and more SPN eps
Mar. 5th, 2011 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snick_backupClearly, one of the things about this show that's going to bother me is Dean and Sam lying like dogs and occasionally making idiots of themselves while doing it. I'm much more comfortable with the suspense of ghostly spirits coming out of mirrors than I am the suspense of Dean's stupid cover story possibly being found out at any moment. And since they practically never tell anyone the truth about themselves - certainly not the first time they're asked - this is clearly going to come up a lot.
It occurs to me that they'd come across as a lot less threatening to random strangers if they had a woman working with them. It'd also make scenarios like them being alone with a teenage girl in her bedroom a lot less squicky.
Bloody Mary
The final solution to destroying Bloody Mary seemed just a wee bit circular. When other people look in the mirror, she shows them reflections of themselves, spouting truth. But when she looks in the mirror, who's showing her her reflection?
The ep tied in very neatly to Sam's arc and his ongoing grief for and guilt over Jessica's death. Nicely done. I still wish, though, we'd been given more of Jess herself before she died, so that I could relate even a little bit to Sam's grief.
Skin
Yanno, that opening scene was a total scam. It only took five minutes of the episode to figure it was Dean's double and not Dean himself torturing that woman, but it would have been a whole lot more interesting if that had actually been Dean. I figured she was some evil something or other and he had a reason, and whether that reason was good or bad I wanted to know what it was. Feh.
OTOH, this was an interesting first exploration into what it means to be a Winchester. Key quotes:
* "In this gig it doesn't pay to get to close to anyone"
* "Like it or not, we are not like other people."
I feel the need to point out that Dean looks very nice in a t-shirt. Or, you know, not in a t-shirt. Either way.
Not to say there wasn't some genuine grossness in the shape shifting scene - ear! teeth! - but mostly it was just hilariously awful and/or awfully hilarious.
I'm confused. Not!Dean walloped Rebecca over the head and took her to the sewers after the incident where he'd tied her up, beaten her, and let the SWAT team break in? I feel like the writers should have had her respond to that somehow in there - with all the impersonation going on, the ep could have used just a few more anchors to establish who was who when.
In fact, I'd have been amused if there'd actually been two shape shifters playing opposite each other so eventually all our actual people were off-screen and there were only the shape shifters messing with each other and not realizing it.
In other things, Holy Looming Abandonment Issues, Dean! Just in general, I loved how this ep let the shape shifter see into Dean's memories and tell Sam its twisted (or not so twisted) version of Dean's feelings. I figured for the sake of symmetry and yet more emotional baggage we'd see the shape shifter pretend to be Sam and do the same, but alas, no.
Overall, two very solid episodes, both with chewy character stuff and also a bit of long-term plotty goodness.
It occurs to me that they'd come across as a lot less threatening to random strangers if they had a woman working with them. It'd also make scenarios like them being alone with a teenage girl in her bedroom a lot less squicky.
Bloody Mary
The final solution to destroying Bloody Mary seemed just a wee bit circular. When other people look in the mirror, she shows them reflections of themselves, spouting truth. But when she looks in the mirror, who's showing her her reflection?
The ep tied in very neatly to Sam's arc and his ongoing grief for and guilt over Jessica's death. Nicely done. I still wish, though, we'd been given more of Jess herself before she died, so that I could relate even a little bit to Sam's grief.
Skin
Yanno, that opening scene was a total scam. It only took five minutes of the episode to figure it was Dean's double and not Dean himself torturing that woman, but it would have been a whole lot more interesting if that had actually been Dean. I figured she was some evil something or other and he had a reason, and whether that reason was good or bad I wanted to know what it was. Feh.
OTOH, this was an interesting first exploration into what it means to be a Winchester. Key quotes:
* "In this gig it doesn't pay to get to close to anyone"
* "Like it or not, we are not like other people."
I feel the need to point out that Dean looks very nice in a t-shirt. Or, you know, not in a t-shirt. Either way.
Not to say there wasn't some genuine grossness in the shape shifting scene - ear! teeth! - but mostly it was just hilariously awful and/or awfully hilarious.
I'm confused. Not!Dean walloped Rebecca over the head and took her to the sewers after the incident where he'd tied her up, beaten her, and let the SWAT team break in? I feel like the writers should have had her respond to that somehow in there - with all the impersonation going on, the ep could have used just a few more anchors to establish who was who when.
In fact, I'd have been amused if there'd actually been two shape shifters playing opposite each other so eventually all our actual people were off-screen and there were only the shape shifters messing with each other and not realizing it.
In other things, Holy Looming Abandonment Issues, Dean! Just in general, I loved how this ep let the shape shifter see into Dean's memories and tell Sam its twisted (or not so twisted) version of Dean's feelings. I figured for the sake of symmetry and yet more emotional baggage we'd see the shape shifter pretend to be Sam and do the same, but alas, no.
Overall, two very solid episodes, both with chewy character stuff and also a bit of long-term plotty goodness.
