sailorhathor | SPN "Simon Said"

Spoilers for Supernatural episode "Simon Said" will be below the cut.

I want to get this all down while it's still kind of fresh in my mind. Honestly, though, I don't know if I can have a real reaction here and not a tainted one since I'm so FUCKING HOT. The stupid weather decided to be goddamn hot today in goddamn late fucking October, and my A/C either has been turned off for the season or isn't working, because I'm sweating like a pig with a fan blowing on me and a ceiling fan going. I DO NOT think well when I'm hot. It makes me want to do nothing, and that drives me CRAZY. If I ever get a job with a real salary and not chump change, I am never living in an "all bills paid" apartment again. They control the heat and a/c, and I cannot fucking stand this. HEY! It's almost November! It should NOT be HOT!!! I don't care if this is fucking Texas. I would rather be shivering from the cold than sweating. You can always put on more clothes, but there's only so much you can take off.

I wanted to make spaghetti tonight too, but it's too hot to be spending a lot of time over a hot stove.

And I was Miss Butterfingers earlier today, so everyone back up. I tried to pick up my lemonade and it slipped from my fingers and spilled ALL OVER my shredder. I mean just DRENCHED it. I hope it isn't ruined. Lemonade is supposed to be that cool refreshing drink, not that cool electrocuting drink.

Is it at all possible that I can be coherent and talk about this episode now? Hm, brain?

I think I'm just going to list random thoughts.

Sammy's visions seemed really painful in this ep. I mean, nice acting, Jared. PAINFUL. I like the angst that causes, the way Sam was on the freaking ground almost a pancake, and Dean was there trying to help him, but what can he do?

That was cool how they mixed what Sam was seeing with the vision he was having, how the bathroom sink was on the ceiling for a moment. And WOW was that sink nasty.

Did anyone else think the happy doctor guy needed to get some pants that fit him instead of the clown pants he was wearing?

Lots of people getting hit by cars and buses on the CW tonight. WHAMMO!

Ash is a funny character. "Dr. Badass is In." Hahahaha! And he's not even DRESSED when Sam and Dean come to visit. "Guess I'm going to need my pants."

Jo is just such a pointless character, and I can't wait until she goes away. Girl fills the High Score list on a video game - I guess we're supposed to think she's so badass and useful on a hunt. After all, she can shoot video game deer! Dean really seemed to be regarding her as a cute lil youngin this time instead of a possible sexual conquest. Then she puts on REO Speedwagon, one of my favorite songs by them, but then again, I am a girl, so I have an excuse. :P Dean's reaction was funny. I knew he wasn't an REO Speedwagon type. Was that really Jo's attempt at getting his attention, playing "I Can't Fight This Feeling"? Um, hello, how does that song apply? YOU'RE NOT EVEN FRIENDS. You've met him ONCE before. God, just TALK to him instead of being a stupid little git hunter groupie. Jesus. All I want as a fan is that Dean have a smart, capable love interest, if he must have one at all. Jo is a dumb character who isn't even good for comic relief. It's irritating.

I don't like Ellen either. She's a stereotype. Woman owns a bar, so she must be a tough-as-nails bitch. She's pretty, but these people who are writing Dean/Ellen stories, again, I must say HURRRRRRLLLLLL. They just don't fit for me. I don't always object to the older woman/younger man pairing, so it's not that. Sometimes it's really hot (the possibilities laid out in Albino Alligator, anyone?). But this one, it just doesn't fit, and squicks me reeeeal bad. Anyway, I did NOT like her talking to Dean that way. It wasn't necessary for her to John Winchester him. She could have gotten just as far with a little sweetness, I thought. She didn't even try it. How about just explaining yourself before you try the "rip Dean's head off and completely emasculate him" approach? I don't think Dean would have backed down so easily, either. I could understand and stand behind Ellen being that way to him if Dean had been mean or disrespectful to her first, but I didn't feel that he had been. That whole scene irritated me anyway because Ellen's actress has this habit of mumbling half her lines, and I couldn't understand half of what she said. The gist of it was that some of the people Ceiling Demon is interested in did not lose their mothers to fire on the ceiling, right? Some are, instead, being visited by him in dreams, the Yellow-Eyed Man, right?

I don't know, just anytime someone talking about demon hunting refers to it as a "war" in the way Ellen did, it makes me want to roll my eyes. It's like they're trying to make what they're doing seem bigger. That's the wrong reason to do anything, because you want to seem like a bigshot. Dean doesn't do it for that reason. Sam definitely doesn't.

OHH, Dean singing! I almost forgot. Ladies and gentlemen, DEAN SINGS!! But it was WEIRD. Here's how I think that conversation went.

Jensen: I want to sing on the show.

Kripke: Dean wouldn't sing.

Jensen: He would in the car. When a song was on.

Kripke: Jensen... you're a good singer. But you sound like a Backstreet Boy. Dean wouldn't sound like a Backstreet Boy.

Jensen: Then I'll make it sound a little bad. More... deep-voiced.

Kripke: Mmm, yokay.

So, Dean's singing voice was good, but a little... bad. I was definitely fangirling that moment, though. Dean can SING! One of my fangirl dreams has come TRUE! Next, Dean does karoake, right? Then he can sing in a bar on amateur night? Huh, huh, Kripke, huh? Can he, can he, huh? Pwease? With sugar on top?

It was funny that he was singing REO Speedwagon, too. And Sam's reaction.

And, oh yeah, I guess there was a subplot involving Andy. The mind control stuff with Dean was really funny. "We hunt demons." "Shut up Dean!" "I'm trying." And he just goes on blabbing. XD I laughed at Dean's reaction to the Make-out Mobile Andy had. And the huge bong. Andy was sort of a sympathetic character near the end, when he wanted to protect the girl, but otherwise, I wanted to kick him in the nuts. The way he got by was just... ugh, pathetic loser. Mind-controlling women into sleeping with him, making people just give him stuff... okay, I guess I can understand the temptation to live so easily, but the thing with making women sleep with him... why would you even want it if you had to get it that way? Pathetic. And that barbarian woman painted on the side of his van... fucking Disco Andy. Where were Warren, Jonathon, and Andrew?

The whole thing with the "evil twin" came off really lame for me. THAT'S their idea of a twist? I guess Andy was supposed to be a funny character that we were supposed to like, but because I was already sneering over his behavior, I wouldn't have minded if he had been the one killing people. Evil twin wasn't necessary.

Though I did feel sorry for Andy when he said the girl he liked was now afraid of him, after she found out what he could do. Awww, poor pathetic dude.

Is the hunter's bar subplot just totally failing for anyone else? It seems like something they really want the fans to think is SOOO COOOOOL, but it's just not. So far, I say eh. I would like to see some more hunters - I have nothing against that. But so far, they're all the same. And they all seem to wear plaid, for some reason. Let's get some variety in here!

I think that's all. If I think of any other things I wanted to say, you'll see them here, on Laurel's journal. Goodniiiight.