some days are full of crazy...

[tommygirl]

Today was a very long day. Work is continuing on down crazy road and then I got to leave work early to do a bunch of errands that I've been putting off.

On the brightside, I got to watch last night's Supernatural.



Episode 4.3 - In the Beginning

Hello, Sammy. Goodbye, Sammy.

So I'm guessing this is what has had a lot of fandom upset? The fact that Sam is only in the episode for about thirty seconds?

I'm always a fan of Sam and Dean together, fighting evil. THat's really why I'm attached to this show. I love both Sam and Dean, but I love them more when they're working side-by-side. That said, this made sense for me.

1) The audience (and Dean) needs more information on why exactly he has been brought back. I have a feeling that in order to move forward with the overall arc, there was going to have to be an episode that focused primarily on Dean and Castiel.

2) Dean is the one currently in the dark on Mary. Though we don't know exactly how much Sam knew or has discovered via Ruby and his research, we do know Dean has been in the dark completely (as has the audience). So this was a way for us to get that.

3) I think, with the way this arc seems to be shaping up, we're going to have a few episodes where it's solely-Dean and solely-Sam...more to create that wedge that seems to be coming as they take sides

4) Just in time for Jared and Jensen...they carry this show, just the two of them, and in order to get a day off, I'm guessing this is something that needs to happen every once and awhile.

So yes, I get why some Sammy girls were so upset. I missed him. I think Dean missed him (or I like to think). But I don't think the episode was terrible because of it.

Dean and the Impala at its beginning = so cute.

I loved the look on Dean's face when Mary is explaining the John Winchester she loved. And oh the pain when she said that she never wanted this life for her kids...oh, if only things were that simple.

I had a feeling that Mary's decision had to involve John somehow. I wonder if he ever figured that out. And I'm guessing John learned about Mary's family being hunters once he became a legend of his own right in the hunting world.

Oh Dean...when he says goodbye to his mother and tries to get her to stay in bed. Ouch.

I love the threads drawn between Mary and her father as Sam and Dean...how they work a case, with Mary (Sam) being the one to charm the information out. How Mary wants a normal life and to be safe, yet it's just not meant to be for her.

It's so Dean that he does think about all those people he and his family saved and how they would be dead if he goes through with things. And the difference between WIASNB and this moment is that it's his parents that he can save, not just himself with a normal life, and he feels he has no choice.

Overall, I enjoyed this episode. I think it gave us a lot of the backstory to set up the role Dean plays.

And while I like the idea of destiny (not in the ohdestiny! way, so much as things happen the way they're meant to), time travel makes my head hurt and leaves me with questions.

For example, if Dean hadn't been there and brought up Libby, would Mary and her father have gone there? Or was that something that always happened?

I really want the scene with Sam when Dean just punches him in the face for hiding all this crap AND then I'm intrigued to see what Dean tells Sam. Will he let Sam know that once again he's in the position of save Sammy or he dies...or will history repeat itself?

Also, if Castiel knows what Sam is up to with Ruby, why hasn't he just destroyed Ruby?

Get some answers and more questions arise.

I still love this show.



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All I will say about project runway is that I really hate Kenley. She's just such a brat. And yet, I enjoy a lot of her designs.

So are neversince and I the only ones watching and enjoying Privileged? I really like the main character, Megan. She's quirky and smart and yet always puts her foot in her mouth. Mostly, I love her relationship with her best friend, Charlie (who is ADORABLE). And I have a HUGE best friends become more love! Maybe I'll nominate that for yuletide too!

Comments

[cloex-brosluvr.livejournal.com]

YAY FOR PRIVILEGED!!!! I wish Meg would see what's (or should I say who) right in front of her with Charlie even though Jacob seems like a nice guy but I'm totally for Charlie!

[kajivar]

I just watched SPN and I *loved* it. The lack of Sam didn't bother me (although I admit I'm more of a Dean girl). I just loved the backstory and what Mary was like, and halfway through when I did the math (it's 1973 . . . Mary dies in 1983 . . . OH FUCK) I started flailing. :)

Hate Kenley. HATE.

[indigo-blind.livejournal.com]

I think i'm going to give Privileged a try during the Christmas hiatus. I've heard other people say it's cute.

I'm with you on Kenley, she has such an attitude, but some of her designs have been great.

[handyhunter.livejournal.com]

Fangirls were upset by this episode? Not on my flist. :D

I thought that was one of SPN's better episodes, ever, pretty much. It was more or less coherent, plot-wise, though time-travel stuff always goes wonky, and had call backs to previous plotlines (who knew the show could foreshadow like that), and it didn't turn Mary into a helpless victim (or evil-doer), and Dean didn't call a woman a bitch or slut or punch one of them. Yay, show. Progress!

[handyhunter.livejournal.com]

Oops. I don't know how I managed to post early.

And I'm guessing John learned about Mary's family being hunters once he became a legend of his own right in the hunting world.

And if John also figured out that Mary died to save him, I think that might explain some of the behavioral 180; it's not just revenge and grief driving him, it's also guilt.

For example, if Dean hadn't been there and brought up Libby, would Mary and her father have gone there? Or was that something that always happened?

Or was Castiel always fated to send Dean back to that moment so he'd be there... And 'round and 'round it goes.

[mistri.livejournal.com]

I'm a big ol' Ackles fangirl, so the lack of Sam didn't bother me, though don't get me wrong, I do love Sammy too. But presumably having the odd episode with only one of them will ease the pressure they're under from filming all the time.

The show is really good at casting sometimes - Mary and her family were just awesome.

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

I went back yesterday and read the sides - the original script for people auditioning - for 4.03, and Sam was definitely supposed to be in the ep - they had to cut him out when Jared had to do friday the 13th reshoots but it wasn't supposed to be that way.