SPN 2.01 - actual comments

[somedaybitch]

well 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.

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 got possessed wrote that fic, i was a page and a half into handwritten notes before i even noticed that it was in Dean's pov. i'd done it subconsciously. 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.