Sunday, 13 December 2015

Series 2, Episode 9: Croatoan

It's been quite a while since I did one of these. I'm afraid I've been too busy with I'm A Celebrity and trying to watch all six Star Wars movies before episode 7 comes out next weekend! Add to that the fact that I've been feeling lazy. I'm now faced with a choice of watching an episode of Supernatural or putting the Christmas tree up. Supernatural it is!

Sam has another one of his premonitions of death. This time he sees Dean shooting a guy tied to a chair. I was a little confused as the guy in the chair looked exactly like a guy who was in the last series so I assumed it was the same character but now it seems it's not the same actor at all! I'm going to have to check after of they are related somehow because they look and sound so alike!

Over the last few episodes Sam has been worried that Dean is going a little mental through grief at the loss of their father. He has shown concerns that Dean is becoming too aggressive and enjoying killing a little too much. With that in mind I'm wondering why Sam has even mentioned this recent vision to his brother. It looks like Dean is killing an innocent man so why tell Dean exactly where it all happens so that they can visit that town in the first place?? Am I making any sense?

Heading to the home of the boy in the vision they find that he is not in. Whilst there they discover something else weird is going on. The mother of the family is tied up whilst the father and the boy's brother (who is quite cute by the way) are performing some kind of ritual over her by dripping blood over a wound in her arm. It's all pretty gross. Fortunately Sam and Dean burst in in time to stop whatever the hell they were trying to do. When the father comes at them, Dean shoots him dead but the boy (his name is Jake) manages to escape by jumping through a window.

After examining the father's body at a local doctors surgery it seems that he was suffering from some kind of disease. This has now been passed on to the mother when they were dripping the blood on her and she goes crazy and attacks the doctor. Luckily Sam is on hand to whack her round the head with a fire extinguisher.



Meanwhile, due to all the phones in the town being out, Dean is driving to the next town looking for help. Unfortunately the roads are blocked off by an armed gang and he narrowly escapes from them. I hope his car isn't damaged!

Reaching the relative safety of the doctors office and with another survivor in tow, Dean finds out about the mothers infection. She is locked up in a store room but Dean knows she has to be killed before she gets too powerful. Releasing her from the room she begins to beg and plead, claiming that she isn't one of the infected but Dean shoots her anyway. It seems really shocking that he did that! I mean I was fairly sure she was infected but it still ended up with him seemingly shooting a defenceless woman whilst she cried and pleaded for her life. Pretty grim stuff!

The guy from the vision turns up at the doctors and is tied up. We reach the point where Dean is about to shoot him and then he changes his mind. I can't remember if this is something new for Sam's visions. Is this the first one that hasn't come true? I genuinely can't recall whether it is or not.

A very weird ending. I'm not sure I can even describe what went on because I don't really understand it all but in summary everyone in the town disappeared. Sam was infected and then he wasn't and I'm not sure why. It seems it was all some kind of test set up by the yellow eyed demon to see if Sam was immune. Again I'm not sure why...

Not sure what I made of this episode. It just seemed very odd with no proper resolution to the plot. 
There were some nice moments between the brothers though like when Sam thought he was infected and Dean insisted on staying behind with him. Dean admitted that he was tired of the life they were leading which is unfortunate considering they've got at least 8 more seasons of this to go!

Also Dean has finally admitted that their father told him something about Sam before he died. But we still don't know what!! Could he have a different father maybe?? That might explain more about why John and Sam had such a troubled relationship. 











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