Episode reaction, 3x14

[britomart_is]

Ladeedadeeda.



NO FIGHT. DO NOT LIKE. (The boys fighting was awesome on a dramatic level but SO UPSETTING.)

Oh, DEAN. That HURT to watch, you wanted a way out so much. Of course you're scared. I really just felt Dean falling apart in this episode, in a lot of sort of subtle ways - he just felt off.

The moment-killing at the end was pretty great. I felt like that feeling ran throughout the whole episode, though - like the boys are both reaching such peaks of tension, but also being pulled away from each other, so their communication is breaking down. Dean's on the defensive, Sam's ... pulling back, almost?

Dude. TEETH. OH. MY. GOD. TEEEEEEEETH. Gah. Gross. Though apparently unnecessary, since it didn't actually bite people.

I thought the pacing of this episode was weird. Anyone else get that?

Sam was PURTY. I loved his dimples (and, well, his everything) when he was outside talking to the teenage girl (who called him on his cheap suit! hee!)

Boooooys. I want to make you all better.

Dean recommends the platinum membership. Naturally.

Gah. I'm just ... unsettled and perturbed. I don't think it's because of the quality of the episode, I think it's because that's exactly what the episode was intended to do.

Comments

[ninhursag.livejournal.com]

You know, whatever you may or may not say about season three, it certainly has given us an abundance of riches in the form of tied up and beautiful Sam.

[britomart-is.livejournal.com]

Ehehehehe true. I'm sure it's someone's job to tie Jared Padalecki to chairs. And that someone is bribing the writers.
Now they just need to get with the program and tie him to a bed.

[ninhursag.livejournal.com]

I would like to know who I can bribe to get the job of tying Jared Padalecki to -- well, anything.

[britomart-is.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should just send them your resume (in the special skills section you can say how many knots you can tie.) And in the cover letter, you could list ideas for things you could tie him to, so they know you're a serious applicant:

• chair
  
• bed
  
• table
  
• pole
  
• crucifix (yes, we picked up on the imagery, thanks)
  
• Jensen
  

[britomart-is.livejournal.com]

I knoooow! Sam was so controlled and Dean was so FREAKED. It really got under my skin.
Oh, Deeeeeeeean! Don't worry, sweetie, your brother's probably the Antichrist! That's gotta be helpful!

[britomart-is.livejournal.com]

Sam: I'm really tired, Dean.
Dean: You're a terrible brother.
Sam: How about a limerick?
Dean: Haiku. *glares*
Sam:
Don't worry, brother
I'm planning to go darkside
And bitchslap demons
Dean: *tears up*

(And yes, PLEASE let Sam go Antichrist. The hotness might actually kill me.)

[britomart-is.livejournal.com]

Heeeee awesome. We are poetic geniuses.

(And Dean secretly wants to be courted with poetry and schmoopiness, but he can't say it and is sulking that Sam hasn't figured it out yet. He is very displeased that he's seduced all these people and no one's ever written a poem about him.)

[britomart-is.livejournal.com]

(When Sam gets very, very drunk, which takes about four beers, he gets either morose or sappy. Dean far prefers the latter, especially when Sam is draped over him talking about his preeeetty eyes. It's not poetry, but it's something. He doesn't like it so much when Sam starts loudly telling the bartender just how much he loves Dean, because they're starting to attract stares. When he gets Sam home, Sam's too drunk to do anything but make out like teenagers, cuddle, and stare soulfully into Dean's eyes. In the morning, Dean pretends he didn't totally love it.)

[britomart-is.livejournal.com]

(Sam claims he doesn't remember a thing from last night, but he's lying. Dean's making fun of him even as he takes care of him, and Sam's remembering Dean's hand petting through Sam's hair, Dean's smile in the darkness when Sam dropped butterfly kisses all over his face, the things Dean said that he never would if he thought Sam'd remember in the morning, IloveyouIloveyouIloveyou. Dean tells Sam he drinks like a girl and Sam grins like a loon because if Dean wants girly he can have girly.

They go to the new Alien vs. Predator movie and it sucks, and for the first twenty minutes Dean gripes and pushes Sam away when Sam leans over to kiss him, claims he wants to watch the action onscreen. Thirty minutes in and Sam's practically in Dean's lap, glad they're in the back row, and Dean's sure as hell not complaining as he grips Sam closer and lets out desperate little breaths against Sam's skin. Sam's hands never even go below the waist, because that's not what this is about.

After that it's footsie at breakfast. Dean raises an eyebrow at first and tells him to stop kicking, but eventually he seems to get the point. He acts like he's not so into it, but Sam notices that Dean begins to do it absentmindedly, feet tangling with Sam's. When Dean orders, he says yes to whipped cream on his pancakes and Sam thinks that's a very good sign.

Sam's never told Dean about the trauma that was his poetry class first semester at Stanford, but Sam's never forgetting that humiliation. Sure, Dean brought him back from the dead, but if he read one of Sam's poems Sam is still concerned that he'd find his ass dumped out on the roadside. )

[britomart-is.livejournal.com]

*twirls you in circles*

[gottalovev.livejournal.com]

heee! this (and everything below) is so awesome. =D

[elzybub.livejournal.com]

I was actually slightly disappointed by this episode. Though that may be because I was expecting something completely different based on the commercials. Stupid lying commercials.

[britomart-is.livejournal.com]

I'm ... unsettled. I think I like it, because I sort of want to be unsettled at this point in the season, but it's not one of those I'm going to rewatch over and over on the DVDs.
The commercials ALWAYS lie. Grrr.

[sarah-p.livejournal.com]

I thought the pacing of this episode was weird. Anyone else get that?

Ahh, I totally agree, and I think that helped contribute to the unsettled feeling. I don't know what it was, but it was only, like, halfway through, and Dean was getting all ready to do fake!John's plan, and it seemed early, and it wrapped up at a weird spot, and I can't really EXPLAIN it, but--YES. I GOT THAT, TOO.

[britomart-is.livejournal.com]

Good, not just me! I feel like they're messing with us. *glances around nervously*
My GOD what is this season going to turn out to be? I'm pretty unspoiled for the rest and I just don't know what to expect.

[dreamlittleyo.livejournal.com]

Gah. I'm just ... unsettled and perturbed. I don't think it's because of the quality of the episode, I think it's because that's exactly what the episode was intended to do.
I know, right? I definitely spent the whole episode completely on edge, and pretty sure it had nothing to do with the MotW. I LOVED their fight right at the beginning of the episode. Didn't love how completely off they felt the rest of the way through, but I agree with you that this was Totally Intentional. *nod* Hopefully the emotional payoff will be SO AWESOME that the pain is worth it.

Though I don't really GET (like can't quite embrace it as the canon it is) that Dean's all up in Sam's face about SAM not doing enough to help get him out of the deal. I get the switch to not wanting to go to Hell. Totally behind that. But he's oscillated to the far end of the spectrum, and it's not like he can't see Sam working his ASS off (failing, granted, but still!) and freaking out right beside him. That whole accusatory "Hey, at least I'M trying to get me out of this deal" felt not only unfair, but out of character--even for a Dean so freaked to hell that he's not behaving like himself.

Ummmyes. GOOD SHOW! WANT MORE! KRIPKE MAKE IT BETTER NOW PLEASE.

[britomart-is.livejournal.com]

I look forward to Dean's "I take it back! I take it back! You were trying hard enough already!" when Antichrist!Sam starts gathering his infernal legions, scorching the earth, etc. Aaaaaah I want to see Sam go way too far to save Dean. Come on now, show. You've been leading us there for so long, you can't chicken out.

[dreamlittleyo.livejournal.com]

I'm betting on total chicken-out, sadly. It's not that I don't have faith in Show. It's that making Sam the Antichrist would sorta break the world. Though I'm STILL really curious and excited to see where they DO decide to go with it. Kripke's earned a lot of faith--I'll give it to him for now. *nod*

[dreamlittleyo.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly! *flails* But SO GOOD, and I'm ridiculously nervous (/excited) to see how they end out the season in the tiny-few episodes we've got left. Kripke HAS to realize that leaving Dean under the axe for another ENTIRE SUMMER will make his entire fanbase spontaneously combust in all the wrong ways, right?

[dreamlittleyo.livejournal.com]

Ohmygod I hadn't even CONSIDERED that possibility! No! He can't DO that to us! *whimpers* Then again, the flock over at sammessiah will certainly grow, and THAT can only mean more delicious Antichrist!Sammy fic for us, yes/yes? It's almost sufficient consolation.

[larienelengasse.livejournal.com]

Dean is killing me. Seriously. Seeing him so freaked out freaked me out... It's like when the one who's your rock falls apart, it leaves you feeling totally un-moored. I just know that's what Sammy's feeling even though he is hiding it.

There's a real tension in Sam now, especially since Malleus Maleficarum. I swear to God... if that Hellhound comes for Dean, he's gonna snap, and it ain't going to be pretty.

[britomart-is.livejournal.com]

*wants to see Sam snap*