SPN: The Benders and Shadow
Mar. 16th, 2011 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snick_backupOkay, y'all. I realize I'm jumping the gun and it's probably way too early to expect it, but I'm ready for this show to start telling different stories. Something more than "beat the evil bad spirit thingy, angst about John Winchester."
Like, can we have an ep from an outside POV? The Winchester boys are pretty threatening, really, with their habitual lying and their car trunk full of guns. Not to mention they'd come across as more than a bit cracked. Or maybe an ep that's really all about the credit card fraud and the umpteen fake ID's. Or an ep where the supernatural thingy isn't really evil?
Question your assumptions, show!
The Benders
At first I thought these might be, like, spoon-benders, playing off Dean's remark in the previous episode. Failing that, I hear there are folks that can bend the four elements. They're pretty cool. You should check 'em out.
As near as I can figure, though, Bender must be the family's name, although I can't recall hearing it said.
So we got to the hillbilly cannibal episode, I guess, although it was really more about the hunting; I suspect the reasoning behind the cannibalism was something along the lines of, "You kill it, you eat it."
I gotta say, I'm offended on behalf of Minnesotans and of folks who hunt and, hey, I'm offended on behalf of hillbillies. I feel I should point out that these particular hillbillies were apparently transplanted from parts east or south; the only person in the whole ep who sounded even vaguely midwestern to me was the kid witness at the beginning.
I sort of liked the lady cop and I loved when she handcuffed Dean to the car; that boy needs all the ego-pokes the universe can dish out. I was miffed, though, that she in fact wasn't able to handle it all herself.
Meh, basically. Meh.
Shadow
This felt less like a full story than it did a pit stop in the larger arc. I can't say we've learned anything more on the thing-that-killed-Mary front, only confirmed what we already knew: that John Winchester has been getting close, and that the thing's gunning for him.
I'm trying to decide how I feel about the reasoning for John and the boys staying apart. He lets his guard down when they're around? Really? His boys are nearby and he's less vigilant than usual? I can see the argument that someone might take the boys and use them against him, just like they were taken this time, except wouldn't it be even easier to nab them if they're five states away from him?
I dunno. I'm just not sure I buy the argument that they're more vulnerable together. If Sam and Dean were civilians, maybe, but they've spent the last six or seven months holding their own and saving each others' hides. Does John Winchester's hide never need saving?
It all sounds like isolation as an ideology to me. I remain skeptical.
Of course, whether right or wrong, the real impact is in the fact that's it's Dean arguing for the separation when we just saw him panicking about Sam splitting up the family again.
Aw, Dean. *pat pat*
Like, can we have an ep from an outside POV? The Winchester boys are pretty threatening, really, with their habitual lying and their car trunk full of guns. Not to mention they'd come across as more than a bit cracked. Or maybe an ep that's really all about the credit card fraud and the umpteen fake ID's. Or an ep where the supernatural thingy isn't really evil?
Question your assumptions, show!
The Benders
At first I thought these might be, like, spoon-benders, playing off Dean's remark in the previous episode. Failing that, I hear there are folks that can bend the four elements. They're pretty cool. You should check 'em out.
As near as I can figure, though, Bender must be the family's name, although I can't recall hearing it said.
So we got to the hillbilly cannibal episode, I guess, although it was really more about the hunting; I suspect the reasoning behind the cannibalism was something along the lines of, "You kill it, you eat it."
I gotta say, I'm offended on behalf of Minnesotans and of folks who hunt and, hey, I'm offended on behalf of hillbillies. I feel I should point out that these particular hillbillies were apparently transplanted from parts east or south; the only person in the whole ep who sounded even vaguely midwestern to me was the kid witness at the beginning.
I sort of liked the lady cop and I loved when she handcuffed Dean to the car; that boy needs all the ego-pokes the universe can dish out. I was miffed, though, that she in fact wasn't able to handle it all herself.
Meh, basically. Meh.
Shadow
This felt less like a full story than it did a pit stop in the larger arc. I can't say we've learned anything more on the thing-that-killed-Mary front, only confirmed what we already knew: that John Winchester has been getting close, and that the thing's gunning for him.
I'm trying to decide how I feel about the reasoning for John and the boys staying apart. He lets his guard down when they're around? Really? His boys are nearby and he's less vigilant than usual? I can see the argument that someone might take the boys and use them against him, just like they were taken this time, except wouldn't it be even easier to nab them if they're five states away from him?
I dunno. I'm just not sure I buy the argument that they're more vulnerable together. If Sam and Dean were civilians, maybe, but they've spent the last six or seven months holding their own and saving each others' hides. Does John Winchester's hide never need saving?
It all sounds like isolation as an ideology to me. I remain skeptical.
Of course, whether right or wrong, the real impact is in the fact that's it's Dean arguing for the separation when we just saw him panicking about Sam splitting up the family again.
DEAN: I don't want you to leave the second this is all over.
SAM: What is your problem?
DEAN: Why do you think I drag you all over the place? Why do you think I went and got you in Stanford in the first place?
SAM: Because Dad was in trouble. Because you wanted to get the thing that killed Mom.
DEAN: Well, yeah, but not just that. You and me and Dad, I wanted us to be together again. I wanted us to be a family again.
Aw, Dean. *pat pat*
