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I'm now on Day 9 of whatever galloping crud my coworker gifted me with. I have missed more days of work from this than from anything else ever, including the flu and surgery. But I dragged my hopefully-no-longer-contagious self out of bed and over to Schaumburg because today is the first day of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
winchestmidwest. I think this is the first time the con has met outside of a hiatus, so we all got to watch the show together.
We actually started with a video presentation that condensed each of the first five seasons down to about a minute and a half, then summarized the theme of each season and the recurring characters we met there. Then we were supposed to have another discussion with the show's art department via Skype (something we did at the last WinMid), but they were busy with an episode and had to cancel, so we watched "The French Mistake" instead, and then turned on tonight's new ep. I was taking notes in the dark the whole time, so we'll see if I can remember what these scribbles mean.
The cool thing about watching an ep with a group of other fans is the instant feedback. I was not the only one having flashbacks to the X-Files episode "Ice," especially when non-infested Sam was suspected and restrained. The same thing happened to Mulder. Normally it bothers me a little when an episode of something reminds me so strongly of something else, but the bug hunt (a group of people trapped in a confined area with a non-human adversary--see the Alien franchise, Leviathan, the recent Greg Bear book Hull Zero Three, and a buttload of other movies, books, and TV episodes) is my favorite SF trope of all time, so I'm much more inclined to be forgiving.
It's also a good trope for cleaning house, and boy did they. A lot of recurring characters met their end tonight. I was sorry to see Gwen go. She seemed to be the one Campbell who had a good head on her shoulders. I was not sorry to see the back of Samuel, but it felt a little bit like cheating to killColonel Caldwell while he was infested with a Goa'uld Samuel while he was infested with the Khan worm. It would have had more resonance if Dean had followed through on killing Samuel like he swore he would after Samuel sold the Winchesters out to Crowley. It was interesting that Sam didn't really even flinch at shooting his own grandfather, but he couldn't watch Dean electrocute Goa'uld worm-infested Bobby.
I should have known this episode would be the end of Rufus when he suddenly developed a sense of humor he hadn't really had before (not that I'm complaining--the "it's not rocket surgery" line nearly killed me). I call shenanigans on Rufus showing up to kill Bobby's possessed wife though. There was nearly an entire episode ("Dream a Little Dream of Me," wasn't it?) devoted to Bobby's guilt over having to kill his wife because he didn't know she was possessed at the time (if he'd known then what he knows now, he could have saved her), and Rufus was never mentioned.
I guess we know what it means to be the Mother of All Monsters now. She can create whatever she wants, whenever she wants. That...doesn't bode well for the good guys for the rest of the season.
The last event of the con tonight was a variation of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, which involved pinning a pie on a target of Dean.
I'll have more con reports throughout the weekend.
winchestmidwest. I think this is the first time the con has met outside of a hiatus, so we all got to watch the show together.We actually started with a video presentation that condensed each of the first five seasons down to about a minute and a half, then summarized the theme of each season and the recurring characters we met there. Then we were supposed to have another discussion with the show's art department via Skype (something we did at the last WinMid), but they were busy with an episode and had to cancel, so we watched "The French Mistake" instead, and then turned on tonight's new ep. I was taking notes in the dark the whole time, so we'll see if I can remember what these scribbles mean.
The cool thing about watching an ep with a group of other fans is the instant feedback. I was not the only one having flashbacks to the X-Files episode "Ice," especially when non-infested Sam was suspected and restrained. The same thing happened to Mulder. Normally it bothers me a little when an episode of something reminds me so strongly of something else, but the bug hunt (a group of people trapped in a confined area with a non-human adversary--see the Alien franchise, Leviathan, the recent Greg Bear book Hull Zero Three, and a buttload of other movies, books, and TV episodes) is my favorite SF trope of all time, so I'm much more inclined to be forgiving.
It's also a good trope for cleaning house, and boy did they. A lot of recurring characters met their end tonight. I was sorry to see Gwen go. She seemed to be the one Campbell who had a good head on her shoulders. I was not sorry to see the back of Samuel, but it felt a little bit like cheating to kill
I should have known this episode would be the end of Rufus when he suddenly developed a sense of humor he hadn't really had before (not that I'm complaining--the "it's not rocket surgery" line nearly killed me). I call shenanigans on Rufus showing up to kill Bobby's possessed wife though. There was nearly an entire episode ("Dream a Little Dream of Me," wasn't it?) devoted to Bobby's guilt over having to kill his wife because he didn't know she was possessed at the time (if he'd known then what he knows now, he could have saved her), and Rufus was never mentioned.
I guess we know what it means to be the Mother of All Monsters now. She can create whatever she wants, whenever she wants. That...doesn't bode well for the good guys for the rest of the season.
The last event of the con tonight was a variation of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, which involved pinning a pie on a target of Dean.
I'll have more con reports throughout the weekend.
