01×12 -
Oh, how good is this episode?
How many aspects does it touch upon? Reapers make their first appearance (and they have the strangest attraction to Dean!), Dean nearly dies, twice, Sam does everything within his powers to try and save Dean, Dean meets a wonderful woman who could change his life….and it also deals with the faith healers, and blind faith, which is something I’ve never exactly agreed with.
One thing which crosses my mind is Daddy Dearest’s reaction to the message Sam left. Did he make his way there? Did he consider the possibility of losing Dean? Or did he seriously ignore them? Gah, it’s one thing we’ll never know. I mean, he was around when they went home…
anyway, it’s the one intro which i love watching. Yet again, Dean decided to deal with the monster, and Sam went to save the kids….and Dean gets electrocuted, has a heart attack and basically screws his heart over.
And following Scarecrow, I think this one beautifully places. After just realising how much his brother means to him, after sticking with him, to come to the possibility of losing his brother? I love it. Sam leaves no stone unturned, leading Dean to a faith healer…and oh how Dean does not like that. One thing I’ve always find intriguing, is how he does not believe in a good to balance the evil. Demons, hell, monsters, but angels, heaven, something good? Dean doesn’t believe it exists. That? is so weird. and peculiar.
This one is very heavy on the self-sacrifice and also bit of an anvil episode in regards to Dean. This is where you see exactly how low he thinks of himself. He honestly doesn’t want to be saved, he gets chosen to be healed and he wants to pass it on. And then? He doesn’t believe he’s worthy of being alive. God, it’s just….you just want to bundle him into your arms and smother him with love and affection.
It’s all so obvious, when the reaper comes after Dean – he doesn’t run or try and escape, he stands there and waits for it. He’s willing to sacrifice himself in order to save someone he believes is more worthy than himself.
All the more interesting – why did Roy save him? he said it’s because he looked into his heart and saw a man with a purpose who job wasn’t done yet. I wonder if that’s something they’ll come back to in the new season…another item to keep an eye out for!
01×13 -
“I wish conversations wouldn’t start with this evil truck”. I agree.
Ugh. I hate this episode. I hate it, I hate it I hate it. A racist monster truck ghost? It’s…ok, it’s them making an attempt to delve into some deep-rooted racism history of the US, but still…..a racist truck, killing people? It’s…it’s deplorable. I wish they’d found some other method, anything besides a truck!
after 4 brilliant episodes in a row….we have…….ugh, i hate it.
and i love how it of course has to do with Cassie’s family – it’s the central core to the whole story. Trust Dean to pick his women!
It’s funny, the one Dean naked sex scene happens to be in my most loathed episode!
Sam’s ribbing about Dean’s lovelife? Is cute…although him getting pissed of about Dean telling the family secret? Ugh. Hello, you didn’t tell your girlfriend and look what happened there!!! Obviously they view it differently, Sam wants to hide it, because he wants to be normal, and he doesn’t want someone seeing hi as a….well, as a freak.
Dean? Dean wants someone to share it all with, because it’s too much for him on his own. He wants someone to understand, he wants someone to appreciate everything he goes through…..and maybe he also uses it as a tool for keeping people away…after all, that’s how he kept Cassie away.
Another glance at Dean’s self sacrificing ways – he’s always the one to go after the monster, to lead them away and get Sam to try and work out a way to get him out of it. Although admittedly, the car chase is kind of cool. But destroying it by making it go through where the church was? LAME!
01×14
Unlike a large portion of the fanbase, I’ve never been an immensely big fan of Nightmares, mainly because I think it’s a little too dark and depressing.
It’s a good episode int emrs of moving the plot along, where we see Sam’s psychic abilities extending beyond the nightmares and turning into actual premonitions which he sees during the day..and I love how it “hurts” him. Hello, I’m a masochist, of course I love that!
It’s just…the Miller family is so depressing. I know they’re meant to represent yet another different aspect, how one event can shape your entire life, and Sam makes a rather poignant remark at the end,…a little more tequila, a little less hunting….. and yes, but geez, do the actors playing the Miller family have to be so damn depressing?
Still, it’s terrific character development, particularly seeing how excited Sam is about finding someone else like him, realising he’s not that much of a freak (although, really? If I was to compare myself with Max Miller, I’d be thinking where’s the closest gun?) and how hard he tries to do good. He honestly believes he’s there to help Max….when, in reality….ooh, in reality he actually helps ol’ yellow eyes by eliminating another contender, doesn’t he?
I also love how he has telekinesis…and what gets that going? Seeing Dean die. His love for his brother is so strong!
And on Dean’s part, I absolutely lvoe how at the very end, you know he’s frekaing out about his brother. He’s been taught to hunt and stop people with abilities (although he does have a very one-sided view of the whole thing…I mean, basically, if it’s not normal, it shouldn’t belong, whether it does bad or good….not the ebst view to have of the world, or is it simply that even though Dean is meant to be all open-minded and with the real world, he’s actually immensely closed-off and incapable of seeing shades of grey, only seeing black and white? Or is Sam so naive because he still believes in good, he still wants to find something good in everyone? That’s an interesting debate for a day without a migraine and wooziness)
Where was I? *reads back*
Ah yes…..Dean pretends he’s all good with Sam’s freakiness, because he knows how freaked Sam is and he wants to ensure his brother he’s not going to treat him differently, there;s nothing wrong with him, but honestly, he doesn’t like this one bit, he doesn’t like what it means nor where it might lead…I love how Dean’s shades of black and white are forced to change thanks to Sam.
01×15 ooh 4 in a day! Well, that’s a rather grandiose effort, don’t you think?
I’ve always been a fan of this episode…what’s really funny, is way back before my obsession began,. when all my friends were talking about this show, I decided to sit down and watch one episode…and it happened to be the this one! I watched the opening sequence, saw the title screen and turned the tv off! I don’t know why…I think I had the newest TAR episode on my computer and was more interested in that…at any rate, a month or 2 later, curiousity (and boredom over the US summer) got me and I got sucked into this….
I love this episode. Why? Because it sinks further into the human psyche, into jsut how crazy and insane humans can be..although I think Torchwood did a much better version with Countrycide. And what’s with the isnane human hunter/cannibals being country bunkins? I knew there was a reason I didn’t venture into deep country!
At any rate, I like their cocnept, of having a human fmaily who hunts other humans for sports. It’s a totally creepy idea…what would you do in that situation? How do you cope with that? I like the fact it’s Sam who gets caught, and both his and Dean’s reaction to elarning they’re humans.
I get a secret little pelasure from Dean being burnt by the poker…and also when theys ay they’ll have a hunt that night, obviously they decide right, we’ll kill the boy and the cop, and use this one for the hunt, he’ll be a great challenge. I would have loved to see that! I also love how everyone coming for the rescue gets captured themselves, leading to Sam invariably saving everyone.
The little girl, Missy? Scarier than any of the other ghost girls they have on this show. Seriously. She’s messed up. I also secretly wander whether…actually you know what? You don’t need to know that train of thought!
It’s also our first example of steel copper, running into one of them, determined to jail them for crimes, and throughout the process of spending time with them realising they are doing good and they deserve to be free to continue rather than locked up, letting them free. I’m surprised she never worked out the dangerous Dean Winchester was standing before her!
They don’t delve too deeply into the psyche of the hillbillies, which I would have enjoyed, and I hope they come back to this cocnept again soon, the idea of a normal person doing something so nasty…because let’s face it, humans are scarier thand emons, because you don’t understand where they’re coming from or why they’d choose to hurt another human being in such a way.
What a topsy-turvy viewing day! What’s next?
