By demand, plus boredom this afternoon at work, I present the season two awards. You know, the awards I would have handed out at the end of season two if I was actually blogging AND watching the show. Better late than never I always say.
The season two awards are particularly challenging. One single event easily takes many of these categories. It was that earth shattering. You know which one I’m talking about. So, except for the Best Winchester Death category (since Dean was technically only on life support), Sam dying in Dean’s arms will be disqualified from all categories other than that one.
So, here we go, the best, worst, and whatever of season two.
Best Winchester Death: Sammy! Noooooo!
Most Gruesome Villain Death:
Wow, there weren’t any spectacular villain deaths this season. Azazel’s death came up lame, and even Sam plugging Madison was off camera. So, since the key words are “gruesome” and “villain,” I’d say the rogue writer at the end of “Hollywood Babylon.” Getting your guts ripped out while alive by three vengeful ghosts fits the bill.
Best MOTW (Monster of The Week):
The Trickster of course. Any creature powerful enough to stage a gut busting alien abduction and get two Victoria’s Secret models to beat the crap out of Dean complete with strobe light and round bed in the background wins with me. Plus, I appreciate his love of chocolate.
Worst MOTW:
H.H. Holmes. The ghost of America’s first serial killer? Seriously? Only a racist truck makes that seem less ridiculous.
Best Appearance of Sam Winchester’s Hair:
All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2. Only when Sam was a corpse though. Go figure, it took death for Sam to finally become well groomed. That hair was back in his face the second he popped back to life.
Worst Appearance of Sam Winchester’s Hair:
“In My Time Of Dying.” What a flyaway mess. Granted, he had other issues considering he was the only Winchester left standing after the car wreck, but that still made it a bad hair day.
Best Badass Moment:
I know you want to say Dean killing Azazel, but that whole graveyard scene was a bonafide mess. Too much chopped up green screen for my tastes. I’m going with an amped up Dean in “Bloodlust” sawing the vampire’s head off while blood spurts all over his face. Sure, Dean was bat shit crazy at the time, but isn’t that when he’s the most badass?
Best Torture of a Winchester:
Dean is the clear winner this season. Man was he put through the ringer. Heck, the season even started with him in a coma on life support being chased by a reaper. I first couldn’t decide if it would be him being tied up and held by Gordon Walker who waited to kill a rescuing Sam or being shot and beaten badly by Meg while possessing Sam. Ultimately though, how can you not go with what the Djinn did to him in “What Is And What Should Never Be?” His torture went way beyond being strung up and slowly bled to death over days. Very little has proved to be more devastating to Dean than having his dream family life and then have to give that up. That’ll stick with him forever.
Best Ending To An Episode:
Duh, “Nightshifter.” Still probably the best of the series.
Worst Ending To An Episode:
“Croatoan.” Why? Granted for me this wasn’t an issue since I first saw this on DVD, but from what I heard from others, after the episode, which ended with the cliffhanger of Dean finally ready to tell Sam John’s final words, the show went on hiatus for four weeks. That’s awful! What else was awful, while the reveal was interesting, it didn’t justify that much torture for those that had to wait.
Most Gruesome Injury:
This one doesn’t come from a character this season. No, the honor belongs to Jared Padalecki himself. There’s been so many variations of this story, but this is how I understand it happened.
Apparently in season one Jared injured his wrist and/or hand in a bar fight that also involved Jensen (they were attacked). He must have broken it or severely stressed it, because it healed wrong, so when filming “Bloodlust” (the scene where he’s knocked out in the motel room by the vampires), he fell wrong and broke it. The trouble was, he didn’t know it was broken until filming “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things.” By that time, the script was committed, so he had to film without a cast. They wrote the “I think I broke my hand,” in at the end, and for the next 7 episodes Sam wore a cast. Also, did you notice the not much Sam in “No Exit?” Poor Jared was having surgery on the wrist.
Best Use of Classic Rock:
Duh, “Nightshifter.” Still probably the best of the series. To think I wasn’t fond of Styx’s “Renegade” until this. Honorable mention goes to that mind-bending creepy opening montage to “White Rabbit” in “Hunted.”
Best Quote:
My all time favorite quote comes from this season. I’m not sure why I love it, but I do. The brothers rile on each other’s phobias in “Everybody Loves A Clown.” Dean defends his with, “Planes crash.” Sam points out, “And apparently clowns kill.” That still gets me rolling every time. Probably because it wasn’t just the lines, it was Jensen and Jared’s perfect snarky delivery. A VERY close second, “We are so screwed.”
right before “Best Puppydog Moment”, Sam was so adorable when he drunkenly calls Dean “Bossy, Short .. and stupid” 🙂
Awesome list Alice…love that you went back and did this for Season 2. Regarding who’s afraid of clowns…I read somewhere that it is actually Jensen who is a bit weirded out by them…have no source for that so it’s just my memory dredging that info up.
In the season three awards article (which I just now discovered! Didn’t know it was already written!) the best inside joke was the whole “Aren’t those the A’holes from Texas?” line from Ghostfacers. So, keeping along those lines… I think one of the best inside jokes from season 2 was in Fulsom Prison Blues when the boys are talking about whether the other prisoners deserve to be saved. Sam doesn’t really seem to think they should be bothering to help them and Dean says “What, are you from Texas all of a sudden?” Yep. I laugh everytime.
Great list Alice,
You know, I don’t get the whole thing with the truck from Route 666 – why does everyone seem to hate that truck and the episode? I think the truck is awesome and really, it’s not the truck that’s racist, it’s the spirit of the truck’s owner…
Ah well, guess that’s just me! GRIN I have a huge white Ford Turbo Diesel with dualies that I get to drive when I do work out at the barn where my horse lives, so perhaps I’m biased.
As for the fear of clowns thing – Jensen did talk about it in an…interview or at one of the conventions…he mentions the TV miniseries of Stephen King’s IT that wrecked clowns for him.
As for the van with the polar bear on the side, I remember seeing a few vans here with Boris Valejo art splattered on the side. The best bumper sticker I saw on one of these vans (bubble windows and everything) was “Don’t laugh lady, your daughter might be in here”.
And Alice, out here every other muscle car seems to be a Mustang. You’d have a great time just watching cars go by. GRIN.
Hi Alice,
Excellent awards! It’s been a long time since I’ve watched season two so the trip down memory lane was great! One of my personal favourite, most heart-wrenching scene is when Dean smashed the Impala with the crowbar – you can really see the raw grief over John’s death.
There is a video on youtube from a Con [posted by BabyBlueSteel] in which Jensen reveals he is afraid of clowns and how he was the one “freaking out” in that episode. It’s actually funny to see him talk about it.
Petranda: I love that moment too! 😆
😆 😆 Those Alligators can’t handle their smoke, only takes a couple of hits and they snooze off, so they were probably there all the time, just sparko, and the boys thought they were crocadile skin-effect cushions or something …
First, some self-pimping:
I have been named editor of the SUPERNATURAL section of a new web site, Moogi.com
I hope you’ll check it out, Alice. I will be synopsizing the new episodes of SUPERNATURAL and, whenever I can, going backward to do the same doe eps in seasons 1-4. I have my work cut our for me for sure!
I’ve said it before, Alice, I ADORE your articles on SUPERNATURAL and agree with you about 98% of the time.
It was my understanding that Jared missed most of his screen time in “No Exit” because he needed root canal and was just too loopy to do his scenes, so they sent him home to Texas and re-wrote the script to accommodate his absence. I read that in more than one article.
Who the heck knows the real story? I’ve heard so many versions of “Jared’s broken wrist,” I have no clue what is real and true!
Love and admiration, Robin
Great list.
Worst MOTW. Oddly enough I liked that one. Sure it was a little out there, but it turned out OK. The racist trunk episode as well. It was the story behind the trunk that I liked most about it.
Dean’s speech over Sam’s corpse in “All Hell Breaks Loose Part II.â€
That was amazingly well done. I’m amazed at the all times these guys cry (and how often sad tearjerker moments appear throughout the series), all the talent these actors have in pulling off these moments so well. Right down to the facial expressions, the quivering lips, or the slight change in their voice. Just amazing, my brother seems to find it weird that these little things are what get some sort of reaction from me.
Best Acting By The Impala. Yeah seeing her all fixed up and on the road again was great. Although I was almost yelling at the tv when Dean took his anger out on the Impala’s hood. Poor thing, shes been through enough. Leave her be. Classic cars are the best though. My dad liked them and worked on cars most of my life. I like them way over all the cars out today. I’m eying the Mercury comet hes restoring.
I have to say my favorite pop culture reference was the ectoplasm bit where Dean mentions the Stay puff Marshmallow man. Perhaps maybe its one of the few 80’s reference I managed to catch.
(lmfao, the ad at the bottom of the page. http://i29.tinypic.com/2hz0cwy.jpg)
In “What Is An What Should Never Be.” Dean calling Sam a bitch (along with Sam’s funny reaction to it) saved what was turning out to be a pretty sad episode. The whole this is what would happen if your dream came true. The Winchesters have a pretty messed up life. I do agree though that Sam being this preppy good-doer was pretty weird.
Will now READ (damn typo in my last comment for season 1:evil:-) season 3. Yet again these are great.