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the_other_sandy) wrote2010-09-24 10:56 pm
the_other_sandy) wrote2010-09-24 10:56 pm
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SPN Ep: Exile on Main St.
Can't take it...the exposition...make it stop...
Except for the djinn attacks at the beginning and the end, the rest of the ep was exposition city. There was way too much info crammed into one episode and there wasn't time to do any of it justice.
Dean finding out Sam had been alive most of the last year was a big deal and deserved more than a handful of sentences. I can totally see both sides here. Dean didn't deserve to spend the last year grieving for a brother he thought was being tortured in hell when he wasn't, because Dean doesn't have to imagine what hell is like, he was there for 40 years himself. On the other hand, Sam is right, Dean never would have stayed with Lisa and Ben if he knew Sam was alive. While I don't really get any soulmate vibes from Dean and Lisa, the routine of living in the same house, going to the same job, meeting the same friend(s) for a brewski after work, and coming home to the same people who care about him day after day was probably the best thing that could have happened to Dean's PTSD. He seems much more stable now, and that wouldn't have happened if he'd gone right back to hunting with Sam.
Then we got the Campbell clan dumped in our laps. Samuel was supposed to be dead, as was everyone connected to Mary (Campbell) Winchester according to the research Sam did way back in season 3. That deserved an explanation instead of a handwave too. I hope there's an explanation coming, and soon, so I can decide how annoyed to be. And I hope that bringing random characters back to life just because they were popular isn't going to be a trend this season. If a character comes back, there needs to be a better and more plausible reason for it. But since we haven't gotten any explanations yet, I'll just have to reserve judgment. At least the YED wasn't really back. I liked him at the time, but bringing him back would have totally negated the whole story arc where the Winchesters hunted down and killed the thing that killed Mary, and that would have sucked.
I'm also of two minds about Sam turning down the Impala. On the one hand, it was a slap in the face to Dean, who hadn't offered it lightly, and it would have been the start of rebuilding a small bridge between them. On the other hand, the Impala really was John's and Dean's car and it may do Sam some good right now to have a car without quite so much emotional baggage attached. Goodness only knows what other issues he's dealing with because the show hasn't told us yet.
And as a really random complaint, what was up with the make-up in this ep? Most of the people were funny colors. Sam looked really yellow, Samuel looked really red, and Lisa was a weird shade of brown that didn't suggest a tan.
All of which was a crying shame because I really liked the opening montage that contrasted Dean's new and old lives. The lyrics to "Beautiful Loser" were also really appropriate. And then the exposition started and drove the episode right into the ground. I would be more worried about what this meant for the season if I hadn't disliked most of the season openers so far. The way I see it, the show has 21 more episodes to make it up to me.
Except for the djinn attacks at the beginning and the end, the rest of the ep was exposition city. There was way too much info crammed into one episode and there wasn't time to do any of it justice.
Dean finding out Sam had been alive most of the last year was a big deal and deserved more than a handful of sentences. I can totally see both sides here. Dean didn't deserve to spend the last year grieving for a brother he thought was being tortured in hell when he wasn't, because Dean doesn't have to imagine what hell is like, he was there for 40 years himself. On the other hand, Sam is right, Dean never would have stayed with Lisa and Ben if he knew Sam was alive. While I don't really get any soulmate vibes from Dean and Lisa, the routine of living in the same house, going to the same job, meeting the same friend(s) for a brewski after work, and coming home to the same people who care about him day after day was probably the best thing that could have happened to Dean's PTSD. He seems much more stable now, and that wouldn't have happened if he'd gone right back to hunting with Sam.
Then we got the Campbell clan dumped in our laps. Samuel was supposed to be dead, as was everyone connected to Mary (Campbell) Winchester according to the research Sam did way back in season 3. That deserved an explanation instead of a handwave too. I hope there's an explanation coming, and soon, so I can decide how annoyed to be. And I hope that bringing random characters back to life just because they were popular isn't going to be a trend this season. If a character comes back, there needs to be a better and more plausible reason for it. But since we haven't gotten any explanations yet, I'll just have to reserve judgment. At least the YED wasn't really back. I liked him at the time, but bringing him back would have totally negated the whole story arc where the Winchesters hunted down and killed the thing that killed Mary, and that would have sucked.
I'm also of two minds about Sam turning down the Impala. On the one hand, it was a slap in the face to Dean, who hadn't offered it lightly, and it would have been the start of rebuilding a small bridge between them. On the other hand, the Impala really was John's and Dean's car and it may do Sam some good right now to have a car without quite so much emotional baggage attached. Goodness only knows what other issues he's dealing with because the show hasn't told us yet.
And as a really random complaint, what was up with the make-up in this ep? Most of the people were funny colors. Sam looked really yellow, Samuel looked really red, and Lisa was a weird shade of brown that didn't suggest a tan.
All of which was a crying shame because I really liked the opening montage that contrasted Dean's new and old lives. The lyrics to "Beautiful Loser" were also really appropriate. And then the exposition started and drove the episode right into the ground. I would be more worried about what this meant for the season if I hadn't disliked most of the season openers so far. The way I see it, the show has 21 more episodes to make it up to me.