brief comments on Supernatural 5x03

[ratcreature]

On one hand I can appreciate the slashiness of the Dean/Castiel setup, that has Dean so committed to Castiel loosing his virginity, and makes it nearly impossible not to think that after the prostitute didn't work out, Dean would help out Castiel with a buddy fuck. OTOH that whorehouse scene made me cringe. And I'm not even talking about the gender politics of the show or anything (though not doing so great there, though it could have been worse, and why would father issues make someone become a sex worker anyway? I don't even get the pop psychology here). That scene also hit my embarrassment squick, because it wasn't cute awkward, but cringe-worthy awkward.

Another thing that threw me was the sequence of events as Dean and Castiel contacted Raphael. First they are in some kind of hospital (?) where the host is, and do the oil ring thing, and Castiel calls the archangel. And then they drive to some house to meet him again? Is my copy missing something? Watching that cut again it seems to be that they waited in vain in hospital for some time, and then Raphael transported his vessel to the place Dean and Castiel are staying at? But this was confusing.

Otherwise I felt bad for Sam a lot, even though it's of course not surprising that Lucifer wants him. Also I like how Lucifer seems really quite the sympathetic character compared to the rest of the angelic bunch.

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[killabeez.livejournal.com]

The whole hospital/abandoned house thing was very confusing, and I really didn't get it at all. Dean has a voiceover line like, "now there's a day I'll never get back," but... why? and how did the vessel get there? And why? And how did Raphael find them? I thought the idea was that they had to have the vessel to "phone home" and get Raphael to come to them. If they needed the setting of the abandoned house to have all the lightning effects without drawing attention, then why not have Dean and Castiel sneak the vessel out of the hospital? Maybe they thought it would make them look unsympathetic?

Also I like how Lucifer seems really quite the sympathetic character compared to the rest of the angelic bunch.

I really like that, too, a lot -- but the trailer for next week kinda put a kibosh on my enthusiasm in that regard. Don't know if you saw that part.

[ratcreature]

It felt like they cut something from the episode that would have been needed to make sense of the events. As it was it was confusing and also there didn't seem to be any reason why they changed locations so it was needlessly complicated. They should have been in the hospital. And you make a good point about Raphael finding them.

I have not seen the trailer, only heard some talk about it.