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Boy, it's been a long two months. I missed you, show.
So, it's been one month since Dean's confession in the mid-season finale, and Dean has been working them both non-stop since then. They're even sleeping in the car. I suppose it's even odds whether he was working himself that hard so he wouldn't have to think about what happened to him in hell, or whether he was working Sam that hard so that Sam wouldn't have the time or energy to pursue the issue further. Probably a little of both.
I liked the main plot. It was interesting to see what a "haunting" felt like from an innocent family's perspective. Of course, the haunting turned out to not really be one. Jeremy Carver could have just as easily called this episode "The Revenge of Missy Bender." It was the first time in awhile the Winchesters have had to deal with a human monster.
I wish Sam had had a more proactive role in the episode, though. Dean picked the job. Dean herded the family around. Dean tracked the feral daughter through the house. Dean rescued the son. Sam? Read Rebecca's diary and then ran up to each scene just as things finished happening. I understand that the main focus was on Dean trying to make up for torturing those other souls in hell (and enjoying it), but I don't think it would've taken the focus away from Dean if Sam had had a little more to do. Maybe I'm just cranky because it's been two months and I wanted to see both brothers get their badass on.
When Suze answered the question of whether or not her family was okay with, "We're the opposite of okay, but we're together," I was really hoping that was an object lesson Dean would take home with him, but so far, no dice. Maybe later in the season. I'd really like Dean to realize at some point that he can lean on Sam for awhile.
My only real issue with the episode was with the feral children. I can cope with them being locked up and ignored (it's tragic, but it happens in real life). But Danny said "the girl in the walls" told him that he could stay, yet the feral children who turned up in person later in the episode seemed to be completely non-verbal, which is what you'd expect from their circumstances. And who was scribbling the notes in blood? Granted, "Go" and "Too late" aren't exactly Shakespearean in scope, but they might as well be in Swahili to someone who can't read or write, and somehow I doubt these two kids were home schooled. The whole plot was an interesting idea, but the feral kids we eventually saw seemed very different from the ones who were anonymously terrorizing the house earlier.
So, it's been one month since Dean's confession in the mid-season finale, and Dean has been working them both non-stop since then. They're even sleeping in the car. I suppose it's even odds whether he was working himself that hard so he wouldn't have to think about what happened to him in hell, or whether he was working Sam that hard so that Sam wouldn't have the time or energy to pursue the issue further. Probably a little of both.
I liked the main plot. It was interesting to see what a "haunting" felt like from an innocent family's perspective. Of course, the haunting turned out to not really be one. Jeremy Carver could have just as easily called this episode "The Revenge of Missy Bender." It was the first time in awhile the Winchesters have had to deal with a human monster.
I wish Sam had had a more proactive role in the episode, though. Dean picked the job. Dean herded the family around. Dean tracked the feral daughter through the house. Dean rescued the son. Sam? Read Rebecca's diary and then ran up to each scene just as things finished happening. I understand that the main focus was on Dean trying to make up for torturing those other souls in hell (and enjoying it), but I don't think it would've taken the focus away from Dean if Sam had had a little more to do. Maybe I'm just cranky because it's been two months and I wanted to see both brothers get their badass on.
When Suze answered the question of whether or not her family was okay with, "We're the opposite of okay, but we're together," I was really hoping that was an object lesson Dean would take home with him, but so far, no dice. Maybe later in the season. I'd really like Dean to realize at some point that he can lean on Sam for awhile.
My only real issue with the episode was with the feral children. I can cope with them being locked up and ignored (it's tragic, but it happens in real life). But Danny said "the girl in the walls" told him that he could stay, yet the feral children who turned up in person later in the episode seemed to be completely non-verbal, which is what you'd expect from their circumstances. And who was scribbling the notes in blood? Granted, "Go" and "Too late" aren't exactly Shakespearean in scope, but they might as well be in Swahili to someone who can't read or write, and somehow I doubt these two kids were home schooled. The whole plot was an interesting idea, but the feral kids we eventually saw seemed very different from the ones who were anonymously terrorizing the house earlier.
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Date: 2009-01-23 01:25 am (UTC)From:I didn't think Dean identified with the monsters so much as feel sorry for them. Those feral kids weren't inherently evil, they were the product of an abusive and neglectful upbringing (and I'm sure the inbreeding didn't help much either) and really didn't know any better. Unfortunately, they were well past the age where therapy might make them functional.
I think the roadside confession thing is actually what Dean needs to talk to Sam. The car is right there so he can make a break for it if things get too heavy, they're in a semi-public place so Sam might be more restrained in his reactions than if they were completely in private, and it's easy for Dean to avoid looking at Sam's face (the key thing). I hope Dean eventually gets to the point where he does look Sam in the face during one of these confessions because I don't think he's going to see what he's afraid he's going to see there.
Now I'm wondering what happened to Missy Bender. She's another one who was a product of her upbringing, but she was right on the border of an age where therapy might or might not have been useful.