Supernatural Season 9 - Home Base

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- 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!!! ♥

Comments

[kate]

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THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL ME!!!!!!!!!

Okay, lemme calm down just a bit.

Let's start with the fact that this was WAAAAAAAAAAAY less of a humor episode than I was expecting. Which I think will be hugely disappointing for others, but isn't for me because I have an embarrassment squick, and they hit it almost every time with their humor episodes (unless they involve Gabriel, for some reason).

Then there was Sam doing plank pose. I THOUGHT THOSE WERE A GIRL'S CALVES. It was kinda super-hilarious to realize, oh, shit, hair.... and then, OH SHIT, SAAAAAM. It was nice that the objectifying was one of the boys.

In general Sam looked good all ep (which, arg, why did Jared have to be stupid on twitter, because I couldn't completely put it out of my mind all episode), and Dean looked miserable. Which makes me happy, because Jensen plays a brilliant completely-fucked-up Dean.

In general, I love where they're going with this whole brothers thing, and the moment when Sam actually says OUT LOUD: You didn't save me for me, you saved me for you, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I NEVER THOUGHT THEY WOULD SAY THAT OUT LOUD ON THE SHOW.

While I believe Sam would have let Dean go if the tables were turned, I don't think Dean understands why and I think this is just going to push him deeper into his spiral of depression and self-loathing, and I cannot wait for this all to play out. I don't think they're willing to change the Winchester dynamic this much forever, so I'm feeling pretty good about where they're going to end up at the end of this season. Hopefully a little more mature, maybe Dean in a place where he can recognize he needs other people in his life besides Sam. I just am so excited about where this might be taking us. SO EXCITE.

[laisserais]

I want to rewatch this season in fast motion and watch Dean's arc again. I feel like maybe some of the subtlety is getting lost for me. because i can see what you're saying about Jensen playing him as self-loathing and depressed and confused, but it's not gelling for me yet.

[kate]

You know, it's probably because I'm inferring that - he's still in self-denial mode, which, if you look at Dean means drinking and snark (the "truth" thing at Sam about girls) and revisiting his decisions and being sure he did the "right" thing - when he knows, deep down, it wasn't at all the right thing. His insistence that he'd do it again is the problem, and he can't see that yet. Self-denial. But he's drinking heavier than we've seen him since, what was that, S5? And I think that's indicative of how much he's avoiding looking at the truth (and it's a major part of a Dean downward spiral, drinking waaaaaaaaaay too much).