It's the competence thing for me. Weapons are dangerous, and to see them tossed so confidently, by people who know how to use them -- ROWR.
We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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Amy - Jan 12, 2010 11:41:55 am PST #4640 of 30002
Because books.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2010 11:44:51 am PST #4641 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Throwing weapons is dumb! I know that...and yet...
Amy - Jan 12, 2010 11:45:36 am PST #4642 of 30002
Because books.
It is! But they're not tossing them to ME, so.
Ginger - Jan 12, 2010 11:50:25 am PST #4643 of 30002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Throwing a weapon to someone who can catch it can be a good move. Throwing a weapon to try to impale your opponent is a good way to lose a weapon.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2010 11:51:42 am PST #4644 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Throwing a weapon to someone who can catch it can be a good move
Too many variables in the catching, I think.
However, if you're trained, a shuriken or throwing knife at a foe is a reasonable option.
Cass - Jan 12, 2010 12:32:16 pm PST #4645 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Throwing a weapon to try to impale your opponent is a good way to lose a weapon.
If this is the most SPN asks of my suspended disbelief in an ep? I am okay with that. It looks damn good and I don't really care if it took the actual boys dozens of takes to get the shot. *My* boys, Sam and Dean? They are competent and damn sexy doing it.
brenda m - Jan 12, 2010 12:46:09 pm PST #4646 of 30002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Throwing a weapon to try to impale your opponent is a good way to lose a weapon.
Especially without the bungee.
Beverly - Jan 12, 2010 2:26:15 pm PST #4647 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
No bungee!
Actually, Fritz has gone a long way towards redeeming Hookman for me. I think my main issues with it have always been that it was filmed third, directly after Wendigo, but not shown till much later in the season. And by DitW, the relationship had already changed. You get Phantom Traveler, Bloody Mary and Skin, and all the backstory and character building in those four eps, it's hard to go back to the way they were third episode in. Is this making any sense? I didn't know the eps were shown out of order the first two times I saw S1, but I felt something was really off about Hookman--it just seemed more rough and scraped together than the eps just before.
Now I know that was partly--probably greatly--Kim Manners' influence. But I've never liked Hookman. It never felt like it fit right.
Fritz sort of redeemed it for me, with his scoffing and his eyerolling and his accent.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2010 2:36:15 pm PST #4648 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I like Hookman where it is better, just because even though Sam didn't kiss the chick for long, three eps in is too soon after Jessica for that much snoggage.
Beverly - Jan 12, 2010 2:38:29 pm PST #4649 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Yeah, that's why they delayed it, I think.