SpN, I mean the ep known as Wishful Thinking

[roxy]

Am I weird that I didn't think the teddy bear was all that funny? I mean, it was at first but then it just got...creepy, and awful, and I was horrified when it tried to blow it's brains out and couldn't. I didn't laugh at that point. And that horrible love match, and the little girl's parents LEFT HER. *ALONE*.

I think I over thought that epsiode.

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[norwich36.livejournal.com]

I actually thought that in a certain way the Teddy Bear's existential crisis was a pretty profound statement of the human condition. What if God turned out to be an 8-year-old girl who only created us for tea parties? I might attempt suicide, too. To me the funny part of the suicide was the stuffing--and that was more the visual element.

The girl's parents didn't intentionally leave her alone, you know. It's not like they knew they'd actually end up in Bali by wishing to be in Bali. I actually thought she was coping pretty well for an 8-year-old on her own, though I wish Sam and Dean had actually escorted her to her neighbor's house rather than leaving her alone.

And the "love match" was basically extended date rape, even if he didn't intend it that way initially, so I definitely didn't find that part amusing!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really missed major parts here--I just freaked at the thought of the kid alone and didn't really get the wishing well deal.

The love match was unsettling, but it struck me exactly the same as the teddy--it was easy to be played for laughs on the surface but obviously it was a horrible thing in reality. That unbalanced, completely consuming love was just the kind of thing an emotionally immature, socially stunted and self centered man would wish for.

What if God turned out to be an 8-year-old girl who only created us for tea parties? I might attempt suicide, too

YES! There came the horror for me!! And the stuffing--crap, I flinched like it was blood. Mind you, I did like this ep, it was just the giant creepy ass suicidal teddy, it was...*brrr* And maybe this one just kind of trotted my own fucked upness out on parade. *G*

Dean as always was hotter than a hot thing. :)

[(Anonymous)]

But just as the parents had no way of knowing they'd wind up in Bali, Ted Raimi's character had no real way of knowing his wish would come true. I mean, yeah, his uncle or whoever told him it was a real wishing coin, but who believes in that for real anymore? (Other than monster hunters.) So he figures "what could it hurt" and wishes she loved him more than anything. It's a horrible thing to do if you know it will work, but if you know it will work, you're probably going to phrase your wish better than that so you can avoid the whole obsessive psycho factor. And until the boys came to town, he had no way of knowing how to undo it.

The thing that bothered me more was how, at the end, she just walks off like she's got a case of the convenient Smallville amnesia. Nobody else seemed to have forgotten the wishes that affected them, but she just looks at Ted and says, "Do I know you?" WTF?! Have a reaction, please! Call the cops, kick him in the balls, give him a patented Lana Lang "I can't believe you did that to me" speech, do *something* other than blink vacuously and wander off passively. No more than it affected her, you'd think he'd wished her out of thin air. Chalk it up to Edlund, I guess.

--Jessica

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Call the cops, kick him in the balls, give him a patented Lana Lang "I can't believe you did that to me" speech, do *something* other than blink vacuously and wander off passively.

I think that would have made that bit so much better! It's what I expected.