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the_other_sandy) wrote2012-05-04 09:57 pm
the_other_sandy) wrote2012-05-04 09:57 pm
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SPN Ep: Reading Is Fundamental
Well, the thunderstorm was pretty.
This was another one of those episodes where there was a lot of talking, but not much actually happened. I liked the character stuff, but there was about 15 minutes of plot stretched out to an hour.
Ben Edlund has been with the show for a long time and he really knows the characters, so the character development portion of the episode made the thin wisp of plot bearable. Castiel in particular had some pointed remarks to make, from commenting on how "troubled" is a primary aspect of Sam's personality to "You know me, always happy to bleed for the Winchesters." And that whole scene using the game of Sorry! as a metaphor was brilliant.
Castiel seems a lot more childlike since he took on Sam's crazy, which is kind of odd because that's certainly not how it affected Sam. Anyway, Castiel now can't handle conflict to the point that he runs away from it, he likes to play games and tell little kid jokes, and the trench coat seems to have taken on the status of a security blanket. I'm not sure he should be on his own, but he still has angel powers, so it's not like Sam and Dean can stop him from going if he really wants to.
Even though I was heartily sick of the angels by the time their story arc ended, I'm kind of curious how things are going for them now. After being disappointed by God, then throwing their lot in with Castiel and being disappointed by him too, at least some of the remaining angels seem to be very bitter and resentful. I wonder what they're going to do with those feelings.
And poor Kevin. I'm glad he was able to translate the tablet for the Winchesters, but now that the leviathans have him, I don't think he's going to be having a very good time of it for the next little while. On the plus side, he'll have plenty to write about in his college entrance essay.
This was another one of those episodes where there was a lot of talking, but not much actually happened. I liked the character stuff, but there was about 15 minutes of plot stretched out to an hour.
Ben Edlund has been with the show for a long time and he really knows the characters, so the character development portion of the episode made the thin wisp of plot bearable. Castiel in particular had some pointed remarks to make, from commenting on how "troubled" is a primary aspect of Sam's personality to "You know me, always happy to bleed for the Winchesters." And that whole scene using the game of Sorry! as a metaphor was brilliant.
Castiel seems a lot more childlike since he took on Sam's crazy, which is kind of odd because that's certainly not how it affected Sam. Anyway, Castiel now can't handle conflict to the point that he runs away from it, he likes to play games and tell little kid jokes, and the trench coat seems to have taken on the status of a security blanket. I'm not sure he should be on his own, but he still has angel powers, so it's not like Sam and Dean can stop him from going if he really wants to.
Even though I was heartily sick of the angels by the time their story arc ended, I'm kind of curious how things are going for them now. After being disappointed by God, then throwing their lot in with Castiel and being disappointed by him too, at least some of the remaining angels seem to be very bitter and resentful. I wonder what they're going to do with those feelings.
And poor Kevin. I'm glad he was able to translate the tablet for the Winchesters, but now that the leviathans have him, I don't think he's going to be having a very good time of it for the next little while. On the plus side, he'll have plenty to write about in his college entrance essay.
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Which goes to prove Misha Collins is an amazing actor.
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