spn - 5.14 - my bloody valentine

[retro_eidas]

Since they didn't use any songs in this ep thus no lyrics for me to quote in the cut and I'm not going to quote from Jensen's shitty movie, I'll quote Dante at random!

• My bloody valentine? Try whole bloody season. Lovers literally devouring each other ...in the kitchen against a fridge, no less. Ha ha. Averting my eyes now, Mr. Edlund!! *cringes* This probably wasn't on purpose, but that reminded me a hell of a lot of the last scene you see Clarice and Hannibal Lecter together at the end of the "Hannibal" movie. Him looking like he's about to bite her face off with her trapped against a fridge (for squick, they actually ended up together in the book).
  
  
• Famine reminded me of creeptastic Reverend Kane from the "Poltergeist" sequels. Those sequels were pretty crap, but that old dude was stuff of nightmares.
  
  
• When's Dean going to learn to stop punching angels? But wow, Sammy doesn't look like the only one with anger issues. Sammy's more the overt raging at anything and everything but Mr. Push-It-All-Down-And-Move-On Dean seems more like a powder keg waiting to blow. Push him hard enough, he will try to lay you out, even if it may break his hand and he knows it.
  
  
• Cas really does like materializing this || close to Dean, doesn't he?
  
  
• Apparently it's business as usual for third class cherubs. "Cupid" seemed utterly undeterred about the whole Apocalypse business his (higher ranked?) emo brothers have all been going nutso over. I take it a low-ranked angel like him either doesn't care or somehow doesn't know what his brothers are doing to Earth? He didn't seem without compassion, he started sobbing when he thought he was responsible for the deaths of two of his marks. Which makes me lean towards him - and his fellow heavenly peons - just not knowing. Zachariah bragged they'd been keeping the ground troops ignorant of their greater plan. I'd take it that's true for all the lower ranked angels as well (though how could they not know what's going on?) I'd wonder what these lower ranked angels would think if they learned the extent of their brothers' shenanigans? I can't imagine they'd be too happy about it.
  
  
• Not that it's particularly surprising from all the determinism Michael was jawing about last week, but Heaven played matchmaker for John/Mary? They'd have not gotten together if not for, literal, divine intervention? All apparently to cook up some vessels? That's disturbing. I've still got this fear Heaven compelled Dean and Sam to knock up some chicks as back-up or they might. They just keep going on and on about bloodlines and family this season.
  
  
• Jimmy is still in there then? Though after Cas leaves him, too bad he'll be dead from high cholesterol in 10 years. Dude, Jimmy, salads can be awesome too. I feel sorry for Misha having to stuff his face for so many takes, I'm sure Jensen could sympathize (or it was his idea).
  
  
• Interesting (or unnerving) Jimmy's being affected by Famine - that human susceptibility to hunger - was more powerful than Castiel could fight.
  
  
• But WTF writers? Jimmy is still alive in there, so wtf was up with letting Cas nearly bang a hooker? And after all the pains they took to make sure GC!Ruby's vessel was vacated / prevent Sam from raping some possessed chick. I doubt straight arrow, family man Jimmy was up to having an affair unless it's God/angels calling
  
  
• Dean's so broken he doesn't "hunger" for anything? Though that whole "hole inside of [Dean]" line - apart from the mantears at the end of H&H - reminds me of what Dean said to Tessa the Reaper back in DTAH. Dean going to wax poetic at Death (again)?
  
  
• I'd speculate if Dean's being unaffected by Famine c/o 40 years of Hell a possible reason why the "righteous man" was allowed to stew down there so long. A failsafe so the Horsemen wouldn't affect him? However, wasn't he affected by War? IIRC, he was seeing the demon eyes just like the rest of them in 5.02. Then again, I suppose not being affected by Famine doesn't necessarily translate to the rest of the Horsemen, though that would be an interesting (and depressing) trait of Dean's. His time in Hell was to break him, but so he could be immune to Horsemen?
  
  
• How long did Dean wait before he stormed into the diner (possibly infested with demons and a Horseman of the Apocalypse) to save Cas? Less than a minute? Heh.
  
  
• Too bad all the eps couldn't have been as easily dispersed amongst Team Free Will as this one was. This is probably one of the few eps this season Show has really utilized the fact it has *three* leads, all of whom have chemistry with each other.
  
  
• It looks as though they might be trying to salvage Sam's powers off the evil heap. Though he's still got to drain the possessed. It's probably an understandable fear, but is Lucifer going to be dangling vials of his/Nick's blood in front of Sam to tempt him?
  
  
• Dean still needs a hug (though preferably not from naked fat angels, they just creep him out). Cas looked like he was ready to follow Dean out and I really wish he did. He was looking concerned and looking right at Dean chugging on that booze, you could also tell he was trying to make the effort to comfort Dean about Sam's condition. It's a shame he didn't/couldn't answer Dean's prayer this time too like he'd done in MATEOTB.
  
  
• My guess is Dean's going to have to choose to live or something, but possibly also be given a very real motivation and probably (or it may have to be) something outside of Sam.

Comments

[eido.livejournal.com]

Jimmy most certainly wouldn't want to cheat on his wife, and even if Cas can suppress him under normal circumstances, why would he have done it in that instance? (The hooker thing.) Cas didn't want to screw the hooker.

I'd imagine he did it because a big part of him is still the Good Little Soldier and the hooker thing was Dean's idea, whom he gave up everything for. Cas switching out one CO for another. Maybe some kind of curiosity of human experience, even if just an analytical sense (but he didn't seem all that analytical in "The End"), though if it was curiosity he was terrified of it.

I do think that Jimmy is still in there because it personally doesn't make any sense to me that Jimmy's body would crave a specific food on its own. The foods you like aren't all about biology.

I'd agree with that. If it was just the physical body, it would make more sense it would be craving food in general (the body likely not had any food at all since "The Rapture" and the beer in FTBYAM), not just red meat.

Though I get a feeling they've kept Jimmy around to imply messianic properties to Castiel. He's still both human (Jimmy) and divine (Castiel). How Cas was tied directly to that "Jesus Saves" sign in "Abandon All Hope" (also written by Edlund). How he was dead, but mysteriously brought back to life. Then there's the initials. That's Cameron-esque "John Connor" levels of subtlety right there.

[sailorhathor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see Castiel agreeing to be with the hooker simply because Dean wanted him to. At first, I was thinking Cas is a Christian angel who knows adultery is wrong and therefore would have a problem with using a married man's body to screw some stranger, but then I remembered that this happened after Cas rebelled against Heaven. He's taking a lot of Dean's mannerisms on (sometimes talking like him and such), so why not learn how to be Earthbound from the closest human to him. I'm glad Cas messed up and the hooker kicked him out, though, because it would have bothered me if poor Jimmy was just along for the ride, unable to stop it. Of course, Jimmy might not have even been conscious of what was happening at that moment. Still bothers me. :D

Dean mentioned White Castle burgers, too. That's very specific. (I don't know if that was supposed to be taken literally or just a joke Dean was making, since White Castle burgers have a reputation for being very addictive. I've known more than one person who love them like crack.)

>> Then there's the initials. That's Cameron-esque "John Connor" levels of subtlety right there.

What else could J.N. stand for? Or do you mean Jimmy/Castiel, J.C.?

[eido.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see Castiel agreeing to be with the hooker simply because Dean wanted him to.

And we see all the way into "The End" future, no matter how horrible it was, Cas was still following Dean's orders unquestioningly. No matter how insane they were.

Of course, Jimmy might not have even been conscious of what was happening at that moment. Still bothers me. :D

It would have definitely have bothered me. Even if Jimmy was completely unconscious during it, it will be like a coma patient getting raped or something. Just major squick, all around.

Dean mentioned White Castle burgers, too. That's very specific. (I don't know if that was supposed to be taken literally or just a joke Dean was making, since White Castle burgers have a reputation for being very addictive. I've known more than one person who love them like crack.)

LAWLZ I'll have to take your word for it, never tried White Castle. Tho had you said In-n-Out....?

What else could J.N. stand for? Or do you mean Jimmy/Castiel, J.C.?

Jimmy + Cas. The initials work with Jimmy + Claire too, incidentally (the only two that Cas possessed).

I also was wondering if Jimmy, or James, could be a reference to Jesus' older brother.

[sailorhathor.livejournal.com]

We don't have White Castle or In-and-Out Burger around here, but I've had pen pals since I was 12 and now, being on the internet, you just hear things about food from other parts of the country, heehee. I took a trip to California when I was 18 and had Carl's Jr for the first time; a burger with sprouts on it? That was a new taste experience. XD

I'm really not sure what would be North Texas' special burger experience. Maybe Dairy Queen?

Shows you how much of the Bible I haven't read; I didn't even know Jesus had an older brother! :D I bet the writers are going for all kinds of symbolic things this season, things we won't even realize until it's all over.