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Supernatural Season 9 - Home Base
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- spoilers contained below
- criticism of show/characters welcome, but please don't be an asshat (ie. no character/actor bashing, no ship wars)
- general thread
- 9.01 I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here
- 9.02 Devil May Care
- 9.03 I'm No Angel
- 9.04 Slumber Party
- 9.05 Dog Dean Afternoon
- 9.06 Heaven Can't Wait
- 9.07 Bad Boys
- 9.08 Rock and a Hard Place
- 9.09 Holy Terror
- 9.10 Road Trip
- 9.11 First Born
- 9.12 Sharp Teeth
- 9.13 The Purge
Coming up:
- Feb. 25 - Captives
Enjoy the show!!! ♥
9.07 Bad Boys
Dean gets a call from an old friend named Sonny asking for help with a ghost. Sonny runs a home for delinquent boys, and Dean was sent there for stealing food when he was younger. Sam is stunned he never knew this about his brother and asks for more information, but Dean dodges his questions. Another murder occurs while Sam and Dean are at the house, so they scramble to find the culprit before anyone else dies. Meanwhile, Dean looks up an old girlfriend and recalls his time at the house.
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Despite the Backstory From Out of NOWHERE, I enjoyed this ep very much! In list form, since it's after midnight and I am BEAT:
- A good old fashioned Saving People, Hunting Things episode! It felt so old school!
- Teen Dean was played pretty well. Not as great as some of the kids they've had playing their younger versions in previous years, but good enough.
- Time with the boys getting along, working a straightforward case and not dealing with all the secrets and all of that.
- Dean in Daddy Mode! Awww!
- Timmy finding his inner super hero. AWWWWW!
There's one negative bit and it's something that has bothered me for SEASONS now.
- The portrayal of John Winchester as a complete jerk, borderline abusive (or all the way abusive) who was so hard hearted that he wouldn't let Dean stay one more freaking day to attend a dance. If we look back to early seasons, he just wasn't like that. Yes, he left the boys alone. A lot. But it wasn't like he was out having fun or simply being obsessive about hunting. He was hunting with a purpose. And there was no doubt that he loved his sons more than anything!
It was offset a bit by the scene of Dean looking at Sam and really that's why he left, but still. I loved John Winchester. I hate the way they've rewritten it all to make him look like nothing more than an abusive, neglectful father who didn't care about his kids and only ordered them around to do his bidding. That's not the man we knew.
Anyway, I enjoyed this one. It's been rare lately that I've wanted to immediately rewatch an ep, but I'd love to see this one again.
Another day, when I'm actually awake...
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- The portrayal of John Winchester as a complete jerk, borderline abusive (or all the way abusive) who was so hard hearted that he wouldn't let Dean stay one more freaking day to attend a dance. If we look back to early seasons, he just wasn't like that. Yes, he left the boys alone. A lot. But it wasn't like he was out having fun or simply being obsessive about hunting. He was hunting with a purpose. And there was no doubt that he loved his sons more than anything! YEP. THIS BASICALLY SIGH
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The episode did feel very 'old school'. I particularly loved the creepy bits like in the hay loft and the drawings Timmy made.
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THIS EP. I am still so torn I can't even say anything. Because what I want to say is not all that generous to the writers. This sort of wreckless retconning goes beyond merely snarkworthy laziness into dangerous territory, where they are remapping vital character traits. I can't really say more without swearing.
Suffice it to say: I'll be taking the elements from this ep that I enjoyed and promptly forgetting everything else.
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I laughed so hard.
I really liked this episode. Dean's 'secret-teenage-life', the history of lying to Sam, Sam's discovery of Dean's 'secret-teenage-life' - all felt familiar like there wasn't really new ground being broken, but it expanded on a story we already sort of knew. It gave me the sort of stuff I really liked from the early seasons.
NGL, it kind of felt like casefic. Which isn't a bad thing, TBH.
IT FELT LIKE AN OLD FRIEND STOPPED BY FOR A DRINK. Good stuff. :D
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I did enjoy the old school casefic feel.