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I thought it was interesting that they showed footage of both the Trickster and the WIAWSNB genii in the promos. The promo gave away the twist of the episode, but I didn't know which supernatural entity was going to be at fault.
Exactly. I thought it would be something new. Maybe an amulet. :)
see? black eyes and demon smoke about :27 in.
This. I like him and thought he would die.
I like that there does seem to be an awareness on the part of the writers about how difficult it would be to kill a freakin' god that can manipulate reality at will. Sam, Dean, and Bobby talk about it as a trickster, like it's a case of termites in the basement that someone needs to call Orkin for, but the show seems to respect the fact that this is Coyote or Loki or some similar figure out of myth and legend.
Yeah, he is THE Trickster and not so easily gotten rid of. There was an excellent post about what the Trickster was doing over at TWOP. I think I need to read up on Tricksters and what their purpose is.
(Didn't the Trickster episode make it clear that he wasn't dead?)
I figured the trickster was going to be involved because of the previouslies. they really need to be more subtle with those.
Right?
(Didn't the Trickster episode make it clear that he wasn't dead?)
Yes.
I'm also glad that I wasn't the only one who saw zombies in the preview. My IRL SPN friend says that she thinks that they were demony minions like we saw at the end of season 1.
It's the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. (Except, yes, they're probably more like very groggy demons.)
(Didn't the Trickster episode make it clear that he wasn't dead?)
We knew, but the boys didn't.
I don't think they're going to be actual zombies, but I think they're trying to invoke the zombie-esque kind of terror. (See also: Croatoan.)
(Psst: it's Assault on Precinct 13, except we've secretly replaced the usual Scary Unwhite Urban Youth with Folger's crystals. Let's see if anyone notices!)
The treatment of race, considering the history of the entrenched-white-defenders genre, will be kind of key to next week's episode.
ETA: sorry, sorry. Screen embiggenation my fault.
But Victor is black. So ... I'm not sure where you're going with that.
I'm not sure where the show is going with that, either. (I mean, I haven't seen the episode.) It's just that, when you work in reference to a genre like that, race issues are gonna come up. A clever show knows that in advance, and comes up with some way of dealing with those issues.
It's just that, when you work in reference to a genre like that, race issues are gonna come up. A clever show knows that in advance, and comes up with some way of dealing with those issues.
I suppose. That's not why I'm watching the show, though. And I don't think race issues are in the show manifesto, even if they're addressed (for good or ill) tangentially.