Squee and meh
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sailorhathorMy squee for the day is under the cut:
While shopping at Target today, I saw this.
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/ref=br_1_3/601-8604454-3670509?ie=UTF8&asin=B000ES272W&frombrowse=1
OMG I almost started bawling just looking at it. It's so much like my childhood Barbie house! I mean, the Barbie house looked a lot different, but it was the same basic design - three floors open in the front, made of wood, with "doors" on the sides. I have GOT to have this. It's just one of the most adorable things I've ever seen! I want to put my doll collection on it. Wouldn't that be PWECIOUS?! Target didn't have any left, but I'm sure they'll get more in. Getting it home will be the hard part. I'll have to beg Nancy to go with me so we can get it home in her car. I just might have the money next paycheck. I am doing the biggest double-decker squee over this thing right now. I just wanted to dance and jump around in the store when I saw it. Squeeeeee!!
Why is it that everytime I try to type my review of SPN each week (lately), aol starts doing that constant freezing up thing? It really is driving me up a wall.
Spoilers below.
I saw spoiler pictures for this ep, so I had a sense of what was going to happen. Maybe that colored my reaction to it, not being surprised by much, but I don't think so.
My basic reaction was "meh." Meh meh MEH. It was one of those episodes we were supposed to find angsty and "OMG that just upped my Holy Shit Quotient," but frankly, I was bored. More of the same. No big surprises. Lots of holes in the plot. Next.
Though, there was this... "You checked in two days ago under the name Richard Sambora. The scariest thing about that is you're a Bon Jovi fan."
BEST. LINE. EVER. XD
I LOVE Bon Jovi. Practically my favorite band ever. But I pegged Dean for being the type of rock fan who would puke at Bon Jovi really early on. I was right. :D Of course that's how he feels; most fans of bands like Metallica HATE Bon Jovi. It's just the way it is. I'm a great big weirdo in my musical tastes in that I like a bit of everything, but most people simply aren't like that. So I knew Dean would be the type of guy who would feel that way.
I don't see Sam as a Bon Jovi fan, though. I mean, it would be hilarious, because it would drive Dean crazy, but he just doesn't seem the type. I think the demon who was inside Sam picked that name. She probably thinks Richie is dreamy. XD XD Ah, a demon with excellent taste...
Anyway, Sam's been possessed. Duh. Of course, neither Sam nor Dean think of that for a while. Maybe they didn't consider it because SAM DID NOTHING THAT WOULD TYPICALLY GET A PERSON POSSESSED. 9_9
I mean, seriously, thinking back on this episode, the writer should be spanked hard, and not for fun. Sam has a mark on his arm in a pretty obvious place, and no one, NOT EVEN SAM, notices it for DAYS? Are you fucking kidding me?! It's big and red! If I get a new FRECKLE on my arm, I see it pretty quick. That was just... WOW, some pretty damn sloppy writing. "Oh God Dean, I've murdered someone. It can't have anything to do with this NEW, LARGE, RED MARK on my arm. I must just be turning evil!" I know Sam is all emo, but is he all hot to get Dean to kill him too?! He HAD to of noticed that. And he and Dean are sitting there trying to figure out what happened to this dead guy, and he doesn't even show the goddamn mark to Dean?! MAN, that was STUPID.
(Let me add here that there was a scene I missed while I was in the bathroom near the beginning of the show. Did Sam show the mark to Dean in that scene? Because it doesn't seem like it, since Dean didn't mention it at all after I came back, not until the scene at Bobby's house.)
Speaking of the dead guy, why do all hunters have 20,000 different kinds of guns? And why are they always on display? I just find it silly. I understand the need for organization, but these guys seem to do it for show.
Speaking of dumb things, the amount of head injuries in this episode rivaled the entire season of "Miracles." And not a single person acted like they had received that head injury. I know this is television, where people shrug off head injuries like they're mosquito bites (unless you're Paul Callan), but you could at least hold your head and go, "Ow," when you wake up. (Yeah, I know I'm exaggerating; I think Dean held his head after he spent HOURS on the floor unconscious. Still...) It was kind of ridiculous.
I did, however, love how Dean stumbled really hard when Jo tried to get him up after he'd been shot. Nice touch of realism there, Jensen. Too bad there was so much bullshit in the rest of the ep.
The scene where Sam killed the hunter was okay, except that I still giggled at it because it was a high view from the surveillance camera, and when Sam went after the guy, he did this hulking, stalking walk that looked just like a big gorilla. Heeheehee! He even had his arms held out like a monkey. Oo oo oo ee ee ee!
I did like the scene where Sam insisted that Dean shoot him. Of course, he was jumping the gun a bit; they hadn't even really considered the possibilities of what could have happened here and Sam is already like, "I'm evil, kill me! You promised!" Sam really just wants to die, doesn't he? I liked Jared's acting here, the way Sam was all scared. That was very believable. Even if you've asked someone to kill you, you're still going to be afraid. Will it hurt? What will happen to me after I die? Stuff like that.
Of course, Dean can't shoot him. "I'd rather die." We knew that already, but it was still a nice moment.
I guess we were supposed to be excited that Jo was on again and be all concerned for her welfare. Jo, blah. I was rooting for Sam to kill 'er. At least her hair looked cuter. But there's just something about her that totally drags the show down and makes me lose all interest. I do admit that she and Sam look better together than her and Dean, but I'd mostly just like her to go away.
Jo pining over Dean, pbbbt. When did she ever have time to fall for him? They've spent so little time together! She must be basing her luv on his looks only. At least I know with my superficial celeb crushes that I don't know these people at all. I bet Jo thinks she knows Dean. 9_9
Hehe, when Sam put Jo on the bar, I was like, "Time for body shots!" :D
*sets watch* How long until the first "Sam does some non-con action on unconscious or tied-up Jo" fic goes up?
Three things I'd like to say about Bobby:
1. Bobby's in South Dakota? I did not realize this. Or maybe I forgot it.
2. Bobby needs bookcases. This is Bobby currently: "Oh shit, I need the Big Book of Unholy Curses! Where is it?! We need it NOW. Oh, I think it's under all those books over - woops. He's dead. *sweatdrop*" Some nice, organized bookcases would really help him find information faster. (I doubt he'd want the one that looks like a dollhouse, though.)
3. You're too old to still go by Bobby, Bobby. You redneck.
Holy water in the beer. Go Bobby! (I almost typed Booby. O_o That really made me giggle. I'm such a child. XD) You think that makes it taste better? "Holy Beer, made from the sweat of angels!" Tastes heavenly, less filling! Why doesn't that hurt Sam, though? It's HIS body smoking... I don't get that.
I liked the line about, "Hell... it's like Hell." :D Cute.
But, there's something I don't get. Why does a demon want to get out of Hell? Isn't that their home? Don't they like it? Why were they talking like that demon was killed by the original exorcism when she wasn't? I mean, it makes more sense, because exorcisms aren't traditionally supposed to kill demons. In fact, they're usually not that effective at all. But what was the original exorcism supposed to do? Send the demon out of Meg's body and back to Hell? Trap it there? Me is confused.
I didn't like the scene where the demon was punching Dean over and over and saying things to him that were supposed to hurt him. We've heard it all before. "They don't need you, blah blah blah." I guess because the demon was in Sam's body, it was supposed to be different, but I was bored. I would think Dean would be like, "Yeah, yeah, whatever," over that shit by now. Damn predictable demons. I wanted to hear some new taunts. It's like when demons taunt Paul Callan with the "you killed Tommy" thing. If there had been a season two, it would have gotten really old to keep hearing that over and over.
Since I'm talking about "Miracles" and Paul, I'd just like to make the comment that I enjoyed the realistic way "Miracles" treated a gunshot wound better than what they did with Dean here. Dean is not superhuman. He gets shot in the shoulder and passes out, and stumbles to get up, but once Jo gets the bullet out, he acts like he wasn't even shot. When Paul got shot in the shoulder, he couldn't even use that arm afterward. He wore a sling, and you could plainly tell he was in tremendous pain when he wasn't hepped up on painkillers. This is evidenced by the scene where Paul and Alva were running around trying to figure out what they had to do to quiet the spirit of the ghost and Paul's painkillers were wearing off, and Paul's freaking shaking while trying to get his next pill out of the bottle. (Excellent acting there by Skeet, btw.) I would really like some "Dean's in a lot of pain" angst on this show! I just know that Jensen would pull it off in a way that I'd love.
Oh, and another stupid, WTF thing - the story of what happened between John and William on this hunt that went wrong. The whole thing didn't really sound right, one of those stories where you "had to be there" to understand how it could have happened. So I didn't like that, because it made them both sound like dumbasses who got William killed when it could have been easily prevented. But then we have John shooting the injured William to put him out of his misery, and ELLEN DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? How could she not know?! Does she believe the DEMON had a gun?! She HAS to know that either William shot himself, or John shot him, and it wouldn't be that hard to figure out who did it just from looking at the gunshot wound or the type of gun that was used. Good lord. Doctors don't keep that sort of thing from the wife of the deceased - she probably had to identify his freaking dead body. She'd know he was shot. Also, John shooting this guy to put him out of his misery is so John. I see where Sam gets his emo, pessimistic tendencies. 9_9 I just think it's overkill. If the guy's got his guts hanging out, he's probably going to die quickly anyway. That was just a lame revelation about that storyline. The whole storyline was lame to begin with, really, IMO.
Finally, I must rant about how this show treats possession. Demons don't just possess people. I mean, you may not believe in possession, and I'm not even sure I believe in it, but there are standard ways in which people can be possessed. (I find it more believable that most "possessed" people are just mentally ill. For some reason, it's makes more sense to me that a house can be possessed than a person. *shrug*) Usually, you have to invite the demon in in some manner. You don't just wake up possessed. I'm just, personally, picky about that, and would have appreciated some sort of scene where Sam accidentally invited or was tricked into inviting the demon in.
Hey wait... if there's a symbol that will lock a demon into a body, why don't demons use it all the time? And if simply and easily destroying the symbol will render it useless, why use it at all? And why put the symbol in a handy, easy to reach, easily seen spot?
Meh.
Sam, you disappear/run away a lot. You truly are the Laura Ingalls of SPN.
While shopping at Target today, I saw this.
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/ref=br_1_3/601-8604454-3670509?ie=UTF8&asin=B000ES272W&frombrowse=1
OMG I almost started bawling just looking at it. It's so much like my childhood Barbie house! I mean, the Barbie house looked a lot different, but it was the same basic design - three floors open in the front, made of wood, with "doors" on the sides. I have GOT to have this. It's just one of the most adorable things I've ever seen! I want to put my doll collection on it. Wouldn't that be PWECIOUS?! Target didn't have any left, but I'm sure they'll get more in. Getting it home will be the hard part. I'll have to beg Nancy to go with me so we can get it home in her car. I just might have the money next paycheck. I am doing the biggest double-decker squee over this thing right now. I just wanted to dance and jump around in the store when I saw it. Squeeeeee!!
Why is it that everytime I try to type my review of SPN each week (lately), aol starts doing that constant freezing up thing? It really is driving me up a wall.
Spoilers below.
I saw spoiler pictures for this ep, so I had a sense of what was going to happen. Maybe that colored my reaction to it, not being surprised by much, but I don't think so.
My basic reaction was "meh." Meh meh MEH. It was one of those episodes we were supposed to find angsty and "OMG that just upped my Holy Shit Quotient," but frankly, I was bored. More of the same. No big surprises. Lots of holes in the plot. Next.
Though, there was this... "You checked in two days ago under the name Richard Sambora. The scariest thing about that is you're a Bon Jovi fan."
BEST. LINE. EVER. XD
I LOVE Bon Jovi. Practically my favorite band ever. But I pegged Dean for being the type of rock fan who would puke at Bon Jovi really early on. I was right. :D Of course that's how he feels; most fans of bands like Metallica HATE Bon Jovi. It's just the way it is. I'm a great big weirdo in my musical tastes in that I like a bit of everything, but most people simply aren't like that. So I knew Dean would be the type of guy who would feel that way.
I don't see Sam as a Bon Jovi fan, though. I mean, it would be hilarious, because it would drive Dean crazy, but he just doesn't seem the type. I think the demon who was inside Sam picked that name. She probably thinks Richie is dreamy. XD XD Ah, a demon with excellent taste...
Anyway, Sam's been possessed. Duh. Of course, neither Sam nor Dean think of that for a while. Maybe they didn't consider it because SAM DID NOTHING THAT WOULD TYPICALLY GET A PERSON POSSESSED. 9_9
I mean, seriously, thinking back on this episode, the writer should be spanked hard, and not for fun. Sam has a mark on his arm in a pretty obvious place, and no one, NOT EVEN SAM, notices it for DAYS? Are you fucking kidding me?! It's big and red! If I get a new FRECKLE on my arm, I see it pretty quick. That was just... WOW, some pretty damn sloppy writing. "Oh God Dean, I've murdered someone. It can't have anything to do with this NEW, LARGE, RED MARK on my arm. I must just be turning evil!" I know Sam is all emo, but is he all hot to get Dean to kill him too?! He HAD to of noticed that. And he and Dean are sitting there trying to figure out what happened to this dead guy, and he doesn't even show the goddamn mark to Dean?! MAN, that was STUPID.
(Let me add here that there was a scene I missed while I was in the bathroom near the beginning of the show. Did Sam show the mark to Dean in that scene? Because it doesn't seem like it, since Dean didn't mention it at all after I came back, not until the scene at Bobby's house.)
Speaking of the dead guy, why do all hunters have 20,000 different kinds of guns? And why are they always on display? I just find it silly. I understand the need for organization, but these guys seem to do it for show.
Speaking of dumb things, the amount of head injuries in this episode rivaled the entire season of "Miracles." And not a single person acted like they had received that head injury. I know this is television, where people shrug off head injuries like they're mosquito bites (unless you're Paul Callan), but you could at least hold your head and go, "Ow," when you wake up. (Yeah, I know I'm exaggerating; I think Dean held his head after he spent HOURS on the floor unconscious. Still...) It was kind of ridiculous.
I did, however, love how Dean stumbled really hard when Jo tried to get him up after he'd been shot. Nice touch of realism there, Jensen. Too bad there was so much bullshit in the rest of the ep.
The scene where Sam killed the hunter was okay, except that I still giggled at it because it was a high view from the surveillance camera, and when Sam went after the guy, he did this hulking, stalking walk that looked just like a big gorilla. Heeheehee! He even had his arms held out like a monkey. Oo oo oo ee ee ee!
I did like the scene where Sam insisted that Dean shoot him. Of course, he was jumping the gun a bit; they hadn't even really considered the possibilities of what could have happened here and Sam is already like, "I'm evil, kill me! You promised!" Sam really just wants to die, doesn't he? I liked Jared's acting here, the way Sam was all scared. That was very believable. Even if you've asked someone to kill you, you're still going to be afraid. Will it hurt? What will happen to me after I die? Stuff like that.
Of course, Dean can't shoot him. "I'd rather die." We knew that already, but it was still a nice moment.
I guess we were supposed to be excited that Jo was on again and be all concerned for her welfare. Jo, blah. I was rooting for Sam to kill 'er. At least her hair looked cuter. But there's just something about her that totally drags the show down and makes me lose all interest. I do admit that she and Sam look better together than her and Dean, but I'd mostly just like her to go away.
Jo pining over Dean, pbbbt. When did she ever have time to fall for him? They've spent so little time together! She must be basing her luv on his looks only. At least I know with my superficial celeb crushes that I don't know these people at all. I bet Jo thinks she knows Dean. 9_9
Hehe, when Sam put Jo on the bar, I was like, "Time for body shots!" :D
*sets watch* How long until the first "Sam does some non-con action on unconscious or tied-up Jo" fic goes up?
Three things I'd like to say about Bobby:
1. Bobby's in South Dakota? I did not realize this. Or maybe I forgot it.
2. Bobby needs bookcases. This is Bobby currently: "Oh shit, I need the Big Book of Unholy Curses! Where is it?! We need it NOW. Oh, I think it's under all those books over - woops. He's dead. *sweatdrop*" Some nice, organized bookcases would really help him find information faster. (I doubt he'd want the one that looks like a dollhouse, though.)
3. You're too old to still go by Bobby, Bobby. You redneck.
Holy water in the beer. Go Bobby! (I almost typed Booby. O_o That really made me giggle. I'm such a child. XD) You think that makes it taste better? "Holy Beer, made from the sweat of angels!" Tastes heavenly, less filling! Why doesn't that hurt Sam, though? It's HIS body smoking... I don't get that.
I liked the line about, "Hell... it's like Hell." :D Cute.
But, there's something I don't get. Why does a demon want to get out of Hell? Isn't that their home? Don't they like it? Why were they talking like that demon was killed by the original exorcism when she wasn't? I mean, it makes more sense, because exorcisms aren't traditionally supposed to kill demons. In fact, they're usually not that effective at all. But what was the original exorcism supposed to do? Send the demon out of Meg's body and back to Hell? Trap it there? Me is confused.
I didn't like the scene where the demon was punching Dean over and over and saying things to him that were supposed to hurt him. We've heard it all before. "They don't need you, blah blah blah." I guess because the demon was in Sam's body, it was supposed to be different, but I was bored. I would think Dean would be like, "Yeah, yeah, whatever," over that shit by now. Damn predictable demons. I wanted to hear some new taunts. It's like when demons taunt Paul Callan with the "you killed Tommy" thing. If there had been a season two, it would have gotten really old to keep hearing that over and over.
Since I'm talking about "Miracles" and Paul, I'd just like to make the comment that I enjoyed the realistic way "Miracles" treated a gunshot wound better than what they did with Dean here. Dean is not superhuman. He gets shot in the shoulder and passes out, and stumbles to get up, but once Jo gets the bullet out, he acts like he wasn't even shot. When Paul got shot in the shoulder, he couldn't even use that arm afterward. He wore a sling, and you could plainly tell he was in tremendous pain when he wasn't hepped up on painkillers. This is evidenced by the scene where Paul and Alva were running around trying to figure out what they had to do to quiet the spirit of the ghost and Paul's painkillers were wearing off, and Paul's freaking shaking while trying to get his next pill out of the bottle. (Excellent acting there by Skeet, btw.) I would really like some "Dean's in a lot of pain" angst on this show! I just know that Jensen would pull it off in a way that I'd love.
Oh, and another stupid, WTF thing - the story of what happened between John and William on this hunt that went wrong. The whole thing didn't really sound right, one of those stories where you "had to be there" to understand how it could have happened. So I didn't like that, because it made them both sound like dumbasses who got William killed when it could have been easily prevented. But then we have John shooting the injured William to put him out of his misery, and ELLEN DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? How could she not know?! Does she believe the DEMON had a gun?! She HAS to know that either William shot himself, or John shot him, and it wouldn't be that hard to figure out who did it just from looking at the gunshot wound or the type of gun that was used. Good lord. Doctors don't keep that sort of thing from the wife of the deceased - she probably had to identify his freaking dead body. She'd know he was shot. Also, John shooting this guy to put him out of his misery is so John. I see where Sam gets his emo, pessimistic tendencies. 9_9 I just think it's overkill. If the guy's got his guts hanging out, he's probably going to die quickly anyway. That was just a lame revelation about that storyline. The whole storyline was lame to begin with, really, IMO.
Finally, I must rant about how this show treats possession. Demons don't just possess people. I mean, you may not believe in possession, and I'm not even sure I believe in it, but there are standard ways in which people can be possessed. (I find it more believable that most "possessed" people are just mentally ill. For some reason, it's makes more sense to me that a house can be possessed than a person. *shrug*) Usually, you have to invite the demon in in some manner. You don't just wake up possessed. I'm just, personally, picky about that, and would have appreciated some sort of scene where Sam accidentally invited or was tricked into inviting the demon in.
Hey wait... if there's a symbol that will lock a demon into a body, why don't demons use it all the time? And if simply and easily destroying the symbol will render it useless, why use it at all? And why put the symbol in a handy, easy to reach, easily seen spot?
Meh.
Sam, you disappear/run away a lot. You truly are the Laura Ingalls of SPN.
