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the_other_sandy) wrote2011-09-30 10:52 pm
the_other_sandy) wrote2011-09-30 10:52 pm
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SPN Ep: Hello, Cruel World
This was the first episode in a long time to make my stomach knot up, and I mean that in a good way.
I had a feeling there was more than one leviathan stuck inside Jimmy. I wonder how many are actually out there? It looked like quite a few at the reservoir. And I wonder what happened to Jimmy's body? It was kind of implied that it went 'splody, but if it did, then the trenchcoat wouldn't still be intact like it was. Then again, it's still in one piece after everything else Castiel has put it through, so it clearly has some pretty mad survival skillz.
I'm having trouble figuring out how the leviathans work. Watching the black goo enter victims and take over their bodies was pretty obvious at first, but then later we saw the little girl and the high school boys shapeshift into the people they wanted to be (and, I assume, eat the originals, because those bodies never turned up and the leviathans were hungry).
I've seen a lot of complaints that Sam's PTSD is getting more screen time than Dean's ever did, but I don't think Sam is actually suffering from PTSD (not that both boys haven't earned the right to a bucketload of PTSD symptoms), at least not by itself. PTSD doesn't cause hallucinations, just flashbacks (along with insomnia, hypervigilance, etc., etc.). Dean had flashbacks to what happened to him in hell back in season 4. Sam has had two flashbacks, one last season and one last episode. This Lucifer stuff is all new material, not something that has already happened to Sam, so I think there's something else going on. But if it really is Sam's own brain torturing him with Lucifer hallucinations trying to talk Sam into killing himself, then wow, Sam's brain is a very unhappy place. "It had to be a mess, Sam, or you wouldn't believe it was your life." So sad, but so true.
Meanwhile, Sam discovered (with Dean's help) that inflicting pain on himself can make the hallucinations flicker. On the one hand that's a quick and easy way for Sam to tell what's real and what isn't, but on the other hand self-harm. Somehow I can't see this going well.
Bobby's "idjit" is clearly how Singers say "I love you." It was very sweet and made me long for a "bitch/jerk" moment. I really hope the show doesn't end without giving us one more of those. Even though Sam and Dean's relationship is much better than it was, to me they won't truly be reconciled without a "bitch/jerk."
That cliffhanger was a dirty rotten trick. I can't wait for next week.
I had a feeling there was more than one leviathan stuck inside Jimmy. I wonder how many are actually out there? It looked like quite a few at the reservoir. And I wonder what happened to Jimmy's body? It was kind of implied that it went 'splody, but if it did, then the trenchcoat wouldn't still be intact like it was. Then again, it's still in one piece after everything else Castiel has put it through, so it clearly has some pretty mad survival skillz.
I'm having trouble figuring out how the leviathans work. Watching the black goo enter victims and take over their bodies was pretty obvious at first, but then later we saw the little girl and the high school boys shapeshift into the people they wanted to be (and, I assume, eat the originals, because those bodies never turned up and the leviathans were hungry).
I've seen a lot of complaints that Sam's PTSD is getting more screen time than Dean's ever did, but I don't think Sam is actually suffering from PTSD (not that both boys haven't earned the right to a bucketload of PTSD symptoms), at least not by itself. PTSD doesn't cause hallucinations, just flashbacks (along with insomnia, hypervigilance, etc., etc.). Dean had flashbacks to what happened to him in hell back in season 4. Sam has had two flashbacks, one last season and one last episode. This Lucifer stuff is all new material, not something that has already happened to Sam, so I think there's something else going on. But if it really is Sam's own brain torturing him with Lucifer hallucinations trying to talk Sam into killing himself, then wow, Sam's brain is a very unhappy place. "It had to be a mess, Sam, or you wouldn't believe it was your life." So sad, but so true.
Meanwhile, Sam discovered (with Dean's help) that inflicting pain on himself can make the hallucinations flicker. On the one hand that's a quick and easy way for Sam to tell what's real and what isn't, but on the other hand self-harm. Somehow I can't see this going well.
Bobby's "idjit" is clearly how Singers say "I love you." It was very sweet and made me long for a "bitch/jerk" moment. I really hope the show doesn't end without giving us one more of those. Even though Sam and Dean's relationship is much better than it was, to me they won't truly be reconciled without a "bitch/jerk."
That cliffhanger was a dirty rotten trick. I can't wait for next week.
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Just correcting facts, this one is really a pet peeve of mine, sorry. ;)
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Still, these seemed to be very long-lasting and complex hallucinations for this just to be PTSD. And besides, the show is called Supernatural for a reason. I would be very surprised if there wasn't something more going on.
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But I agree in there, it's probably going to be a plot device for something else. After all, the show never labels issues for what they could be realistically.