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the_other_sandy) wrote2011-09-23 11:06 pm
the_other_sandy) wrote2011-09-23 11:06 pm
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SPN Ep: Meet the New Boss
The owls are not what they seem.
I've read plenty of fic where Sam or Dean are tortured in hell by being made to think they're free and/or with each other, only to have the fake reality yanked out from under them. That plot works really well in fic because we're experiencing events from the tortured character's point of view, so we don't know what's real and what isn't any better than the POV character does. Unfortunately, the show has to show us what Bobby and Dean are up to when they're not with Sam, so we know what's real and what isn't even if Sam doesn't. Kind of kills the suspense. The only thing I'm wondering now is whether Lucifer is a totally fictional construct of poor Sam's scrambled brain, or if the real Lucifer has managed to telepathically connect with Sam somehow now that the wall has come down and is inflicting this mental torture on him.
Based on the season finale, I figured Castiel would be the Big Bad this season, but I thought it would be Castiel corrupted by the power of purgatory's souls, not Castiel's host Jimmy possessed by a leviathan (or leviathans--it looked like there might have been more than one stuck in there). So Misha will still be around, but it'll be interesting to see if Castiel is still alive in there trying to battle the leviathan(s), or if it is (they are?) the sole inhabitant(s) of Jimmy now and Castiel is really dead (not that anyone ever stays dead on Supernatural). I think poor Jimmy can kiss what's left of his sanity goodbye though.
I'm sure there are people who were upset that the show didn't use "Carry On Wayward Son" for the THEN section, but as much as I like that song (and liked it long before Supernatural got ahold of it), I was kind of burning out on it after all these years so it was nice to hear another song in the mix, even though I'm not a fan of Foghat.
So, long story short: I'm not really feeling any suspense or urgency about what's going on at the moment, but I am curious about how it's going to play out.
I've read plenty of fic where Sam or Dean are tortured in hell by being made to think they're free and/or with each other, only to have the fake reality yanked out from under them. That plot works really well in fic because we're experiencing events from the tortured character's point of view, so we don't know what's real and what isn't any better than the POV character does. Unfortunately, the show has to show us what Bobby and Dean are up to when they're not with Sam, so we know what's real and what isn't even if Sam doesn't. Kind of kills the suspense. The only thing I'm wondering now is whether Lucifer is a totally fictional construct of poor Sam's scrambled brain, or if the real Lucifer has managed to telepathically connect with Sam somehow now that the wall has come down and is inflicting this mental torture on him.
Based on the season finale, I figured Castiel would be the Big Bad this season, but I thought it would be Castiel corrupted by the power of purgatory's souls, not Castiel's host Jimmy possessed by a leviathan (or leviathans--it looked like there might have been more than one stuck in there). So Misha will still be around, but it'll be interesting to see if Castiel is still alive in there trying to battle the leviathan(s), or if it is (they are?) the sole inhabitant(s) of Jimmy now and Castiel is really dead (not that anyone ever stays dead on Supernatural). I think poor Jimmy can kiss what's left of his sanity goodbye though.
I'm sure there are people who were upset that the show didn't use "Carry On Wayward Son" for the THEN section, but as much as I like that song (and liked it long before Supernatural got ahold of it), I was kind of burning out on it after all these years so it was nice to hear another song in the mix, even though I'm not a fan of Foghat.
So, long story short: I'm not really feeling any suspense or urgency about what's going on at the moment, but I am curious about how it's going to play out.
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