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brightly_lit) wrote2013-10-23 08:40 pm
brightly_lit) wrote2013-10-23 08:40 pm
9.03, or, wiping the drool from the keyboard
Needless to say, there will be 9.03 spoilers in this post!
I was dreading 9.03. There were SOO many things I wanted it to be, and I was sure it would fall down on all of them, and instead ... it was everything I wanted and more! YAAAAAY!!!!!
SOO many situations ripe for Cas's ... Casness, for humor and tragedy and everything in between.
Plus, the difficulty of being human is one of my favorite Cas themes (as you might have noticed in my fic!), and they went deep into that in this ep--it was like a fanfic come true! (With even a not-so-subtle Destiel moment there at the end, "I always enjoy our ... time together, Dean." Yeah? Tell us more about this 'time together' that never happens onscreen, Cas ....) Great ideas, great acting, lots and lots of Misha. I am glad I had all the spoilers so I wasn't overly dismayed when April turned out to be evil and Cas was booted from the bunker. OH, CAS!!!!!
I also have to mention a little detail I haven't seen anyone else mention. So Cas is in the bathroom at the beginning, clearly unaware of the basics of how to take care of his body, as he squirts toothpaste into his mouth (... and eats it?!), but then he takes his toothbrush--which he CLEARLY DOES NOT KNOW IS USED FOR CLEANING ONE'S TEETH--into the bathroom stall with him to do ... what, exactly? When it comes to Cas, it's surely best not to ask. A most entertaining little detail. Reminds me of a mentally ... unusual guy (among many) at a job I once had helping people with mental disabilities, and his self-cleaning habits, but ... you probably don't want to know.
I was dreading 9.03. There were SOO many things I wanted it to be, and I was sure it would fall down on all of them, and instead ... it was everything I wanted and more! YAAAAAY!!!!!
SOO many situations ripe for Cas's ... Casness, for humor and tragedy and everything in between.
Plus, the difficulty of being human is one of my favorite Cas themes (as you might have noticed in my fic!), and they went deep into that in this ep--it was like a fanfic come true! (With even a not-so-subtle Destiel moment there at the end, "I always enjoy our ... time together, Dean." Yeah? Tell us more about this 'time together' that never happens onscreen, Cas ....) Great ideas, great acting, lots and lots of Misha. I am glad I had all the spoilers so I wasn't overly dismayed when April turned out to be evil and Cas was booted from the bunker. OH, CAS!!!!!
I also have to mention a little detail I haven't seen anyone else mention. So Cas is in the bathroom at the beginning, clearly unaware of the basics of how to take care of his body, as he squirts toothpaste into his mouth (... and eats it?!), but then he takes his toothbrush--which he CLEARLY DOES NOT KNOW IS USED FOR CLEANING ONE'S TEETH--into the bathroom stall with him to do ... what, exactly? When it comes to Cas, it's surely best not to ask. A most entertaining little detail. Reminds me of a mentally ... unusual guy (among many) at a job I once had helping people with mental disabilities, and his self-cleaning habits, but ... you probably don't want to know.
Re: tl;dr tl;dr tl;dr !!!!
So I hear ya ... although I won't go as far as to describe it as "working" for him. Clearly he's very keen to avoid facing certain things and will avoid it as long as possible, but I have no doubt it'll end up biting him in the ass in a way maybe not talking but at least THINKING about it could have prevented. I mean, I think a kind of suffering he never imagined even when he was in hell is headed right for him as a result of all this denial.
It's all very realistic and I think very interesting--an lj friend pointed out on my meta that when Sam finds out Dean stuck an angel in him, he'll have finally lost everything, betrayed so outrageously by his own brother, which I'm thinking will leave him ripe for saying yes to Lucifer and will drive Dean to end!verse levels of sociopathy (that's my latest theory on where all this is headed). I'm excited for that kind of thing, I guess, particularly if it's done really well.
But though I agree that it's REALISTIC, I suppose it brings up the question of the differences between story and reality that perhaps SHOULD be different. It would make for a much more satisfying show, emotionally speaking, if we occasionally saw Dean's torment. Then again, maybe it WOULD actually be more realistic to see his torment, because even deep in the throes of denial, these people still suffer, if only occasionally, alone late at night when there's nothing to distract them from it. Not necessarily "I'M SO SAD SAM I NEED TO PUT MY HEAD IN MY HANDS WITH WET EYES FOR A MINUTE" kinds of suffering, but there are ways to show someone's inner torment in a visible way, and for the story to work for the viewer emotionally--especially for the viewer to be able to have sympathy and love for that character--I think it's better if you show it. But either way, it's interesting to see these very real, seldom explored human interactions play out on this show that, yes, I can't believe is a real show, either.