Top Ten Supernatural Antagonists – #10
Siren’s in lore are supposed to be hot women, designed to lure horny sailors to their doom with their song. Sirens are supposed to take the form of strippers with Disney princess names and entice stupid men into killing their wives with meat tenderizers, right?
Wrong! First, we learn that the siren is one fugly mofo. Then, in a brilliant twist, the perfectly innocent and likeable FBI agent Nick Munroe, who even had the balls to ask for proof that Sam and Dean were legit FBI agents even though he was fake himself, teaches us something about sirens the legends never covered. They really prey on one’s deepest desires. As soon as the “in the form of a knock ’em dead gorgeous woman” siren figured out Dean’s deepest need, all of a sudden she becomes the brother he always wanted, and not some “bitch in a g-string.”
Dean easily falls, and in devastating fashion is forced to see in a very warped way Sam’s true colors, something that lingered beyond this episode. Ditto for Sam, who was a little more willing to brush Dean’s slight under the rug to cover his own guilt over calling his brother weak and a whiner over his time in Hell. Uh yeah, “boo hoo” delivers a pretty strong message. All this because a siren got bored. That’s one hell of a creative villain. Any creature that twists up the Winchesters so bad that they beat the crap out of one another and have to be saved by Bobby wins with me.
Honorable mention;
OF COURSE Dean (and his best girl) had to have a car/truck chase! How else could SHE get in on the action and help save the day? And, yes I have watched it once (!!) or twice.
I LOVED the siren, the spitting part was SOOO juck! I know Bobby (sigh) had to kill it, but I did love it anyway!
I find the stronger my feelings(like or dislike) about the “baddies” is ,to me , a good way to judge how well they are written/acted.
Waiting eagerly for next on the list.
Diane
Obsessive … Moi? Pot calling kettle black scenario alert! 😆
Good start though, trucks are scary … I’m a biker, I know! No one sneers at the Impala-crushing-big-black-truck-of-the-apocalypse, do they …
The siren was a really nasty piece of work, no-one should have their innermost desires exposed … I always thought that was a major downside of holodecks, I mean who wants a fantasy anyone can just walk in on?
Maybe they only let you into Star Fleet if you have a U-rated imagination … That would explain a lot! 😆
Sadly, I seem to be a member of an endangered species that doesn’t see what is so massively awful about a racist truck.
About the siren, there’s one thing I didn’t get. The lore says that sailors under the siren’s spell end up crashing their ships on whatever island the siren is on. But in the show, the siren needs physical proximity with their victim to infect them through saliva. So how’d the sailors get caught up by the siren while they’re all the way out at sea? Just wondering..