This Week In Supernatural History: Episode Thirteen and Fourteen
This Week in Supernatural History – Episode Fourteen
2006:
Visions and priests and guns, oh my!
2007:
Demonic possession is a real bitch, especially when it’s Meg.
2008:
Long distance calling plans…just say no.
2009:
People who are too good to be true – are probably sirens in disguise trying to get you to kill your brother. Probably.
2010:
Luv and Hugz!
2011:
Pranks kill – and so do creepy mannequins.
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1.13 – I liked it (but I was young and naive at the time and didn’t know any better…). It definitely had its moments.
2.13 – Absolutely loved it. It’s still in my top 5 of all times. It might shuffle around up there but it never leaves it, and never will.
3.13 – Smashing episode. Poor Corbett. We don’t get to ‘see’ the victims all that much but when we do, and when we think about what they go through….. Man, his terror when he’s tied up at the party table was painful to see.
And Sam in a party hat, and Dean giving the camera the finger. Copious amounts of bleeped out swearing. Good stuff.
4.13 – Dean in red short shorts. ‘Nuff said. I love glimpses into the boys lives as smallies and seeing how it shaped the men they’d later become.
5.13 –Oh man. Loved that Sam got to see his father before John got broken down by Mary’s death and that he took the only chance he’d ever get to tell his Dad that he loved him, and understood him. That and his reaction to seeing his mom. The scene where Sam and Dean implore Mary not to have them…..
I love that it helps you understand Sam and Dean (and John and Mary) that wee bit more. (I think this one might be rewatched today.)
It’s really interesting to look back at old episodes and consider them based on what we know now. It’s also ironic to think that Anna was the only angel who was actively trying to stop the Apocalypse, and that’s all she was ever doing, even in season 4. Why do we think she’s such a bitch again? I think she’s cool (and I want her hair).
6.13 – Awesomeness. While we might have known that Soulless Sam was a bit of a pup I think we were all sceptical as to just how big of a pup he was. 6.13 show us just how bad (and insanely hot) puppy was. This is turn led us (or me at least) to think how similar Soulless Sam in this episode was to Sam sans Dean in Mystery Spot. Dean was right; they do keep each other human.
1.14 – While we might have suspected that Sam was a bit insane in the membrane, this one really confirms it. Well, vision ridden in the membrane, anyway. The similarities and differences between Sam and Max are startling and you tend to wonder where Sam would have ended up had he not had a Dean or a John. (Hate to say it but the death of Mary might have been Sams saving grace.)
2.14 – Nothing bad can ever be said about this one. Ever. Every second of it was pure gold. I don’t think I exhaled for the whole episode. This episode really showed why SPN is the bestest show ever!!
3-14 – Meh enough, to be honest. Wouldn’t be on my automatic rewatch list but still not too bad. Dean’s hoping beyond hope that it was John on the line made me want to just hug the snot out of the little guy.
4.14 – Difficult to watch but well worth it. The little subtle tips and clues about the boys spiralling relationship can’t really be ignored by the fans any more after this one.
5.14 – Great one. A really great one. ‘Wait your turn’. (Another one to rewatch today.)
6.14 – Might now have been the best but I found it jumpy enough. Mannequins, skinned or not, kinda creep me out so that probably helped.
Thanks for this, Elle.
1.13: Loved the brother interaction in this one, but the story was awful. Remains in my bottom 5 episodes.
2.13: This was a really good, solid episode that I didn’t fully appreciate at the time. It’s grown on me even more over time.
3.13: Remains one of my all-time favorites. I love it.
4.14: Good Sam story, but everything about young Dean was all wrong. Not even tight red shorts could salvage it. I’ve watched it the one time.
5.13: I liked it. Sam found resolution with his John issues and my heart broke for Dean. One of the better episodes in Dean’s 2-year ‘just say no’ arc.
6.13: I’ve mindwiped S6, but I recall that this one is at the bottom of my whole season list.
1:14: Another solid episode, but not one that I’m drawn to rewatch. I remember wondering at the time if John was ever physically abusive to Dean, and as the series has progressed, I’m inclined to now think that he was.
2.14: This one has always been one of the better episodes in the whole series. Sam was so creepy with his ‘my daddy shot your daddy in the head,’ contrasted to Dean’s unwavering faith in Sam. There was real mystery and real tension and that darned Meg. Wonderful episode.
3.14: Pretty meh for me, but it wasn’t a real awful episode. Not any giant plot holes to fall into. I really liked the tour guide lady and her quotey fingers, “And we’re walking,” which popped up again this season in The Mentalists” with the museum tour guide saying it off camera.
4.14: Really good episode. Fallen Idols started my break-up with Sam, and this one sealed the deal. (Don’t worry, we still talk sometimes.)
5.14: I loved My Bloody Valentine. In an overall poor season, this was a winner. Cupid was just adorable.
6.14: Oh, I forgot. This one replaced 6.13 as the one at the bottom of my list.
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4.14: Really good episode. Fallen Idols started my break-up with Sam, and this one sealed the deal. (Don’t worry, we still talk sometimes.)
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Wasn’t “Fallen Idols” a Season 5 episode? How come that it “started” your break-up with Sam, while a Season 4 episode “sealed that”?
Route 666 and Mannequin 3: The Reckoning on the same list. That is too much awful for one list. That’s ok though, the rest of the episodes make up for these two duds a few hundred times over. 🙂
Thanks for putting this together Elle! I love the walk down memory lane.
I enjoy the walk too.
Wow, that’s amazing. Except for “Route 666” & “Mannequin 3”, these were all really good episodes. Thanks for the compilation.
Thanks for the comments, everyone. I agree with most everyone’s views on the good, bad and ugly on these lists.
They are so much fun to put together. I rewatched My Bloody Valentine today and despite the gross factors, it’s such a great episode.
Happy Unattached Drifter Christmas, all!
Thanks for taking the time to put these lists together, its nice to reminisce now and again. Reminds me of episodes I have loved and haven’t seen for ages and also why I watch this show in the first place.
I’ve used to actually like Dean but as the seasons have gone on I’ve started to just find him really boring, he pretty much lost me as completely in season 5 and hasnt done a thing to get me back. I thought he was perfectly in character in ASS, he was exactly what I thought he would have been like back then.
Some of the episodes on this list just confirmed to me why Sam is the more interesting character (MBV, NIghtmare, BUABS, S&V, ASS). The better episodes IMO on this list have all been Sam centric, the not so good ones have been Dean centric.
I LOVE Nightmare, HOTH and BUABS; all 3 are on my all time favourite episode list. Enjoyed ASS and MBV too (even though poor Sammy’s screams at the end broke my heart) and I absolutely melted when Sam got to tell John that he loved him in 5.13.