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Half-time
Hiatus is over and my Thursday night insomnia has risen up again. :)
A good episode. Not great but good. Last year the comic book writers didn't exactly win favour with me - I LOATHED "Yellow Fever" and "ASS" with every fiber of my being - but they are doing okay this year. Unfortunately, Julie Siege took the opposite way but that is for another episode review. Probably next week.
I called the nurse but not the doc being imaginery. And btw, ouch, poor Dean, he even has his imaginery "friends" turn on him. Can't say I blame him exactly, especially after last year where he took a chance revealing something very painful and shameful for him or being honest and "selfish" about his feelings and the general response was "suck it up, whiny princess". I wouldn't tell anybody anything that could be used as "ammunition" against me in his place. Nor am I surprised that this is the code he works by now. No, it isn't good for him or anybody but why shouldn't he think that if it is good enough for him it is good enough for everybody else? I think so, too.
Some juvenile humour in there that I don't really dig but have come to expect from those particular writers especially. Eh.
The plot was right out of "Folsom Prison Blues" but heck "Playthings" was "Dead in the Water" and a bunch of episodes were basically a bunch of other episodes that came before, only with the characters somehow in reversed roles. Whatever.
The psychological issues explored were so-so but it gave the actors a chance to do something new-ish.
Dean feels a crushing responsibility and doesn't believe he can succeed. Shocking, I tell you.
Sam has anger issues. I'm still going more with control/power from episode 2. Anger is how he reacts to those issues. One is a cause, the other the response he often can't control.
Neither is equipped to help the other at this point, not to mention I don't see how they would. Giving in to despair? Not an option. Endlessly questioning everything and turning in circles? Not a good idea. Talking and talking it out? Won't help and after last year not in the cards anyway. So what really? The apocalypse is happening - presumably - they have to concentrate on that.
However, what is up with their Sam-coroner-kink. I'm sorry you occassionally need a Scully, show, but Scully was a trained professional, you simply can't hand off medical duties to any old character. That would be like an episode of Bones where for some reason Bones, the character isn't at the scene, so you suddenly have Angela perform a skeletal analysis because some character needs to. I went to uni and completed my studies of law. Doesn't mean I'm also a trained doctor or whatever the heck if need be.
Ass-kicking-Dean made me happy. He hasn't gotten "the save" in quite a while and I was seriously jonesing for it. Sorry, not much of a whump-girl for my fave. *g*
All in all, I was pleasantly surprised by this one.
A good episode. Not great but good. Last year the comic book writers didn't exactly win favour with me - I LOATHED "Yellow Fever" and "ASS" with every fiber of my being - but they are doing okay this year. Unfortunately, Julie Siege took the opposite way but that is for another episode review. Probably next week.
I called the nurse but not the doc being imaginery. And btw, ouch, poor Dean, he even has his imaginery "friends" turn on him. Can't say I blame him exactly, especially after last year where he took a chance revealing something very painful and shameful for him or being honest and "selfish" about his feelings and the general response was "suck it up, whiny princess". I wouldn't tell anybody anything that could be used as "ammunition" against me in his place. Nor am I surprised that this is the code he works by now. No, it isn't good for him or anybody but why shouldn't he think that if it is good enough for him it is good enough for everybody else? I think so, too.
Some juvenile humour in there that I don't really dig but have come to expect from those particular writers especially. Eh.
The plot was right out of "Folsom Prison Blues" but heck "Playthings" was "Dead in the Water" and a bunch of episodes were basically a bunch of other episodes that came before, only with the characters somehow in reversed roles. Whatever.
The psychological issues explored were so-so but it gave the actors a chance to do something new-ish.
Dean feels a crushing responsibility and doesn't believe he can succeed. Shocking, I tell you.
Sam has anger issues. I'm still going more with control/power from episode 2. Anger is how he reacts to those issues. One is a cause, the other the response he often can't control.
Neither is equipped to help the other at this point, not to mention I don't see how they would. Giving in to despair? Not an option. Endlessly questioning everything and turning in circles? Not a good idea. Talking and talking it out? Won't help and after last year not in the cards anyway. So what really? The apocalypse is happening - presumably - they have to concentrate on that.
However, what is up with their Sam-coroner-kink. I'm sorry you occassionally need a Scully, show, but Scully was a trained professional, you simply can't hand off medical duties to any old character. That would be like an episode of Bones where for some reason Bones, the character isn't at the scene, so you suddenly have Angela perform a skeletal analysis because some character needs to. I went to uni and completed my studies of law. Doesn't mean I'm also a trained doctor or whatever the heck if need be.
Ass-kicking-Dean made me happy. He hasn't gotten "the save" in quite a while and I was seriously jonesing for it. Sorry, not much of a whump-girl for my fave. *g*
All in all, I was pleasantly surprised by this one.