5.15 —I am so excited about the premise but it's a spoiler, so...

[ratherastory]

ZOMBIES! THERE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ZOMBIES TONIGHT HOLY CRAP!

It's difficult for me to express my undying love for zombies (pun totally intended) properly, but let's just say they are my favourite type of monster ever, bar none. I could go on and on and on about them, but that's not the point of this post.



LET THE CAPSLOCKING BEGIN, APPARENTLY.


Ooh, nice nod to Romero there, and the classic fist-punching up through the ground.

Okay, the tried-and-true trope of having the TV-in-the-TV narrate what's going on in a meta fashion. Cute, and SPN still knows how to do a fantastic suspenseful teaser.

"Who died and made you queen?" Hee! You go, Digger. Don't let the man tell you you can't make up your own nickname.

*dies*

THE SHERIFF KNOWS BOBBY!

*dies more*

Bobby cleaned his house. If I didn't already know what this episode was sort of about, I'd know something was up just because of that. Also, where's his ball cap?

Soccer!Dad!Zombie!

"I'm a taxpayer!"

Aaaaand the boys are in jail. Again.

UNDEAD!WIFE! GAH!

This can't end well.

CREMATED?!?!? HOLY SHIT!!!!

Horseman.

Oh, Dean, SNAP! "Another horseman. Must be Thursday."

Oh, Bobby.

*cries*

Dean leaning against the Impala is always bad-ass.

Aww, wifey is bringing him in for pie!

Lots of pie. Holy crap, PIES EVERYWHERE! I note that Dean is not averse to eating the enemy's pie, that being said.

She's giving him the standard I-love-Bobby-and-want-him-safe-just-like-you spiel. "I am not the enemy." Oh, this cannot possibly end well.

Sneaky!Sam

"I'm gonna regret this." Yes, yes Sammy, you are.

RABID!ZOMBIE! Who didn't see that coming? *looks around* *crickets*

YESSSSS! HEADSHOTS! FINALLY!

I wonder if the really gross viscous zombie spit is significant. Certainly there was a lot of it.

Fast zombies. Boo. Everyone knows those aren't real zombies. *scoffs*

I keep wondering about the sheriff's son. I can't help but feel that there is potential heartbreak there. Also, fodder for an outsider POV ficlet, if Show glosses over that.

Oh, Bobby. What is it with you and herding Winchesters off your property at gunpoint?

Yeah, Dean. That seems fair. You save Bobby, Sam saves... everyone else. I guess Bobby IS worth an entire town full of NPCs...

Okay, well, I guess the Sheriff's on board now. GAH!

Oh, JESUS CHRIST CRAP OH MY GOD, SAM! THE LITTLE BOY! Urgh. That is almost as horrible as the empty bloodstained baby seat in "Croatoan."

WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE, WOMAN, SPILL! AAAAH! Speaking of "Croatoan," I guess we

How on Earth did Bobby suddenly develop a bad rep in town? Town drunk? That totally doesn't jive with the whole hunters-keep-a-low-profile, thing. Unless it's a reference to the "drunk and disorderly" stuff the Sheriff mentioned, which I guess might come as a result of local hunts.

Oh, Bobby.

SCRAPYARD ZOMBIE HUNT! Come on, the best place to fight zombies is in a scrap yard, everyone knows that!

They really DO need bungee cords!

HOLY CRAP ZOMBIES! I thought there were only 20 or so? Where the hell did they all come from and why are they ALL coming for Bobby's place?

Huh. Apparently Dean wants to know that too.

Bobby knows! Must be the message his wife gave him.

LOCKPICKING ZOMBIES! Awesome!

"Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?" Haha, Bobby!

BADASS!SAM to the rescue! Woah, Sam. That is a LOT of carnage. I was actually a bit worried about Bobby's fate there for a moment.


Blood spatter on the camera lens, FTW!

Woah, giant bonfire!

Apparently Karen gets her own private bonfire.

Sam, stop asking people if they're okay.

Erf. Well, the message isn't unexpected. Everybody around the Winchesters gets to suffer until they say "Yes."

SAM, SERIOUSLY, HONEY. I KNOW YOU MEAN WELL, BUT QUIT ASKING BOBBY IF HE'S GOING TO BE OKAY. FOR ONE, HE'S NOT, AND FOR TWO, YOU NEED TO STOP RELYING ON OTHER PEOPLE TO BE STRONG FOR YOU.


UNF.

My heart, she is broken. Goddamn, this show is putting me through the wringer. God.




(On an only slightly related note: Thank goodness for all the episode codas and tags after last time, because I am feeling seriously gypped by the lack of detoxing!Sam and the proper reconciliation that should be taking place between the boys.)

Comments

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Maybe. But is one summer enough to undo a 40-year reputation? *shrug*

I dunno. I'm willing to buy it, but I wish they'd handled it a bit better.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

Someone, somewhere, perhaps even here it's too early for me to really remember, suggested it was meant as a product of hunting, not actually drinking. Like, up to that point, the townsfolk would interpret Bobby doing odd things or getting beat to hell or something on drinking.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. That was me, trying to conjecture *why* Bobby would suddenly be the "town drunk." It was the only explanation that made sense to me.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I suspected so. First thing in the morning isn't pretty for me. Someone wrote a backstory fic for Bobby I really liked. It had him as a post-doc in...well, I can't quite remember, but it dealt with ancient beliefs and practices. It was pretty well written, and it made a lot of sense.Unless the show forces me to abandon it, that's what I'm sticking with.

Also: I've always loved that quotation from the Dresden Files.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Dresden Files has awesome quotes. :)

I like that idea about Bobby, but part of me also likes the idea of him being entirely self-educated. Last night's episode makes a good case for that, since Karen married a salvage guy, according to her.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

Oh, for sure. It wasn't the idea I was so attached to; it was the way the fic was realized. It stuck in my head.

Crud. Thinking about it made me want to find a way to stick Bobby in my crossover big bang, because there could be awesome interactions with a character who followed a similar path.

On the Dresden Files- have you been reading the preview chapters?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

No! There are preview chapters?

Oh God, oh God. Preview chapters make me INSANE because I want to read the rest NOW.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

Not only are there preview chapters, there's a chance to win an ARC (through twitter and here on LJ), though I don't remember exactly where they are on the website.

I hadn't read the synopsis or anything until I noticed there were preview chapters. As a result, my reaction was quite on par with Harry's.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I'm not following, but okay.

What's an ARC?

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

advance reader copy. It's like when they screen movies or TV shows early for critics, but for books. They send them out to bookstores and things to try and get them to order them.