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A fun romp... but will probably not be destined as one of my more memorable eps.
**1/2 out of 5
I was glad to see Charlie again, I don't know Felicia Day's other work but I liked her well enough in her debut last year, I think she's strongly drawn, one of the more 3 dimensional women characters in SPN.
*note, why couldn't Dean have referenced his past run-ins with fairies? A nod would have been nice*
The beginning was straightforward spn, the bros in the impala going on a hunt, mending fences, lots of gore with a guy being drawn and quartered in his room. Nice transition into the guys finding Charlie and going to the LARPing village - and a true bit of skewing the storyline when Dean and Sam are mistaken for 'crossover LARPers' because someone can spot that their FBI badges are fake.
Dean is his charming self, having fun getting into his 'handmaiden' role, and seeing that he and Charlie have game tactics, porn stars and facial expressions to share was fun. Sam did due dilengence in the 'tech tent' and was almost out of the action.
But after the fairy was discovered the episode went flat, as my daughter said, there was only one person the magic user could be (ala Scooby Doo) so the reveal wasn't a surprise and he was too easy to defeat. It was fun to see Charlie get to woo and rescue the fairy (so now you can't say SPN doesn't have positive girl couples as they have had guy couples (the LARPers from the Supernatural Book by Carver Edlund episode back in season five)
Kudos for Sam at the very end, not succumbing to his woe at losing Amelia and deciding he and Dean deserve some fun, but I would have actually liked Dean doing the Braveheart speech 'straight' instead of making the scene a parody, because after all, the point of LARPing is trying to make it real, and hell, Jensen can pull it off.
If anything, the ode to LARPing could have used a bit more 'bite' as when SPN took on it's own fandom with the meta in meta Supernatural Books, and my daughter thought actually Sam would have been into LARPing and geekiness more than Dean.
Next week is an episode with a time-traveler, but can we please get back to the myth arc.
Not to mention, god this episode would have been even better methinks, with some Castiel doing his angel nerd thing, and being told 'no real smiting!'
**1/2 out of 5
I was glad to see Charlie again, I don't know Felicia Day's other work but I liked her well enough in her debut last year, I think she's strongly drawn, one of the more 3 dimensional women characters in SPN.
*note, why couldn't Dean have referenced his past run-ins with fairies? A nod would have been nice*
The beginning was straightforward spn, the bros in the impala going on a hunt, mending fences, lots of gore with a guy being drawn and quartered in his room. Nice transition into the guys finding Charlie and going to the LARPing village - and a true bit of skewing the storyline when Dean and Sam are mistaken for 'crossover LARPers' because someone can spot that their FBI badges are fake.
Dean is his charming self, having fun getting into his 'handmaiden' role, and seeing that he and Charlie have game tactics, porn stars and facial expressions to share was fun. Sam did due dilengence in the 'tech tent' and was almost out of the action.
But after the fairy was discovered the episode went flat, as my daughter said, there was only one person the magic user could be (ala Scooby Doo) so the reveal wasn't a surprise and he was too easy to defeat. It was fun to see Charlie get to woo and rescue the fairy (so now you can't say SPN doesn't have positive girl couples as they have had guy couples (the LARPers from the Supernatural Book by Carver Edlund episode back in season five)
Kudos for Sam at the very end, not succumbing to his woe at losing Amelia and deciding he and Dean deserve some fun, but I would have actually liked Dean doing the Braveheart speech 'straight' instead of making the scene a parody, because after all, the point of LARPing is trying to make it real, and hell, Jensen can pull it off.
If anything, the ode to LARPing could have used a bit more 'bite' as when SPN took on it's own fandom with the meta in meta Supernatural Books, and my daughter thought actually Sam would have been into LARPing and geekiness more than Dean.
Next week is an episode with a time-traveler, but can we please get back to the myth arc.
Not to mention, god this episode would have been even better methinks, with some Castiel doing his angel nerd thing, and being told 'no real smiting!'
