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llywelaRetail therapy is an excellent stress-buster. I don't indulge often, mostly because I don't actually like shopping. But today I decided needs must - it was either that or more chocolate. So I shopped and bought those new jeans I've been promising myself for ages but never got around to buying, since I hate shopping and can never find anything that I both like and that fits me.
Acquired and watched the new Supernatural before work this morning. Initial thoughts are under the cut, slightly incoherent, though. A more rational assessment will follow eventually.
2.02 Everybody Loves a Clown
Okay, I'm trying to come up with a short response to this episode, but I suspect it'll turn into reams of waffle anyway.
First, the actual plot, just to get that out of the way. I liked that the clown plot was kind of extraneous to the intense character stuff, and yet fully fleshed out and an absolutely serious case in its own right. Rakshasa, huh. Creepy, for sure – I'm not fond of anything that wears masks. There could be anything hiding behind there! And yet, the clown was only in face paint, not an actual mask as such. Just as feature-concealing, though.
Was very cross with all the children in the story for opening the doors and letting the darn thing in. They all seemed old enough to know better than that! My sister is ten and would be horrified at the thought of letting a creepy stranger with face paint into her house at night. But then, she's kind of phobic about dressed up people anyway. :lol:
I loved the little detail of the boys seeming like dangerous intruders in the house of the people they saved, and having to run for it and ditch the van because the parents had seen the plates – fantastic, because they couldn't have played that angle like that if it had been the Impala, but having the temporary transport made it possible.
And on to the actual meat of the episode. So, so grievy. I mean, just the recap was enough to set me off! The funeral pyre at the start, with Sam so tearful and Dean so stony...but then a tear escaping. Perfect.
And then the car...the boys say in their conversation that they've been at Bobby's for about a week now, and from the state of the car I'm guessing Dean has spent just about every waking moment of that week working on the Impala. It's come along way since last episode! It's something tangible he can channel all his energy into since, as he pointed out to Sam, they've got absolutely nothing to go on. Sam's all about revenge all over again – he doesn't have the kind of outlet that Dean does. Dean sounded kind of half-hearted about the vengeance drive and, like I said, is channelling his emotional turmoil into the car. Sam doesn't have that, so he's just hanging around fretting and brooding.
I've decided that I adore Bobby, and he wasn't even in the episode. He deserves adoration for everything he's done for those boys in the last three episodes!
Sam offering to help with the car, and Dean just scoffing and pointing out that Sam doesn't know a thing about cars - very amusing. And then Dean snapping because it's implied that Sam has been hovering a lot during this week we haven't seen - offering to help, asking if he's okay... Probably just slightly paranoid, given the events of last episode.
If either of them has worked out exactly what John did, they aren't saying so – least of all to each other. They just know that the Colt is gone and John is dead, and are (rightly!) blaming it on The Demon.
I liked Ellen, Jo and Ash more than I expected – and hey! I want to like Jo because she has the same name as me! *G* What I liked most of all was how peripheral they all were. And I especially liked that Dean automatically started to flirt with Jo out of sheer habit, but then backed right back off again before he'd even got the pickup line out – just couldn't be bothered. If Dean doesn't flirt with a pretty girl, you know he's in a bad way. Those emotional walls have come crashing back into place, but there are cracks that weren't there previously, and he's desperately trying to shore them back up again. He flat out lied to Sam, saying that John hadn't said anything to him before he died. John told him something, and he doesn't want Sam to know, and it's just another burden to carry. :(
So this episode was subdued Dean trying very hard to be normal, brash, cocky Dean, and not really managing to pull it off. Normal, brash and cocky Dean went diving for cover the moment John showed up in Dead Man's Blood and then vanished without trace in Salvation when he realised how close they were to The Demon and just how badly it could turn out, given John and Sam's attitudes. :(
And poor Sam struggling so badly. Trying so hard to be obedient to John in a way he never was when John was still around, even considering giving up his dream of going back to school, and Dean calling him on that. Dean's face when he heard Sam telling circus guy that he didn't want normal, didn't want to go to school – and then questioning him on it later. Maybe half hoping maybe it was true, but mostly realising that Sam was just talking out of guilt.
Funny how they can each see so clearly that the other isn't coping, and yet are both so much in denial about their own reactions. Then Dean finally prods Sam into admitting that he isn't okay, that he isn't dealing with John's death – but still can't come out and say the same about himself. And then melting down when he's alone, and taking it out on the car he's been working so hard on restoring :( Oh, Dean.
Man, there was so much else I wanted to say about this episode, but I've waffled way too much already. All other thoughts will have to wait for the complete recap.
Acquired and watched the new Supernatural before work this morning. Initial thoughts are under the cut, slightly incoherent, though. A more rational assessment will follow eventually.
2.02 Everybody Loves a Clown
Okay, I'm trying to come up with a short response to this episode, but I suspect it'll turn into reams of waffle anyway.
First, the actual plot, just to get that out of the way. I liked that the clown plot was kind of extraneous to the intense character stuff, and yet fully fleshed out and an absolutely serious case in its own right. Rakshasa, huh. Creepy, for sure – I'm not fond of anything that wears masks. There could be anything hiding behind there! And yet, the clown was only in face paint, not an actual mask as such. Just as feature-concealing, though.
Was very cross with all the children in the story for opening the doors and letting the darn thing in. They all seemed old enough to know better than that! My sister is ten and would be horrified at the thought of letting a creepy stranger with face paint into her house at night. But then, she's kind of phobic about dressed up people anyway. :lol:
I loved the little detail of the boys seeming like dangerous intruders in the house of the people they saved, and having to run for it and ditch the van because the parents had seen the plates – fantastic, because they couldn't have played that angle like that if it had been the Impala, but having the temporary transport made it possible.
And on to the actual meat of the episode. So, so grievy. I mean, just the recap was enough to set me off! The funeral pyre at the start, with Sam so tearful and Dean so stony...but then a tear escaping. Perfect.
And then the car...the boys say in their conversation that they've been at Bobby's for about a week now, and from the state of the car I'm guessing Dean has spent just about every waking moment of that week working on the Impala. It's come along way since last episode! It's something tangible he can channel all his energy into since, as he pointed out to Sam, they've got absolutely nothing to go on. Sam's all about revenge all over again – he doesn't have the kind of outlet that Dean does. Dean sounded kind of half-hearted about the vengeance drive and, like I said, is channelling his emotional turmoil into the car. Sam doesn't have that, so he's just hanging around fretting and brooding.
I've decided that I adore Bobby, and he wasn't even in the episode. He deserves adoration for everything he's done for those boys in the last three episodes!
Sam offering to help with the car, and Dean just scoffing and pointing out that Sam doesn't know a thing about cars - very amusing. And then Dean snapping because it's implied that Sam has been hovering a lot during this week we haven't seen - offering to help, asking if he's okay... Probably just slightly paranoid, given the events of last episode.
If either of them has worked out exactly what John did, they aren't saying so – least of all to each other. They just know that the Colt is gone and John is dead, and are (rightly!) blaming it on The Demon.
I liked Ellen, Jo and Ash more than I expected – and hey! I want to like Jo because she has the same name as me! *G* What I liked most of all was how peripheral they all were. And I especially liked that Dean automatically started to flirt with Jo out of sheer habit, but then backed right back off again before he'd even got the pickup line out – just couldn't be bothered. If Dean doesn't flirt with a pretty girl, you know he's in a bad way. Those emotional walls have come crashing back into place, but there are cracks that weren't there previously, and he's desperately trying to shore them back up again. He flat out lied to Sam, saying that John hadn't said anything to him before he died. John told him something, and he doesn't want Sam to know, and it's just another burden to carry. :(
So this episode was subdued Dean trying very hard to be normal, brash, cocky Dean, and not really managing to pull it off. Normal, brash and cocky Dean went diving for cover the moment John showed up in Dead Man's Blood and then vanished without trace in Salvation when he realised how close they were to The Demon and just how badly it could turn out, given John and Sam's attitudes. :(
And poor Sam struggling so badly. Trying so hard to be obedient to John in a way he never was when John was still around, even considering giving up his dream of going back to school, and Dean calling him on that. Dean's face when he heard Sam telling circus guy that he didn't want normal, didn't want to go to school – and then questioning him on it later. Maybe half hoping maybe it was true, but mostly realising that Sam was just talking out of guilt.
Funny how they can each see so clearly that the other isn't coping, and yet are both so much in denial about their own reactions. Then Dean finally prods Sam into admitting that he isn't okay, that he isn't dealing with John's death – but still can't come out and say the same about himself. And then melting down when he's alone, and taking it out on the car he's been working so hard on restoring :( Oh, Dean.
Man, there was so much else I wanted to say about this episode, but I've waffled way too much already. All other thoughts will have to wait for the complete recap.
