One thing about 10x22

[citrus_java]

ETA: this is the one true thing that I have about this episode:
This was so so violent and horrifyingly graphic -
did somebody tell Carver he was getting soft, or asked if he'd seen a boob in the wild?
Did somebody pry his eyelids open and make him watch GoT to cure him of his bad writing urges?
Did he experience a moment of true happiness, triggering an ancient curse?
WTF happened?!




I probably need about a month, now, of watching My Little Pony 3-4 hours a day, omg

Also -Couldn't they just please get rid of the bunker already? SO CLOSE!



ETA:


-Like a fish that wants to fly or a dog that thinks it's people!
-Sam likes dogs.



ETA: Seriously - this is as violent and cruel as the show has ever been, even just that whole scene of Charlie's body graphically burning - WTF?! Why?!


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Comments

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

Are you saying violent and cruel is bad?

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

I'm saying - omg, I need therapy now - more than I usually do


I 'm saying - yes - they have far too much impact to be used casually or instead of developing your characters

[balder12.livejournal.com]

I agree that it's time for the show to torch the bunker. Part of me would be sad because it's a beautiful set, and it's incredibly convenient for writing fic, but it's outlived its narrative usefulness. (Also, those idjits need to stop showing off their super secret, incredibly valuable home base to villains.)

I'm kind of surprised this episode struck you as disproportionately graphic--I thought it was pretty standard for the level of violence on the show. I found the condition of Charlie's body last week more gratuitous and shock-for-shock's sake than anything here. (Then again it wouldn't have occurred to me that Charlie's funeral was intended for shock value--as a petty fan girl I just found myself wishing the show had devoted that much time to Kevin's funeral.)

The one thing that stood out to me was the vivisection, but even that struck me as within the bounds of gore they do at least once or twice a season. The cold open to "My Bloody Valentine" sticks in my head as one of the goriest things I've seen on network television outside of Hannibal. SPN is a horror show, so there's a chunk of the audience for whom violence/gore is fan service, just as much as the obligatory BM scene at the end of an episode.

Sorry it was an upsetting watch for you, though! Hopefully next week will be better--I'm guessing we may be done with the medical horror, at least, now that the Stynes are dead.

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it didn't make you feel badly! For me - yes, there have been single scenes that were more gory - but the mass of gore and violence throughout this episode! I was afraid to watch it cause I worried something worst than Charlie being killed was going to happen, I was expecting something horrible on a different level - but was not expecting all the bodies and limbs and choking (why? WTF?) just - when was there an episode that included two housefuls of people being killed, a horrifying (for me) funeral, two "operations", a long scene of a regular dying spitting blood, a new character playing on our love for Sam being pointlessly murdered, one of the main characters being beaten almost to death by a person he trusts and loves, and a bunch of police brutality and brutality towards policemen, bullying, Sam being threatened with immediate and for real death, everybody being punched and threatened and tossed around - that was A LOT! And just random little things - did we really need a sexy macabre nurse there to have no lines and be killed - ugh.... And so much of it being Dean....

But um- hey, if that worked for you I really am pleased it did!



Also, those idjits need to stop showing off their super secret, incredibly valuable home base to villains

YES!
And they need a second handcuff!
The place is so magically well stocked but they only had the one? It was weird from the start of that scene - did *someone* with super strength break so many they ran out, or....?


Petty fans are the reason Show's still on!

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm with Balder here. The show pulls out the gore every once in a while; it's kind of the show's upbringing of classic horror and slasher movies. And I do wish they'd honored Kevin with a funeral too. But then, I dig gore. :D

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

I'm truly glad it worked for you - assuming it did!


I am NOT a fan of gore- can't take it - but this was more personal than gore. The scene Balder mentioned did bother me some (the ones at the morgue are worst) - but those are sometimes just monster-campy-horror genre, and not to be taken that seriously? This episode was brutal (for me).


Kevin did have a funeral, IINM, though a much shorter scene?