SPN 2.01 - actual comments
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somedaybitchwell that hurt a WHOLE lot more the second time, especially with no commercials to muck up the pacing.
holy cow.
there was so much subtlety, and i think Sam screaming Dean's name in panic and fear will always get me more than the reverse. otoh, Dean's quiet fear and anger will always get to me more than Sam's. each suiting the character.
John, you fuck. /proud
killer characterisation. and the malice dripping off the demon was seriously creeping me out, as was the honeset compassion from the reaper. *shivers*
odd aside? kudos to the researchers/art dept for the symbol that John drew on the floor. although it's typically drawn on a wall, it's a voodoo/hoodoo symbol that opens a portal. and i know this in a strangely bizarre sense of deja vu because i had to research voodoo/hoodoo for the short film that i art directed last November. i drew that very symbol on a wall. with chalk. also kinda creeping me out.
:::looks around nervously:::
i was also deeply in love with the camera work, which was out of the ballpark. the canted, hard pans up from the ground to go with Dean's skewed wtf perspective. the sweet over the shoulder shots where first Dean was out of focus and then John. how the opening shots of Dean were framed so that you didn't see his body actually lying on the bed which totally set up the reveal. and the absolute money shot of the coffee cup landing on its ass.
the sound cutting and Sam running to his dad and screaming for help? guh.
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samdonne and i, i think, watched the first season at about the same time and i remember talking to her about how i was more drawn to Sam versus her to Dean. but when i themonkeycabal and i were talking about that tonight on the porch, how i was so surprised by it when i noticed, and she brought up a great point. i'm seeing more of Sam through Dean, because Dean's almost our guide through the world. it's not always his pov, but Dean's perspective seems to be the more natural fit for the story. Dean never left. Dean's safe in his twisted world, while simultaneously waiting for it to shatter, and while we enter with Sam, it's Dean who's showing us the way.huh.
also? i sooooo need a demon!John icon that says "so not my new fandom."
:::glares:::
what? it's not.
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Date: 2006-10-01 11:54 pm (UTC)the sound cutting and Sam running to his dad and screaming for help? guh.
Couldn't agree more. Plus Sam shouting "Deaaaaan!" is the sound of ultimate pain and suffering, to quote the Princess Bride.
Dean is, very much, our Everyman, though perhaps for that reason I find his POV much harder to write. Sam's POV feels intimately familiar, Dean's much less clouded by passionate emotion. It's not that Dean doesn't have the emotion, he does, but until he breaks, he's rock-steady. Sam...Sam is chaotic, and I know that feeling so so well.
It was harder the second time, for me too, without the commercials. And the coffee/money shot hit me even harder this time.
I hope Dean stays in your brain, as you write him beautifully. Go you!
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Date: 2006-10-02 04:04 am (UTC)in the car, dude, ohmigod. /broken
:::blushes again:::
thanks. maybe i heard Dean because i share a lot of his traits, especially the rock-steady until i break aspect. no clue really, but it's seriously disturbing. this isn't my new fandom and i'm not writing more fic.
:::stomps foot:::
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Date: 2006-10-04 11:30 pm (UTC)I think it should be your new fandom and you should write more fic. I think we should share this fandom, and BSG, and SGA, and now you have to watch Heroes, too.
*stomps foot*
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Date: 2006-10-05 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-24 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-25 12:36 am (UTC)an afterthought
Date: 2006-10-02 04:30 am (UTC)i have no problem whatsoever telling people i deeply love to fuck off, if they piss me off badly enough, and simply walking away. my ability to do it, and to be nearly lacking in affect about it, scares me sometimes.
Re: an afterthought
Date: 2006-10-04 11:27 pm (UTC)But y'know, you can see in Sam's face whenever he talks about it. He wanted them to care he was gone. Needed them to. And it might not have made him come back, but I bet he'd have called and stayed in touch.
Re: an afterthought
Date: 2006-10-05 02:11 am (UTC)Re: an afterthought
Date: 2006-10-11 06:24 am (UTC)Re: an afterthought
Date: 2006-10-11 07:13 am (UTC)hypocritical bastardDad.Re: an afterthought
Date: 2006-10-24 08:30 pm (UTC)