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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: 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: 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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Supernatural: Dogs ‘n’ Stuff

November 17th, 2010 | by | supernatural, the cw, tv shows

Nov
17

First off, doesn’t it sometimes seem like an episode of SPN is there just to hold a place for a Very Special conversation between those pretty Winchesters in the last five minutes? Secondly, these past two episodes should have been full of wonderful revelations, snappy dialogue and awesome brotherly angst, considering what has happened to our fair Sammy and what’s up with Crowley, and blah, blah, blah, but I can barely remember what happened. And third, the dog actor in this most recent episode was the best thing in the whole episode – and yes, I thought he was even better than Mark A. Sheppard.

Okay, so Sammy doesn’t have a soul, which is vaguely interesting only because No-Soul-Sammy is more fun and compelling than en-souled Sammy ever was. I understand Dean’s trepidation with the whole thing, no one likes driving around the country with someone who could give a rat’s ass about you, but if he could just relax a little, maybe things would be fun again for those two beauties.

As much as I loves me some Mark A. Sheppard, this whole idea of him being in charge of the boys could get real old, real fast. Crowley was a great cross roads demon, all sneaky and mean, but so far he makes a pretty lame King of Hell. I understand the motivation to capture the Alpha monsters, but he sends the boys off to get the Alpha werewolf, which turns out to actually be a skinwalker, who isn’t even anywhere close to being the Alpha of the pack… I mean, really? This is one of the trickiest, smartest demons our lovely boys have come up against, and he is that wrong? Not even close? I say, BAH!

So I am not even coming close to recapping these past two episodes, because all anyone needs to know is that Sammy has no soul, Dean is freaked out by it all (and I continue to say the Jensen deserves Emmy love for his acting chops, even after two shaky episodes), and Crowley became kinda dumb once he became the supreme ruler of Hell (unless he’s super extra sneaky and this hold Sammy’s soul ransom plan isn’t his plan at all – which is possible).

I have been busy with my NaNoWriMo extravaganza, and so I was looking forward to some Supernatural to entertain me this week, and while the previous episode was okay, this one was a real disappointment. Then, the promo monkeys at The CW got me all excited for next week’s episode about faeries! Here’s hoping we get a nice, palate cleansing, silly, silly episode with some good horror thrown in, like the beginning of the season had.

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Supernatural: Mr. Crowley

May 3rd, 2010 | by | supernatural, tv shows

May
03

I love Mark Sheppard. He has shown up on every single one of the shows I love, starting with The X-Files way back in the way back, and including shows like 24, BSG, Dollhouse, Firefly, White Collar, Chuck, and on and on. I think the only one he has missed is Lost. I suppose the island was just to much for him, eh?

Regardless of my love for the man, and his character of Crowley here in Supernatural is fun, I found this last episode a little… unnecessary? I mean, we are going back to Sam’s college life, and flogging that dead girlfriend Jessica yet again? Really show? We get it, Sam has been in the pipeline for a while.

I am sick of the show giving us a reason to worry about Sam and Dean’s relationship. I was very happy to have those delicious boys back in each others good graces, and that look Dean gave Sam after he killed Brady (or whatever his stupid name was), made me worry for those boys all over again.

Plus, after that wondrous introduction to Pestilence the week before, we get nothing of him. A totally Matt Frewer free episode! How unfair…

So, it took a whole episode for us to get to anything worthwhile and relevant to the coming apocalypse. Crowley talks Bobby into selling his soul (Oh boy, I DO NOT want Bobby to die, Kripke!!), and that nasty Croatoan virus may be the death of us all. Two episodes to wrap up the apocalypse? We shall see how that goes (do you sense a little bitterness this week? Sorry about that).

Also, if you saw the promo for the penultimate episode, you now know that you don’t want to be walking down the street and brush up against Death. Because that would be bad.

eta: I forgot to mention that Misha Collins will be tweeting during this week’s episode of Supernatural. He will be tweeting like mad from 9-10pm EST. Thanks to Lisi for the heads up!

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