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Geez, does The CW usually take this long to upload eps? I thought for sure I'd be making this post last Friday.
I was kind of underwhelmed with this episode. For it being the first of two eps that are supposed to wrap up the apocalypse, it didn't seem like much happened. Possibly because this episode continued the recent trend of making the Winchesters spectators in their own story. The big thing that needed to happen before the final showdown with Lucifer was that Sam and Dean needed to get the final two rings from Pestilence and Death. They didn't. Castiel got the ring from Pestilence, and Death just took his off and handed it to Dean over dinner (does this mean they're engaged now?). Hopefully the boys will get to be a little more proactive in the season finale, because if the Magical Plot Resolution Fairy swoops in to save them, I'll be forced to throw large, heavy things at my TV and no one wants to see that.
Why did the show have to turn Bobby selling his soul into a Saturday Night Live skit? Tongue, show? Really? This is Bobby's soul we're talking about, and does anybody really trust Crowley to just hand it back? After everything that Bobby has been and done for the boys, he deserves more respect than to have his sacrifice turned into a scene from the "Changing Channels" sitcom.
And I really didn't want a magical cure for Bobby's paralysis either. I wasn't very happy when the show first went there, but since it did, I totally agree with Jim Beaver that there are millions of people who would like to get up out of their wheelchairs and walk but can't, so Bobby should just have to deal with it because life's that way. Before now, we mostly saw hunters who were killed on the job; we never really got to see what would happen to hunters who were grievously injured but didn't die. Pamela Barnes was blinded, but her adjustment to her disability wasn't explored in any great detail. Watching Bobby have to deal with his new disability was an interesting character arc for him, so I actually kind of hope that Bobby loses his ability to walk again when Crowley gives him his soul back.
After having the first two horsemen played by actors I didn't know, I was very happy to see Julian Richings (Bucky Haight from Hard Core Logo--ask a due South fan) as Death and Matt Frewer (from...pretty much everything cool) as Pestilence.
I spent most of the warehouse scene wondering what the heck was up with Bobby. He kept staring at Sam with such a look of shocked surprise that I thought, (a) Bobby could see reapers after Crowley "borrowed" his soul, (b) Sam was about to turn evil, or (c) one of the civilians Sam was rescuing was actually a demon and about to kill Sam. But no, apparently Bobby was so gobsmacked by the sight of Sam saving people (something he and Dean have been doing most of their lives) that he had to stand there and gawp. It was nice of the show to remember that there's more to Sam than the mistakes he made last season, but that was kind of insulting. It was nice to see Sam get his badass on again though.
I loved how everyone was out to save Chicago from the giant storm that was going to kill us all. Umm, it's Chicago in springtime. It's not like anyone here could tell Death's Apocalypse Storm of the Millennium from our usual weather. Although it was nice of Death to ultimately spare us because our pizza is so awesome. We do have awesome pizza. The rest of our Italian food is really good too.
So, here's hoping the boys can put a cap on the apocalypse themselves next Thursday. And that Bobby doesn't die. I think it's Sam's turn to die in a season finale anyway.
I was kind of underwhelmed with this episode. For it being the first of two eps that are supposed to wrap up the apocalypse, it didn't seem like much happened. Possibly because this episode continued the recent trend of making the Winchesters spectators in their own story. The big thing that needed to happen before the final showdown with Lucifer was that Sam and Dean needed to get the final two rings from Pestilence and Death. They didn't. Castiel got the ring from Pestilence, and Death just took his off and handed it to Dean over dinner (does this mean they're engaged now?). Hopefully the boys will get to be a little more proactive in the season finale, because if the Magical Plot Resolution Fairy swoops in to save them, I'll be forced to throw large, heavy things at my TV and no one wants to see that.
Why did the show have to turn Bobby selling his soul into a Saturday Night Live skit? Tongue, show? Really? This is Bobby's soul we're talking about, and does anybody really trust Crowley to just hand it back? After everything that Bobby has been and done for the boys, he deserves more respect than to have his sacrifice turned into a scene from the "Changing Channels" sitcom.
And I really didn't want a magical cure for Bobby's paralysis either. I wasn't very happy when the show first went there, but since it did, I totally agree with Jim Beaver that there are millions of people who would like to get up out of their wheelchairs and walk but can't, so Bobby should just have to deal with it because life's that way. Before now, we mostly saw hunters who were killed on the job; we never really got to see what would happen to hunters who were grievously injured but didn't die. Pamela Barnes was blinded, but her adjustment to her disability wasn't explored in any great detail. Watching Bobby have to deal with his new disability was an interesting character arc for him, so I actually kind of hope that Bobby loses his ability to walk again when Crowley gives him his soul back.
After having the first two horsemen played by actors I didn't know, I was very happy to see Julian Richings (Bucky Haight from Hard Core Logo--ask a due South fan) as Death and Matt Frewer (from...pretty much everything cool) as Pestilence.
I spent most of the warehouse scene wondering what the heck was up with Bobby. He kept staring at Sam with such a look of shocked surprise that I thought, (a) Bobby could see reapers after Crowley "borrowed" his soul, (b) Sam was about to turn evil, or (c) one of the civilians Sam was rescuing was actually a demon and about to kill Sam. But no, apparently Bobby was so gobsmacked by the sight of Sam saving people (something he and Dean have been doing most of their lives) that he had to stand there and gawp. It was nice of the show to remember that there's more to Sam than the mistakes he made last season, but that was kind of insulting. It was nice to see Sam get his badass on again though.
I loved how everyone was out to save Chicago from the giant storm that was going to kill us all. Umm, it's Chicago in springtime. It's not like anyone here could tell Death's Apocalypse Storm of the Millennium from our usual weather. Although it was nice of Death to ultimately spare us because our pizza is so awesome. We do have awesome pizza. The rest of our Italian food is really good too.
So, here's hoping the boys can put a cap on the apocalypse themselves next Thursday. And that Bobby doesn't die. I think it's Sam's turn to die in a season finale anyway.
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Date: 2010-05-11 12:48 am (UTC)From:Death just took his off and handed it to Dean over dinner (does this mean they're engaged now?)
No, Death never got down on one knee! ;)
Hope the finale delivers!
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Date: 2010-05-11 12:54 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-05-11 02:38 am (UTC)From:I know, I know, Apocalypse on a budget. That doesn't mean you disrespect your own main characters enough to have them bumbling around in the wake of the Newest and Shiniest Demon; I'm also a little annoyed that apparently Dean needs Bobby to tell him how awesome Sam is and has been his whole life. Reminded, maybe, after the fact that he's over 60 years old now and the majority of that time was apparently spent not even in Sam's company; but he certainly, for the first 29 years of his life, knew EXACTLY how awesome Sam was and is.
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Date: 2010-05-12 12:42 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-05-11 06:08 am (UTC)From:I must admit The Storm of the Millenium we saw outside the window was not as impressive as some weather I've been through here. But we do have awesome pizza :-)
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Date: 2010-05-12 12:47 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-05-11 08:19 pm (UTC)From:-Samazon
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Date: 2010-05-12 01:11 am (UTC)From:I agree that Crowley was up to something, but I have no idea what. I mean, what was up with all the reapers? Unless Death was actually in the warehouse doing something that Crowley and/or Death didn't want Dean to know about, so Crowley and Death decided where Death would meet Dean, and then Crowley came back and led Dean to the pizzeria. Maybe Lucifer was in the warehouse too (since he has Death on a leash), and since Crowley and Death are working against Lucifer, they'd have to meet with Dean elsewhere?