Oh, I will agree with you there, no question. Some of the writing on Buffy was so dead on, it was absolutely cutting. And I agree that it's often the visuals in SPN, the expressions, the turning away or turning toward, etc.
God, the fruit punch speech. I could get choked up right now thinking about it. I also think that was one time Joss really surprised me -- I did *not* expect him to kill Joyce, even for a minute.
I think the difference in my head might be that what Kripke and Co. put the boys through is the gutting thing, and on Buffy it was more often about how those things were played out (or written). Which is pretty much what you said, I think.
Now I'm rambling. Both shows, excellent! Both shows, gutting for me! Fire bad!
Of course, one wonders where Sam was before he was resurrected and how the demon could get its hands on his soul to bring him back to life.
If people immediately woke up in heaven postmortem there'd be no need for Reapers, right? Maybe Sam was still in transit when the demons brought him back.
I would assume that Dean was either held in stasis after his death in Mystery Spot or just skipped forward to the point that the Trickster undid the whole pseudo-reality setup. Everyone and everything in that scenario other than Sam and Dean themselves were just creations of Gabriel's, if I understand it correctly.
I didn't think he was creepy talking through the Impala, but whoa man, he was creepy as hell coming through the TV.
The former creeped me out because of the crackly barely-there connection, with its implication of vast distances being bridged and the possibility that the Winchesters could be lost forever to Castiel if they progressed too far away from the world of the living. Early on the scary dream-like mood of the episode was fantastic, but I find that the Kurt Fuller's smarmy, mystery-free portrayal of Zachariah just sucks away any sense of foreboding and majesty that should be there. Misha (before Castiel became too cuddly as Dean's BFF anyway), the Raphael and Joshua actors, and for that matter both Jared and Bellamy Young as Lucifer can convince me that they're playing ageless beings far removed from the human way of thinking. Fuller, Julie McNiven, and Mark Pellegrino, not so much.
Misha (before Castiel became too cuddly as Dean's BFF anyway), the Raphael and Joshua actors, and for that matter both Jared and Bellamy Young as Lucifer can convince me that they're playing ageless beings far removed from the human way of thinking. Fuller, Julie McNiven, and Mark Pellegrino, not so much.
What about Speight and Robert Wisdom?
I like Mark Pellegrino's Lucifer, but it doesn't have a patch on Padalecki's. Creepy-assed shit. Kurt Fuller represents a very depressing heaven. Bureaucracy run amok. I don't see him and Uriel in the same place.
Kurt Fuller will always be Karl Rove to me.
What about Speight and Robert Wisdom?
Speight no (I like him as The Trickster, but if anything he's a less impressive angel than Fuller); Wisdom yes at first but not so much later as he became more obviously a heavy.
They didn't show the amulet dump in the previouslies.
Perhaps travelling into the midst of a town full of gung-ho weapon-slinging types when you're known as the One Who Started the Apocalypse is not the best idea?
Blue Earth! That's Pastor Jim territory!
