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Sylvia Bond is a ten-year technical writing veteran with too many degrees under her belt to count. She lives in Colorado, but does not ski, preferring instead to spend her money and time at the annual Great American Beer Festival, taking road trips across the United States, and reading historical fiction from the comfort of her fluffy green arm chair. She has been involved in fandom since 1993 and been writing fanfic since approximately 1993. What she finds most amazing about fandom (besides the open heartedness of fans and the sheer amount of creativity) is how visible fandom has become. "In my day," she says, "we had to hide behind P.O. boxes to get fanfic. But nowadays, people wear t-shirts that shout their affiliation and share their shiny toys on the internet." It's a wonderful world. 15 Comments
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I happen to like Bela, Sylvia, and enjoyed the humor and brotherly moments, both angsty and goofy, in this episode. Shoot me! I think Bela’s character added a lot to this episode and made for interesting interplay between the brothers. Also, they HAD to save her; she was the only person they actually DID save in this ep, and in doing so, they solved the mystery of the ghostly ship and now there will be no future murders. I, too, miss the rock music, but I’m guessing they don’t have a budget for it anymore, given that they’re paying two new regulars. I’m hoping that changes down the line. By the way, Kripke himself, questioned on the writers’ picket line, grade this ep B minus. I loved the scenes between Sam and Gert, the boys in tuxes, the final cemetery scene. I enjoyed the boys taunting Bela after she sold what she believed was the only artifact that could help her, and that SAM, who had seemingly despised her the most during the ep, came up with what saved her, proving he IS 100% Sam (for now). I almost wept for both Sam and Dean at the end, when they couldn’t connect, AGAIN, on their feelings over the deal. This ep had so much more than you seemed to see, but I think you were kind of blinded by your dislike ot Bela. Love, Robin
Robin, thank you for posting, and I’m glad you liked the ep more than I did, I’m sure you’re not the only one! To be more objective, I think my problem with Bela is not Bela herself (a troublesome secondary character), but with how the boys react to her. They seem very much out of character in regard to her, letting her get away with shooting Sam, stealing the Impala, taking things from them, getting them to depend on her for information. They’ve become quite unselfsufficient, if you see what I mean. So when I see Bela, I can only see her taking away, not adding to.
Best Regards,
Sylvia
Dear Robin, I appreciate you posting and the fact that you liked the ep better than I did, but I’m sure you’re not alone! To be more objective about the whole thing, the reason I don’t like Bela is because when she’s on screen, for some reason, Sam and Dean start acting out of character. She’s a fine annoying secondary character, but she’s also shot Sam, stolent the Impala, and lifted stuff off of Dean – and the boys are completely tolerant of her. Just seems out of character to me, is all.
Best Regards,
Sylvia
I really liked this episode it felt more like what I fell in love with about this show then I’ve seen lately (with the exception of last week). And I love your breakdown of the show, way better then others I’ve seen so thank you for giving me something to read that leaves me happy in the end
I’d just like to slip in my thought on all the conversations that take place in the car instead of the hotels this season. To me, in the past they were hunting what they were looking to stop and there for having a convo in a hotel made sense. The hotel was their fort(ress) and so they could stop, breath, research and talk there. This season though they dont have that. Everything (and I mean everything) is in motion now. Things are hunting them and they really can’t stop now. So convo’s take place in the car. I also think they should bee claustrophobic and like The End Is Coming because well… it is. Sad and frustrating as that is. That is what’s happening. It seems like one of those subtle little continuities that Kripke & Co. are trying to press on us without hitting us over the head.
Or as usual I could just be reading wwwwwaaaayyy too much into the little things.
Thanks again for a great recap!
I have to agree totally with your review this time Sylvia: so many things missing that made Supernatural the show that we love. And much as I love all the nice new suits, I really gotta wonder where the heck the boys keep these things? Certainly not stuffed into their pack sacks. Yep, the ‘hair gunk’ make up person is back: too bad, because I was enjoying Sam’s hair in its natural state – soft and shiny.
The Bela thing bugs me mostly for this reason: she is NOT a worthy adversary. Not when they’ve had Meg and YED and Gordon, who were so much stronger and more ‘believable’. The fact that they have to ‘dumb’ down the boys, especially Dean,so much to make her sound clever is a big giveaway. I’m more a Sammy girl than Dean, but hell, I used to love his character: smartassed, crude and annoying yes – but he wasn’t stupid, especially with things that concerned his job.Dean, more than Sam, lived for this work and he learned from his mistakes and no way would dear Bela get something from him again.
They’re trying so hard to make her character work, it’s painful to watch. And even then I could just ignore it, but they’ve screwed with the boys’ intelligence and established MO to fit her in. It is showing that her character was only meant to be a ‘one off’, but when the IDIOTS at the network ordered another T&A character, her role was expanded. While I don’t care for Katie’s acting skills for Ruby, at least that character was well written and fits fairly smoothly into the show.(I won’t get into why the hell Bobby of all people is working with her!!) but that character was obviously better thought out. When I originally heard about the new characters and read/saw the actresses interviews, I figured I wouldn’t mind Bela, but would hate Ruby. Total turnaround after finding Ruby was a demon! If she wasn’t, her character would have been just as bad as Bela’s in the ‘believability realm’ for me. I get that they need new characters in the show: both for the boys to interact with, for the show to progress and yes, even to give Jared and Jensen some down time. But to do it so shoddily that a good number of the fandom who keep this show on the air are totally peeved – not a good thing at all.
Bottom line: I chuckled over Sammy getting groped (only ’cause I would have loved to be in Ms. Cases’ shoes and Jared’s reactions were priceless!), boys looked yummy in tuxes, the back story was neat, BUT, and this is a big but – it didn’t feel much like Supernatural at all to me. They rushed through the boys’ arguments twice in the car and Bela had way too much screen time.
I loved your episode review, I laughed more than once and I loved your insights to the conversation between Sam and Dean in the car.
Dear MayB,
I’m glad you are liking my recaps and that they leave you feeling happy! I’d say my work is done here, but we’ve scads and scads of eps to go, thank goodness.
Your idea about the conversations is a good one, in that they represent the unsettled nature of their lives. But weren’t their lives unsettled before, and didn’t those conversations take place everywhichwhere?
Best Regards,
Sylvia
PS – I read way too much into the little things, myself, so….pot, kettle.
Dear Sandra,
I wanted to love Sammy in that tux, believe me, I did. But I think Show had it in mind that they would make Sam the gawky foil to Dean’s Jame’s Bond, as if Show couldn’t handle having two men look so devistatingly handsome. Shame on Show for wasting its “tux” ep (every show seems to have one) making one of the boys not as polished as the other. (Cause, jeeze, could you just imagine a SLOW dance with Sam?)
The suits the boys wear are a logistic impossibility. They can’t have that many, and they simply can’t be as polished as they are in them, given the storage space available and the lack of irons.
As for Bella, oh boy. What a waste of screen time. And I’ll be honest and agree with you, it’s not her so much as the fact that when she’s on screen, the boys are out of character, big time. Hlaf of fandom seems to adore her, while to the other half (our half), she’s, like you say, a shoddy, painful, forced plot device that RUINS what was good about this show. If they’d kept this ep under wraps for a while and then KILLED her off logically (as the plot seemed to want to), then I would have been more at ease with the distruction she brought with her. As it is, I remain
Ever Yours, Faithfully Despising Bella,
Sylvia
Dear Amalthia,
Thank you very much. I’m glad I could make you laugh and enjoy yourself. The boys have been pretty comical this season, so I figure that’s in keeping.
Best Regards,
Sylvia
I just wanted to say that I LOVE your reviews. (Especially about the girls and the changes). I just love all the same fan girly moments, and the way you gush *because we are ALL thinking it too!* I look forward to reading each week.