I loved last night's episode more than I ever thought I could. For me, I think some of my pleasure in the episode might come from reading the TWoP boards. The pokes at the fans were the best thing ever. I think Dean's Vonnegut reading it probably a poke at the TWoP DeanGirls who are constantly complaining that the show makes Dean look dumb. There is a "simpatico" who posts on the TWoP SPN boards, too. (I don't recall if s/he's a DeanGirl, though.)
So I'm guess this was a good episode to catch after not seeing the show for this season.
You might be all caught up, connie.
I'm calling the kid "Cousin Oliver"
I'm calling him Donny (Dawneeee!)
Donny - hee.
I hadn't realized that there is an actual Twopper called Simpatico.
(I skip and skim the Twop boards.)
Now I wish I had posted on the SPN TWoP boards because, come on, how could they have resisted using
Polter-Cow,
right?
Hee. I'm pretending that Chuck's use of "ramshackle" is a shout-out to the "Casa Ramshackle" I used in one or two of the last SPN recaps I did.
The actor who played Chuck's publisher was damned familiar, and it finally dawned on me she played the wife of the murdered lawyer (eventually murdered herself) in the episode The Usual Suspects.
Oh! That's where I know her from! Battlestar Galactica. One of Baltars groupies, Jeane. With the sick boy.
That's who she was!! So familiar, yet so out of reach.
"You should have seen Luke." Bwahahaha.
That was my favorite line. No, wait, I also liked Chuck falling back on the couch saying he knew this was a Misery thing. I now have no idea where they are heading with Sam. They have telegraphed him being evil so heavily that ...I'm thinking he might NOT turn dark side. Huh.
My favorite is my new tag line. :-)
OK, I marked the beginning of the discussion, because I'm just watching now, but OMG, the conversation in the beginning about complainy fans, SamGirls and DeanGirls, and slash... "They do know we're brothers, right?" "Doesn't seem to matter." I die from the meta hilarity.
ETA: "You shoulda seen Luke." Ha!
Oddly enough, quite a number of folks really hated the meta elements of the episode, particularly the bits at the beginning, with the fangirl and the slash. Hated it so much they hated the episode as a whole.
YBMV, and clearly does.
