Supernatural 501 Sympathy for the Devil
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noracharlesSupernatural is back! I've tried hard to remain unspoiled, but I have picked up a few things which may be spoilers or just speculation. Luckily most of them were for this episode, so I don't have to worry about that anymore.
I thought the scenes with Lucifer torturing the potential vessel were boring, but other than that I enjoy this episode very, very much.
Bobby is awesome! He loves his boys. He can overpower a demon with the force of his love! He's never going to cut Sam out of his life! When the demon called Bobby Dean's father figure, I thought for sure he was going to die. I wasn't even scared, just sad and resigned. I hope he's going to be able to continue working in his salvage yard with his mobility issues (assuming he doesn't get to walk like before).
Sam! Kudos to Jared Padalecki. Young, puppyish Sam is back. I liked the huge difference between how Sam looks being pawed by a fangirl, and how Jared looks. I've had a hard time with Sam during season 4. I've always been more of a Dean girl, but I like Sam a lot, and hated seeing him so desperate, still caught in his grief and obsessed with vengeance, as if that could heal Dean's trauma. Bringing about the apocalypse isn't a good thing, but maybe now he and Dean can start working on reestablishing their closeness. He took the first necessary step by getting Dean to open up to him about his feelings, so that's promising.
Becky is so cute, and really funny. I'd like to read her fic. I'd like to see more of her, and read fic about her.
New Meg, who is even cooler than old Meg! Sorry old Meg fans, I found the new actress very appealing. It would have been nice if she'd tried to talk more like old Meg, but whatever.
Now for a Bechdel test. I looked at the characterscount wiki and the super-wiki and didn't see any, so I thought I might as well.
I've done both a traditional female character Bechdel test and a race Bechdel test:
Women are underrepresented as always with Supernatural. And as is typical, two of them aren't even real women, they're a demon and the devil. But the other two are heroes.
Characters of color aren't so much underrepresented as invisible or evil and dead in Supernatural. Bechdel test fail on the first premise, shameful. But at least the black ER doctor/nurse? was a heroic character. She helped save Bobby!
I thought the scenes with Lucifer torturing the potential vessel were boring, but other than that I enjoy this episode very, very much.
Bobby is awesome! He loves his boys. He can overpower a demon with the force of his love! He's never going to cut Sam out of his life! When the demon called Bobby Dean's father figure, I thought for sure he was going to die. I wasn't even scared, just sad and resigned. I hope he's going to be able to continue working in his salvage yard with his mobility issues (assuming he doesn't get to walk like before).
Sam! Kudos to Jared Padalecki. Young, puppyish Sam is back. I liked the huge difference between how Sam looks being pawed by a fangirl, and how Jared looks. I've had a hard time with Sam during season 4. I've always been more of a Dean girl, but I like Sam a lot, and hated seeing him so desperate, still caught in his grief and obsessed with vengeance, as if that could heal Dean's trauma. Bringing about the apocalypse isn't a good thing, but maybe now he and Dean can start working on reestablishing their closeness. He took the first necessary step by getting Dean to open up to him about his feelings, so that's promising.
Becky is so cute, and really funny. I'd like to read her fic. I'd like to see more of her, and read fic about her.
New Meg, who is even cooler than old Meg! Sorry old Meg fans, I found the new actress very appealing. It would have been nice if she'd tried to talk more like old Meg, but whatever.
Now for a Bechdel test. I looked at the characterscount wiki and the super-wiki and didn't see any, so I thought I might as well.
I've done both a traditional female character Bechdel test and a race Bechdel test:
| Episode | Speaking characters | Female characters | F-Bechdel | Characters of color | R-Bechdel |
| 501 | 12 | 4 (33%) | Fail, 0 conversations | 1 (8%), Fail | Fail, 0 conversations |
Women are underrepresented as always with Supernatural. And as is typical, two of them aren't even real women, they're a demon and the devil. But the other two are heroes.
Characters of color aren't so much underrepresented as invisible or evil and dead in Supernatural. Bechdel test fail on the first premise, shameful. But at least the black ER doctor/nurse? was a heroic character. She helped save Bobby!
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