Supernatural Episode Review: Free to Be You and Me

[sylvia_bond]

My review of the Supernatural Episode “Free to Be You and Me” is now up at pinkraygun.com. Enjoy!

An excerpt:

It's nice to see Sam like this because there’s lots and lots of Sam to see, thanks to the camera guy and the lighting guy working in tandem. Sam must have the largest seeing eyes in all the wide, wide world. And he’s luminous, glowing from within, his Samhair trailing his temples even as he’s troubled and struck by massive guilt with the weather reports about hail and fire. Here he is being smacked over the head yet again about how he was the one to start the apocalypse. Much fannish discussion is still ranging as to which brother is more to blame. I don’t think either one of them is to blame for the apocalypse in particular, since both of them were set up from the beginning and fated to play their roles like pawns in a supernatural game of chess.


Pictures...

Sam in bed...(this vision NEVER gets old!)





Sam crying in bed...(Oddly, neither does this one!)




Dean without his Sammy...(but this makes me sad...)




Luminous Dean...(and then this makes me happy again!)




Searching for God...




Saying no to hunters...




Dealing with ninja angels...





Wanting to say no...





Shadows and light and paisley...





Trying to figure it out...




After the battle lost...




Fated to serve evil...

Comments

[sidhe-woman.livejournal.com]

This episode almost gutted me. Poor Sam - but at last he is beginning to grow up, and that wonderful Sam-version of the Winchester stubbornness - complete with that agressively jutting chin - will surely pull him through.

Dean, too, was having a hard row to hoe. He is adrift without his brother, and trying to hammer the Castiel peg into a Sam-shaped hole just won't work.

This ep managed to hit quite a few buttons and useful points, but there is a but. Dean's wisecracks at Raphael somehow didn't work so well. They sounded stilted. Now, that might be because Ackles and the script didn't quite gel, or it might be because Dean just didn't have his heart in it. The whorehouse scene didn't work for me either. I think because Castiel is becoming more human too quickly. His emotional responses seem too laboured, the script too heavy-handed.

But what the hell? The lighing boys were inspired, and very generous *happy grin*.

[sylvia-bond.livejournal.com]

A hard row to hoe is right! They both have it bad and hard and difficult, and god knows how they're both going to make it through in one piece. I for one know that they won't have a ghost of a chance of making it if they don't get Back Together real SOOOOOOON!

I agree with the wisecracks, they didn't work, tho some have pointed out to me that it was Ackles doing it on purpose, to convey Dean's sense of being ill at ease without his Sammy. Regardless, the Dean scenes didn't have the impact, mostly because the story behind them had no meaning for me. And was silly...all that posturing by the Soap Angel, like he was afraid of sex? Please.

Lighting GUYS ROCK!!!!!