You are currently browsing comments. If you would like to return to the full story, you can read the full entry here: “Supernatural: Red Sky at Morning”.
Article by Sylvia Bond
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
Leave a Reply
Additional comments powered byBackType
You are so right about everything. Why is Smella still alive after shooting Sam? After having the Impala towed away and risking the loss of all their weapons and possibly being caught trying to get the car back? She also pointed the boys out to the cops, and hello, aren’t they still wanted by the FBI? And she stole from them and wasn’t concerned that Sam would die if she didn’t give Dean the Rabbit’s Foot. Her greed and flirty/flippant style has seriously endangered them and they are acting like her presence isn’t a danger. Worse they are trusting her and working with her. And even worse yet the writers are letting her treat the boys like idiots and writing the boys out of character so that they are acting like idiots. That is why we hate Smella, because she insults our boys and they lose their skills and common sense when she is around. Is it because she is so beautiful? I don’t think so. I’m wondering if the writers think that in order for a woman to be strong she has to make fools out of strong men? Or maybe it’s that they don’t know what a strong woman would look like so they have to dumb down the men in the show? Anyway, it looks like we are going to see how injured Smella was and how she had to become a hardass to survive, and wasn’t that brave of her? Then Dean will feel sorry for her and they will become lovers. It’s just so common. I hope the show will change before it becomes Smallville, or in other words- a cliché.
It’s not that I mind Dean having a lover, but make her cool, like Lisa in “The Kids Are All Right.” You know, a woman that can raise a healthy cool kid on her own and doesn’t need to demean a man in order to feel strong and competent.
And like you Sylvia, I too miss:
Classic Rock
Cool jeans
Shirtless Winchesters (I know you didn’t say it, but we are all thinking it!)
The Winchesters finding their own clues and basically being self sufficient, intelligent and totally beyond competent hunters. (I almost puked when Smella said “The legend is so much better than the ((person?))” in RS@M.
Dark moody shots. Somebody dim the lights please.
And I am missing me some badass fight scenes. And Pie! lol. I love those guys.
Thanks Sylvia, keep up the good reviews.
I’m on your side! *grin*
ReivenSkye
Dear Heather,
Thank you so much! I’m glad you like the reviews and the fangirl moments. Sometimes I get so worked up about it all, and think maybe I’m walking out on a limb. But I can’t be silent when that squee builds up in my head! Thanks for reading. (And squeeing along with me!)
Best Regards,
Sylvia
Dear ReivenSkye,
Oh, man, the whole Smella thing. You are right. And I am right. And others are right. It’s not Smella herself, it’s what you said, “They’re acting like her presence isn’t a danger.” Moreover, she treats them badly and they LET her. Sam even said she had class. Say WHAT? Our experience with the boys tells us that this isn’t in keeping with who they are, what they know, and what they do. It’s just too bad Show is having a hard time figuring out that a strong woman, like you say, doesn’t need to make a man weak to be strong.
And there’s no way Dean and Smella will ever go to bed. Not after she shot Sam AND stole the Impala. No way no way no way. I don’t care what horrible things have happened to Smella in the past, Dean does not go in for pity-sex, nor roach-sex, nor angry-sex, nor sex with ANYONE who hurt his brother. Sorry, no.
I think Dean goes for classy women. Like, the woman in Faith who had the brain tumor. Or, in Tall Tales, the woman he dreams up for his side of the story. Both of those were Grace Kelly-cool. That’s the kind of woman he goes for. Not some floppy haired, wearing-an-underbite, cockroach of a thief.
As for the things I miss, it makes me sigh. It’s interesting that you point out Shirtless Winchesters. Yes, I was thinking it, but it’s hard to miss what I’ve never had! (Though we did get it twice with Sammy, didn’t we? Hell House and Heart. And once for Deano in Skin. Any others? Guess I’ll have to update my list now!)
Thank you so much for reading and for your intput! And for disliking Smella. Fingers crossed that Show sees the light about her.
Best Regards,
Sylvia
Hi Sylvia,
Would just like to say how much I’ve been enjoying reading your reviews, I haven’t got around to actually replying any before now but just so you know I look forward to reading what you thought and what lovely screencaps you have nearly as much as watching them.
I had to reply to this just for sake of the one line “Then Sam says, “bite me,” to which Dean replies, “not if she bites you first.” The implication here is that Dean would bite Sam if he is, at the time, bite free. Okay, I’d buy tickets for that.” I was thinking just that!
Then later was choking with laughter as Gerturde was groping Sam and we cut to the Hand I just thought that’s grotesque and it fit so well with what poor Sammy was suffering and the look of the hand, not that I would be able to restrain myself if had either of them dancing with me
and it’s always nice to see Sammy’s dimples even if he’s squirming not smiling.