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It's been a while since I've meta'ed!
I'm loving the way season 2's turning over and re-hashing the issues and tropes of the first season, hell yeah. They first flipped it over in Salvation, of course, with Sam shoving Dean against the wall, and continued it through early S2 (Dean grieving for John as Sam grieved for Jess; Sam becoming the responsible caregiver and voice of compassion where Dean was early in S1, etc etc).
But I also love the things that don't change, are just riffed on over and over like a refrain. Still allegorical in their simplicity, but subtle enough and with a whole range of extended complexity in their contextualising that it *doesn't* come across as unimaginative repetition.
The instance I'm stuck on right now (and come back to frequently with a happy sigh) is the parallell between Scarecrow and Hunted:
1. Sam gets stubborn about something he wants to do that Dean won't budge on.
2. Sam leaves Dean
(2b. Sam hotwires/steals a car in the process *g*)
3. Sam has to come back to Dean and 'rescue' him.
3b. And not just any kind of rescue. Both in Scarecrow and Hunted Sam actually has to come back and untie Dean because he's being physically restrained.
(Also interesting if you want to further lay the episodes over each other - Scarecrow has Meg + MotW; Hunted has Ava + Gordon. Which is which in Hunted?)
Also also interesting. If you look for more parallells like this - obviously, the speeches in Wendigo + ELaC; Bloody Mary + CSPWDT. Asylum + Croatoan could be a match on that mapping too, I reckon. Crossroad Blues + Home. Playthings + Faith (you've got to let me die, etc).
Anyhoo.
This is pretty piss-poor meta, as my brain is a bit creaky at the moment, but just wanted to note it down while I was still thinking about it.
PS. plis don't spoil me in comments, yall, even if it's a vague 'just wait and see!'. I don't want to know.
I'm loving the way season 2's turning over and re-hashing the issues and tropes of the first season, hell yeah. They first flipped it over in Salvation, of course, with Sam shoving Dean against the wall, and continued it through early S2 (Dean grieving for John as Sam grieved for Jess; Sam becoming the responsible caregiver and voice of compassion where Dean was early in S1, etc etc).
But I also love the things that don't change, are just riffed on over and over like a refrain. Still allegorical in their simplicity, but subtle enough and with a whole range of extended complexity in their contextualising that it *doesn't* come across as unimaginative repetition.
The instance I'm stuck on right now (and come back to frequently with a happy sigh) is the parallell between Scarecrow and Hunted:
1. Sam gets stubborn about something he wants to do that Dean won't budge on.
2. Sam leaves Dean
(2b. Sam hotwires/steals a car in the process *g*)
3. Sam has to come back to Dean and 'rescue' him.
3b. And not just any kind of rescue. Both in Scarecrow and Hunted Sam actually has to come back and untie Dean because he's being physically restrained.
(Also interesting if you want to further lay the episodes over each other - Scarecrow has Meg + MotW; Hunted has Ava + Gordon. Which is which in Hunted?)
Also also interesting. If you look for more parallells like this - obviously, the speeches in Wendigo + ELaC; Bloody Mary + CSPWDT. Asylum + Croatoan could be a match on that mapping too, I reckon. Crossroad Blues + Home. Playthings + Faith (you've got to let me die, etc).
Anyhoo.
This is pretty piss-poor meta, as my brain is a bit creaky at the moment, but just wanted to note it down while I was still thinking about it.
PS. plis don't spoil me in comments, yall, even if it's a vague 'just wait and see!'. I don't want to know.
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And this weeks Dean's "I'll look after you" statement for what the 3rd or 4th time, was like an image that looses resolution as its reproduced. And Sammy said as much - for the first time he told Dean that wasn't enough.
And this mirroring like in how this weeks ep in some ways reflects Faith, I think work to add substance to the 'verse and the charcters. Because don't we feel this sometimes, that there are riffs and repeated motifs in our lives.
/rambling
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i wonder how you could possibly be interested in this? the major things that 'hunted' lacked in comparison to 'scarecrow' were the APPLES OF DEBAUCHERY (we like them apples).
and now i shall let people with better brains give you the attention you deserve.
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"Hunted" reminded me also of "Benders", with Dean coming to rescue Sam, but winding up needing rescuing himself.
Rope for rope, we've had twice as much Dean bondage as Sam bondage. On the other hand, Sam in a cage may overmatch all of Dean's bondage combined, kink for kink. *g*
Scarecrow - Dean
Benders -Dean
Shadows - Dean and Sam
Bloodlust - Sam
Hunted - Dean