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Where is Waldo Sam?

Uhm, is this some good-looking promo for next week or what? :) Quite frankly, I want to forget this one as quick as possible because all things considered? It wasn`t an episode of "Supernatural." By name maybe but it was an episode of a show with two leads who don`t really have chemisty and whom I don`t really care about. And this weird glorfied extra who was with them. The whole thing was off and if anybody REALLY needed an episode as proof as to how this show can only ever work as Sam&Dean, that was it.

So, SPN crew please protect JPad against further injury as I have to believe you gave him time off to heal and didn`t find a way to write him meaningfully into "Jo`s story."

So, this time we got more of Jo. And yeah, she is defined more but to quote Angel here: "I just can`t seem to care." I really don`t about her character, she doesn`t click with me. And she wasn`t even all that awful, some bratty little miss moments aside. Her connection with her Dad and yadda, yadda might even be moving and poignant but personally she left me cold. Which may or may not be the actress, I can`t even say.
I CAN say it`s not because the love interest stuff because as long as they keep the dynamic like this, there simply IS NO romance. Period. Was any of their scenes romantic instead of paternal? Because I sure as hell didn`t see it. And even so, the actors have very little acting chemistry. Dean and Officer Kathleen didn`t have rom-chem either but they did play well off each other. Mostly I have the feeling here they read their scenes together. *shrug*

Dean treated her like an older uncle. (And please no call-backs to the blog, please). He was "nice" in not ratting her out. He was annoyed that she was there. He tried to coach her and give her advice about life. He was supremely worried because he didn`t want her there in the first place and he felt responsible for this rookie. One he knows a bit more than the average P.I.P. and even knows the mother of. Hell, at that point he even thinks they were friends of his father at least. He respects that, see Missouri.
So yeah, he was worried. No different than he would have been for say Michael in "Something Wicked."

I don`t really want her to tag along on more hunts but if her storyline is kinda offscreen/onscreen in the background the development from rookie to hunter, fine.

Just, please lay it off with the "OMG, they have so much in common" anvils. She is still to immature and for somebody with Dean`s emotional scars that would never be right.

She could have owned up a lot more to her actions to her Mom and hell, if she wants to hunt why doesn`t she? What`s Ellen gonna do? She could even go back to school and hunt from there if she wants to.
Also I`m not sure if she really got what the hunting life entails, day to day. I think she still has the romanticized version in her head.


Sam? Sammy, Sammy-doo, where are you? I bet JPad was happy to got a couple of good naps and all but couldn`t they have moved around his involvement a bit more. He is a CO-LEAD. Here he was window dressing.

Dean? Unwilling mentor isn`t a bad side to him, bit more somber and mature (not that he usually isn`t) but I don`t really dig the not-chemistry with Jo. I prefer him partnered up with Sam even though he gets to be more jokster then.
The ghostbusters reference though? Gold.
Oh, and he was a little natural at the shooting range. Aww, fanfic lives. Heck, I even wrote it in mine that he was the gun and Sam the knife person. Hee.

Lying was a bad decision and he owned up to it.
Oh, and of course it`s always nice to see some more - totally unwarranted guilt - laid on his shoulders. God, how can he even stand upright?

Which brings me to Ellen whom I meta-d a bit already. I can get her being overprotective and angry about the lie BUT I say it again, YOUR ADULT daughter is not their responsibility. you have beef? Take it up with her. And if she tells you to shut up and she`ll do what she wants to (which yeah, valid option), you have to shut up and let her. She is not your possession.
Heck, John Winchester was NEVER this bad with his kids.

And very nice to lay the blame for John`s very vague screw-up on Dean because this is the Klingon Homeworld and all. Oh wait, it`s really not. Yeah, so maybe you saw the parallels in the situation but how about this IMPORTANT parallel. Your husband was an adult who knew the dangers of hunting. John Winchester didn`t put your five year old kid as Shtriga-bait or something.
Jo equally is an adult - if she acts like it or not - so the blame doesn`t get shifted onto Dean here.
And what`s with the "you`re totally family, move in" attitude if you hated their father`s guts? I read the she "gave them the benefit of the doubt" explanantion. The hell? Is that what you give children of criminals? The "benefit of the doubt and maybe they won`t turn out trash like their dad?" Everybody starts with a clean slate as far as I`m concerned.

Whatever John did - and I give HIM the benefit of the doubt here, maybe YOUR husband screwed up - you can`t take it out on Dean and to lay it on his shoulders like that was petty and mean-spirited.
Nice to see how you waited this long to tell your daughter either.

As for Jo`s reaction? She totally blamed him. Okay she just got the news but the way she flung it in his face? Not impressed. Wesley Crusher showed more maturity towards Captain Picard and he was the ACTUAL guy who had gotten his dad killed.


Quick word to the horror storyline. Considering the stuff I`ve read before I felt letdown. It wasn`t nearly as atmospheric as I had hoped.
Maybe they can take on the ghost of Lizzie Borden now? ;)

Well, I for one will enjoy the break from the Roadhouse greatly and frankly hope to never see such a "brotherless" episode again. I mean in Scarecrow they were separated, in Imtod they only talked slumber party style but there was still a feeling of togetherness.

Oh, and squee am I excited for next week. And the week after that. And the one after that. :)