"So, when do we go on this little magical mystery tour?"

[llywela]

This has been a busy week, what with one thing and another. It isn't going to get any less busy, either. Tomorrow I have to get up at the crack of dawn in order to get into town to catch the megabus to London at 7.30am. I'm going to see the Terracotta Army at the British Museum with my family. It was originally going to be just me and Mum - we always try to have a day out together every year, just the two of us. We usually take in a flower show - it was Hampton Court Palace last year - but this year we decided on the Terracotta Army, while the exhibition is on this side of the globe. But then the rest of the family jumped on the bandwagon, so suddenly our mother-daughter outing has become a day for the entire family! It's going to be a long day. To catch the bus at 7.30, I'll have to leave by 6.50am. We probably won't get back into Cardiff until gone 11pm. But it should be a really great day.

Must remember to set up the DV-R for Ashes to Ashes.

Luckily I've taken the day off on Friday, as well. I've got a man coming to scrap my car - that old bomb my sister gave me two years ago that turned out to be about three times the size of the one I was learning to drive in and scared me too much to attempt to move ever. It's just been sitting there gathering rust ever since, so now I'm getting rid of it.

Man, the recap for this week's Supernatural really hated me. It did not want to be written, at all. I suspect my general business with work and job hunting and family commitments and whatnot had something to do with this. Plus stress, of course. It still managed to hit 30 pages, though! I'm not entirely happy with it - it could do with some polishing, still, but I don't have time before the next episode. I just couldn't seem to express myself properly this week. So I hope what I've written makes sense!

To read the recap, click the link below:


"No one can save you because you don't want to be saved."

The episode header was made using caps by marishna. There aren't any illustrative graphics again this week - I just don't have time to sit and make them at the moment. Maybe some other time I'll come back and edit them in.

Comments

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

See, I don't know what you were worrying about! Damn fine recap. *hugs* I don't really have that much to say, since we already talked about this episode in length. *g*

Sometimes the lack of subtleness in the confrontation between dream!Dean and Dean is a bit irritating, but the fierceness in which the anger is unloaded is always great to watch. I think catharsis is exactly the right word for it, it is purifying for Dean and that makes that scene so extremely important. I've seen people complain that Dean's issues become repetitiv and that he needs so move on and it saddens me that those people don't realise that that's exactly what Dean is doing in this scene.

As a sidenote: I love how gorgeously underplayed, quiet and subtle the end scene between the boys is in comparison to the dream scene. It's the quiet scenes in this episode (the bar talk between Sam and Dean, the hospital scenes between Bobby and Dean, the end scene) that really make this episode for me in the end.

[littlepunkryo.livejournal.com]

I love that middle picture in that banner for some reason! *loves*

The whole Dean/evil!Dean scene kind of broke my heart. Dean's issues are so deep and painful! And he didn't deserve any of it.

I do sometimes wonder, when the boys were growing up, how Dean dealt with Sam and their father in terms of "Sam should listen to me," because I know Dean would have done what John told him to, but I also think there would have been that part of him that resented it, that resented John coming in and trying to "take over" being Dad for Sam when he was around and then just bailing all the time. It must have been hard for Sam too. I'm sure Dean had all kinds of conflicted feelings growing up stuck in the middle, never able to just stay on an even keel and be either dad or brother, having to switch around constantly.

I also wonder what went on that, at the beginning of S1, Sam thought his dad hated him and Dean apparently thought John doted on Sam. Because that's a huge chasm of difference. I know John bragged about Sam to people, amd maybe he didn't really with Dean? *ponders that* I want more wee!chesters!!!!!!!

"Your own father didn't care if you lived or died! Why should you?"

And that's what I don't get. John sold his soul to save Dean's life, so why would Dean think that? Is it something left over from before that incident? Something so deep-seated(sp?) that even his dad going to hell for him isn't able to get rid of it?

My dad was an obsessed bastard
And as much as I love John, I think he had the same kind of blinders on that Sam does sometimes: physical well-being is the most important thing, with emotional well-being kind of on the back burner, when it comes down to it. Like in the last ep, where Dean was dying, and instead of staying with Dean, Sam went charging after the witches. Which made sense, since he knew if he stopped them he saved Dean's life. But he left his brother alone to bleed to death on the floor. It's kind of like they're willing to put the little things on hold in favor of the big picture, and Dean thrives on the little things. And for John the first thing that had to be done was kill the demon, and then they could go about picking the pieces up. And it wasn't healthy, for 22 years of his children's lives, because 22 years is 22 years of damage, most of which can't really be fixed.

And I am so, so glad that Dean was finally able to admit that he doesn't want to die and go to hell, and that he told Sam, and that Sam will start fighting to keep him again.

[kilynn16.livejournal.com]

Doozy of an episode indeed! I have absolutely nothing to say, my brain is fried from too much despair and angst and brotherly man!pain.

I do want to say 'thank you' for taking the time to do these in-depth episode reviews. As much as I love Show, I have a tendency to sometimes space out during the exposition scenes, and I tend to miss out on important plot points as a result. I always understand the episode better after reading your take on things. So, thanks!

[littlepunkryo.livejournal.com]

This squee is for 3x11:

OMGOMGOMGI♥IT!!!!! (No spoilers!)

And happy Valentine's Day! (Sorry this is so late, my internet finally came back a little.)