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Addendum to my previous comment: Samantha Smith owned this episode. The rawness she brought to Mary is palpable.
Not sure if I am waiting for the finale because it might be good or that it will put a painful year to an end. Some episodes this season are terrific, but the overall arc of BMOL is not supernatural just twisted folks unless there is a twist. Crowley being in league with BMOL not surprising but he seems taken aback at the thought of giving up his Moose and Squirrel. He does have an affinity for rodents...so that rat following his corpse tells us he transferred himself perhaps prior to the coup de grace. Season feels like a bridge season to a Lucifer big bad? I knew Eileen was going to get killed. Strong, female, likes Sam, Sam likes her.. yup fits SPN pattern. I do appreciate "Sam's tear" when viewing Eileen's corpse. It was a set up episode for the finales and not sure I can re-watch it. This writing duo never does the show justice, seriously. Never thought I would want Dabb to give it up and give us back Carver. Feeling with low ratings, last year may be it for show. J2 have to feel it, but being so busy with new babies this year, perhaps it was easier to just act the script given. Maybe the finales can redeem the season.
We are not supposed to like Toni B are we? I've been waiting all season for her to get Winchestered. Love that possibility. I still try to believe that Mary has been written in a way where we are ambivalent towards her both in her mothering skills and her decision to go with the BMOL so that the viewer is taken along her journey and that by the finale she is redeemed. The dialogue about children seeing parents as flawed when the children become adults speaks volumes about Dean's POV, if the writers stay the course. Dean talking about being numb and then it is going to hurt when witch/hunter loses his family haunts me. Yes, Dean lost his Dad and Sam many times and Bobby and Charlie and in some fashion Lisa and Ben, but he is different now. And yet he still yearns for Mary's involvement in his life to heal that emotional void. Sometimes there is foreshadow that is obvious as in the torture of the shifter in Mary's form, and then there are misleading foreshadows planted that are dead ends. Dean seems to be in reflective mode-hand to chin in a thinker's pose, admitting he is wonky with stuff on the voice mail. Sam seems to be action packed in being the one to go to the restaurant, to get the whooping, and he is physically spent whereas Dean is emotionally spent. Makes sense. Dean actually had his mother as a child so he knows what he is missing. Not so much Sam. Liked that Sam told Dean to go down the stairs into the shed first.
Yockey gets that the show is character driven. Speight's direction is spotless. Sam's tossled hair and Dean's red shirt. Garth
is still hunting...so far.Liked the lifted line from the pilot about a parent being on a hunting trip. Liked the comment about growing up = seeing parents as flawed- DEAN getting there? Predictable that Mary would underestimate Ketch not playing fair. Lady B still has to get her comeupance for what she did to Sam. Sleepy time Sam- he took a bruising this episode. How the hell did Dean get his gun when he was under that spell? Its #Supernatural!