Supernatural

[gategrrl]

I'm dipping my toes back into Supernatural after having given last season a miss. It doesn't *feel* as if I've missed a whole lot, though, considering how many of my flist are into this show.

This wasn't full of the frights as I thought it would be. No jumps, no shocks. Just some Heaven and Hell talk, a grim reaper (I was half expecting Ellen Muth as George to pop in as a Reaper). I thought the conversations were well done and delivered. I know I missed nuances, but that's what I get for coming in more than half-way through the fourth season.

The angel wasn't as angelic as I'd have expected (ie, no unearthly beauty there!). I did enjoy the psychic the brothers called in. It was plainly an arc episode, but fortunately, it didn't feel unfinished.

I liked the kid who played the dead boy. I swear I've seen him somewhere else but I can't figure out where. The talk Tessa the reaper gave him sort of negated what Sam told him (Cole? Shout out to the Sixth Sense? Sure....) Really, the kid didn't have any choice, and it was silly to let him think he had one.

I've set this series on mt DVR for record, so I won't miss it next week.

Comments

[agentotter.livejournal.com]

I have nothing to add to the existing comments, but I think you should see the angel in a different context. Just for hilarity alone. :D I actually find him incredibly attractive, but I'm not sure why everyone else does. From what I've seen on the fanfic end of things, I don't think people are crazy about the character for who he is but rather who they think he should be... there's an awful lot of fic in which he's terribly devoted to Dean, whereas I think canon-wise he may have his doubts about his ideology on the whole but Dean is no more to him than a particularly handy tool: perhaps expensive, perhaps well-loved, perhaps useful, but ultimately disposable.

You have missed quite a lot, I must say. ;)