Having spent a little time on it, I'm ready to talk about Scarecrow and Faith. (Sounds like a pairing doesn't it?)



Scarecrow
This was one of my favorite episodes. The boys fit so perfectly to the characters I've been seeing in them, and the emotional resolution was very satisfying. It was also a tight episode, without the bajillion plot holes or timing errors, acceptably tight dialogue, and lots of pretty. I loved the landscape in which it was set, as well. The boys weren't stupid, in this one.
Things I Liked:
1. Dean fit perfectly into my slowly-developed idea of him, and expressed a lot of the thoughts and feelings I'd imagined him having.
2. Dean is such a sucky liar, and apparently he is learning to realize it.
3. Sam's smile slays me.
4. The boys love each other so much. I can't even point out specific instances (okay, the phone thing, where they both pull out their phones automatically to call, even though they don't, and also the end of the fight where even the SO was saying they were playing highly emotional chicken but really really wanted to be together) because it was all over the entire episode. Don't think I'm missing the fact that creepy roadside girl had short blonde hair and a 'tude.
5. Dean set Sam free.
6. Sam returned to him.
7. Sam swore a vow, and Dean just so doesn't need to.
8. The snark is thin over the emotion.
9. The really scary monster and the roadside hell pixie girl. Both genuinely freaky beasts.
10. I was afraid they were going to add a girl to the regular cast, and I deeply didn't want them to, and they didn't, bless their little slash-satisfying hearts.
11. Music fit the show and set the mood.

Things I Didn't Like
1. Nothing. I liked the whole thing.Okay, one tiny thing, but it was still in character. "Pagan gods". Pagan isn't a really meaningful word in this context, and simply shows Dean's lack of broad education. I would have liked it if they had specified more, giving a little cultural history. But it really was in character, and. Good show.


Faith

After how much I loved Scarecrow, I wouldn't have expected to also unreservedly love Faith. But I did.

Things I Liked
1. Sam's love for Dean was all over the episode, in rainbow colors. He couldn't have shown it better than he did. Dean is everything to him now, the way he has always been everything to Dean. This is *canon*, people. Wow.
2. Dean's, albeit grumbling, acceptance of Sam's devotion. It is a great sign of love, from him.
3. The fact that Dean felt so guilty, in an apparently generalized way. It is so easy to attribute it as we like, now. Why so guilty, Dean? "Oh, because I'm in love with my brother and now he's obviously married to me, even though he always said he wanted something else." See how easy that is?
4.The acting. It wasn't just decent and pretty. It was good.
5. The reapers.
6. The girl-of-the-week was sympathetic. And better yet, Dean didn't sacrifice anyone to save her.
7. Sam's clear determination to save his brother, with no wibbling over the girl just because it was a girl. He obviously values men's lives as well, and I deeply respect that.
8. I was really worried for Dean, and also for Sam. Kudos to the writing team, but especially to the actors.
9. The writers did not come down really pro or against religion, and I love that.

Things I Didn't Like
1. This is so weird, but nothing. I really liked this episode.
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