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darkemeraldsI sort of...hated tonight's Supernatural.
vampirefan and I have been rewatching the entire series and have finally gotten to the beginning of season 5. I have to say that a lot of what seemed random and disconnected throughout season 4 turned out to be connected to the overall arc in S5.
So maybe "My Bloody Valentine" will turn out to work the same way. Maybe Cupid wasn't just another variation on the Trickster/Siren type of theme. Maybe reiterating Sam's blood addiction AGAIN (even though he supposedly never needed the blood in the first place) is meaningful, and his second stint in the iron room is good storytelling in service of somethin' we ain't seen yet.
Maybe that over-the-top, gross-even-for-SPN bloody gory violence was, I dunno, symbolic of the opposite of what Dean is, all empty and soulless and...WTF???
Maybe the repeat of one of the Winchesters saying "No" to being the vessel of one of the archangels after a really, really tempting set of manipulations is actually going somewhere. Maybe Team Free Will is still in motion on the field, and heading for some kind of goal line. But once again, I find myself doubting it.
Demons lie. Horsemen lie. Angels lie. Archangels lie. Everyone's manipulating Sam and Dean--except when they aren't. And those of us playing along at home can't tell. SHOW has given us one thing to hope for--Team Free Will--and ten thousand iterations of "You have to because it's your destiny" (including tonight's little--rather embarrassingly bad--Cupid excursion)...
Gah! I love SHOW. You all know I do. But I can't honestly say I love it because it's well-written.
Also? Jared, seriously. Is it steroids?
vampirefan and I have been rewatching the entire series and have finally gotten to the beginning of season 5. I have to say that a lot of what seemed random and disconnected throughout season 4 turned out to be connected to the overall arc in S5. So maybe "My Bloody Valentine" will turn out to work the same way. Maybe Cupid wasn't just another variation on the Trickster/Siren type of theme. Maybe reiterating Sam's blood addiction AGAIN (even though he supposedly never needed the blood in the first place) is meaningful, and his second stint in the iron room is good storytelling in service of somethin' we ain't seen yet.
Maybe that over-the-top, gross-even-for-SPN bloody gory violence was, I dunno, symbolic of the opposite of what Dean is, all empty and soulless and...WTF???
Maybe the repeat of one of the Winchesters saying "No" to being the vessel of one of the archangels after a really, really tempting set of manipulations is actually going somewhere. Maybe Team Free Will is still in motion on the field, and heading for some kind of goal line. But once again, I find myself doubting it.
Demons lie. Horsemen lie. Angels lie. Archangels lie. Everyone's manipulating Sam and Dean--except when they aren't. And those of us playing along at home can't tell. SHOW has given us one thing to hope for--Team Free Will--and ten thousand iterations of "You have to because it's your destiny" (including tonight's little--rather embarrassingly bad--Cupid excursion)...
Gah! I love SHOW. You all know I do. But I can't honestly say I love it because it's well-written.
Also? Jared, seriously. Is it steroids?