thoughts on the upcoming ep of spn
Apr. 25th, 2007 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ella_mennoI’m having some thinky thoughts about the upcoming episode of SPN; if you’re completely unspoiled, you’ll want to remain clear of the cut.
Again: if you somehow got here without seeing the cut tag, there are preview-and-TV-Guide related spoilers in this post. So, um. You've been warned!
If you saw the preview, you know that the boys are going to prison. (Orange jumpsuits! Cells! Lockdown! Erm. Sorry; Oz flashback. Won’t happen again.)
Anyway - during one of the voiceovers in the preview, we hear Sam saying something along the lines of “this is the dumbest thing we’ve ever done.”
So, being curious (and, frankly, stuck in an unbelievably long checkout line,) I read the TV guide blurb for the episode. This says that the boys intentionally botch a ‘robbery’ in order to get caught and sent to the Haunted Prison.
Okay; y’all know how much I love, love, LOVE this show – so you can imagine how it pains me to have even this one tiny bit of criticism. But. But.
They (and I suppose I mean “the writers”) are going to have to do a whole hell of a lot of fancy footwork to make me buy this one. Remember after “Nightshifter,” (so, um, the beginning of “Houses of the Holy”) when Sam had Dean corralled in their motel room in order to stay out of the way of law enforcement? Now, to me, that says that Sam is concerned about Dean getting caught and locked up – if not worse.
I’m not even going into Dean’s fierce protectiveness of Sam. Maybe it’s played up a bit in fic, but there’s nothing that could make me believe that Dean isn’t supremely concerned with Sam’s post-Demon future, which would seem to contraindicate his incarceration.
Yeah, they’ve done dangerous and risky things before; taken chances where other people, even other hunters, would not have. But deliberately getting arrested? Another thing: if Sam’s opinion is that “this is the dumbest thing we’ve ever done,” it’s quite possible that the writers are setting this up as Dean’s plan. Dean, he of the ‘you brought this on yourself, take responsibility for your own choices, or as I like to say, the ‘you break it, you bought it’ school of thought.
I don’t know. I’m not saying I’m going to dislike this episode. (Because come on. PRISON; what's not to like? Heh.)
But I’m very interested to find out how they’re going to make this happen, since right now it seems like an exercise in poor characterization and continuity.
ETA: I'd love to discuss this, if anyone has a mind to, but I also don't want to be spoiled any more than I already have been.
Kthxbai.
Again: if you somehow got here without seeing the cut tag, there are preview-and-TV-Guide related spoilers in this post. So, um. You've been warned!
If you saw the preview, you know that the boys are going to prison. (Orange jumpsuits! Cells! Lockdown! Erm. Sorry; Oz flashback. Won’t happen again.)
Anyway - during one of the voiceovers in the preview, we hear Sam saying something along the lines of “this is the dumbest thing we’ve ever done.”
So, being curious (and, frankly, stuck in an unbelievably long checkout line,) I read the TV guide blurb for the episode. This says that the boys intentionally botch a ‘robbery’ in order to get caught and sent to the Haunted Prison.
Okay; y’all know how much I love, love, LOVE this show – so you can imagine how it pains me to have even this one tiny bit of criticism. But. But.
They (and I suppose I mean “the writers”) are going to have to do a whole hell of a lot of fancy footwork to make me buy this one. Remember after “Nightshifter,” (so, um, the beginning of “Houses of the Holy”) when Sam had Dean corralled in their motel room in order to stay out of the way of law enforcement? Now, to me, that says that Sam is concerned about Dean getting caught and locked up – if not worse.
I’m not even going into Dean’s fierce protectiveness of Sam. Maybe it’s played up a bit in fic, but there’s nothing that could make me believe that Dean isn’t supremely concerned with Sam’s post-Demon future, which would seem to contraindicate his incarceration.
Yeah, they’ve done dangerous and risky things before; taken chances where other people, even other hunters, would not have. But deliberately getting arrested? Another thing: if Sam’s opinion is that “this is the dumbest thing we’ve ever done,” it’s quite possible that the writers are setting this up as Dean’s plan. Dean, he of the ‘you brought this on yourself, take responsibility for your own choices, or as I like to say, the ‘you break it, you bought it’ school of thought.
I don’t know. I’m not saying I’m going to dislike this episode. (Because come on. PRISON; what's not to like? Heh.)
But I’m very interested to find out how they’re going to make this happen, since right now it seems like an exercise in poor characterization and continuity.
ETA: I'd love to discuss this, if anyone has a mind to, but I also don't want to be spoiled any more than I already have been.
Kthxbai.
