he's always so obviously "playing" the bad boy, you know?
Which I think may be a conscious performative choice. Jensen Ackles is playing Dean "playing" the bad boy.
I wish, though, that the writers hadn't decided to make Sam have planned the whole thing. The "omg, they were planning it all along!" has been done SO many times on the show, and really, it would have been far more interesting to have Dean's/Ruby's betrayals been *real.* Because Ruby can't just be Sam's cheerleading section. She's a demon, for godsakes. She'd better be up to something.
I hope she's up to something, yes, but it would have been a different turning point had the betrayals been real, and I like the turning point they had instead: this set the stage pretty clearly as "these guys versus BOTH sides." And the mid-season break is a good place to establish that dynamic -- to not just bring Sam and Dean back together as a solid and competent team, but to add Anna and Ruby to that equation. I think the revelation of the plan was ham-handed, but I do like the fact of it.
I love that she's sporting demon eyes. I wonder if that's significant?
I doubt it, since they sort of hung a lampshade on it, with Pamela saying "kinda demony, aren't they? But they're just plastic." They might be temporary objects until she gets better ones. Or, y'know, she likes freaking her clients out. <g>
I doubt Dean told the whole truth about hell - specifically, he may have tortured some people we know.
Or other complications. I agree that "I got off the rack and tortured some people" is probably not the end of it. Bela would be a distinct possibility.
I wonder what he's doing to power up his evil batteries?
Gossip Girl, definitely.
More seriously: the abilities come from Azazel's blood, so if there's more of a story there, it may expand the cosmological framework and place Azazel more specifically in the hierarchy of Hell. After all, who has the authority to drag them down?
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Date: 2008-11-27 08:18 am (UTC)Which I think may be a conscious performative choice. Jensen Ackles is playing Dean "playing" the bad boy.
I wish, though, that the writers hadn't decided to make Sam have planned the whole thing. The "omg, they were planning it all along!" has been done SO many times on the show, and really, it would have been far more interesting to have Dean's/Ruby's betrayals been *real.* Because Ruby can't just be Sam's cheerleading section. She's a demon, for godsakes. She'd better be up to something.
I hope she's up to something, yes, but it would have been a different turning point had the betrayals been real, and I like the turning point they had instead: this set the stage pretty clearly as "these guys versus BOTH sides." And the mid-season break is a good place to establish that dynamic -- to not just bring Sam and Dean back together as a solid and competent team, but to add Anna and Ruby to that equation. I think the revelation of the plan was ham-handed, but I do like the fact of it.
I love that she's sporting demon eyes. I wonder if that's significant?
I doubt it, since they sort of hung a lampshade on it, with Pamela saying "kinda demony, aren't they? But they're just plastic." They might be temporary objects until she gets better ones. Or, y'know, she likes freaking her clients out. <g>
I doubt Dean told the whole truth about hell - specifically, he may have tortured some people we know.
Or other complications. I agree that "I got off the rack and tortured some people" is probably not the end of it. Bela would be a distinct possibility.
I wonder what he's doing to power up his evil batteries?
Gossip Girl, definitely.
More seriously: the abilities come from Azazel's blood, so if there's more of a story there, it may expand the cosmological framework and place Azazel more specifically in the hierarchy of Hell. After all, who has the authority to drag them down?