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astri13Still psyched about Jensen being announced for the "Asylum" convention. I have like no money whatsoever to spare at the moment and apparently my job-contract won`t be extended beyond Jan/Feb next year. I mean I hated it there anyway but still. :(
But again: JESNSEN ACKLES comes to Europe so I will HAVE to go. So I guess Trust Fund money it is. I`m crazy, I know.
So
Well that was...awkward, I`d say.
First off, I think I figured out why everything seemed off. The virus-thing/whole situation never seemed really dangerous or scary so subsequently all the actions seemed way out of proportion.
The huge anvil of Dean the trigger-hapy psychpath? One example. Even the infected people seemed about as dangerous as your average doped up druggie so shooting them like there is no tommorow? Didn`t work.
So it didn`t gel with Dean`s previous characterization at all. Did you see the look on his face after he offed Tom for example? Or his questioning nearly everything at the end of Bloodlust?
Yet here he acts like he has no difficulty whatsoever to pop people left and right. The Dad? Okay. The Mom? Maybe, still she wasn`t an imminent danger. Duane? Got to be kidding me.
What do people think he needs some more guilt?
And since when does he become so dismissive of Sam as to lock him in a room like a kid? That`s Dad-behaviour and not Dean. And I don`t wanna hear jack-all about the freaking secret. It apparently didn`t let Dean want to keep Sam from killing as he berated him for not offing the other Tanner boy. And it did not lead him to believe Sam would be immune so how exactly does it drive him?
Sam as the meta-exposition guy. "We`re supposed to struggle with it. That`s the whole point." Ow, Shiban, I think you got my leg. Since when is Sam the moral questioner extra-ordinaire and views hunting as soul-searching?
In the above-mentioned Bloodlust-tag Dean brought it up and Sam soothed him down.
The conversation at the beginning in the car bothered me. It was more like Sam waiting for Dean to become evil at any minute. Huh? I know Dean has had his scary moments this Season but it wasn`t that bad.
Also when will he ever get his moment of "do I kill random person X or not?" because as powerful as the moment with Dad was, that`s a whole different ball-game. And as long as he doesn`t, he can`t really understand and comment. He becomes the perpetual victim.
Oh and show, he stood right behind/beside Dean when Dean shot the woman so that`s silent agreement because 7 foot tall Sam would have been able to knock the gun out of Dean`s hands or tackle him or something if he really was against it.
Then Sam - and Dean - are so quick to give up to the terribly unscary virus? Uh uhm. I just never felt the sense of urgency necessary to make this work. Which I must point out was not due to the acting which was great. But either writing or directing just didn`t bring it.
The Croatoan exchange didn`t bother me. I thought Sam just got his geek-feathers ruffled by Dean not rememberig and then he tends to get this lecturing tone. Dean looked like he drones that out a lot. :)
Liked: Bobby Hosea as the Sarge. Nice chemistry with Dean and of course he gets Meg-ed. Bastards.
The conversation right before Sam gets infected with the "I`m gonna ask you."
Sam stretching his hand out to Dean to be helped up - such a little brother look there, almost child-like and Dean immediately reaching down. Aww.
Dean shutting himself in with Sam and being protective.
Sam in tears and begging Dean to go/shoot him/give him the gun. Double Aww.
Dean admitting he is tired. Aww honey, I know.
Their end conversation was somewhat off to. Nicely acted again but the writing didn`t draw me in.
I already called on us being Kripke-d so it didn`t bother me too much. As long as they stay away from any half-crap and saviour of man/demonkind nonsense I`m good.
Oh, and it all being a test of the Demon apparently? Whatever. This Demon`s plans haven`t made sense since Day one.
A test for a demonic virus? For Sam? If so why the elaborate set-up, there are hundreds easier ways to get some blood on Sam and see what it does. And the Demon seems to care jack-shit for the PKs anyhow. Max? Webber? Why all the hosh-posh with Sam if he is indeed no threat like the Demon said in ImtoD and what I believed him.
Liked the tie-in with Roanoke and Croatoan though. *history geek*
So all in all: average - good moments with great acting but clunky on the whole
Oh, and it`s time for a new hitlist of the episode 2.06 -2.09 so here comes:
1. Crossroad Blues
2. Usual Suspects
3. Croatoan
135. No Exit :-P
But again: JESNSEN ACKLES comes to Europe so I will HAVE to go. So I guess Trust Fund money it is. I`m crazy, I know.
So
Well that was...awkward, I`d say.
First off, I think I figured out why everything seemed off. The virus-thing/whole situation never seemed really dangerous or scary so subsequently all the actions seemed way out of proportion.
The huge anvil of Dean the trigger-hapy psychpath? One example. Even the infected people seemed about as dangerous as your average doped up druggie so shooting them like there is no tommorow? Didn`t work.
So it didn`t gel with Dean`s previous characterization at all. Did you see the look on his face after he offed Tom for example? Or his questioning nearly everything at the end of Bloodlust?
Yet here he acts like he has no difficulty whatsoever to pop people left and right. The Dad? Okay. The Mom? Maybe, still she wasn`t an imminent danger. Duane? Got to be kidding me.
What do people think he needs some more guilt?
And since when does he become so dismissive of Sam as to lock him in a room like a kid? That`s Dad-behaviour and not Dean. And I don`t wanna hear jack-all about the freaking secret. It apparently didn`t let Dean want to keep Sam from killing as he berated him for not offing the other Tanner boy. And it did not lead him to believe Sam would be immune so how exactly does it drive him?
Sam as the meta-exposition guy. "We`re supposed to struggle with it. That`s the whole point." Ow, Shiban, I think you got my leg. Since when is Sam the moral questioner extra-ordinaire and views hunting as soul-searching?
In the above-mentioned Bloodlust-tag Dean brought it up and Sam soothed him down.
The conversation at the beginning in the car bothered me. It was more like Sam waiting for Dean to become evil at any minute. Huh? I know Dean has had his scary moments this Season but it wasn`t that bad.
Also when will he ever get his moment of "do I kill random person X or not?" because as powerful as the moment with Dad was, that`s a whole different ball-game. And as long as he doesn`t, he can`t really understand and comment. He becomes the perpetual victim.
Oh and show, he stood right behind/beside Dean when Dean shot the woman so that`s silent agreement because 7 foot tall Sam would have been able to knock the gun out of Dean`s hands or tackle him or something if he really was against it.
Then Sam - and Dean - are so quick to give up to the terribly unscary virus? Uh uhm. I just never felt the sense of urgency necessary to make this work. Which I must point out was not due to the acting which was great. But either writing or directing just didn`t bring it.
The Croatoan exchange didn`t bother me. I thought Sam just got his geek-feathers ruffled by Dean not rememberig and then he tends to get this lecturing tone. Dean looked like he drones that out a lot. :)
Liked: Bobby Hosea as the Sarge. Nice chemistry with Dean and of course he gets Meg-ed. Bastards.
The conversation right before Sam gets infected with the "I`m gonna ask you."
Sam stretching his hand out to Dean to be helped up - such a little brother look there, almost child-like and Dean immediately reaching down. Aww.
Dean shutting himself in with Sam and being protective.
Sam in tears and begging Dean to go/shoot him/give him the gun. Double Aww.
Dean admitting he is tired. Aww honey, I know.
Their end conversation was somewhat off to. Nicely acted again but the writing didn`t draw me in.
I already called on us being Kripke-d so it didn`t bother me too much. As long as they stay away from any half-crap and saviour of man/demonkind nonsense I`m good.
Oh, and it all being a test of the Demon apparently? Whatever. This Demon`s plans haven`t made sense since Day one.
A test for a demonic virus? For Sam? If so why the elaborate set-up, there are hundreds easier ways to get some blood on Sam and see what it does. And the Demon seems to care jack-shit for the PKs anyhow. Max? Webber? Why all the hosh-posh with Sam if he is indeed no threat like the Demon said in ImtoD and what I believed him.
Liked the tie-in with Roanoke and Croatoan though. *history geek*
So all in all: average - good moments with great acting but clunky on the whole
Oh, and it`s time for a new hitlist of the episode 2.06 -2.09 so here comes:
1. Crossroad Blues
2. Usual Suspects
3. Croatoan
135. No Exit :-P
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Date: 2006-12-08 07:16 pm (UTC)I can buy Dean`s burn-out syndrom. ImtoD was before the Secret and Dad dying for him so that would have brought him down quite a bit. :)
I also don`t believe that his pseudo-suicide talk means that Dean never believed in hunting and only did it for John`s approval. He was very passionate and genuine about it in Season 1.
So now he might have thought if Sam dies than he could be free too.
Can buy him wanting to just rest for a while. He has been due for a major breakdown now for 1 and 1/2 Seasons IMO. The well is dry sometime.
Heh. That's what I said on the phone to someone after the ep. They had to involve an entire town? Of course that could be to camoflage what they're up to.
Only that would mean Sam has a snowball`s chance in hell against the Demon. Which right now I don`t believe.
So either the Demon is one hell of a drama queen and likes everything big or it really fears Sam getting on to his plans. If it is so mighty why not simply march up to Sam, do the infecto-presto and neener, neener away?
I think I`ll go with the drama queen. ;)