Supernatural 2x19 - Folsom Prison Blues
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stillaneSo, yeah, saw it last night, but needed the rewatch to get my head straight.
Oh, show. I love you. Here's why:
- I believe all welders should wear polka dots. Bonus points if they actually manage to polka somewhere in there, too. It could be like a new twist on those guys who juggle flaming torches.
- Poor Man-Playing-Randall. Does this guy ever get to act as something other than a current, former, or soon-to-be prisoner? I bet they always thought he stole the cookie from the cookie jar, too, as a kid.
- Dude, that is one tall dead psycho, or one short prison guard. I suppose, theoretically, there's nothing that says you can't come back (or stick around) with a little bit of modification. Or maybe she was just oddly tall in life. Who knows?
- I love that they have to kill time in the museum, and what do they do? Go check out the shiny sharp things. They're like the man who goes shopping with the family and winds up drooling at the big screen TVs. Only, you know, deadlier.
- The handcuffing scene cracks me up, with the smug little expression on Dean and the begrudging acknowledgment from Sam. I love that this is a universe in which getting arrested is not nearly as much of a pain in the ass as having to admit that your brother might have been right.
- The mugshots... hee. Sam looks so damned embarrassed. Dean... well, mugs. And why does it not surprise me in the least that he's a Zoolander fan?
- You know, when these guys do subtle, they pull it off better than anyone. Dean during the interrogation scene is a prime example. From the facial expression freeze at Hendrickson's name to the bemused glance at the partner tag-team (which I also got a kick out of), it all rocked. Go, Ackles.
- I like Lawyer Lady. I don't buy the way they used her, but I like her anyway. I would have adored her if they'd gone the way I thought they would, for a second there, and made her in on it.
- The Meeting the Neighbors bit was cute. Sam's Oh Shit face was great on it's own, but then they do that mirrored thing, and... heh.
- The hallway scene was interesting to me. It brought home the boys' starting position in this episode, I think; Dean is very definitely the older of them, and he's in charge. That's... huh. Most of the time, the older sibling thing comes across in the protective instinct, definitely, but otherwise I don't tend to think much about him being older than Sam. They're both so competent, and the show skips the planning steps so often, I've never stopped to wonder about that dynamic. Dumb of me, but, *shrug*. This whole setup, though, makes me think this is what they must have been like as kids: Dean the mastermind, and Sam the practical but nevertheless loyal worrywart.
- "What, are you from Texas all of a sudden?" Yep. That would be how you do self-referential humor without the hammer.
- Okay, I know the dining hall Moody conversation was really the obligatory Anvil of Exposition, but I prefer to pretend that Sam really doesn't know any of this beforehand, and comes along anyway. That right there is some serious trust.
- The first fight scene... Dean just prowls into it. Um. Yeah. That... yeah.
- Also, watching it the first time, I totally missed the look of slight confusion on Dean's face when the baton goes under his chin. There's a quick moment of expectation when Deacon approaches, and then the "Wait... um...", and then he gets serious about faking the belligerent nervousness. That first time through, I only caught the last. Another point for Ackles.
- I also love Sam's eyeroll and sigh at the end. Again, when a hardened criminal threatens to off you and your reaction is a weary, "Get in line,"...
- A tall man in a solitary little cell, in orange prison specials and spikey hair, looks worried and says, "Oh crap." Am I the only person who had a Darien Fawkes flashback? And how cool would that crossover be? Darien and Dean would have possibly the most fun ever running something, Sam would be considering the fifteen different laws they've just broken (while breaking them right along with them), and Bobby would be driving the getaway van and bitching about the preponderance of freakishly tall people in his vicinity. Hee.
- Anybody else think Randall was going to turn out to have the last name Deacon? I was fully expecting that, and then they didn't go there. Good show. Keep me guessing.
- " 'Cause I got an idiot for a brother." "That'll do it." Heh.
- Watch Sam in the background at the card game. Baldy slams his hands down, and Sam goes into fight mode. Dean doesn't move, doesn't even look concerned, and plays it cool. Back to that trust concept... Nicely played, all around.
- And then the plan hand-off, and the role swap, because Sam may be the younger one, but he's also a genius.
- And the fight. Hee. I like Deacon's Oh Shit, What Now? face as he runs in. Also, Sam in stealth mode here made me giggle. You have to imagine the warden, should he ever have discovered this stunt, asking, "How the hell do you lose Sasquatch? In orange?"
- No low sodium freaks in this prison.
- As Sam's neck is to ghoulies, so is Dean's heart.
- I liked Tiny. Everyone, it seems, liked Tiny. Poor Tiny. Poor, giant Tiny.
- Incidentally, how exactly do you get cast as an extra in a prison scene? Better yet, how do you explain that one to your mother? ("Hi, Mom. I got this great part! They say I'm a natural!")
- "No. No. Don't give me that look..." Once again with the knowing each other so well. *g*
- "Are you nuts?!" is followed by him thinking about it. Seriously.
- What I like about the Dean/Lawyer Lady (Mara?) interaction is that, aside from the initial "Ooo, preeetty" reaction, Dean doesn't try to hit on her. He doesn't pull the gorgeous card, he doesn't seduce her... he doesn't even lie to her. Every word he tells her is the truth, including the times when he refuses to tell her things. He plays it absolutely straight. I wouldn't have believed her part one bit if he'd sleazed it up, but we've seen this before. Dean is at his most devastatingly successful when he's honest.
Also, is she wearing a ring?
- And now I'm wondering about that next scene in the prison yard. Dean wants more time, and decides to stay in there alone. Sam goes appropriately Hell No about it, of course, but I'm curious... Is this roughly how the escape was supposed to go down from the start? If so, why does Dean bother arguing about this, and not something trivial for show; seems a little late for that. "Don't you walk away from me" was not the line I was expecting, really; something about there being no chance in the frozen expanses of the netherworld that Dean was staying in prison without backup would have been more typical. It almost makes sense for that to have been the signal for Deacon to step in. I kind of wonder if Sam didn't just pull a fast one on Dean.
- They turn their backs without any fear to a guy they don't know from Adam, as Sam has said. All because of who he was to their dad. It's interesting.
- I want backstory for Deacon. I want to know what it means for John's history that Deacon is someone he knew long before The Demon invaded his life, and that Deacon seems extremely well versed in this whole hunting gig. He's either not a hunter himself or he's a suicidal ghost pacifist, and yet he knows enough to call in the boys. Hm.
- I am thrilled that Deacon did not bite it. After the systematic take-down of Winchester allies last season, the show needs a new support network for our favorite twosome. Between the Roadhouse bunch, Bobby, and Deacon, they're well on their way.
So, all in all: <3
- I believe all welders should wear polka dots. Bonus points if they actually manage to polka somewhere in there, too. It could be like a new twist on those guys who juggle flaming torches.
- Poor Man-Playing-Randall. Does this guy ever get to act as something other than a current, former, or soon-to-be prisoner? I bet they always thought he stole the cookie from the cookie jar, too, as a kid.
- Dude, that is one tall dead psycho, or one short prison guard. I suppose, theoretically, there's nothing that says you can't come back (or stick around) with a little bit of modification. Or maybe she was just oddly tall in life. Who knows?
- I love that they have to kill time in the museum, and what do they do? Go check out the shiny sharp things. They're like the man who goes shopping with the family and winds up drooling at the big screen TVs. Only, you know, deadlier.
- The handcuffing scene cracks me up, with the smug little expression on Dean and the begrudging acknowledgment from Sam. I love that this is a universe in which getting arrested is not nearly as much of a pain in the ass as having to admit that your brother might have been right.
- The mugshots... hee. Sam looks so damned embarrassed. Dean... well, mugs. And why does it not surprise me in the least that he's a Zoolander fan?
- You know, when these guys do subtle, they pull it off better than anyone. Dean during the interrogation scene is a prime example. From the facial expression freeze at Hendrickson's name to the bemused glance at the partner tag-team (which I also got a kick out of), it all rocked. Go, Ackles.
- I like Lawyer Lady. I don't buy the way they used her, but I like her anyway. I would have adored her if they'd gone the way I thought they would, for a second there, and made her in on it.
- The Meeting the Neighbors bit was cute. Sam's Oh Shit face was great on it's own, but then they do that mirrored thing, and... heh.
- The hallway scene was interesting to me. It brought home the boys' starting position in this episode, I think; Dean is very definitely the older of them, and he's in charge. That's... huh. Most of the time, the older sibling thing comes across in the protective instinct, definitely, but otherwise I don't tend to think much about him being older than Sam. They're both so competent, and the show skips the planning steps so often, I've never stopped to wonder about that dynamic. Dumb of me, but, *shrug*. This whole setup, though, makes me think this is what they must have been like as kids: Dean the mastermind, and Sam the practical but nevertheless loyal worrywart.
- "What, are you from Texas all of a sudden?" Yep. That would be how you do self-referential humor without the hammer.
- Okay, I know the dining hall Moody conversation was really the obligatory Anvil of Exposition, but I prefer to pretend that Sam really doesn't know any of this beforehand, and comes along anyway. That right there is some serious trust.
- The first fight scene... Dean just prowls into it. Um. Yeah. That... yeah.
- Also, watching it the first time, I totally missed the look of slight confusion on Dean's face when the baton goes under his chin. There's a quick moment of expectation when Deacon approaches, and then the "Wait... um...", and then he gets serious about faking the belligerent nervousness. That first time through, I only caught the last. Another point for Ackles.
- I also love Sam's eyeroll and sigh at the end. Again, when a hardened criminal threatens to off you and your reaction is a weary, "Get in line,"...
- A tall man in a solitary little cell, in orange prison specials and spikey hair, looks worried and says, "Oh crap." Am I the only person who had a Darien Fawkes flashback? And how cool would that crossover be? Darien and Dean would have possibly the most fun ever running something, Sam would be considering the fifteen different laws they've just broken (while breaking them right along with them), and Bobby would be driving the getaway van and bitching about the preponderance of freakishly tall people in his vicinity. Hee.
- Anybody else think Randall was going to turn out to have the last name Deacon? I was fully expecting that, and then they didn't go there. Good show. Keep me guessing.
- " 'Cause I got an idiot for a brother." "That'll do it." Heh.
- Watch Sam in the background at the card game. Baldy slams his hands down, and Sam goes into fight mode. Dean doesn't move, doesn't even look concerned, and plays it cool. Back to that trust concept... Nicely played, all around.
- And then the plan hand-off, and the role swap, because Sam may be the younger one, but he's also a genius.
- And the fight. Hee. I like Deacon's Oh Shit, What Now? face as he runs in. Also, Sam in stealth mode here made me giggle. You have to imagine the warden, should he ever have discovered this stunt, asking, "How the hell do you lose Sasquatch? In orange?"
- No low sodium freaks in this prison.
- As Sam's neck is to ghoulies, so is Dean's heart.
- I liked Tiny. Everyone, it seems, liked Tiny. Poor Tiny. Poor, giant Tiny.
- Incidentally, how exactly do you get cast as an extra in a prison scene? Better yet, how do you explain that one to your mother? ("Hi, Mom. I got this great part! They say I'm a natural!")
- "No. No. Don't give me that look..." Once again with the knowing each other so well. *g*
- "Are you nuts?!" is followed by him thinking about it. Seriously.
- What I like about the Dean/Lawyer Lady (Mara?) interaction is that, aside from the initial "Ooo, preeetty" reaction, Dean doesn't try to hit on her. He doesn't pull the gorgeous card, he doesn't seduce her... he doesn't even lie to her. Every word he tells her is the truth, including the times when he refuses to tell her things. He plays it absolutely straight. I wouldn't have believed her part one bit if he'd sleazed it up, but we've seen this before. Dean is at his most devastatingly successful when he's honest.
Also, is she wearing a ring?
- And now I'm wondering about that next scene in the prison yard. Dean wants more time, and decides to stay in there alone. Sam goes appropriately Hell No about it, of course, but I'm curious... Is this roughly how the escape was supposed to go down from the start? If so, why does Dean bother arguing about this, and not something trivial for show; seems a little late for that. "Don't you walk away from me" was not the line I was expecting, really; something about there being no chance in the frozen expanses of the netherworld that Dean was staying in prison without backup would have been more typical. It almost makes sense for that to have been the signal for Deacon to step in. I kind of wonder if Sam didn't just pull a fast one on Dean.
- They turn their backs without any fear to a guy they don't know from Adam, as Sam has said. All because of who he was to their dad. It's interesting.
- I want backstory for Deacon. I want to know what it means for John's history that Deacon is someone he knew long before The Demon invaded his life, and that Deacon seems extremely well versed in this whole hunting gig. He's either not a hunter himself or he's a suicidal ghost pacifist, and yet he knows enough to call in the boys. Hm.
- I am thrilled that Deacon did not bite it. After the systematic take-down of Winchester allies last season, the show needs a new support network for our favorite twosome. Between the Roadhouse bunch, Bobby, and Deacon, they're well on their way.
So, all in all: <3
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Date: 2007-04-28 04:54 am (UTC)The last time I saw this guy, he was playing some weird cult leader/child molester on Law & Order:SVU. I had a moment of 'Oh, they finally locked that maniac up'. But then I remembered he got shot at the end. Very confusing.
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Date: 2007-04-29 09:19 pm (UTC)There ought to be an actor rating system somewhere, where it gets logged what their likelihood of villainous characterization is. Say, three points for having played a Go'ould, five for any appearance on CSI, etc. Perhaps we should start with all Canada-based actors, since they seem to cycle through just about everything. *g*
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Date: 2007-04-28 09:07 pm (UTC)Hehe. This made me chuckle.
- I want backstory for Deacon. I want to know what it means for John's history that Deacon is someone he knew long before The Demon invaded his life, and that Deacon seems extremely well versed in this whole hunting gig. He's either not a hunter himself or he's a suicidal ghost pacifist, and yet he knows enough to call in the boys. Hm.
I was thinking about that m'self, actually... there's definitely a potential gold mine there.
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Date: 2007-04-29 09:30 pm (UTC)I am a simple girl, and easily amused. *g*
... there's definitely a potential gold mine there.
Yep. I'm kind of curious to see where the graphic novels go with John, and whether they fill in any history pre-series continuity. The website journal entries they had going for a while (and maybe still, I haven't checked it lately) and the season one Missouri storyline are pretty clear on John not having been aware of the bump in the night crowd until Mary's death, and yet... I'm wondering if he didn't then go back and start educating old friends, once he got established.
Hm.