Supernatural 6.02
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sailorhathorMy reactions to "Supernatural" 6.02. Does anyone on my friends list actually consider episode titles to be a spoiler? Or does it matter if I put them under a cut or not?
6.02 "Two and a Half Men." SPOILERS AHEAD, of course.
- I didn't think it was possible for them to do anything new with shapeshifters at this point, but they did, and it was a decent episode. I see now how they couldn't call them doppelgangers or something else because the story needed Sam and Dean's past experience with them (and the viewer's) as a point of reference, so we could understand how the alpha shifter is different. I still wish they would take on more new supernatural creatures, though. Hopefully they will.
- Was that first baby aggressively cute or what? Please don't say oh, Laurel's being racist, she didn't say the second baby was cute - I don't mean it that way. Baby #2 was cute too, but only regular baby cute. Baby #1 had these adorably expressive facial expressions and huge eyes. Babies don't usually make me melt into a puddle of goo, but that one did. I was all awwww, look at his little hoodie! Awwww, look at his little sleep shirt! Awww, look at those great big eyes! I was sickening. ^_^
- Dean was right to do a little yelling at Ben - kid was playing with a fucking gun! Without permission! I don't really understand why Dean lied about it to Lisa, though. Surely she would have understood why Dean yelled if she knew that Ben got into his GUNS and not his tools.
- The scene where Sam and Dean were trying to take care of the baby, shopping in the store and such, was gutwrenchingly adorable. They were so clueless. XD Of course, they weren't THAT clueless after all, but it was still cute. My favorite part was when Dean picked up the baby and was holding it at arm's length, just looking at it. Yeah, babies love to be held that way, Dean. Not. I was talking to the screen, trying to tell them to pick the damn baby up and hold it if they wanted him to stop crying. Oh, and Sam insisting on Dean meeting him to help him take care of the baby because he really didn't know how was so funny. XD The whole thing was nauseatingly AWWWWWWWW. XD
- How do Sam and Dean manage to always find the hotel rooms from the 1960's-70's with the awful decor and the beds with the massaging fingers? Do they even make those beds anymore? Hee, I enjoyed their revisit of Dean's magic fingers addiction.
- What is the big deal with Sam's car? I keep reading people saying how cool his car is. What kind is it? Why is it so cool? I know nothing about cars. It doesn't look that special to me. *Shrug* Educate me.
- Now, to the Campbells. We're getting a bit more characterization, most of it subtle, but the writers are still doing what they did with the Roadhouse that made Kripke eventually hate the whole idea of the Roadhouse -- they're hunters, so they do nothing but sit around and clean their guns. Come on, can we actually develop these characters? There are other things people can be doing with their hands when someone walks into the room besides cleaning a gun. Just because they're hunters doesn't mean they don't have anything to do that would give them an actual personality. Sam and Dean are hunters, and there are a ton of other things I could tell you about their personalities besides that. Build on what you've got, writers. Mark's the quiet one, Gwen's the smartass, Christian's the jerk (at least to Dean), now keep going. You don't even have to develop them to the level of Sam and Dean, just keep them relevant.
- Arlene, huh? See, I knew Christian was married. I won't say how because it concerns a plot point they may still do in a future episode (that I read about in an article or somewhere on the net), although it kind of seems that the moment may be lost now. I just thought Gwen was going to turn out to be his wife. Some of that may have been me reading casting notes and misinterpreting things. So, Arlene. Mmkay. So he's married to a truckstop waitress. ;) No, seriously, bring 'er on! I wanna meet 'er!
- This is why I don't like big time jumps in TV shows: Because we, the viewers, did not see any of the interaction between Dean and Lisa and Sam and the Campbells over this last year, many of us are having a hard time understanding the closeness and trust that we're seeing now. You lose a lot of emotional resonance with a time jump, and it's extremely hard to recreate without extensive flashback scenes. The reason I bring this up is because of the conversation between Christian and Samuel where he asked Christian if he and Arlene were still trying for a baby, and Christian said yeah, and Samuel handed him the shifter baby like, here's your kid! SAM SMILED AT CHRISTIAN over that. Seriously, I have a screencap I may upload (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
potthead is amazingly fast at those caps) to prove it. Which seems crazy unless you consider that maybe Sam has been around Christian and Arlene for a whole year and maybe he's been there when they were angsting over not being able to get pregnant. To someone who has been witness to that, it may seem like great news that he and his wife now have a kid, even if it is a shifter baby. But if you're not thinking of the last year that Sam and Dean have been apart, you may just think that Sam isn't being himself.
- "It's a boy! Sometimes." HAHAHA! Great line.
- I know that it seemed wrong to Dean for the baby to be raised as a hunter, but really, what sort of options did they actually have here? It's a monster baby. You can't leave it on someone's doorstep and hope that everything turns out alright. You either kill it or raise it to understand that it's different, and there is a certain responsibility that comes with being that type of different. Maybe the alpha shifter coming and taking the baby away was the only way to resolve this conflict. But really, like Mark said, "It could be great." How handy would it be for hunters to have a loyal shapeshifter in their gang? It would be like having a priest in the family - useful! As long as they wouldn't mistreat it, it wouldn't be such a bad life for a creature like that. Can you say Backburner Fanfiiiiiiic!
- Wow, Christian is one bitter little trooper to Dean, isn't he? I'm enjoying it because it's Corin doing it and he can play a role like that and still have me loving his complex little ass. I think I've figured out why he treats Dean that way, too... I think there's some jealousy there and some disgust over the fact that Dean left the hunting life and didn't want to come back. To Christian, that's like turning your back on family. Plus, I can see someone who doesn't know Dean very well judging him harshly by his delicate pretty boy looks. Dean will probably have to do something to prove himself before Christian will start looking at him differently.
- For those people who can't understand the neverending drooling I do over Corin Nemec, I just want to say that I know he doesn't look like an obvious hunk or anything. He's always been cute but never superhunk material. You have to understand that I've been into his career since I was 16. It's like girls who were gaga over the Monkees when they were teens who still scream and cry when they see Davey Jones now. There's so much emotional stuff tied up in Corin that he'll always be dreamy to me. ^_^
- Samuel scared the crap out of me when he was talking on the phone to whoever and he said that he didn't even know if he wanted to capture the alpha shifter because it "killed three of his people." I went NOOOOOO, he's going to kill Gwen and Christian too!, for... some reason... and then I realized that no, that's probably not what happened. We didn't see everything that happened before the shifter showed up at the door of the panic room. And here's what I am almost 100% sure actually happened -- the shifter killed Gwen and Christian too. Samuel has a way to resurrect people. We'll find this out in a future episode when MARK, who appeared to be dead at the end of the ep, walks in the room. (All theory, no actual spoiler there.) I think I know how Samuel is doing it, too. I'm going to make this next part white so you have to highlight to read because it contains a spoiler from next week's show. In next week's ep, someone is stealing weapons from Heaven and using them to kill people. I bet Samuel somehow got a hold of a Heavenly object that resurrects them. OOH I LIKE THAT THEORY. If that's what they're doing, then I must pull out the "Robocop" quote: "Iiiiiiii LIKE it!"
- Although it's obvious that the Campbells are doing questionable things, I still hope they won't be revealed to be purely evil for another reason -- because it would be a repeat of Ruby. Sam trusts and defends the bad guys, only to find out he was a chump, and Dean knew all along. Do we really need to do that a second time? I'm kinda tired of Dean getting angry at Sam and lecturing him for wanting to get along with people, and having damn good reasons to that are backed up by the writers. 9_9 Let poor Sammy be right for a change.
- I officially don't like Lisa at all now. Wasn't that crazy about her for a while anyway, but now I really don't like her. When you have a kid, that kid needs to come first over your own hormonal happiness. You don't get to have a sometimes-boyfriend come around to act as your kid's sometimes-dad. It would be different if Dean was Ben's father, but as she's said, he's not. Lisa seemed perfectly willing to move Ben all over the place, uprooting him as many times as needed, to keep them safe if it meant keeping Dean in her life. (I understand that they had to move after the djinn attack, but there's a great way to make sure you don't necessarily have to move again - break up with Dean.) She was perfectly willing to continue putting her son and herself in danger by continuing to have Dean in her life. As sad as it is, Dean can't have a normal relationship with a normal woman. I don't think Lisa fully understood just how messed up Dean's life can become, how absent he will be, how many times she would've had to move if they hadn't decided to make changes to their relationship. Maybe she would have gotten the message eventually, but it's better this way. Except for the "Dean, you can come back anytime and I'll be your booty call" crap. Yeah, that's real good for your kid, moron. Kids need stability. They don't need their sometimes-dad who isn't really their dad blowing through town every once in a while to fuck their mom and leave. I hope she will at least keep herself open to an actual relationship with another guy if the opportunity should arise. I mean, if a woman wants to save herself for some guy who will hardly ever be around, okay, that's her business, but once you allow that person to act as a father to your child, knowing he will hardly be around, you're dead wrong. I'm sorry, but that's just my opinion. These kinds of things hurt children, and it's just not right. Lisa needs to make a clean break and look for someone else. Ben's natural father not being in his life is hurtful enough, now he's got his substitute father leaving him but still coming around from time to time. How confusing for the poor kid.
At least Dean has some excuse for being fucked up about it - he doesn't know anything but absent fathers. Oh well, at least he's hunting again. XD Came a little sooner than I thought it would.
This ep was a lot better than I thought it was going to be when I first read about it. Now all those strange pictures make sense. :D
6.02 "Two and a Half Men." SPOILERS AHEAD, of course.
- I didn't think it was possible for them to do anything new with shapeshifters at this point, but they did, and it was a decent episode. I see now how they couldn't call them doppelgangers or something else because the story needed Sam and Dean's past experience with them (and the viewer's) as a point of reference, so we could understand how the alpha shifter is different. I still wish they would take on more new supernatural creatures, though. Hopefully they will.
- Was that first baby aggressively cute or what? Please don't say oh, Laurel's being racist, she didn't say the second baby was cute - I don't mean it that way. Baby #2 was cute too, but only regular baby cute. Baby #1 had these adorably expressive facial expressions and huge eyes. Babies don't usually make me melt into a puddle of goo, but that one did. I was all awwww, look at his little hoodie! Awwww, look at his little sleep shirt! Awww, look at those great big eyes! I was sickening. ^_^
- Dean was right to do a little yelling at Ben - kid was playing with a fucking gun! Without permission! I don't really understand why Dean lied about it to Lisa, though. Surely she would have understood why Dean yelled if she knew that Ben got into his GUNS and not his tools.
- The scene where Sam and Dean were trying to take care of the baby, shopping in the store and such, was gutwrenchingly adorable. They were so clueless. XD Of course, they weren't THAT clueless after all, but it was still cute. My favorite part was when Dean picked up the baby and was holding it at arm's length, just looking at it. Yeah, babies love to be held that way, Dean. Not. I was talking to the screen, trying to tell them to pick the damn baby up and hold it if they wanted him to stop crying. Oh, and Sam insisting on Dean meeting him to help him take care of the baby because he really didn't know how was so funny. XD The whole thing was nauseatingly AWWWWWWWW. XD
- How do Sam and Dean manage to always find the hotel rooms from the 1960's-70's with the awful decor and the beds with the massaging fingers? Do they even make those beds anymore? Hee, I enjoyed their revisit of Dean's magic fingers addiction.
- What is the big deal with Sam's car? I keep reading people saying how cool his car is. What kind is it? Why is it so cool? I know nothing about cars. It doesn't look that special to me. *Shrug* Educate me.
- Now, to the Campbells. We're getting a bit more characterization, most of it subtle, but the writers are still doing what they did with the Roadhouse that made Kripke eventually hate the whole idea of the Roadhouse -- they're hunters, so they do nothing but sit around and clean their guns. Come on, can we actually develop these characters? There are other things people can be doing with their hands when someone walks into the room besides cleaning a gun. Just because they're hunters doesn't mean they don't have anything to do that would give them an actual personality. Sam and Dean are hunters, and there are a ton of other things I could tell you about their personalities besides that. Build on what you've got, writers. Mark's the quiet one, Gwen's the smartass, Christian's the jerk (at least to Dean), now keep going. You don't even have to develop them to the level of Sam and Dean, just keep them relevant.
- Arlene, huh? See, I knew Christian was married. I won't say how because it concerns a plot point they may still do in a future episode (that I read about in an article or somewhere on the net), although it kind of seems that the moment may be lost now. I just thought Gwen was going to turn out to be his wife. Some of that may have been me reading casting notes and misinterpreting things. So, Arlene. Mmkay. So he's married to a truckstop waitress. ;) No, seriously, bring 'er on! I wanna meet 'er!
- This is why I don't like big time jumps in TV shows: Because we, the viewers, did not see any of the interaction between Dean and Lisa and Sam and the Campbells over this last year, many of us are having a hard time understanding the closeness and trust that we're seeing now. You lose a lot of emotional resonance with a time jump, and it's extremely hard to recreate without extensive flashback scenes. The reason I bring this up is because of the conversation between Christian and Samuel where he asked Christian if he and Arlene were still trying for a baby, and Christian said yeah, and Samuel handed him the shifter baby like, here's your kid! SAM SMILED AT CHRISTIAN over that. Seriously, I have a screencap I may upload (
potthead is amazingly fast at those caps) to prove it. Which seems crazy unless you consider that maybe Sam has been around Christian and Arlene for a whole year and maybe he's been there when they were angsting over not being able to get pregnant. To someone who has been witness to that, it may seem like great news that he and his wife now have a kid, even if it is a shifter baby. But if you're not thinking of the last year that Sam and Dean have been apart, you may just think that Sam isn't being himself.- "It's a boy! Sometimes." HAHAHA! Great line.
- I know that it seemed wrong to Dean for the baby to be raised as a hunter, but really, what sort of options did they actually have here? It's a monster baby. You can't leave it on someone's doorstep and hope that everything turns out alright. You either kill it or raise it to understand that it's different, and there is a certain responsibility that comes with being that type of different. Maybe the alpha shifter coming and taking the baby away was the only way to resolve this conflict. But really, like Mark said, "It could be great." How handy would it be for hunters to have a loyal shapeshifter in their gang? It would be like having a priest in the family - useful! As long as they wouldn't mistreat it, it wouldn't be such a bad life for a creature like that. Can you say Backburner Fanfiiiiiiic!
- Wow, Christian is one bitter little trooper to Dean, isn't he? I'm enjoying it because it's Corin doing it and he can play a role like that and still have me loving his complex little ass. I think I've figured out why he treats Dean that way, too... I think there's some jealousy there and some disgust over the fact that Dean left the hunting life and didn't want to come back. To Christian, that's like turning your back on family. Plus, I can see someone who doesn't know Dean very well judging him harshly by his delicate pretty boy looks. Dean will probably have to do something to prove himself before Christian will start looking at him differently.
- For those people who can't understand the neverending drooling I do over Corin Nemec, I just want to say that I know he doesn't look like an obvious hunk or anything. He's always been cute but never superhunk material. You have to understand that I've been into his career since I was 16. It's like girls who were gaga over the Monkees when they were teens who still scream and cry when they see Davey Jones now. There's so much emotional stuff tied up in Corin that he'll always be dreamy to me. ^_^
- Samuel scared the crap out of me when he was talking on the phone to whoever and he said that he didn't even know if he wanted to capture the alpha shifter because it "killed three of his people." I went NOOOOOO, he's going to kill Gwen and Christian too!, for... some reason... and then I realized that no, that's probably not what happened. We didn't see everything that happened before the shifter showed up at the door of the panic room. And here's what I am almost 100% sure actually happened -- the shifter killed Gwen and Christian too. Samuel has a way to resurrect people. We'll find this out in a future episode when MARK, who appeared to be dead at the end of the ep, walks in the room. (All theory, no actual spoiler there.) I think I know how Samuel is doing it, too. I'm going to make this next part white so you have to highlight to read because it contains a spoiler from next week's show. In next week's ep, someone is stealing weapons from Heaven and using them to kill people. I bet Samuel somehow got a hold of a Heavenly object that resurrects them. OOH I LIKE THAT THEORY. If that's what they're doing, then I must pull out the "Robocop" quote: "Iiiiiiii LIKE it!"
- Although it's obvious that the Campbells are doing questionable things, I still hope they won't be revealed to be purely evil for another reason -- because it would be a repeat of Ruby. Sam trusts and defends the bad guys, only to find out he was a chump, and Dean knew all along. Do we really need to do that a second time? I'm kinda tired of Dean getting angry at Sam and lecturing him for wanting to get along with people, and having damn good reasons to that are backed up by the writers. 9_9 Let poor Sammy be right for a change.
- I officially don't like Lisa at all now. Wasn't that crazy about her for a while anyway, but now I really don't like her. When you have a kid, that kid needs to come first over your own hormonal happiness. You don't get to have a sometimes-boyfriend come around to act as your kid's sometimes-dad. It would be different if Dean was Ben's father, but as she's said, he's not. Lisa seemed perfectly willing to move Ben all over the place, uprooting him as many times as needed, to keep them safe if it meant keeping Dean in her life. (I understand that they had to move after the djinn attack, but there's a great way to make sure you don't necessarily have to move again - break up with Dean.) She was perfectly willing to continue putting her son and herself in danger by continuing to have Dean in her life. As sad as it is, Dean can't have a normal relationship with a normal woman. I don't think Lisa fully understood just how messed up Dean's life can become, how absent he will be, how many times she would've had to move if they hadn't decided to make changes to their relationship. Maybe she would have gotten the message eventually, but it's better this way. Except for the "Dean, you can come back anytime and I'll be your booty call" crap. Yeah, that's real good for your kid, moron. Kids need stability. They don't need their sometimes-dad who isn't really their dad blowing through town every once in a while to fuck their mom and leave. I hope she will at least keep herself open to an actual relationship with another guy if the opportunity should arise. I mean, if a woman wants to save herself for some guy who will hardly ever be around, okay, that's her business, but once you allow that person to act as a father to your child, knowing he will hardly be around, you're dead wrong. I'm sorry, but that's just my opinion. These kinds of things hurt children, and it's just not right. Lisa needs to make a clean break and look for someone else. Ben's natural father not being in his life is hurtful enough, now he's got his substitute father leaving him but still coming around from time to time. How confusing for the poor kid.
At least Dean has some excuse for being fucked up about it - he doesn't know anything but absent fathers. Oh well, at least he's hunting again. XD Came a little sooner than I thought it would.
This ep was a lot better than I thought it was going to be when I first read about it. Now all those strange pictures make sense. :D
