SPN 2x09: Croatoan

[vaznetti]

New SPN! Croatoan!

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST KRIPKE YOU LYING BASTARD!!!!

Sorry, I needed to get that off my chest.

Well. What I love about the show is that when Sam is possibly infected, it looks like where we've been heading all season: "It's not a him," Dean says, "it's an it." Except when it's Sam. Well, we knew that, we've been here, we saw it coming a mile away. But the show doesn't stop there, and the scene turns out to be about something entirely different, about Dean's utter exhaustion, not about his love for Sam. We get something new and surprising, Dean turning away from the mission as he turns away from his whole life.

And that moment, when he tells them to take the car and the arsenal -- as Dean divests himself of everything but the one last thing that matters the most.

That hurt.

(By the way, I still miss John. A lot.)

And the demonic plague, which looks like something of MacGuffin, turns out to tie back not just to Sam's nature (is he immune because he's already part demon?) but also to the question of what the Yellow Eyed Demon wants. (As an aside -- is that what we're calling it now?) I loved that scene, the way Duane mirrored Meg's "phone call" back in "Scarecrow." Poor Sarge. The implication, I think, is that the doctor was one of them as well? Since there are no loose ends, she's either a demon or she's dead, and frankly, she was a little weird.

I have to wonder why Sam was so insistent that Dean not kill that guy (whose name I have forgotten, sorry) Duane. Sam has no idea, but it seems that his visions are using him, as well.

As for the cliffhanger ending, I will only point you up to my first comment. That bastard, Kripke. How long is the hiatus?


And on a mostly unrelated note that I hope will amuse a handful of you, I leave you with the following thought, because I have been re-reading McKillip. John Winchester and Mathom of An -- separated at birth?

Comments

[eponin10.livejournal.com]

How long is the hiatus?

Umm.. yeah. That was my first question too. After I got done swearing at Kripke like the rest of you, of course.

[vaznetti]

I saw your post, and it does seem like an ending designed to provoke us all. I mean, really -- to cut there?

[eponin10.livejournal.com]

It does, doesn't it? You think Kripke sits around reading the blogs and laughing over our response? Heh. But yeah. That was just mean.

[camille-is-here.livejournal.com]

I can't believe he just stopped there. Interesting that there was no "to be continued" sign at the end--it just stopped. Like, "who needs a silly placard when we can stop in mid-sentence instead?

argh!

I do think the staying alive is all about Sam for Dean, though. The imminent demise of his brother was just the final straw, of course. But it didn't really leave him anything to live for, and the brush with the reaper seemed to have left him ready to go. The burden of his Sammy secret seems to be even more exhausting that repeatedly dying, though.

[ageofaquarius.livejournal.com]

I've started my other blog with this...

DAMN YOU, KRIPKE

I picture him tenting his fingers much like Montgomery Burns and saying Excellent

[vaznetti]

You know he's out on lj somewhere, checking out our posts and laughing at our pain.

[eponin10.livejournal.com]

*snicker* I just said the same thing above in response to your post. *laugh* I should have read the rest of the comments first, huh?

[ageofaquarius.livejournal.com]

And the sad part? I enjoy it!

[the-grynne.livejournal.com]

As an aside -- is that what we're calling it now?

YEM? Why not. *g*

[the-grynne.livejournal.com]

Er. Or YED, rather. *headdesk*

[vaznetti]

I can live with that. It's easy enough to type.

[(Anonymous)]

John Winchester and Mathom of An -- separated at birth?

ROTFLMAO.

Oh, holy shit.

oh, I think I strained something, laughing at that. Yes, yes, definately. oh, my ribs.

Hiatus goes until Jan 18 or so. I'm looking at it as though it's an excuse to finish fic.

- hg

[vaznetti]

I thought that would amuse you. I reread the opening bits of Heir of Sea and Fire and it's just hysterical. It's perfect.

Basically, this kind of thing goes on in my brain all the time.

[se-parsons.livejournal.com]

This is the fanficciest show EVER. There is no subtext to invent. It's all RIGHT THERE.

And Dean's exhaustion, wow, that is leading all sorts of bad places right there.

[cofax7]

OMG, yes to the fanfic. That's exactly what I wrote.

[vaznetti]

I know! It's just like fanfic! Which of course is why I love it so much.

And yes, Dean's utter... emptiness there. Like he's just run out of everything.

[camille-is-here.livejournal.com]

The whole spiritual exhaustion is so much more powerful than lots of emotive weeping and hugging. And Sam, poor Sam. I have decided that I am glad that we didn't get the reveal last night, because I want to savor Dean at the end of his resources, and Sam desperate for his brother to go, and survive.
Kripke could not be more of a fan girl if his name was Joss.

[cofax7]

Mathom of An! Hah! Perfect, down to the way he tells no one anything and pisses his children off.

... I loved Rood, and would have happily read another book just about him.

[vaznetti]

I would happily have read a whole book about Rood as well. Although I can quite happily imagine him and Mathom shouting at each other for the rest of their lives.

I thought the Mathom thing would amuse you. It's quite perfect.

[destina.livejournal.com]

But the show doesn't stop there, and the scene turns out to be about something entirely different, about Dean's utter exhaustion, not about his love for Sam. We get something new and surprising, Dean turning away from the mission as he turns away from his whole life.

See, and this is why I love the show. Because fundamentally, it's about the human element of what they are going through -- not necessarily the predictable angst and worry and so forth, but the human tendency to get *tired*, to want to lay down your arms and just curl up and not fight anymore for a while, and that's where Dean is, and it breaks my heart. But because of Sam, he goes on. I think. We shall see. *g*

[vaznetti]

Because fundamentally, it's about the human element of what they are going through -- not necessarily the predictable angst and worry and so forth, but the human tendency to get *tired*, to want to lay down your arms and just curl up and not fight anymore for a while, and that's where Dean is, and it breaks my heart.

Yes. I love the mytharc and the way the show plays with its storytelling, but I really love the fact that the writers never forget that the story is happening to real, human people who can only take so much. That's what makes the show work.

[camille-is-here.livejournal.com]

They are all stunningly on point about people under extreme emotional pressure--the actors as well as the writers, and i guess the directors too. One wants to bake them all cookies and make it better. And then send them out to do it again.

[vileseagulls.livejournal.com]

Yellow-Eyed Demon makes me think of Yellow-Eyed Penguin.