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Fifth season has begun. Lots and lots of surprises - all of them good, as far as I'm concerned.
  1. The Yosemite Sam moment had us screaming. That is just so... so Supernatural. So Kripke. I imagined Dean thinking, "Planes. Why's it always gotta be planes." Later on, I loved it that the Angels didn't know who put them there. Castiel seemed to imply that it was God, but I'm not sure that's possible with the plot as it is. Perhaps Castiel thought it was Lucifer - he was guessing. My guess is that it was Michael, unless Gabriel or Raphael are taking a hand already. Somebody else high up in the Angel corps. I don't think it was Lucifer and I don't think it was God - though it might have been Michael acting on God's orders.

  2. Sammy and Bobby. When Sammy apologized and Bobby rejected him, I thought it was a parallel to John rejecting Sam when he went to college. I never guessed there was a possession going on. I was a little disappointed when Bobby said it was the demon talking when he said that; it seemed right to me, that Sam had crossed a line that Bobby couldn't accept. On the other hand, Bobby is a bit of a softie and he thought Dean was too hard on Sam back in "Lucifer Rising".

  3. Love it that we got back to John's armoury/storage house. Castle - great name.

  4. Great Dean line: "Oh, thank God, the angels are here." Love the way he and Zachariah hurl insults at each other: "Chucklehead." "You simpering wad of insecurity and self-loathing."

  5. Laughed at: "Oh, yeah. Life as an angel condom.... I think I'll pass. Thanks."

  6. Zachariah descends to still greater villainy. And he has new cohorts. The whole "Dean is the sword of Michael" thing was interesting; I don't trust Zachariah an inch (of course) and I think he'd lying about most of this, but what is he trying to get from it?

    I had to work out what Zachariah meant when he said, "We lost track of the sword until you led us to it." Of course, Zachariah lost track of Dean when Castiel held them off and send Dean to the convent at the end of "Lucifer Rising".

    Seems to me that our Apocalypse isn't a war between Heaven and Hell. It might have been, for a bit, last season, but I'm not even convinced of that. I think it's an angel vs. angel civil war going on in heaven, perhaps taking advantage of the fact that God has left the building. We don't yet know who's on which team. Zachariah is on one side, Dean and Castiel are on another. I'm guessing now that Zachariah and Michael are on opposite sides and Zachariah was trying to steal Dean from Michael, or limit his effectiveness somehow. It's also possible that Michael is bad and Zachariah is his minion. Zachariah might be working with Lucifer. After all, he wanted the last seal to be broken.

    So is Anna imprisoned somewhere? Was she taken to good angels or bad angels when she was taken from Castiel? Was that more of Zachariah's powermongering, or was she taken somewhere where she would be safe - or recruited by another angel faction?

  7. Nick seemed like a variation of Frank Castle.

  8. I totally love it that Lucifer is an angel, not a demon, and that the rules pertaining to him are the rules pertaining to angels. The light. The sound. The need for permission to possess someone. I loved his seduction of Nick; I thought Nick succumbed a little too fast, but then, there's no reason to think Nick was particularly intelligent or firm of purpose. I did wonder, though, if Lucifer could make people see him as a vision with a human form, and could talk to them on that basis, why he actually needs a human body to inhabit. Wouldn't that make him more vulnerable? Human bodies die.

    I loved it, though, that he's a smooth talker.

    I'm not sure what Mark Pellegrino will be like when he becomes Lucifer. Hard to tell from this, where Nick is even less Lucifer than Jimmy was Castiel.

  9. As you might imagine, I was thrilled when Castiel appeared in the fray, just in time to save Dean and Sam, through his weight around, and show what an incarnated angel can do.

  10. A lot of fans seem to like Chuck. I don't. But I thought he was funny. And Becky - ! The second time they've referenced Supernatural slash, and Wincest at that. Loved the exchange:
    Sam: Could you please stop touching me?
    Becky: No!
    As parodies of fangirls go, it could have been so much less kind. I loved it, too, that Becky adored Sam and wasn't impressed by Dean. Samgirl.

    I thought Becky would come to a horrific end, but it seems not. Or at least, not yet.

  11. Thought I'm very much in favour of Sam and Dean being close and united against the universe, I loved it that Dean had a problem with Sam lying to him and keeping secrets. I loved it that he wasn't angry because Sam broke a seal - he knew Sam's intentions were good and he did what he thought he had to do, to destroy Lilith. No, he was angry because Sam had been dishonest with him, and chose a demon over his brother, and that was a betrayal.

    Dean loves Sam, but can't trust him now, and that must hurt.

    In the end there, I wasn't sure how sincere Sam was in his apologies. I love Sam, and I was with him in sympathy all last season, but I wonder now if he isn't playing Dean just a little bit. And Dean would resist that. My prediction: this will get worse before it gets better. Sacrifice will be involved.

  12. New Meg was good, but not a patch on original Meg. Loved it that Dean thought she might be Ruby, while Sam knew at once she wasn't.

  13. It broke my heart when Bobby stabbed himself rather than kill Dean.

  14. I loved it that both Sam and Dean have learned from what happened last season. Dean knows how to make sigils to make angels go away; Castiel taught him that. What else has he learned? It took me by surprise when he did that, and I thought it was magnificent.

  15. Loved it that Dean told Bobby he'd save the world in defiance of demons and angels. And loved it, too, that he told Sam he was just bluffing for Bobby's sake. I love themes when a lie becomes the truth - when a person does more than they thought they could do for the sake of deceptions. It's practically the story of Miles Vorkosigan's life.

    I loved it that Dean said "I'll fight to the last man, but we don't have a snowball's chance." I think Dean can and will do it, but I don't think he'll be able to do it without Sam.



Date: 2009-09-11 07:22 am (UTC)
kikibug13: (Crying (Dean))
From: [personal profile] kikibug13
Dean loves Sam, but can't trust him now, and that must hurt.

That bes truth.

The Dean in my head is just running on empty. Completely. Not having Sam there to trust just makes the whole universe tilt sideways. More than the Apocalypse, really.

*sighs* Kripke promised that the season will fix thing up for the boys. But it's gonna get worse before it gets better?

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