SPN 3x01: seven something-or-others

[vaznetti]

Yeah, I'm back. I'm still feeling a little discombobulated, but I'm back.



The start of the episode, including the "then" portions, felt very meta... a kind of clunky conversation with the fandom, if that makes any sense. But then the plot got rolling, in its clunky way: I liked the idea of the demon clubhouse, but it seemed like there was a lot of exposition. On the plus side, Bobby lost his temper, and some new girl kicked a lot of ass, and the demons all know who Sam is, and like to mock him.

OK, actually, I really like the idea that Sam had a destiny, and now all he has is power, and that it's open season on him because he fucked his destiny, as I said to phantomas to hell and gone. Or else Dean did.

I really miss John, by the way. Just thought I'd add that in.

The final conversation left me with some reassurance that we will see some depth to Dean again, eventually. Interesting that he still feels tired, even without his secrets to carry, that we see the return of the "after everything I've done for this family" line.

Apropos the final exchange with Bobby, if we're having the seven deadly sins, can we have the Four Horsemen too? I reckon that Kronos could claw his way out of hell if someone went ahead and left the door open. That episode would definitely get my squee going. Kronos and Bobby Dean (because I can't type) could bitch about how their brothers don't appreciate everything they've done for them.

Hi cool hunting couple. Bye cool hunting couple. Alas. Perhaps we'll see Tamara again? But hello cool new ass-kicking girl. Presumably you too will develop some characterization, someday.

All in all, I'm glad the show is back. I do like it.

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[vaznetti]

Dean and feeling tired...he's been hunting for four years alongside John. Loses John, finds Sam again, loses John terminally, loses Sam terminally, deals away his life for his brother. Yep, I'd be tired too. I was thinking, looking at him playing with matches throwing the matches in the ex-demons' grave...how much grave-digging and corpses' burning one has to do before his will to live is consumed? Just the visuals, the smell, the frequent contact with decaying bodies, scary things that go bump in the night...how much horror one can withstand before caving in?

Yes, this makes sense. And I saw elsewhere the suggestion that Dean's wish in "What is etc." wasn't for Sam to be safe or his mother to be alive, but for him not to be hunting. It is an exhausting life -- physically and emotionally, and I guess Dean feels that so long as he's living he can't stop, especially not now, with hundreds of demons roaming the countryside. Death starts to seem like the easier option.

And yet... he knows damn well how he felt after John sacrificed his life for him, and it wasn't like John wasn't worn out with the struggle, too, no matter how tempered he'd been. The events of Devil's Trap were his limit.

Your issues and my issues with regard to the larger fannish dynamics are the same, I think. Although I am also allergic to the incest -- but yes. Could we have a moratorium on John bashing, at least? The man's dead and not coming back -- people who don't like the character can go ahead and ignore him.

[cofax7]

> Could we have a moratorium on John bashing, at least?<

Yeah. Every once in a while I open a pre-series story and discover that the writer loathes John. Throws me right out, and it's frustrating to find it in a story that's otherwise very good.