SPN: The One Where Castiel Isn't Himself
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gategrrlLast night's episode I like the myth arc episodes because they're less likely to freak me out because of my tender Horror/Thriller Movie sensibilities (I have a hard time watching on screen gore/violence of a certain type, which usually includes people being hunted).
Anyhow, since I'm relatively new to the SPN ranch, I don't worship any particular Holy Cows of SPN Fandom. Although Castiel didn't impress me much in the first episode I saw him in this season (either Sex and Violence or Death Takes a Holiday, not sure which), in this episode, at least I get his back story. After all, even though the angels are on God's side, supposedly the side of Good, they don't work for humans at all. And that gives the angels and God a weird gray tone, whereas the Demons are all bad. Or are they? Maybe what Satan wants, when he can finally emerge, is to wake the strangely absent God up.
I liked last night's episode. Dean got something to play, Sam got something to play; everyone got to see how the angels possessing a human works, and how it makes their human hosts and their families vulnerable. Castiel showed much compassion for his host, aware that perhaps this man was not as elastic in his mind as a child could be...but then his host had the chance to save his child from what could be, for her, a fate worse than death: being an angel's host is no easy thing. And perhaps he figured that the heaven Castiel tried telling him about would have no good if he knew that his daughter was not going to be there, too, eventually. Horrible choices.
Dean, of course, had to make a horrible choice of his own: with one younger brother he had no idea hadn't existed until a few days before dead, here he is having his suspicions finally confirmed about Sam, the brother he knows much more about. One wonders if Dean wishes Adam, his unknown younger brother had survived to help carry this load a bit. But then, he didn't want Adam to have the same life he and Sam have had to have.
And Sam, always working for the good by digging himself deeper into demonhood. Next week where we get to see Alastair (who should be hosting a twisted version of Monsterpiece Theater!) again, back from the hallucinary dead. I wonder if his father is going to show up, too, even though he's not a demon (although, according demonic type monsters, yes, John was a monster even more than they were).
I'll be buying the sets as they come out and get cheap. That way, I can fast forward through the parts that freak me out and focus on the interesting mythology parts.
Anyhow, since I'm relatively new to the SPN ranch, I don't worship any particular Holy Cows of SPN Fandom. Although Castiel didn't impress me much in the first episode I saw him in this season (either Sex and Violence or Death Takes a Holiday, not sure which), in this episode, at least I get his back story. After all, even though the angels are on God's side, supposedly the side of Good, they don't work for humans at all. And that gives the angels and God a weird gray tone, whereas the Demons are all bad. Or are they? Maybe what Satan wants, when he can finally emerge, is to wake the strangely absent God up.
I liked last night's episode. Dean got something to play, Sam got something to play; everyone got to see how the angels possessing a human works, and how it makes their human hosts and their families vulnerable. Castiel showed much compassion for his host, aware that perhaps this man was not as elastic in his mind as a child could be...but then his host had the chance to save his child from what could be, for her, a fate worse than death: being an angel's host is no easy thing. And perhaps he figured that the heaven Castiel tried telling him about would have no good if he knew that his daughter was not going to be there, too, eventually. Horrible choices.
Dean, of course, had to make a horrible choice of his own: with one younger brother he had no idea hadn't existed until a few days before dead, here he is having his suspicions finally confirmed about Sam, the brother he knows much more about. One wonders if Dean wishes Adam, his unknown younger brother had survived to help carry this load a bit. But then, he didn't want Adam to have the same life he and Sam have had to have.
And Sam, always working for the good by digging himself deeper into demonhood. Next week where we get to see Alastair (who should be hosting a twisted version of Monsterpiece Theater!) again, back from the hallucinary dead. I wonder if his father is going to show up, too, even though he's not a demon (although, according demonic type monsters, yes, John was a monster even more than they were).
I'll be buying the sets as they come out and get cheap. That way, I can fast forward through the parts that freak me out and focus on the interesting mythology parts.
