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.
