how many of us thinks it might be their phone that's ringing, even if it a different ring tone. Or is that just me. ;/


3. I enjoyed the look inside a ghost's existence. I'm thinking there are probably some inconsistencies there but I've decided to not look too hard at it.

4. Annie was cool. I was a little "um...what?" when Dean spoke to her as though she was a long time friend (we're only hearing about her now?!)... but their explanation satisfied me. I suppose they do know a lot of other hunters. Though it baffles me that any hunter would work alone. Having someone watch your back would be a necessity I reckon.

And OF COURSE SHE DIED!! (Sam did sleep with her after all...*snerk*). I liked the way her death was used though so it's cool. I really liked the house full of ghosts and she was a good match with Bobby. Ghost ghost hunters. Nice.

5. Ok. So. There was just something about this episode that was super HOT. I think it might have had something (A LOT!) to do with this scene:



I mean LOOK A THAT GOD OF A MAN!! JEEZEEEEEEEEEEEE KILL ME NOW! We most definitely need more wet hair Dean scenes!

Who else was hoping we'd get a shot of him actually stepping out of the shower? Seriously!! (I was thinking of that moment in Battleship I have to tell you! *swoon*). But I was equally thrilled with the extended scene with wet haired!Dean. HOT DAMN!

6. I'm sure you were all distracted by the pretty (:koff: me too) but there were some pretty cool motel details lurking in the background. So I just have to point them out:



LOOK AT THOSE SEAGULLS! There's a seaside theme in this room. Lot's of stressed white furniture and blue walls, but what fascinates me is that there is a MURAL in the room the we don't actually get to see. Boo! That kinda sucks. AND THERE ARE THOSE STONE WALLS AGAIN!! (maybe there's some underlying meaning to all the stone walls this season. Something to do with stonewalling, or running into brick walls... or something equally fanwanky *g) Ooh and lots of orange. I'm sure that's significant too. :)




If you can take your eyes of our pretty boys who can see what looks like a sea mural surround by those faux stones. Love it!

And check out that wallpaper!! Crazy!



Ok. Back to episode.

7. I was hoping we'd see the boys having a dilemma about what to do with ghost!Bobby. So I'm glad we got that. As per their characters Dean is very uneasy (even though he misses Bobby dreadfully) and Sam is more open minded to him being around. I'm sure they'll keep him around (maybe even through to next season?) but I'd say they'd have to do something sooner or later. Poor boys. To have to lose Bobby again. (I'm only assuming this will be the outcome eventually).

8. Hee. "Fancy Lady".

9. Hee. Stupid teenagers. Seriously - horror films would not exist without stupid teenagers going into place they SHOULDN'T!!

10. Hee. SAMMY FACES!



Nice to see Sam more focused and relaxed. I'm not sure if they plan to do any more with the hallucinations (hope so) but it's a good reprieve for both of the boys. Loved the banter in this scene.

11. And you know I live for the little bro moments. A touch of hurt!Sam (though I couldn't make out exactly what the ghost was doing to Sam), a shout of "Sam!" from Dean (yay) and this....



Awww Dean. Putting out a reassuring hand. Shame it was such a dark scene.


Overall it was an enjoyable episode. Quite a few tense moments, it answered a lot of questions about ghost!Bobby and ghosts in general. Some nice, relaxed banter between the boys, it had a cool female character somewhat reminiscent of Ellen of and a steamy shower scene. (I can't believe my first observation is that Dean is having a shower with the door open. Which...yeah...of course, but you know where my damn brain went!)

Welcome back show!

Comments

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Oh wow... now here's a set of questions...;)

Hmmmm... what about that girl in the mental ward with Sam? Her brother was tied to her bracelet yeah?. I can't remember what the story was with his bones though. I know they have often come across ghost who didn't have bones to burn. My feeling was that Bobby decided to stay and had to attach himself to an object and that was it.

So wouldn't Dean feel guilty for carrying it around and knowing Bobby is still attached to it?

Dean has only just found out that it was the flask that was keeping Bobby tied to this realm so I don't think he's had a chance to decide what to do with that yet. I think that will be a future dilemma.

Wouldn't he want to burn it or whatever to put Bobby to rest?
Ay. There lies the rub. I think this will be the whole point. Bobby has chosen to stay to help his boys. Will they decide that they don't need him and be rid of the flask?. Curious...

but then why is his ghost attached to the flask?

I'm thinking mostly because it's an important object to Bobby AND to Dean. It's a personal object.

My major issues were things like...how could Bobby drink Dean's beer in that really early ep and yet couldn't pick up an object in this one?? Why did Annie not face her reaper? She chose to be at rest but why did she have to tell Bobby that and not her reaper? The whole ghost thing opened up a lot of questions.

And yeah.. the whole walking through walls was weird. I suspect that was only there to build the tension - having to pull the candelabra.

I think I mostly handwaved a lot of those questions. (I often do...) I mostly latch onto the essence of what they are trying to tell us in an ep. Here I felt it was the problem of what to do with ghost!bobby. And how sad it is that Bobby decided to hang on...

[rhymephile.livejournal.com]

I recall a few episodes in which bodies were cremated but the ghost remained (or in which the boys salted and burned but nothing happened) like that one with the evil little girl and the doll made of her hair (I'm too lazy to look up ep names), or "Hookman" I believe in which the hook as melted down into something and they had to destroy it. Ooh, and then remember in "After School Special" there was that lock of hair that Dirk's dad held on to?

There were a bunch of episodes like that. But apparently they can change canon to suit their needs...at first it was a physical piece of the person left behind, and then it was something the person used, I guess. I suppose it's possible that *anything* they kept of Bobby's -- from his books to the flask -- could be used to tether him to this plane? Which doesn't make sense as far as them fighting ghosts go. If *any* personal object tethers a ghost here, then how could they possibly find it? It could be anything.

If we agree that ghosts can be kept behind either with personal objects or with things like hair or nails or whatever, wouldn't Dean already know this and thus not want to keep the flask just in case? As in, he's dealt with this stuff before and wouldn't want to take a chance Bobby might somehow be trapped here because of it? That's what I meant with him feeling guilty. He already knows this can happen.

As far as Annie not facing her Reaper, there was a bit of dialogue in which she tells Bobby no one came for her, as I recall.

I don't mind hand-waving things, but they're messing with the established way the show works (plus the beer drinking as you mentioned) as far as ghosts go. I'm still wondering if anyone told Emanuel's wife what happened to him from a few weeks ago!

[ash48.livejournal.com]

wouldn't Dean already know this and thus not want to keep the flask just in case?

I find this really curious. Dean has been holding onto the flask as a connection and a reminder to Bobby. He hasn't been prepared to let him go and yet when he found out he was actually around, it became something he might not actually want. I don't think Dean actually considered the possibility of Bobby staying which is kind of ridiculous knowing the world they live in. Same way they didn't believe all those "mysteries" that were occurring around them.... They should really be attuned to that. I think also, because we knew what was happening long before they did, it showed them up as being pretty slow on the uptake. There was just too much "spelling it out" for my liking.

And yes, show often does change things to meet their story needs - which is very frustrating at times. I'm not as bothered with the ghost remaining thing as I have been with other things (Brady!).

And arghh.... I really hope they don't forget Emanuel's wife. I have no idea why Cas had to be married. A girlfriend or friend maybe but a wife complicates matters. Unless that becomes important later on. (which I would be cool with...)