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nilchanceDear SPN writers, don't make me break out the Race Fail bingo cards. (And commenters to this post, same. I don't want the hear the old "the black actor was the best for Uriel, don't you want black actors to have JOBS?" zero-sum game. That is the problem in itself, that the casting directors keep finding black male actors best suited for betrayal and then DEATH, and ONLY for that role rather than a recurring character that doesn't die. (Rare on this show, I know, and that's a whole different rant.) I don't think that Kripke et al are aware that they're replaying a racist trope, but I think they SHOULD know that it's not okay. End story. Arguing with me won't change my opinion. Defriend me if you feel so inclined.
Dean has never ever EVER been hotter to me than during the (surprisingly gory) torture scenes. Um. It put one in mind of the Meg "I will walk into hell" Devil's Trap scene. The John revelations made me yowl and grab T by the arm; the Seal revelation made me stop yowling and start going "OH SHIT" a whole lot. Also, Dean needs a nap.
Sam as addict does a lot to explain the season thus far. I was too squicked by the dynamics to watch the blood-drinking scene, though.
OH CASTIEL. My heart. You poor broken, lonely bastard. When he said "I don't know what to do," to Anna? Oh yeah. OW. And one wonders what the punishment was for caring too much about Dean, that Castiel retreated so sharply back into the "RAISING YOU FROM PERDITION, BRB" mode. And it hurt that Dean asked Uriel to leave so he could plead, basically, with Castiel not to do this. And that Castiel telling him he wouldn't make Dean if only he COULD, that being the thing to send Dean through the door into Alastair's holding cell... goddamn. Intense.
"Uriel is the most humorous one in our unit." HEEEEE.
The film of the angel's bodies, where they pulled back to show shadow wings? GORGEOUS.
Um. John Winchester is the badass of the universe forever, amen.
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Date: 2009-03-20 02:49 pm (UTC)See. I don't think Sam is an addict per se, in that he can walk away from it without getting cravings, he just loses power by doing so.
The other points go uncontested. I'd like a non-demon strong woman character that doesn't die, get roped to a poll and threatened with sexual assault (Jo) or stop getting airtime or even mentioned (Ellen) too, kthanx.
Just because it's standard for the genre doesn't make it ok.