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The hard drive transplant is scheduled for Sunday night. It'll probably take me an evening or two to reinstall everything, but the first thing I'm reinstalling? My ISP software. What the heck did I do with myself before the Internet? The idea of having virtually no computer access for the next 72 hours or so is killing me.
I suppose I should start with the disclaimer that I don't think most of the humor episodes are all that funny. A couple of them have been, but for the most part, I find myself watching them as if they were regular episodes because it's not my type of humor. This episode was no exception. It wasn't bad as a straight episode, but as a comic episode it didn't really send me. I did get a kick out of Dean Smith and Sam Wesson (and, yes, I did catch the names) turning to the Ghostfacers website for help with their ghost problem. And now I want to get Sam and Dean some Dr. Horrible "You Are Not My Nemesis" T-shirts to wear the next time they meet the Ghostfacers in person.
Scattered amongst all the humor, though, were some telling commentaries on the Winchesters and their lives. It's interesting, but not really unexpected, that Sam and Dean's real lives and memories are the equivalent of horrifying nightmares for a normal person. Sam and Dean make some hunting-related things look so mundane (tossing salt at a ghost to temporarily dissipate it? just another day at the office) that it's easy to forget that someone who hasn't had their training or seen what they've seen would freak the heck out.
It's also interesting that without all the emotional baggage they've managed to accumulate, they actually do like hunting. We've known that about Dean (he really enjoyed hunting up until John died), but this is news about Sam. Maybe if John had been able to relate to Sam better when he was a kid, Sam would've been on board with hunting all along. I think he just resented the idea that he was never given a choice about it. Still, they do have a U-Haul trailer's worth of baggage that they drag around with them, and this experience isn't going to make those memories go away, but it may help them refocus on the 'saving people' aspect of hunting things, which is a lot more satisfying than trying to meet sales quotas or telling people to reboot their computers all day.
There was also a parallel to the boys' current relationship with Sam Wesson repeatedly reaching out to Dean Smith, only to have Dean push him away. Even with both of them deciding to quit their jobs in favor of hunting on the same day, I'm not convinced they would've gone hunting together. It was great to see them both working as a team again, though, even if it wasn't for long.
Then the whole experience turned out to be an object lesson created by Castiel's boss Zachariah for the express purpose of telling Dean to put on his big boy underpants and get on with the apocalypse-stopping already. And yet Zachariah told Dean that Dean would do everything he was destined to do, which implies the angels have more in mind for him than just stopping the apocalypse.
It seems like this episode was meant to be the turning point from all the heavy angst that's gone on this season. Sam and Dean have both hit rock bottom and there's (hopefully) nowhere to go but up. I hope that's true, because I'm ready for Sam and Dean to reach a point where they can try to rebuild their relationship into the unshakable team they used to be.
I suppose I should start with the disclaimer that I don't think most of the humor episodes are all that funny. A couple of them have been, but for the most part, I find myself watching them as if they were regular episodes because it's not my type of humor. This episode was no exception. It wasn't bad as a straight episode, but as a comic episode it didn't really send me. I did get a kick out of Dean Smith and Sam Wesson (and, yes, I did catch the names) turning to the Ghostfacers website for help with their ghost problem. And now I want to get Sam and Dean some Dr. Horrible "You Are Not My Nemesis" T-shirts to wear the next time they meet the Ghostfacers in person.
Scattered amongst all the humor, though, were some telling commentaries on the Winchesters and their lives. It's interesting, but not really unexpected, that Sam and Dean's real lives and memories are the equivalent of horrifying nightmares for a normal person. Sam and Dean make some hunting-related things look so mundane (tossing salt at a ghost to temporarily dissipate it? just another day at the office) that it's easy to forget that someone who hasn't had their training or seen what they've seen would freak the heck out.
It's also interesting that without all the emotional baggage they've managed to accumulate, they actually do like hunting. We've known that about Dean (he really enjoyed hunting up until John died), but this is news about Sam. Maybe if John had been able to relate to Sam better when he was a kid, Sam would've been on board with hunting all along. I think he just resented the idea that he was never given a choice about it. Still, they do have a U-Haul trailer's worth of baggage that they drag around with them, and this experience isn't going to make those memories go away, but it may help them refocus on the 'saving people' aspect of hunting things, which is a lot more satisfying than trying to meet sales quotas or telling people to reboot their computers all day.
There was also a parallel to the boys' current relationship with Sam Wesson repeatedly reaching out to Dean Smith, only to have Dean push him away. Even with both of them deciding to quit their jobs in favor of hunting on the same day, I'm not convinced they would've gone hunting together. It was great to see them both working as a team again, though, even if it wasn't for long.
Then the whole experience turned out to be an object lesson created by Castiel's boss Zachariah for the express purpose of telling Dean to put on his big boy underpants and get on with the apocalypse-stopping already. And yet Zachariah told Dean that Dean would do everything he was destined to do, which implies the angels have more in mind for him than just stopping the apocalypse.
It seems like this episode was meant to be the turning point from all the heavy angst that's gone on this season. Sam and Dean have both hit rock bottom and there's (hopefully) nowhere to go but up. I hope that's true, because I'm ready for Sam and Dean to reach a point where they can try to rebuild their relationship into the unshakable team they used to be.
