Reaction to Sin City...
Oct. 26th, 2007 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
growyourwingsOkay so I've just spent the last 8 hours (omg I am *so* lame) re-watching Sin City 2x, reading online reaction, and emailing my just-like-me-obsessed friend about my reactions to Sin City.
I can't possibly recreate all that here. But I started not really liking this episode. It felt just off to me. Although there were definitely things I liked. Such as I liked the scene where sam realized that the big bad bossman was not a demon and was all "sorry!" He was cute. I liked Sam at the end when he shot the demons and with Ruby (not that I "liked" Sam) but I am intrigued by the Sam storyline.
And of course Jensen/Dean......when Casey asked him if he wasn't scared and he said of course not, not one bit. But his eyes man. They didn't even really move at all--but you could just *see* in the depths that he was scared. Man, he's good. I'm not even sure his facial expression changed at all--but you could still *see*! it.!
I really miss having more Jensen/Dean moments. I really think that despite my interest in the Sam storyline--this is why I'm a little off a bit.
I didn't like so much that Dean was a little back in the extreme horn-dog mode. I was hoping we were a little passed that back to just normal horn-dog mode. but perhaps i'm too hypersensitive to that after the first 2 eps.
And honestly i don't get the whole sin city itself. it felt a little off that 2 demons could so easily turn a town. of course all they really did was turn the big bad bossman and he did the rest. kinda like the bossman in "It's a Wonderful Life" after Jimmy Stewart had never been born. But even if they were able to turn the town---how did it permeate "good" and normal people so fast and so deep that they turned murderous and suicidal?
HOWEVER..after my friend pointed me to Wikipedia and info about Azazel..I've gone off the deep end. Hence the 8 hours of obsessiveness. And while I still feel something may be off about the episode (one person suggested "pacing?") This episode now rocks for me with all the "stuff" it imparts. As my friend said, if Kripke had all this in mind from day 1...wow. All this speculation about Ruby, Sam (is he the son of Lucifer, the son of Azazel? Something else?), stuff about how Dean's deal to save Sam may be ultimately reponsible for turning Sam, etc.
Like I said I can't possibly re-create 8 hours of emailing. But I'm exhausted and thrilled now at the same time.
And I'm reminded about how after I really got hooked in S2 and learned more about the myth-arc, how many clues were available in S1 that you didn't even see. And now the same may be true for S3. We've been going back and forth saying "remember this from episode xxx?" "What if that meant this?"
As I said, I'm exhausted.
But content.
And of course Jensen/Dean......when Casey asked him if he wasn't scared and he said of course not, not one bit. But his eyes man. They didn't even really move at all--but you could just *see* in the depths that he was scared. Man, he's good. I'm not even sure his facial expression changed at all--but you could still *see*! it.!
I really miss having more Jensen/Dean moments. I really think that despite my interest in the Sam storyline--this is why I'm a little off a bit.
I didn't like so much that Dean was a little back in the extreme horn-dog mode. I was hoping we were a little passed that back to just normal horn-dog mode. but perhaps i'm too hypersensitive to that after the first 2 eps.
And honestly i don't get the whole sin city itself. it felt a little off that 2 demons could so easily turn a town. of course all they really did was turn the big bad bossman and he did the rest. kinda like the bossman in "It's a Wonderful Life" after Jimmy Stewart had never been born. But even if they were able to turn the town---how did it permeate "good" and normal people so fast and so deep that they turned murderous and suicidal?
HOWEVER..after my friend pointed me to Wikipedia and info about Azazel..I've gone off the deep end. Hence the 8 hours of obsessiveness. And while I still feel something may be off about the episode (one person suggested "pacing?") This episode now rocks for me with all the "stuff" it imparts. As my friend said, if Kripke had all this in mind from day 1...wow. All this speculation about Ruby, Sam (is he the son of Lucifer, the son of Azazel? Something else?), stuff about how Dean's deal to save Sam may be ultimately reponsible for turning Sam, etc.
Like I said I can't possibly re-create 8 hours of emailing. But I'm exhausted and thrilled now at the same time.
And I'm reminded about how after I really got hooked in S2 and learned more about the myth-arc, how many clues were available in S1 that you didn't even see. And now the same may be true for S3. We've been going back and forth saying "remember this from episode xxx?" "What if that meant this?"
As I said, I'm exhausted.
But content.
