Series 2, Episode 15: Tall Tales

I've discovered how to turn the recaps on on the DVD! This gives you a summary of the story so far and the bits you need to remember to understand the upcoming episode. Whilst this may be considered a slight spoiler I think I'm going to have to watch them at the start of each episode because my memory is shocking! Besides, they aren't as bad as the Battlestar Galactica ones where they would actually show you clips from the episode before that actual episode! Fucking lunacy! Anyway I'm rambling. It's the tonic water's fault. The gin is totally blameless.

A young girl waits outside a professor's apartment until he comes home. She lies to him and tells him she is one of his students. Once inside she gets close with the professor who for some unknown reason decides to open the window when it's freezing outside. As they kiss she transforms into a disfigured woman (a bit like the woman in the hotel room in The Shining) and shortly after the professor is either pushed or jumps from the open window. He seemed a bit of a creep to be honest so I'm not that upset to see him go.

One week later and Dean and Sam are in another hotel room. The explanation of where their money comes from has still not been revealed but I'm promised that it does get explained so that's fine. What isn't fine is that Dean is tucking into a plate of delicious looking chips and I'm starving right now! Stupid diet! 

Posing as an investigator Sam learns from students at the college that the building where the professor jumped from is supposedly haunted. The story goes that a girl was sleeping with one of the professors and when he broke things off with her she decided to take a leap out of one of the windows. It doesn't seem to be a big stretch to work out that this must be the girl that the professor saw at the start of the episode but it seems strange that all of this information would be revealed so early on. Therefore I'm thinking that there has got to me a twist in this tale.

The way this story is being told is really cool actually. Bobby has met Dean and Sam at the hotel and they are taking it in turns to tell parts of the story but hearing how things appear different from their differing points of view is pretty funny. For example Sam remembers Dean flirting with a girl who pretty much throws up in her own mouth because she's that drunk. When Dean begins to tell this part of the story he makes out that she was a really classy girl who he was having a few drinks with. Also for some reason Sam appears very camp in Dean's version of the story.

Okay that's enough gin and tonic for me tonight. I think I'm tripping out! This is the weirdest episode ever! First of all we've now got a young lad called Curtis who we see being abducted by aliens! Aliens! In Supernatural! I'm loving that.

When he is returned he says that he has lost time, blacked out, been probed, the standard alien abduction stuff. Then he reveals that the worst part was when they made him slow dance. This then cuts to a flashback of Curtis slow dancing with a little grey alien to the song "Lady In Red"! What the fuck is going on??

It's a Trickster that has been creating all these illusions and trying to turn the brothers against each other. I'm slightly disappointed that the slow dancing aliens aren't real but I guess that would have been a step too far and season 2 is way to early for the series to completely jump the shark in such a way.

I think the Trickster is a great idea and I was a little annoyed that he was so easily defeated at the end of the episode. Therefore when it was revealed that the death itself was also a trick then I was very happy. Can't wait to see this character again.

This may be my the best episode so far!

Series 2, Episode 14: Born Under A Bad Sign

I'm so very tired. That's what happens when you are on a diet (7 pounds lost so far in 2 weeks) and then you get invited out for lunch and decide to treat yourself to fish and chips. So very sleepy.

That being said, we are now well into 2016 and I haven't watched an episode of Supernatural this year yet!

Sam has gone missing and when he finally turns up he is covered in someone else's blood with no memory of what has happened to him. I can't judge him too harshly. We've all had nights like that after a few drinks. I remember waking up one morning with a half eaten bag of prawn cocktail crisps lying next to me with no memory of eating them, which I found to be equally as unnerving. 

The assumption is that Sam has gone all evil due to the demon's influence over him but I'm guessing it will most likely turn out to be that the blood is either a bad guy's blood or that it is the blood of someone he found hurt and was caring for. Sam is too nice to do anything evil. I could believe it more of Dean than Sam.

The brothers try to retrace Sam's movement over the last week and, after discovering a garage key in his pocket, they find a battered old Beetle parked in there. Dean is disgusted that Sam may have stolen such a car. I find this offensive! I am a proud Beetle owner and they are a great car.......well maybe I should say I'm just a proud Beetle owner....well.......I own a Beetle.

They find a bloody knife in the back seat of the Beetle and and a fuel receipt which leads them on to a refuelling garage. So far this is reminding me of those old "point and click" computer games. You go to one place, you find the clue for the next place and so on. What are they going to find at the fuelling station? CCTV footage maybe. 

The guy at the petrol station remembers Sam coming in blind drunk and stealing some more booze before leaving. Maybe there is no supernatural explanation to this episode. Maybe Sam did just go on a massive bender for a week and now can't remember any of it.

It's funny how Dean seems really upset that the guy said Sam was also smoking. He seems more upset by that than the fact that Sam was found in a hotel room covered in someone else's blood!

After the petrol station man tells them the direction that Sam drove off in they come across a house which has been broken into with a dead man lying in one of the rooms. After discovering a massive stash of guns they surmise that the dead man was also a hunter. Fortunately the house is full of CCTV cameras...I'm not sure why but anyway the camera footage clearly shows Sam beating the shit out of the bloke before slitting his throat. This is really shocking! Even if the man was a bad guy (which I don't think he was) then I couldn't imagine Sam attacking him in such a way. Clearly something is very wrong with poor little Sammy!  

Evil Sam has now shown up and knocked out Dean and escaped from the hotel room. He heads to a bar where he meets Ellen's daughter Jo. Is Jo a hunter now? Is he going to kill her too? I'd rather he killed Ellen. She kind of annoys me a bit but I can't really say why. 

I find evil Sam more attractive than normal Sam. Oh dear, what does that say about me??

Evil Sam attacks Jo and ties her up. He then tells her more information regarding the death of her father. Jo believed that her father was killed by a demon due to a mistake made by John but Sam tells her that John actually killed her father to put an end to his suffering when he was badly wounded by the demon. I don't really see how this makes her father's death any worse. Sounds to me like he was already beyond help after being attacked by the demon so John shooting him doesn't seem too terrible. Unless that's just me being an uncaring bastard.

Dean arrives and throws holy water over Sam which burns him proving that he is actually possessed by a demon. The demon has been trying to persuade Dean to shoot Sam to prevent him from hurting anyone else. The next person to be hurt is Dean when Sam shoots him and then runs off. There's a lot going on in this episode!

Sam's turns up at the house of another hunter, Bobby. I already love this guy. I'm not sure how he knows but he offers Sam a beer which is actually a bottle of holy water which burns the crap out of him when he drinks it. I loved how he tricked him so much that I actually gave a little cheer.

The demon reveals itself as the same one who had possessed Meg in the previous season. It's out for revenge on the brothers for sending it back to hell. Bobby and a Dean try to exorcise it using the same ritual as in the first season but it doesn't work due to Sam having a mark on his arm which locks the demon into him. This at first seemed like a big problem but then they just burn the mark off his arm and the demon is forced out of him so it's not really a great plan for the demon.

A very good episode. They seem to be building on the idea that one day Dean may be faced with the very real problem of having to kill his brother due to the yellow eyed demon's master plan!

Series 2, Episode 13: Houses Of The Holy

Well the final instalment of the drunken trilogy and I really can't remember much at all I'm afraid!

This episode seemed like it was going to introduce the idea of angels into the series. Dean doesn't believe such things exist but Sam is more willing to go along with it. I know angels do come into the series later on but I guessed correctly that they don't appear this early.

People are being given orders to kill evil do-ers by an apparition which they believe to be an angel. It kind of reminded me of the episode of The Simpsons where Homer thinks he's seen an alien but it's actually a radioactive Mr Burns sleep walking. I mean that's what the appearance of the "angel" kind of looked like. I realise the two stories couldn't be more different. Although now I come to think of it Mulder and Scully from The X Files made an appearance in that episode of The Simpsons, which is kind of like Supernatural. Oh dear I really can't remember much can I?

Actually now that The X Files are coming back then they could even do a crossover with Supernatural!

In fact in this picture it reminds me of the opening to the ITV series Strange But True hosted my Michael Aspel which used to put the shits up me as a child.

Let's see what else I can remember. Oh yes, at one point Sam sees a stone statue which looks very much like one of the weeping angels from Doctor Who. I don't think this was a reference at all, I just thought it was a weird coincidence.

The angel turns out to be a dead vicar.

The end.

Overall this drunken trilogy of stories was a moderately good success but I think I've proven that if I attempt such a thing again then my notes need to be much more thorough!

Series 2, Episode 12: Nightshifter

The drunken trilogy continues and we'll see if I can remember anything at all about this episode.

The story centres around another shape shifter. This one has become a bank robber. Because why not?

I can't quite remember how Dean and Sam find out about the case except that they have a meeting with a geeky paranoid guy (who I can find quite relatable) who knows something fishy is going on and later goes on a rampage around the bank with a gun (less relatable).

The brothers are caught up in the bank siege, having been investigating the bank in the guise of two security guards. Drink!

A bank customer is ordered to frisk Dean and Sam to make sure they are not hiding any weapons. If that was me I think I would have taken a good deal more care and time feeling all around them. Wow that sounds super pervy. But I guess that's what I meant anyway.

There were many scenes of various people being locked up in one of the bank's vaults and I argued that this counted as being locked away somewhere for purposes of the drinking game but Leanne wisely debunked this suggestion which was good as I'm not sure I would have made it to a third episode!

It was also a fairly big deal in this episode that Dean is a wanted criminal. Whilst this adds extra drama I can't help but think that it's going to start limiting the stories they can tell so I hope it gets resolved soon.

Overall an intense episode. Shape shifters are brilliant for creating intense moments of deciding who you can and cannot trust.

Also I can't not mention, there's only a bloody cyberman in the episode!! Okay it's only on the front cover of a magazine but even so!