Oh, a bunch of things. * very strong visuals - the gravesite and Cas's entrance (WINGS!) are tops, but also the whole scene at the gas station and the one with the mirrored ceiling at the motel room. Plus it's got this overexposed grainy look that I really like for a change. Clearly folks thought a lot about the look of this ep. * elegant introduction to a bunch of major points for the season. We have Dean being important, Cas showing up, Sam practicing psychic powers, and Ruby hanging around. It lays them all out for us without any sense of draggy exposition. * nifty emotional understatement. This show is given to melodrama, but here they go the minimalist route, I think, and I find that very satisfying. Nothing's easy in this ep.
That's mostly it, I guess. I think it's really well constructed and beautifully realized, and I also really like all the individual notes we hit for the various characters - Dean, Sam, Bobby, Ruby, Cas.
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* very strong visuals - the gravesite and Cas's entrance (WINGS!) are tops, but also the whole scene at the gas station and the one with the mirrored ceiling at the motel room. Plus it's got this overexposed grainy look that I really like for a change. Clearly folks thought a lot about the look of this ep.
* elegant introduction to a bunch of major points for the season. We have Dean being important, Cas showing up, Sam practicing psychic powers, and Ruby hanging around. It lays them all out for us without any sense of draggy exposition.
* nifty emotional understatement. This show is given to melodrama, but here they go the minimalist route, I think, and I find that very satisfying. Nothing's easy in this ep.
That's mostly it, I guess. I think it's really well constructed and beautifully realized, and I also really like all the individual notes we hit for the various characters - Dean, Sam, Bobby, Ruby, Cas.