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Supernatural: Afterschool special
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rsadelle asked me last week if not posting a review meant I didn't like the episode. (No, I liked "Criss Angel is a douchebag"-- I was just having root canal the next day, so I had to go to bed--in case you're curious).
I totally loved "Afterschool Special". A few brief reasons why:
1. Yay! for a Sam-focused episode.
2. I've been looking forward to this episode for weeks ever since I saw those stills of giant adolescent Dean with tiny Sam. How long, do you think, until I can icon that without it being considered spoilery? One week?
3. Dean as the sadistic gym coach was HILARIOUS. (As often the case with Dean, things that would make me hate him forever in real life are much more fun to watch onscreen. The shorts! Dodgeball! The whistle makes me their god!)
4. God, I love me some young!Sammy character development. We all knew, from many a weechester fic, that Sam was the one who made friends easily and hated to leave them, and that totally got inked here. And I loved the teacher (though, RLY SAM? Werewolves? Couldn't you just have lied and said you were hunting bears? Sure he wouldn't think the werewolf thing was true, but it seems like a stupid risk), and especially that he went back and told the man he made a difference even though Sam ultimately was unable to escape the family business. OH SAM.
5. And wow, poor Sam feels guilt for both of the kids he couldn't save--the one who was his friend and the one who was his enemy. Not only couldn't he rescue his friend the nerd, but he actually contributed to "Dirk the Jerk's" social ostracization. Ouch. They're almost doing too good a job this season of humanizing all the bad guys; it makes the show even more tragic than it always was. I loved his speech to the bully right before Dean burned the lock of hair, though.
6. Dean has always been incapable of forming true relationships with anyone who is not Sam. Ouch again. All he has, outside of Sammy, is his conviction that he is a hero--and the mocking looks of the high school girls of course foreshadows the present, where he can't even cling to his self-image as hero anymore now that he spent years torturing people in hell.
7. I was SO happy they used the same actor for young!Sam as "A Very Winchester Christmas"--he was fantastic. And the guy they got for teen!Dean was great, too--I thought he had JA's speech patterns down perfectly. As well as the "God, he makes me want to just slap him" smugness JA does so well.
My only disappointment with this episode was that with all the flashbacks in the "previously on Supernatural" focusing specifically on the Sam/John relationship (and John being the one to tell Sam to not come back if he left), I thought they were going to develop that a little bit in the episode. Other than that, though, it was just about perfect.
rsadelle asked me last week if not posting a review meant I didn't like the episode. (No, I liked "Criss Angel is a douchebag"-- I was just having root canal the next day, so I had to go to bed--in case you're curious).I totally loved "Afterschool Special". A few brief reasons why:
1. Yay! for a Sam-focused episode.
2. I've been looking forward to this episode for weeks ever since I saw those stills of giant adolescent Dean with tiny Sam. How long, do you think, until I can icon that without it being considered spoilery? One week?
3. Dean as the sadistic gym coach was HILARIOUS. (As often the case with Dean, things that would make me hate him forever in real life are much more fun to watch onscreen. The shorts! Dodgeball! The whistle makes me their god!)
4. God, I love me some young!Sammy character development. We all knew, from many a weechester fic, that Sam was the one who made friends easily and hated to leave them, and that totally got inked here. And I loved the teacher (though, RLY SAM? Werewolves? Couldn't you just have lied and said you were hunting bears? Sure he wouldn't think the werewolf thing was true, but it seems like a stupid risk), and especially that he went back and told the man he made a difference even though Sam ultimately was unable to escape the family business. OH SAM.
5. And wow, poor Sam feels guilt for both of the kids he couldn't save--the one who was his friend and the one who was his enemy. Not only couldn't he rescue his friend the nerd, but he actually contributed to "Dirk the Jerk's" social ostracization. Ouch. They're almost doing too good a job this season of humanizing all the bad guys; it makes the show even more tragic than it always was. I loved his speech to the bully right before Dean burned the lock of hair, though.
6. Dean has always been incapable of forming true relationships with anyone who is not Sam. Ouch again. All he has, outside of Sammy, is his conviction that he is a hero--and the mocking looks of the high school girls of course foreshadows the present, where he can't even cling to his self-image as hero anymore now that he spent years torturing people in hell.
7. I was SO happy they used the same actor for young!Sam as "A Very Winchester Christmas"--he was fantastic. And the guy they got for teen!Dean was great, too--I thought he had JA's speech patterns down perfectly. As well as the "God, he makes me want to just slap him" smugness JA does so well.
My only disappointment with this episode was that with all the flashbacks in the "previously on Supernatural" focusing specifically on the Sam/John relationship (and John being the one to tell Sam to not come back if he left), I thought they were going to develop that a little bit in the episode. Other than that, though, it was just about perfect.
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From commentary or panel appearances or something, I got the sense it was Sera's creepy little girl fetish at play, not Kripke's. (Although, of course, he's going along with it.) I'd love to see Lilith's perspective on raising Lucifer - I'm sure she truly believes it's the best thing.
Hee! I thought he was obnoxious, but just kind of being Dean with the teacher. Clearly I come from an unathletic kid perspective and you come from a teacher perspective.
I figured he wasn't going to actually be in the episode since I hadn't heard fangirls squeeing about it ahead of time.