10.08 ep reaction/review

[ash48]

Dear Supernatural,

You're weirding me out. ANOTHER episode where the boys aren't fighting or being mean to each other? I can see what you are doing here. You're not fooling me!

Yours with my happy but suspicious face on.
xx

PS: AND you're giving us awesome secondary characters and not killing them off. Stop that! (or actually, please don't).


I haven't much more to say that hasn't already been said about this one. As I'm later in writing this up, I've had a chance to read a few reviews and I pretty much agree with a lot I've read. That being:

- Jody and Donna are awesome

- Flesh eating vampires are stupid and WTF is with that?

- Unconscious boys AGAIN! Amateurs and their brains must be mush by now

- Jody and Sam talking together = yay! And Dean and Jody having a little moment = yay!

- Sam and Dean being great together = yay!

- Monologuing monster at the end = *boo*


I enjoyed this episode a lot. The MoTW was pretty lame and kind of ridiculous but the heart of the episode was Jody and Donna and I love that combination SO VERY MUCH that I don't really care that the way they set up the monster mystery was stoopid. I also loved Sam and Dean just being partners and brothers and hunters (amateur hunters still though because *doh* look out behind you!).

Dean's revelation at the end also seems really weird to me. WE know the Mark will ultimately have an effect on Dean, so him claiming that it's the first time he's killed that he felt like himself (and not Mark driven) is kind of strange. Unless we have to know that because something is going to trigger the Mark for it to become "active" again? Perhaps it's a set up for episodes to come.

The thing is, I totally believed Dean was telling the truth. Also, the show seemed to want us to believe Dean was telling the truth. They didn't linger on the way he killed those vamps and Jensen was selling it as Dean telling the truth. Sam is wary (of course!), but it seems to me that either it was a mishandled scene (in that we're supposed to think that Dean is lying) or it's a signal that the Mark really is diminishing and Dean really is feeling like himself again (which YES! I feel like we have been seeing the "real" Dean for a couple of episodes now). But then we get the shot of Dean holding his arm so….argh! No idea what they were trying to do there, other than give us a BM moment for the sake of it.

The underlying theme this week seemed to be fighting the monster inside you (the way the sheriff vamp tried to do) much the same as the Shapeshifter one. So I'd say paralleling Dean trying to fight his inner demon and Sam (hopefully) helping him fight it.

And, weirdly, even though I've been really enjoying these "lighter" eps, I'm now looking forward to something a bit darker and edgier.

I haven't watched next week's promo. I've seen some images but I'm trying to stay unspoiled so I can enjoy it that bit more.

(oh, and I still hate Sam's hair. The fact that I get distracted by how bad it looks during an episode makes me want to weep slightly. But, I brush it off because that would be far too shallow for me to be worried about such a trivial thing. Whaaaaa).




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Comments

[vyperdd.livejournal.com]

I totally thought Dean was lying (and that show, by showing Dean holding his arm, wanted us to know he was lying) and it made me pretty damn mad. What happened to his 'promise' back in 1004 Paper Moon that he would give Sam the heads up if things slipped even an inch sideways???? Should have known he wouldn't stick with it. He obviously only agreed so Sam would let him go on the hunt.

I'm even a little bit agro with Sam for just letting Dean turn the radio up to end the conversation. I so wanted Sam to call him on his "I'm fine" crap. Now, given how terrified Sam looked as Dean killed the shifter, I'm wondering if he was just too worried about what questioning or provoking Dean would do. I don't think I've ever seen Sam look so afraid of Dean, not even when he was a demon and threatening to rip Sam's throat out with his teeth.

I actually think the lying started at the end of 1006 Ask Jeeves, when Sam questioned him why he put so many bullets into the shifter, was it the demon residue, was it the Mark and not only did Dean deny both of those possibilities he actually asked why he should even be explaining himself to Sam. Ummmm, maybe because you promised your brother you'd be straight with him???

[ash48.livejournal.com]

I totally thought Dean was lying (and that show, by showing Dean holding his arm, wanted us to know he was lying) and it made me pretty damn mad.

Oh really? I didn't get that sense at all. In fact, I though it might have been about him actually telling the truth for the first time. He's clearly been lying up until now and for some reason he is now telling the truth.

I understand Dean lying. It's very much who he is and he does it to protect Sam and also to convince himself things are fine. Both boys are bad at it.

I think he genuinely killed those vamps without the assistance of the Mark. But, I might be wrong. Personally, I don't think the show has made a decision about when he's lying and not. Maybe the actors have to make that choice. Jensen usually makes it very clear when Dean is lying - I really didn't get that sense this time. Him holding his arm could have been a way of acknowledging how much it bothers him being there and maybe trying to keep it at bay.