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apocalypsosYay! Last night's Supernatural is all downloaded! *happy dance*
BWAH! The little old lady was in room 237. As someone who's made cracks about Nicholson before, I was a little disappointed we didn't get a Shining crack out of Dean. (Then again, he wasn't much in the mood for it.)
And before I go any further, is it really sad that I kinda missed the Infodumpadavidda this episode? You know, the conversation in the Metallicar at the beginning of the episode that goes like:
"Which exit do we take?"
"The next one. Say, what are we fighting this week?"
"Oh, this big heaping monster that attacks nuns and ..."
*snickers*
In any event ... oh, DAMN, did I love this episode.
First off, I know everybody's giving the monster a low grade, but honestly, I know I've mentioned why Poltergeist is the movie that scares me more than anything, right? The first time I saw it, I was a little blond girl who had that exact same clown doll and a tree outside my window. I'm amazed I ever slept again after seeing that movie. So, yeah, anything that scrapes at the window pretending to be a tree branch creeps me right the fuck out.
Secondly, the Papa stuff. Yeah, you shouldn't just lock your kids alone in a motel room like that. Welcome to the school of bad parenting with John Winchester. He's not the dean of admissions, but he does teach the occasional seminar. But here's the thing -- we're talking about a man who lost his wife and left his ten-year-old a shotgun to protect his little brother. "Good parenting" kinda has a different definition with the Winchesters, and honest to God, I'm starting to think John needed to pile that much responsibility on Dean to protect Sam. I'd complain about the fact that Sammy seems to be the target of everything eventually, but if we assume that his powers give his life force a big jump (it's certainly possible) and that the shtriga already went after him before and may have wanted to finish the job, it makes sense. I know people are giving John a hard time for coming down on Dean, but sheesh, if I'd been babysitting my little brother and he'd gone running into the street, my parents would have killed me.
No, literally. Dean got off light. And considering my parents don't carry heavy weaponry on a normal basis, that's saying something.
Speaking of little brothers, that whole thing with the cereal and the toy? Jesus, talk about flashbacks. That is so the sort of shit my brother and I always did. Of course, depending on the cereal, he could have it and I'd take the oatmeal. My mom wasn't big on buying something we both liked, which was why it was of infinite importance to go grocery shopping with her if you didn't want to have to resort to the Quaker Oats guy every morning. What I'm getting at, though, is something that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scribblinlenore pointed out about the level of responsibility between older and younger siblings. The day of my great-grandfather's wake, my brother nearly slept right through it, and my parents were willing to let him do it (I don't want to say they were tempting an argument, but ... *shrugs*) but I got in my car, went to the house, and dragged his sorry ass out of bed. Would he have done that for me? Hell, no, but that's the thing.
I've been hearing "Watch out for your little brother" forever, it feels like. I mean, I was an only child for an eight and a half years and I can barely remember the time before that. I have the hardest time remembering when I didn't have to go places with him holding my hand as a kid, so this hit every single one of my Dean's-a-big-brother kinks. I swear that's a big part of why I like him better than Sam (excepting the fact that Jensen is smokin' hot, of course). It's not that I don't like Sam -- I do -- but I identify a LOT with Dean, and I'm pretty sure that if nothing else, if the two of us were sitting together in a bar, we could commiserate over how friggin' annoying younger brothers can be. I love the kid and I'd throw myself in front of a bus for him, but my GOD, he could use a smack upside the head every once in a while.
I know there's a lot of Sam hate out there, calling him selfish and stuff, but my thing with Sam is the same thing I get when my little brother gets that way. It's all a different experience. When I was a teenager and didn't clean my room, my parents took away my television until I did it. When my brother was a teenager and didn't clean his room, my mother yelled at him for not doing it as she cleaned it for him. I know I've even called Sam selfish before myself, but it's just the focus that changes. John focuses on Dean and Sam. Dean focuses on Sam. Sam doesn't have anybody but himself to focus on. They take care of him, so it becomes for him a matter of taking care of himself.
So, yeah, that's what I get out of the episode -- that if Dean were in the room with me right now, I would throw him against the wall and have my way with him simply for the Sammy love. Dude, I soooooo understand.
Plus, any chance to let Dean interact with kids makes me happyand horny.
Oh, and I think Kripke's reading my mind, because that plotbunny that I had the other day? He just officially eliminated my biggest problem with it. HEE! *will start writing just as soon as my brain reforms*
BWAH! The little old lady was in room 237. As someone who's made cracks about Nicholson before, I was a little disappointed we didn't get a Shining crack out of Dean. (Then again, he wasn't much in the mood for it.)
And before I go any further, is it really sad that I kinda missed the Infodumpadavidda this episode? You know, the conversation in the Metallicar at the beginning of the episode that goes like:
"Which exit do we take?"
"The next one. Say, what are we fighting this week?"
"Oh, this big heaping monster that attacks nuns and ..."
*snickers*
In any event ... oh, DAMN, did I love this episode.
First off, I know everybody's giving the monster a low grade, but honestly, I know I've mentioned why Poltergeist is the movie that scares me more than anything, right? The first time I saw it, I was a little blond girl who had that exact same clown doll and a tree outside my window. I'm amazed I ever slept again after seeing that movie. So, yeah, anything that scrapes at the window pretending to be a tree branch creeps me right the fuck out.
Secondly, the Papa stuff. Yeah, you shouldn't just lock your kids alone in a motel room like that. Welcome to the school of bad parenting with John Winchester. He's not the dean of admissions, but he does teach the occasional seminar. But here's the thing -- we're talking about a man who lost his wife and left his ten-year-old a shotgun to protect his little brother. "Good parenting" kinda has a different definition with the Winchesters, and honest to God, I'm starting to think John needed to pile that much responsibility on Dean to protect Sam. I'd complain about the fact that Sammy seems to be the target of everything eventually, but if we assume that his powers give his life force a big jump (it's certainly possible) and that the shtriga already went after him before and may have wanted to finish the job, it makes sense. I know people are giving John a hard time for coming down on Dean, but sheesh, if I'd been babysitting my little brother and he'd gone running into the street, my parents would have killed me.
No, literally. Dean got off light. And considering my parents don't carry heavy weaponry on a normal basis, that's saying something.
Speaking of little brothers, that whole thing with the cereal and the toy? Jesus, talk about flashbacks. That is so the sort of shit my brother and I always did. Of course, depending on the cereal, he could have it and I'd take the oatmeal. My mom wasn't big on buying something we both liked, which was why it was of infinite importance to go grocery shopping with her if you didn't want to have to resort to the Quaker Oats guy every morning. What I'm getting at, though, is something that
scribblinlenore pointed out about the level of responsibility between older and younger siblings. The day of my great-grandfather's wake, my brother nearly slept right through it, and my parents were willing to let him do it (I don't want to say they were tempting an argument, but ... *shrugs*) but I got in my car, went to the house, and dragged his sorry ass out of bed. Would he have done that for me? Hell, no, but that's the thing. I've been hearing "Watch out for your little brother" forever, it feels like. I mean, I was an only child for an eight and a half years and I can barely remember the time before that. I have the hardest time remembering when I didn't have to go places with him holding my hand as a kid, so this hit every single one of my Dean's-a-big-brother kinks. I swear that's a big part of why I like him better than Sam (excepting the fact that Jensen is smokin' hot, of course). It's not that I don't like Sam -- I do -- but I identify a LOT with Dean, and I'm pretty sure that if nothing else, if the two of us were sitting together in a bar, we could commiserate over how friggin' annoying younger brothers can be. I love the kid and I'd throw myself in front of a bus for him, but my GOD, he could use a smack upside the head every once in a while.
I know there's a lot of Sam hate out there, calling him selfish and stuff, but my thing with Sam is the same thing I get when my little brother gets that way. It's all a different experience. When I was a teenager and didn't clean my room, my parents took away my television until I did it. When my brother was a teenager and didn't clean his room, my mother yelled at him for not doing it as she cleaned it for him. I know I've even called Sam selfish before myself, but it's just the focus that changes. John focuses on Dean and Sam. Dean focuses on Sam. Sam doesn't have anybody but himself to focus on. They take care of him, so it becomes for him a matter of taking care of himself.
So, yeah, that's what I get out of the episode -- that if Dean were in the room with me right now, I would throw him against the wall and have my way with him simply for the Sammy love. Dude, I soooooo understand.
Plus, any chance to let Dean interact with kids makes me happy
Oh, and I think Kripke's reading my mind, because that plotbunny that I had the other day? He just officially eliminated my biggest problem with it. HEE! *will start writing just as soon as my brain reforms*
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Date: 2006-04-07 07:44 pm (UTC)I also didn't see John acting too harshly towards Dean. Yeah, locking your kids alone in a motel room isn't good, but like taking the kids with him to fight child life force eating monsters wouldn't end him up before the department of child welfare anytime soon? John obviously treats Dean much like a mini-adult more than a kid- but hello, angst and issues, thy name is Winchester.
Plus, what parent wouldn't yell and scream when they entered the hotel room and saw their child in the hands of a monster? I saw that John was dissapointed in Dean's actions, but I also saw John being scared- because a monster passes through children? Losing Sam could also mean Losing Dean, and those boys are what John treasures most in the world.
And yeah, my ass would have been grass if I left my brother in a hotel room. And considering the fact that we don't fight monsters on a regular basis...yeah.
The show does get the emotions and relationships between siblings right, and that makes me love it even more.
Oh, and the kid who played Mini-Dean? Also played young Johnny Cash in Walk the Line.
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Date: 2006-04-07 07:45 pm (UTC)Then again, Dean is a lot prettier than I am, though Sam has nothing on my brother.
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Date: 2006-04-07 08:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-07 08:14 pm (UTC)J
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Date: 2006-04-07 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-04-07 08:21 pm (UTC)Speaking as a younger sibling, though, I still think Sammy was a selfish git.
And I don't hate John's parenting. I don't really identify per se, but I do think he did his best. I think he was much more scared than angry at Dean, because, as one recent fic pointed out, this thing worked through siblings, and if it had succeeded in getting Sam it would've come after Dean next. So he could've lost his remaining family in a blink. He probably also felt a little betrayed that Dean hadn't followed his orders.
All last night's ep did was make me love Dean to no end. My friends are going to lynch me if I keep going, "Oh! He's so sweet/cute/adorable/wonderful" etc. I think my cousin is looking into psychiatric options... *shrug* I'll be happily institutionalized, anyway.
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Date: 2006-04-07 11:34 pm (UTC)And...well...hm...the exposition was there...jsut more understated than usual. Kudos to them. It was the bit where Sam asks why they are going to those coordinates because he's cheked the obits and blah blah and Dean comes back with I checked and rechecked the coordinates and they all point back to Fitchburg, Wisconsin. And blah blah.
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Date: 2006-04-08 12:52 am (UTC)Word. When I brought home a report card, my parents would ask why I had an A or A- instead of an A+. I'm not even kidding. When my little brother did well on a spelling test, they'd let him pick what we had for dinner and watch extra television.
...Not that I'm still bitter or anything.
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Date: 2006-04-08 01:15 am (UTC)John focuses on Dean and Sam. Dean focuses on Sam. Sam doesn't have anybody but himself to focus on.
Totally agreed. Speaking as a younger sibling, this actually is exactly how I act...ahem.
Hee! Infodumpadavidda!
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Date: 2006-04-08 08:28 am (UTC)*agrees with you ALOT*
*crawls off to continue wibbling*
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Date: 2006-04-08 08:51 am (UTC)"Which exit do we take?"
"The next one. Say, what are we fighting this week?"
"Oh, this big heaping monster that attacks nuns and ..."
LOL!
I wrote my own review, but I'll just say that I agree that I don't think Sammy is being selfish. I think the whole selfish thing comes from the being the youngest, and because the writers seem to be writing Sammy-centrically. They tend, I think to write an equal amount of angst between the brothers, but Sam seems to have more stuff happen to him, which isn't really his fault because he's not actively seeking out these situations.
I do feel like the show is a bit unbalanced in that respect. Like maybe Dean will develop powers or have something come after him or something. I dunno.
It was a good ep though. :D
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Date: 2006-04-08 10:12 am (UTC)Ah sweet Dean how we love thee so, Protective-older-brother mode is so sweet and so wonderful :D with Benders, he stood there looking so lost (when Sam *was* the one lost) and even though I'd read the spoilers I was still thinking "Where's Sam?" Just because Dean was
John focuses on Dean and Sam. Dean focuses on Sam. Sam doesn't have anybody but himself to focus on. They take care of him, so it becomes for him a matter of taking care of himself. you just explained it perfectly and I definately agree
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Date: 2006-04-08 01:30 pm (UTC)