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SPN Reaction: Episode 3.04
Transcription of running live(-ish) reaction notes on Episode 3.04
WARNING: Detailed spoilers for episode 3.04, and theorizing about possible developments. NO SPOILERS for UNAIRED EPISODES.
"Sin City"
-First, I must stop watching the previouslies. Most spoilery things in the history of ever.
-Damn that nun can scream! Good tone, lung power and breath control. Awesome.
-Bullet casting! With an actual bullet mould! Oh, I have wanted to see Dean do some bullet casting since the Pilot aired! Yay! Also, I kinda sorta wanted them to at least try to figure out how to make more bullets for the Colt from the end of season one, so yay on that too!
-Also yay for the exploded diagram of the Colt!! I love that a magic item is being analyzed mechanically and scientifically, with blueprints and stuff. What? The Colt is totally a magic item. Was +10 vs everything, now it's like, +5 vs Demons, I guess? Still think as a plot device it's totally lame, but I'm kind of glad the characters are acting like the characters would given it's the only weapon they have that could at one point kill a demon. I'd have been disappointed if they hadn't tried.
-Yay Bobby! Wow he's a bit cranky, but understandable. Long-time hermitty bachelor types and house guests don't often mix well, and if they've been messing around with the Colt, then Sam and Dean have been there a while.
-Hee! Yay for economic measures! There was an overhead shot of the Impala driving down a curvy road? That was a reuse from... uh... some first season episode, but I can't find a screencap for it, so I don't know which ep. Arg! It was used in a lot of first season hiatus fanvids. Anyway, yay for saving budget money!
-Suits! Yay! Are those new ties?
-People named Andy have no luck on this show. Just sayin'.
-Timeline note: It has been approximately 2 months since the gate opened, and therefore that plus a few days since Dean made the deal. Everyone got their timers calibrated? Cool. I totally don't think it's going to go right to the end of Dean's time before the deal's dealt with (I suspect in a way no one will be happy with) but it's good to know the 'Best Before' date on your heroes.
-Ritchie. OMG. I have never actively hated a character as fast or as thoroughly as I hated Ritchie. Get off my screen you slimeball.
-(I do, however, love that my spellcheck suggests 'Retch' for 'Ritchie')
-Backstory Note: Hunting a succubus (away from John, sounds like) with (blech) Ritchie in... uh... Kanarski? while Sam was 'in school'. I'm guessing Stanford there, so 2003, 2004 maybe? Am being distracted by my complete hatred of Ritchie.
-Neon bar sign backwards so it's the right way around from the inside of the bar! Now that's a hard-core drinking establishment. Don't need the sign facing out to draw people in, need the sign facing in so the sots inside have a clue where the hell they are after a solid day's drinking. Especially the staff. *nods*
-Hate Ritchie. Haaaaaaaaaate. Hate with the burning of a thousand red hot suns hate.
-...Ass on a nickel? What does that even mean? I've heard of 'ass you could bounce a quarter off of' but... on second thought, I don't wanna know. *sighs and pats Dean's crude, hormone-sodden and over-stressed mind*
-Heh, priest made a cross out of plastic swizzle sticks. Cute.
-Hurricane. Dean. *facepalm* Arg.
-Was "he slept with my wife"-shooter-guy a Ritchie too? Or was it Archie?
-Hee. "Time to go." Yeah, no more involvement with the media for you two for a while.
-WOOHOO!!! RITCHIE'S DEAD!!! I cheered! I didn't even cheer when YED bit it as much as I cheered this skeezy bozo's death. I have never been more thrilled to see a non-evil character get cacked. Yay Kripke for killing a character I hate for a change! :-D
-Red meat within striking distance! Sam wins!
-I still can't believe that these guys leave their ringers on when they're trying to be sneaky. Switch it to vibrate, Sam! Honestly!
-Bobby shooting at a sandbag in the back 40 of the scrap yard, I guess. I swear I've been to that stream... Very silly of Bobby to be out in the open like that.
-OMG NO! NONONONO DON'T KILL BOBBY!!!!! STAY AWAY FROM HIM YOU DEMONIC BITCH!!! *koff* Erm, I mean interesting development with Ruby there. Yay Bobby for shooting her. That little bit of collaboration between those two on getting the Colt to work would have been very interesting to observe... o.O Also interesting that Bobby actually worked with her and didn't shoot her to make sure the Colt worked afterwards... Wonder if Bobby being outside testing the aim on the Colt was a deliberate attempt to draw her out... hmm.... All very very interesting... *ponders*
-Hooker... What does she do for $400 a night? I'm guessing some pretty creative stuff, but I probably don't actually want to know. Either that or she does plumbing and electrical contract work. *nods* *stops self before saying crude things about cables and pipes*
-Run away from the skanky bartender, Dean, run!!
-Sam in Trotter's office! Hee! Oh poor Sam. Yay for taking the bullets out of the gun, and "Have a nice day!" FTW! Oh the cute faces!
-Yay Dean with the competent planning and stuff and not totally walking into a trap even though he kinda did anyway.
-UNDER THE RUG!!! The trap thing was under the rug! Yay! *takes a page with half a scene on it out of fic notebook and tosses*
-Dueling latination! \o/
-That better not be the Journal getting blown all over the room there... Oh good, it's not.
-It's her lair and she can wreck it if she wants to *nods* I can totally handwave the "But she's inside the circle and is powerless to take action" thing because it's her lair and she can have the demonic equivalent of the evil overlord's big shiny red self-destruct button if she wants.
-Incidentally, when the memorization of latin comes up in something I will post at some point in time, I had that scene written long before I saw this ep. *sigh*
-Jensen and the girl playing Casey have some very nice chemistry in their scenes together. I'm not talking sexual, just that their interactions seem very organic and natural together. Cool.
-Huzzah for the demons utilizing the weakness of human morality to lessen their workload. *tosses another bunny out of the fic notebook* Makes perfect sense, to go around being a whisperer-in-ears to nudge the humans into bringing about their own destruction rather than waging outright tactical war yet. *applauds sensible strategy*
-Casey: "That's how it begins." Love that. Very much.
-Hee! Squeaky piggy slippers of evil!! I love that Casey's place is a total mess.
-The guy bartender, I think I like. In an unrelenting jerk sort of way. He's nicely consistent.
-Did Casey say 'her' at the start when talking about Lucifer there? She says he and him for the rest, but I would've swore she said 'she' at first. The audio on the CityTV feed was a tad muddy though.
-Whoever's decision it was to spend half of this year's lighting budget on candles? Wins.
-The whole demon theology, theology, hell etc. conversation with Casey and Dean was kind of cool.
-Was anyone at all surprised the Priest was a second demon? Not me.
-Dean with the less than a year to live brave face. Oh Dean. Yeah, you aren't scared at all.
-Also loved the blatant pep-talk the demon-priest was giving Sammy the Boy-King in the station wagon en route to the house of Casey.
-Of course there had to be slinky demon stretching and cleavage exposure and so forth. Hellooo, demon? Leading people into temptation is her job.
-Azazel. Nice to have the confirmation in canon. I also kind of love that the wikipedia entry for Azazel already has Supernatural listed in the 'Pop Culture References' section, right up to the confirmation in this episode.
-The whole demons running amok causing chaos and jockeying for power vs demons following a leader and being organized and stuff? Makes very scary sense, and it's very scary that it seems to also make sense to Dean. God, this season is going to kill me, I can feel it. *throws away another half-started scene from the fic notebook*
-Bobby! Yay Bobby! Get your stinkin' mitts off him, demon-priest! Don't hurt Bobby! Grr!
-Bobby and Ruby was not a team I would have thought of. Like at all. But I still want to see what happened while they were working together.
-It's Dean's turn to get choked this week! Ooo, I want his boots!
-New Colt effects, kind of red and yellowy peachy flashes, not the big electro zappy thing. I'm thinking it only works on demons now.
-Dean and Bobby conversation: Bobby? You are so totally full of it. I love you, and I know you know something you don't want them to know you know and have known since probably as long as they've known you. Seriously though? Full. Of. It. *glomphs Bobby*
-And now I get smug again, because Ruby down-playing the Sam killing humans thing as a necessary evil, rationalizing it, telling him he's going to have to do things that go against his nature, and that there's going to be "collateral damage"...? Totally Ruby leading Sam towards the Coronation of the Boy-King.
-Also: "You don't want my help? Fine." That fine was 100% pure Meg. Seriously. Look at the facial expression. Totally Nicki Aycox. If it's deliberate, kudos to the actress playing Ruby. Story-wise, I can totally believe it's Meg. If she can't be the king (queen, whatever) she'll be the kingmaker. *nods*
And that's about it. Not sure what to think of some of the stuff going on in this episode yet, but that's okay too. Stuff to think about is always good.
In other news, Part 3 of Quantum Rock is kicking my butt and refuses to hang together, no idea when it's going up now, and everything else is backlogged behind that. And my vacation is over on Monday, dammit! :-(
WARNING: Detailed spoilers for episode 3.04, and theorizing about possible developments. NO SPOILERS for UNAIRED EPISODES.
"Sin City"
-First, I must stop watching the previouslies. Most spoilery things in the history of ever.
-Damn that nun can scream! Good tone, lung power and breath control. Awesome.
-Bullet casting! With an actual bullet mould! Oh, I have wanted to see Dean do some bullet casting since the Pilot aired! Yay! Also, I kinda sorta wanted them to at least try to figure out how to make more bullets for the Colt from the end of season one, so yay on that too!
-Also yay for the exploded diagram of the Colt!! I love that a magic item is being analyzed mechanically and scientifically, with blueprints and stuff. What? The Colt is totally a magic item. Was +10 vs everything, now it's like, +5 vs Demons, I guess? Still think as a plot device it's totally lame, but I'm kind of glad the characters are acting like the characters would given it's the only weapon they have that could at one point kill a demon. I'd have been disappointed if they hadn't tried.
-Yay Bobby! Wow he's a bit cranky, but understandable. Long-time hermitty bachelor types and house guests don't often mix well, and if they've been messing around with the Colt, then Sam and Dean have been there a while.
-Hee! Yay for economic measures! There was an overhead shot of the Impala driving down a curvy road? That was a reuse from... uh... some first season episode, but I can't find a screencap for it, so I don't know which ep. Arg! It was used in a lot of first season hiatus fanvids. Anyway, yay for saving budget money!
-Suits! Yay! Are those new ties?
-People named Andy have no luck on this show. Just sayin'.
-Timeline note: It has been approximately 2 months since the gate opened, and therefore that plus a few days since Dean made the deal. Everyone got their timers calibrated? Cool. I totally don't think it's going to go right to the end of Dean's time before the deal's dealt with (I suspect in a way no one will be happy with) but it's good to know the 'Best Before' date on your heroes.
-Ritchie. OMG. I have never actively hated a character as fast or as thoroughly as I hated Ritchie. Get off my screen you slimeball.
-(I do, however, love that my spellcheck suggests 'Retch' for 'Ritchie')
-Backstory Note: Hunting a succubus (away from John, sounds like) with (blech) Ritchie in... uh... Kanarski? while Sam was 'in school'. I'm guessing Stanford there, so 2003, 2004 maybe? Am being distracted by my complete hatred of Ritchie.
-Neon bar sign backwards so it's the right way around from the inside of the bar! Now that's a hard-core drinking establishment. Don't need the sign facing out to draw people in, need the sign facing in so the sots inside have a clue where the hell they are after a solid day's drinking. Especially the staff. *nods*
-Hate Ritchie. Haaaaaaaaaate. Hate with the burning of a thousand red hot suns hate.
-...Ass on a nickel? What does that even mean? I've heard of 'ass you could bounce a quarter off of' but... on second thought, I don't wanna know. *sighs and pats Dean's crude, hormone-sodden and over-stressed mind*
-Heh, priest made a cross out of plastic swizzle sticks. Cute.
-Hurricane. Dean. *facepalm* Arg.
-Was "he slept with my wife"-shooter-guy a Ritchie too? Or was it Archie?
-Hee. "Time to go." Yeah, no more involvement with the media for you two for a while.
-WOOHOO!!! RITCHIE'S DEAD!!! I cheered! I didn't even cheer when YED bit it as much as I cheered this skeezy bozo's death. I have never been more thrilled to see a non-evil character get cacked. Yay Kripke for killing a character I hate for a change! :-D
-Red meat within striking distance! Sam wins!
-I still can't believe that these guys leave their ringers on when they're trying to be sneaky. Switch it to vibrate, Sam! Honestly!
-Bobby shooting at a sandbag in the back 40 of the scrap yard, I guess. I swear I've been to that stream... Very silly of Bobby to be out in the open like that.
-OMG NO! NONONONO DON'T KILL BOBBY!!!!! STAY AWAY FROM HIM YOU DEMONIC BITCH!!! *koff* Erm, I mean interesting development with Ruby there. Yay Bobby for shooting her. That little bit of collaboration between those two on getting the Colt to work would have been very interesting to observe... o.O Also interesting that Bobby actually worked with her and didn't shoot her to make sure the Colt worked afterwards... Wonder if Bobby being outside testing the aim on the Colt was a deliberate attempt to draw her out... hmm.... All very very interesting... *ponders*
-Hooker... What does she do for $400 a night? I'm guessing some pretty creative stuff, but I probably don't actually want to know. Either that or she does plumbing and electrical contract work. *nods* *stops self before saying crude things about cables and pipes*
-Run away from the skanky bartender, Dean, run!!
-Sam in Trotter's office! Hee! Oh poor Sam. Yay for taking the bullets out of the gun, and "Have a nice day!" FTW! Oh the cute faces!
-Yay Dean with the competent planning and stuff and not totally walking into a trap even though he kinda did anyway.
-UNDER THE RUG!!! The trap thing was under the rug! Yay! *takes a page with half a scene on it out of fic notebook and tosses*
-Dueling latination! \o/
-That better not be the Journal getting blown all over the room there... Oh good, it's not.
-It's her lair and she can wreck it if she wants to *nods* I can totally handwave the "But she's inside the circle and is powerless to take action" thing because it's her lair and she can have the demonic equivalent of the evil overlord's big shiny red self-destruct button if she wants.
-Incidentally, when the memorization of latin comes up in something I will post at some point in time, I had that scene written long before I saw this ep. *sigh*
-Jensen and the girl playing Casey have some very nice chemistry in their scenes together. I'm not talking sexual, just that their interactions seem very organic and natural together. Cool.
-Huzzah for the demons utilizing the weakness of human morality to lessen their workload. *tosses another bunny out of the fic notebook* Makes perfect sense, to go around being a whisperer-in-ears to nudge the humans into bringing about their own destruction rather than waging outright tactical war yet. *applauds sensible strategy*
-Casey: "That's how it begins." Love that. Very much.
-Hee! Squeaky piggy slippers of evil!! I love that Casey's place is a total mess.
-The guy bartender, I think I like. In an unrelenting jerk sort of way. He's nicely consistent.
-Did Casey say 'her' at the start when talking about Lucifer there? She says he and him for the rest, but I would've swore she said 'she' at first. The audio on the CityTV feed was a tad muddy though.
-Whoever's decision it was to spend half of this year's lighting budget on candles? Wins.
-The whole demon theology, theology, hell etc. conversation with Casey and Dean was kind of cool.
-Was anyone at all surprised the Priest was a second demon? Not me.
-Dean with the less than a year to live brave face. Oh Dean. Yeah, you aren't scared at all.
-Also loved the blatant pep-talk the demon-priest was giving Sammy the Boy-King in the station wagon en route to the house of Casey.
-Of course there had to be slinky demon stretching and cleavage exposure and so forth. Hellooo, demon? Leading people into temptation is her job.
-Azazel. Nice to have the confirmation in canon. I also kind of love that the wikipedia entry for Azazel already has Supernatural listed in the 'Pop Culture References' section, right up to the confirmation in this episode.
-The whole demons running amok causing chaos and jockeying for power vs demons following a leader and being organized and stuff? Makes very scary sense, and it's very scary that it seems to also make sense to Dean. God, this season is going to kill me, I can feel it. *throws away another half-started scene from the fic notebook*
-Bobby! Yay Bobby! Get your stinkin' mitts off him, demon-priest! Don't hurt Bobby! Grr!
-Bobby and Ruby was not a team I would have thought of. Like at all. But I still want to see what happened while they were working together.
-It's Dean's turn to get choked this week! Ooo, I want his boots!
-New Colt effects, kind of red and yellowy peachy flashes, not the big electro zappy thing. I'm thinking it only works on demons now.
-Dean and Bobby conversation: Bobby? You are so totally full of it. I love you, and I know you know something you don't want them to know you know and have known since probably as long as they've known you. Seriously though? Full. Of. It. *glomphs Bobby*
-And now I get smug again, because Ruby down-playing the Sam killing humans thing as a necessary evil, rationalizing it, telling him he's going to have to do things that go against his nature, and that there's going to be "collateral damage"...? Totally Ruby leading Sam towards the Coronation of the Boy-King.
-Also: "You don't want my help? Fine." That fine was 100% pure Meg. Seriously. Look at the facial expression. Totally Nicki Aycox. If it's deliberate, kudos to the actress playing Ruby. Story-wise, I can totally believe it's Meg. If she can't be the king (queen, whatever) she'll be the kingmaker. *nods*
And that's about it. Not sure what to think of some of the stuff going on in this episode yet, but that's okay too. Stuff to think about is always good.
In other news, Part 3 of Quantum Rock is kicking my butt and refuses to hang together, no idea when it's going up now, and everything else is backlogged behind that. And my vacation is over on Monday, dammit! :-(