Supernatural Season 9 - Home Base

[colls]

- gif credit
- 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!!! ♥

Comments

Re: 9x13 - The Purge

[laisserais]

And also: it's interesting, thinking about the mythos of "The Winchesters" among demons and all supernatural creatures, to think about the MotW realizing they were hunters, but not that they're like, THE Hunters. You know? Like, this lady and her brother were being hunted by the best of the best. It's kind of like a five year old getting beaten in a game of basketball by Kareem Abdul Jabar. (Or someone more current in basketball history I don't know anything about sports.)

From that perspective, pretty much all motw a-plots are going to seem overly simplistic, even as coat hangers for the brother drama. Once you avert, cause, avert, and then cause the apocalypse, it's sort of all child's play. This is an interesting by-product of shows of this sort, and an issue perhaps unique to the form. I wonder if folks in the writers room think about this. Or if maybe they will, in future shows. They'll be like, "yeah, but let's be careful not to pull a Willow or a Sam-N-Dean, here."

Re: 9x13 - The Purge

[kate]

Interesting! I am not sure I agree, but only on the most semantic of levels. I think Sam and Dean don't think this is a big deal (and I think that shows in the way they handle the hunt - way different than they did when they were just starting out in the early seasons), but monsters always pose a threat. They're usually jacked up somehow, so even the lowliest monster has an advantage over just one Winchester (though usually superior skills/knowledge/luck comes through for them - or, the other Winchester). Sam needed rescuing yet again this week (and he does so often, you know? I find it a little frustrating how lackluster he seems because they always need to use him as the one that's in trouble to create tension. I mean, seriously, when was the last time Sam kicked ass and took names at hunting, and/or had to save Dean's bacon). ETA: And there was more to this sentence, but, working, and arg, lost the train of though.

But I see what you mean on a meta level, monsters of the week are tough to choke down considering there's wars above and below going on.