10.08 ep reaction/review

[ash48]

Dear Supernatural,

You're weirding me out. ANOTHER episode where the boys aren't fighting or being mean to each other? I can see what you are doing here. You're not fooling me!

Yours with my happy but suspicious face on.
xx

PS: AND you're giving us awesome secondary characters and not killing them off. Stop that! (or actually, please don't).


I haven't much more to say that hasn't already been said about this one. As I'm later in writing this up, I've had a chance to read a few reviews and I pretty much agree with a lot I've read. That being:

- Jody and Donna are awesome

- Flesh eating vampires are stupid and WTF is with that?

- Unconscious boys AGAIN! Amateurs and their brains must be mush by now

- Jody and Sam talking together = yay! And Dean and Jody having a little moment = yay!

- Sam and Dean being great together = yay!

- Monologuing monster at the end = *boo*


I enjoyed this episode a lot. The MoTW was pretty lame and kind of ridiculous but the heart of the episode was Jody and Donna and I love that combination SO VERY MUCH that I don't really care that the way they set up the monster mystery was stoopid. I also loved Sam and Dean just being partners and brothers and hunters (amateur hunters still though because *doh* look out behind you!).

Dean's revelation at the end also seems really weird to me. WE know the Mark will ultimately have an effect on Dean, so him claiming that it's the first time he's killed that he felt like himself (and not Mark driven) is kind of strange. Unless we have to know that because something is going to trigger the Mark for it to become "active" again? Perhaps it's a set up for episodes to come.

The thing is, I totally believed Dean was telling the truth. Also, the show seemed to want us to believe Dean was telling the truth. They didn't linger on the way he killed those vamps and Jensen was selling it as Dean telling the truth. Sam is wary (of course!), but it seems to me that either it was a mishandled scene (in that we're supposed to think that Dean is lying) or it's a signal that the Mark really is diminishing and Dean really is feeling like himself again (which YES! I feel like we have been seeing the "real" Dean for a couple of episodes now). But then we get the shot of Dean holding his arm so….argh! No idea what they were trying to do there, other than give us a BM moment for the sake of it.

The underlying theme this week seemed to be fighting the monster inside you (the way the sheriff vamp tried to do) much the same as the Shapeshifter one. So I'd say paralleling Dean trying to fight his inner demon and Sam (hopefully) helping him fight it.

And, weirdly, even though I've been really enjoying these "lighter" eps, I'm now looking forward to something a bit darker and edgier.

I haven't watched next week's promo. I've seen some images but I'm trying to stay unspoiled so I can enjoy it that bit more.

(oh, and I still hate Sam's hair. The fact that I get distracted by how bad it looks during an episode makes me want to weep slightly. But, I brush it off because that would be far too shallow for me to be worried about such a trivial thing. Whaaaaa).




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Comments

[galwithglasses.livejournal.com]

Dean lies like he breathes, that is to say, constantly. But, I'm wondering if the shifter and the demons he killed last week have satisfied the Mark for the time being somehow even if he doesn't have the Blade on him. That meant that the killing felt more like ordinary hunting. The thing that got me was the super sad Dean family music at the end. We are going to get our hearts broken again, aren't we?

I liked the ep though. Lots of nice references scattered around in there for The Band. They backed up Bob Dylan who is from Hibbing. There were a lot of dummies though...that guy who went back to look in the dumpster in the dark. Who does that? Carniverous vamps....snort. Waste not, want not. What were they doing...eating the leather belts? Maybe it's like beef jerky. Or fang floss. Then there was Woodstock Vamp who was still wearing her hippy chick clothes forty some odd years later. Hopefully they weren't the original clothes.

I do like Jody and Donna and it was fun to have them together. Sam and Dean had some nice moments. Dean actually used sad!puppy eyes on Sam. I have to agree though, Sam's hair is distracting....and not in the good way it usually is. Maybe they don't realize how many episodes Sam's hair has actually gotten us through. A lot of season 7 and the first half of season 8, at least. But hey, he is a sunflower.......

[ash48.livejournal.com]

But, I'm wondering if the shifter and the demons he killed last week have satisfied the Mark for the time being somehow even if he doesn't have the Blade on him

Ah yes. I can accept that. I didn't feel like he was driven by the mark when he killed the vamps. In fact, at the end I was hoping that Sam wasn't going to say anything to him about it because it seemed like a "normal" kill to me. Maybe it has been satisfied (which is scary in itself).

We are going to get our hearts broken again, aren't we?

We are SO going there! On the one hand I want to feel that level of pain - I can accept pretty much anything as long as they don't make Sam out to be the bad guy somehow.

What were they doing...eating the leather belts? Maybe it's like beef jerky. Or fang floss.

Bwahahaha. What even was that?! They take the belt and wallets and EAT the flesh so nothing is wasted? Environmentally friendly vamps! So silly. We even got the patented blood splatter - when really there shouldn't have been a drop of blood wasted (and where we the tell tale fang marks in the necks eh?)

Maybe they don't realize how many episodes Sam's hair has actually gotten us through.

It was the sole reason I survived early S8! Glorious hair made up for the Sam's shit story line. If I had to choose I'd rather a great story line - but they don't have to give us horrid hair to do that. :(

But hey, he is a sunflower...….

\o/ :D