spn - 513 - the song remains the same

[retro_eidas]

Oh damn I needed that.

• Warrant's "Cherry Pie". Oh God. Dean-Sam-Cas aren't the only ones time traveling. That sent me right back to junior high homecoming with the Jersey high aquanet hair and fashionably ripped Skid Row t-shirts. *facepalm* Which is scary since that makes me think my junior high experience = Dean's subconscious, though not as many strippers, or surprise!angels, in junior high as I recall.
  
  
• Though we know Dean's only got one angel cherry pie in his life and it sure as hell ain't Anna.
  
  
• I have to admit, I did sort of LOL at the extent of Dean's reaction to the supposed big angsty discovery of Castiel betraying Anna was basically, "What? Really?" Then a few minutes later, after Cas likely explained things (which they didn't bother to show us, cuz, you know, not all that important. We already know what happened and it was clear Cas really didn't have much choice), he's right back on Cas' side. We didn't even see him waver in his loyalty to Cas. I was LOLing as that group of Cas-haters out there were certain that would be one of those things Dean would discover about Cas that would make him hate Cas forever. Maybe Dean might react differently to discovering it was Cas who let Sam out of the panic room, but there goes one not-so-ticking time bomb of Dean/Cas friendship implosion.
  
  
• Cas called Sam his friend. Awww Tho if Sammy and Cas are at the friend-level, that obviously makes Dean/Cas married, right?
  
  
• Tiny font only partially joking... honeymoon suite, Dean? Really? Dean so copped a feel before he dropped Cas off.
  
  
• So I was unsurprisingly totally wrong about Anna getting dragged to Hell. But she did burn. I figured she wasn't going to skip out on the holy fire hammer this time, not after threatening the mater and pater familias of Show.
  
  
• Oh yeah, the Winchester family is epic. I especially loved the juxtaposition of fierce warrior (human) Mary vs. (angel) Anna. Mary while she was pregnant with Dean no less (as if he couldn't get more de facto heroine of the story). Positive feminine vs. Negative feminine. Which leaves me somewhat chagrined that Michael took out Anna in the end and not Mary, but my guess he will have to bow to Mary's sons before the end. I guess she will get the last laugh.
  
  
• I have to concur, Matt Cohen was pretty hot as Michael. I think an improvement on the acting too since ITB, tho he didn't get to do much in that, which I now realize was a damn shame.
  
  
• This ep also stuck it's thumb in the Winchester family angst pie and pulled out the Christmas plum. Dean-Mary and Sam-John? Gorgeous and heartbreaking and perfect. Why isn't every episode like this?
  
  
• Also o.O at the people who were annoyed Dean forgot about Cas in the whole Michael convo and ensuing DeLorean fingers. Y'all, if Dean told Michael about Cas, he'd have smote him like he did Anna. Michael's clearly company man through and through, he'd have totally nuked a rogue angel if he discovered one was around.
  
  
• Ok, so there wasn't a lot of Cas in this one and that was sad-making, but what was there I loved since it was all Team Free Will being all Superfriendsy.
  

Next week: Dionysian orgy gone terribly wrong.... or perhaps terribly right, depending on one's POV. I'm certain I was seeing things (I don't think nekkid sexin man was quite tan enough), but does Sammy get nekkid next week (and more rough Sam sexin)?

Also, it was much clearer on the tv box, but this cap...

...does things to me. Dean with the bottle to his mouth and Cas looking right at him all broody bedroom eyes in the background like he's about to pounce.

Comments

[eido.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm going to get all meta-y for a sec, I guess Cas saying that isn't all so left field to me cuz I always interpreted Cas getting in Sam's grill as Cas just as pissed at himself for his own failures in the Apocalypse-starting business and thereafter. Basically, when he looked at Sam, he could see some of his own (all too human) failures reflected back and he hated it, hence tried some angel-like hard-ass approach in dealing with Jesse to defend his (former) family. Almost like he was trying to prove to himself he was still an angel and not becoming so human, but then only to display all too human regret and reluctance in attempting to kill the kid (and a hell of a lot more remorse than Anna was showing before trying to kill John & Mary in tonight's eppy). And this greater acceptance of this inner humanity and failings partly comes with a greater acceptance of Sam. Tho I still think Dean holds the lion's share of influence when it comes to Cas' humanity.

[spacefragments.livejournal.com]

i think that could be the underlying message, but i'm less likely to buy it if the show doesn't, well, *show* it to me.