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Episode review . . . . . I don't really know what to say. I mean, it was a good episode. I enjoyed it. But there wasn't a whole lot of substance, was there? It was mostly just Sam being a creepy hanging out in a playground with binoculars and switching back and forth between saying, "He's creepy" and "Ok, he's kind of cute" about Lucky.

Then there was the talk in the end, and we pretty much knew everything Sam was saying. It was just him finally owning up to it all. And that's significant and whatnot, but not terribly exciting, you know?

So, all in all, it was a good episode, but might end up being my least favorite episode this season.

RANTAGE TIME!:

1. NEW YORK, THE BOYS ARE COMING TO NEW YORK!!!! YAY!!!! .....Why the ******** do they always go to buffalo when they do?? WHY???? There's nothing up there but 5 feet of snow year round! COME TO SOUTHERN NEW YORK BOYS, PLEASE gonk

2. "I dunno Bobby, keep digging" How many times has that EXACT line been said??? Jeez writers ><;; OH AND HAI CROWLEY blaugh

3. rofl Dear lord the writers really are begging for Crowley/Bobby to become real aren't they? D;

4. "You'd sell your brother for a dollar right now if you really needed a soda" LOL FAIL rofl . Sam you're screwed up =P

5. Even while he's burning Sam's hand off, I still heart Crowley. Is that bad?? sweatdrop

6. Uhh..... how does he give a "little" of Sam's soul back? What will that even do? How will Sam change? THIS BOGGLES MY MIND.

7. WHAT NOW SAM??? Mouth breathing what???! Watch your mouth, Robo!Sam before I wash it out with soap!

8. BICEP!PORN AND SLEEPY!DEAN PORN!!! OMFG!! *flail* *explodes*

9. Haha I love how Sam is just "Robo" whatever now =P I keep getting images of the robot in "Get Smart" LOLOLOLOL.

10. IT'S THE DOOOGGGGGG!! Damn you spoilers ><;;;

11. THIS WHOLE SCENE IN THE KITCHEN IS SO AWWWWWKWAAAAARD..... I wanted to skip through it, but the site I'm on won't let me sad I mean jeez, I do NOT like interrogator!Sam. He makes me so uncomfortable sweatdrop

12. Ok..... if my effing DOG turned into a fracking CREEPY NAKED DUDE COVERED IN BLOOD WHO WATCHED ME SLEEP.... no words. just.... gonk gonk gonk
Thanks for the nightmares guys. I'm never looking at dogs the same way ever again. Thank Chuck Louie's not allowed in my room at night sweatdrop

13. SHE'S WEARING THE WHITE DRESS OF DOOM D: I think that only applies to girls the Winchester's have slept with, but still, it's never a good sign ><;;

14. EW PERVY FREAKIN DOG! The writers have killed dogs for me, THEY KILLED CATS FOR ME IN EPISODE 6 AND NOW DOGS. WHAT'S NEXT?? gonk

15. I don't know why but I laughed so hard when Sam casually told Dean to shove Mandy in the trunk. LOL WTF SAM?? Normal people, even hunters, don't do that! *facepalm* I love when Dean says he can do it, Sam just nods and walks away and Dean basically looks like "I can't believe he took me seriously" lol.

16. Doesn't Sam realize that if she WAS the alpha werewolf, most likely he'd KNOW and not be living some normal life? That doesn't even make sense.

17. Sam. Standing in a playground. At night. Watching a woman through a window. Wow. Well that might just pass the time he watched Meg change her clothes, on the creep-o meter Sam.

18. I like how simple they depict the transformation from the dog to the guy. Simple camera shots, but effective.

19. Huh. I just realized that Dean slept in the wrong bed this episode. He was in the bed furthest from the door, when normally he's the closest. That's just..... weird O__o *does not like*

20. LOL I got a image of Sam going by the tree and turning into a dog too XDDDDDD

21. OH POOR PERVY DOGGIE! D: (edt: why does everything in this show get hit by mini vans? lol, First Dean, now the poor dog/skin-walker/pervy-dude-thing)

22. Ew, Dean added Gwen to his contacts ><; (aw though at poor Dean still wanting to call Lisa sad Poor guy, finally got a real gf and now he can't have her *saddness* )

23. And this part of the episode shall be titled "Sam and Dean adopt a dog" LOL.

24. LMAO @ Dean holding the choker chain up. LOL poor skinwalker. And they keep calling him Lucky roflolol =P

25. Forward!Sam irks me too. Really. Badly.... thoughts of kinky skinwalker... do not want burning_eyes Sam's a real a*****e too. Urg, I can't take his character anymore, he's so screwed up. I hate it sad

26. Wait, the guy was a homeless guy? And they turned him? WTF, well... skinwalker idea win O_O

27. *is truamatized to go near my dog* gonk Well the angle is pretty impressive, I must say.

28. WTF IS WITH SAM AND THE BALL AND WHY WON'T HE STOP BEING A MORON? He's irking me stare

29. Um... I'm confused. When the skinwalker said "Fetch this, d**k." I was waiting for him to.... I dunno, do something? Attack? Break out? ....but... nothing :Stare:

30. OOH SHINY SEXY GUN biggrin

31. Love when Dean basically plays out what he's thinking to Sam, because basically it's what Sam should be feeling by intuition, but he's not. The confused look on Sam's face is priceless. He isn't Sam. Without your intuition and compassion, you're just not human. It's like someone literally made a robot of Sam. It's just no the same confused (EDIT: rofl I just realized the boys had a heart-felt talk under a bridge :Rofl: How typical xDD)

32. BADASS!SNIPER!DEAN IS BADASS! cool

33. "Take it anyway" I HATE YOU SAM, YOU SICK b*****d! Yes, let's kill the innocent woman and her child, of course, a*****e stare

34. AWWWWW POOR LUCKY sad

35. Oh she ain't ever gonna let you back in hon, sorry sad And seriously, what a b***h. I mean aside from him being pervy and watching you shower, he really wasn't that .bad. He even saved her and her sons life. sad Poor guy went from homeless to stray. Sad.

36. "Like Lisa and Ben.... I've been acting like I care about them.... But I don't. I couldn't care less" WOW SAM. JUST. WOW. JUST. talk2hand

37. "I should probably go back to being him" NO s**t SHERLOCK stare

Well in summary, definitly not one of my favorite episodes. I literally fell asleep during it last night, how sad is that? I'm just not feeling the myth this year, with getting "Sam" back. I think it's because I always said the show wouldn't be right is they ever lost Sam or Dean, and well, we basically lost Sam this season. It's not the same show anymore. I'm still hooked, but the love I had for it is waning. It's depressing. I just want the boys to be the boys again. I want to stop hating on Sam every episode. I want Dean to be carefree like he was in season 1 and 2. I just *sigh* miss what we had sad

Kripke, please write/direct a episode soon and fix this mess, I'm begging you dude. We miss you, sincerely sad

Edit: Egads this is long! Sorry guys. sweatdrop

I kind of agree with Punky and Panda, but I also kind of disagree. I mean, I really do miss the Sam and Dean from seasons 1 and 2. They were a lot more light hearted and care free (Well, as care free as our SPN boys could EVER be, which really isn't all that care free when you think about it, but still...), and as a result of that, I think they were just a lot more fun in general.

But at the same time, I mean, we all enjoyed the story told in seasons 1-5, right? We liked the angels. We liked Lucifer. We liked Sam's dark and mysterious destiny that he fought since season 1. And I think it's safe to say, we're all glad that those things happened.

But then, all those things had their price. Dean had to go to hell for us to get angels, and that really took a toll on both Sam and Dean.
Lucifer, the father of sin and prince of darkness, pretty much the ultimate bad guy, had to be defeated, and that had to come at a price.
Sam's dark and mysterious destiny had to be confronted at some point, either with him giving into it or him going head on with it and coming out as a good guy. We got the preferred confrontation with that, but it required the ultimate sacrifice from him, which left us without a Sam.

Now we're left with two choices. We can either end the story or continue, but with a big mess to clean up as far as the brothers go. Honestly, I think I would have been OK with either option. Like Panda said, the ending of season 5 would have been a good end to the series. However, I do love the idea of getting to see Sam and Dean battle evil a bit more.

Problem is, now we have this huge mess to clean up, and I don't think it's an easy fix. I mean, they could have brought Sam back with his soul, then we'd just have damaged post-hell Sam, which would kind of just be a re-hashing of the damaged post-hell Dean story. I think, in order to keep it interesting, they have to keep the mess. And in order to keep it as Supernatural, they have to keep the mess. I just really don't see any way they could get Sam and Dean back to how they were in seasons 1-3. They're just too damaged. But obviously, we want to see some healing going on, and I think that the way they're going about it is going to allow for the most realistic healing to take place.

When Sam gets his soul back, he'll have had some soulless time to cope with what happened to him in hell, and I think that might help make it have less of an affect on him, but he'll have to deal with all the emotional baggage of what he did when he didn't have a soul. I think that will give us some nice angst, but it won't be the re-hashing of an old story.
As for Dean, it would have just seemed too neat for me if Sam had come back and he and Dean had been all BFFs right from the get go. I would have been highly suspicious of that. However, this is story is allowing Dean to get used to the idea of having his brother back, while also setting him up to be wary of Sam long enough after he gets his soul back to actually be a realistic sort of reunion.

Of course, I think it will take Dean some time to trust Sam once he has his soul back, and I really want to see the brothers as BROTHERS again before the end of this season, so I hope Sam gets his soul back in episode 10 or 11. I think it would be a great way to kick off the winter hiatus, giving us fans a bit of a treat and making us want to come back to see happy Sam and Dean after the break. I definitely think dragging out soulless Sam for the entire season would be a mistake, and I know the writers listen to the fans, so I hope they're listening now. Give us back Sam's soul. SOON!


Also, on the subject of the show runner changing . . . . . I've heard a lot of people say, "You can tell Kripke's not in charge anymore" or "I wish Kripke was back to fix everything," but I think a lot of that is just imagined stuff coming from the fans.

I agree that the show feels different, but I think that's because we've got an entirely new mythology arc we're working on, not necessarily because Kripke's not the show runner. One of the biggest changes I've seen are that the show mythology isn't centered around the Winchesters anymore (as in the whole destiny thing). That's something that really hasn't happened since the end of season 2. It's actually just like season 1 in that sense, but it's something we're not used to anymore. We're going back to the beginning of a story, but we're also in the middle of the story of our guys, so it's obviously going to feel different there.

As for Kripke coming back to fix things, he IS still actively working on the show. He was in the writer's room breaking at least the first 6 episodes with everyone else, and he checked over all those scripts. I mean, Kripke may not be the show runner anymore, but he's still there and he's still keeping anything he doesn't want to happen from happening.

I just think a lot of people know Sara is the show runner now, so they expect things to have a different feel to them and end up seeing that a lot more than they would if they didn't know.
I'm not saying there isn't a different feel to the show. Just that maybe it's not as big of a difference as people seem to think it is . . . .
But that's just my crazy rambling opinion . . . . .