movie and tv
May. 4th, 2007 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaznettiOMG! the Clay Theater is showing Buckaroo Banzai tonight at midnight! If only you were still here, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aceofkittens! I need see Buckaroo Banzai! Well, only if I were still capable of staying up to the small hours of the morning, too.
Eeee!
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Speaking of "Eeee!" I did enjoy "What is and..." but you all have said so much about it that I don't think I have anything left to say! But I'll try to think of something:
-- OK, I know I said last week that I wouldn't care if we didn't get John because we would see Mary, and I guess we didn't really see Mary, just what Dean thought she ought to be like (she has gnomes in her garden! Dean's subconscious is a very strange place!). But I loved the fact that John was dead in this universe. I mean, that Dean can't even hope for a world in which he and his father are both alive is so telling. But also -- what if he had been given that world? Could he have left it? It would have been that much harder, considering the way that John's death has been the defining fact of Dean's life all season.
-- And hey, John was practically present, what with all the crazy photoshopping in the awful family photos. And the way that, in death as in life, he represents duty to Dean. I want to see that graveside again, where Dean makes his choice, even when he thinks that the world is real, that Mary is alive and so is Jess, and Sam is happy. But Dean goes to his father's grave to argue against his fate and do what he thinks John would have told him to do. I loved that scene.
-- And we saw Dean with Mary, anyway, in some way: how he leaned into her presence. Oh, Dean. Other people have been more eloquent on this point.
-- Dean, for all that he thinks he's a complete fuck-up (or that he would be, without the structure of hunting), has an incredibly clear moral code: he has an innate understanding of balance, and justice. And for someone who spends so much energy gratifying his desires for food and sex, he's chary of other needs: he can have Mary, but he loses the bond with Sam, and John will be dead. And the lives he hasn't saved are lost: Dean can't imagine a world without evil acting in it, and can't rest when there's something he could do.
-- Dean's dream girl is a nurse. That is just adorable.
-- I do kind of wish that the world had been real: the power of the graveside scene remains undiminished by the revelation, but the final confrontation becomes... something strange. Dean takes the risk and saves himself by striking himself -- by committing suicide, to keep himself alive, and I do like that very, very much -- but of course Sam was there to save him, even if he couldn't save himself, just the way they both saved the nameless woman in the warehouse with Dean. It leaves Sam's final comment, that Dean pulled himself out where most people wouldn't, sounding oddly hollow. Would Dean choose an illusion over reality? Would he choose Sam's imaginary happiness over Sam's real life? Surely not. The only surprise was that he hesitated at all, and that may be a telling sign of just how tired Dean really is. I'd like to see that picked up, in the next couple of episodes. It's interesting that not Jess says "You won't need to worry about Sam..." rather than, "Sam will be happy for real, in this world" or something like that -- the question (as in Croatoan) turns out not to be about Sam at all.
I can't help feeling that my ambivalence, or confusion, or whatever this is, has also been stated better by people on my friends list.
-- I loved the shoutouts to the first episode, and to earlier episodes. I think I was expecting something a little more explicitly mytharc-ish, at this point -- I mean, only two episodes to go! -- but we had Dean, instead. Oh, Dean.
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I have no idea where this day has gone -- how can it be 4:30 already?
aceofkittens! I need see Buckaroo Banzai! Well, only if I were still capable of staying up to the small hours of the morning, too.Eeee!
* * *
Speaking of "Eeee!" I did enjoy "What is and..." but you all have said so much about it that I don't think I have anything left to say! But I'll try to think of something:
-- OK, I know I said last week that I wouldn't care if we didn't get John because we would see Mary, and I guess we didn't really see Mary, just what Dean thought she ought to be like (she has gnomes in her garden! Dean's subconscious is a very strange place!). But I loved the fact that John was dead in this universe. I mean, that Dean can't even hope for a world in which he and his father are both alive is so telling. But also -- what if he had been given that world? Could he have left it? It would have been that much harder, considering the way that John's death has been the defining fact of Dean's life all season.
-- And hey, John was practically present, what with all the crazy photoshopping in the awful family photos. And the way that, in death as in life, he represents duty to Dean. I want to see that graveside again, where Dean makes his choice, even when he thinks that the world is real, that Mary is alive and so is Jess, and Sam is happy. But Dean goes to his father's grave to argue against his fate and do what he thinks John would have told him to do. I loved that scene.
-- And we saw Dean with Mary, anyway, in some way: how he leaned into her presence. Oh, Dean. Other people have been more eloquent on this point.
-- Dean, for all that he thinks he's a complete fuck-up (or that he would be, without the structure of hunting), has an incredibly clear moral code: he has an innate understanding of balance, and justice. And for someone who spends so much energy gratifying his desires for food and sex, he's chary of other needs: he can have Mary, but he loses the bond with Sam, and John will be dead. And the lives he hasn't saved are lost: Dean can't imagine a world without evil acting in it, and can't rest when there's something he could do.
-- Dean's dream girl is a nurse. That is just adorable.
-- I do kind of wish that the world had been real: the power of the graveside scene remains undiminished by the revelation, but the final confrontation becomes... something strange. Dean takes the risk and saves himself by striking himself -- by committing suicide, to keep himself alive, and I do like that very, very much -- but of course Sam was there to save him, even if he couldn't save himself, just the way they both saved the nameless woman in the warehouse with Dean. It leaves Sam's final comment, that Dean pulled himself out where most people wouldn't, sounding oddly hollow. Would Dean choose an illusion over reality? Would he choose Sam's imaginary happiness over Sam's real life? Surely not. The only surprise was that he hesitated at all, and that may be a telling sign of just how tired Dean really is. I'd like to see that picked up, in the next couple of episodes. It's interesting that not Jess says "You won't need to worry about Sam..." rather than, "Sam will be happy for real, in this world" or something like that -- the question (as in Croatoan) turns out not to be about Sam at all.
I can't help feeling that my ambivalence, or confusion, or whatever this is, has also been stated better by people on my friends list.
-- I loved the shoutouts to the first episode, and to earlier episodes. I think I was expecting something a little more explicitly mytharc-ish, at this point -- I mean, only two episodes to go! -- but we had Dean, instead. Oh, Dean.
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I have no idea where this day has gone -- how can it be 4:30 already?
