supernatural what did the dad say to dean
This week's Supernatural episode didn't leave me jumping up and down and squeeing to the rooftops – but that's not really a complaint. Instead it left me scratching my head and wondering where the hell we're going from here and what the hell the Djinn saw in Dean's mind. That's a feeling I often had in the early on seasons of Supernatural, and so once again, that makes me a happy fangirl. (Not that I don't have things to critique, of course…)
The episode started out slow, and at the start break I was feeling a flake meh virtually it. This surprised me because I usually enjoy Meredith Glynn's writing quite a scrap. It took me a petty while to realize that the pace was slower than I've grown used to – but once again, that turned out to be a skilful matter. Instead of ten different plot lines zigzagging through the episode, Glynn and managing director Darren Grant took their fourth dimension, following each scene and letting the anticipation or suspense or fright or whatever emotion build before bringing it to a climax. The step was slower, so you could savor moments like Dean and Sam exploring a dark and scary crypt or Sam fearlessly going upwards to the attic or Dean quietly bonding with Sasha. I simply have gotten used to a faster pace on this Evidence, and then it took until the halfway point for me to realize I was really appreciating the Evidence taking its time for a modify.
The get-go scene is Maggie, whose name half of my timeline can't remember, which says something that isn't good. She's hunting alone for some reason, and not very competently. Sure enough, she's attacked and taken down past something that looks similar a ghoul. I scratch my head. That's not the reaction Show was going for most likely, merely I honestly cannot manufacture much feeling nearly the AU hunters. At that place are way too many of them and I don't like them in the bunker and that all translates into me only not caring very much what happens to them. Maggie has never seemed like someone who should exist a hunter, and nosotros oasis't been given any reason to intendance well-nigh her. It's similar she'southward the just one of the random AU people who has a name, so she keeps getting tossed into the story. Sorry, Maggie. At to the lowest degree I'one thousand remembering your proper noun.
Then nosotros're in the overcrowded bunker, Primary Sam conference a bunch of AU hunters. He's all awkward when Dean walks in, which is telling – Sam is conspicuously not comfy being the leader when Dean is effectually. I'g non sure I'm all that comfortable with this new dynamic either, but Dean seems more at ease than either me or Sam.
Dean: You kids have fun out there.
He teases Sam to suspension the awkwardness, telling him that he did a great job with the whole camp counselor vibe and offering to get him a whistle.
Dean: And they're checking in? That's adorable.
It's not, however, ambrosial that Sam isn't getting enough sleep. Protective large brother Dean gets on his back about information technology, clearly worried. Dean stays in this mode when Sam gets upset that Maggie (Katherine Evans) didn't check in, trying to reassure Sam that she might yet be alive. Poor Sam, his reserves clearly on zippo and feeling the burden of responsibility, immediately starts catastrophizing and falling into hopelessness, so it's a practiced thing Dean is dorsum to pull him out of information technology. The brothers are always a good team when they're together, e'er knowing what the other one needs to hear in order to keep going. In that location was a lot of that in this episode, and I appreciate every moment.
Dean compliments Sam on his innovation of having the hunters wear torso cams, and he's the one once again encouraging Sam as they head out to await for Maggie, proverb that they'll find her and bring her home.
I cringed at the use of the word "dwelling house" because the bunker is Non their abode, all the AU hunters. Grrrr.
Anyway, Sam and Dean and the Impala, so yay.
They explore the Rawlings family's private cemetery, Sam explaining to Dean what a walker is and Dean indignantly retorting "I know what a walker is, Sam!" Then information technology's into the crypt past flashlight where they find marks of someone beingness dragged across the floor.
Dean: But no claret. She could still be live.
Still the encouraging i.
A shady seeming groundskeeper appears with a unsafe looking pitchfork and the boys have to come up with an caption on the spot. They morph into the most adorable aw shucks representatives of the Historical Preservation Society you've ever seen.
And we're left with hmmmm that groundskeeper seems shady. The first ruby-red herring, simply not the final – and I beloved that! This episode was smart and full of twists and turns and expressionless ends, which is just how I like my Show.
They come to the house to come across the owner and find Mary and Bobby already there. Bobby is even more than surly than those 'The Bobbys are surly' were in that weird version of heaven. He immediately attacks Sam, calling the headquarters he has ready upwardly a bunch of "idjits", subsequently which Dean looks like he's barely holding back from tearing Bobby'southward head off. I don't blame him 1 bit.
Meanwhile, Maggie is strung upwards in the attic, and oh, that looks familiar…
Me: It'south a djinn! Maybe?
The homeowner himself turns out to be comatose, taken care of by bubbly nurse Neil (Chris Patrick-Simpson). The homeowner's girl Sasha joins the political party and I immediately like her. Leah Cairns did a fabled task making Sasha a memorable character who seemed very real fifty-fifty in the short amount of fourth dimension we had to spend with her. She is 100% washed with the Winchesters' B.Southward. inside about five minutes and kicks them out.
Even though they look like this…
The Winchesters and Bobby argue nigh what the monster could be. Ghoul? Shifter? Demon possession? Bobby is once over again surly and accuses Sam of letting Maggie hunt alone when she wasn't set. Dean again is protective and pissed and jumps to Sam's defense, merely Bobby'due south not having it. He accuses Sam of non beingness "a real leader" which of form goes right to Sam'southward vulnerability since he's worried nearly that very thing.
I hateful, I wouldn't desire to go along attacking Dean Winchester's little brother when that gets you a Dean Winchester who looks this angry, Bobby, just sayin.
Mary tries to subvert a showdown by pairing Dean off with Bobby, and she goes with Sam. She tells him that Bobby'south wrong, that what she'south seen is that Sam is doing what he'southward "born to do." She likewise tells him far also much near her human relationship with Bobby, lamenting that he's "non open similar your dad."
Sam: (incredulously) Like MY dad??
Information technology was an interesting little exchange, underscoring the huge disconnect betwixt this Mary Winchester, who only knew John when he was a immature man, and the John that Sam and Dean knew. No wonder Mary doesn't seem like their mom almost of the time – non simply is she as well young, her experience has just been so different from theirs. She has literally lived another life. Mary has more to say almost Bobby, but like all the other AU hunters, I find myself not caring very much about this version of Bobby either. That breaks my heart to say, because I would Dearest to have OG Bobby dorsum and I dear Jim Beaver more than I tin say – but this is NOT our Bobby. He'south lived a different life, he doesn't even know Sam and Dean. They are not the "two boys he raised and they grew upward great, they grew upwards heroes." This Bobby doesn't love them similar his own sons. They haven't fought together, he didn't watch them grow up. It's all likewise different, and I experience similar Testify is asking me to forget just how unlike it is and love this Bobby like I loved the other one. It's….confusing.
Despite the fact that Bobby was just critical of him, Sam Winchester hangs onto his empathy – considering seriously, Sam Winchester is the most empathic character to ever sympathise with anyone. He tells Mary that if Bobby is closed off, there's probably a reason, and perchance she should talk to him. (The same advice Sam has clearly given himself when it comes to his brother).
Sam, you are a better homo that most of the rest of u.s.a.. I still desire to punch Bobby in the face for what he said to you and you're already trying to help him.
It's also weird, though I assume we're supposed to presume that Mary has had some conversation with Dean over the weeks that take passed, but we've never seen it. We didn't encounter her react when he staggered back into being himself, and we oasis't seen her ask Sam how he's doing either. It's….weird. Sigh. Anyway, Sam and Mary observe a pile of discarded IDs and realize they're from a hunter, who's nowhere to exist seen.
Bobby and Dean are having their own conversation. Dean doesn't hesitate to defend Sam again, saying that he's doing his all-time – meliorate than his best!
Dean: He's killing himself over it.
Worried protective Dean is my favorite flavour, have I mentioned?
Dean and Bobby find a deserted rustic cabin in the forest, which is always a bad affair in a horror motion picture so is probably a bad thing here besides. Bobby mysteriously disappears, Dean discovers a dead trunk and and then gets attacked by the ghoul, so yes, bad affair. He stabs information technology with his machete and it dissolves into a cloud of grit that gets all over him.
At that moment, Bobby comes back.
Dean: What happened to you?
Bobby: I could ask you the same affair!
Meanwhile, Sasha hears noises in the attic but when she goes to investigate, a vampire attacks her. She does the archetype trip-and-fall-over-nothing trope and gives up, easily over her caput waiting to die – but the hallway is now empty. She tells the Winchesters about it, and they're fifty-fifty more than confused.
Sam: It makes no sense.
Dean: What kinda vampire lets its dinner go AWOL?
Sasha: (silently only eloquently) WTF?
The brothers consider that maybe this is a manifestation, ala Fred Jones in the nursing home. Another possibility on the table!
And then someone realizes Bobby has again disappeared and Mary goes off to detect him. Everyone is clueless about horror movie tropes in this episode. Of course Bobby is in trouble – he'due south met up with a manifestation of his son Daniel, who was lost in the angel wars and whose death this Bobby feels responsible for. Jim Beaver gets a pretty epic fight scene that ends with Bobby pinned to a tree with a blade. Ouch! Mary to the rescue, then Bobby to Mary'south rescue (pulling out that bract? Ewww).
Now Mary really does know that Bobby's got some issues.
Meanwhile, Sam and Dean realize that the vampire manifestation was probably trying to keep Sasha out of the attic. So of course Sam Winchester, the brave brave Sam Winchester, heads for the attic. This is a dandy scene, playing out slowly like I mentioned.
We follow Sam downwardly the hall and upwards into the cranium.
And we see through his optics when he finds Maggie.
Me: It is a djinn!
Sam manages to machete the vampire into dust and free Maggie.
Dean, meanwhile, has a chat with Sasha. This was one of my favorite scenes of the episode – again, information technology's non rushed. It plays out organically and realistically, and it gives usa a beautiful glimpse into Dean'southward headspace by paralleling him with Sasha.
Sasha makes herself a stiff drink, and then whirls on Dean, who is making lots of noise with his pocketknife sharpening (while perched provocatively on a chair arm….)
Sasha: At that place's a strange human being sharpening a… machete? In my living room. Thank god for benzos.
She's Dean in her avoidance and utilise of substances, and she's Dean when she rebuffs his attempts to talk with a "Not really upwardly for a heart to heart."
Dean respects that, merely Sasha and then opens up to him, as people often practice with Dean.
Sasha: My dad wasn't the all-time person…. Funny thing is, I worshipped him when I was a kid.
Hmm, that sounds like someone else nosotros know, doesn't it?
Sasha's dad left them alone and she was the i to find that her mother killed herself when Sasha was just twelve. Information technology'due south a tragic story, and Dean knows tragedy. He offers a sincere "I'chiliad lamentable." And some advice.
Dean: Effort to allow it go.
Sasha: That what you do?
Dean: I endeavour. I try every day.
He's clearly talking about both the trauma of his babyhood and the contempo trauma of being taken for a ride by Michael and all the atrocious things the archangel has done since.
Oh, and Dean has also figured out information technology's a djinn.
Me: Love me some smart Winchesters!
Dean (Mr. Shine) Sasha, why don't you lot go make me a sandwich?
Sasha: (WTF look)
Dean: (mouths) Get out of here.
Sasha: I'g just gonna go make that sandwich…
Dean confronts the Djinn, who it turns out thinks he'due south Michael come around to test the Djinn to see if he'south following Michael's instructions: kill as many hunters equally yous can.
Dean: (WTF?)
For that the djinn gets an upgrade, and is able to read minds and see nightmares and then brand them come up truthful. Dean, undeterred by the fact that he doesn't take the lambs-blood-dipped knife to impale a djinn (cheers Meredith for the canon continuity!), shoots the djinn in the human knee and pisses him off.
The djinn attacks Dean, assuring him (and us) that he won't hurt Michael'due south favorite monkey suit, and reads his mind.
It's scary and disturbing just similar it was in What Is And What Should Never Exist (back when Show had the best titles EVER) but just as Dean's eyes go white, the djinn looks positively stricken and pulls dorsum, clearly shocked.
"You…" he mumbles, equally Dean looks as shocked.
Anybody watching: WHAT THE HELL DID HE Meet????
Nosotros don't go to observe out, because Dean channels all that rage we know he's holding inside and bashes the djinn's head in. Before he dies, the djinn taunts him, as monsters often do. He's not the merely trap set for hunters – for Dean'south family unit.
Dean sneers, considering you exercise NOT threaten Dean's family.
Dean: You don't know my family.
He kills the djinn, and then empties 7 bullets into him also, in a moment chillingly reminiscent of demon or Mark of Cain Dean.
We end the djinn saga with Dean unhooking Sasha'south dad and Sasha contemplating some forgiveness (which I tin only hope is forthcoming from the dad equally well, otherwise, ouch).
I had a bit of a 6th Sense moment at this point, trying to brand sense of how the Djinn was acting with the Winchesters when he must take believed the whole time that he was dealing with Michael. I did a rewatch (like you accept to practise later on the big reveal in the Sixth Sense) and yes, Glynn and thespian Chris Patrick-Simpson were actually able to go far piece of work by having the Djinn determined to play along. Keen!
Sam and Dean bring Maggie back to the bunker (I refuse to say "home") and the other AU hunters welcome her with hugs and smiles. Nobody thank you Sam and Dean, and in fact they stand up on the sidelines in their own home, looking left out, which hurts my heart.
Dean knows how much Sam needs to hear that gratitude and celebrate a rare rescue.
Dean: Yous did this. You got her dwelling house.
I loved that moment so much, loved that throughout this episode the brothers were entirely tuned into each other and trying to give each other what they need. That's been consistent for the past few episodes and I really hope it stays that mode. They KNOW each other; they care about each other. It makes sense that, even if it's in an awkward way or with very few words, that they would effort to take care of each other (and not just by stitching up wounds).
I tend to really capeesh the manner Glynn characterizes Dean, and this episode is no exception. He almost takes a back seat to Sam, allowing him to do his leadership muscles, but he'due south right there, paying close attention. Mentoring his piffling brother silently merely effectively. He's protective, encouraging Sam to sleep and consume and take care of himself, but he's very gentle well-nigh it, without whatever put-downs. He senses when Sam needs to hear that he's doing a proficient chore, especially when someone who is NOT a father figure to them merely feels like it keeps telling him that he isn't. I know there are fans who don't like that Dean is suddenly not the leader and that he was on the sidelines this episode, and let me say that I don't desire it to stay like this either, just I can bask a little while of role reversal as long every bit it gives me insight into Dean's caput space and gives him an important role to play.
The brothers switch back and along throughout the series, 1 of them stepping up and the other standing dorsum and supporting, and so vice versa. In fact, this episode too wonderfully complements the last episode, in which Sam gets to prove his protective side and his knowledge of his brother by taking care of Dean – and getting him out on the road on a hunt he can win. I absolutely dear the reciprocity of the brothers' relationship and how that's shown in these ii back-to-back episodes. It's subtle but powerful, and much appreciated – I'm talking to you, Davy Perez and Meredith Glynn!
There's a bit of an apology from AU!Bobby to Sam, after Mary has patched him up and followed Sam's advice to go Bobby to open up up to her a bit. (That patch-up scene was well done on the part of both of the actors, but alas, I just don't intendance enough about their human relationship for it to have much touch. It's too disconnected from Sam and Dean and their story at this signal).
Bobby tells Sam that he realizes this chore is no picnic and that he doesn't know if he himself ever had it in him – only that Sam does.
And then Bobby and Mary leave. They're ostensibly going upwards to Donna's cabin (y'all know, the i with the garden gnomes…) and then he can recuperate.
At this point, Sam and Dean are stoic about their female parent leaving, because that's pretty much what she does. This time is less onerous, with Mary assuring them that she's just a half twenty-four hours abroad and she's there for them if they need her, and Dean assuring her "Mom, go. Be happy." There are hugs and pats on the dorsum, and the family theme plays, but it rings sort of hollow for me here. I think – like Sam and Dean – I've but watched Mary leave likewise many times. It can't feel okay, it tin can't non exist meaningful, merely I fright non in the manner Evidence wants it to be. I simply feel…numb. And that makes me sad. Mary coming back had the potential to be such an emotional and powerful story line, but it has never entirely gelatinous for me.
Ackles and Padalecki are such nuanced actors that we tin run across Sam and Dean'due south ambivalence every bit they watch their mother leave again too. When Mary hugs Sam, Dean nervously scrubs his paw over his face every bit he watches. As Mary and Bobby climb the stairs, Sam follows them with his eyes, trying to smile, and so nervously glances at Dean as though to reassure himself that his blood brother is still hither with him. It's those little things that let me know that the actors too realize that Sam and Dean tin can't exist as okay with this equally they're trying to seem.
It pains me to say that I also don't experience the mode I call back Show wants me to experience about AU!Bobby. It could be an interesting thing to explore – how does it experience to have someone who was SO important to y'all, who was like a male parent to y'all, whose death was incredibly painful, back suddenly? And yet not back, because this looks like Bobby and talks similar Bobby and is bearish like Bobby, but this is Not Bobby. He doesn't love Sam and Dean – and I don't love him. I want to, I do – but I don't. Why would I? He hasn't done any of the things that made me honey Bobby Vocalist. It's virtually like Show is saying, love him because I said so, because he looks the same and acts sort of the same. But this Bobby hasn't earned my dearest, or even my caring virtually him.
I was excited almost the potential for the AU existence a way to bring back beloved characters who I think it was a mistake to kill off, but I'chiliad not sure information technology really works. Bobby is not Bobby and Charlie is not Charlie. I love having Jim Beaver and Felicia Day on my prove, but they are non the characters I loved. Even though I desire them to be!
We end with the brothers, because Meredith knows how much this means to me and that this is how Supernatural should ever cease. They are, praise the lord, yet talking to each other openly.
Dean tells Sam that Maggie wants to become out in that location and hunt once more, and Sam is surprised.
Sam: Really?
Dean: (grinning the about proud big brother grinning always) Well, she learned from the best.
Information technology takes Sam a minute to realize that Dean means him, so he looks down well-nigh shyly and a trace of a smiling crosses his confront. Awww Sammy.
They also talk openly nigh the elephant always in the room – Michael.
Dean: I know, not my fault.
He says he'due south been trying to go past what "I…we…HE did" and that he was starting to feel like himself once again. Nearly.
(Brilliant dialogue here, the progression of those 3 pronouns perfectly encapsulating Dean's struggle to not take responsibility for what Michael did!)
Sam: So nosotros work harder.
Dean: How? Yous just sleep three hours a dark.
Sam: Then I'll slumber two!
Me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Sammy!
Sam: We're going to notice Michael. And when nosotros practice, we'll kill him.
Dean: I hope you're right.
Neither of them expect convinced, and that's heartbreaking.
The episode didn't leave me jumping up and down raving about my Show or even feeling happy. It left me wanting badly to know what's going on with Dean and what's in his head (some part of Michael? Some memory that's and then horrific even a djinn can't stand seeing information technology?). It left me equally fascinated equally I've been for fourteen years by the way Sam and Dean intendance about each other, and frustrated with all the people in the bunker who I don't intendance about. That's a familiar combination for this Show, and it feels right – my own emotions about all three of those things allow me know that I'm yet as passionate about Supernatural as e'er. I want the bunker emptier and the cast of characters less similar a nameless horde, just I like that this season is spooling out hints nearly what Michael is actually up to and how that is tied up with Dean little by petty, and that I legitimately don't know where that story is going. I dearest feeling like oooh I can't wait for next week's episode, maybe we'll find out a little more!
The things I'm frustrated near are peripheral story arc problems, not writer problems. Glynn respects and remembers canon, which I profoundly capeesh. Sam and Dean feel and human action like Sam and Dean. She doesn't write downward to the viewer, letting us be confused about what's going on merely similar Sam and Dean are and rarely hit us over the head with those painful anvils. So kudos to Meredith Glynn for another solid episode that felt like Supernatural. That's the highest praise I can give.
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