spn - 5.17 - 99 problems

[retro_eidas]

• Wow. Dean's certainly giving Theo Faran a run for his money in the utterly depressed, apathetic savior department.
  
  
• Crazy cult/fundie ep, it's about damn time.
  
  
• O HAI Daniel Jackson! Too bad you hardly did anything in this ep. You did save Dean & Sam once!
  
  
• Though I've noticed - if season 6 does go all post-apocalyptic - Dean and Sam have garnered themselves a nice little band of resistance fighters. Father Gideon and Daniel Jackson & wife (as did many of the knowledged, resourceful townsfolk) came out alive at the end of this ep. Rufus is presumably still alive. Chuck grew a pair in 5.09. They've got at least one ally up in Heaven in Ash (and last ep also shows it's possible to communicate with Heaven, even if "the spell is difficult to maintain"). Bring on the post-apocalyptic survival story I say!
  
  
• And damn, I fully concur 22by7, that was Look of Teh Ghey (and in church, no less) between Daniel Jackson and "Paul"
  
  
• Thus the seeds for apathetic, cold-hearted "fearless leader" Dean and pill-popping, boozer Last Man!Cas of 2014 are firmly planted. I feel for Sam and Bobby, they seem to be the last shreds of hope keeping Dean and Cas from completely going off the deep end.
  
  
• Dean and Cas having a moment about how fucked up they both are their deadbeat dads. The last time Dean communed like that with someone, there was sex shortly thereafter. Though they're both guys and this is SPN on American network tv, the closest it comes is Fight Club from the looks of the promo.
  
  
• Yes, random Lisa was random, but I really doubt how much that was about Dean/Lisa (they don't even know each other, really) as much as her and Ben being the personification of the white picket fence dream that we know Dean's had (apparently still has). Him saying goodbye to her was him believing he's finally putting his big man pants on, waking up and letting go of the dream (by saying yes to the illusion-masters, the angels. Not contradictory at all, Deano!). Lisa also functioned, fairly blatantly, as the personification of humanity. Both in the sense of the people Dean wishes will be saved by saying yes ("People, families, that's what's real!") and the face of those he'll kill by saying yes. Adios, (Dean's) humanity!
  
  
• Leah and Lisa. Kripke does love his symmetry, but there have been a lot of female mirrors this season or maybe that's just me. Most of them though are powerful women who have considerable sway over the heroes, for good and evil. I do suspect God is a woman or enthralled by one.

Next week: Cas gets officially adopted into the Winchester clan by showing his love via physical violence.

Also, anyone going to make a Dean/Cas vid to "Life on Mono"?

"DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT EVERYTHING I'VE EVER DONE HAS BEEN FOR YOU?!" Sound familiar? ;)

Comments

[missjigsaw23.livejournal.com]

Lol, yeah. Though maybe we read too much into things =P

Probably. Though probably none of mine XD I haven't been able to finish vids lately, because with the show airing regularly, I just KNOW I'd get a video done, and then the next week, see a scene that could have been SO perfect, if I had just waited =P

Songs getting suck in your head is immensely annoying. Especially when you don't even LIKE the song. In fact, songs I don't like are usually what get stuck...

[eido.livejournal.com]

Nice icon. ;)

I'm still (probably futilely) waiting for the D/C hug. Come on, writers! Dean's hugged every member of his fam, natural or otherwise, BUT Cas! And if ANY times they've been begging for hug action? IT'S RIGHT EFFING NOW! They do seem to be delivering somewhat on the D/C in the back end of this season, so yeah, probably best you're holding off on vidding just yet until some really big D/C bromance scores (if Kripke isn't a rat bastard and doesn't cheat us out of them). lol

I like Mono and don't mind that song getting stuck in my head really, but DAMN that song was overplayed back in the 90s.

[missjigsaw23.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? =P Someone already had them made like, 20 minutes after the clip got put up XD... I'm working a header with the screencaps right now, actually.

They are giving us more moments now (the conversation about deadbeat dads, for one... And the fight? I'm sure that's total fanservice... The dialogue certainly sounds like it is =P).

Kripke better not cheat us. I need my D/C fix, damn it. That 5x18 clip can only last so long. (oh, and that one with Bobby? Cas' FACE omg. If someone was looking at me like that, I'd be running for the hills).

Hah. I always get songs I hate stuck. Like that damn milkshake song, or whatever it's called... It gets stuck, and it never leaves...

[eido.livejournal.com]

And the fight? I'm sure that's total fanservice... The dialogue certainly sounds like it is.

Dude, it sounds like something straight out of fanfic.

Kripke better not cheat us. I need my D/C fix, damn it.

Right now I'm pretty much batfudge nuts convinced that if they're going to make us watch Cas beat the tar out of Dean, that they've got to balance that out with a little bromance lovin at some point. And Cas is still a virgin, as far as we know.

that one with Bobby? Cas' FACE omg. If someone was looking at me like that, I'd be running for the hills.

You could imagine all the incredibly bitter, nihilistic, self-hating things going through Dean's head right that moment too. That certainly would explain the look.

Barring Mono, do you know what gloriously melodramatic song got crazy stuck in my head? This one....

Thanks to Dean being all melodramatic and bidding farewell to the whole being human thing and free will.

[missjigsaw23.livejournal.com]

It totally is. In fact there was a comment!fic the morning before the clip was released that featured the line "I gave everything for you"... I just about died when that was actually in the clip XD.

Well, show is all about it's balance/symmetry... There should be a hug at the end, after Dean comes to his senses, and realizes that Cas stopped him from doing something really stupid. Barring that, we should get a meaningful conversation, and long, soulful looks...

If that song gets stuck in my head now, I'm going to have to kill you, just so you know =P

[eido.livejournal.com]

Is that CGI!(Starkiller)Sam Witwer in your icon? UNF! Speaking of someone that's got to guest star in SPN before it ends! He was tragically wasted on Smallville.

Seriously, Kripke acknowledged their friendship the first ep of this season. You'd think he'd have given us at least one proper hug by now.

LOL, there could be worse songs to get stuck in your head like Cas' milkshake brings all the humans to the yard, damn right, it's better than yours.... XD

[missjigsaw23.livejournal.com]

Yes it is! Here I thought I'd never find anyone who would recognize that icon =P

Maybe he's withholding all the really good parts for the last handful of episodes. *is hopeful*

.... I don't know if that's better, or worse than having "I Want Candy" stuck in my head... only because of a comment I read, I've been running the lyrics through my head as "I want Crowley" instead of "I want Candy"...