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Episode spoilers, so cutting now.
Car porn. Every episode should start with a loving pan over the pristine, restored body of the Impala, just because.
Except this one didn't; it started with a double fakeout, although you don't realise that until later. Victim/vampire/victim. Go back and watch and feel pity again.
And just as the Impala's shiny and new, so is Dean; spring in his step, smile on his face, ready to party.
And, yes, we know, not really, just as I almost expect the Impala to start bleeding rust and crumbling. Fake. Facade. Not real.
Holes everywhere, even if they're invisible.
And Sam's gouging them deeper, but sometimes that's what you have to do to let the poison out; Dean made literal holes last week in the body of the car; Sam's doing it now to the ethos which drives (no pun...) them; monsters evil, monsters die. Dean wants that black and white so badly, too; needs one thing simple, needs the reassurance of being a hero to make up for a life that's never been easy.
Dean came close to betraying Sam but never quite crossed the line, not even with the punch; that, more than anything, told Sam he'd won, because there's no way Dean would have done that if he hadn't known Sam was right.
And having done it, he'd want to make up for it, which bought Sam some leeway. Did he know how much he was asking when he wanted Dean to believe a vampire could be harmless?
Doesn't matter. Sam didn't resent that punch; he pretty much asked for it, after all. Dean's still going to blame himself, though, because when he said "Sammy, remind me to beat that buzz kill out of you later, right?" somehow I don't think that was what he had in mind.
And, yes, splashing in the shallow, my mind went to my bunk right then, because that's what this show does. It gives you the stunning hotness of Dean with a blood-splattered face and even as you're thinking he looks fine, there's the dawning realisation that Sam's Not Happy and Dean's Not Sure and the hot just got too hot to handle and you drop it.
And layers. My God, the meta; a Gunn who isn't (both killed their sister, oh, you know they had to, you know it was right... but Gunn hated it and Gordon relished it and that's the difference right there, that's the line crossed.)
A Gunn... and a Tara, still Tara, even with fangs, strong, peaceful, different. And if you're referencing Buffy, you have to have ambiguous vampires, not wholly evil, just to keep the faith. One episode, evil, the next, not so much. That works.
And let's decide when Gordon's tenuous, quick but fleeting, hold on Dean withered and died. Calling Sam, 'Sammy'? Taking the keys? Cutting, hurting, endangering Sam? Oh, yes. Because they all encroach on Dean's territory and obligations and he's the most possessive son of a bitch out there.
But Gordon's big mistake was killing his sister and gloating over it.
Because Dean, I think, unspoiled here, just guessing, might be wondering if he's going to have to kill Sam to save him and he can't bear it.
And that wouldn't leave a hole.
That'd rip him apart.
Car porn. Every episode should start with a loving pan over the pristine, restored body of the Impala, just because.
Except this one didn't; it started with a double fakeout, although you don't realise that until later. Victim/vampire/victim. Go back and watch and feel pity again.
And just as the Impala's shiny and new, so is Dean; spring in his step, smile on his face, ready to party.
And, yes, we know, not really, just as I almost expect the Impala to start bleeding rust and crumbling. Fake. Facade. Not real.
Holes everywhere, even if they're invisible.
And Sam's gouging them deeper, but sometimes that's what you have to do to let the poison out; Dean made literal holes last week in the body of the car; Sam's doing it now to the ethos which drives (no pun...) them; monsters evil, monsters die. Dean wants that black and white so badly, too; needs one thing simple, needs the reassurance of being a hero to make up for a life that's never been easy.
Dean came close to betraying Sam but never quite crossed the line, not even with the punch; that, more than anything, told Sam he'd won, because there's no way Dean would have done that if he hadn't known Sam was right.
And having done it, he'd want to make up for it, which bought Sam some leeway. Did he know how much he was asking when he wanted Dean to believe a vampire could be harmless?
Doesn't matter. Sam didn't resent that punch; he pretty much asked for it, after all. Dean's still going to blame himself, though, because when he said "Sammy, remind me to beat that buzz kill out of you later, right?" somehow I don't think that was what he had in mind.
And, yes, splashing in the shallow, my mind went to my bunk right then, because that's what this show does. It gives you the stunning hotness of Dean with a blood-splattered face and even as you're thinking he looks fine, there's the dawning realisation that Sam's Not Happy and Dean's Not Sure and the hot just got too hot to handle and you drop it.
And layers. My God, the meta; a Gunn who isn't (both killed their sister, oh, you know they had to, you know it was right... but Gunn hated it and Gordon relished it and that's the difference right there, that's the line crossed.)
A Gunn... and a Tara, still Tara, even with fangs, strong, peaceful, different. And if you're referencing Buffy, you have to have ambiguous vampires, not wholly evil, just to keep the faith. One episode, evil, the next, not so much. That works.
And let's decide when Gordon's tenuous, quick but fleeting, hold on Dean withered and died. Calling Sam, 'Sammy'? Taking the keys? Cutting, hurting, endangering Sam? Oh, yes. Because they all encroach on Dean's territory and obligations and he's the most possessive son of a bitch out there.
But Gordon's big mistake was killing his sister and gloating over it.
Because Dean, I think, unspoiled here, just guessing, might be wondering if he's going to have to kill Sam to save him and he can't bear it.
And that wouldn't leave a hole.
That'd rip him apart.
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