Supernatural – s04ep14 – Sex & Lies

Oh this episode. Oh dear. I tried not to laugh or read too much into it, but I couldn’t help myself!

So the boys find themselves in Iowa where men are murdering their loved ones, in particularly gruesome manners. Like, freaky nasty. They discover all the guys have been visiting a strip joint and seeing Disney strippers (Jasmine, Belle, Aurora) and then kill their wives/girlfriends/mothers for them. Sam gets his flirt on with the local doctor/medical examiner/mortician and while Dean begrudges him for stealing his thunder, he soon forgets it in his excitement over actually getting to visit a strip joint on the job. Which avails to nothing. Except for the guy who ends up killing his mother that night.

When the boys next visit the sexy doctor, they’re interrupted by another FBI guy, and come on, I as suspicious here! Anyway, they give him a number to calla s the FBI director, who turns out to be Bobby, frying up some food while wearing a kiss the cook apron. God I love Bobby. Bobby ahs also informed them they’re dealing with a siren, someone who appears to you as your total fantasy, poisons you and then convinces you to kill loved ones for them. I guess they feed off of something. The blood? The adrenalin? The sex? Who knows? They don’t go into details, wanting to mess with the fangirl’s heads instead. Of course, as sirens are shapeshifters they’re bloody difficult to catch.

Sam sends Dean away with the FBI man to keep him occupied so he doesn’t interfere with them while Sam and the doctor flirt and attempt to find the missing blood samples, because they need it for eventually killing the siren. Affected blood on the knife in the siren will kill it. Or something like that. Again, who cares about semantics? All we want is to understand the psychology behind this episode! Kripke, you evil genius. So as Sammy flirts with sexy doctor, Dean gets along amazingly well with FBI guy, who provides him with some evidence of a plant found at all the scenes…which is in the sexy doctor’s room and as we pan over it we see, oh hello they’r eknocking back whiskey and she’s pushing him up against the desk and the shirts are off and it’s a free for all! Woo! Any episode where we get to see so much Winchester skin, is a damn good episode. Yum.

Right. Dean realises Sammy slept with sexy doctor and tells him off. Ooh Sammy is angry about that. Could he really be under her spell?  Ss she’s the main suspect Dean calls in FBI guy to help him follow her. They start a stakeout for the doctor, and yeah she heads to a rough and tumble bar. Knowing they’re in for a long night he grabs his trusty flask, and offers it to FBI guy before taking another sip…only for FBI guy to reveal he’s the siren! Bells are going off! Dean’s been suckered in by a male siren!

Fangirls are fainting in fits of ecstasy!

They head back to the motel, where Sam realises Dean’s the one who’s under the spell as he holds a knife to Sam’s throat…and the siren explains Dean didn’t want a hot sexy girl he wanted <anal> his brother back.

And then the siren spits milky liquid into Sam’s mouth, thus infecting him and my god, I don’t even have to spell it out, do I? IS anyone out there not salivating? Or off writing gayporn? Anyhow, now with both brothers infected, he tells them to face off with each other and fight to the death. The winning brother gets to stay with the siren. And they start…verbally. Huh. What, no slappy fisticuffs?  Dean starts in his tirade about how his brother won’t stop using his powers and turning evil and then Same really goes for the low blow, telling Dean he’s sick and tired of him moping and whinging about his time in hell. OH that’s it, he deserves a bloody spanking for that one! His brother endured 40 years of hell…HELL…for him and that’s how he repays him? Ooh, skinny tall boy, you’re going down!

Anyway, they start with the fisticuffs, really going at each other and it seems Sam has the upper hand, until Dean drags him through the door, blowing it down and Sam lies there, winded. Dean grabs the fire safety axe and is about to chop off Sam’s head…when in comes Bobby on his brilliant white horse, stabbing dean in the back (literally, and then throwing the (infected blood) knife ninja-style at the siren, who dies.

And we end with pretty scenery scene again, except this time there’s no beer, as Bobby hands them coke instead. After all, someone has to drive. Heh. I love you Bobby.

The boys agree they didn’t mean anything they said while infected (thus avoiding those awkward male siren thoughts sweeping through their heads) and pretend everything’s fine…but we know it’s not, because of the angsty faces they’re pulling as they drive away…into March.

GAH! I have to wait a month for the next one?

Supernatural – s04ep13 – After School Special

Heh.

I love this episode for 2 reasons – I adore young Sam and want an entire spin-off just with young Dean and Sam: Supernatural, the kiddie wars, just because they are unbelievably awesome. Young Sam has the snarl, the woe-is-me look down pat. He’s brilliant.

And secondly? I love this episode because we see Dean in little red shorts. Ooh, down girl! Ha ha.

So, here we have the boys returning to one of the high schools they attended as kids, following a spate of murders/accidents were kids seemed to turn on their bullies…and then have no recollection of it afterwards. While the boys get undercover roles, Sam as a janitor and Dean as the football coach, Sam has flashbacks to their first time here and how it changed him. And wow, Dean shot up and lost the baby fat fairly quickly. And became hot. And man, could that kid look anymore like a young Dean? Whoever the casting director is for this episode, damn! Did they do a good job or what?

So in the past they get dropped off and dad leaves for a hunt. Dean immediately proves how he didn’t care about school at this stage, walking in with his rebellious drop-out attitude and no books, talking back to the teachers and obviously catching the attention of every damn girl in the room. He also manages to make good use of the supply closet. Until he gets caught macking with another girl, and the first one draws him out for the person he really is…or at least how he sees himself as a no-hoper with zero social skills, no future and an overall loser. Ouch. High school can be brutal…particularly when you already have severe self-esteem issues and a dead-end future. Poor Dean. What a big woobie he is.

Sam, on the other hand, walks in already being picked on, befriending the abused victim of the class and standing up for him. While he doesn’t fight back and allows himself to get bullied (At which point Dean does attempt to swoop in and whoop the little bully’s ass, but Sam stops him, wanting to deal with it on his own),  it gets to the point he fights back and just becomes the abuser himself. He wallops the bully one and becomes the champion of the school. And wow- anvils! Poor little victim Sammy become the executioner…why am I seeing parallels with what will happen? Sam is so the puppy – kick him when he’s down but then he’ll bite.  Sam also has a discussion with his teacher who lets him know he doesn’t need to follow in the family footsteps, he can do whatever he wants, be whoever he wants to be, and you can see this is where the rebellion began. Before this, Sam was a mopey kid who followed along with his dad sullenly, but this is the point he thought hell, no I’ll do what I damn well please….and it’s so awesome of our show to provide us with this moment!

Anyway, so let’s stick with the present for now, as the boys investigate and Sam realises his English teacher still teaches here. They investigate and Sam finds out the boy he befriended killed himself not too long after they left. Ouch. Heartbreaking. But I guess he wasn’t strong enough to deal with it all and decided that was the easy way out.

But the killings continue to happen, until they realise it has something to do with the school bus. They find the bus driver, whose new, and was the bully’s father. The bully, who had only recently lost his mother to cancer and was lashing out, and also ended up killing himself later on. And damn, Sam’s expression here just about kills me! So the bully’s ghost is still lashing out, as daddy keeps a lock of his hair on the bus…the bus which is now driving the football team to another town. Our boys stop the bus, and as Sam has a little tussle with another possessed kid, Dean finds the hair and burns it and peace is restored to the world. Sam does have a little chat with his teacher, wanting to let him know how did it, he broke out and became his own person…until it finally sinks in that he didn’t, because ultimately he’s hunting. He became exactly what he ran away from all those years.

And damn – depressing episode! But a really, really good one! Just needed a bit more Castiel, that’s all.

Supernatural – s04ep12 – Criss Angel is a Douchebag

Well, with a title like that, what else can you possible expect from this episode besides magic? And it’s magic galore, along with some very heavy-hitting anvils of future DOOM for our brothers (And some more undertensions of gayness….seriously…they’ve been racketing up the bromance this season, as well as the angel loving)

So this time around we’re following the Amazing Jay (not the Amazing Race, which I think is just a little more Amazing Jay…but not as great as the Amazing Yellow Line….but that’s another story). Jay is old, washed up and over the hill. Him and his friends all enjoy the classic magic tricks which people sued to rush to see, but are now overshadowed by today’s young’uns, with their flashy sparkles, fireworks and emo eyeliner. And yeah, they’re so taking the piss out of Criss Angel here, but I wonder if this is something that is more American based, because while I have heard of the guy, I’ve never seen any of his work. And neither do I care. But I digress. Because the story isn’t about Criss Angel, it’s about Jay!

Jay’s ready for his final curtain, and decides to perform one of the trickiest moves for his show – attempting to escape iron clad straps before the spiky thing falls on him, piercing him to death. And yeah, he fails, because they’re too tight…..and  it drops…and out walks Jay. In one piece.

Outside, another douchebag of a magician keels over, bleeding from little spikes all over his body. Uh oh.

So, our boys rock up in town and start investigating and get screwed over by the old-timers…heh. They send Dean to meet this guy at a random address…and he walks into a dungeon-esque room, and out walks a large bulky man, in tight leather and straps with a whip, asking Dean for his safe word. Oh dear. Oh, that amused me to no end. Of course, we still have no idea how our bow-legged friend got himself out of that one. J

So, Jay performs another trick, and again seemingly fails, but walks away scot-free…and another douchebag of a magician dies in his stead. While our boys think another grim reaper spells, we discover Jay’s oldest friend, Charlie, actually has a grimmoire, is immensely old (and now looking bloody young) and did all of this to stop Jay from dying, because he wants them to be immortal forever. Together.

Huh. How many anvils did you count in that last sentence alone?

So, as Charlie strings Dean up and strangles and places Sammy on the table, straps him in and prepares to..well….puncture him to death, Jay sees his friend’s behaviour for the madness and kills him himself. And then is devastated by what he just did. And lo and behold, instead of another scenic little tête-à-tête, we have Dean sleeping  (underneath a blanket this time so he’s slowly coming back to…err…life) as Sam sneaks out to meet up with Ruby, telling her he’ll do whatever it takes to get rid of Lilith, because he doesn’t want the rest of his life to be hunting…and he doesn’t want either him or Dean to die any time soon, and the only way to do that is by stopping Lilith. Oh Sammy. Did you not get any of those heavy anvils dropping left, right and centre? That’s exactly what did Charlie in! He didn’t want to grow old and watch his friends and die and oh there’s no point. Sam’s as stubborn today as when he drank that bloody demon’s blood. Bring on the devastation and torture!

Supernatural s04-ep11 – Family Remains

After tormenting ourselves through the Christmas hiatus (Well not really, as Christmas Day fell on Thursday and I happened to be in the US, I got to watch a Very Supernatural Christmas on the CW for once. And yes, I found that damn exciting) – we now get back to our regularly scheduled programming and well, who can we really forget how we finished off with 2008, with Dean revealing his deep, dark secrets of hell? It appears a month has passed in the world of the supernatural, and the boys have been cross-tracking the country on back-to-back hunts. Sammy not getting his beauty sleep or something?

We jump in with a haunted house which the brothers are trying to investigate  after a redneck old man was discovered in a very icky manner, but a new family is attempting to move in and just simply won’t take no for an answer, even if they psyche the boys out by “leaving” for the motel only to return once the boys are gone. They’re either very smart or very stupid, and in this case I’ll go with really stupid. When such hot tottie comes knocking on your door…well, you hope you have plenty of rope handy so you can tie them up and err…

*cough*

Sorry. Was distracted there.

So, the boy is seen playing with a young girl and talks about how she lives in the walls, whereas his teen sister is pretty freaked out by the whole thing, and yet seems inherently cool, and could potentially fit right into this show in a few year’s time.

The family and the boys kind of get stuck on the property that night as all the tyres are slashed and they can no longer escape. For once, a seemingly smart ghost. Particularly considering this ghost can cross salt lines…and isn’t affected by rock salt. Uh oh.

So, what the boys think they’re hunting here is the ghost of a young girl who committed suicide years ago in this house…is actually the girl’s daughter. You see, daddy dearest abused his daughter and when she fell pregnant, he locked the kid up in the basement. She killed herself after her twins were born, leaving her 2 cubs to grow up in the basement with no human contact, education or daylight. Yes, there’s 2 of them. And yes, it sounds totally ripped from the headlines, doesn’t it?

So they’re pretty feral kids and damn terrifying.

As Dean and the brother find out when they investigate the inner walls of the house and the brother is killed. Eep.

And then the little boy is kidnapped by the young feral who wants a new playmate. And Dean won’t be able to live with himself if he dies, so he has to heroically go in and find the young boy and rescue him. And while the girls heroically attempt to save themselves in the shed, the boys and the family’s daddy first try to find the young boy, which Dean does manage to do, hence learning about the feral brother and then they all get chased outside and have to fight off the ferals, with Dean rather vengefully kills the young man…as daddy heroically takes out the young woman after she attempts to claw her way into the shed. Quite a heroic episode. And yeah. I can see countless therapy bills for this family.

But, this being our beloved show of course, means we get another very brief glimpse of the gorgeous star of the show, Metallicar, as our boys yet again decide to find the prettiest bit of scenery to pull over and have another heart-to-heart moment…and seriously, Krip, can you lay off the picturesque tourist propaganda for a change? I like these exchanges, because they’re some of the rare glimpses we get into…well, they all tend to be Dean moments, so we get momentary flashes into Dean’s damaged psyche. But I feel like every episode seems to be finishing with one of these scenes now, and this show is anything but formulaic. I mean, this season has been a case of opening with the boys driving to their next destination, arguing over whatever revelation was made in the previous episode, and then expositing about new beast, and then closing off with the tourist shot of Vancouver.

Anyway, this time we learn how Dean is broken up this time because he actually started to enjoy torturing those souls down under (huh, that’s how I feel whenever I visit home). And he’s not happy with what that potentially says about him. And Sam again weeps majestically, stoically….silently.