Ep 7 - Fresh Blood
This is a Gordon and vampire-centric episode. Gordon is threatening Bela to tell him where the boys are. Bela tells him, but on her own terms. Because she is fabulous. Then we cut to Sam n Dean on a hunt. Dean cuts his arm to attract a vampire to him, and I find it a bit offputting, because self-harm scenes like these trigger me, and then the vampire turns out to be Buffy's Harmony. She doesn't know she's a vampire. Dean kills her anyway. It's a really sad scene, and it's played as uncomfortable for both brothers.
Gordon and the brothers cross paths. There is a fight (obvs). Gordon gets caught by the vampire (Nixon) who is turning unsuspecting women. Gordon remains brutal, even as a vampire. He rips the two vampire women's heads off, with his bare hands. Then he goes to visit his hunting partner, the mad religious one with the creepy iconography, and puts his hand through the dude's chest.
Nice parallels with Nixon being alone and desperate to get his family back, and how Dean felt when Sam died, and how Sam will feel when Dean dies. I really like how the show continually drives this point home, torturing the boys and driving up Dean's guilt level, again and again. Of course, he quashes it and buries it because is that how he copes.
Oh my, Sam's plea to Dean to stop the front and be his brother again... my heart. And then... Dean is using his machete to shave hairs off his arm... *fans self*.
Dean get bitten by Gordon, so Sam decapitates Gordon with wire, but doesn't seem to worry about getting Gordon's blood in him. Poor directing and detail there.
Gods, Dean looks so young in this ep.
Final scene - Dean gets Sam t ix the car...because he needs to know for the future, the future without Dean, in case you hadn't grasped that. *bawling*.
Ep 8 - A Very Supernatural Christmas
I think this episode is highly thought of because of the insight we get to the wee Winchesters. It doesn't really work for me. The Weechesters are cute, and their upbringing is shitty, but I am just not a Christmas person and don't really do schmaltz. And it is a bit schmaltzy. In a Supernatural screwed-up-childhood way. I quite like seeing Sam give Dean the Samulet, but that's for the continuity-completist in me, not for the drama of the scene.
I am not keen on the monsters either. I get that it's meant to subvert Christmas, but I just doesn't work for me. Perhaps I'm being far too precious about them being pagan gods, but it feels like the show doesn't take these guys as seriously as they do more folklore-ish monsters.
Ep 9 - Malleus Malificarum
I had to read the episode summary of this to remember the plot. I am hopeless at remembering episode names. Once read I remember I liked it, mostly for the gory details. Witches are casting curses - a woman's teeth fall out, bloodily, a man's hamburgers turns to maggots. It turns out the witches are led by a demon.
There's quite a lot going on here, as the demon has links to Ruby, who also appears, and we learn from Ruby that demons used to be humans. It's important stuff in terms of developing Season 3's storyline, but it does feel like a bit much in one episode. Still worth watching though. There are good Dean moments as he learns more about what waits for him in Hell.
Ep 10 - Dream a Little Dream of Me
I just read the episode summary of this on Super-Wiki and it 's only vaguely familiar. Clearly this one did not make an impact on me. I'll summarise briefly in the hope that I recall this later on -
Bobby is in a coma as he's been fatally poisoned. The boys take dreamroot to go into his subconscious brain and wake him up. Dean faces his own inner self doubts and loathing, Sam faces the guy who poisoned Bobby. They get out. The end.
Red Dwarf did facing your insecurities better.
Ep 11 - Mystery Spot
I'm not sure I can say anything about this episode that hasn't been said before.
The boys go to investigate a case in Broward County, a so called Mystery Spot where weird things are purported to happen. After a Tuesday of investigating, Dean gets killed, Sam reacts how you would expect, and then the day flips back to the start of the Tuesday. Dean gets killed again,the day flips back again. Over and over and over. Sam withdraws into an angry, murderous, focused state as he has to see Dean dying day after day. As he is the only one with memories of previous days he has to explain it to Dean every day.
He eventually works out that it's the Trickster doing this, who when caught says he's trying to prove that Sam can't save Dean (yeah right, because that will stop him trying...) and the Trickster flicks them to the Wednesday. Then it gets dark, as Dean is shot in the car park by an ordinary human civilian.
Sam goes off the rails, hunting down the Trickster for I think 6 months. He is willing to kill another human, any human to get his brother back. It's at this point you might first realise that Sam is a little bit mad, and has always been a little bit mad. But hey, that's hunter life for you. Eventually he finds the Trickster who flicks them back to Wednesday and Sam stops Dean going to the car park alone, thereby avoiding getting shot.
This is a Gordon and vampire-centric episode. Gordon is threatening Bela to tell him where the boys are. Bela tells him, but on her own terms. Because she is fabulous. Then we cut to Sam n Dean on a hunt. Dean cuts his arm to attract a vampire to him, and I find it a bit offputting, because self-harm scenes like these trigger me, and then the vampire turns out to be Buffy's Harmony. She doesn't know she's a vampire. Dean kills her anyway. It's a really sad scene, and it's played as uncomfortable for both brothers.
Gordon and the brothers cross paths. There is a fight (obvs). Gordon gets caught by the vampire (Nixon) who is turning unsuspecting women. Gordon remains brutal, even as a vampire. He rips the two vampire women's heads off, with his bare hands. Then he goes to visit his hunting partner, the mad religious one with the creepy iconography, and puts his hand through the dude's chest.
Nice parallels with Nixon being alone and desperate to get his family back, and how Dean felt when Sam died, and how Sam will feel when Dean dies. I really like how the show continually drives this point home, torturing the boys and driving up Dean's guilt level, again and again. Of course, he quashes it and buries it because is that how he copes.
Oh my, Sam's plea to Dean to stop the front and be his brother again... my heart. And then... Dean is using his machete to shave hairs off his arm... *fans self*.
Dean get bitten by Gordon, so Sam decapitates Gordon with wire, but doesn't seem to worry about getting Gordon's blood in him. Poor directing and detail there.
Gods, Dean looks so young in this ep.
Final scene - Dean gets Sam t ix the car...because he needs to know for the future, the future without Dean, in case you hadn't grasped that. *bawling*.
Ep 8 - A Very Supernatural Christmas
I think this episode is highly thought of because of the insight we get to the wee Winchesters. It doesn't really work for me. The Weechesters are cute, and their upbringing is shitty, but I am just not a Christmas person and don't really do schmaltz. And it is a bit schmaltzy. In a Supernatural screwed-up-childhood way. I quite like seeing Sam give Dean the Samulet, but that's for the continuity-completist in me, not for the drama of the scene.
I am not keen on the monsters either. I get that it's meant to subvert Christmas, but I just doesn't work for me. Perhaps I'm being far too precious about them being pagan gods, but it feels like the show doesn't take these guys as seriously as they do more folklore-ish monsters.
Ep 9 - Malleus Malificarum
I had to read the episode summary of this to remember the plot. I am hopeless at remembering episode names. Once read I remember I liked it, mostly for the gory details. Witches are casting curses - a woman's teeth fall out, bloodily, a man's hamburgers turns to maggots. It turns out the witches are led by a demon.
There's quite a lot going on here, as the demon has links to Ruby, who also appears, and we learn from Ruby that demons used to be humans. It's important stuff in terms of developing Season 3's storyline, but it does feel like a bit much in one episode. Still worth watching though. There are good Dean moments as he learns more about what waits for him in Hell.
Ep 10 - Dream a Little Dream of Me
I just read the episode summary of this on Super-Wiki and it 's only vaguely familiar. Clearly this one did not make an impact on me. I'll summarise briefly in the hope that I recall this later on -
Bobby is in a coma as he's been fatally poisoned. The boys take dreamroot to go into his subconscious brain and wake him up. Dean faces his own inner self doubts and loathing, Sam faces the guy who poisoned Bobby. They get out. The end.
Red Dwarf did facing your insecurities better.
Ep 11 - Mystery Spot
I'm not sure I can say anything about this episode that hasn't been said before.
The boys go to investigate a case in Broward County, a so called Mystery Spot where weird things are purported to happen. After a Tuesday of investigating, Dean gets killed, Sam reacts how you would expect, and then the day flips back to the start of the Tuesday. Dean gets killed again,the day flips back again. Over and over and over. Sam withdraws into an angry, murderous, focused state as he has to see Dean dying day after day. As he is the only one with memories of previous days he has to explain it to Dean every day.
He eventually works out that it's the Trickster doing this, who when caught says he's trying to prove that Sam can't save Dean (yeah right, because that will stop him trying...) and the Trickster flicks them to the Wednesday. Then it gets dark, as Dean is shot in the car park by an ordinary human civilian.
Sam goes off the rails, hunting down the Trickster for I think 6 months. He is willing to kill another human, any human to get his brother back. It's at this point you might first realise that Sam is a little bit mad, and has always been a little bit mad. But hey, that's hunter life for you. Eventually he finds the Trickster who flicks them back to Wednesday and Sam stops Dean going to the car park alone, thereby avoiding getting shot.
2 comments:
Re “Fresh Blood”: Dean had no choice but to kill the blonde vampire — they could neither help or cure her, as this was long before the Winchesters knew of the vamp cure.
I also agree with the sloppiness regarding Sam’s lack of concern with getting vamp!Gordon’s blood inside of him. The same thing happened in S2’s “Bloodlust,” when Dean very messily killed a vampire with an industrial saw. Blood was ALL in his face, and there was no way it didn’t get into his eyes, mouth, everywhere. 🤢
I'm not convinced that the brothers had no option but to kill her. They had already met Lenore and knew some vampires could not eat humans. However, I'll grant that they had no further contact with Lenore, didn't know where she was or how to get newly turned vampires to her, and that given the specific situation with blondie in ep 7, they really couldn't have let her go as she would continue to kill people, even as a (relative) innocent.
I could argue that they should have kept up contact with Lenore and her gang, and her methods, but hey have been quite busy with hell and the apocalypse and everything!
It does make it a very sad scene, sad for blondie and for the boys, in the same way that killing Madison in Se2 was sad.
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