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caffienekitty) wrote2007-01-19 12:43 am
caffienekitty) wrote2007-01-19 12:43 am
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Reaction: Playthings (2.11)
I will probably change my mind later, as time goes on but... er... this reaction may be a little bit frothing in spots, and not terribly positive. I'm blaming sleep-deprivation and being fool enough to get my hopes way, way up about something today.
Kripke's in ur forumz, readin ur postz.
So... how much more proof do we need that someone on the show reads the forums?
We had drunk!Sam (Where's the kareoke! There must be kareoke!), wet!Sam, hero!Sam, them actually trying to break the glass (and showing that it didn't work, that was cool) Dean making overt reference to Sam being the broody and angsty one, drunk!Sam calling Dean short!!! I mean come on! Not to mention the antiqueing/"You're gay, right?" stuff, Dean trapping Sam into looking like a freak with an obsession about dolls... There was a frigging White Nightgown of Doom on the wall! White Nightgown of Doom! On the WALL!
So, anyway. Not surprised that a month (which they apparently spent in Peoria searching for Ava, who is 5'5" and 108 pounds as it says on her missing person's poster that doesn't have a freaking date on it!!! Date! Kind of important! *gnaws things*) has passed and Sam's still wearing a cast. He keeps pounding on things with it (tables, Webber, Gordon) so he's probably re-broken it or mis-aligned it at least once. Nice bright white cast. Gonna need another new one though, 'cause that one just got soaked. Also... instead of (or as well as) an Insta-dawn, we get an Insta-drunk? Sammy really is a lightweight... Dean was gone, what, five minutes and Sam gets totally hosed based on information he may or may not have actually had?
What the hell was up with that ending? Was that supposed to be a surprise? Why are we taking a million years to go floating down the halls of a hotel that's STILL FECKING HAUNTED when Sam and Dean have already buggered off?? Just to show us that the place is still haunted? So, because ghost-girlie has her sister now they're going to be happy trapped together there for eternity? Nuh-uh. A lot of people I know can hardly stand to spend a whole day around their siblings. There's now two ghosts, tied to the damned hotel, who are going to be killing anyone who wants to bulldoze the place, and given the recent deathtoll, I doubt it'll be a hot property as a B&B anytime soon. The little ghost kiddies are happy now, but just wait. It'll be blood in the hallways before too long. (Speaking of which, total "Shining" vibe from the bar scene with Dean and the old guy as well. This ep was a "count the movie references" episode.)
All they'd have had to do was fade the happy kiddies out in the last shot, like they're both moving on to the great bright whatever, have one of the self-mobile toys fall over randomly (or what the hell, bonelessly) afterward. There, hotel no longer haunted, go ahead and bulldoze it. Problem resolved although it'd be nice if it had been the main characters of the show that resolved it. More on that in a bit.
Why don't Sam or Dean just bleed on the symbol thingies??? Maybe it's more complex than that, maybe it'll bind them to the hotel or something, but it didn't seem that way from what was said in the episode. Maybe I'm misremembering. It seemed like the thingies activated if you bleed on them, which is what I initially thought Sam was doing when he went and grabbed the vase-thing, but instead, he beats the window some more with it. *facepalm* ETA: It's been pointed out to me that the symbols need bloodweed not blood. *whaps CityTV sound feed*
Also, getting mightily tired of the problem being resolved without Sam and Dean's influence. The resolution in this gave me major "No Exit" vibes and that's truly not a good thing from my perspectve. The old lady ex machina solution was laaaaaaaaaaaaaame and I do not say that lightly. My god it bugs nine kinds of hell out of me when Sam and Dean are not part of the resolution. I didn't mind it in Croatoan, because I know that episode was probably setting up future stuff, but this goof-ball stand alone episode?? Concrete, Winchester-caused resolution, please, which hopefully involves something other than beating on things until they break.
The camera people or whoever also need, and I mean seriously need to fix their jerky slow-mo, because when they're using it for some kind of emo-impact thing, it's like watching old Harryhausen stop-frame animation. It drives me bonkers.
I mean don't get me wrong, it was funny as hell, and I did like it. All kinds of good, funny bits. I missed dialog from laughing so hard. It's just that some of the non-goofball/fandom shoutout elements really bugged me. I'll probably get comfortable with it after a few re-watchings. But right now? Arg.
I'm not normally this negative, really.
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And now I'm going to go get sleep. I hope.
Kripke's in ur forumz, readin ur postz.
So... how much more proof do we need that someone on the show reads the forums?
We had drunk!Sam (Where's the kareoke! There must be kareoke!), wet!Sam, hero!Sam, them actually trying to break the glass (and showing that it didn't work, that was cool) Dean making overt reference to Sam being the broody and angsty one, drunk!Sam calling Dean short!!! I mean come on! Not to mention the antiqueing/"You're gay, right?" stuff, Dean trapping Sam into looking like a freak with an obsession about dolls... There was a frigging White Nightgown of Doom on the wall! White Nightgown of Doom! On the WALL!
So, anyway. Not surprised that a month (which they apparently spent in Peoria searching for Ava, who is 5'5" and 108 pounds as it says on her missing person's poster that doesn't have a freaking date on it!!! Date! Kind of important! *gnaws things*) has passed and Sam's still wearing a cast. He keeps pounding on things with it (tables, Webber, Gordon) so he's probably re-broken it or mis-aligned it at least once. Nice bright white cast. Gonna need another new one though, 'cause that one just got soaked. Also... instead of (or as well as) an Insta-dawn, we get an Insta-drunk? Sammy really is a lightweight... Dean was gone, what, five minutes and Sam gets totally hosed based on information he may or may not have actually had?
What the hell was up with that ending? Was that supposed to be a surprise? Why are we taking a million years to go floating down the halls of a hotel that's STILL FECKING HAUNTED when Sam and Dean have already buggered off?? Just to show us that the place is still haunted? So, because ghost-girlie has her sister now they're going to be happy trapped together there for eternity? Nuh-uh. A lot of people I know can hardly stand to spend a whole day around their siblings. There's now two ghosts, tied to the damned hotel, who are going to be killing anyone who wants to bulldoze the place, and given the recent deathtoll, I doubt it'll be a hot property as a B&B anytime soon. The little ghost kiddies are happy now, but just wait. It'll be blood in the hallways before too long. (Speaking of which, total "Shining" vibe from the bar scene with Dean and the old guy as well. This ep was a "count the movie references" episode.)
All they'd have had to do was fade the happy kiddies out in the last shot, like they're both moving on to the great bright whatever, have one of the self-mobile toys fall over randomly (or what the hell, bonelessly) afterward. There, hotel no longer haunted, go ahead and bulldoze it. Problem resolved although it'd be nice if it had been the main characters of the show that resolved it. More on that in a bit.
Why don't Sam or Dean just bleed on the symbol thingies??? Maybe it's more complex than that, maybe it'll bind them to the hotel or something, but it didn't seem that way from what was said in the episode. Maybe I'm misremembering. It seemed like the thingies activated if you bleed on them, which is what I initially thought Sam was doing when he went and grabbed the vase-thing, but instead, he beats the window some more with it. *facepalm* ETA: It's been pointed out to me that the symbols need bloodweed not blood. *whaps CityTV sound feed*
Also, getting mightily tired of the problem being resolved without Sam and Dean's influence. The resolution in this gave me major "No Exit" vibes and that's truly not a good thing from my perspectve. The old lady ex machina solution was laaaaaaaaaaaaaame and I do not say that lightly. My god it bugs nine kinds of hell out of me when Sam and Dean are not part of the resolution. I didn't mind it in Croatoan, because I know that episode was probably setting up future stuff, but this goof-ball stand alone episode?? Concrete, Winchester-caused resolution, please, which hopefully involves something other than beating on things until they break.
The camera people or whoever also need, and I mean seriously need to fix their jerky slow-mo, because when they're using it for some kind of emo-impact thing, it's like watching old Harryhausen stop-frame animation. It drives me bonkers.
I mean don't get me wrong, it was funny as hell, and I did like it. All kinds of good, funny bits. I missed dialog from laughing so hard. It's just that some of the non-goofball/fandom shoutout elements really bugged me. I'll probably get comfortable with it after a few re-watchings. But right now? Arg.
I'm not normally this negative, really.
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And now I'm going to go get sleep. I hope.