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!

t / Soylent Green moment

• Has Heston flashbacks*

Whew! Damn you Heston!! I have mixed feelings here on this ep. I didn't find the brother bonding moment quite as bad as the stabby stabby. Like Julie and Suela I was disturbed by the level of violence. Yes, there is the fact that Dean was a very angry boy and he does have some anger-control issues obviously--goes along with that whole 'stoic at all costs' outlook. Still, I have also noticed that a majority of the demons on SPN are women and that their deaths are becoming increasingly violent. I got a similar feeling on the stabbing as the vamp killing in the Gordon ep as well. Maybe the feeling was intentionally created in order to make Ruby's revelation more meaningful. Perhaps Dean won't be so quick to execute demons now that he knows he can become one. The line separating "us" vs. monsters black and white outlook has gotten more and more blurred throughout the story arc and this seems like one more way to complicate that. Still, I am disturbed by the amount of carving being done on female bodies on television in general. I am a procedurals fan as well and between the corpses on CSI, CSI NY, Cold Case, Without a Trace and Law and Order SUV, it is a wonder there are still women alive in NY, Vegas and Philly.

I don't know if I simply have different expectations, but Dean stabbing the demon in this episode didn't even touch the violence of Sam literally ripping Gordon's head off with his bare hands, for me.

I used to have those dreams. I absolutely couldn't watch that part of the show.

Yeah, I, uh, couldn't watch the teaser. My anxiety dreams manifest themselves in teeth issues, hi. And I may have done some fast-forwarding through the maggots.

The teeth didn't bother me. The maggots, on the other hand ... I still can't watch the Cordy scenes in What's My Line.

I didn't get extreme violence from the scene where Dean kills the Phoebe!Demon - it just seemed like he thought the knife wasn't working properly - like playing with the antenna to get a better picture on your tv.