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Supernatural: Send In The Clowns (Sorry Sammy)

February 16th, 2012 | by | supernatural, the cw, tv shows

Feb
16

That was fun! I had to rewind through the credits to see if that was an Edlund episode I enjoyed it so much! (it wasn’t) And a big Thank You to the THEN previously monkeys who confirmed my suspicion that there had been a previous clown run-in for Sammy on this show. Sometimes the THENs are annoying, but sometimes they are a godsend for someone like me, whose memory is faulty.

Anyhoo!

We open with poor little Sammy being chased by a ridiculously evil clown with British teeth. But even his best efforts cannot thwart said clown and his evil friend. Eek.

Cut to “59:59:58 earlier”, complete with 24 style countdown sound effect. Nice. After a blah, blah with Frank, the beautiful (and chummy) boys head over to the coroner du jour to find a dead guy covered in giant octopi marks. Also, Sam is wearing the MOST horrible tie ever.

Next, we see a man running for his life from what seems to be a white horse. After the man jumps the fence of a baseball field, and hides behind the scoreboard, he is gored by a golden horn. Cut to the retreat of a blood covered unicorn, complete with, ahem, vaporous rainbows following behind. HEE.

The show skips back and forth a few times, giving us glimpses of poor little Sammy’s clown fight, and then returning to the 24 ticking clock as the boys figure out that the mortifying version of a Chuck E. Cheese is the center of these odd occurrences. Seems the kiddies are drawing pictures of their worst fears, and a sad sack employee is taking their drawings and converting them with some hoo-doo into real, living monsters, intent on killing awful parents. Shall I bother mentioning what a horrific idea the Wall of Bad Dreams is? No place would really do this, right? Although it does serve the purpose of the story quite well.

This week’s motel: Hawaiian Lava theme! Nice.

A fairly creepy and gruesome shark attack! in the ball pit leads the boys to the clown infested restaurant, figuring out the basics of the creepy monsters appearances.  Hitting the wall on research, the boys head back to the restaurant of creep the next day and the freakin’ place is open! Sheesh. Dean meets the sullen boy of one of the harried waitresses and is sweet and awesome like he always is with little kids. Aww. While Dean plays skee-ball to win the sweetest rainbow colored giant slinky evar!, Sammy plays ‘bad cop’ in a hilarious way. He’s so bad it’s great.

Cliff, the kid dressed up in a lion costume, after a hard interrogation by BadCopSammy, breaks and takes off running, and ridiculous chase scene follows. Heh. Seems as though everyone at this place is on drugs, which is totally understandable. Cliff leads the boys to the sub-basement and the creepy shrine that makes the monsters come to life.

We finally catch up to NOW within the show, and Dean smokes the evil clowns in a explosion of goo and glitter, saving Sammy just in the nick of time. Yay! Awesome glitter teasing ensues. And then, Sammy has a surprize for Dean. The giant rainbow slinky! So.Cute.

QUOTES!

Dean: “You spawn a monster baby, and see how quick you want to jump back in the pool.”

Dean: “You can’t argue with this. Leprechauns are deadly.”

Manager: “One more thing, some kid puked in the ball pit, it’s gonna need a full sanitization.” (cue me never entering a ball pit ever, ever again)

Dean: “Cops have a theory?” Sammy: “Yeah, they think the ball washer did it.” Dean: “The what?” Sammy: “Yeah, the ball washer.” Dean: “The what?” Sammy: “The ball…” <exasperated hand gesture> Dean: <smirk> (Hahahahahaaaaa. Thank you DVR for the power of REWIND.)

Sammy: “Any idea what he drew?” Dean: “Robot. About the size of a house. Shoots destructo beams out of his eyes.” Sammy: <beat> “At least I’ll see it coming.”

An entertaining episode with those beautiful boys teasing each other in a joyous fashion. It reminded me of the early seasons, and I am glad. I am sure the angst isn’t over, but it was a lovely break from the angst-fest of the last two seasons.

Next: Terrible things happen and such. I think I spied a quick shot of Lucifer, so there’s gonna be that.

 

 

 

 

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Supernatural: It’s A Girl!

February 9th, 2012 | by | supernatural, the cw, tv shows

Feb
09

Honestly, could things get more bleak? That was the most depressing.thing.evar! This, however, does not mean I didn’t like it, because I did, but there was a part of me that wanted to jump in front of Sam’s gun there at the end…

So we begin this week’s adventure with the boys in yet another NotMetallicar (I miss the old girl!), and Dean suffering from not only grief, but is burnt out in the worst way. Sam has found a series of brutal murders of seemingly nice, attractive men who happen to have a mysterious symbol carved into their chests. Gross!! Dean is dubious, and sippin’ from Bobby’s flask, but Sam convinces him.

After chatting with a a fresh, young coroner, they find out that the DNA from the crime scenes aren’t human, confirming Sammy’s suspicion. But instead of heading back to whatever dull motel room they are currently occupying, Dean heads out to troll for chicks. Leading us to a much too short shirtless Dean tryst with a lovely redhead from the local meet-market, The Colbalt Room, while yet another man gets gruesomely slaughtered.

Of course Dean’s hook-up turns up UberPreggers, and proceeds to give birth to a rapidly growing little girl, while surrounded by a creepy group of ladies who are our Big Bad this week, an ancient group of Amazonian warriors.

The beautiful boys are having a hard time tracking down the meaning of the symbol carved in the victims hairless chests, and after lamenting over not having an ace in their pocket to call, they hit up a local professor (Mayor Wilkins from Buffy! I love that guy). After much cajoling, they get him to dig up some helpful info, just as Dean’s progeny turns into one of the scariest teenage girls you have ever met.

While Sammy heads back to the Professor for some Greek translation, Dean gets a visit from his almost full grown daughter. She seems sweet at first, but that’s just a ruse, ’cause this gal has brought one big knife to lop off her daddy’s hands and feet before throwing him around that dismal motel room. And in the nick of time, Sammy shows up and kills the girl dead, much to the shock of Dean.

And here comes the comparison between Emma and  poor Amy, and honestly I think it’s lame. Are they even now? Did Dean need a taste of his own medicine for Sam to feel better? Are we gonna have to suffer through more Winchester angst? I hope not. Those boys have been getting along so well lately, and I don’t know if I can bear another season of suffering like that. It’s bad enough that Dean is desperately depressed, and Sammy is seemingly just fine… which we KNOW he can’t be that okay after all those horrible hallucinations back at the beginning of the season. I get the feeling that some big, Other Shoe is gonna drop hard. Soon. All that being said, the killing of both Amy and Emma do underscore the fact that Sam and Dean don’t get anything nice. Bobby is dead, Papa Winchester is long gone, every woman Sam sleeps with dies a horrible death, and now Dean ends up seeing his daughter shot in front of him. Sam’s desperate “Don’t die.” to Dean at the end was heartbreaking. Those poor little boys.

Besides our little morality play near the end there, it was a good, gory ride, and we continue with SmartDean and HappySammy. This is also the second (or is it third?) time weird little things happen that is obviously convincing Dean that Bobby is watching over them from the beyond. It’s a nice thought, but I’m not sure I buy it. I think I’m with Sammy on this bit.

Oh yeah, and the Big Bad ladies get away! Ruh-roh.

Next week: CLOWNS. (eek)

 

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Supernatural: Another Time Travel, Another God…

January 20th, 2012 | by | supernatural, the cw, tv shows

Jan
20

Dear Supernatural,

I hate episodes where those shiny Winchester brothers are separated almost the whole time. Please cease and desist with these storylines and let those boys hunt together as intended.

Love and Kisses,

Erika

Ahem. :)

I am gonna breeze through the first episode after the winter break, because it was just okay, and I want to start the drool-fest over ‘Time After Time After Time’. We start off ‘Adventures in Babysitting’ with a couple weeks of the SadWinchesters mourning the loss of their surrogate dad, Bobby. It is a nice little tribute, and I have to say I will miss him myself.

Anyhoo, this eppy we get Sammy off to help the daughter of a hunter, get himself snagged by a couple of wily Vetalas, and have Dean and Chrissy (daughter of opening scene hunter) come to the rescue. Meanwhile, Dean is obsessing about those pesky numbers Bobby left them with on his deathbed, meets and hangs with Mr. Frank Devereaux, and after finally getting some much needed Zzzz’s, heads off to get Sammy out of his latest mess. Chrissy is a cute thing with hunter spunkyness, and I do find Frank amusing (although I hope he will be is short supply, as he could become quite annoying), but this episode was just… good enough for me. Not only were the boys separate for most of the time, but they weren’t even working on the same thing until the end. The scenes with Dean and Chrissy were  fun, and I wish more of the female characters on this show were like her.

Oh well, at least they didn’t kill her, like they do to all the other kick-ass ladies on this show.

Regardless of my annoyance of two episodes in a row where the Winchesters are doing things separately, this latest episode is proof that the TV Gods love me. Not only did we finally(!!) get Krycek to guest on this show, but Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring will always be Logan to me), as the Big Bad was gravy. Thank you, ye gods of the airwaves, for giving me such riches. Read full story

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Supernatural: A Turducken Slammer & Other Awful Things

December 8th, 2011 | by | supernatural, the cw, the winchesters, tv shows

Dec
08

NaNoWriMo and then a five-day trip to Toronto got me all backed up over here. Sometimes I don’t write when I hate an episode, but I liked both “How to Win Friends” and “Death’s Door”, so let’s get to it, shall we?

Episode 7.09 was written by my favorite Supernatural writer, Ben Edlund. I love how he veers from ridiculous to horrifying so easily, and makes me believe every second of it. So we start out with the mauling of a non-camper camper type (I believe in tents and sleeping bags on the ground when you camp, that’s how we did it when I was a kid, dammit!) which brings our beloved Winchesters and Mr. Bobby Singer to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, which always makes me think of  The Sopranos, in search of the Jersey Devil.

Needless to say, this is not the work of the mythical Jersey Devil. And I could go on and on, because this episode is pretty twisty and turny considering we start out in the Pine Barrens and end up in a shootout with leviathan Dick Roman at some distribution warehouse, and since we have already seen the episode that follows this one… well, I don’t need to spend a lot of time on this one. The gist of it all is that the leviathan have spiked Dean’s new favorite sandwich with some kind of grey, gooey revolting-ness that sedates people, making them easier to eat, I assume. Although DoctorLeviathan had a few failures, like the zombie-like guy who attacked the campers, and AngryBrendan waiting tables at Biggerson’s.

Awesome gruesome: The night our trio of heroes go a-huntin’ for whatever is eating people in the woods, they meet one crazy zombie! Which leads us to one of the best, old school autopsies ever! along with some silly, not so grumpy anymore Dean dialogue (I firmly believe that Edlund LOVES to write Dean). My favorite bit being the cat head in the zombie stomach (“You got to be damn hungry to eat a cats head”). EWWW.

So, after some sleuthing and the sobering up of Dean, Bobby gets snatched on the roof of the leviathan hideout and teased by Dick Roman. Our lovely Winchesters come to the rescue, of course, leaving Bobby a moment to rifle through Dicks’ plans, finding out what those plans really are, and melting a bunch of leviathan faces in the meantime.

A little more villian blah blah, and Bobby runs out to the awaiting getaway van, and Dean peals outta there with Dick running behind pulling off a few rounds in their direction. As they speed away, Dean and Sam giddy with their escape, they realize that Bobby, who hasn’t said a thing since they sped off, has been shot in the head.

And I yell “Noooooo!” at my TV as the executive producer title card pops up.

“Death’s Door” starts right up where we left off, with a zoom into Bobby’s hole in his head, and I have to say I was totally confused at first, with the scene in the Pine Barrens from the previous episode, even if I recognized that it was a little different than the original. It’s a pretty clever way of introducing us to Bobby’s brain, show, and we get an awesome episode traveling through Bobby’s rapidly dying brain.

The conceit, brought to us by Rufus (Hi Rufus!!), is that if Bobby can dig deep enough into his gin-soaked brain, he can find a door out and save himself from death, or at the very least, get the cryptic info he got from Dick’s desk to the brothers (and OMG, another one of my shows with cryptic numbers?). Unfortunately, Bobby has a reaper on his tail who informs Bobby that he is in a coma and dying and he might as well just come along, and we all know those guys don’t give up once they’ve got a bead on you.

Meanwhile, our sorrowful Winchesters stomp and cry in the hospital as they begin to realize that they are going to lose their second Daddy. Dean is not taking it well, as to be expected, harassing the poor organ donor guy and such, while Sammy resorts to his now fall back tic, shoving his nail into his palm to make sure that this isn’t all some horrible, horrible hallucination. It’s pretty sad. I hate to see those boys in pain, and now that they seem to have finally repaired their relationship, they have to deal with this. Why are the writers so mean to them?

Anyway, we get quite the tour of Mr. Singers head, ending with youngBobby shooting his abusive drunk of a dad dead, dead, dead right before he smacks his Mom into oblivion. Nice move, youngBobby, I approve. This is enough to get nowBobby to wake up on his deathbed just long enough to get the numbers to Sammy, and call the boys “idjits” in his fatherly way, and flat line right in front of those lovely boys eyes.

The screen goes black, exec. producer title card, aaaand… Bobby’s dead? For realsies?? Not sure. It would be very Supernatural of them to finally kill off Bobby. Amazing he’s lasted this long, actually. But then again, this is a show where dead people show up all the time, and people escape death countless times, so who knows.  We certainly won’t until January (damn you, holiday hiatuses!).

 

 

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Supernatural: “When Crazy Groupies Attack”

November 17th, 2011 | by | supernatural, the cw, the winchesters, tv shows

Nov
17

I should be writing for NaNoWriMo, but I am procrastinating and doing this instead. Let’s begin!!

I happen to like it when Supernatural makes fun of itself and its fans, so even though this was what some would call a filler episode, I found it amusing. The THEN clued us in by reminding us of SuperFan Becky from back in the day, when we found out that Chuck had been writing a little known book series called… ‘Supernatural’. (Hee)

The episode is called “Season7, Time For A Wedding!”, and we are introduced to this wedding after Dean gets an urgent text from Sammy, asking him to wear his Fed gear. Dean shows up to a Vegas chapel, mother-of-pearl handled pistol in hand ready for a fight. Instead, he is blindsided by the announcement of Sammy’s wedding… to Becky! Cue the awesome exploding cake title card! Hee!

Those of us who have been watching figure out pretty quickly that Sammy has been victim of some kind of a love spell, but it is a fun ride watching Dean, and special guest hunter, Garth (a mostly wasted DJ Qualls), try and figure out what the heck is going on! Dean gets to be smart, and heroic and be the hilarious Dean that we all love. Poor Sammy is the victim, spending most of the time being either moony-eyed, or tied to a bed, but does get a sweet moment at the end while he gets Becky to agree to an annulment.

After the outing of Guy, the rule-breaking crossroads demon that is helping Becky, and the tricky trick to catch him by the beautiful boys and Sammy’s bride, we get a cameo from our favorite demon, Crowley! He does his sarcastic little ta-dah as usual, and then lets us in on this little nugget: He is keeping the demons at bay so the Winchesters can work their magic and defeat those horrible leviathans. Crowley particularly hates head leviathan, Dick. Like you do with anyone named Dick.

A lot of my favorite funny moments aren’t exactly funny lines, but the way they were delivered. Some of my favorite stuff:

Dean (to Sammy): “Have you forgotten the average lifespan of your hook-ups?” (thank you! (poor Sammy))

Becky doodling Sam ‘hearts’ Becky all over a notebook is creepy, Sammy’s discovery of said notebook and his “This is… beautiful” and hugging of the book is adorable.

Garth: “Now you, you’ll be living with a tri-racial, paraplegic sniper until this all blows over, okay?”

Becky (to a hogtied Sammy): “Are you thirsty? Or do you need a bottle, to you know, tinkle? It’s okay, I can help.”

Guy(crossroads demon): “You’re so pathetic it loops around back to cute.”

Becky: “I was gonna show you off, not that anyone actually knows who you are. ‘Supernatural’ is not exactly popular, but you’re tall, and nice, and they would all think I was happy.”

Sammy (gagged): “Mmmhgh, mghmm, hrhmmngh.”

The reappearance of ‘the knife’! (hooray)

Crowley: “This isn’t Wall Street, this is Hell! We have a little something called integrity.” And everything else he says, as usual.

See, nothing earth shattering or super relevant, but fun. I’m easy.

Next week: Scary-o’s in the forest!!

 

 

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Supernatural: Cautious Optimism

November 9th, 2011 | by | supernatural, the cw, tv shows

Nov
09

I have been to Lily Dale (it was just down the road from my college, SUNY Fredonia), and that my friends, was no Lily Dale. Luckily, I know Supernatural is shot in Vancouver, and they did a fine job with this episode, so let’s get on with it!

We open with a stereotypical sham seance that turns into a real, death by ghost one, setting up our episode in the land of the psychics. Dean, after stealing a beater from some poor minor league basballer or something, shows up on his own after hearing about the suspicious deaths on the radio. He amuses his lonesome self by discovering the ‘psychics’ fakery, and decides to head on over to the local diner for some “pancakes and a side of pig”, only to run into PetulantSammy, who is none too pleased to see his big brother, because he is still very angry with Dean over stupid ol’ Amy Pond, like the little baby he is for half of this episode. Dean, doing his best to be a good and cheery big brother, along with being  a good hunter, convinces Sammy to work with him, since neither one of them are gonna leave with some evil ghostie trolling the streets and killing people. They are both in their fake FBI get-ups, which is totally cute, BTW.

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Supernatural: Air Supply FTW!

November 3rd, 2011 | by | supernatural, the cw, tv shows

Nov
03

The two previous episodes were so depressing and boring for the most part, that I couldn’t even be bothered. So imagine my utter delight when I hit the PLAY button on my DVR to watch this baby, and laughed and was entertained and fell right back in love with this show!! I have a feeling this season is gonna be a rollercoaster of stinkers and lovely dreams, so I will take the joy from the aptly titled “Slash Fiction” (look it up! hee) and run with it.

Sam and Dean walk into a bank… and shoot up the joint in a very non-hero like manner! It takes me a few moments to catch on that these are not our sweet and lovely Winchesters, but evil leviathan cloned Sam and Dean. Oh boy, this is gonna get confusing, but is SO AWESOME. We zoom on over to my new favorite duo, Bobby and a tied up Chet in the basement of the new Singer household. Bobby is going through his extensive list of beastie stoppers, while Chet chides him amusingly. There is plenty of blahblahblah that is entertaining, but not really important, until Chet clues in the just visiting brothers that they are, according to every single news station ever, murderous asses. This is extra inconvenient as the beautiful brothers went to great lengths to fake their deaths a few seasons back, so their evil doppelgangers showing up and wreaking havoc across the land is quite the mess.

So of course Bobby has a friend, the extremely paranoid Frank Devereaux, that nixes all the boys aliases (which while initially funny, have been feeling somewhat stale recently), smashes Sammy’s beloved laptop, and breaks Dean’s heart by making him put Metallicar in the corner (temporarily!). Which brings us to one of the most hilariously funny things I have seen on this show in a very long time, Dean enjoying a little Air Supply while driving. Much to Sammy’s confusion. It is great and awesome and thank you god for letting me have a DVR so I can rewind this little tidbit over and over (and over). That moment made me remember that some of the funniest things I have ever seen on my TV have come from this show. So even though all the highs and lows of these past couple of seasons have been rough at times, sticking in there led me to this fantastic payoff. But I digress…

Sam and Dean figure out that NotSam and NotDean are revisiting their old hunting grounds, in order of how they happened, and St. Louis is next! Cut to Sam and Dean sitting at Connor’s diner, Dean chomping into one of his favorite burgers ever. But wait! That’s not our smart and handsome boys, but NotSam and NotDean, bitching about what a mess these two guys are, and how awful it is to be trapped in the bodies of a ‘schitzo’ and ‘chuckles’, respectively. Hee! (OMG, this episode is loads of fun!) Once their bitchfest is over, they get up and spray bullets through all the unsuspecting diners, wreaking much mayhem and getting it all on video. Bringing in some for realz FBI guys who have been following the NotWinchesters all over the country.

Meanwhile! back at Bobby’s cabin in the woods, Sheriff Jodi shows up, apparently tracking him down to thank him for saving her life from the surgeon leviathan a few episodes ago, and I gotta say, I spent most of the show thinking she was totally a clone as well, so good job show! After Bobby chops off Chet’s snarky head a few times (all the head chops were so much fun), he drags over a battery and jumper cables to try out some sparky torture on Chet, and brushes arms with the guy, giving us NotBobby for a few little tidbits about Bobby’s life. Nice. And poor Bobby.

Anyway, Sheriff Jodi gets all domestic goddess and in her exuberance spills some cleaner on the floors, giving Bobby the break he needs. Borax!! Seems this lovely substance is not only good for cleaning, but also for burning up leviathans! Hooray! And just in time, as Sam and Dean stupidly show up in small town Iowa undisguised and get their pretty selves arrested by Col. Tighe, while NotSam and NotDean cruise on by in NotMetallicar. Lucky for them, Col. Tighe sees our villains eating a fellow officer and lets Dean outta the clink just in time for some borax dousing and head choppin’. But not before NotDean goes in and tortures Sammy for a bit. Letting the DeadAmy cat out of the bag (thank god! and who cares!!) and letting Jensen, once again, be totally awesome.

We end this episode with the reveal of that pesky leviathan that has been calling the shots. One of those for realz FBI guys isn’t for realz, and is instead a leviathan henchman for Mr. Roman, or Dick, if you will, and YAY! Crowley gets a little run up, and possibly hurt feelings by this alpha leviathan which means we are definitely getting more Crowley this season, and most likely he will be working with the wonderful Winchesters. Excellent news. And that is all.

Except that is NOT all, as the very end of this very nice episode almost ruins itself by Sammy getting into yet another hissy, about some stupid monster girl that none of us care about at.all. and stomps his giant feeties off in a huff, leaving Dean behind. Again. Sheesh Sammy, grow the eff up!

PS – I don’t know who this Robbie Thompson is, but he can come and write as many episodes as he wants. Thank you very much, Mr. Thompson.

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Supernatural: Well That Was Easy!

October 13th, 2011 | by | supernatural, the cw, tv shows

Oct
13

This episode was directed by the lovely and talented Jensen Ackles! Too bad the writers gave him a lame-o story that is a rehash of the Sammy’s Love Kills All trope. Sheesh, thanks a lot guys.

Remember last week when we had this exciting, tightly written story that was not only fun, but gave us some character love and ended with a harrowing ride to the hospital for our heroes? Well, all solved in mere minutes. Bobby pops up with no explanation as to why he was missing, or how he got back to he hospital; Dean gets his leg set and a full leg cast put on in record time, before the leviathan have a chance to realize he and Sammy are even in the building; Sammy, unconscious and conveniently gurney bound in the hall for a quick getaway; hell, even the potentially devastating fire at Bobby’s is hand-waved away with a lousy, “I made copies” of all the pertinent books supposedly lost. Wow. Ben Edlund gives us a tasty treat, with real potential for our beautiful boys to be in peril and be clever and smart, and we get this opening bit. I have gone from giddy fangirl to bittercakes in one, short week.

So let’s see how the rest of the episode fares, shall we? (full disclosure: I have been fighting a nasty cold this week, and may be extra cranky because of it)

Three weeks later we find our barely battered boys and Bobby holed up in Rufus’ cabin in the woods of Whitefish, Montana. I have been to Whitefish. It is lovely. Dean has been entranced by Mexican tv novellas (hee!) and Sammy has been… reading? Dean sends Sam off to the grocery for grub, with a special request for pie, a Winchester favorite. Then Sam turns into a jerk, and not only gets cake instead of pie for his hobbled brother (cake is so not the same as pie, Sam!), but after reading about a familiar to him serial killer, he takes off, leaving Dean the most vague “I’m outta here and I’m fine!!” note ever! Nice Sam. Leave your defenseless brother in the Montana woods for a few days… so of course Dean decides to saw off the cast and head out looking for MaybeCrazySammy. Also, somewhere in the past three weeks those wily leviathan have procured a list of the Winchester credit card aliases, and have a tracker working at the credit card company, making it that much easier to track those boys down. Hmm. Con-veeen-ient.

Sepia toned flashback! to twelve year-old Sammy, on his own, doing research for his Dad (terrible parenting alert!), and falling for his first lovely lady monster, setting up a pattern we all know too well. Oh Sam, such bad judgement when it comes to the ladies! By the way, the actor who has played young Sammy several times, Colin Ford, is a good little actor, and he does a great job being a nervous, lovelorn kiddo here. We learn that this particular lady monster is a ‘kitsune’, which I have never heard of, and likes the taste of human pituitary glands. Nom.

Anyway, this particular lady monster is named Amy Pond (wait *rewind* did I hear that right?), and then we find out that the grown-up version of Amy Pond(!!) is played by Jewel Staite (a fangirl squee! rings out in the room. Doctor Who and Firefly references in the same show? Hooray!). The short of all of this is that young Amy killed her brain hungry momma to save young Sammy, and so when grown Amy shows grown Sam her son, her reason for the current killing spree, he lets her go, the old softy.

Meanwhile, Dean is tracking down Sammy, amazingly mobile for a man three weeks off a compound fracture to the leg. And then, we get the best gag of the show, when Sammy shows up at his motel, he gets a well deserved punch in the face from an off-screen Dean, awesomely flailing backwards and falling to the ground. Ha! Well deserved!! After a little confessional between those pretty brothers in the motel room (I have missed those motel rooms!), we retread the Sam Is A Freak blah blah, and the Will Dean Trust Sammy thing, and blah blah, because we all know Dean can’t let that keeping a monster alive thing go, and heads off to kill Amy Pond. Of course Dean is an old softy too, and can’t bear to kill Amy’s son – ’cause he’s just a kid! who hasn’t killed anyone (yet) – and plants a nice seed of revenge for that little kitsune to water and grow for a few years until he comes looking for that extra pretty pituitary in Dean’s noodle. Well done, Dean.

The episode ends with an awesome death assisted by nacho cheese by our tracker leviathan, because as we all know, everything is better with cheese! Nice! That and the punch were the best parts of this one. Hey, I don’t mind a place holder episode, but I am kinda tired of Sammy is a Freak and Dean Doesn’t Trust His Brother. We know! I mean, they are at least talking a bit and not being totally secret keepers, but let’s get on with it, please. All in all, not a totally horrible episode, but after last week I had such high hopes.

Next week: Jo!!! (I’m not the only one who loves her, right?)

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Supernatural: Oh.My.God.

May 31st, 2011 | by | eureka, season finale, supernatural, the cw, tv shows

May
31

Ever notice how Supernatural has the uncanny ability to give us characters that we love, only to ruthlessly kill them? Sometimes after only one or two appearances? Yeah, thanks a lot, Kripke! Also, Metallicar gets crunched once again. Oh Noes!!!

In the first episode of the two show finale we get a wrap-up of the Lisa and Ben saga. It’s always loads of fun to see a good, kind character get infested with a demon. DemonLisa had some zingers! Once again, Dean calls on Castiel for a favor, wiping the memory of Dean from their minds. I think if Dean really wanted to put a cherry on that, he should have had Cas wipe his memory as well. I mean, what’s to stop some beastie from taking them again and flaunting them in Dean’s face? Still, I suppose it’s the thought that counts.

Meanwhile, Bobby is off tracking down a beastie that escaped from purgatory way back in the day (HP Lovecraft mythology is turned on its head here, apparently), who turns out to be Dr. Visyak, the dragon-killing sword owner and former lover of Bobby we met back in the middle of the season. She is awesome and full of info, so of course, she gets drained of her blood right quick, by angels!

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Supernatural: Oh Castiel…

May 19th, 2011 | by | supernatural, the cw, tv shows

May
19

I am generally not amused by a show suddenly adding an episode that is hampered by narration, but it’s Castiel, who is the sweetest little angel on earth, so I’ll let it slide, because that voice could melt.. well… stuff.

A good chunk of this episode is really just a narrated clip show, which is vaguely annoying, but we do get a few insights into Castiel’s side of things. This is nice, seeing as we have spent the ENTIRE season hearing about this epic, heavenly battle going on, but have seen nary a bit of it.

And what it all boils down to, really, is that Castiel made a deal with the Devil – a marvelous, as usual, Mark Sheppard – also known as Crowley. A deal that seemed like a good idea to a desperate, Raphael threatened Castiel, but as with most Devil inspired deals, has gone awry in a most unfortunate way.

The real zinger in this episode was Dean’s journey from suspecting Cas, his defending of Cas, and then the terrible realization that his New Best Friend had betrayed them. Those two in Bobby’s living room, with Dean asking him to not do it because that’s what family does for each other? Heartbreaking! I knew Dean loved Cas like family, and Cas so wanted Dean to love him that way, to see those two split like that was gutting. The thing is, Castiel is being just as stubborn as Dean can be. How many times have we seen Dean insist on doing a job his way, even when everyone else was sure it was doomed? Oh, those two crazy kids…

Favorite moments:

  • Crowley was hilarious with his torturing of the poor vamp, and his utter disdain for the Winchesters (“denim-wrapped nightmares”). But, he was also incredibly irritating, so when Castiel finally grabs him and slams him so hard against the wall he puts a Crowley shaped dent into it? I totally cheered.
  • Once again, Dean and Cas have amazeballs chemistry, and every scene together was riveting, heartbreaking, and made me want more more more of those two together.
  • The demon version of Bobby, et.al.! I especially enjoyed the two blood phones alongside the FBI/CIA, etc. phones. A very Ben Edlund-like touch.
  • Crowley’s new version of Hell was amusing, but I swear I’ve seen that done somewhere before. Can’t figure out where though.

So this week we have the two hour season finale (which is awesome, and I know it’s really two episodes tacked together because Smallville took up all the space last week, but I have been wanting a two hour finale for this show for years, so now I get what I want! YAY!). I am wondering  how they will go with Castiel. I love him, so I want him to make the right decision, but if he falls further it would set up a nice story for next season: The Redemption of Castiel!

 

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