And she killed two (relative) innocents, one right in front of them.

I'm not a huge proponent of the (unconcious) anti-female issues on this show, but that stabbing scene, the way it was filmed, just hit me wrong. I get Dean being angry beyond angry, intellectually, but in that case I would have thought the shot should have been on his face, and not on the stabby porn. Usually I am immune to these things. So maybe all the convos here finally sunk in, or this really was a bit more extreme than the norm. *shrugs*

when Dean stabbed that demon over and over and over and over again, and the way the camera lingered on the firey stabs, it just felt wrong.

Ding ding ding! Number of stab wounds is a pretty easy rule of thumb for how psycho-hosebeast the killer is, on every single TV show but this one. That goes double when he's got her pinned, and he knows it'll be fatal the first time.

Somebody needs lots of therapy. Not the characters, I mean.

Not to get all defending the male patriarchy, but... maybe they just wanted a longer shot of the sweet "demon electrocution" thing?

::braces for impact::

I've seen enough of Highlander -- where the electrocution is like electron porn! It goes on and on and on, and then a few last sparkles for good measure! -- to know that one fatal injury is as good as many where pyrotechnics are concerned. You can use slo-mo, you can use dramatic shot-reverse shot reactions, you can turn that lady into a Tesla machine -- but it's not necessary that Dean be doing anything at all to her, after the knife has gone in the first time.

Meh

Hahaha! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of Charmed. (I'm eager for Demian's recap on TWOP for this very reason.)

I loved that they used Every Rose has a Thorn - that was amusing.

I hated that they actually had Sam tell Dean that he was going to have to be Dean. (Like, we got that guys - you don't have to actually tell us.) And I wish that there had been some researchy plotty way that they could have realized that demons are made from people other than just being told that.

Next week looks good.

Well, it's really hard to think the writers are even aware of feminist readings when every female character but one in the episode ends up dead in very nasty ways. ::counts:: Five women.

Between that and the unnecessary gore and ickiness I felt like the show was sort of saying, "Ew, girls! We don't want girls watching! This is a show for guys!"

Possibly I am over-reading.

And Ruby become sympathetic is automatically about 700% less interesting to me. Who wants an altruistic demon?

Also, this was Ben Edlund? Where was the funny?

I just got home and had to read through the reactions before watching the show.

Yay show! I'm so sad that we won't be able to have a full season story arc. Or I guess I should say more episodes to tell the arc. It will be a full season by definition no matter how many episodes are produced. I'm going to bed before I talk myself into a circle.

And I wish that there had been some researchy plotty way that they could have realized that demons are made from people other than just being told that.

Demons are people! Demons are people!

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