It's back on air! *does a happy dance*
Episode 14 - The Last Holiday
This got a lot of criticism online for being out of character. I loved it. I am determined to love it. The boys discover a wood nymph, Mrs Butters, in the bunker who is a cliched 1950s housewife type of character. She's been brainwashed by the Men of Letters to be like that.
She sets about making the bunker a home for the boys - lots of holiday celebrations and lots of home made food. Her magic fires up the bunker properly and they discover they have a monster radar, amongst other things. She goes bad and tried to kill Jack, because she thinks he's a threat to the boys, but they all talk her down.
It's funny, it's sweet, it's got Dean flashing Sam and Dean throwing Jack through a door to free themselves, some truly gruesome finger torture, Lots of Jack, and lots and lots of feelgood scenes. It's ends optimistically with everyone happy.
Dean is happy through most of it - he reminds me of how he was when he had memory loss in Regarding Dean. I Have A Theory (we can work it ouuuuuttttttt). Mrs B's magic includes a glamour to take the angst out of those around them, make them happy and smooth the rough edges in their mindset.
I'm not sure how well this episode would have come across seen straight after Destiny's Child. that was a fun and frivolous one too. I think the 6 month break helped this episode come across well.
I like this episode a lot. 10 out of 10.
Episode 15 - Gimme Shelter
The brothers head out to see Amara and convince them to join in their plan to kill God, but decide not to say that means killing her too. Duuuudes....
I don't think that it's ethical to kill Amara just because Chuck is a bastard, but it's been a while since the show was ethical...
Cas and Jack take on a case about people froma church being murdered. The Cas'n'Jack crime investigation due always makes me smile. They get to be delightfully weird together. I adore Jack. For some reason a demon wants to ride in the car with them and that bit kind of goes nowhere. Maybe a scene didn't make the final cut. Maybe the writers decided to put some odd humour in there. It doesn't fit.
Jack signs up to this church for research and puts his gender as N, i.e. No. I love him. I think I've mentioned that right?! I have a note about there being a creepy doll in the ep but now I don't remember what that referred to. There's some awful hand torture - bit too soon after Last Holiday for my taste.
The Pastor's daughter turns out to be the killer, which, to be fair I did not see coming. the Pastor doesn't seem upset about this though, which is odd. Bad writing or bad directing, you choose.
Jack reveals that he will die when he kills Chuck and Amara. What a thing to lay on Cas. Especially when he's driving and needs to keep his eyes on the fucking road.
Back to the brothers. They sit on the hood of the car, in the rain, which turns to slushy snow. No one does that. It's blatantly been done so we get to ogle them looking pretty. The show didn't used to do that. Then Amara turns up and Dean and her have a heart to heart. My main takeaway from this ep is how beautiful Amara is. She really, really is.
It ends with Cas hinting to Dean that Jack will die.
6 out of 10. Some solid bits but could do better. I found the monster of the week stuff a bit dull but I enjoyed the character bits.
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