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? ;)

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Lisa is quite literally like the Beatrice to Dean's Dante. It's all very idealized and romanticized, while also being sad and creepy since Dean doesn't really know Lisa (though at least Dean knew Lisa better than Dante knew Beatrice). Though Beatrice (or the idea of her / that ideal of love of her), like potentially Lisa for Dean, came to represent something else for Dante than just literal romance. I obvs really don't want to see Dean end up like Dante at all, waxing poetic forever about a dream life and love he believes he can never have and never quite able to move on from. Treating the woman he did end up marrying practically like second best to The Ideal (either of the idyllic dream!Lisa or Dean's notions about what he believed his rel'p with Sam was). Always chasing after windmills and never seeing what's in front of him.

Though ironically Dean likely thinks he's facing up to reality by saying yes to Michael. His eyes will probably be opened to the fallacy of that right quick and probably painfully too. Though perhaps not quite painful to him (barring certain bloody incidents in spoiler clips), but for those he loves. To get Dean to really react? It's ultimately no use hurting HIM. He was in Hell for 40 years, so getting him to react or convince him via his own pain is futility. To get Dean to react? Hurt those he cares about.