InsaneJournal

You’ve all seen my complaints (my loud, strong complaints) about “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester”. Suffice it to say, Sam and Dean, the sons of Mary Campbell should’ve known better (well, okay, since they never knew her family, I guess that doesn’t count). It was their most poorly researched episode premise ever. It's not the first time someone has used this premise, but two minutes of research debunks it and it's one of those concepts that is religiously and culturally awkward and not often seen outside the evangelical/pentecostal anti Halloween crowd. Which is odd considering the whole argument Sam and Dean have with the angels in the same episode.

The episode is filled with all those cliched Halloween urban legends, maybe that was meant to be part of it, I mean, the entire series is about "urban legends are real". But that one...just... no, okay? Too many people have been hurt by it in RL.

Monster Movie, Wishful Thinking

“Monster Movie” is wonderful. It’s hilarious, and unique (the whole episode is in black and white). And the surprise is one you’ll never see coming.

Okay, I admit it. In spite of the skeevy subplot, “Wishful Thinking” is absolutely hilarious. But that’s the problem with Ben Edlund. Someone with such incredible comic writing talent, who also doesn’t seem to know when he’s gone too far. The moral of the sub plot with the man who wished a woman would be hopelessly in love with him is supposed to be that she becomes a brainless slave who is borderline psychotic about him and it makes him so uncomfortable he can’t stand it. Sam and Dean do confront him about how he turned the whole town insane by letting everyone have their hearts desire, and they do point out that his wish has obviously backfired, that his “relationship with Hope is not exactly functional” but nobody ever points out that it’s not just about how “you shouldn’t get whatever you want because it’ll backfire”, but that he has raped this woman. The writers and the characters are able to recognize that such a situation is obviously not going to end well- and the man who made the wish is portrayed clearly as a major loser, but it never seems to occur to Edlund that what was done to “Hope” meets the definition of rape . I think maybe even the characters understood this more than the writer did (something I’ve noticed about SPN before- like with the racism thing- Sam and Dean are emphatically not racist, and yet the writers kill of almost every black man who has ever been on the show).

Other than that, genuinely one of the funniest eps ever. Wonderful dialogue and interactions, unexpected twists. It also features the return of Good with kids!Dean.

The Teddy Bear represents Dean! Given life by a capricious superior being, he’s miserable and alcoholic and just wants to sit in the dark, watching tv and sobbing.

“Why am I here?”
“For tea parties!”