Could this be a possible continuity slip-up?
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Boxed Set, Vol. IV: It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that.
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beathen - May 18, 2007 3:47:38 pm PDT #1600 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
Ailleann - May 18, 2007 3:55:23 pm PDT #1601 of 10001
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I just checked that spot (*hugs my Tivo*), and it does look as if the dark cloud that just emerged ripped through the train track, including bent and still-red-hot metal.
Perhaps it's similar to how Meg was able to do something when she possessed Sam to hold herself to him... perhaps evil in that large a quantity, fresh from Hell, could break through the devil's trap?
Polter-Cow - May 18, 2007 4:13:02 pm PDT #1602 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, the Hellsmoke burned right through the iron of the railings.
If they could do that, the devil's trap really was to keep demon's out so that they could open the gate. Because it sure didn't do a very good job of keeping the demons IN.
Consuela - May 18, 2007 4:17:20 pm PDT #1603 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I think opening the gate opened the trap--it was all tied together.
I'm looking forward to less emo and more kickassery next season, frankly. I do love emo, but I think last night put me over the edge of the manpain. Neither boy is allowed to weep for at least the first half of season 3--learn to repress! Repression is your friend! Because then you can emote through destruction, which is more fun (for me) to watch.
A theory I have seen is that Sam's rage at Jake was misdirected rage about Dean's bargain, because he'd figured it out.
beathen - May 18, 2007 4:27:57 pm PDT #1604 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
Repression is your friend! Because then you can emote through destruction, which is more fun (for me) to watch.
Definitely!! The emo is okay every now and then, but too much and the show just gets depressing.
Ailleann - May 18, 2007 4:30:04 pm PDT #1605 of 10001
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Agreed. In a fit of pique last night, I watched Phantom Traveler from S1, and there was a big difference in the mood. I kinda miss the weekly ass-kicking.
beathen - May 18, 2007 4:33:35 pm PDT #1606 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
Well, with these new demons unleashed on earth, I hope we get some more down and dirty ass-kicking. I do like the psychological games, but watching a character beating the crap out of another... even better!
P.M. Marc - May 18, 2007 5:33:47 pm PDT #1607 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I *love* that they ended the season on what counts as an upnote, with callbacks to the pilot. It sure as hell feels like they're aiming for less overt emo next season from the last few minutes.
I know there are good, legit crits of the finale, but I fear Kripke and I are not only the same age (a fact that still freaks me out), but we share the same damn emotional buttons.
Remember that whole firewall of flail thing?
Yeah. That.
Critical thinking just can't get past the thing today.
SailAweigh - May 18, 2007 5:41:30 pm PDT #1608 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I am as Ple. I can see half a football field of loose plot through the holes in it, but the flail has driven enough of the air away from the brain that all I feel is the manpain before I reach oblivion. Nirvana.
§ ita § - May 18, 2007 6:14:42 pm PDT #1609 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They're going! On the road! ::ita claps merrily:: To kill things!
They can be emo a bit if they want, but Dean looked so damned happy to have something to do so he can just not talk about the deal.
Yay.