Regala Electra is Evil
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ellefliesA little bit of a back story on this one: I am just now getting caught up on all the TV shows I watch. They're all happily sitting on my hard drive waiting for me to come home, cozy on up to the computer and lose myself in a multitude of different worlds (Heroes, Ugly Betty, Supernatural, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG1, Doctor Who and a few shows that have since been canceled like Jake 2.0 and Northern Exposure). Sadly, I get home and I'm usually doing a damn good impersonation of a walking zombie that the most I can manage TV wise is to curl up on the couch, pop in a DVD (I don't get cable TV, or any TV reception for that matter because I hate Time Warner with a burning passion) and tune out.
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regala_electra may look all nice and sweet and innocent, but don't let that fool you. She's really an emotional vampire. And as her loyal minion I held off catching up on Supernatural for the last nine episodes (and I managed to remain relatively unspoiled for almost all of them!) just so I could watch them with her and she could feed off the emotional roller coaster I knew I'd be putting myself through.
The last episode I saw before my little SPN marathon with Reg was Born Under a Bad Sign. I must add a little caveat, while I try to remain impartial I do suffer from a case of raging Sam hate. I really can't explain it, it's just there. I love Dean with the firey passion of a gazillion burning suns. I can't help that either.
Tall Tales - I knew this episode had a Trickster in it. Oh, and Bobby too, but that was the extent of my knowledge. I went into this episode wanting to like it because the Trickster myth is one that will make me all happy and giddy every time. If Raven ever shows up from the Northwest Coast myths I'll be in the corner dying of happiness.
Dean and Sam were in fine form in this ep, so much sibling bickering, I swear I've had arguments like that with my brother. They're stupid and they're pointless and dumb and they're the kind of arguments siblings have.
Of all the malicious little shenanigans the Trickster pulled I loved the alien abduction the most. Deans' expression when he was hearing it was priceless and Lady in Red... SPN has ruined that song for me, every time I hear it I'm going to think of slow dancing aliens and giggle.
This episode also brought the realization that Jared is an eyebrow actor - he wags those things around like exclamation marks.
Roadkill - I was not spoiled for this at all and that made all the difference in the world.regala_electra was and could not sit through it for another viewing so I was abandoned whilst she made a hasty retreat to the kitchen and showed me yet again why I am her minion (the girl can cook, and she used mushrooms *weeps with joy*)
ANYWAYS. I wasn't looking for the surprise twist or trying to figure out the monster of the week so I had no idea that what's her name from Battlestar Galactica was actually a ghost. I know, everyone is shaking their head thinking "gee whiz" or some other nonsense, but yes, I am easily taken in. On the plus side, it makes watching tv shows more fun cause I'm all "golly gee, I never saw THAT coming!" whilst everyone else rolls their eyes.
It was a fun ep, and nice to see some acknowledgment that it is possible for a ghost to hang around when there's nothing purely physical making them stay. Not an episode I'll probably want to revisit time and time again though.
Heart - I went and spoiled myself for this episode. The fandom was flipping its collective lid over it and I had a moment of weakness. Woops. I went in knowing Madison was the Werewolf and that Sam kills her - oh and that they have sex and Sam is a kinky bastard. I have a pet theory that Sam never knew he was a kinky bastard until he met Jess and Jess was outgoing and aggressive and brought out his kinky-bastardness. So yes, that's the theory, because that boy... he's a biter!
The Werewolf was... poorly done. I never though there could be a werewolf worse then the one in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban but the SPN folks... well, wow, they topped it hard core. SPN should stick to ghosts and demons, they do that best. Doctor Who does Werewolves (oddly enough) Buffy handles the Vampire aspect and SPN does Ghosts and Demons. This is how my world works, I don't appreciate them futzing it up. And if they're going to do Werewolves, they should have hired the folks that did the werewolf in Doctor Who.
Sam crying was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I clutched my sides and roared (Reg smirked her smirk of knowing and watched me roar). The secret cure to drought in the United States is Sam Winchesters' Tears. This is a true fact.
Hollywood Babylon - Dean Winchester when he is geeking out is the cutest thing I have seen since baby kittens and fluffy bunnies. It's also obvious that Dean has spent way too much time in far too many hotel rooms watching way too many bad movies. I love a show that can mock itself (Monster Truck anyone?).
I love that Dean is a cultural chameleon: he's been trained to 'fit in' and when he puts his mind to it he can just slide into any role, especially when it coincides with something he's interested in. Makes me kind of curious about what's really going on in there and what's a role in his life and what's really Dean - or what he puts on for Sam's benefit (because he's that kind of big brother).
I'm pretty easy to please, and this episode did please - there were crotch shots and Dean being the big damn hero and Dean being happy and most importantly Dean had sex hair at the end. This made me happy. I'm just so easy :)
The producer taking the afterlife and mangling it for his own twisted good cracked me up. Ah Hollywood...
Folsom Prison Blues - At least we've established that Convict Dean is no ones Bitch. Sam really looked like someone kicked his puppy in this episode (that made me smile. God, I'm a horrible person - but still... smiles :)
This was a fun ep, I loved that they finally brought Hendrickson back and actually touched on the issue that Sam and Dean are both Wanted men. It was also nice to see them wearing gloves, but they get points deducted for wearing them when they're actually trying to get caught.
This ep rolls right back to the chameleon thing - Dean is a good convict (although not behaviorly) because he has to be. They need to get the job done and hustling and fighting are playing to his strengths. He can use the system to his own benefit when he actually puts his mind to it. Sam never does seem to look deeper then what Dean shows him most of the time and I think this was one of those times.
Dean's plans suck, he's better at making stuff up on the fly. But Dean does come from the John Crichton school of getting crap done, and Crichton wasn't much better at planning. Don't worry Dean, I think you're adorable too.
Jensen also pulled off the color orange, as did Jared. I hate them for this.
What is and What Should Never Be - This episode moved in and pushed In My Time Of Dying out of the Number 1 Spot for me. Someone was either smoking the good crack when they wrote this episode or they were channeling bits of Farscape's Won't Get Fooled Again ep (which is a particularly good kind of CRACK!) From start to finish this episode made me its bitch and had me begging for more.
I've always been under the impression that normal and Dean just don't mix and I love the questions about Dean this episode brought up. About what his life would have been like if he'd grown up normal, would that have been the best kind of life for him? Was he happy in that life? Could he be happy in that kind of life? It was like looking into the innermost desires of Deans heart and having a childhood dream crushed. You just know that there's been many a time when Dean has thought that if his mom were still alive everything would be fine. And everything was fine, but there was that undertone of unhappiness running through.
They brought Jess back, I enjoyed Carmen and Mary looked WAY too young. And I know she is young, but every time I saw her I couldn't help but think how weird it must be to act with someone as if they are your son when really you're probably not that much older then they are. Taken did a better job of this then SPN did, but if thats my one beef with the episode then a pretty damn good episode it was.
Dean sucks at mowing the lawn. He didn't even have the lawnmower on. And yes, I know it's SPN, but after the cheesy wave I was staring at the bottom of the mower going "but it's not even ON!" No wonder his neighbor was looking at him weird.
The fact that Dean would sacrifice his own happiness to get back to Sam and his world of hurt and pain really should have been a clue about the next two episodes. But I am Ms. Oblivious and apparently live only in the moment when it comes to TV. So onwards and upwards!
All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1 - They killed Sam! Yay! In conclusion: I am a horrible human being.
I loved Jake and I love that he was wearing actual ACU's (that would be digiprint camoflage where the whole thing is like one big ode to velcro. I swear to god the Army weeped it's one tear of man joy when velcro was invented. The soldiers on the other hand wept their one tear of man pain...).
Now, I have to get this beef out of the way, whilst they did a good job with the ACU's and little Private Jake, the Division patch he was wearing drove me up the WALL. If you are wearing ACU's, the patch on your shoulder is a Foliage Green patch. It is green and it is black unless you belong to certain Divisions like the 1st ID, otherwise known as The Big Red One where the color is the point.
By the way, this is a Division patch, specifically for the 10th Mountain Division. I got it straight off the shoulder of an infantry guy coming out of Afghanistan. This is what they're supposed to look like!
I am completely saddened by the fact that besides Sam getting killed most of my memories of this episode center around Jakes' ACUs. I need to just let it go *g* but I guess this is what happens when you spend most of your time around soldiers.
I did shed a tear of fan!pain for Andy. I liked Andy! I used to like Ava too and liked that they turned her from sweet happy bubbly Ava into evil!Ava. I didn't see that one coming either.
Sam died. This made me happy because 1. Sam Died 2. Dean's pain. Clearly, I have issues.
All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2 - Jake changed clothes. THANK GOD. I can finally focus on the plot instead of frothing at the mouth in anger over the monstrosity on his shoulder.
Reg told me there was a scene involving Bobby that she loved and wanted to marry - you know the one, Sam is alive and confused and all "lets go kill demons yay!' in the house and Bobby and Dean are out back and Bobby is telling Dean all the things that many a person in fandom has wanted to tell him. And it was beautiful and wonderful and full of the man pain and Bobby just rocks my socks.
I never did see the deal with the Crossroads Demon coming, but I should have, because it was just so DEAN. Sam has always been the focus of his life and what is his life compared to Sam's... They broke Dean in the first part and he's nowhere near okay in the second. I loved that Dean was the one to off the Demon. It just seemed so appropriate that he be the one to take the shot.
Loved the bit with John climbing out of hell. He's still a jackass but he did what was right in the end.
I love this show so damn much. *sniffs*
Do actors in Vancouver just rotate from show to show? Almost every single one of these eps I was sitting there going "Hey... I know that guy!" I sometimes feel as if some SPN casting person is lurking around the Stargate sets just picking people up.
My god, it's a beautiful day, I'm in Germany, I should be outside but I'm not and I really don't care - but I feel bad on principle. (I'm in Leipzig too much to be all insane!tourist) But I did just get back from working, so I think I'm justified in spending the quality time with my computer. On an even geekier side note, when I go see the Transformers movie next month (gratuitous violence and explosions yay!) I can now say that the airbase that gets laid waste to in Qatar - Al Udeid - I've been there. Hee!
I mentioned that to some of our impromptu cleaning crew (the freight guys that load the C-130's at Al Udeid got conscripted to clean our plane) and they were all smiles.
regala_electra may look all nice and sweet and innocent, but don't let that fool you. She's really an emotional vampire. And as her loyal minion I held off catching up on Supernatural for the last nine episodes (and I managed to remain relatively unspoiled for almost all of them!) just so I could watch them with her and she could feed off the emotional roller coaster I knew I'd be putting myself through.The last episode I saw before my little SPN marathon with Reg was Born Under a Bad Sign. I must add a little caveat, while I try to remain impartial I do suffer from a case of raging Sam hate. I really can't explain it, it's just there. I love Dean with the firey passion of a gazillion burning suns. I can't help that either.
Tall Tales - I knew this episode had a Trickster in it. Oh, and Bobby too, but that was the extent of my knowledge. I went into this episode wanting to like it because the Trickster myth is one that will make me all happy and giddy every time. If Raven ever shows up from the Northwest Coast myths I'll be in the corner dying of happiness.
Dean and Sam were in fine form in this ep, so much sibling bickering, I swear I've had arguments like that with my brother. They're stupid and they're pointless and dumb and they're the kind of arguments siblings have.
Of all the malicious little shenanigans the Trickster pulled I loved the alien abduction the most. Deans' expression when he was hearing it was priceless and Lady in Red... SPN has ruined that song for me, every time I hear it I'm going to think of slow dancing aliens and giggle.
This episode also brought the realization that Jared is an eyebrow actor - he wags those things around like exclamation marks.
Roadkill - I was not spoiled for this at all and that made all the difference in the world.
regala_electra was and could not sit through it for another viewing so I was abandoned whilst she made a hasty retreat to the kitchen and showed me yet again why I am her minion (the girl can cook, and she used mushrooms *weeps with joy*) ANYWAYS. I wasn't looking for the surprise twist or trying to figure out the monster of the week so I had no idea that what's her name from Battlestar Galactica was actually a ghost. I know, everyone is shaking their head thinking "gee whiz" or some other nonsense, but yes, I am easily taken in. On the plus side, it makes watching tv shows more fun cause I'm all "golly gee, I never saw THAT coming!" whilst everyone else rolls their eyes.
It was a fun ep, and nice to see some acknowledgment that it is possible for a ghost to hang around when there's nothing purely physical making them stay. Not an episode I'll probably want to revisit time and time again though.
Heart - I went and spoiled myself for this episode. The fandom was flipping its collective lid over it and I had a moment of weakness. Woops. I went in knowing Madison was the Werewolf and that Sam kills her - oh and that they have sex and Sam is a kinky bastard. I have a pet theory that Sam never knew he was a kinky bastard until he met Jess and Jess was outgoing and aggressive and brought out his kinky-bastardness. So yes, that's the theory, because that boy... he's a biter!
The Werewolf was... poorly done. I never though there could be a werewolf worse then the one in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban but the SPN folks... well, wow, they topped it hard core. SPN should stick to ghosts and demons, they do that best. Doctor Who does Werewolves (oddly enough) Buffy handles the Vampire aspect and SPN does Ghosts and Demons. This is how my world works, I don't appreciate them futzing it up. And if they're going to do Werewolves, they should have hired the folks that did the werewolf in Doctor Who.
Sam crying was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I clutched my sides and roared (Reg smirked her smirk of knowing and watched me roar). The secret cure to drought in the United States is Sam Winchesters' Tears. This is a true fact.
Hollywood Babylon - Dean Winchester when he is geeking out is the cutest thing I have seen since baby kittens and fluffy bunnies. It's also obvious that Dean has spent way too much time in far too many hotel rooms watching way too many bad movies. I love a show that can mock itself (Monster Truck anyone?).
I love that Dean is a cultural chameleon: he's been trained to 'fit in' and when he puts his mind to it he can just slide into any role, especially when it coincides with something he's interested in. Makes me kind of curious about what's really going on in there and what's a role in his life and what's really Dean - or what he puts on for Sam's benefit (because he's that kind of big brother).
I'm pretty easy to please, and this episode did please - there were crotch shots and Dean being the big damn hero and Dean being happy and most importantly Dean had sex hair at the end. This made me happy. I'm just so easy :)
The producer taking the afterlife and mangling it for his own twisted good cracked me up. Ah Hollywood...
Folsom Prison Blues - At least we've established that Convict Dean is no ones Bitch. Sam really looked like someone kicked his puppy in this episode (that made me smile. God, I'm a horrible person - but still... smiles :)
This was a fun ep, I loved that they finally brought Hendrickson back and actually touched on the issue that Sam and Dean are both Wanted men. It was also nice to see them wearing gloves, but they get points deducted for wearing them when they're actually trying to get caught.
This ep rolls right back to the chameleon thing - Dean is a good convict (although not behaviorly) because he has to be. They need to get the job done and hustling and fighting are playing to his strengths. He can use the system to his own benefit when he actually puts his mind to it. Sam never does seem to look deeper then what Dean shows him most of the time and I think this was one of those times.
Dean's plans suck, he's better at making stuff up on the fly. But Dean does come from the John Crichton school of getting crap done, and Crichton wasn't much better at planning. Don't worry Dean, I think you're adorable too.
Jensen also pulled off the color orange, as did Jared. I hate them for this.
What is and What Should Never Be - This episode moved in and pushed In My Time Of Dying out of the Number 1 Spot for me. Someone was either smoking the good crack when they wrote this episode or they were channeling bits of Farscape's Won't Get Fooled Again ep (which is a particularly good kind of CRACK!) From start to finish this episode made me its bitch and had me begging for more.
I've always been under the impression that normal and Dean just don't mix and I love the questions about Dean this episode brought up. About what his life would have been like if he'd grown up normal, would that have been the best kind of life for him? Was he happy in that life? Could he be happy in that kind of life? It was like looking into the innermost desires of Deans heart and having a childhood dream crushed. You just know that there's been many a time when Dean has thought that if his mom were still alive everything would be fine. And everything was fine, but there was that undertone of unhappiness running through.
They brought Jess back, I enjoyed Carmen and Mary looked WAY too young. And I know she is young, but every time I saw her I couldn't help but think how weird it must be to act with someone as if they are your son when really you're probably not that much older then they are. Taken did a better job of this then SPN did, but if thats my one beef with the episode then a pretty damn good episode it was.
Dean sucks at mowing the lawn. He didn't even have the lawnmower on. And yes, I know it's SPN, but after the cheesy wave I was staring at the bottom of the mower going "but it's not even ON!" No wonder his neighbor was looking at him weird.
The fact that Dean would sacrifice his own happiness to get back to Sam and his world of hurt and pain really should have been a clue about the next two episodes. But I am Ms. Oblivious and apparently live only in the moment when it comes to TV. So onwards and upwards!
All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1 - They killed Sam! Yay! In conclusion: I am a horrible human being.
I loved Jake and I love that he was wearing actual ACU's (that would be digiprint camoflage where the whole thing is like one big ode to velcro. I swear to god the Army weeped it's one tear of man joy when velcro was invented. The soldiers on the other hand wept their one tear of man pain...).
Now, I have to get this beef out of the way, whilst they did a good job with the ACU's and little Private Jake, the Division patch he was wearing drove me up the WALL. If you are wearing ACU's, the patch on your shoulder is a Foliage Green patch. It is green and it is black unless you belong to certain Divisions like the 1st ID, otherwise known as The Big Red One where the color is the point.
By the way, this is a Division patch, specifically for the 10th Mountain Division. I got it straight off the shoulder of an infantry guy coming out of Afghanistan. This is what they're supposed to look like!
I am completely saddened by the fact that besides Sam getting killed most of my memories of this episode center around Jakes' ACUs. I need to just let it go *g* but I guess this is what happens when you spend most of your time around soldiers.
I did shed a tear of fan!pain for Andy. I liked Andy! I used to like Ava too and liked that they turned her from sweet happy bubbly Ava into evil!Ava. I didn't see that one coming either.
Sam died. This made me happy because 1. Sam Died 2. Dean's pain. Clearly, I have issues.
All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2 - Jake changed clothes. THANK GOD. I can finally focus on the plot instead of frothing at the mouth in anger over the monstrosity on his shoulder.
Reg told me there was a scene involving Bobby that she loved and wanted to marry - you know the one, Sam is alive and confused and all "lets go kill demons yay!' in the house and Bobby and Dean are out back and Bobby is telling Dean all the things that many a person in fandom has wanted to tell him. And it was beautiful and wonderful and full of the man pain and Bobby just rocks my socks.
I never did see the deal with the Crossroads Demon coming, but I should have, because it was just so DEAN. Sam has always been the focus of his life and what is his life compared to Sam's... They broke Dean in the first part and he's nowhere near okay in the second. I loved that Dean was the one to off the Demon. It just seemed so appropriate that he be the one to take the shot.
Loved the bit with John climbing out of hell. He's still a jackass but he did what was right in the end.
I love this show so damn much. *sniffs*
Do actors in Vancouver just rotate from show to show? Almost every single one of these eps I was sitting there going "Hey... I know that guy!" I sometimes feel as if some SPN casting person is lurking around the Stargate sets just picking people up.
My god, it's a beautiful day, I'm in Germany, I should be outside but I'm not and I really don't care - but I feel bad on principle. (I'm in Leipzig too much to be all insane!tourist) But I did just get back from working, so I think I'm justified in spending the quality time with my computer. On an even geekier side note, when I go see the Transformers movie next month (gratuitous violence and explosions yay!) I can now say that the airbase that gets laid waste to in Qatar - Al Udeid - I've been there. Hee!
I mentioned that to some of our impromptu cleaning crew (the freight guys that load the C-130's at Al Udeid got conscripted to clean our plane) and they were all smiles.
