8x05 Blood Brother aka I am so confused about everything

[seeing_ghosts]

Spoilers, conspiracy theories, yadda yadda yadda, as per usual. Oh, and shipping! Don't forget the shipping!

Also, I'm confused as hell about this episode. I still don't know what to make of it, how to navigate myself in all the parallels and mirrors... Oh, Edlund.


I'll get the uncomfortable out of the way quickly - this was one of Edlund's weaker episodes. And it still was probably the best episode of the season so far.

Anyway. 

I'm starting to get annoyed with Sam's storyline - or, to be clearer, with they way they're handling it. See, I have this policy on storytelling -  get as many facts as possible out of the way as soon as possible, so that the readers (in this case viewers) know what they're at. So this holding back what happened, dragging it out - it's not working for me. I'm pretty sure that Sam's storyline is good and worth telling and knowing, but they are giving us too little, and nothing actually sparks my interest. 

But long story short - Benny is amazing, Benny's storyline is a giant parallel to Cas's storyline, Dean and Cas are so gay for each other that it melts my brain right between my eyes, Sam apparently had a lobotomy during the missing year. His, "A friend. Dean, you don't have any - all your friends are dead!" made me want to punch things. Ouch. And the agonized look on Dean's face... 

Also, my theory on monsters continues - apparently, being a monster is so horrible that you should rather have your loved ones killed than turned. Says Benny, the monster (both among and within us - I am getting lost in this...)

Second theme of the season - drifters! Benny, a vampirate, who cannot find his place in the world now; Sam and Dean, eternally on the road; Amelia who doesn't know where she's going...

How many themes can one season have? 

But the most important question is - I do understand that both Cas and Dean grow facial hair in Purgatory, and that Dean shaves with knives... But how the hell does he cut his hair?

Comments

[sparrow-lately.livejournal.com]

My roommate calls Supernatural "that show with the demons and the pretty men and the car you have weird emotions about." Couldn't have put it better myself...

[seeing-ghosts.livejournal.com]

Hmm, although it seems like they know what the fuck's up, at least. When I tried to show Show to my BFF she asked me, "Wait, who's Sam? Dean's brother? Who's Dean?" - after FIVE HOURS of non-stop watching. (Apparently, she's been looking at their faces and not paying attention.)

[sparrow-lately.livejournal.com]

My roommate is just used to me and my amiga A (of the giant bug sobbing breakdown fame) watching the show in the room (she's been working her way through the seasons and I've been along for the ride/emotional torture that is rewatching the early seasons with a knowledge of what will happen later). We've occasionally been, shall we say, none too sober, and we're sort of vocal. Generally it's A going "Look how cute Sam is!" and me going "Look how sad Dean is!" :P

[seeing-ghosts.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. There is very little that's better than watching Supernatural drunk. Except with us, it's not, "Oh, look at how cute they are!" It's, "HOLY SHIT LOOK AT HIS ASS THIS IS SO NOT FAIR IT'S LIKE IT WAS CARVED BY MICHELANGELO HIMSELF!" (I become Tumblr when drunk.)

[sparrow-lately.livejournal.com]

Drunk Sparrow on season one!Sam: "Oh my god, look at this little baby boy. Look at this baby boy. I want to give him jammies and soup and put him to bed in a big soft comfy bed. Look at this little baby. Oh, god, baby Sam."
Drunk Sparrow on season one!Dean: "Oh Dean. Oh Jesus. Oh Dean. You don't even know how bad things are going to get. You don't even. Holy crap he is young. I want...I want to eat his freckles for breakfast. With his eyelashes on top."

[seeing-ghosts.livejournal.com]

I wholeheartedly agree with everything.