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What are you, the hamburgler?!
TV Commentary:
Supernatural- That was surprisingly one of the more disturbing eps of the series. I don't know if I was more grossed about the frakking couple that ended up eating themselves to death (as in eating EACH OTHER), or the short order cook dipping his hands into the deep fryer because the fries were taking too long.
But interesting take on famine. I don't think famine and pestilence get as much play as war and death, they're usually portrayed as a skinny dude and some person covered with/followed by insects and vermin, respectively. But famine here (while still a withered away old dude), rather than causing people to wither away into emaciated corpses, causes an insatiable hunger, which in turn causes people to satiate such hunger until it kills them- feeding and frakking to excess, drinking themselves to death, engaging in unlawful behavior regardless of the consequences, letting obsession consume them. Which I think is particularly evil, because instead of just starving them to death (and really, the "typical" famine, how is that different from the other horsemen then, just a different way of killing them?), it corrupts people, causing them to kill themselves, which I would think evil would prefer more.
Heh, I'm also amused on the affect (or lack of!) he had on the Winchesters. Sam, of course, starts jonesing for the demon blood. Which sucks for the bad guys, because it makes him an addict even more hell bent on killing them so he can drink their blood and get that power flowing through his veins. Clever way of dispatching Famine too, he tries to get Sam to feed on his demonic bodyguards, but Sam just pulls them out, refusing to consume then. So Famine does, and once the demons are in his belly, Sam uses his control to rend Famine from within.
Dean, on the other hand, seems unaffected. At first, he plays it off as, he's always been a fulfill his vices kinda guy. He feels like eating, drinking, or frakking, he always satiated those needs when they arose. So, he claims he doesn't hunger because he's well fed. But famine reveals that its just that he's so thoroughly broken that life holds no meaning for him anymore. Basically, that his life is so meaningless to him that he doesn't really desire anything anymore because he knows it won't fill that hole in his chest. Which is really just sad.
So in the end, after they've won and they're detoxing Sam (man, that kinda sucks for Sam to have to go through all that again) Dean has some alone time where he begs god for some sort of help for the situation they're currently in.
Thing is though, as I've said before, the way they've been setting up this season, with the boys trying their best to thwart the apocalypse, where do you go from there? Either they fail and they did and the world end, or they win. And if they win, what challenge can you really give them?
Supernatural- That was surprisingly one of the more disturbing eps of the series. I don't know if I was more grossed about the frakking couple that ended up eating themselves to death (as in eating EACH OTHER), or the short order cook dipping his hands into the deep fryer because the fries were taking too long.
But interesting take on famine. I don't think famine and pestilence get as much play as war and death, they're usually portrayed as a skinny dude and some person covered with/followed by insects and vermin, respectively. But famine here (while still a withered away old dude), rather than causing people to wither away into emaciated corpses, causes an insatiable hunger, which in turn causes people to satiate such hunger until it kills them- feeding and frakking to excess, drinking themselves to death, engaging in unlawful behavior regardless of the consequences, letting obsession consume them. Which I think is particularly evil, because instead of just starving them to death (and really, the "typical" famine, how is that different from the other horsemen then, just a different way of killing them?), it corrupts people, causing them to kill themselves, which I would think evil would prefer more.
Heh, I'm also amused on the affect (or lack of!) he had on the Winchesters. Sam, of course, starts jonesing for the demon blood. Which sucks for the bad guys, because it makes him an addict even more hell bent on killing them so he can drink their blood and get that power flowing through his veins. Clever way of dispatching Famine too, he tries to get Sam to feed on his demonic bodyguards, but Sam just pulls them out, refusing to consume then. So Famine does, and once the demons are in his belly, Sam uses his control to rend Famine from within.
Dean, on the other hand, seems unaffected. At first, he plays it off as, he's always been a fulfill his vices kinda guy. He feels like eating, drinking, or frakking, he always satiated those needs when they arose. So, he claims he doesn't hunger because he's well fed. But famine reveals that its just that he's so thoroughly broken that life holds no meaning for him anymore. Basically, that his life is so meaningless to him that he doesn't really desire anything anymore because he knows it won't fill that hole in his chest. Which is really just sad.
So in the end, after they've won and they're detoxing Sam (man, that kinda sucks for Sam to have to go through all that again) Dean has some alone time where he begs god for some sort of help for the situation they're currently in.
Thing is though, as I've said before, the way they've been setting up this season, with the boys trying their best to thwart the apocalypse, where do you go from there? Either they fail and they did and the world end, or they win. And if they win, what challenge can you really give them?