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Episode thoughts, going behind the cut.
OMGOMGOMG -- TO INFINITY.
Mary was a Hunter!
John dies!
Dean's grandparents were Hunters (Samuel! OMGOMGOMG).
Just how dark, dirty, despairing, disturbing and plain flat-out awesome was that episode?
Are no words.
We know everything. We know more than Dean because we know what Sam's been doing. We know as much as the angels do. After three and a bit seasons, we know why Mary died, exactly, precisely why not all the mothers did (some didn't interrupt, some stayed in bed...). We know what the blood was for and oh, just everything.
And the conversation between Mary and John would have been...intense, but it explains why, when she died, he knew what to do.
IT EXPLAINED EVERYTHING.
I'm kind of in shock now. Kripke, with your five-season arc, you're one magnificent bastard. Really.
And the demon in Samuel, scenting Dean's neck and kissing Mary -- and they wonder why incest and this fandom go together so well? It's like we knew this episode was coming.
And it's going to be a Dean/Sam fight, isn't it? Oh, God, will S5 see them on opposite sides?
It's hell being unspoiled, but it's all kinds of worth it to watch a gut-punch episode like this and be genuinely, truly surprised at least twice.
ETA And I loved the sneaky Back to the Future nod about the Tab advert being a clue that they're in the past, not a future reference this time. Heh. I liked the twistedness of that.
OMGOMGOMG -- TO INFINITY.
Mary was a Hunter!
John dies!
Dean's grandparents were Hunters (Samuel! OMGOMGOMG).
Just how dark, dirty, despairing, disturbing and plain flat-out awesome was that episode?
Are no words.
We know everything. We know more than Dean because we know what Sam's been doing. We know as much as the angels do. After three and a bit seasons, we know why Mary died, exactly, precisely why not all the mothers did (some didn't interrupt, some stayed in bed...). We know what the blood was for and oh, just everything.
And the conversation between Mary and John would have been...intense, but it explains why, when she died, he knew what to do.
IT EXPLAINED EVERYTHING.
I'm kind of in shock now. Kripke, with your five-season arc, you're one magnificent bastard. Really.
And the demon in Samuel, scenting Dean's neck and kissing Mary -- and they wonder why incest and this fandom go together so well? It's like we knew this episode was coming.
And it's going to be a Dean/Sam fight, isn't it? Oh, God, will S5 see them on opposite sides?
It's hell being unspoiled, but it's all kinds of worth it to watch a gut-punch episode like this and be genuinely, truly surprised at least twice.
ETA And I loved the sneaky Back to the Future nod about the Tab advert being a clue that they're in the past, not a future reference this time. Heh. I liked the twistedness of that.
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