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First off I'll admit that I haven't been enjoying this season much so far. There were moments I enjoyed in all three episodes (the opening montage, the comedy of Dean and Sam with the baby, Castiel's first appearance), but overall something about the first three episodes haven't been quite gelling for me. But this? Was made of awesome. I seriously seriously loved it, kudos to Jensen for stepping up the pacing a little
I usually find Bobby-centric episodes a little dull tbh as I'm really only interested in him for his relationship with Sam and Dean, and tend to mentally switch off when we get a lot of focus on say his tragedy with his dead wife *sheepish* so I wasn't expecting to particularly enjoy this one. But I loved the decision to make it a comedy focusing on a day in the life of Bobby.
All of the scenes with Bobby and Rufas as a comedy duo were made of win! "Don't swallow the ring!" The arc of monsters acting in an unusual way was also handled in an interesting way this episode
I've seen some complaints about the phone call and Dean being out of character, but it didn't really bother me because I viewed it as coming from Bobby's perspective so it was kind of hilarious to get Bobby's response to Dean calling up all "More important than Sam?!" I can see peoples point in arguing that Dean and Sam actually have helped Bobby out a lot, but it's also true that they tend to act like they don't realise that Bobby has much of a life outside of sitting by the phone waiting to help them out. It's got to suck to spend all night researching only for a quick 10-second phone taking your help for granted as just being what Bobby does, so that phone call to me represented Dean and Sam's assumption that Bobby is always there to answer the phone, and has all the free time in the world
The scenes with Crowley and Bobby were great, loved them mocking each others accents hee.
I also really liked the Sheriff, she would make a fun recurring character, and I kind of want to re-watch the zombie episode from last season now :D
While I loved the Bobby episode the best so far this season, it was also quite an out of the norm episode, so it felt like I almost loved it in spite of season 6 rather than because of it. 606 I didn't enjoy as an episode as much (although I did really like it!), but it was the episode to first get me invested in season 6, which hasn't been doing much for me so far. (I'm hoping this season might come together for me more on rewatch as season 5 did). This episode got me really intrigued by Dean's creeped out feelings around Sam, with Dean's reaction to Bobby suggesting that maybe it's just Sam, and by Sam's ability to so obviously hide what's going on with him, even when Dean had the ability to get to the truth. A really powerful and shocking final scene too!
It was good to get the revelation out so early in the season as I starting to wonder how long it would take after Sam has so clearly been off for a while now. (Actually 605 was an episode where the main plot didn't do much for me one way or the other, but what really caught my interest was Sam's reaction to Dean's turning, and continuing the arc of what's wrong with Sam). Nice to see the show now starting to deal with it, and I'm excited to see where the next episode takes it
I also enjoyed this episode in itself. I thought the first half of the episode in particular moved along nicely. Intriguing opening teaser with the girl being pushed to the brink by the truths she got, nicely gory scene with the dentist, and some hysterical comedy with Bobby confessing all his secrets. And major aww at the acknowledgment that Dean is Bobby's favourite! I always knew it *g*
Really though, do we need to have Castiel in so many episodes? I loved his appearance in 604, but it's getting to be like season 5 where they're just using him for the sake of filling out 17 episodes/as fanservice. It would be so much better to use him sparingly, rather than insert him in an episode for just one scene which hello pointless. The character deserves more than to just be used rather randomly for exposition
Oh and I was a little bit surprised that Dean was back to seasons 4 and 5 Dean hating being a hunter and longing for a family instead. I thought that early season 6 was setting up something different what with Dean's boredom with domestic life in the premiere, and his happy expression in episode two when he uncovered the impala *shrugs* Tbh, with all the talk of going back to a season 1 feel, I was half-hoping that life with Lisa and Ben as a "civilian" would help Den get that out of his system, and go back to enjoying the hunting lifestyle and being on the road with his brother. I mean yes I understand that it must be a pretty crappy lifestyle, but still it does tend to suck the life out of the show a bit for me for Dean to be that unhappy about hunting all of the time. The show occasionally seems to have these moments of telling Dean that actually hunting is a pretty badass lifestyle (Zachariah in It's A Terrible Life, the gay couple in the convention episode from last season), but they never seem to stick
I do miss the Dean of earlier seasons who took a little joy out of life whenever he could, even with something as silly as enjoying a hamburger. Him stopping to check out the womans new breasts was a fun callback to that, but otherwise these days he only seems to drink because of how depressed he is :/
I'm still finding Michael way too much of a softy to be as high-ranking in Division as he is (second in command? Really?) I want to say the actor is badly miscast, but perhaps he is just doing what they ask beause the writing for Michael portrays him as more about protecting the recruits and having no stomach at all for what Division put them through. Still I thought the actor overplayed it a bit with the way he was squirming and showing how incredibly anxious he was for Alex, it made me miss Michael from the original LFN who could show his emotion just by his eyes alone and the briefest flicker of an expression. The actress for Alex sold me on the tension of what she might reveal, so all of the cuts to Michael sweating away for her felt like overkill to me, rather than heightening the tension as was presumedly intended
Percy and Amanda I'm really starting to enjoy though, and I loved the banter with Birkoff over how long the recruits generally last. Hee at Percy sshing them like he's watching a good tv show when he's watching Alex's torture. I guessed that it was a set-up by Division as soon as Alex was "kidnapped", but it was well done all the same.
While I do like Nikita, I'm actually finding myself a lot more invested in Alex because her story is being told from inside Division. At first I wasn't sure about spending time with all of the other recruits, but now I'm enjoying the focus on them training to become operatives. I don't miss Jaden though!
I ended up getting more invested in Robbie than I did in Sarah (whose plot wit her looking for her baby felt kind of cliche). Seeing Robbie being pushed to breaking point was much more interesting, and he was also more realistic as someone that Division would have recruited. My heart broke for him when he was talking to Alex about how he gets to play James Bond thanks to Division, and then Amanda pushes him into losing it by destroying his dream. It was really subtly done too, I'm SOO glad that was a set-up because I was thinking that it didn't make much sense for Amanda to misread the guy so badly when she's supposedly excellent at psychology. Boo if the CW really does plan to lighten up the show because that subplot was easily my favourite part of the episode
I usually find Bobby-centric episodes a little dull tbh as I'm really only interested in him for his relationship with Sam and Dean, and tend to mentally switch off when we get a lot of focus on say his tragedy with his dead wife *sheepish* so I wasn't expecting to particularly enjoy this one. But I loved the decision to make it a comedy focusing on a day in the life of Bobby.
All of the scenes with Bobby and Rufas as a comedy duo were made of win! "Don't swallow the ring!" The arc of monsters acting in an unusual way was also handled in an interesting way this episode
I've seen some complaints about the phone call and Dean being out of character, but it didn't really bother me because I viewed it as coming from Bobby's perspective so it was kind of hilarious to get Bobby's response to Dean calling up all "More important than Sam?!" I can see peoples point in arguing that Dean and Sam actually have helped Bobby out a lot, but it's also true that they tend to act like they don't realise that Bobby has much of a life outside of sitting by the phone waiting to help them out. It's got to suck to spend all night researching only for a quick 10-second phone taking your help for granted as just being what Bobby does, so that phone call to me represented Dean and Sam's assumption that Bobby is always there to answer the phone, and has all the free time in the world
The scenes with Crowley and Bobby were great, loved them mocking each others accents hee.
I also really liked the Sheriff, she would make a fun recurring character, and I kind of want to re-watch the zombie episode from last season now :D
While I loved the Bobby episode the best so far this season, it was also quite an out of the norm episode, so it felt like I almost loved it in spite of season 6 rather than because of it. 606 I didn't enjoy as an episode as much (although I did really like it!), but it was the episode to first get me invested in season 6, which hasn't been doing much for me so far. (I'm hoping this season might come together for me more on rewatch as season 5 did). This episode got me really intrigued by Dean's creeped out feelings around Sam, with Dean's reaction to Bobby suggesting that maybe it's just Sam, and by Sam's ability to so obviously hide what's going on with him, even when Dean had the ability to get to the truth. A really powerful and shocking final scene too!
It was good to get the revelation out so early in the season as I starting to wonder how long it would take after Sam has so clearly been off for a while now. (Actually 605 was an episode where the main plot didn't do much for me one way or the other, but what really caught my interest was Sam's reaction to Dean's turning, and continuing the arc of what's wrong with Sam). Nice to see the show now starting to deal with it, and I'm excited to see where the next episode takes it
I also enjoyed this episode in itself. I thought the first half of the episode in particular moved along nicely. Intriguing opening teaser with the girl being pushed to the brink by the truths she got, nicely gory scene with the dentist, and some hysterical comedy with Bobby confessing all his secrets. And major aww at the acknowledgment that Dean is Bobby's favourite! I always knew it *g*
Really though, do we need to have Castiel in so many episodes? I loved his appearance in 604, but it's getting to be like season 5 where they're just using him for the sake of filling out 17 episodes/as fanservice. It would be so much better to use him sparingly, rather than insert him in an episode for just one scene which hello pointless. The character deserves more than to just be used rather randomly for exposition
Oh and I was a little bit surprised that Dean was back to seasons 4 and 5 Dean hating being a hunter and longing for a family instead. I thought that early season 6 was setting up something different what with Dean's boredom with domestic life in the premiere, and his happy expression in episode two when he uncovered the impala *shrugs* Tbh, with all the talk of going back to a season 1 feel, I was half-hoping that life with Lisa and Ben as a "civilian" would help Den get that out of his system, and go back to enjoying the hunting lifestyle and being on the road with his brother. I mean yes I understand that it must be a pretty crappy lifestyle, but still it does tend to suck the life out of the show a bit for me for Dean to be that unhappy about hunting all of the time. The show occasionally seems to have these moments of telling Dean that actually hunting is a pretty badass lifestyle (Zachariah in It's A Terrible Life, the gay couple in the convention episode from last season), but they never seem to stick
I do miss the Dean of earlier seasons who took a little joy out of life whenever he could, even with something as silly as enjoying a hamburger. Him stopping to check out the womans new breasts was a fun callback to that, but otherwise these days he only seems to drink because of how depressed he is :/
I'm still finding Michael way too much of a softy to be as high-ranking in Division as he is (second in command? Really?) I want to say the actor is badly miscast, but perhaps he is just doing what they ask beause the writing for Michael portrays him as more about protecting the recruits and having no stomach at all for what Division put them through. Still I thought the actor overplayed it a bit with the way he was squirming and showing how incredibly anxious he was for Alex, it made me miss Michael from the original LFN who could show his emotion just by his eyes alone and the briefest flicker of an expression. The actress for Alex sold me on the tension of what she might reveal, so all of the cuts to Michael sweating away for her felt like overkill to me, rather than heightening the tension as was presumedly intended
Percy and Amanda I'm really starting to enjoy though, and I loved the banter with Birkoff over how long the recruits generally last. Hee at Percy sshing them like he's watching a good tv show when he's watching Alex's torture. I guessed that it was a set-up by Division as soon as Alex was "kidnapped", but it was well done all the same.
While I do like Nikita, I'm actually finding myself a lot more invested in Alex because her story is being told from inside Division. At first I wasn't sure about spending time with all of the other recruits, but now I'm enjoying the focus on them training to become operatives. I don't miss Jaden though!
I ended up getting more invested in Robbie than I did in Sarah (whose plot wit her looking for her baby felt kind of cliche). Seeing Robbie being pushed to breaking point was much more interesting, and he was also more realistic as someone that Division would have recruited. My heart broke for him when he was talking to Alex about how he gets to play James Bond thanks to Division, and then Amanda pushes him into losing it by destroying his dream. It was really subtly done too, I'm SOO glad that was a set-up because I was thinking that it didn't make much sense for Amanda to misread the guy so badly when she's supposedly excellent at psychology. Boo if the CW really does plan to lighten up the show because that subplot was easily my favourite part of the episode
