Let's Speculate: Unforgiven
Saturday, 12 February 2011 00:31 | Last Updated on Saturday, 12 February 2011 00:49 | Written by Ardeospina | 
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Warning!!!! If you haven’t seen the latest episode of “Supernatural” and the preview for next week, do not read this! There is going to be plot-based speculation and discussion! You’ve been officially warned!
All right, seriously, please pay attention to that warning above if you haven’t watched the entire episode and seen the ending because you have to see it unspoiled. I’m not kidding about this!
Okay, if you’ve made it this far, I assume you’ve seen the ending and it’s now safe to talk about it. So let’s talk about it!
Worst. Flashback. Ever.
I have to say, I did not see that coming. Sam seized and had a flashback to hell. Holy crap. That is really, really not good. And by “not good,” I mean catastrophically bad. This was Sam’s lesson about what happens when you scratch at the wall. He felt the need to fix his mistakes on that case, which is a very Sam thing to do. But look what it cost him. I can only hope that he really learns a lesson from this and leaves the wall alone! Man!
Now, in last week’s speculation article, I said the following:
“Any bets on how long before Sam remembers something from Hell? I think no longer than two episodes. Yep, sorry, everyone who hoped the “Great Wall of Sam” was going to last the rest of the season. My money is on some crumbling and soon.”
No longer than two episodes. But wow, I really didn’t think it would be the next frigging one! Poor guy can’t catch a break.
(Note from Alice: I remember in Mo Ryan's recent interview with Sera Gamble, Sera answered a question with "There's a reason why we left him screaming." OMG! That's what was happening when his soul was put back into place. Yikes!)
Arachnophobia
Anybody think Sam will want to hunt down as many arachnes as possible or do you think that’s going to be a loose end? I think it’s probably going to have to be a loose end, unfortunately. But it would be kind of cool to stumble across another one at some point in the season.
Nobody puts the Impala in a corner
Did you all see the brief flash of Impala chasing Dean in the preview for next week? Holy Pilot flashback, Batman! Also, whatever is doing the possession is so going to get its ass killed for that. You don’t mess with a Winchester’s wheels, man!
All right, seriously, that’s all I’ve got this week. I enjoyed the episode and thought the structure was really cool. And don’t even get me started on how awesome the flashbacks were. You’ll all hear about them ad nauseam in my visual review, I think. Anyway, what did you all think of that ending?
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I liked the way the flashbacks were done. I had actually hoped that they would have called Samuel for help, however, Dean would have had to go back on his promise then, so, maybe not.
I'm liking that Dean is no longer "my way or the highway" with Sam and actually supporting Sam's choices even if he doesn't like them.
Definitely an episode that deserves a re-watch.
The arachne's eyes were scarier than YED's and we got half of bitch/jerk.
And Dean treating Sam like an adult was great.
Sam's hell flashback was terrifying...I just sat there with my mouth hanging open.
Grandpa did absolutely nothing to improve my opinion of him.
Can't wait for next week...desperate to see Dean in a fight with a mannequin.
It's a huge gap and somewhere along the way all three of them are going to have to face each other again but I'm hoping they can bridge it. Samuel NEEDS to see his REAL grandsons and get rid of his misconception of them. His desperate need for his daughter back shows me he's not handling the modern times very well.
All in all, another episode I love. The ending just about killed me. I did find myself screaming at my TV "NOT THE WALL!" Who does that? I've never done that with a show...ever! Man I love this show....
Guess the boys will start to think that Sammy can handle it somehow after this first seizure and that Dean won't worry that much anymore.
Fight with a mannequin have to see that one.
I can't believe Samuel actually just stood there as Sam opened fired... Dean would have kicked his ass
I can't wait for the next episode and most of all 'The French Mistake' !!
As form Sam, I don't think it's the wall coming down (not yet). It's meant to be a warning to Sam to stop scratching. Maybe he's gonna have seizures everytime he forces his mind too much. I wonder if we'll be seeing Adam in one of his visions.
I wouldn't worry about a Season 7. Chances are extremely good it's happening.
When I saw the clips for next week, I thought 'not the Impala'.
Why does everyone(thing) that loves Dean get processed?
I agree with AndreaW, the wall is not coming down (that is for episode 22, we all know how the ptb like to torture us over the summer), but there is now a small crack in it.
Loving the second half of the season.
Sorry. I’m a bit ‘wow’ after this episode. I was really looking forward to this one, Robo v Soul. Soul wins hands down. While RoboSam was kinda hot, after seeing this, he wigs me out. I think I’d even be afraid to feel him up at this stage. (I’m having a hard time connecting the different versions of Soulless Sam we’ve seen so far. The Sam we saw in Unforgiven is so far removed from anything we’ve seen up until this point.)
It’s strange, what Roy said to Sam, that instead of killing one monster, he just created more. It ties in with ‘Appointment in Samaria’, where we saw, and Death told Dean, how the boys upset the natural order of things. Is it fair to ask, would we be better off without them? Think back to AHBL; without the boys, there would be fewer demons free. When Lucifer was freed, the creatures started acting strange. In the overall scheme of things, do the boys make things worse? Just wondering....
The crack in the wall appeared a hell of a lot earlier than I thought. (I originally predicted last episode of the season. That makes me, in terms of predictions, 0 from 15, a new record!) This adds a whole new dimension to the rest of the series for me now because the next 9 episodes will be spent thinking about that fecking wall. And in fairness, Death? Next time you’ve a free weekend, maybe spend it in some sort of DIY class cos dude, that wall had the staying power of wet toilet paper.
The shot of the Pit caught me completely by surprise because with less than 20 seconds to go, I was winding down thinking ‘Damn, that was good’ when all of a sudden, wham. Those final few seconds left me kind of ‘Holy crap, did I actually see that...’
I was just thinking (and I’ve only seen it the once, need to do a rewatch), the shot of Dean in hell showed the vastness of where he was. It’s like he was completely alone in this huge empty space(?) whereas with Sam it was so confined, like he was in a wee box. I really don’t like fire; I don’t like it at all. (So I guess hell is cold, but the pit is damn hot. Either that or Michael and Lucifer were just flambéing Sam for fun?)
What made it worse is that Sam didn’t seem surprised by what was happening; he didn’t struggle, he almost seemed resigned to it at this stage. That also freaks me out.
I love the boys ‘packing’; they just ball everything up and shove it into a bag, yet their clothes are always perfect! Do they have an iron in the truck of the Impala? I swear, that thing must be like Hermiones purse in The Deathly Hollows. Everything bar the kitchen sink...
Also, mar, je suis dumbass, what did Sera Gamble mean by ‘There’s a reason we left him screaming’. Is it that Sam’s soul was being burned when Death entered the Cage and yanked it out so the remnants of that were what was shoved back in him? So that wasn't just a random day in the Pit then? (Sorry, it’s been a long day and I can’t think properly at the moment...)
Thanks for this, Ardeospina, I’m now off to rewatch. Enjoy your visual review!
Still, what happened here to me only proves that RoboSam was not really an "awesome hunter", because apparently he ended up making things worse through his lack of empathy. And all Sam was left to do here was pick up the pieces.
As for AHBL, I know they have always accepted responsibility for "freeing" the demons. I don´t agree, though. If they hadn´t been there, it would still have happened, Jake would have let the demons out and no one would have closed the gate. So while many demons did get out, they actually prevented more of them from escaping.
And the angels and demons would have found another righteous man to break in hell and different vessels for Lucifer and Michael, and things would probably have gone far worse.
So while they are indeed disrupting the order, I believe that they are making a difference, for the better.
Quite agree with you on the episode
Using Roy for bait and not telling him, yeah that was wrong on all levels.
But blaming Sam for more monsters that Roy (and the others) created is not related to his soulessness. The more monsters all relates back to not beheading the original male victims.
what you say is true, but what he did do was first of all make Roy into a another victim and secondly treat him in a way that the latter felt justified in creating more victims - the girls RoboSam had had sex with - in order to get to Sam. And Sam´s "inappropriate" choice of time and place for having sex made victims of those girls, indirectly, but still.
Of course there is no way of knowing what would have happened and what Roy would have done if they had all escaped but Roy hadn´t felt the need to take revenge on Sam.
I still feel that his lack of empathy made a bad situation worse, even though the bad situation wasn´t his fault.
I got to see Dean actually blink his beautiful eyes at lovely lady again - oh please bring back our flirty Dean!!
But Sam - I was prepared for angst but the ending was just plain HOLY CRAP! I was actually on the edge of my seat, mouth wide open, thinking NO .. NO WAY!
As for the possessed Impala (which is really the only thing I can remember because that was the most important part) for next weeks episode - IF ANYONE GOES NEAR HER WITH SALT I'LL SHOOT FIRST .. just sayin' it now!
The shot of the Pit caught me completely by surprise because with less than 20 seconds to go, I was winding down thinking ‘Damn, that was good’ when all of a sudden, wham. Those final few seconds left me kind of ‘Holy crap, did I actually see that...’
I was just thinking (and I’ve only seen it the once, need to do a rewatch), the shot of Dean in hell showed the vastness of where he was. It’s like he was completely alone in this huge empty space(?) whereas with Sam it was so confined, like he was in a wee box. I really don’t like fire; I don’t like it at all. (So I guess hell is cold, but the pit is damn hot. Either that or Michael and Lucifer were just flambéing Sam for fun?)
Similar thoughts as Tim the enchanter's were running through my head. Sam looked huge compared to the cage..
I agreed with you Arde about the wall thing being sooner rather than later. I think it's going to be an ongoing thing and the end of the season will bring its collapse and an agonizing summer of wondering how they are going to put HumptySam back together again.
Great article, as always!
Where is the darn continuity?
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