Archive for November, 2009

accelerating, season five

Still pleased by 5.09

This episode has had me grinning now for most of the week.  Not least because of the scenes where the real Winchesters and the LARPing civilian Winchesters are shown shadowing each other. There’s also repeated lines: both Deans say, “Gee, ya’ think, Sammy?” and two Sams report that “the EMF is going nuts.” Then I [...]

accelerating, season five

5.09 The Real Ghostbusters: Who wouldn’t want that?

“I love it when they talk at the same time.”  That’s Becky channeling me. I was hyper alert for any instances of the boys working in concert during season four and taking it as evidence of an unconscious connection even while their relationship was under such strains. This episode also made me happy for how [...]

accelerating, season five

5.08 Changing Channels: There’s nothing we can’t do

I am late getting around to posting here, but it’s not for lack of love for the episode. I sampled some reactions (which is unusual for me) and jumped in with a little thinking about the episode in yourlibrarian‘s livejournal 5.08 meta this weekend. I love that most reactions to the episode have been heavily [...]

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5.07 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester: Don’t Lose

I thought there were a couple of very important ideas being brought forward with this episode. 1) I saw it as an illustration of the past couple seasons – if not the entire series. This time Bobby is recklessly suicidal (reminiscent of the Incredible Jay from 4.12 Criss Angel is a Douchebag) and creates a [...]