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[rionaleonhart]

Okay, Supernatural. You know I love you, and considered episode-by-episode, rather than as a whole, Season Four is so far looking like one of the best series/seasons of anything I've ever watched. But three of the four most recent episodes have been silly episodes, and I am pretty desperate for some angst at the moment.

I am especially desperate for angst following the revelation that Dean remembers Hell. Dean has been suffering worse-than-imaginable torments for the equivalent of forty years, and yet three of the eight episodes since he rose have been light and silly? There's something not quite right there. (Has he been able to remember since 'Lazarus Rising'? I thought his Lilith-hallucination in 'Yellow Fever' might have represented the memories returning to him, but now it seems that perhaps he's had those memories all along. You'd think he'd be more messed up about it, surely.)

Incidentally (oh man there's a bad pun), I liked the music during that final scene. (The incidental music in Supernatural is often rather pretty. I sometimes want to rewatch 'Scarecrow' and 'Croatoan' purely for Christopher Lennertz's score.)

When the episode opened on a woman in the shower, I couldn't help rolling my eyes. For goodness' sake, Supernatural, you've already had two female-death-in-the-shower scenes! But then they didn't actually kill her, so I can sort of forgive them. (In fact, was that a rare 'everybody lives' episode? Er, well, Sam died, but he got better. So.)

Gigantic living teddy bear: possibly the weirdest thing Supernatural has ever come up with. I applaud you, writers. I back slowly away from you at the same time, but I applaud you.

AMAZING THINGS:

"Are we... should we... are we going to kill this teddy bear?"
"How? Huh? Shoot it? Burn it?
"I don't know. ...both?"

I laughed so hard.

Anyway, it was a fun episode (if one that felt at times as if it were trying a little too hard to be quotable), but I am so ready for an episode full of plot and pain and woe and Castiel and Ruby and Castiel/Ruby and tension in the Winchesters' relationship. (Seriously, where has Ruby gone?) Of course, knowing Supernatural, there's a more-than-fair chance that all the silly episodes are here to lull us into a false sense of security before the writers, I don't know, skin the Winchesters alive or something.

Comments

Re: yeah waiting just like you for the drama to come back

[rionaleonhart]

Well, as at the end of the third season the writers killed Dean and sent him to Hell, I'm not sure they're afraid to go anywhere. Maybe it was just bad episode-arrangement. I heard that 'Monster Movie' was originally supposed to come earlier in the season; perhaps that would have made things better.

always happens in the bathroom

[iwrotethissong.livejournal.com]

bathroom violence scenes!

[1] dead in the water
[2] bugs
[3] red sky at morning. once for the girl at the beginning, once for the guy in the middle.
[4] wishful thinking

What the hell is it about bathrooms?

Also. Sam died. Again. And there was no emphasis.

Re: always happens in the bathroom

[rionaleonhart]

I suspect it may just be because those in charge enjoy having naked women on the show. Bathroom scenes have always been a staple of horror, haven't they? (Or have they? I have to admit that I don't watch a lot of horror.)

And Sam's got some way to go before he beats his brother on 'number of deaths'. (Seriously, Supernatural, how many of your recurring characters haven't died at some point? I think it's down to Jo, Bobby and Ellen.)

Re: always happens in the bathroom

[iwrotethissong.livejournal.com]

Psycho started it, probably. Shower trends, what can you do.

[lovestories.livejournal.com]

I am going to fanwank Dean remembering everything into Dean just telling Sam that he remembers everything so Sam will stop going, "I KNOW YOU ARE LYING, DEAN. WE MUST CONFRONT YOUR EMO MANPAIN". ...it makes sense if you don't think about it for too long!

OR, maybe Dean only thinks he remembers everything, but really he doesn't? MAYBE?

Gigantic living teddy bear: possibly the weirdest thing Supernatural has ever come up with.

LIFE IS MEANINGLESS, SIGNED T. BEAR

[rionaleonhart]

...yeah, saying 'I REMEMBER SOMETHING THAT MUST BE GIVING ME HUGE AMOUNTS OF EMO MANPAIN' is perhaps not the best way to deter Sam.

LIFE IS MEANINGLESS, SIGNED T. BEAR

That was amazing and completely horrifying at the same time. (I rather like that his name is apparently 'Teddy Bear'.)

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

That killed me! Teddy!

[onlyonechoice.livejournal.com]

I am so ready for an episode full of plot and pain and woe

Usually we're only given one silly/funny episode before the angst meter pegs red. They're giving us three episodes so far? That's gearing us up for some major, MAJOR pain.

I can't wait.

[rionaleonhart]

I think part of the reason I'm not comfortable with the concentration of light episodes at the moment is the fear that at any moment they could hit us with an episode so angsty that Dean Winchester non-figuratively reaches through the screen and rips my heart out of my chest.

Perhaps this is unlikely, but seriously, there have never been this many light episodes this close together before, and Supernatural has reached some pretty serious levels of angst.

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

Er, well, Sam died, but he got better.

I



lol.

[rionaleonhart]

That was not nearly the daftest part of this episode.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

But silly episodes are amazing :(

[rionaleonhart]

They are! 'Tall Tales' and 'Bad Day at Black Rock' are two of my favourite episodes of Supernatural ('Bad Day at Black Rock' is one of my favourite episodes of anything). I was just in the mood for MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF ANGST this week.


EDIT: ...which I got, I suppose, but I'm not sure it counts when it's colossal animated teddy bear angst.

[http://users.livejournal.com/tick_/]

(Seriously, where has Ruby gone?)

Hopefully somewhere she won't be coming back from? UNLESS it's in a different body at least, ergh.

[rionaleonhart]

HEY, RUBY IS AWESOME.

I'd be up for her returning in a different body, though, especially if it meant a return to her being the eyerolling sarcastic arsekicking Ruby of the third season.

[lazaruswakes.livejournal.com]

At least you're sane. Who the hell wants that demon back? (You know this Riona chick personally? I think you should test her out with some holy water.)

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

"When the episode opened on a woman in the shower, I couldn't help rolling my eyes. For goodness' sake, Supernatural, you've already had two female-death-in-the-shower scenes! But then they didn't actually kill her, so I can sort of forgive them."

And there was the almost-death-from-taking-a-bath in Dead in the Water, which also had another girl dying in a bikini, while the guy died from sticking his arm down a drainpipe.

Not that I'm bitter about that, or anything

[rionaleonhart]

Man, yes. 'Dead in the Water': girl gets pulled under whilst swimming in a bikini; woman almost drowns naked in the bathtub; boy, fully clothed, gets his head yanked into the sink. 'Red Sky at Morning': woman dies naked in the shower; man, fully clothed, gets his head yanked into the bath; man, fully clothed, drowns in his car. Bela got to keep her clothes on, at least, but still. THERE IS SOME SERIOUS NUDITY INEQUALITY HERE.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

KNEEL BEFORE TODD! KNEEL BEFORE TODD!

DEAN WINCHESTER GOT BEAT UP BY A SMALL BOY! SHOW, I LOVE YOU!

And aw!!! Dean let the boy get away with it! Oh, Dean!

And they killed Sam just because! A completely throwaway Winchester-death!

Geek boy and hot girl were creepy! Man, I hope they never went past kissing!

And Teddy Bear broke my heart! The drinking, and the existential angst, and all of it!

This show is insane!

[rionaleonhart]

You've just reminded me of one thing that bothered me about the episode: Dean punched a small boy in the face. I just cannot see that happening. But the episode also had Dean grabbing the wrong ID for a moment, so I can forgive it. (That was excellent.)

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I AM STILL SLIGHTLY TRAUMATISED BY THE WAY THEY HAD A TEDDY BEAR ATTEMPT SUICIDE. YOU DO NOT GO THERE, SHOW.

[rionaleonhart]

I sort of loved the way they parodied the 'blood spatter against the wall' trope by panning across to the wall and then showing stuffing flying across the room. Does - does that make me a bad person?

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Okay, this relates to insane crossovers and is for the cause of getting other people to watch Supernatural more: is there any reason you can think of for Dean Winchester to have sex with a possessed Richard Hammond? Possibly not knowing Richard is possessed?

ETA: Never mind. I fear I may have come up with a plot.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I cannot wait to see this.