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Supernatural 3.11
Zomg, the more I think about this episode the more it TEARS ME APART. Because yeah, it was like a concentrated dose of what I love about the show: SAM AND DEAN CAN'T ACTUALLY LIVE WITHOUT EACH OTHER.
I wish that they'd spent more time on what happened after Dean died on Wednesday instead of that montage. I mean, as far as montages go, it was totally awesome (that music, dear god) but - I mean. We all know that Dean wasn't going to ACTUALLY die then, that by the end of the episode he would be alive again, but it would have been nice if they weren't so quick to rush through that whole agonizing period between his death and the magical time-turning.
But, you know. I still loved it :D
I am feeling a bit agonized myself, though. Because, well - I love this episode because by the end of it we know Sam is so fundamentally changed. Like, seeing Dean die every day for a long fucking time is going to have a huge affect on him anyway. Let alone three months of Dean being actually DEAD and Sam being on his own. Sam is going to be *different* after that. And yet I know that when the next episode rolls along, it's going to be business as usual, and that makes me a wee bit sad.
And I mean, it's not just a fundamental emotional/personal alteration anyway. It's all the ways Sam will have changed in hunting alone - learning to hunt on his own, WIN hunts on his own, all the shit he would have learned in all that time spent repeating Tuesdays.
But, you know, the end of the episode - Am I right in reading it that Sam's not actually telling Dean that Dean died for real and Sam went on for months without him, alone? That Sam's just... not going to tell him at all? Because, gah.
When's the next ep? Not til April, is it?
This reminds of of Shadow in season 1 - huge big OMG OMG OMG SHOW response from fandom, bucketloads of fic about scars and patching up and Big Emotional Sex, hiatus, and then 1.17 rolls around all pretty-faced.
*sigh* oh, show.
I wish that they'd spent more time on what happened after Dean died on Wednesday instead of that montage. I mean, as far as montages go, it was totally awesome (that music, dear god) but - I mean. We all know that Dean wasn't going to ACTUALLY die then, that by the end of the episode he would be alive again, but it would have been nice if they weren't so quick to rush through that whole agonizing period between his death and the magical time-turning.
But, you know. I still loved it :D
I am feeling a bit agonized myself, though. Because, well - I love this episode because by the end of it we know Sam is so fundamentally changed. Like, seeing Dean die every day for a long fucking time is going to have a huge affect on him anyway. Let alone three months of Dean being actually DEAD and Sam being on his own. Sam is going to be *different* after that. And yet I know that when the next episode rolls along, it's going to be business as usual, and that makes me a wee bit sad.
And I mean, it's not just a fundamental emotional/personal alteration anyway. It's all the ways Sam will have changed in hunting alone - learning to hunt on his own, WIN hunts on his own, all the shit he would have learned in all that time spent repeating Tuesdays.
But, you know, the end of the episode - Am I right in reading it that Sam's not actually telling Dean that Dean died for real and Sam went on for months without him, alone? That Sam's just... not going to tell him at all? Because, gah.
When's the next ep? Not til April, is it?
This reminds of of Shadow in season 1 - huge big OMG OMG OMG SHOW response from fandom, bucketloads of fic about scars and patching up and Big Emotional Sex, hiatus, and then 1.17 rolls around all pretty-faced.
*sigh* oh, show.
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I don't know, I mean... that was six months of Sam getting kicking into the shape that Ruby needs him. I think it'll probably come up. The next episode doesn't look fluffy in the slightest.
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True that. I hope it *does* come up somewhere. But I doubt that'll be the next ep, as I believe they're being screened out of order!
But don't spoil me zomg! I don't want to know *chews nails*
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I just love it so much when SPN lives up to its potential.
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And, they switched them around, Mystery Spot was originally 12, and next week's 11, but Kripke said that since they didn't know what was happening with the strike, they'd rather end with n. 11 (and thankfully, I know very little about the next ep, it looks as if it's a rocking rocks ep, but if Mystery Spot was the last one...*shivers*)
So, if there is no mention of MS in the next ep, it's probably because it was filmed before. And as to Sam not telling Dean...well, wouldn't be the first time Sam doesn't tell Dean Something or they talk about it off screen. Sam was scary :D
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Looking forward to next ep, but not the long hiatus. sigh.
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I have to admit I began to grin through Dean's deaths towards the middle of the ep - the sausage one in particular - but the Wednesday shooting sobered me up instantly. I would have liked more on Sam's reaction to Dean's death - although I think I'd have been watching it through a haze of tears. I think this felt almost too rushed to me - the set-up here would have worked as a feature length ep, rather than a single episode.
I have to say - I loved the moment in the montage when Sam straightened the bedcovers. That screamed Marine coping mechanisms kicking in, and I could see John's son so very very clearly. His scary wall of mental unhingement was even scarier than John's in the Pilot, because it was so perfect. Everything spaced out and tacked up just so.
I felt like I was looking at what John might have become if he hadn't had the boys after Mary. Kudos to show for that.
And kudos also if they manage to not totally ignore the huge emotional impact on Sam of losing Dean for months.
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the pacing was very cleverly done - I LAUGHED, I CRIED, etc. - up until montage. I have to say that the music distracted me from some of the awesomeness in there.
I think I need to re-watch.
PS. *smishes you*!