Supernatural 4 x 18: The Monster at the End of this Book

[krislaughs]

So first, to get it out of the way-- that whole beginning scene was so cringeworthy I almost stopped watching. See this? Making it personal? is why I can't do RPF, and now they've dragged my fictional slash into the shame game by letting the characters 'discover' it. I know we're supposed to laugh at ourselves (Hell, the writers did at themselves for the rest of the episode) and maybe I will be able to once I'm over the humiliation, but for now I'm going to be fast-forwarding through the first few minutes of the show. And that's all I'm gonna say about fandom references. :/

On to the rest which was AWESOME.

- The PROPHET! What an awesome twist. I kept thinking of Chris Rock from Dogma. "You should've seen Luke." HA! I love that he's an alcoholic, that his powers are not unlike Sam's (in the beginning), that he's protected by the highest ranks of angels but he lives in a derelict heap of wood and nails. Just, YES.

- I LOVED the laundry scene (what is it about Sam and Dean doing laundry that pushes my buttons in all the right ways?). The non-fight was hiLARIOUS. Dean loving the Tofu.

- The scene with the Prophet and Sam broke my heart a little. I need to see it again to catch all the nuance in there, because I think it doesn't mean what we (and Sam) might think it does.

- I think Dean has changed, but not as much and not in the ways Sam thinks he has. This could be a whole meta-analysis in itself, but I think the lad's protests that he's doing what he's doing to make up for something Dean lacks say more about Sam and the way he's changing than anything else. Does that make sense?

- CASTIEL! Don't even get me started on how much I'm loving him, how he's figuring things out and making his own decisions, how he's growing so much under the Winchsters' influence *g*. He wasn't subtle in his hints, but he was brilliant.

- Which brings me to Dean's prayer. Man, that tore my heart out. He's still protecting Sam any way he can.

- Sam's deal. I am SO GLAD he didn't take it, and also a little sad. It's a lose-lose situation, for sure, but Lilith's arguments were... almost convincing. I was frightened for a moment there. I'm afraid, though, that the net result was to reinforce Sam's belief in his godlike power (and maybe responsibility)

- which brings me to the last, the title: I have this fear that the monster at the end of the book will be him.

In conclusion: Oh, show.

Comments

[deirdre-c.livejournal.com]

I have this fear that the monster at the end of the book will be him.

Oh Kris, I HOPE so! Because, in the Sesame Street book, it was only Grover at the end of the book all along, nothing to be afraid of after all! *rose-colored glasses*

SHOW! \o/

[krisomniac.livejournal.com]

hehehee, you may have a point. (Though I was a Sesame Street devotee as a kid, I never had that particular book)