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Thursday Delight
Before I get started, I have a comment about Dirty Sexy Money. I watched this week's episode last night, and all I have to say is that if Nick cheats on Lisa with Karen (or anyone else for that matter) I am done with this show. I'm tired of watching people cheat on their spouses on TV because it's glorified too much and I'm just tired of it. So, despite the fact that I want desperately to know who killed Dutch, I'll be done with the show if Nick becomes a cheater. Ok...moving on...
Supernatural:
Let me start with this:
Sam: Drop the attitude, Dean. Quit turning everything into a punchline. And you know something else, stop trying to act like you're not afraid.
Dean: I'm not
Sam: You're lying and you may as well drop it cause I can see right through you.
Dean: You have no idea what you're talking about.
Sam: Yeah, I do. You're scared, Dean. You're scared because your year's running out and you're still going to hell. And you're freaked.
Dean: And how do you know that?
Sam: Because I know you.
Dean: Really.
Sam: Yeah because I've been following you around my entire life. I mean I've been looking up to you since I was 4, Dean. Studying you. Trying to be just like my big brother. So yeah I know you better than anyone else in the entire world. And this is exactly how you act when you're terrified. And I mean I can't blame you. It's just.
Dean: What?
Sam: It's just I wish you would drop the show and be my brother again cause...just cause.
Dean: Alright. We'll hole up, cover our scent so he can't track us, and wait the night out here.
And with that I said...FINALLY, the speech that broke through. Now granted in the end, the scene with Dean teaching Sammy how to fix the car was bittersweet and showed that Dean still believes he's going to hell at the end of the year, but at least Dean appears to be approaching the subject with a little more realism. Rather than running out and trying to save his brother, he's teaching Sam how to survive without him.
Now let's go to the top of the episode...
I think this episode solidified even further my hatred for Bella. And besides the Sam speech above, my favorite lines of the episodes were:
Dean: If we make it out of this alive, the first thing I'm gonna do is kill you.
Bella: You're not serious.
Dean: Listen to my voice and tell me if I'm serious.
She just doesn't get it. She doesn't get that her greed jeopardizes people's lives. I swear I think she may have drooled all over Gordon when she saw the mojo bag. UGH! Honestly, I'm not in the least bit interested in Bella and Dean ever getting together or Sam getting together with her for that matter. In fact, I'd be fine if she was a casualty of war at some point. I know she's there to irritate, but I think she irritates me more than she's supposed to.
Lucy cracked me up when she was describing the vampire who turned her as "old...like 30." Yeah, I'm 29. Guess I'm almost over the hill.  We did see a bit of the old Sam who has concern for the human being possessed by the demon when he wanted to spare Lucy, but Dean said it had to be done, which it did. The hunger does not go away and every vampire isn't Mick St. John.
As for Gordon, I know the previews said that he was coming back bigger and stronger, but I guess I missed that it was because he was coming back as a vampire. That was an interesting turn of events for me when he was turned especially since he spent most of his natural life hunting them as revenge for his sister. And honestly, if I step back and look at it and say if Gordon is right and Sam is/was the Anti-Christ, I have to commend Gordon for trying to do the noble thing and rid the world of the Anti-Christ. Now, I don't believe Sam is the Anti-Christ. I'm pretty certain he's got a bit of demon in him, but I don't think he's the Anti-Christ. Therefore, Gordon must die. And when Sam snapped Gordon's head off, the way the camera was fixated on Sam's eyes, I was ready, completely ready, for Sam's eyes to turn black. For the last thing that Gordon saw to be Sam revealing that Gordon was right about Sam being bad. I just fully expected it. It was VERY gruesome the way he killed Gordon and almost turned my stomach, but thankfully, the head snapped off right before I had to run to the porcelain god.
According to Ausiello, we've got 3-5 episodes left that haven't aired. How much do you think we'll get in those 3-5 eps? A lot of shows seem to be leading us to cliffhangers that will probably be affected by the strike, and Supernatural probably won't be any different.
Grey's Anatomy:
May I begin by saying that I hate high school kids. Not all of them, mind you, just the ones that are superficial and only care about who is more popular. Sometimes I wish we could skip those years of adolescence and most straight to early to mid 20s where things start to make a little bit of sense.
The story about Danny and the pencil in his brain was very sad. Danny and his friend were the two people in that whole group of kids who were the good ones. The rare ones who get it already. And then Danny had to go into a coma for the rest of his life. Oh, I hated that.
The story with Meredith, Lexie, and Thatcher I have to say kind of bored me. We did learn that Lexie has a bit of fire in her belly when she needs it, and that she's got a dark and twisty side to her, too. She's at the end of her rope, but one of the things I like about this show is that no one get a break. Lexie thought she had the right to feel sorry for herself and to yell at Alex for making her personal family situation a little more public by bringing the Chief and Meredith in on it. But oh now...Alex can go you one better cause see he's been the adult in his family since he was 7 and had to start cleaning up after his own alcoholic father. Well played, Alex. I think everyone needs someone in their life who can say "suck it up cause it could be worse."
Before I get to Bailey (my favorite part of the episode), I have two more things. First, Rose the nurse could be good for Derek. She doesn't really put up with his crap, but he's starting to impress her with his willingness to find out about her. I was a pretty hard fighter for Mer/Der when Addison first came to town, but now I really just want to see Derek happy. He deserves it at some point, right? And I think Meredith being left high and dry because Derek finds someone else may be a kick in the butt that she needs.
Second, I did get quite a chuckle out of the Mark Sloan is old bit. The girls telling him he looked like one of their fathers. And then word getting around the hospital that Mark is the old guy. That was really great. See...no one gets a break on this show.
Alright...on to Bailey. I have never cried at Grey's Anatomy. Yes, it's true, sometimes I cry at TV, but I have never cried at Grey's Anatomy...not even when Denny died. Probably because I figured that opened him up to come back to Supernatural, but still...no crying...UNTIL LAST NIGHT. When Bailey went into her tirade at Derek about how the guys with their chiseled looks and hair products never see girls like her, I just lost it. Bailey's high school crush came into the hospital as part of the bus accident and he flustered Bailey. She turned back into the school girl who fell in love with the guy she was tutoring. I have never identified with Bailey more than last night. But I was that girl. I was that girl who was smart and funny and not half bad if you took the time to hang out with her. But because that girl didn't look the part of the popular girl, it was wrong to even think about hanging out with her much less considering a romance. But it was ok to use the girl to pass your classes. And what Bailey learned was that no matter how great you are even as an adult, people like that will never see you. The important thing to learn is that in the end, you don't want people like that to see you. You want the person who will love you because you're smart, funny, and not half bad no matter if you're in the popular group or not. But I did love her speech, and I loved Derek for listening to her every word and then laying the band geek bit on her. And then I cried some more. That scene was my favorite part of the whole episode. In fact, I think I'd buy this season on DVD just for that scene.
Ok. That's all I got. Thoughts?
P.S. There will be no more The Big Bang Theory’s because they have aired all the episodes they filmed.
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Nov 16, 2007 11:11 AM
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Hi Leann,
I loved the brother scenes in this episode. Sam finally got through to Dean, as we could see in the final scene when Dean was teaching Sam how to fix the Impala. Heartbreaking.
I don't watch promotional's, so Gordon's being turned came out of left field for me; it was a total shock. Sera Gamble and Kim Manners really outdid themselves with the writing and direction, respectively.
I think at heart Gordon was a noble character because he really believed that Sam is a danger to the world, and he hated becoming the monster he had been hunting. Remember how he reacted to killing Kubrick? It broke his heart. And he knew that he, himself, had to die as soon as he rid the world of what he believed was its greatest threat. Don't get me wrong--I believed that it was time for him to go, and Sam being the one to kill him was poetic justice. I just have to give him props for being such a worthy and noble adversary, and props to Sterling K. Brown for his award-worthy performances as Gordon (not that he will ever be recognized).
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Nov 16, 2007 11:56 AM
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