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SPN: Lucifer rising
Just brief reactions, nothing too coherent.
Wow, that wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. If Lucifer *is* going to take over Sam's body, at least he hasn't done so yet. And after some extremely necessary prodding from Bobby (I CHEERED--I literally stood up and cheered--after he gave Dean that speech about how family was supposed to make you miserable, and John was a coward and Dean was better than him) Dean actually wanted to make up with Sam. And Sam clearly, clearly wanted to do the same with Dean, except insofar as he thought he was doing a kamikaze thing that would destroy him to save the world and he wanted to keep Dean out of it.
So as long as the brothers aren't emotionally at war, I'm actually ok with the whole apocalypse.
All right, not really. I was yelling and shouting and screaming at my TV, futilely of course, thoughout the whole episode, saying things like "Sam, NO, don't kill the helpless woman--I'm sure that's what's actually going to turn you to the dark side--didn't you learn from Jus in Bello no innocent sacrifices?" and "Castiel, STOP BEING A MASSIVE DICK" and "Zachariah, I want to send you to hell" and "Run faster, Dean, you stupid sonofabitch, don't just stand there" and stuff like that. But it was fine--that was just plotty suspense things, not things that threatened to tear up my heart with a meat-grinder.
I did love that Ruby's deep game finally got revealed, and I also love the fact that she didn't get to live to see her vindication. Ha ha ha ha ha. That's what you get when you make stupid evil overlord speeches before you've actually won, my dear. And yet of course the speech was entirely necessary on an exposition level, both so we knew precisely how much she'd been playing Sam *and* because now we know that Sam's powers are his own; Dumbo didn't need the feather to fly. I think, assuming Lucifer doesn't just possess his body, that Sam's powers are going to turn out to be quite useful in battling the apocalypse.
(I am sticking my fingers in my ear and going lalalalala I can't hear you when it comes to the possibility that Sam has crossed some evilness threshold in agreeing to sacrifice that woman, and now maybe he won't be able to prevent Lucifer from possessing him, because....just because. He was repenting there at the end, and he's not Lucifer yet, dammit, so Dean is not going to have to kill him).
I felt so bad for Dean, imprisoned in the holodeck-from-hell for most of the action. Zachariah is pretty much the creepiest creep ever, isn't he, offering holographic Ginger and Maryanne to distract Dean from the fact that his brother's in danger. Oh my GOD I have never wanted to see a character painfully die so much in my LIFE. Especially after that very disturbing line about this not being the first planetary enema they've delivered. ARGH. DIE DIE DIE you smug fucking asshole, who values human life somewhat less than Uriel did.
Just one more thing: I'm glad they brought it all back to Azazel's plan, because I have been wondering whether Azazel and Lilith were in league or opposing forces for a while, and it was satisfying to get that answered.
No, I make it two more things: The Prophet Chuck has now been jossed! (Or maybe we should call it "Deaned" or "Castieled")--so destiny's off the table, and it's two brothers and one slightly fallen angel versus the forces of heaven and hell next year. YAY!!! That should be kickass! And I'm just so glad we're not going to have the summer of the rift, since that would have sincerely sucked.
Wow, that wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. If Lucifer *is* going to take over Sam's body, at least he hasn't done so yet. And after some extremely necessary prodding from Bobby (I CHEERED--I literally stood up and cheered--after he gave Dean that speech about how family was supposed to make you miserable, and John was a coward and Dean was better than him) Dean actually wanted to make up with Sam. And Sam clearly, clearly wanted to do the same with Dean, except insofar as he thought he was doing a kamikaze thing that would destroy him to save the world and he wanted to keep Dean out of it.
So as long as the brothers aren't emotionally at war, I'm actually ok with the whole apocalypse.
All right, not really. I was yelling and shouting and screaming at my TV, futilely of course, thoughout the whole episode, saying things like "Sam, NO, don't kill the helpless woman--I'm sure that's what's actually going to turn you to the dark side--didn't you learn from Jus in Bello no innocent sacrifices?" and "Castiel, STOP BEING A MASSIVE DICK" and "Zachariah, I want to send you to hell" and "Run faster, Dean, you stupid sonofabitch, don't just stand there" and stuff like that. But it was fine--that was just plotty suspense things, not things that threatened to tear up my heart with a meat-grinder.
I did love that Ruby's deep game finally got revealed, and I also love the fact that she didn't get to live to see her vindication. Ha ha ha ha ha. That's what you get when you make stupid evil overlord speeches before you've actually won, my dear. And yet of course the speech was entirely necessary on an exposition level, both so we knew precisely how much she'd been playing Sam *and* because now we know that Sam's powers are his own; Dumbo didn't need the feather to fly. I think, assuming Lucifer doesn't just possess his body, that Sam's powers are going to turn out to be quite useful in battling the apocalypse.
(I am sticking my fingers in my ear and going lalalalala I can't hear you when it comes to the possibility that Sam has crossed some evilness threshold in agreeing to sacrifice that woman, and now maybe he won't be able to prevent Lucifer from possessing him, because....just because. He was repenting there at the end, and he's not Lucifer yet, dammit, so Dean is not going to have to kill him).
I felt so bad for Dean, imprisoned in the holodeck-from-hell for most of the action. Zachariah is pretty much the creepiest creep ever, isn't he, offering holographic Ginger and Maryanne to distract Dean from the fact that his brother's in danger. Oh my GOD I have never wanted to see a character painfully die so much in my LIFE. Especially after that very disturbing line about this not being the first planetary enema they've delivered. ARGH. DIE DIE DIE you smug fucking asshole, who values human life somewhat less than Uriel did.
Just one more thing: I'm glad they brought it all back to Azazel's plan, because I have been wondering whether Azazel and Lilith were in league or opposing forces for a while, and it was satisfying to get that answered.
No, I make it two more things: The Prophet Chuck has now been jossed! (Or maybe we should call it "Deaned" or "Castieled")--so destiny's off the table, and it's two brothers and one slightly fallen angel versus the forces of heaven and hell next year. YAY!!! That should be kickass! And I'm just so glad we're not going to have the summer of the rift, since that would have sincerely sucked.
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(And that guy who was Azazel, why did he look familiar? He was kinda my least favorite Azazel-actor but I really liked seeing ol' YED at the start of it all.)
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SAMNDEAN FOREVER! Though I honestly feel like Kripke played all of us as effectively as Ruby did Sam; we were so worried about the rift between the boys that we don't really care about the apocalypse itself.
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That scene with Azazel will fit perfectly into my Mary and Azazel vid that I would make if I only knew how to vid.