6.04 Weekend at Bobby's

[erda]

LOL, I'm easily amused, I guess,


I found that loltastic in a fifties kind of way. It reminded me of that Star Trek TOS episode with Gary Seven and the Ditzy Secretary Girl. For some reason Ditzy Secretary Girl was one of a very few female TOS characters that didn't squick me, perhaps because despite the ditz, she turned out to be brave and resourceful. Also, I was only 10 or 11 at the time that aired, so my understanding of women's issues was sketchy.

It was fun to see Crowley again. Heeee!

When Bobby was killing whatever the monster was, I was saying "if only the neighbor lady would come rushing out and help him now" and for a moment I thought that might actually happen. Rats. I would have liked Bobby to have a hunter girlfriend, someone who seemed ordinary but rose to the occasion. Oh well.

I was prepared for this one to have nothing to do with my Sam 'n Dean show, so that part didn't really bother me. I have high hopes they will make it up to me next episode.

Comments

[erda]

I actually was not aware that there were thoughts of a series from that episode. I would have watched that for sure.

I am sad about Marcy. It just wouldn't occur to Spn's writing staff that the whole 'ordinary person who shows extraordinary ability when challenged' trope could apply to a woman, especially an older woman.

[yourlibrarian]

You're right that this is something we haven't seen -- it's occasionally happened with younger women (largely in S1) but not much lately, and we don't see a lot of older women to start with.

[erda]

Yes, older people, but especially women, are underrepresented across the board in my opinion.

I was reflecting on the curious world of television recently, as I was watching Terriers, because they had this old friend of one of the characters and he just so happened to be black, but like almost all black characters on white shows, he was old buddies with the white guy, and completely cut off from other black people. It is so bizarre and unreal.