Recap – “Like A Virgin”
Sam and Dean are doing the FBI thing now, complete in suits. Here’s a small nitpick that comes to mind. If Sam was in Hell for a year and a half, why does Dean have his suit? Also, I’m sure it doesn’t have that “not worn in a year and a half” smell. Ah well, just a thought. They are questioning the sister of the plane girl. She’s tired and not very cooperative, so Sammy goes for the gusto. He pulls out the sympathetic tone and the puppy dog eyes! Naturally, the woman melts and agrees to let them in. What I love is Dean lets Sam go in first, and then cracks a precious smile. I know Dean, isn’t it great to see souled Sam back? I’m smiling with you.
This is the part of the story I really don’t care about, so I’ll burn through this. The girl has a pink frilly room, is shy, and went up in the plane just to impress some guy she was starting to get serious with. There is one part of this scene. Sam’s heart seems to bleed for this girl’s sob story and Dean most certainly notices! Next Dean enters a motel room with fast food while Sam is doing research at the computer. The missing girls “both baked cookies for the Lord.” “What, is that code?” Dean asks. Yeah, I thought that was a strange thing to say too. In other words, these are good girls.
Dean has a better theory and pulls out the girl’s diary. “Did you steal that from her room?” Sam asks appalled. Dean can only smile. “I love that you would even ask me that.” Sam doesn’t understand why he wouldn’t. Oh Sammy, you’ll find out soon. Dean figures out it’s about purity, aka virgins. Haven’t we been down this road before? If any virgin has watched this show, they have learned to have sex immediately. Nancy from “Jus In Bello” found that out way too late. Sam says plane girl was 22, but Dean has the pink room and stuffed teddy bears on his side and proves his point by reading from the diary. Like he was reading from a romance novel Dean says, “I’ve decided, I’m going to give Stan my most precious gift.” Sam is really disturbed now. “Wow, that sounded really creepy coming from your mouth.” “I think I delivered it,” Dean replies. There’s the brotherly teasing!!! Oh boy, how we missed you!!! Welcome back!!! (pauses to do virtual backflips). Now I clap like a seal. “Fan girl happy!”
Once I’ve settled down, the scene finishes out. Who would want virgins? “Beats me,” says Dean. “I prefer ladies with experience.” And they prefer you too Deano! So time for another filler scene, a unusually older looking girl in what looks like a Catholic school uniform. They don’t have those in college, right? I’m not convinced she’s of prep age. Something attacks in the night and she screams.
This next scene is mildly amusing, but I don’t feel like giving it a ton of attention. Sympathetic Sam and Dean in FBI mode talk to the victim in the hospital. They want to know what she saw. She won’t tell them, the other man didn’t believe her. “I’m not the other man,” Sam says, if anything just to remind us (along with the other clues all episode) that he’s not RoboSam anymore. She tells them it’s a giant bat. He attacked, scratching her back and she woke up later. Also her gold promise ring is missing. Dean, who put things together, has to go for the delicate accusation. He does awesome with this! “Melissa, nobody’s judging anybody here, believe me, but should you really be wearing that ring?” She tries to deny but Dean has her number. She blurts “Matt Barn didn’t count!” Gold star for you Dean.
Sam and Dean leave the hospital discussing the case. “So what, you think Batman tried to rape her?” Sam asks. “Well, he does carry a lot of rage,” Dean answers. Clever answer! No, Dean explains he rejected her because she was already “de-hymenated.” There’s that word again! Dean is still the only human being I’ve ever heard use that word. “I think it just goes to show, being easy is all upside.” Dean’s not done with the wise cracking though. “What sort of thing likes virgins and gold?” Sam asks. “P Diddy,” Dean answers. Whew, Dean should get his brother back more often. He’s on fire! Wait for it…the Sam Winchester clever retort. “You know what’s comforting? I died for a year, came back, and you’re still not funny.” Dean scoffs. “Shut up, I’m hilarious.” Another fan girl seal clap from me!
Dean’s putting clippings on the motel room wall! Be still my heart! Fan girl goes into convulsions. What’s even better is Sam is at the laptop. A noise comes out of it and Sam is exasperated. Whenever he “googles” the parameters (I’m shocked that passed standards and practices without a hefty fee), fire, claws, stealing virgins, and gold it takes him to the same place. World of Warcraft fan sites. Dean doesn’t follow, but I do because I read the episode synopsis. Dragons.
Sam doesn’t think that’s possible, but guess what, Dean actually remembers the last year. Anything is possible these days! Dean affirms it’s been a strange year and calls Bobby. In another curious shot, Bobby is shown from an overhead angle cooking something in a can. Something strangely thick. The phone rings and Bobby is shown going off camera to answer it, but the shot stays on the stove. We hear Bobby answering the phone in the background. That’s a creative choice in showing something routine.
Bobby walks back to his cooking while we hear Dean ask what he knows about dragons. Bobby tries to give an intelligent answer. “They’re not like the Loch Ness monster Dean, dragons aren’t real.” Hmm, so in this universe, Nessie is? They need to go back to Scotland in another episode and show that! Dean without reservation asks Bobby to make a few calls. “To who, Hogwarts?” This is where I pause and die laughing. I never thought I’d hear a Harry Potter reference on this show, especially coming from Bobby. BTW, I just finished The Deathly Hallows after spending over a month reading all seven books, so now I’ll know a Harry Potter reference when I hear one. I’m with the times!
What a pity Alice, I do love these recaps you write, but I understand you have a lot to do, so I’m gonna enjoy this one and you were not the only one to have fan moments of applauding or lauging a lot during the episode, I was right there with you…
Not to mention “the hug” Gosh, I wanted that hug for so long, I can’t tell you….
As usual your review is amazing.
Take care,
Clarice ; }
Sad! But I get why you don’t want to to them anylonger. They are lovely long so they must take a not nearly as lovely longer time to write.
I’ve wondered about the boys and their alcohol soaked organs as well. But then, haven’t they both died/been healed by Cas? I’m guessing (cuz I want it to be true) that the healing involved the inner damage as well. Fresh start! Longer for the boys to live!
I was wondering about how Sam would see the appearance of his new wardrobe and phone as well. Not to mention if Dean was able to delete all RoboSams number off. I’m playing pretend that Dean ‘splained as “You were asleep for a while. Thought I’d pick you up some stuff.”
Oh, and a side not on the journal scene. LOVE how far back Sam is sitting on the bed and his feet STILL touch the ground. AW! Gigantor!
I find it interesting that the Colt wasn’t brought up as a weapon of choice against the dragons. Dean said (lied?) to the Dr. that the sword was the only weapon they have, but they’ve gotta have some left over bullets from that bunch Crowley gave them. Right? Or maybe he didn’t want to waste the Colt on things that aren’t demons?
One last thing on the ep (sorry, feeling gabby) soon as Dr. Visyak made her comment about the most important artifact Dean’s touched, the thought of the Horseman rings jumped to mind.
Ok, done. Thanks for the recap Alice! Love reading them.
Awe, Alice, I understand where you are coming from but I will definitely be one of the few who will miss these recaps.
Now, as for the castles/mansions. There are actually quite a few of these kinds of places around the province. There are 2 here in Victoria in particular. Hatley Castle that many of you will know from X-Men, and Craigdarroch Castle. Both owned by the same family. Folks who got rich from coal. Over on the mainland, similar scenario, coal, lumber, pick a natural resource.
As for Sam’s clothes and cell phone, well for the cell at least, I don’t think it’s odd that Dean would have kept it around an charged up. How long did the boys keep John’s cell phones around? I would think the reason would have been the same for Dean.
And finally, the virgins. One WAS trying to open the trap door when the dragon arrived with broken arm girl. So while they were whimpering (and yes, I think it would have been nice if they weren’t quite so whiny – this is TV after all and we don’t need it to be THAT realistic – show a little back bone, will ya?) at least one of them was trying to break them out. Course they were not good on the stealth mode and Mr. Dragon hear them and heat sealed them in.
Ah well. Fun episode, great to have the brothers back together. Definitely an episode for re-watching!
Thanks again for having done all these amazing recaps Alice. Maybe come summer hellatus you could do them “special edition” for specific episodes. 🙂
Just wanted you to know, there are quite a few of us ‘lurkers’ out here who absolutely love your recaps. Understand of course if you need a break, but you will be missed 🙂
Thanks! I know there are lurkers, but being the site owner I get statistics on number of hits per article. Out of all our articles, my recaps statistically get the worst number of hits on a routine basis. These recaps take 15-20 hours per week to write. I’ve been doing them for 3 years, probably because I love writing them. However, I just can’t devote that time anymore for something that just isn’t catching on for a greater number of people. I do appreciate those that followed these and maybe I can come up with something that still goes over the key scenes in the same way but doesn’t cover the whole episode. We’ll see!
Thank you for reading these! I do appreciate the comment.
Love your recaps Alice. Too bad we won’t see them any more. I will miss that.
Aw, I read your recap everytime but didn`t comment.
What a pity, I will miss it very much. Awww!
Hi Alice what a recap! Loved it!
You know, in the part of the almost hug of Sam and Castiel, I have a different theory, I think Sam didn’t hug Cass cause he was trying to avoid Cass’s eyes, because Cass can read people’s minds looking them in to their eyes (like when Cass told Dean on [b]4.01[/b] “you don’t think you deserved to be saved” or when Cass read the Cupid’s mind on [b]5.14[/b].
I think that’s why Sam didn’t want to hug Cass for to avoid his eyes and manipulate him and ask him for the truth.
wow you really drop a bomb in the end. 🙁
Why you say that your recap don’t generate a lot of interest?, if you say that for the comments, well maybe is because you post your recap the day that the new episode is going to be aired and we are kind of anxious for the new episode, but I always read it and I usually don’t comment cause I think my English sucks and my writing too (I always had problems writing essays)… I like more the recaps that the reviews, they are really funny, you always have me giggling and laughing, you write in your recaps a lot of details (that other people doesn’t write) and are really interesting, and the way you express yourself in your writing… your recaps are [b]perfect[/b].
I was sad when I read you were not going to write more recaps, but then I remembered all the times that I was thinking: how she have time to do all this? I mean writing the review, the recap, adding things to the site, fixing it, and writing other articles, how she manage to do all this and having a job and a family and, its wow… Hey!, do you have some kind of device for to stop the time or something? 🙂
Alice, thank you so much for all this, your articles, the site, your time… Thanks
Alice, sorry to contradict you but
‘killing the evil creature has always been Dean’s number one priority’
is not a true statement. We all know that Dean’s number one priority is and always will be keeping his Sammy safe and sound(souled). 😆
This episode felt like it would fit prefectly into the first season, with all the brotherly love, John’s Journal, the forgetable MOTW (racist truck).
Sorry that you feel that these recaps aren’t appreciated. I look forward to them, but I can understand the frustration of putting in all the work and no one is reading them.
Thanks for all the hard work.
Thanks again Alice for another great recap.
I was so sad to read that this is no longer going to be a regular feature around here, I know I am not the only one to feel this way.
There are many articles on each episode now, but your recaps were really different and something special, I loved `re-watching` through your eyes. You always made me laugh and, on a few occasions, cry at the memory of a scene.
I understand that they were very time consuming, you only have to read one to see this, but I am hoping you maybe could still indulge us sometimes. Perhaps you could treat this like Jas does the Open Couch, write if an episode particularly inspires you, or maybe do a retro one like the recent IMTOD.
Whatever you decide you know you have our support and thanks for all the hard work, Love Ju
Hi Alice – I loved this recap! Agree with all of it and fangirled and laughed along with it.
I’m going to miss your recaps so much, as I look forward to them more than anything else on this site. Your feelings and thoughts along with the screencaps I enjoy immensely. (even though I really liked Lucky the skinwalker, lol)
Never could figure out how you could live your life with a family and a job and still have time to make this great site for all of us fans. Thank you for all of that and I do hope some episode inspires you to create another recap for us.
I found this site for the first time a few weeks ago, while going crazy waiting for hiatus to be over. Since then I have gone through and read as many of your recaps as I could, I absolutely love them. They saved my sanity waiting for the show to come back. I guess since this is the last one, I should take the time to say thank you for writing such awesome, entertaining recaps. I’ve enjoyed them immensely.