SpN 8X12

[roxy]

I'm on the fence about this ep. There were things I loved, and things I was uhm, what? about. I will watch again, I was a little distracted last night. Mostly, what I took away from the ep was, I'm so very sorry for Sam and the life that could have been his. I was surprised at how much I wished he could have had that. And how very, very much I want those stories--so effing much!

What did you guys think of the ep?

Comments

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

I posted on it. Mostly, I feel that their continuity has gone to hell, so even if I quite like what they are feeding me I find it hard to engage with it in a believing way.

I do think it's a good turn for Sam, actually -- he had lingering from childhood, I think, a sense that he couldn't ever be John or Dean, and the only way to deal with that was to get out and try to be something different. And of course that always ends badly because Winchester. But it seems like this bit of the family past offers him the material to go in for a more Sam mode of hunting and feel like he has a niche.

[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

Like I said in my post, I liked it a lot. I felt bad for Sam too but worse for John. :(

[tabaqui]

You know me, i luff.

But i did love this so very much. Getting to know a bit about John's past, what made him the person he was. Maybe what made him such a good hunter, as well!

And it was, as always, heartbreaking to see Dean's jealous protectiveness of his dad. He *hates* having anyone know anything or have a connection to his dad, especially if he feels like they let him down or mistreated him. I loved loved loved revisiting old eps in the 'then', and seeing John's journal.

It was sad, yes, to see the boy's 'what if' future. To know that an accident doomed them to a life of loss and struggle. But it was good they met Henry, and know a little more.

I just *know* Sam will fight to keep that box. He had that *look*, you know? He's definitely a Winchester - thinking, reading, researching, learning. Not that Dean isn't, but that's how Sam geeks out, heh.

I loved. It made me happy and sad and it made me laugh, too. I thought Abbadon was cool, and her 'death' - omg! Evil. But deserved. Over all? Excellent!

[tasabian.livejournal.com]

Missed it last night but excited to watch it on Sunday!

[sowell.livejournal.com]

I really, really loved it. Definitely my favorite of the season, despite the massive ret-conning of John's family situation. There was a lot there that felt like Kripke's SPN to me, which is thus far my favorite version.

[cha.livejournal.com]

I'm the same :) but I"ve only watched a couple of season 8 heheh

I was good up until the initials on John's journal then, I was like, waaait - Dean's read that a hundred times and Never seen that?

[cordelia-gray.livejournal.com]

I liked it a lot. It felt very much like good old-fashioned Supernatural, in a way that most of this season hasn't, to me. And having that continuity with the past, with the idea that there could be people thinking about this hunting stuff more systematically, recording it and so forth - it felt like a possible way for Sam to re-engage with hunting in a way he might find more satisfying. I think there's still a lot of grief for the life he didn't choose, but I also feel like for once he made a choice, and there wasn't a gun to his head, he just chose duty and what he believes is morally right over the thing that might have made him happy.

[gingersnap1224.livejournal.com]

I loved it.

It seemed so much like the early seasons. The Sam and Dean that I fell in love with.

I know there are some continuity issues, but I think to keep a show on 8 seasons you have to let some things go.

[digitalwave]

I loved it, sweetie. I think that it opens up all kinds of story potential for them. I don't see it as a retcon. Except for that one sentence about 'his old man' to John in 'In the Beginning' and that he came from a family of mechanics, we know nothing about John's upbringing. And, Jeremy Carver wrote it so he knows what he wrote. I've read that they, the PTB, are saying that John's mother remarried and that's who ended up raising John. That's all it takes for it to make sense.

I love that we find out that Sam truly does take after his dad, Dean takes after his mom. I think that knowing this helps Sam understand himself more than he ever could before. It even makes sense of John's being so pissed about Sam's 'abandoning' his family.

Not that I've been thinking about this or anything. ;)

[tasabian.livejournal.com]

Despite two excellent guest stars (Henry & Abaddon) I was disappointed. I liked that idea that John came from a "civilian" family and didn't like that this was retconned. I might have minded less if Henry hadn't died - it seemed very bleak to introduce him and then kill him off right away: why not let him finish out the season?

It was nice to see Sam & Dean acting brotherly again. Sam waking up Dean was quite hot.

And Cas shedding a feather in the impala was funny.