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Anyone who thinks little old ladies are harmless has never met my grandmother or her sisters. My elderly Great Aunt B once scared off two Chicago gang members she caught trying to break into her house. I'm just sayin'.
Starting an episode based on fairy tales with "Once upon a time..." (on the sign advertising the housing development) was cute. I wish we'd seen more of the frog, too. He kind of disappeared about halfway through the ep.
Five fairy tales were touched on (if you don't count a couple of different ones that feature a frog): Three Little Pigs, Hansel & Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Snow White.
I loved how gleeful the little old lady in the woods was while she was butchering the hiker. She looked like Betty White in an animal rights commercial.
Sam and Dean were lucky they guessed right about the house being hit by the Cinderella tale. They would've had some explaining to do about breaking in with guns otherwise. I was a little annoyed with Dean for calling Sam gay just because he knew the story of the most common fairy tales. For one thing, knowing folklore is kind of Sam's job in their little family business. For another thing, most people have heard the stories of the most common fairy tales, whether in school, in books, in movies, or on TV. So, Dean? If you don't quit the gay jokes in regard to your brother, I'm going to start thinking you're repressing something. Just so you know.
Nitpick #1: Is Dr. Garrison the only doctor in that entire giant hospital? He was the attending physician for all the victims of the fairy tale attacks, plus it was his daughter who was the perpetrator. At first, I thought he was deliberately taking those patients to cover for his daughter because he knew what she was doing, but then it turned out he didn't, so maybe he is the only doctor in that entire giant hospital.
Nitpick #2: Who's been doing Callie's make-up and tweezing her eyebrows all this time? Seriously, the girl's been in a coma for, like, twenty years or something, and she looks better than I do.
It made sense for Callie to project herself as an 8-year-old. That would be how she looked the last time she saw herself, so that's the mental picture she has of herself.
I wish Dean would stop pushing Sam to just sit back and let him die. It really shouldn't come as any surprise to him that Sam is no more capable of letting him go than he was of letting Sam go.
I've been waiting for Sam to summon the crossroads demon and threaten her with the Colt since it got fixed, but I'm kind of surprised it happened this early in the season. Although maybe this will shut up the fans who've been complaining that Sam had stopped trying to save Dean and was just sitting around passively waiting for Ruby to do something instead. I was still a little surprised that Sam shot her. On the one hand, demons lie, so it was possible that killing her would let Dean out of the deal, so killing her = good. On the other hand, if she was telling the truth, it's going to be really hard for Sam to make her tell him who her boss is now that she's dead, so killing her = bad. On the other other hand (yes, I have three hands...shut up), the crossroads demon is the only demon we know of who only takes hosts temporarily, so she would've released that girl shortly if Sam hadn't killed the demon and its host, so killing her = bad. Bad Sammy. The whole episode was leading up to it though, with the surviving contractor talking about how horrible it was to watch his brothers die and Dean telling Sam to let him go and just walking away from him. Sam just seems to crack under the strain more quietly than Dean does (Dean lost his shit all over the place in very obvious and Impala-damaging ways after John died). One thing Sam shooting the crossroads demon did prove is that the deal is only invalidated if Dean tries to get out of it himself, otherwise Sam would've dropped dead on the spot. So, I'm guessing that Sam won't stop trying to get Dean out of the deal any time soon.
Nitpick #3: Have you ever told somebody where you were from and had them go, "Oh, yeah? Do you know so-and-so?" And how stupid you think it is that they think that everyone who comes from the same country or state must somehow know each other when it's incredibly unlikely they do? That's kind of how I'm feeling about the demons right now. Despite the fact that there seem to be tons of them (three hundred may have escaped, but somehow I don't think that's all there are and three hundred is still a lot), they all seem to know each other personally. I'm having visions of a giant demon flist on DeadJournal or something. Or maybe they're all on the same Yahoo!Group. Meanwhile, we'll have to wait and see how the crossroads demon knew Ruby and why they don't seem to be on each other's holiday card list, 'cause the crossroads demon is in no shape to tell.
And finally, I was a little disappointed in Sandra McCoy as the crossroads demon. She just has this girl-next-door aura that was making it hard for me to buy her as a sultry demon. I'd like to actually see her play a girl-next-door type in something, though.
Nitpick #4: How is it that no matter how rural the crossroads, the crossroads demon somehow always manages to find an attractive young woman with dark hair wearing a black negligee only minutes away?
And now a word from our sponsor:
The CW ran the fairy tale-themed Crest commercial during this ep. Hee.
And I'm still sick, which is getting really old, so I'm going back to bed.
Starting an episode based on fairy tales with "Once upon a time..." (on the sign advertising the housing development) was cute. I wish we'd seen more of the frog, too. He kind of disappeared about halfway through the ep.
Five fairy tales were touched on (if you don't count a couple of different ones that feature a frog): Three Little Pigs, Hansel & Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Snow White.
I loved how gleeful the little old lady in the woods was while she was butchering the hiker. She looked like Betty White in an animal rights commercial.
Sam and Dean were lucky they guessed right about the house being hit by the Cinderella tale. They would've had some explaining to do about breaking in with guns otherwise. I was a little annoyed with Dean for calling Sam gay just because he knew the story of the most common fairy tales. For one thing, knowing folklore is kind of Sam's job in their little family business. For another thing, most people have heard the stories of the most common fairy tales, whether in school, in books, in movies, or on TV. So, Dean? If you don't quit the gay jokes in regard to your brother, I'm going to start thinking you're repressing something. Just so you know.
Nitpick #1: Is Dr. Garrison the only doctor in that entire giant hospital? He was the attending physician for all the victims of the fairy tale attacks, plus it was his daughter who was the perpetrator. At first, I thought he was deliberately taking those patients to cover for his daughter because he knew what she was doing, but then it turned out he didn't, so maybe he is the only doctor in that entire giant hospital.
Nitpick #2: Who's been doing Callie's make-up and tweezing her eyebrows all this time? Seriously, the girl's been in a coma for, like, twenty years or something, and she looks better than I do.
It made sense for Callie to project herself as an 8-year-old. That would be how she looked the last time she saw herself, so that's the mental picture she has of herself.
I wish Dean would stop pushing Sam to just sit back and let him die. It really shouldn't come as any surprise to him that Sam is no more capable of letting him go than he was of letting Sam go.
I've been waiting for Sam to summon the crossroads demon and threaten her with the Colt since it got fixed, but I'm kind of surprised it happened this early in the season. Although maybe this will shut up the fans who've been complaining that Sam had stopped trying to save Dean and was just sitting around passively waiting for Ruby to do something instead. I was still a little surprised that Sam shot her. On the one hand, demons lie, so it was possible that killing her would let Dean out of the deal, so killing her = good. On the other hand, if she was telling the truth, it's going to be really hard for Sam to make her tell him who her boss is now that she's dead, so killing her = bad. On the other other hand (yes, I have three hands...shut up), the crossroads demon is the only demon we know of who only takes hosts temporarily, so she would've released that girl shortly if Sam hadn't killed the demon and its host, so killing her = bad. Bad Sammy. The whole episode was leading up to it though, with the surviving contractor talking about how horrible it was to watch his brothers die and Dean telling Sam to let him go and just walking away from him. Sam just seems to crack under the strain more quietly than Dean does (Dean lost his shit all over the place in very obvious and Impala-damaging ways after John died). One thing Sam shooting the crossroads demon did prove is that the deal is only invalidated if Dean tries to get out of it himself, otherwise Sam would've dropped dead on the spot. So, I'm guessing that Sam won't stop trying to get Dean out of the deal any time soon.
Nitpick #3: Have you ever told somebody where you were from and had them go, "Oh, yeah? Do you know so-and-so?" And how stupid you think it is that they think that everyone who comes from the same country or state must somehow know each other when it's incredibly unlikely they do? That's kind of how I'm feeling about the demons right now. Despite the fact that there seem to be tons of them (three hundred may have escaped, but somehow I don't think that's all there are and three hundred is still a lot), they all seem to know each other personally. I'm having visions of a giant demon flist on DeadJournal or something. Or maybe they're all on the same Yahoo!Group. Meanwhile, we'll have to wait and see how the crossroads demon knew Ruby and why they don't seem to be on each other's holiday card list, 'cause the crossroads demon is in no shape to tell.
And finally, I was a little disappointed in Sandra McCoy as the crossroads demon. She just has this girl-next-door aura that was making it hard for me to buy her as a sultry demon. I'd like to actually see her play a girl-next-door type in something, though.
Nitpick #4: How is it that no matter how rural the crossroads, the crossroads demon somehow always manages to find an attractive young woman with dark hair wearing a black negligee only minutes away?
And now a word from our sponsor:
The CW ran the fairy tale-themed Crest commercial during this ep. Hee.
And I'm still sick, which is getting really old, so I'm going back to bed.
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Date: 2007-11-02 04:34 am (UTC)From:Hee - that's brilliant. I will now always think of it that way.
I haven't seen the ep yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
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Date: 2007-11-05 11:48 pm (UTC)From:I loved the glee, too. *snicker* Just shows how you shouldn't judge things by their appearance!
Sam and Dean were lucky they guessed right about the house being hit by the Cinderella tale. They would've had some explaining to do about breaking in with guns otherwise.
Yeah, spotting the pumpkin and mice did seem to be a bit of a stretch.
Nitpick #2: Who's been doing Callie's make-up and tweezing her eyebrows all this time? Seriously, the girl's been in a coma for, like, twenty years or something, and she looks better than I do.
I thought it added to the creepiness of the episode with her looking so fake. And yes, she looks way better than me too. *sigh*
I wish Dean would stop pushing Sam to just sit back and let him die. It really shouldn't come as any surprise to him that Sam is no more capable of letting him go than he was of letting Sam go.
I think once he finds out how darkside Sam has gone he'll start wanting to fight for his own life. Or at least I hope so 'cos this suicide plan of his of going out with an orgy of sex and violence is not winning as far as I'm concerned.
I've been waiting for Sam to summon the crossroads demon and threaten her with the Colt since it got fixed, but I'm kind of surprised it happened this early in the season.
Ditto! Gobsmacked is a pretty accurate description of me right now with all the killing and so on.
Although maybe this will shut up the fans who've been complaining that Sam had stopped trying to save Dean and was just sitting around passively waiting for Ruby to do something instead.
Huh? People actually thought this? Wow, I must be blind or something.
And finally, I was a little disappointed in Sandra McCoy as the crossroads demon. She just has this girl-next-door aura that was making it hard for me to buy her as a sultry demon. I'd like to actually see her play a girl-next-door type in something, though.
I'm not sure how I feel about her performance. We'll see how it bears up under repeated viewing. I've mainly reacted with a 'but I like the last one better' as we've had each new version. They tend to grow on me. But wasn't she tiny next to Jared? My brain then goes places it really has no place being so I'll move along. Tra la, tra la, tra la.
Nitpick #4: How is it that no matter how rural the crossroads, the crossroads demon somehow always manages to find an attractive young woman with dark hair wearing a black negligee only minutes away?
Well they can wield supernatural forces, eh? *lol*
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Date: 2007-11-07 12:47 am (UTC)From:I hope so, too. At least they've toned down the manwhore behavior the last couple of eps. (Spellcheck just tried to correct my spelling of 'manwhore'. Why do I think that's funny?)
Huh? People actually thought this?
Yeah, the opinion was that Sam spent the first couple of eps frantically searching for a way to get Dean out of the deal. Then Ruby showed up, and the only thing Sam has searched for since is information about his mom and the people who knew her (and case-related stuff, of course). They think that as soon as Ruby said she could help save Dean, Sam just sat back and waited for her to do it instead of looking for a way to do it without her. I don't see it that way, but there you go.
But wasn't she tiny next to Jared?
I saw someone make a comment somewhere to the effect of, 'that sound you hear is the cameraman crying as he tries to fit Jared and Sandy into the same frame.' Hee. I guess they forgot to bring the apple crates to the shoot.
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Date: 2007-11-07 10:46 am (UTC)From:Boy, am I glad all that behaviour has been toned down, too. It gets most tiresome and starts to make Dean just look like a complete prick. There's way more to him than that.
I saw someone make a comment somewhere to the effect of, 'that sound you hear is the cameraman crying as he tries to fit Jared and Sandy into the same frame.' Hee. I guess they forgot to bring the apple crates to the shoot.
It makes me giggle that 6 foot something Jensen gets to stand on boxes so he can be shot in scenes with Jared.
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Date: 2007-11-08 03:52 am (UTC)From:I know! I had no idea Jensen was as tall as he is because he always looks so short next to Jared.