Series 2, Episode 6: No Exit

If I'm being completely honest, my interest in the series is starting to wane a little. It's been difficult finding the motivation to watch another episode. But I'm determined to see this series through and I'm sure I'll find myself enjoying it again soon. To be fair I think it's having to blog each episode that is putting me off a bit. Good grief I'm feeling negative tonight!

In an apartment a girl is on the phone complaining about the wiring. All her lights are flickering. Then black slime starts to ooze out of the sockets. It kind of reminds of the pink slime oozing into the bathtub in Ghostbusters 2, although admittedly this is much more sinister.

Well blow me! (Not literally) Sam and Dean have just identified the black slime as ectoplasm (the same substance from Ghostbusters!) I'm getting good at this! In fact, Dean even goes on to make a Ghostbusters joke when he decides that the Marshmallow Man must be behind the disappearances taking place in the apartment block.

It was Jo who put the brothers on to the case and now she's seems to want to get in on the action too when she pretends to be a potential buyer for one of the apartments. I think Jo's presence will come in helpful and it was mentioned that all the girls who went missing were blonde and Jo just happens to be a girl and blonde. Useful!

This is definitely not the episode you should be watching when you live alone in a flat!

I'm really enjoying this episode. So much so that I really don't want to keep stopping to blog.

I'm enjoying Jo as part of the investigation team. I think it actually works much better in the rare occasions when there are three of them and a female character balances things out nicely. It all got a but too testosterone filled when it was the bothers and their dad too.

Looks like I spoke too soon, Jo wondered off and got snatched by the thing living in the walls. Bugger!

A week has passed now since I started this blog entry. I really am falling behind with this. I did enjoy the episode though so that's a positive. It ended on a bit of a cliffhanger where I was terrified that Jo was going to be told that John Winchester was her dad! Fortunately that didn't happen but she did find out that her own father's death was due to John's negligence. As such she doesn't really want to keep on hunting with Dean and Sam which is a shame because I really liked her.

I also liked who they trapped the killer by encircling him in salt and then sealing up the entrance to the abandoned sewers with concrete. The "no exit" title suddenly makes a whole lot of sense!

There didn't seem to be a lot of Sam in this one. He was absent for large portions of the episode whilst things were left up to Jo and Dean. I wonder if Jared was on holiday for part of this episode. Or maybe the production of this episode was double banked with another so Jared was off filming a later episode which presumably will have not much Dean action in it. These things interest me way more than they should.

 

Series 2, Episode 5: Simon Said

Well I've got to say that I feel jolly well fed up today! Can't seem to shake the Sunday blues. After pacing around the flat for 10 minutes, trying to decide what to do to cheer myself up, I thought an episode of Supernatural might do the trick. Well it was either that or masturbation. And who would want to read a blog about masturbation??! Well I imagine there are sickos out there who might but as usual I'm digressing.

A man is calmly walking along a street when he gets a call on his mobile. As he listens to the caller his expression changes, as if he is going into a trance. He then strolls into the nearest gun store, buys a gun and blows away the shop owner before putting a bullet through his own brain. I suspect Derren Brown to behind this. He's probably making a new programme to fight against the current gun laws in America. Plus I've seen him do something like this before. He once hypnotised a man to assassinate Stephen Fry! I'm not even kidding!

Fortunately the scene I have just witnessed is just one of Sam's premonitions and so they may have the chance to stop Derren from making the call. 

While Sam and Dean visit Ash again for help in tracking down the location of the case, Dean chats to Jo after she puts a song that is not to his taste on the juke box. Driving away from the bar Dean is singing the song to himself after declaring "he can't get it out of his head"...I see what they are possibly doing there. Things being implanted in people's minds etc. The episode is very nicely themed.

Also Dean doesn't have a bad singing voice. Typically Sam interrupts the fun as he insists on talking about the case. I may have lost track of the plot a little here. Sam believes it is something to do with the demon due to him having the premonition. Does he only have premonitions when it comes to cases linked with the demon? I don't recall that being established. I'm somewhat confused! 

I may have jumped the gun there as Sam has now explained that the demon has visited every person that he had a premonition about. Don't remember that but I'll go along with it.

This....is.....hilarious. They've tracked down the guy (not Derron Brown but someone called Andy, disappointing) and Dean follows him in his car. Andy gets out of his van to admire Dean's car and then asks if he can have it at which point Dean gladly gets out of the car and let's Andy drive away in it! What a great power to have! Dean is going to be so pissed off when he comes back to his senses! His lovely car! I'm gutted for him!

Sam prevents the shooting but is unable this stop the shooter from walking out in front of a bus. Well at least he saved one person.

They confront Andy and there is more amusing stuff when Dean completely spills the truth to him because he has to do exactly what he's told. I'm really enjoying this episode, it's funny.

Now it appears that despite his abilities it may not be Andy committing the murders at all. Sam has another premonition where he sees a lady at a petrol station receive a phone call and then pour petrol over herself and setting herself on fire. They do tell you not to use your mobile phones whilst at a petrol station so maybe she should have paid attention to the rules! Not quite sure she deserves being burned alive though.

The coincidence of having two people with the same mental powers is explained when it is revealed that Andy has a secret twin brother! He's the one killing these people having being manipulated into doing so by the demon! It is mentioned again that the demon has a special plan for all these kids with weird mental powers like Andy and Sam. I'm getting quite intrigued to learn what this plan is.

Overall it was a good episode. It seems things are building up towards another showdown with the demon. I'm wondering how much longer it will be before this storyline is resolved. I'm guessing it'll be sorted by the end of this season with a new story taking over for season 3, most likely Dean coming to terms with his homosexuality. 

Series 2, Episode 4: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

Before I begin the blog entry for this episode, as a little side note I have to say that the Doctor Who announcement as mentioned in the previous entry was a monumental let down! They announced that they were doing a spin off series based at the school where Clara works (but without Clara). If this had just been announced with no build up then it would have been moderately exciting but as they teased the reveal over the space of several hours then it was hugely hyped up. I wanted more episodes to be discovered!!

Anyway on to more cheerful things with episode 4 of Supernatural.

We are introduced to a woman called Angela who has had a big falling out with her boyfriend. She storms off in a car and ends up crashing and presumably dies. There was an awful lot of blood and she wasn't moving so I'm guessing she is pushing up daisies. 

Meanwhile Sam has suggested that they take a trip to visit their mother's grave. It's not exactly my idea of a fun weekend but whatever floats your boat.

Whilst visiting the grave, Dean notices the burial place of Angela and see that everything directly around her (the grass, flowers etc) has died. Dean wants to investigate but Sam is sceptical because of the way they have just "stumbled on to a hunt". But isn't that how they start all their investigations?

Dean starts to investigate alone and discovers that Angela's boyfriend has also been killed. Well apparently it was ruled as suicide when he slit his own throat. Really? Why would anyone kill themselves that way?? We know better though because we saw someone do it to him. I'm just confused why they would assume it was suicide in the first place!

Dean heads back to the motel to tell Sam what he has uncovered and catches Sam watching porn on the room's television. Shocking! I thought better of Sam. Surely if any of them was going to be watching porn then it would be Dean! I'm genuinely disturbed by this. Sam seems to be slightly different in character this episode. 

Angela has been brought back to life by her friend Neil who it seems harboured an unrequited love for her whilst she was alive. She's all over him like a rash now which, from someone who has experienced unrequited loved myself, is both gratifying and a little disturbing. I mean she's a zombie for goodness sake! Yuk! She'd be all cold and smelly.

After killing her ex boyfriend for cheating on her I'm guessing her next target will be the girl he cheated with. The identity of this girl has not been revealed yet but as we have only seen one other female in the episode then I think it's a safe bet to assume that Angela discovered her boyfriend cheating with her house mate (whose name I don't recall, let's just call her "Ms Slutty").

I was right. Angela sneaks away from Neil to kill Ms Slutty. Fortunately Sam and Dean show up in time to fill Angela full of silver bullets. Unfortunately it turns out that silver bullets don't kill zombies. I could have told them that! Do they not watch The Walking Dead!? To be fair, I don't watch The Walking Dead either so for all I know it might be the case that silver bullets do kill zombies, I just thought that that was always a wearwolf thing. And golden bullets can kill Cybermen, just so you know.

Instead they lure Angela back to her grave where they impale her through the chest and bury her again. You have to feel a bit sorry for her. By all accounts she was a lovely kind girl when she was alive. It was only when she was cheated on and killed that she went a little psycho and everyone can have an off day like that! 

Just when I thought we were going to get the same ending of the car driving off into the distance, Dean pulls over and him and Sam have a little chat about their father. It all gets quite emotional when Dean reveals that the reason he has been acting all crazy recently is due to guilt at his father's death. He has assumed (correctly) that the reason their father died was because he made a deal with the demon to save Dean from his car crash injures. 

I still want to know what he whispered in Dean's ear before he died! I'd be tempted to believe he was telling Dean that he wasn't really going to die and it was all some elaborate trick for the demon but Dean seem genuinely upset so their father must definitely be dead. Besides they burnt the body so I can't see any going back from that!

You can see why this case would have affected Dean so badly. Neil brought Angela back to life because he couldn't accept her death, which is exactly what Dean is struggling with in the case of his father. 

Series 2, Episode 3: Bloodlust

There really has been an appallingly long amount of time that has passed between me watching episodes so let's put that right.

Also I need to take my mind off the impending "massive Doctor Who" news that is currently being teased. I've worked myself up into such a frenzy that nothing but the return of all 97 missing episodes will sate me! Supernatural fans don't know the pain of having missing stories! 

The start of this episode feels very much like the start of a Friday The 13th movie. In fact I think Jared Padalecki was in one of those movies. The more recent and crap ones. I'm not sure if it's due to my heightened state of awareness right now but I jumped a mile when some girl running through the woods had her head cut off. In fact I think I jumped more than she did! 

Less than 2 minutes in and there's already been a beheading! This is going to be a good one!

It turns out that the girl that was killed was actually a vampire so screw her then! Sam and Dean meet a fellow demon hunter. He knows all about them and commiserates them on the passing of their father. He seems like a decent chap! So therefore he'll either end up betraying them or dead...or both!

The guy (I don't think he has given his name yet!) insists that he be allowed to hunt the vampires on his own. Fortunately for him Sam and Dean do not respect his wishes and sneak along anyway, arriving just in time to save his life. Dean viciously attacks the vampire and uses a chainsaw to cut off its head. It seemed a little over the top but it had to be done I guess. Although Sam is shooting his brother a very accusatory expression so I'm guessing Sam is going to be all judgmental. I'm not sure what his problem is. Dean is just letting out some of his anger at his fathers death and surely that is better used against demons than against another human!

The guys name is Gordon. I just found out when Sam calls Ellen (from the last episode) for advice. She says she knows him and he is a very good hunter but they need to stay away from him because he's dangerous. Unfortunately it seems it might be too late for Dean as he has stayed out drinking with Gordon as they reminisce over the people they have lost.

Leanne, stop messaging me and let me get on with the episode!! :-) That's a joke that only one person will get but that's fine because she's most likely the only person reading this anyway! Haha!

Well this is a turn up for the books! One of the brothers is knocked unconscious and tied up...and it's not Dean! It's Sam! He is gagged by having a hankerchief tied though his mouth. I've never understood that. How does that stop you shouting?? 

It seems that this particular group of vampires have decided that killing humans is immoral and therefore they are going to live off the blood of animals. That would be considered a good thing by most people, although it feels too uncomfortably close to the the shite that is Twilight for my liking! At least I haven't seen a moody teenage girl in this episode yet!

It's actually quite interesting to see things from the vampires point of view. Some of their group has been killed (one of them by Dean) and so it suddenly becomes easy to sympathise with them. 

Gordon mentioned earlier that he likes his job of hunting because everything is black and white between good and evil and now we have been immediately placed in a situation where there are shades of grey. 

Sam manages to persuade Dean just in time to save the vampires. Gordon can't be convinced however resulting in punch up between him and Dean. Gordon is left tied to a chair at the end of the episode looking extremely pissed off. It would be interesting to see him return sometime in the future, seeking revenge.

Overall I really enjoyed this episode. As mentioned it was good to see it from another perspective for a change. Also the last scene of the episode was of Dean and Sam driving off with the camera sweeping upwards which, in my drinking game, means you have to instantly finish your drink. 

There was some good developement for Dean as he has now come to realise that maybe not all the creatures they have killed actually deserved to die. I'm not sure if this is something that'll be carried forward into future episodes or was just a one off theme for this episode.