Rounding Out Season One
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sesquipedaliaticThe end of the season totally snuck up on me. I suppose it helps that I skipped episodes here and there. Now that I've finished one, I'll put out the same call for help:
Which episodes of season two are going to scare me snotless? Which (if any) should I skip?
1x19 "Provenance"
Mr, I approve of your bow tie in a big way.
Is that painting coming to life?
That's not him, is it.
HAH. See? That's how you deal with a phone number. Cut to the scene AFTER the chick has given him the first part of the number.
Oh, Dean. You with the girls. And Sam. You with the BRAINS.
DID THAT LICENSE PLATE SAY "THE KRIP"? HAHA!
Rock on, art dealer chick, for testing Sam. And rock on, Sam, for knowing things.
Um. That's not the usual hotel room. Are we gonna get a why they seem to have the penthouse suite?
ETA: No, apparently not. Unless I blinked and missed something?
Aww, poor Sam. About as good with dating and romance as you are talking about your feelings.
(See, 'cause he tries sometimes but usually ends up stuttering his way through the attempt.)
HAH. Cat burglar!Winchesters! I appreciate the totally coking soundtrack to this scene, too.
That? That burning? That is not going to work.
Oh! Well that's not how I expected it to not work, but still.
Was that really a set up from Dean? WOW.
Ahahahaha! That was smooth, Sam. Way to deal well with the shock.
Throat slitting? That sounds about right.
Oh, hell. He was a barber.
*sings* Attend the tale of Sweeny Todd.
Crap. Now that'll be in my head the whole episode.
Oh, bones are dust. That's why the cremation was bad. Missed that connection.
WOW. That scene? That "why are you pimping me out to Sarah" bit, and the volley before Jessica came into the conversation? I can TOTALLY SEE THE SLASH.
Oh dear. And post Jess?
Sam: That's not all of it.
Dean: What else?
Sam: [significant look]
Dean: [understanding, equally significant look.]
Wincest shipper or no, DEAR LORD I CAN SEE WHERE IT COMES FROM.
"I think we're all right in the daylight"
So... something's gonna attack in broad daylight this ep, eh?
Hey, it's not raining! Though it is apparently cold and windy.
Little detail, but AWESOME. There actually was an eyelash at the corner of her eye! WELL DONE.
Ok, Sarah, I'm glad you're empowered and all, but Sam really does have a point. People around him have a disconcerting tendency to end up dead.
Maybe that makes me archaic, too.
Oh, Dean. So put upon when Sam makes you cut the love soundtrack.
The little girl! TOTALLY didn't see that one!
Um. How many times has Sam been attacked by furniture?
HAHAHAHAH! Dean pounding on the glass with the butt of his gun, not getting it, and turning to leave before actually saying "Come on, Dean" and shooting the glass out. A small but well written and well acted moment.
Lots of win!
Ok, the kiss was reeeeally cheesy but I kinda loved it. Does that make me a bad person?
1x20 "Dead Man's Blood"
Hmm... Lonely man making furious notes, is on edge confident, energetic people come in? Why, it's almost like he's an expert in the supernatural!
Also, he looks like he needs a hug.
"We have dinner plans"
What's the chance they're vampires, or some variant thereof?
All work and no play [with women] makes Sam adull boy more engaging character.
Wrote something in blood, didn't he. Come on, boys. You know he's a hunter. There you go, Dean!
AHAHAHA! Unexpected Daddy!
I love that the brothers face evil incarnate without flinching and yet Daddy Winchester can still make them both jump.
A falling out? Really Daddy Winchester? You? I can't imagine.
Vampires! Win!
Does every new vampire narrative have to begin with the clunkiest "lets establish the rules of our vampires" trope ever? Anything that begins with "most of the legends aren't true...."
Yay relentless pursuit of knowledge, Sam! Even if it was a thinly veiled attempt to get under Dad's skin.
WHOA. Sam's driving!?
I'm choosing to believe that Sam's driving has something to do with that nasty comment about the condition of the car.
Point of clarification: the gun that Dean normally carries around is a Colt, right? Is it THE Colt? Or is the gun that the vampires currently have The Colt? Or neither? Or am I making up the fact that there's a capital-T The Colt?
GO SAM! DON'T TAKE ANY CRAP!
I dunno if I'm supposed to be as annoyed by Daddy Winchester as I am, but MAN he gets under my skin.
Whoops! Not quiiiite as human as you expected, eh Sam?
Awww, touching and heartfelt moment between Sam and Dad.
Nice closure in the scene, too!
Sam: What did you do with the college money?
Dad: I spent it on ammo.
Sam: [Big grin]
I really love how Dean rolls his eyes when he gets slugged by the vampire chick.
Awwww, Sam!
Ok, I'm actually rather impressed with this scene. Sam's disappointed because Dad's planning to go off alone again. He feels betrayed because of the lovely conversation he and Dad had a few scenes before. And Dean sees Sam's point, steps up to both agree with Sam and disagree with Dad in one swell foop.
Random Vampire: [drinks, looks nervous]
Dean: Boo. [Has too much fun slicing the guy's head off]
Ya know, I really rather like Luther. The actor handed in a pleasantly fresh performance. Way to be tuned into the scene and make active choices, sir! I want to see more of him.
Well, guess that won't be happening.
Wow. That thing doesn't just kill bad guys, it kills the everloving daylights out of them!
(Heh. Daylights = flashy light fx when Luter died from Colt. I amuse myself.)
1x21 "Salvation"
Whoa! I'm almost done with season one.
Well that was fast.
I can't decided if the "Carry On, My Wayward Son" layered over the "our story so far" thing at the top of the episode.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
"I hear the voices when I'm dreaming" line matched with a shot of Sam's nightmare headache face and his dialogue about having dreams that come true.
Hang on. Basically what I just watched was a season one Supernatural fanvid.
Oh you again.
He has a point. How does she manage to be in the church?
WHOA! Priest of awesome! He might be a nice man to talk to, but he also has an armory in the back room!
Oooh, shit.
Sam was exactly 6 months old. And the demon goes after families with 6 month old infants.
Cue EPIC GUILT!
And way to go, Dean, for watching Sam's thought process there and jumping in before it could totally play out.
Salvation, Iowa? Really? Salvation? *headdesk*
Oh, that was Pastor Jim? Aww, now I like him even more! 'Cause he was nice to Little Sam and Little Dean!
Hey, Daddy Winchester apparently does have feelings!
While they're on the road, another question: Do they EVER get stuck in traffic? For all the epic driving around that they manage, they've past only a few handfuls of cars on the road.
Nice shot of the pile of IDs that Daddy Winchester thumbs through.
Well that's helpful, Sam's brain. The woman has brown hair and there's clown on the wall. Oh, wait. Train!
Heee! I'm really enjoying the "ohshit I have to sneeze and it burns" face that Sam makes when he gets clobbered by the vision headaches. He--
WAIT JUST A CROSSOVERY SECOND. THAT'S ERICA! As IN BEING ERICA!! Erin? Erin something with a K?
Oh. That's creepy! Clocks stopping never signifies anything good.
Um, this is a vision, right?
And that was definitely Meg. Distinctive haircut.
Yay Dean! Well said! Indeed, calling Daddy Winchester is usually pretty much useless.
Should I know who Caleb is?
Oh, maybe not.
Way to go with the figuring things out, Sam.
Interestingly, it seems that Sam, not Dean, is generally better at reading between the lines when Daddy Winchester says things.
Will Holy Water do anything if she can waltz right into a church?
Supernatural, aka Significant Looks Are Us
Why did we drop the cross in water? Will that somehow make it holy water?
Oh Dean. Your refusal to hear Sam's "thanks for supporting me; just thought I should tell you in case we kick it tonight" speech is so very endearing.
Am I supposed to recognize the dude who just walked around the corner with Meg? He looks vaguely familiar.
Meg, of course he shot you. It was the only logical way of figuring out if the gun was real.
Holy water it is, then!
Teeheehee!! Someone slashed his tires!
Oh, so you decided just to pick the lock to get into not!Erica's house? That'll go well.
Yup.
Come on, Sam. GO!
Ok, so maybe not Meg. Fine.
Wow, nice timing, Dean.
AWWWW!!
Sam: [tries to run into the burning house]
Dean: Going in there is suicide!
Sam: I don't care!
Dean: I do!
OH BOYS.
Ok, for all that I love the angsting, that scene went on a bit too long.
Though nice transition between Sam's "oh woe is me" and "ohshit must protect other people," Mr. Padalecki.
1x22 "Devil's Trap"
Hey, it's another fanvid!
I swear, whoever chooses music must have WAY TOO MUCH FUN.
Nice overlap of the last minute of last ep.
"More and more demons are walking among us"
Hey, that sounds like groundwork for later seasons.
"I know it's something big, and you and your daddy are in the middle of it."
AKA: plz to be renewing us! We have lots of cool ideas!
Um. Are we using this exorcism as torture? Suddenly, the pretty pretty Latin pronunciation seems a bit sour.
Won't finishing the exorcism help her?
Oh, got it now.
Get rid of the demon and you kill the girl AND lose your potential source of information.
I'm glad they're treating the effects of a seven story fall and a demonic possession with a sip of water and blankets.
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
DRAWING ON THE CAR!
I swear, every show I get addicted to involves drawing on inappropriate surfaces.
Um. That didn't quiiiite sound right.
This argument about bringing the gun or not is really quite interesting.
If they bring the gun, they may end up either using all the bullets thus rendering it useless or giving it up to the demon thus rendering it useless AND giving a Bad Thing a source of power.
But if they don't bring it, they might not be able to save Dad and/or themselves.
A well-presented argument for both sides in this case.
WTF! COLT!?
Aww, Dean. "what scares me most is all the people I'm ready to kill for you and Dad." Ok, I butchered that line, but that's the basics.
HAH. This family can't ever have a proper touching moment, can they?
Something's off.
Don't give him the gun!
K, actually pausing to type for the first time.
Dean's now facing someone who is either a) his father or b) the demon responsible for murdering his mother, Sam's girlfriend, and a bunch of other people. And he's about to shoot it with the Colt. Moments after uttering that line about being scared because he's ready to kill pretty much as necessary. The sub sub subtext here is that, even if he's not 100% sure this is the demon, he's likely gonna pull the trigger anyway. While I (and presumably most viewers) have figured out that it's not Daddy Winchester.
Mr Demon Man, telling them that Dad is still alive is given them a bit more to fight for.
Ew. The demon does have a point about killing families not really solving anything.
Bah, confused! There's a sound effect that I'm clearly supposed to be associating with a power of the demon's, but I can't figure out what it is. Stupid invisible powers.
Oh, that was cheap. The "how would you feel if I killed your family? Oh yeah, I did." line? You used that already, Writers. Earlier this episode, in fact.
HAH! Can't stand the monologuing, Dean? Well said.
Mr Demon Man: That's your MO, isn't it? Mask all the pain?
Heh.
And now the decision is Sam's. Nicely done show, balancing the decision making.
So Dean doesn't kill the demon/Dad and reaffirms his--
HOLY SHIT TRUCK WTF!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
That? That I DID NOT EXPECT!!!
AND THIS IS WHY I WATCH SHOWS AFTER THEY'VE AIRED!
Now that I've flapped my hands about for a bit, back to that though I was having before I was so rudely interrupted by UNEXPECTED TRUCK.
Dean doesn't shoot the demon/Dad and reaffirms his grasp on humanity, for lack of a better word. He's scared of heading down the "lean mean killing machine" path, and that choice proves he isn't there yet.
Sam doesn't shoot the Dad/demon and proves that he is not entirely consumed by revenge, that he can alter his priorities as necessary.
Am resisting the urge to start season two tonight, as I really should get some sleep. This weekend! This weekend will be for baking and reading and watching lots of things. *nods*
Which episodes of season two are going to scare me snotless? Which (if any) should I skip?
1x19 "Provenance"
Mr, I approve of your bow tie in a big way.
Is that painting coming to life?
That's not him, is it.
HAH. See? That's how you deal with a phone number. Cut to the scene AFTER the chick has given him the first part of the number.
Oh, Dean. You with the girls. And Sam. You with the BRAINS.
DID THAT LICENSE PLATE SAY "THE KRIP"? HAHA!
Rock on, art dealer chick, for testing Sam. And rock on, Sam, for knowing things.
Um. That's not the usual hotel room. Are we gonna get a why they seem to have the penthouse suite?
ETA: No, apparently not. Unless I blinked and missed something?
Aww, poor Sam. About as good with dating and romance as you are talking about your feelings.
(See, 'cause he tries sometimes but usually ends up stuttering his way through the attempt.)
HAH. Cat burglar!Winchesters! I appreciate the totally coking soundtrack to this scene, too.
That? That burning? That is not going to work.
Oh! Well that's not how I expected it to not work, but still.
Was that really a set up from Dean? WOW.
Ahahahaha! That was smooth, Sam. Way to deal well with the shock.
Throat slitting? That sounds about right.
Oh, hell. He was a barber.
*sings* Attend the tale of Sweeny Todd.
Crap. Now that'll be in my head the whole episode.
Oh, bones are dust. That's why the cremation was bad. Missed that connection.
WOW. That scene? That "why are you pimping me out to Sarah" bit, and the volley before Jessica came into the conversation? I can TOTALLY SEE THE SLASH.
Oh dear. And post Jess?
Sam: That's not all of it.
Dean: What else?
Sam: [significant look]
Dean: [understanding, equally significant look.]
Wincest shipper or no, DEAR LORD I CAN SEE WHERE IT COMES FROM.
"I think we're all right in the daylight"
So... something's gonna attack in broad daylight this ep, eh?
Hey, it's not raining! Though it is apparently cold and windy.
Little detail, but AWESOME. There actually was an eyelash at the corner of her eye! WELL DONE.
Ok, Sarah, I'm glad you're empowered and all, but Sam really does have a point. People around him have a disconcerting tendency to end up dead.
Maybe that makes me archaic, too.
Oh, Dean. So put upon when Sam makes you cut the love soundtrack.
The little girl! TOTALLY didn't see that one!
Um. How many times has Sam been attacked by furniture?
HAHAHAHAH! Dean pounding on the glass with the butt of his gun, not getting it, and turning to leave before actually saying "Come on, Dean" and shooting the glass out. A small but well written and well acted moment.
Lots of win!
Ok, the kiss was reeeeally cheesy but I kinda loved it. Does that make me a bad person?
1x20 "Dead Man's Blood"
Hmm... Lonely man making furious notes, is on edge confident, energetic people come in? Why, it's almost like he's an expert in the supernatural!
Also, he looks like he needs a hug.
"We have dinner plans"
What's the chance they're vampires, or some variant thereof?
All work and no play [with women] makes Sam a
Wrote something in blood, didn't he. Come on, boys. You know he's a hunter. There you go, Dean!
AHAHAHA! Unexpected Daddy!
I love that the brothers face evil incarnate without flinching and yet Daddy Winchester can still make them both jump.
A falling out? Really Daddy Winchester? You? I can't imagine.
Vampires! Win!
Does every new vampire narrative have to begin with the clunkiest "lets establish the rules of our vampires" trope ever? Anything that begins with "most of the legends aren't true...."
Yay relentless pursuit of knowledge, Sam! Even if it was a thinly veiled attempt to get under Dad's skin.
WHOA. Sam's driving!?
I'm choosing to believe that Sam's driving has something to do with that nasty comment about the condition of the car.
Point of clarification: the gun that Dean normally carries around is a Colt, right? Is it THE Colt? Or is the gun that the vampires currently have The Colt? Or neither? Or am I making up the fact that there's a capital-T The Colt?
GO SAM! DON'T TAKE ANY CRAP!
I dunno if I'm supposed to be as annoyed by Daddy Winchester as I am, but MAN he gets under my skin.
Whoops! Not quiiiite as human as you expected, eh Sam?
Awww, touching and heartfelt moment between Sam and Dad.
Nice closure in the scene, too!
Sam: What did you do with the college money?
Dad: I spent it on ammo.
Sam: [Big grin]
I really love how Dean rolls his eyes when he gets slugged by the vampire chick.
Awwww, Sam!
Ok, I'm actually rather impressed with this scene. Sam's disappointed because Dad's planning to go off alone again. He feels betrayed because of the lovely conversation he and Dad had a few scenes before. And Dean sees Sam's point, steps up to both agree with Sam and disagree with Dad in one swell foop.
Random Vampire: [drinks, looks nervous]
Dean: Boo. [Has too much fun slicing the guy's head off]
Ya know, I really rather like Luther. The actor handed in a pleasantly fresh performance. Way to be tuned into the scene and make active choices, sir! I want to see more of him.
Well, guess that won't be happening.
Wow. That thing doesn't just kill bad guys, it kills the everloving daylights out of them!
(Heh. Daylights = flashy light fx when Luter died from Colt. I amuse myself.)
1x21 "Salvation"
Whoa! I'm almost done with season one.
Well that was fast.
I can't decided if the "Carry On, My Wayward Son" layered over the "our story so far" thing at the top of the episode.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
"I hear the voices when I'm dreaming" line matched with a shot of Sam's nightmare headache face and his dialogue about having dreams that come true.
Hang on. Basically what I just watched was a season one Supernatural fanvid.
Oh you again.
He has a point. How does she manage to be in the church?
WHOA! Priest of awesome! He might be a nice man to talk to, but he also has an armory in the back room!
Oooh, shit.
Sam was exactly 6 months old. And the demon goes after families with 6 month old infants.
Cue EPIC GUILT!
And way to go, Dean, for watching Sam's thought process there and jumping in before it could totally play out.
Salvation, Iowa? Really? Salvation? *headdesk*
Oh, that was Pastor Jim? Aww, now I like him even more! 'Cause he was nice to Little Sam and Little Dean!
Hey, Daddy Winchester apparently does have feelings!
While they're on the road, another question: Do they EVER get stuck in traffic? For all the epic driving around that they manage, they've past only a few handfuls of cars on the road.
Nice shot of the pile of IDs that Daddy Winchester thumbs through.
Well that's helpful, Sam's brain. The woman has brown hair and there's clown on the wall. Oh, wait. Train!
Heee! I'm really enjoying the "ohshit I have to sneeze and it burns" face that Sam makes when he gets clobbered by the vision headaches. He--
WAIT JUST A CROSSOVERY SECOND. THAT'S ERICA! As IN BEING ERICA!! Erin? Erin something with a K?
Oh. That's creepy! Clocks stopping never signifies anything good.
Um, this is a vision, right?
And that was definitely Meg. Distinctive haircut.
Yay Dean! Well said! Indeed, calling Daddy Winchester is usually pretty much useless.
Should I know who Caleb is?
Oh, maybe not.
Way to go with the figuring things out, Sam.
Interestingly, it seems that Sam, not Dean, is generally better at reading between the lines when Daddy Winchester says things.
Will Holy Water do anything if she can waltz right into a church?
Supernatural, aka Significant Looks Are Us
Why did we drop the cross in water? Will that somehow make it holy water?
Oh Dean. Your refusal to hear Sam's "thanks for supporting me; just thought I should tell you in case we kick it tonight" speech is so very endearing.
Am I supposed to recognize the dude who just walked around the corner with Meg? He looks vaguely familiar.
Meg, of course he shot you. It was the only logical way of figuring out if the gun was real.
Holy water it is, then!
Teeheehee!! Someone slashed his tires!
Oh, so you decided just to pick the lock to get into not!Erica's house? That'll go well.
Yup.
Come on, Sam. GO!
Ok, so maybe not Meg. Fine.
Wow, nice timing, Dean.
AWWWW!!
Sam: [tries to run into the burning house]
Dean: Going in there is suicide!
Sam: I don't care!
Dean: I do!
OH BOYS.
Ok, for all that I love the angsting, that scene went on a bit too long.
Though nice transition between Sam's "oh woe is me" and "ohshit must protect other people," Mr. Padalecki.
1x22 "Devil's Trap"
Hey, it's another fanvid!
I swear, whoever chooses music must have WAY TOO MUCH FUN.
Nice overlap of the last minute of last ep.
"More and more demons are walking among us"
Hey, that sounds like groundwork for later seasons.
"I know it's something big, and you and your daddy are in the middle of it."
AKA: plz to be renewing us! We have lots of cool ideas!
Um. Are we using this exorcism as torture? Suddenly, the pretty pretty Latin pronunciation seems a bit sour.
Won't finishing the exorcism help her?
Oh, got it now.
Get rid of the demon and you kill the girl AND lose your potential source of information.
I'm glad they're treating the effects of a seven story fall and a demonic possession with a sip of water and blankets.
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
DRAWING ON THE CAR!
I swear, every show I get addicted to involves drawing on inappropriate surfaces.
Um. That didn't quiiiite sound right.
This argument about bringing the gun or not is really quite interesting.
If they bring the gun, they may end up either using all the bullets thus rendering it useless or giving it up to the demon thus rendering it useless AND giving a Bad Thing a source of power.
But if they don't bring it, they might not be able to save Dad and/or themselves.
A well-presented argument for both sides in this case.
WTF! COLT!?
Aww, Dean. "what scares me most is all the people I'm ready to kill for you and Dad." Ok, I butchered that line, but that's the basics.
HAH. This family can't ever have a proper touching moment, can they?
Something's off.
Don't give him the gun!
K, actually pausing to type for the first time.
Dean's now facing someone who is either a) his father or b) the demon responsible for murdering his mother, Sam's girlfriend, and a bunch of other people. And he's about to shoot it with the Colt. Moments after uttering that line about being scared because he's ready to kill pretty much as necessary. The sub sub subtext here is that, even if he's not 100% sure this is the demon, he's likely gonna pull the trigger anyway. While I (and presumably most viewers) have figured out that it's not Daddy Winchester.
Mr Demon Man, telling them that Dad is still alive is given them a bit more to fight for.
Ew. The demon does have a point about killing families not really solving anything.
Bah, confused! There's a sound effect that I'm clearly supposed to be associating with a power of the demon's, but I can't figure out what it is. Stupid invisible powers.
Oh, that was cheap. The "how would you feel if I killed your family? Oh yeah, I did." line? You used that already, Writers. Earlier this episode, in fact.
HAH! Can't stand the monologuing, Dean? Well said.
Mr Demon Man: That's your MO, isn't it? Mask all the pain?
Heh.
And now the decision is Sam's. Nicely done show, balancing the decision making.
So Dean doesn't kill the demon/Dad and reaffirms his--
HOLY SHIT TRUCK WTF!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
That? That I DID NOT EXPECT!!!
AND THIS IS WHY I WATCH SHOWS AFTER THEY'VE AIRED!
Now that I've flapped my hands about for a bit, back to that though I was having before I was so rudely interrupted by UNEXPECTED TRUCK.
Dean doesn't shoot the demon/Dad and reaffirms his grasp on humanity, for lack of a better word. He's scared of heading down the "lean mean killing machine" path, and that choice proves he isn't there yet.
Sam doesn't shoot the Dad/demon and proves that he is not entirely consumed by revenge, that he can alter his priorities as necessary.
Am resisting the urge to start season two tonight, as I really should get some sleep. This weekend! This weekend will be for baking and reading and watching lots of things. *nods*