spn - 509 - the real ghostbusters

[retro_eidas]

• Though I thought there was some moments of funny and awesome (almost entirely all Chuck's and fake!Dean/Sam), this ep didn't come together quite as well to me as last week's (which I ended up talking about so much with folks outside of my own LJ I couldn't muster to write a proper reaction to it, suffice to say there was MUCH LOVE for it). Nor was it as good as their last big meta ep MATEOTB. I enjoyed it, but probably will be rewatching "Changing Channels" tonight instead.
  
  
• I didn't so much want to agree with pedantic German fan in the groaning about more Creepy Kids, but found myself groaning anyway. Also seems we see just what Kripke would like to do to some of those groaning pedantic fans. Oh my. lol *goes to look for a steel-plated helmet*
  
  
• "My mommy loves me [creepy child proceeds to reveal ghastly head wound] she did this to me!" Except, erm, she didn't? Those Creepy Lord of the Flies Ghost Kids did it. Unless poor lost ghost kid meant Mommy Gore's inability to protect him? I guess I could buy that.
  
  
• Since I tend to look for morsels of mytharc in anything and everything in the filler eps, I sort of want to interpret Creepy Evil Lord of the Flies Ghost Kids as the unhinged, apocalypse-starting angels with their Guardian "left the building". Though I'm hoping that doesn't mean Castiel represents the poor little lost ghost kid with the ghastly head wound, forever aimlessly looking for his "Mommy".
  
  
• Demian/Barnes - These two should be counting their blessings they got the heroes' glory without ending up martyrs (for the sake of some dbags who didn't deserve the sacrifice, then exploited their deaths). In this show? They were damn lucky!
  
  
• You knew this was fiction though looking out at that crowd and it's largely full of men.
  
  
• Glad to know Chuck isn't only fierce with a toilet plunger, he's also fierce with a mic stand. heeee As long as toilet plungers were around, we now understand how Chuck survived in "The End". However, whatever happened to "If anything threatens a prophet, anything at all, an archangel will appear to destroy that threat"? Either Chuck acted before Raphael could show up, Raphael didn't see Creepy Scalping Ghost Kid as a threat (?) or, my favorite, he's still brooding away in that ring of fire that Dean and Cas left him in.
  
  
• With all Chuck's fierceness, I can forgive him bagging himself a groupie. Chuck/Becky were even sort of sweet. She also doesn't make him look pocket-sized.
  
  
• However, the rest of Chuck's books aren't going to be published? Does this mean a few thousand years from now someone is going to find Chuck's hard drive in an urn in a cave in Nag Hammadi? The future full of debates on the levels of heretical in this controversial Winchester Gospel apocrypha? Heh.

Next week: "Abandon All Hope", apropos since I've been hoping this ep is the gateway to them ceasing to dick around about this Armageddon business. Mark Sheppard!! ELLEN please don't be inevitably dead!! YES!! And Dean/Jo blahcakes that are blah. I have distinct doubts my perception of her as the annoying kid sister/The Schofield Kid are going to disappear over the course of one ep. Characterization in itself I didn't have a problem with necessarily, my problem came when they tried to - and rather belabored about it - pair her, OTP-style, with the Bill Munny equivalent in Dean. It just didn't work for me. Eh, we'll see, but I'm not hopeful. I just wish they could have forgone the "last night on earth" romp that seems inevitable. Then again, this could just be because of last season's meh midseason arc (and cheesy "last night on earth" romp thereof), my fear it will have REO Speedwagon blasting in the background with all the gravitas of an 80s junior high homecoming dance. Can we hope they at least avoid the "Titanic" shout-outs?

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[eido.livejournal.com]

Or possibly Chuck no longer has an arch angel hanging around at all? Is he still getting visions?

I'm leaning towards yes, he's still getting them. Or at least the channel or whatnot is still open. That's how he got that "on a hill surrounded by 42 dogs" tip on the location of the "Michael Sword" in 5.01. Even though that turned out to be planted. I've been wondering if only the angels send him visions, but if God might be sending a few as well?

I just really don't like Dean/Jo. Mainly because I ship Dean/Ellen I think

I was feeling the Dean/Ellen chem after 5.02. They were an awesome team and played off each other really well and I wasn't getting so much a mom/son vibe either. Ellen wasn't going to sit there and let him whine Sam wasn't around, but wasn't harsh about it either. Earnest, but not pushy. Which does sort of baffle me why they've gone back to Dean/Jo (bringing it back all the way from "No Exit") that didn't really pan out so well. Which kind of makes me suspect that OTP vibe I felt they kept pushing on them wasn't an idea they ever let go of, just decided to delay on awhile and... eh.

What also sticks in my craw about this is, knowing they were going to revisit Dean/Jo (seriously or not) in 5.10, why didn't they give them any interaction at all in 5.02 apart from that cutesy little "Hi" at the very end? Lay some kind of foundation there for this possible New Improved Jo & Dean/Jo? Because right now - despite the past history - I can't help but shake it's just going to be another Dean/Anna Connection/Love That Was All Of A Sudden thing (OMG I have daddy angst too!! We were like MADE for each other! HOLD ME!) And that just isn't a comforting thought at all.

However, another part of me wonders if this may just be two friends seeking some comfort in an ugly situation. Then Jo goes her way and Dean goes his. It doesn't have to be some Huge Angsty Thing, but again, last time they attempted Dean/Jo I did get an impression of OTP-ness being pushed. I'd just wished they really wouldn't.