9.02, or, creepy mangy bat wings

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I DID get to see 9.02 on bigger-than-a-small-screen t.v.--and in HD, no less! Which actually kinda somehow made it less good, I felt ... like you could see every line in the stage makeup, every seam in the set construction. The one good thing about this was getting to see every little detail of Dean's suppressed emotion pass across his face. A character who can't express his true feelings must be one of the hardest to play, but it's ALL THERE. That was beautiful. And Sam/Zeke's freaky, effed-up wings, and the hilarious lines ("He's the junk in my trunk!"), and Dean and Abaddon's flirty-dangerous exchange (overpowered-by-a-woman!Dean, droool ...).




But ... to be frank, I was kind of bored with most of the episode. I seem to be in the minority the only SPN fan in fandom who isn't apeshit about Abaddon. She pretty much seems like all the other demons to me, so her whole part was just more demony crap we've been over a million times. I felt like the episode really picked up near the end. Happy Sam! Happy! I was surprised to see all the different interpretations around here of that moment. To me it said simply: That Dean, and only Dean, knows that the only way Sam can be happy is if he isn't exactly Sam. :-( ARRRGHHH, THE FEELS!!


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