SPN 2x21: All Hell Breaks Loose, part 1
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vaznettiThis may be a little disjointed -- it's based on my episode notes.
AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!
Sorry. I've been sitting here hyperventilating and clutching the pillow for a little while, just now. Because... Sam.
OK. Sam is dead. But Sam can't be permanently dead, can he? Dean can get him back, right? Right?
I feel the need to go scream some more. These people are worse than fanfic writers. I can imagine the conversation in the writer's room now -- "Hey, let's go torture Dean some more! The fans love that!" "How can we do that?" "I know! Let's kill Sam!"
...uh.
OK. Well. In other news, they sure were clearing the board fast, there. Ash, Ava, Andy -- also Lily, who hardly counts she was gone so fast. Oh, and presumably a whole host of other demon-influenced children, killed off by Ava. I rather liked Jake, but he seems to have gone bad -- and how wonderful that the demon was giving each of the children the same spiel, about what they had to do, and how each was it's favorite. Well, possibly not the last bit, but it would make sense -- it has to give them some kind of hope that they're going to win.
And thank you, Sam, for dropping the iron bar and not becoming what the Demon wants you to be. But you get NO POINTS for not picking up the knife, just in case. Dude. it's a miracle you've stayed alive this long, with instincts like that.
I really liked Jake, although I expected him to die. Well, no doubt he'll be back later to die then. (I'm not sure what to say about the race thing -- I mean, either you have the horror movie convention, where the black guy dies, or the SPN convention, where the black guy is the enemy -- but you know, would it kill them for Jake to change his mind and maybe not turn into another villain? Or something?)
At various points in this episode, I was strongly reminded of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vee_fic's Six of One.
I really like the horror-movie setup -- the town surrounded by forests, the five of them -- then four, then three, then two -- trapped together, the whole "most haunted town in America thing. I mean, it's completely hokey, but it's also really, really enjoyable. But I was struck by how quickly the deaths went -- how throwaway they were, over in a moment of even offscreen. In part a matter of time -- that they only had an hour TV show? but I would have expected more dwelling on the gore, which we really only got with Andy's death.
I suppose it might not really be Ash's body at the Roadhouse, just his watch. And am I wrong, or is Ellen unaccounted for? (But did anyone else notice that you could you see from the frame that it was just a false front with some timber piled behind it? That was kind of amusing to me.)
The demon's little speech to Sam -- hunh. Interesting. Also Mary recognizing it. So does this explain why not all the mothers were killed, and the whole pinned to the ceiling thing is just a whole lot of bad luck? (And this means that a page and a half I wrote the other day has been jossed, which is great, because it was something I wasn't totally sure I wanted to write the whole thing -- now it can go straight to the bottom of the pile.) And the demon's just looking for a general, not an army -- although it doesn't have its army in place, quite yet. That may open up possibilities.
The thing with the blood -- very cool -- and the sense that the demon has done this before, with other generations. Which makes one wonder whether the full-scale apocalypse is really the endgame, but I expect to handwave this if necessary.
At least Bobby isn't dead yet.
Yet.
So next week, it looks like Hell may literally break loose. And screw "what's dead should stay dead." Shoe's on the other foot now, hunh, Dean?
I will need to think more on the Demon and its little speech, and what this might mean, or might not mean. Sam may be a fluke -- that he's trained the way he is, that he knows what he knows (and by the way, his knowledge of demons seems a lot vaster than it used to be -- but then, that's a predictable Sam reaction, isn't it? When in doubt, do more research.) If the Demon didn't mean to kill Mary, and disturb the family unit, sending John on the run with Sam and Dean -- but it did mean to kill Jess, because having a weapon like Sam, a tool with Sam's skills, with his knowledge, can't be allowed to grow rusty with disuse. But if Sam is a weapon, he might be the very thing that can destroy the Demon.
It seems the obvious way for the story to unfold.
But first, of course, Sam has to not be dead. Can it be next week now? Please?
AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!
Sorry. I've been sitting here hyperventilating and clutching the pillow for a little while, just now. Because... Sam.
OK. Sam is dead. But Sam can't be permanently dead, can he? Dean can get him back, right? Right?
I feel the need to go scream some more. These people are worse than fanfic writers. I can imagine the conversation in the writer's room now -- "Hey, let's go torture Dean some more! The fans love that!" "How can we do that?" "I know! Let's kill Sam!"
...uh.
OK. Well. In other news, they sure were clearing the board fast, there. Ash, Ava, Andy -- also Lily, who hardly counts she was gone so fast. Oh, and presumably a whole host of other demon-influenced children, killed off by Ava. I rather liked Jake, but he seems to have gone bad -- and how wonderful that the demon was giving each of the children the same spiel, about what they had to do, and how each was it's favorite. Well, possibly not the last bit, but it would make sense -- it has to give them some kind of hope that they're going to win.
And thank you, Sam, for dropping the iron bar and not becoming what the Demon wants you to be. But you get NO POINTS for not picking up the knife, just in case. Dude. it's a miracle you've stayed alive this long, with instincts like that.
I really liked Jake, although I expected him to die. Well, no doubt he'll be back later to die then. (I'm not sure what to say about the race thing -- I mean, either you have the horror movie convention, where the black guy dies, or the SPN convention, where the black guy is the enemy -- but you know, would it kill them for Jake to change his mind and maybe not turn into another villain? Or something?)
At various points in this episode, I was strongly reminded of
vee_fic's Six of One.I really like the horror-movie setup -- the town surrounded by forests, the five of them -- then four, then three, then two -- trapped together, the whole "most haunted town in America thing. I mean, it's completely hokey, but it's also really, really enjoyable. But I was struck by how quickly the deaths went -- how throwaway they were, over in a moment of even offscreen. In part a matter of time -- that they only had an hour TV show? but I would have expected more dwelling on the gore, which we really only got with Andy's death.
I suppose it might not really be Ash's body at the Roadhouse, just his watch. And am I wrong, or is Ellen unaccounted for? (But did anyone else notice that you could you see from the frame that it was just a false front with some timber piled behind it? That was kind of amusing to me.)
The demon's little speech to Sam -- hunh. Interesting. Also Mary recognizing it. So does this explain why not all the mothers were killed, and the whole pinned to the ceiling thing is just a whole lot of bad luck? (And this means that a page and a half I wrote the other day has been jossed, which is great, because it was something I wasn't totally sure I wanted to write the whole thing -- now it can go straight to the bottom of the pile.) And the demon's just looking for a general, not an army -- although it doesn't have its army in place, quite yet. That may open up possibilities.
The thing with the blood -- very cool -- and the sense that the demon has done this before, with other generations. Which makes one wonder whether the full-scale apocalypse is really the endgame, but I expect to handwave this if necessary.
At least Bobby isn't dead yet.
Yet.
So next week, it looks like Hell may literally break loose. And screw "what's dead should stay dead." Shoe's on the other foot now, hunh, Dean?
I will need to think more on the Demon and its little speech, and what this might mean, or might not mean. Sam may be a fluke -- that he's trained the way he is, that he knows what he knows (and by the way, his knowledge of demons seems a lot vaster than it used to be -- but then, that's a predictable Sam reaction, isn't it? When in doubt, do more research.) If the Demon didn't mean to kill Mary, and disturb the family unit, sending John on the run with Sam and Dean -- but it did mean to kill Jess, because having a weapon like Sam, a tool with Sam's skills, with his knowledge, can't be allowed to grow rusty with disuse. But if Sam is a weapon, he might be the very thing that can destroy the Demon.
It seems the obvious way for the story to unfold.
But first, of course, Sam has to not be dead. Can it be next week now? Please?
