The gravesite didn't do a whole lot for me because IMO BtVS did it so much better, but I thought the gas station was perfect. It went from fairly normal to creepy in a heartbeat.
It lays them all out for us without any sense of draggy exposition.
Agreed. And you could tell that both boys knew the other was lying about where he was going without the narrative having to tell us that they knew.
here they go the minimalist route, I think, and I find that very satisfying. Nothing's easy in this ep.
Hmm, yeah, that didn't work for me; the boys have always been emotional about each other even when they haven't been about other things, so I really expected at least some suppressed tears from Sam. But glad it worked for other people. Maybe his reaction will make more sense to me as I see how else Dean's death changed him.
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Date: 2012-07-02 01:49 am (UTC)It lays them all out for us without any sense of draggy exposition.
Agreed. And you could tell that both boys knew the other was lying about where he was going without the narrative having to tell us that they knew.
here they go the minimalist route, I think, and I find that very satisfying. Nothing's easy in this ep.
Hmm, yeah, that didn't work for me; the boys have always been emotional about each other even when they haven't been about other things, so I really expected at least some suppressed tears from Sam. But glad it worked for other people. Maybe his reaction will make more sense to me as I see how else Dean's death changed him.