Off-Topic += Supernatural 7x02 Reaction Post

[blue_bells]

I hear the divide on the new season of Supernatural is 50/50.

Well, I'm in. I thought I'd be bored by Sam's reliving of the Cage -- and then the show reminded me whose company he'd kept.

So, your enjoyment of Supernatural season seven is going to depend on your interest in:

1) overdue creature FX and investment in the Leviathans' agenda (nice dental care);
2) brotherly angst and ripe material for the Sam/Dean shippers ("Do you want to know what's real? Me. I'm real, Sammy.");
3) Lucifer. I went an entire season convinced we would never see any of Raphael's brothers again, so to say that I'm over the moon he's back and tormenting is an understatement.

Though, Sam's now going to start self-harming to keep the hallucinations of Lucifer at bay and Castiel is allegedly gone (I say allegedly because Cas is The Angel Who Would Not Stay Down and this is SPN, so I don't believe for a minute the show won't pounce on a future opportunity to bring him back). This could drive a whole lot of fans off the show or to dismay, which is a shame because for the first time in years, I vaguely care about Sam and Dean again.

I believe that has to do with the fact the episode was written by Ben Edlund who appears to have composed some of my favourite episodes. He has a talent for writing critical and intimate moments between characters that reminds us they're more than set pieces, he shows their vulnerability, and because of that the characters have the opportunity to rebuild and show their strength. I loved that quiet moment in the kitchen between Dean and Bobby, even if Dean characteristically stonewalled him. When Sam was digging into his wound and Dean was shouting at his brother to look at him in the warehouse, it was the first time in seasons that I felt a real connection between them again. I'm looking forward to it.

I am intrigued by the fact Lucifer says Sam is his only source of entertainment, though. Where in the Cage are Michael and Adam? Did they get their own honeymoon suite or something? What-the-sh*t is going on there?

So, season seven. You've got me for the meantime. Yes, now I want to write Sam/Lucifer and Sam/Dean and Lucifer/Sam/Dean, but in line with my rationing of time, I'm just going to enjoy a few morsels of what's been written by other people since the airing.

Also, I watched Torchwood season four and it was fan-freaking-tastic ("Did you see Ianto?" *soblovesob*). I loved everyone and everything, the writing was wonderful, that ending was so cathartic, and other TW fans may not agree, but I actually enjoyed this more than any of what Torchwood ever offered before. Well done, team.

Comments

[nights-fang.livejournal.com]

Well considering Lucifer is actually Sam's hallucination of Lucifer, I'm not surprised that Lucifer only keeps mentioning him and Sam. Sam was sort of equally fixated on Lucifer as much as Lucifer was fixed on him being a vessel.

[ladyknightanka.livejournal.com]

I love you. ♥

So many people are unhappy with it that I'm glad at least you and I are on the same page. I mean, I KNOW all the nays are because Cas apparently died - and I also believe head-honcho!leviathan is still wearing him - and you know I love Cas, but that doesn't mean the rest of the emotions explored are no longer worth watching. Sam and Dean were perfect, reminiscent of their early bromance, that unbreakable bond of love, for the first time in ages and Lucifer was glorious. I was giggling so hard when he was reading a magazine article on the royal wedding. I'm also curious about what he said. Maybe the archangels divided the Cage in two, each with their respective vessels? SHOW, 'SPLAIN, PLZ?

Besides, while the Wincest made me very gleeful, the moment where Dean carefully picks up Castiel's coat also merits mention. It was a beautiful moment. ♥

AND OMG, YOU WATCH TW4! I'm so happy you enjoyed it! I found the whole season breathtaking and I was initially terrified because A) it had relocated to my homeland, which is responsible for things like The Jersey Shore, B) there was a new cast and C) with Ianto gone, I was terrified it would become Jack/Gwen, BUT MY WORRIES WERE THANKFULLY FOR NAUGHT! I adored the new American characters and their plot, not to mention I fell in love with Gwen, whom I was apathetic to in earlier seasons. SO MUCH LOVE!

My inner fangirl is VERY happy right now.

[chosenfire28.livejournal.com]

I am really happy with the Dean and Sam scenes in the last episode, I didn't know how much I missed them until Dean was talking and my heart hurt and was YES BROTHERS! I've missed them just being them.

and Cas is coming back, I don't see how he's not coming back, the set it up for him to, and even if he doesn't, I will be okay as long as the Dean and Sam writing stays solid (and I am a Dean/Cas shipper, that side of fandom just seems to be too much right now).

I don't care at all about the Levi villains, the YED was scary then them. I do LOVE seeing Lucifer back on my tv, even if he is probably just a Sam hallucination.

Obviously Michael and Adam are honey mooning in the put, gesh Lucifer is probably sick of all their lovely dovey nonsense and missing Sam :D

[trollmela.livejournal.com]

I loved the episode because Lucifer was just awesome and creepy and overall brilliant. You're right, it was a bit strange that Michael and Adam weren't mentioned; as much as I hate to say it, I think the writers are ignoring/have forgotten all about the other two. But I'll take the honeymoon suite suggestion.

I'm all for Sam/Lucifer and Sam/Dean but why have you crossed out Lucifer/Sam/Dean? Sounds doable to me :D

[mishaphappens.livejournal.com]

Um. Lucifer/Sam/Dean PLEASE. I just had this image where Sam and Dean are screwing and there's Lucifer in the corner, watching them, and Sam keeps looking back. AIFHUDHSINFDSK

[jane_potter]

These first two episodes were easily ten times better than the entire last season. Episode 2 alone has single-handedly made me love SPN like it's season 1 all over again. I feel like one half of an old married couple that's been distant and feuding for a long time, only to have finally made up and found the motherfucking passion again.

They've given us action, motion (almost too much, too fast at a few points, but that's about my only complaint), swathes and swathes of potential plot, character development, mending of relationships that have been strained and broken for too long-- GUH. Watching these two episodes, I actually had the lucid thought that the writers were literally listening to the two big things that a lot of the fans (myself included) wanted: bring back the brothers that we started with, and fix Dean and Cas (I admit my shipper bias). It's like Christmas in goddamn October, I tell you!

Is Cas dead? I really don't think so. That was one of the points at which I felt it moved too fast: Godstiel-->Death-->Cas's breakdown-->ritual-->monsters gone-->Dean and Cas reconcile (kind of)-->OH WAIT LEVIATHAN-->trenchcoat in the water-->"rest in peace" in the space of one episode and a little bit? (And that was all Dean felt about it? After that conversation, that was really his entire reaction to Cas being apparently dead? C'mon, Ackles, emote a little!) We know there's a head honcho Leviathan still off-screen somewhere. If he's not wearing Cas, I'll eat my hat.

I agree entirely with what you said in your 7x01 post, about Dean and Sam failing to develop. It was frustrating the hell out of me, the whole "no really I'm fine" thing over and over again for seasons on end, so when Bobby laid down that verbal bitchslap to Dean in the kitchen-- YES. I would have liked even a second of hesitation out of Dean, a flinch... but no, of course not, Dean. The fact that we had that belated flinch come out in the voicemail at the end of 7x02 had me sighing in relief. It's about time. And I adored that the writers finally linked Dean's and Sam's experiences in Hell together, to explicitly show both the audience and the characters that those mutual experiences mean there's now no reason for Dean and Sam to keep lying to each other and trying to pretend that they're fine. They both know what kind of shit goes down in Hell, and what that does to a person. They don't have to keep that wall up between them any more (pun intended).

Now if the show can just stop horrifying me with the fridge logic of Adam's fate, then I'll be all the way over the moon. *chinhands*