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gwaevalarinOkay, this episode, that's why I'm a Sam!girl.
I loved how the episode raised the supernatural ?= evil question and how it dealt with it. I was waiting for an episode on that topic.
We start - after the whole "then" part that is. Great "musicvideo" again - with a girl running through the woods. She's terrified. Someone's following her. She hides behind a tree. And just when she thinks she's save she loses her head. Literally.
Since I knew this episode was about vampire (I guess I'll never menage to stay completely spoiler free) I was like: Yeah, so she was a vampire and that guy that hunted her was the good guy. But even when you're sure you know what's going on Kripke and his crew will surprise you.
Then we see the boys on the road with the Impala the usual beginning of every good Supernatural epi... wait a second: The boys on the road with the Impala?! Wheeeee! She's back! Metallicar's back!
"Listen to her purr! Have you ever heard anything so sweet?"
"You know, if you two want to get a room just let me know, Dean."
"Oh, don't listen to him, baby. He doesn't understand us."
I love how Dean pets her steering wheel. Reminds me of the end of PotC. As I said to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dimturien Dean Winchester and Metallicar is like Captain Jack Sparrow and the Black Pearl.
And yes, she does purr and hell, I missed that sound.
Sammy's new hairstyle... I got used to it pretty quickly. I somehow miss the emo mob but it's not too bad the way it is now.
Sam and Dean try to get information about some decapitations and cattle mutilations in Red Lodge, Montana. First they ask the local sheriff some questions posing as reporters, but they don't really seem to be able to remember the name of their newspaper
"World Weekly News..."
"Weekly World News."
"World..."
"Weekly World..."
"Weekly... I'm new."
Then they try their luck in the local hospital and after some minor problems - John, Jeff, doctor's on vacation - can take a look at the headless girl and her head and find out that she was a vampire. Seems like this is going to be a vampire hunt.
The boys meet Gordon Walker, a (vampire) hunter who says he once met John and who also tells them that he prefers to hunt alone.
He's lucky that the Winchesters don't really care what he wants and save him from a vampire beheading him with an electic saw. Uah! *shivers* Instead Dean kills the vampire with the saw and he seems to have way to much fun doing it. Plus the blood on his face... creepy. And Sam looks like he's anything but happy with this.
Gordon buys them a drink for saving him and he and Dean seem to get along really well while Sam still looks very uncomfortabel.
"You all right, Sammy?"
"I'm fine."
"Well, lighten up a little, Sammy."
"He's the only one who gets to call me that."
So, Dean officially is allowed to call him "Sammy" now?
Sam leaves so it's just Dean and his new best friend. Gordon tells him how he became a hunter and... Dean starts talking a bit about John and about how he feels. Wow! Gordon, you're a sadist but thanks for that.
"Yeah. Yeah, you know. He was just one of those guys. Took some terrible beatings, just kept coming. So you're always thinking to yourself, he's indestructible. He'll always be around, nothing can kill my dad. Then just like that he's gone. I can't talk about this to Sammy. You know, I gotta keep my game face on. But the truth is I'm not handling it very well."
It's pretty obvious but that's he first time he admits it. Perhaps he should try to not keep on his "game face" so much?
Meanwhile Sam calls Ellen to ask her about Gordon. That's a way I'd really be okay with the Roadhouse being part of the show, the boys turning to Ellen for some information now and then. Ellen tells him that Gordon is a good hunter but they should stay away from him because he's also dangerous.
There's just black and white for him no shades of gray.
Sam's outside the motel room getting a soda and he hears something. I think he also feels that something's wrong. Back in the motel room he get's attacked and kidnapped. Sammy, you're a psychic you should really, really trust your intuition.
My first thought: Dean will rescue him.
Sam finds himself in the vampire's nest tied up to a chair and facing Lenore (Amber!).
When she tells him that she just wants to talk of course he's more than sceptical.
"Talk? Yeah, okay, but I might have a tough time paying attention to much besides Eli's teeth."
"He won't hurt you either, you have my word."
"Your word? Oh yeah, great, thanks. Listen lady, no offense but you're not the first vampire I've met."
"We're not like the others. We don't kill humans, and we don't drink their blood. We haven't for a long time."
"What is this, some kind of joke?"
"Notice you're still alive."
She has a point. She tells him that they feed on cattle. Remember the cattle mutilations? Mystery solved.
"We have a right to live, we're not hurting anyone."
And again she has a point. Isn't the first part about the same thing Luthor said in "Dead Man's Blood" except that they did kill people?
To prove her point Lenore let's Sam go and says that they'll leave the same night.
Back at the motel Dean and Gordon are planing to hunt the vampires. Want him as a new partner, Dean?
Sam comes back and asks Dean if they can talk alone because he doesn't trust Gordon after what Ellen told him. But he has a hard time to convince Dean that the vampire's don't harm anyone.
"What part of 'vampires' don't you understand, Sam? If it's supernatural, we kill it, end of story. That's our job."
Wait a second. Sam has supernatural powers. So you're going to hunt him one day too? I'm just asking.
"No, Dean, that is not our job. Our job is hunting evil. And if these things aren't killing people, they're not evil!"
Exactly!
"He's a substitute for Dad, isn't he? A poor one. [...] He's not even close, Dean. Not on his best day. [...] You know, you slap on this big fake smile but I can see right through it. Because I know how you feel, Dean. Dad's dead. And he left a hole, and it hurts so bad you can't take it, but you can't just fill up that hole with whoever you want to. It's an insult to his memory."
Erm... ouch! That hurt. That was about the path Dean took in ElaC just Sam's way of it. Would you stop that, Sam?
Did Dean just hit Sam? Tell me he didn't! I so flinched. And Sammy for a short moment gets a WTF? look on his face before it turns to anger. Not anger like... anger but like calm completely in control anger. And then - deep breath - he buries that feeling. Not good. Or it fades again very quickly which sounds much better.
Gordon's gone and he took the keys of the Impala with him. But luckily Dean knows a thing or two about cars and Sam doesn't need to have seen the way to find it again.
When they arrive at the vampire's nest Gordon is in the middle of torturing Lenore and enjoying it. And even if she was evil that'd be too much. But Sam won't let him go on with that and Dean supports him because whatever happens no one theatens his brother.
We also learn that Gordon's sister hasn't been killed by vampires but turned into one and Gordon had to kill her. Charles Gunn, anyone?
Sam picks Lenore up and carries her out of the room. Beautiful picture, really.
She's the innocent and that's what hunting really is about (now) for Sam: Saving the innocent. Even if they are supernatural creatures. There are shades of grey after all.
Dean's completely on Sam's side on this now. Not neccessarily because he really believes that supernatural beings can be innocent but because he believes Sam. And he saw Lenore trying. And no matter what, what Gordon did was wrong.
"You're not like your brother. You're a killer, like me."
"You know, I might be like you, and I might not. But you're the one tied up right now."
Dean might in some way be like Gordon. But he has something... oh right, a sense of justice. And Sam.
When they exit the farm house Dean asks Sam to hit him. Of course Sam won't because that's just not how he is. But I guess that scene in front of the motel room: Forgiven and forgotten.
Dean starts questioning what he did his whole life because he now sees the shades of grey and they make things so much more complicated.
But I'll just let the last few lines speak for themselves:
"I wish we never took this job, just... jacked everything up."
"What do you mean?"
"Think about all the hunts we went on, Sammy, our whole lives."
"Okay."
"What if we killed things that didn't deserve killing? You know? I mean, the way Dad raised us..."
"Dean, after what happened to Mom, Dad did the best he could."
"I know he did. But the man wasn't perfect. And the way he raised us, to hate those things. And man, I hate them. I do. When I killed that vampire at the mill I didn't even think about it. Hell, I even enjoyed it."
"You didn't kill Lenore."
"No, but every instinct told me to. I was gonna kill her. I was gonna kill them all."
"Yeah, Dean, but you didn't. And that's what matters."
"Yeah. Well, cause you're a pain in my ass."
"Guess I might have to stick around to be a pain in the ass then."
"Thanks."
"Don't mention it."
I think they just took a huge step in the right direction. And it's so good to be able to smile again when the screen turns black at the end of an episode.
I loved how the episode raised the supernatural ?= evil question and how it dealt with it. I was waiting for an episode on that topic.
We start - after the whole "then" part that is. Great "musicvideo" again - with a girl running through the woods. She's terrified. Someone's following her. She hides behind a tree. And just when she thinks she's save she loses her head. Literally.
Since I knew this episode was about vampire (I guess I'll never menage to stay completely spoiler free) I was like: Yeah, so she was a vampire and that guy that hunted her was the good guy. But even when you're sure you know what's going on Kripke and his crew will surprise you.
Then we see the boys on the road with the Impala the usual beginning of every good Supernatural epi... wait a second: The boys on the road with the Impala?! Wheeeee! She's back! Metallicar's back!
"Listen to her purr! Have you ever heard anything so sweet?"
"You know, if you two want to get a room just let me know, Dean."
"Oh, don't listen to him, baby. He doesn't understand us."
I love how Dean pets her steering wheel. Reminds me of the end of PotC. As I said to
dimturien Dean Winchester and Metallicar is like Captain Jack Sparrow and the Black Pearl. And yes, she does purr and hell, I missed that sound.
Sammy's new hairstyle... I got used to it pretty quickly. I somehow miss the emo mob but it's not too bad the way it is now.
Sam and Dean try to get information about some decapitations and cattle mutilations in Red Lodge, Montana. First they ask the local sheriff some questions posing as reporters, but they don't really seem to be able to remember the name of their newspaper
"World Weekly News..."
"Weekly World News."
"World..."
"Weekly World..."
"Weekly... I'm new."
Then they try their luck in the local hospital and after some minor problems - John, Jeff, doctor's on vacation - can take a look at the headless girl and her head and find out that she was a vampire. Seems like this is going to be a vampire hunt.
The boys meet Gordon Walker, a (vampire) hunter who says he once met John and who also tells them that he prefers to hunt alone.
He's lucky that the Winchesters don't really care what he wants and save him from a vampire beheading him with an electic saw. Uah! *shivers* Instead Dean kills the vampire with the saw and he seems to have way to much fun doing it. Plus the blood on his face... creepy. And Sam looks like he's anything but happy with this.
Gordon buys them a drink for saving him and he and Dean seem to get along really well while Sam still looks very uncomfortabel.
"You all right, Sammy?"
"I'm fine."
"Well, lighten up a little, Sammy."
"He's the only one who gets to call me that."
So, Dean officially is allowed to call him "Sammy" now?
Sam leaves so it's just Dean and his new best friend. Gordon tells him how he became a hunter and... Dean starts talking a bit about John and about how he feels. Wow! Gordon, you're a sadist but thanks for that.
"Yeah. Yeah, you know. He was just one of those guys. Took some terrible beatings, just kept coming. So you're always thinking to yourself, he's indestructible. He'll always be around, nothing can kill my dad. Then just like that he's gone. I can't talk about this to Sammy. You know, I gotta keep my game face on. But the truth is I'm not handling it very well."
It's pretty obvious but that's he first time he admits it. Perhaps he should try to not keep on his "game face" so much?
Meanwhile Sam calls Ellen to ask her about Gordon. That's a way I'd really be okay with the Roadhouse being part of the show, the boys turning to Ellen for some information now and then. Ellen tells him that Gordon is a good hunter but they should stay away from him because he's also dangerous.
There's just black and white for him no shades of gray.
Sam's outside the motel room getting a soda and he hears something. I think he also feels that something's wrong. Back in the motel room he get's attacked and kidnapped. Sammy, you're a psychic you should really, really trust your intuition.
My first thought: Dean will rescue him.
Sam finds himself in the vampire's nest tied up to a chair and facing Lenore (Amber!).
When she tells him that she just wants to talk of course he's more than sceptical.
"Talk? Yeah, okay, but I might have a tough time paying attention to much besides Eli's teeth."
"He won't hurt you either, you have my word."
"Your word? Oh yeah, great, thanks. Listen lady, no offense but you're not the first vampire I've met."
"We're not like the others. We don't kill humans, and we don't drink their blood. We haven't for a long time."
"What is this, some kind of joke?"
"Notice you're still alive."
She has a point. She tells him that they feed on cattle. Remember the cattle mutilations? Mystery solved.
"We have a right to live, we're not hurting anyone."
And again she has a point. Isn't the first part about the same thing Luthor said in "Dead Man's Blood" except that they did kill people?
To prove her point Lenore let's Sam go and says that they'll leave the same night.
Back at the motel Dean and Gordon are planing to hunt the vampires. Want him as a new partner, Dean?
Sam comes back and asks Dean if they can talk alone because he doesn't trust Gordon after what Ellen told him. But he has a hard time to convince Dean that the vampire's don't harm anyone.
"What part of 'vampires' don't you understand, Sam? If it's supernatural, we kill it, end of story. That's our job."
Wait a second. Sam has supernatural powers. So you're going to hunt him one day too? I'm just asking.
"No, Dean, that is not our job. Our job is hunting evil. And if these things aren't killing people, they're not evil!"
Exactly!
"He's a substitute for Dad, isn't he? A poor one. [...] He's not even close, Dean. Not on his best day. [...] You know, you slap on this big fake smile but I can see right through it. Because I know how you feel, Dean. Dad's dead. And he left a hole, and it hurts so bad you can't take it, but you can't just fill up that hole with whoever you want to. It's an insult to his memory."
Erm... ouch! That hurt. That was about the path Dean took in ElaC just Sam's way of it. Would you stop that, Sam?
Did Dean just hit Sam? Tell me he didn't! I so flinched. And Sammy for a short moment gets a WTF? look on his face before it turns to anger. Not anger like... anger but like calm completely in control anger. And then - deep breath - he buries that feeling. Not good. Or it fades again very quickly which sounds much better.
Gordon's gone and he took the keys of the Impala with him. But luckily Dean knows a thing or two about cars and Sam doesn't need to have seen the way to find it again.
When they arrive at the vampire's nest Gordon is in the middle of torturing Lenore and enjoying it. And even if she was evil that'd be too much. But Sam won't let him go on with that and Dean supports him because whatever happens no one theatens his brother.
We also learn that Gordon's sister hasn't been killed by vampires but turned into one and Gordon had to kill her. Charles Gunn, anyone?
Sam picks Lenore up and carries her out of the room. Beautiful picture, really.
She's the innocent and that's what hunting really is about (now) for Sam: Saving the innocent. Even if they are supernatural creatures. There are shades of grey after all.
Dean's completely on Sam's side on this now. Not neccessarily because he really believes that supernatural beings can be innocent but because he believes Sam. And he saw Lenore trying. And no matter what, what Gordon did was wrong.
"You're not like your brother. You're a killer, like me."
"You know, I might be like you, and I might not. But you're the one tied up right now."
Dean might in some way be like Gordon. But he has something... oh right, a sense of justice. And Sam.
When they exit the farm house Dean asks Sam to hit him. Of course Sam won't because that's just not how he is. But I guess that scene in front of the motel room: Forgiven and forgotten.
Dean starts questioning what he did his whole life because he now sees the shades of grey and they make things so much more complicated.
But I'll just let the last few lines speak for themselves:
"I wish we never took this job, just... jacked everything up."
"What do you mean?"
"Think about all the hunts we went on, Sammy, our whole lives."
"Okay."
"What if we killed things that didn't deserve killing? You know? I mean, the way Dad raised us..."
"Dean, after what happened to Mom, Dad did the best he could."
"I know he did. But the man wasn't perfect. And the way he raised us, to hate those things. And man, I hate them. I do. When I killed that vampire at the mill I didn't even think about it. Hell, I even enjoyed it."
"You didn't kill Lenore."
"No, but every instinct told me to. I was gonna kill her. I was gonna kill them all."
"Yeah, Dean, but you didn't. And that's what matters."
"Yeah. Well, cause you're a pain in my ass."
"Guess I might have to stick around to be a pain in the ass then."
"Thanks."
"Don't mention it."
I think they just took a huge step in the right direction. And it's so good to be able to smile again when the screen turns black at the end of an episode.
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Date: 2006-10-14 03:44 pm (UTC)Ach was, who cares.
Ich habs mir jetzt verkniffen zu lesen was in der Folge passiert *gg* So weit bin ich doch noch nicht. Habs gerade geschafft "In my time of dying" zu schauen und vielleicht komm ich heut abend noch zu "Everybody loves a clown" ... wenn ich meinen Pc am Schreibtisch wieder ab- und neben dem Bett aufgebaut hab *smirk*. Aber die Bilder .... hach ja. *herzchenaugen*
... Du weißt gar nicht was für einen riesengroßen Gefallen du mir mit deinem Geburtstagsgeschenk gemacht hast. Ich weiß nicht, wann ich mich das letzte mal so dermaßen gut gefühlt hab. Und das "nur" durch eine Serie. Ich werde auf ewig in deiner Schuld stehen Schatz! *ganzdollflausch* *sehrliebhab*
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Date: 2006-10-14 03:54 pm (UTC)Und? Du kannst doch nich einfach sagen, dass du Imtod geschaut hast, als wäre es nix besonderes. Ich meine... *miep*
Übrigens enthalten die Bilder auch Spoiler. So als Warnung, auch wenn das jetzt wohl etwas zu spät ist.
... Du weißt gar nicht was für einen riesengroßen Gefallen du mir mit deinem Geburtstagsgeschenk gemacht hast. Ich weiß nicht, wann ich mich das letzte mal so dermaßen gut gefühlt hab. Und das "nur" durch eine Serie. Ich werde auf ewig in deiner Schuld stehen Schatz! *ganzdollflausch* *sehrliebhab*
Sehr gern geschehen. *flausch*
Du solltest einen Dr. Kripke-Schrein bauen, dem haben wir das schließlich alles zu verdanken. ;)
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Date: 2006-10-14 04:01 pm (UTC)Hätte ich mich jetzt über die Folge ausgelassen, hätte das möglicherweise dein LJ gesprengt ;-) Außerdem muss ich die Folge irgendwie immer noch verarbeiten. Deswegen hab ich "Everybody loves a clown" auch nicht gleich danach geschaut. Ich meine das Dean überleben würde war mir irgendwie klar. Aber das Daddy Winchester am Ende stirbt ... du hast ja offensichtlich vorher schon Spoiler gelesen. Mich hat das ganz unvorbereitet getroffen. Ich meine ... *sniff*
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Date: 2006-10-14 04:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-14 04:17 pm (UTC)Nein, weil sich der Schluss dadurch ja nicht ändert. :-( Aber irgendwas war daran doch faul. Das geht doch nicht so einfach, dass er jetzt tot ist. Irgendwie fühl ich mich grad etwas wuschig im Kopf.
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Date: 2006-10-16 09:00 pm (UTC)Eine Achtelsekunde, bevor Dean zugeschlagen hat, dachte ich "Jetzt schlägt er zu." :ugly:
Auch wenn ich es schade finde, daß es wieder eher zum "Monster of the week"-Schema zurückfällt, gefällt mir die Zwickmühle, in die die Jungs geworfen wurden. Das ist mal was völlig anderes, grade mit der ersten Vampirfolge im Hinterkopf.
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Date: 2006-10-16 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-17 12:00 am (UTC)Aber *hmpf* ich will zurück zur Storyline mit dem Dämon :p ;) Naja, ist ja noch viel Zeit bis dahin...
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Date: 2006-10-17 08:07 pm (UTC):manwe: Es wurde aber auch zeit, man, das hab ich richtig vermisst!
Dean Winchester and Metallicar is like Captain Jack Sparrow and the Black Pearl.
*kicher* Wie war das noch gleich? "Dean will fix it!"?
And yes, she does purr and hell, I missed that sound.
Oh ja, aber - bin das nur ich, oder klingt sie irgendwie... Ich sag jetzt mal "entschlossener" als vorher? :gruebel:
Sammy's new hairstyle...
Das ist kein Hairstyle das ist hinter's Ohr geklemmt... :ugly:
Aber ich sehe gerade - guck mal, das letzte Pic von Sam - ich sehe einen Mop! :manwe:
John, Jeff, doctor's on vacation
Mich hat's zerrissen... Das John war nicht unabsichtlich gewählt... *wein*
So, Dean officially is allowed to call him "Sammy" now?
Na, wenn Dean das mal nicht wörtlich nimmt... *tihi*
It's pretty obvious but that's he first time he admits it. Perhaps he should try to not keep on his "game face" so much?
Finde ich auch. Ich denke, das würde beiden gut tun. Zum einem könnte Dean sich endlich mal ausheulen (sozusagen) und zum anderen wüsste Sam dann endlich, was wirklich mit seinem Bruder los ist. Eine Ahnung hat Sammy ja schon, aber eben auch nur eine Ahnung. Ausserdem wäre es für die brüderliche Beziehung bestimmt förderlich. :nick:
Wait a second. Sam has supernatural powers. So you're going to hunt him one day too? I'm just asking.
Oh, good point! Mir ist das nicht aufgefallen... Frag mich nicht warum, vielleicht, weil wir in den letzten Folgen nicht wirklich viel von Sams Fähigkeiten mitbekommen haben? Aber wirklich good point....
Did Dean just hit Sam?
Japp. Und genau das war das, wo Annette und ich beschlossen haben, dass Eric Kripke unsere SMS, Posts, PMs und LJ-Einträge liest.... :uhoh:
But I guess that scene in front of the motel room: Forgiven and forgotten.
Jepp. Sam ist eindeutig so. er ärgert sich kurz über seinen Bruder, steckt's dann aber weg und dann is für ihn auch wieder gut. Das hatte er ihm schon lange verziehen.
And it's so good to be able to smile again when the screen turns black at the end of an episode.
Ich hab auch grinsen können am Ende. Aber nicht so wie bei Staffel 1 (alles vor 1.21). Und weißt du wieso? Weil mich Deans letzter Blick - wo er direkt in die Kamera schaut - geängstigt hat... Frag mich nicht wieso. Ich überlege auch jetzt noch, was sie mit dem Blick aussagen wollten... Ob meine Theorie stimmt?
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Date: 2006-10-21 12:29 pm (UTC)Ich finde, sie glänzt auch mehr als früher. Und mir fällt gerade auf, dass ich immer noch keinen Metallicar-Icon habe.
Zum einem könnte Dean sich endlich mal ausheulen (sozusagen) und zum anderen wüsste Sam dann endlich, was wirklich mit seinem Bruder los ist.
Da hat Dean ja diese Woche endlich auf uns gehört und sich ein wenig bei Sam asugeheult.
Oh, good point! Mir ist das nicht aufgefallen... Frag mich nicht warum, vielleicht, weil wir in den letzten Folgen nicht wirklich viel von Sams Fähigkeiten mitbekommen haben? Aber wirklich good point....
Mir ist es deswegen aufgefallen, weil ich schon die ganze Zeit darauf warte, dass das Mal Thema wird. Dass Sam's Fähigkeiten ja im Grunde schon die ganze Zeit beweisen, dass nicht alles Übernatürliche automatisch böse sein muss.