The Winchester Family Business

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I´m sorry...

After I was finished, I just couldn´t help it, to write more.

I´m horrible like that

Citizen Fang
Blood Brother
Southern Comfort
Bitten
What's Up Tiger Mommy
A Little Slice of Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Heartache
Hunteri Heroici

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It´s hard to rankthe individual episodes, because every episode has been good, in their own way and none has been bad or boring.
And all have been outstanding one way or another.
While Bitten had not much to give in terms of brotherly moments, the overall story was heartbreaking and just steamrolling you into a breakdown from a deceptively slow start. Usually I´m not one for found footage episodes, but this one just used it perfectly to highlight the underlying emotion. Be it college kids fooling around, fear or simply deadly determination.

Even Hunteri Heroici has a place in my heart, though I ranked it last. Cas just tore my heart out.

But among my favorites, two stand out:

Citizen Fang and Blood Brother.

Which has less to do with Benny, but with an overall dark feel, that was just quintessentially Supernatural.
Absolutely stunning camerawork and directing, great pacing, top notch acting, lots of emotion and suspense.

Blood Brother was the one episode, where I felt both Sam and Dean´s FBs to be perfectly integrated into the episode, easily flowing in a great back and forth, that set them apart in their respective emotional places.
It managed to be an episode about the brothers, though both were apart for most of it.



Citizen Fang
- emotionally scarring, yet beautiful, great acting, great conflict, beautiful visuals and Benny

Blood Brother
- great emotion from all involved, tightly packed, absolutely stunning visuals and directing

Southern Comfort - emotional fun ride, very old school, falling in love with Garth, flowing very smooth and fast paced

Bitten
- it gripped me and didn´t let me go again, it hurt and it hurt oh so good

What's Up Tiger Mommy
A Little Slice of Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin


- I´ve packed those three together, because in my mind, they are just one bulk of episodes. With the same style, the same pacing, the same overall visuals.
They have some great scenes, scratch that... classic scenes, but over all are a little too jerky for my liking.
And I don´t really like the visuals. They´re too bright. Can´t get used to the normal saturation and bright daylight scenes in SPN. That doesn´t feel SPN to me.
But still... Crowley! Samandriel (poor Baby), Dean/Cas and Sammy so painfully alone...

Heartache
- solid episode, with some great visuals and that letter reading moment was breathtaking. I absolutely loved Eleanor and their second talk to her. So telling and a great Sam moment.

Hunteri Heroici
- another good one. Good emotional scenes. Funny scenes. Great quotes.
Not my favorite though. It just wasn´t my kind of episode.
Though I loved the heartache, that was Cas and how he tried to be someone else... and failed so tragically.
And that ending scene? Must have been one of the most beautiful of the whole series.

I wouldn't rate any of them worthy of a second look. I'm glad that you can enjoy this season but for me it's as bad as season 7 was.

Blood Brother
Hunteri Heroici
We Need To Talk About Kevin
A Little Slice of Kevin
Southern Comfort
Citizen Fang
What's Up, Tiger Mommy?
Heartache
Bitten

1. Citizen Fang
2. We Need To Talk About Kevin
3. Southern Comfort
4. A Little Slice of Kevin
5. Blood Brother
6. What's Up, Tiger Mommy?
7. Hunteri Heroici
8. Heartache
9. Bitten

Citizen Fang
Blood Brother
We Need to Talk About Kevin
What's Up, Tiger Mommy
Hunteri Heroici
A Little Slice of Kevin
Heartache
Southern Comfort
Bitten - Awful

I used to not be able to stand the long wait during the hiatus, but not so much for the last few years. I'm not overwhelmed with S8, but I do think there has been some interesting stuff done in it and that it remains good TV with excellent production aspects and excellent acting, not just from the J2s and Ty O., but from most of the support cast too.

I loved the Purgatory stuff. That's where the action was. Sorry that's over. I'm loving this new Dean and hope he sticks around. Absolutely hate the Samelia stuff, as it brings every episode to a complete stop. I can't decide if it's Days of Our Sucky Lives or General Hospital, but it's made of the stuff that even network TV is giving up on. I'm hoping that Carver drops that storyline completely with the upcoming episode and Amelia never graces my TV screen again.

From what I've read, I'm not jumping with anticipation for any of the upcoming episodes, especially the Charlie one, but I do like a weekly Winchester fix.

i haven't cared much for the first half of season 8. i liked hunteri heroici and a little slice of kevin. southern comfort wasn't so bad. but as for the rest of the season, i'll wait for the second half to see if i can ever go back and rewatch any of the first half eppys. i really don't care for the way sam's story is yet again not being told and all we get is to see things the way dean sees them. it's old and tiresome, but i've gotten used to it. so here's hoping we get some sam insight in the second half of the season.

Here's my list:
Citzen Fang
A Little Slice of Kevin
Blood Brother
Bitten
Southern Comfort
Heartache
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Hunter Heroici
What's Up, Tiger Mommy?

So far, I'm loving S8. IMO It's a big improvement over last year. I like all the flashbacks. I'm seeing Dean and Sam's point of view on things that happened to them while they were apart. It's giving me more insight.

I am truly loving this season so this task was quite difficult. Even the episodes that are on the bottom of my list I would happily watch again and have done so several times.
I feel that I am getting both Sam and Dean's perspective and although it is a bit confusing at time and I am left wanting more, I am very happy to wait and see what the writers have in store for us. I am a happy Supernatural viewer.
It is interesting to see viewers preferences and how different they are, at all relates back to the 'perception' thing I guess.

1. Citizen Fang
2. Blood Brother
3. Southern Comfort
4. A Little Slice of Kevin
5. We Need To Talk About Kevin
6. What's Up Tiger Mommy
7. Heartache
8. Bitten
9. Hunteri Heroici

Well, this is mine.

Blood Brother
A Little Slice Of Kevin
What's Up Tiger Mommy!
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Citizen Fang
Hunteri Heroici
Bitten
Southern Comfort
Hearthache

I still can't warm up to Amelia. I don't know why. Perhaps because she has no chemistry with Sam whatsoever. I even love Lisa for Dean. There's something between them but Amelia and Sam reminds me of Dean and Cassie. So good with their own character but clashes with one another. Sam can't seem to empathy with her pain and her effort to empathy with Sam looks faked and forced. Perhaps it's intentional just to show that both of them are damaged? And no two damaged people should be together because they'll destroy each other? Or is it the casting problem?