Wow, this one is divisive! I thought the "kids" were horribly written "you don't know what it means to be in love", "I don't want to be Piggy!" - dear god - & the guest acting pretty dire.
Did you pick up on a Dean/Sam parallel I missed? I was so bored midway through I admittedly may not have been paying full attention!
Oh now see, I thought that it was purposefully a bit overwrought--young love and all. :)
No, what happened at the end was Dean's complete reversal to everything he's ever said before--he let the werewolf walk! I'm still not sure whether to believe him or not. I'll have to rewatch to catch everything and I was so shocked by what he said I totally lost Sam and what his reaction was to that.
Oh, that's right - this time last year he was killing Sam's old girlfriend! Is this a sign he succumbed to Benny's charms in purgatory & is now more willing to give monsters the benefit of the doubt?
*still wishes all three shrieky kids had died in the first 30 seconds & show was about the hottie wolf professor gettin' Alpha with Dean or Sam*
*still wishes all three shrieky kids had died in the first 30 seconds & show was about the hottie wolf professor gettin' Alpha with Dean or Sam*
Oooooo--kaaaay, not sayin ' THAT wouldn't have been a way better show than...any of them, just about, lol!!!
Is this a sign he succumbed to Benny's charms in purgatory & is now more willing to give monsters the benefit of the doubt?
I'm thinking Benny's lays the pipe real good...
ACH! *smacks self* Look how you've got my mind in the gutter!!! Dean would never do such a thing!! because Sam would kill him Never! of course, what happens in Purgatory stays in Purgatory, no doubt
I thought the "kids" were horribly written "you don't know what it means to be in love", "I don't want to be Piggy!" - dear god
I'm guessing you don't spend much time on Tumblr? *snerk*
That level of hyper-self-conscious dramatics is pretty par for the course in kids that age, especially when they're 'in love' and feel that they're somehow 'the other'.
I'm guessing you don't spend much time on Tumblr? I think tumblr collectively could have come up with much more convincing dialogue for teens! It rang very inauthentic to me, like 40-something writers desperately trying to sound hip. Not just cheese, but recycled cheese.
The only parts I liked were the professor deciding to attack the kid who kept falling asleep in his class and the students' observations on Sam & Dean. Would have preferred if the writer had ditched 2 of the kids and had one kid making a documentary on his/her idolized professor, who turns out to be an Alpha, filming Sam & Dean along the way. And we should have seen the awkward conversation where the guys discuss their year apart - would have been a great final scene.
That said, I'm glad people did like this ep because I was worried SPN would lose the ratings momentum from Arrow if everyone tuned out midway through!
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10/25/12 03:23 am (UTC)Did you pick up on a Dean/Sam parallel I missed? I was so bored midway through I admittedly may not have been paying full attention!
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10/25/12 03:31 am (UTC)No, what happened at the end was Dean's complete reversal to everything he's ever said before--he let the werewolf walk! I'm still not sure whether to believe him or not. I'll have to rewatch to catch everything and I was so shocked by what he said I totally lost Sam and what his reaction was to that.
What the hell happened in Purgatory!??!
(i clex you back! *GGG*)
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10/25/12 03:37 am (UTC)Oh, that's right - this time last year he was killing Sam's old girlfriend! Is this a sign he succumbed to Benny's charms in purgatory & is now more willing to give monsters the benefit of the doubt?
*still wishes all three shrieky kids had died in the first 30 seconds & show was about the hottie wolf professor gettin' Alpha with Dean or Sam*
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10/25/12 03:44 am (UTC)Oooooo--kaaaay, not sayin ' THAT wouldn't have been a way better show than...any of them, just about, lol!!!
Is this a sign he succumbed to Benny's charms in purgatory & is now more willing to give monsters the benefit of the doubt?
I'm thinking Benny's lays the pipe real good...
ACH! *smacks self* Look how you've got my mind in the gutter!!! Dean would never do such a thing!!
because Sam would kill himNever!of course, what happens in Purgatory stays in Purgatory, no doubt(no subject)
10/25/12 11:12 am (UTC)I'm guessing you don't spend much time on Tumblr?
*snerk*
That level of hyper-self-conscious dramatics is pretty par for the course in kids that age, especially when they're 'in love' and feel that they're somehow 'the other'.
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10/25/12 11:03 pm (UTC)I think tumblr collectively could have come up with much more convincing dialogue for teens! It rang very inauthentic to me, like 40-something writers desperately trying to sound hip. Not just cheese, but recycled cheese.
The only parts I liked were the professor deciding to attack the kid who kept falling asleep in his class and the students' observations on Sam & Dean. Would have preferred if the writer had ditched 2 of the kids and had one kid making a documentary on his/her idolized professor, who turns out to be an Alpha, filming Sam & Dean along the way. And we should have seen the awkward conversation where the guys discuss their year apart - would have been a great final scene.
That said, I'm glad people did like this ep because I was worried SPN would lose the ratings momentum from Arrow if everyone tuned out midway through!
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10/26/12 02:39 am (UTC)