winterlive | [ hoist the colors ] (Reply)

red sky at morning, sailors take warning; red sky at night, sailor's delight, goes the old rhyme, and let's just underscore one more time here how one thing viewed from one angle is awful, but from another maybe not so much. maybe it's cute instead, or even necessary. larry andries and kripke are responsible for this sucker - larry's pretty new to our show, but he's been involved in some alias and some six feet under in times past, so i think he's got a decent CV. maybe he'll stick around some and we'll hold onto some of these nice layers.

bela, bela, bela, you have been a bad monkey! before, when we were hammering on her one single terrifically shallow note of morally grey thief, i wasn't getting along with bela so well, but. well. suffice it to say my tune has changed. the angry sex line was fantastic, even if the chemistry in that moment wound up being more awkward than anything. i'm starting to wonder, though, if that's not more a function of dean than of the actors - when he was crouching on the ground with her in his arms, trying to save her, things got way better. every minute he spent being really, really angry at her was good too. but i think dean's heart just isn't in it anymore, the witty repartee. being all flirty with some girl he doesn't like, nah. no thanks. but if she needs him - if she's being real with him - he can open up. just like with casey the demon, i think if we start to dig down into bela's history and what she had to do to her mother or sister or whatever, if she's really angry or scared or miserable instead of this flippant, shallow, dumb persona (just like dean's, not so incidentally, takes one to know one) we'll see things ramp up a lot more between them in terms of how much they'll be able to get out of each other.

also he looks good in a tux.

as does jared, which some feisty old lady's hands can well attest. one day jared's little faces are going to kill me. they'll make me laugh so hard that i won't be able to breathe, and it will kill me. jared, i hope you can sleep at night after that.

naked. on a pile of money. nnngh sam reading in candlelight.

i remember thinking when they did that opening shot with the girl in the shower about how sex and terror, both being as instantly and instinctually stimulating as they are, are pretty tied together. i thought about how it was a girl, and how it'd be better, from a feminist standpoint, that if people insisted on showing sexualized violence toward women in horror flicks, that they at least do the viewer the courtesy of doing the same toward men. and then, maybe three scenes later, a half-naked buff guy was bent over his bathroom sink while the creepy music was playing, and i said to myself, self? i love this show. like, no. seriously.

another thing about this episode - lots of quotables. the witty one-liners were AWESOME. sam, can i shoot her? ... not in public.

and as for dean's final line about maybe playing a little craps:

YES. THANK YOU, GOD. WE ARE WINCHESTERS AND WE DON'T TALK ABOUT OUR FRIGGIN FEELINGS, GLORY HALLELUJAH.

i think i could rewatch this one a few times and pull more out of it, y/n? a solid, meaty episode.

and on the topic of smallville, lana luthor is eviler at this point than lex will ever be.

discuss.

also she is ten JILLION times more awesome right now than she was in, say, season five.

oh oh, and ps, lois is scoring ALL the hot guys on this show! first ollie, now being-paid-off-by-either-lionel-or-j'onn-or-a-whole-NEW-evil editor? hotttt. go lois! it's your birthday!

annnnd, chloe. haven't you learned not to go up against luthors yet? seriously? get over yourself, kiddo. you're chump change in the big game.