Gulp. So it is. I’m almost in as much of a tizzy as the boys are! And I’m 95% unspoiled for the finale and that really is an achievement for me (whether I’ll manage to keep that up for another week is another question entirely though!).
I have really loved this deal storyline (or at least my imagination’s interpretation of it) and the way it’s piled on the desperation and dread, spiralling down into darkness, even if it hasn’t been handled quite as well as it could have been what with the strike and a few clunky, flat episodes early on.
But this episode is the one we’ve really been waiting for and it doesn’t really matter that the MOTW plot is microns thick, because it’s just a framework to hang the meat of the episode on. Dean is getting really scared and with that comes the desperate need to act on any possibility that might arise. One criticism I do have though is that if this episode is really set days before the Dean’s payment is due, and I’m not disputing anyone’s timelines here, then it doesn’t really feel like it. It feels like the beginning of the endgame, maybe a month or a couple of weeks off, but the sense that there just isn’t any more sand left in the hourglass is missing to me.
>> I tend to think it is far more likely that Dean called Bobby
Yes! It really never occurred to me but I think you are so right. Dean might be implying otherwise, but this makes a lot more sense.
This is of course playing into my earlier point of not feeling the real press of time, because there’s no sense that if they take the case on there might not be any time left to finish it.
>> Also, Sam has taken the bed nearest to the door, we should note – it isn't the first time, but isn't usual.
Are you sure? Sam’s bed appears to me to be next to the room divider, opposite the bathroom door, with Dean’s (unslept in) bed nearest the window, which is next to the outside door.
>> The number is about a century old.
I’d love to know how he found that out.
>>"'Hello'?" is all he has to offer.
Poor Sam, what’s he supposed to say? I’d have said the exact same thing! Dean’s question is loaded though [what do I tell dad about the deal I made?] and leads nicely into expecting the rebuke he Crocotta supplies later.
>> As the guide gathers up her flock and briskly walks them away,
The people on the tour crack me up as much as the guide, they are the most unlikely looking museum tour group (I’m not saying that people couldn’t look like that, but none of them seem remotely interested in anything around them, none are wearing coats or toting big touristy bags, and they all seem of a uniform age – where’s the older couple in cagoules? The young family with the wayward and noisy children? The bored teenager cracking gum?).
>>"But as long as the mouldy are calling the freshers around here, it's the best reason we've got,"
That was my favourite line of the episode, even if it doesn’t seem to be anyone else’s…
>> Under normal circumstances a statement like 'I love you' coming from John would be cause for the deepest of suspicion
Not many people seem to have mentioned this, but that was the moment I knew it wasn’t actually John.
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Date: 2008-05-08 06:46 pm (UTC)Gulp. So it is. I’m almost in as much of a tizzy as the boys are! And I’m 95% unspoiled for the finale and that really is an achievement for me (whether I’ll manage to keep that up for another week is another question entirely though!).
I have really loved this deal storyline (or at least my imagination’s interpretation of it) and the way it’s piled on the desperation and dread, spiralling down into darkness, even if it hasn’t been handled quite as well as it could have been what with the strike and a few clunky, flat episodes early on.
But this episode is the one we’ve really been waiting for and it doesn’t really matter that the MOTW plot is microns thick, because it’s just a framework to hang the meat of the episode on. Dean is getting really scared and with that comes the desperate need to act on any possibility that might arise. One criticism I do have though is that if this episode is really set days before the Dean’s payment is due, and I’m not disputing anyone’s timelines here, then it doesn’t really feel like it. It feels like the beginning of the endgame, maybe a month or a couple of weeks off, but the sense that there just isn’t any more sand left in the hourglass is missing to me.
>> I tend to think it is far more likely that Dean called Bobby
Yes! It really never occurred to me but I think you are so right. Dean might be implying otherwise, but this makes a lot more sense.
This is of course playing into my earlier point of not feeling the real press of time, because there’s no sense that if they take the case on there might not be any time left to finish it.
>> Also, Sam has taken the bed nearest to the door, we should note – it isn't the first time, but isn't usual.
Are you sure? Sam’s bed appears to me to be next to the room divider, opposite the bathroom door, with Dean’s (unslept in) bed nearest the window, which is next to the outside door.
>> The number is about a century old.
I’d love to know how he found that out.
>>"'Hello'?" is all he has to offer.
Poor Sam, what’s he supposed to say? I’d have said the exact same thing! Dean’s question is loaded though [what do I tell dad about the deal I made?] and leads nicely into expecting the rebuke he Crocotta supplies later.
>> As the guide gathers up her flock and briskly walks them away,
The people on the tour crack me up as much as the guide, they are the most unlikely looking museum tour group (I’m not saying that people couldn’t look like that, but none of them seem remotely interested in anything around them, none are wearing coats or toting big touristy bags, and they all seem of a uniform age – where’s the older couple in cagoules? The young family with the wayward and noisy children? The bored teenager cracking gum?).
>>"But as long as the mouldy are calling the freshers around here, it's the best reason we've got,"
That was my favourite line of the episode, even if it doesn’t seem to be anyone else’s…
>> Under normal circumstances a statement like 'I love you' coming from John would be cause for the deepest of suspicion
Not many people seem to have mentioned this, but that was the moment I knew it wasn’t actually John.