I'm very tired this weekend. I don't know what's the matter with me. I planned on doing another double session of Supernatural but I'm afraid it'll just be the one episode tonight, but then hopefully more in the week. It's tricky though with Big Brother being back on at the moment!
Anyway let's get this episode started...
Oh good lord it is about creepy crawlies and I feel itchy already! Some poor guy has just fallen down a hole and been set upon by millions of them. They didn't look too vicious so I'm not sure how they killed him but they did. I haven't been this freaked out since Fatima Whitbread got that cockroach stuck up her nose on I'm A Celebity!
One thing I am finding unusual about this series is how Dean and Sam just keep stumbling upon these strange cases. These events must be very rare. If they weren't then more people would know about them and such supernatural happenings would be common knowledge. They clearly aren't common knowledge so therefore they must be rare. So how is it that, without really looking that hard for them, that Dean and Sam keep discovering them? It's almost like I think there needs to be some guiding force sending them to these cases...but I don't think I like that idea so it's a no win situation. For now, I'm fine with them just going on as they are. I just thought it was worth commenting on.
I do have an answer to anther question that was "bugging" me though (see what I did there?). I remembering wondering a few blog entries back how Dean and Sam got any money. In this episode we see Dean hustling people at pool while Sam is as pragmatic as ever and suggests they just get day jobs. That would be quite funny. The rest of the series is just about Dean and Sam working in grocery store with nothing unusual happening at all, aside from the odd sinister looking pineapple.
Dean and Sam attend a house viewing in order to try to get some more information about the guy who fell down the hole and apparently had his brain eaten by beetles. Nice! Whilst there they are mistaken for a gay couple...That's pretty hot actually..
A lady just had massive spider crawl out from her hair. She jumped a little bit and casualy brushed it off. If that had been me I would have run out of the bedroom screaming! Boarded up the door and set fire to the house, but not before finding my passport so that I could flee the country!
Sam alerts Dean to the news of another death whilst Dean is in the shower. Dean pokes his head around the bathroom door for a brief chat before the action moves on to another scene. I'm not happy with the director of this episode. They missed a perfectly good opportunity to have a topless Dean scene! I just wanted a brief glimpse, I don't think that's to much to ask!
The death they go to investigate is the one shown in the picture above. I was a little disappointed at how fake the spiders looked. They were obviously CGI but not done very well. What has impressed me so far about this series are some of the practical effects used and I think it would have been much better here if they had just used real spiders. I wonder why they didn't. It wouldn't surprise me if the actress involved had point blank refused to have real spiders in the scene, which I could understand completely!
Well I've just finished the episode and I'm not really sure what I make of it. The insect problem was being caused by a Native American curse put on the land 170 years ago after an entire village of people were massacred there by white men. The story of the massacre was so appalling that I didn't really want Dean and Sam to reverse the curse as it would seem disrepectful. And it turns out that they don't reverse the curse. They just let it run its course. Which puts me in a weird situation because it seems that nothing in the episode would be different had Sam and Dean not been there. Aside from being there to explain to the audience what was going on, they actually had minimal impact on the plot. Which seems strange..We do however learn some more interesting things about their dad, specifically his troubled relationship with Sam so that seems to be driving the main story arc of the series along nicely.
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