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raloriaI just want to apologize for posting this review so late. I will try to do better with future reviews. I struggled so much with the quality of the caps that it delayed everything else. Hopefully, you'll still enjoy reading about the season premiere, even though it's a week later. :)
If you read my First Impressions post you already know I thoroughly enjoyed and loved this first episode of season three. Here I'll go into much more detail, with quotes and caps included. Please remember that the caps here are just small for the review. I'll be posting the full sized caps in a regular picspam later on.
All the caps within this review were taken from my own Hi-Def recording of the episode. You're free to take any that you like, as long as you give me credit. There are 167 caps, but most of them are clickable thumbnails in consideration of my fellow dial-up users.
Enjoy the review! :D
Look, Dad's gone now. We have to carry out his legacy.
And with that voice over from Dean, we get a nice recap of Season Two highlights. What a great way to start off Supernatural's third season!
* We start out with a guy in Illinois innocently taking out the garbage and making an envious (heh, get it?) glance at his neighbor's fancy sports car. Suddenly the streetlights flicker, the trash cans shake, and before we know it a rather monstrous-looking cloud is approaching. Tendrils of smoke swirl out, knock the guy down, and before you can say inhaling smoke is dangerous he's possessed by a demon. We'll get back to him later, meanwhile the cloud appears to envelope Chicago! Btw, the effects work is excellent!
* The new title card is awesome! It's like with each season it stays relatively simple, yet they continue to build onto it with the effects. Does that make sense? The clouds are soooo cool! And did you spot the creepy skeleton fingers right at the beginning? The Devil's Trap makes an appearence as well. Or is that one of those protective circles...I'm still confused about the differences between the two.
* Aaah...the boys are back! Sam's got his nose in a book and Dean's getting some action...of the female kind..heh. I just can't see that thumbs up sign from Dean enough. It's so darn cute!
* Bobby! And a new car to rave over. I have no idea what kind it is, but I've heard around that it's a Chevelle. (?) Anyway, he's found something and wants the boys to join up with him.
* So Sam ventures into the motel room to get Dean...and winds up seeing way more than he bargained for! Poor Sammy! *giggles* Jared's facial expressions are priceless!
* Well, Dean's certainly having a fun time...Sam, not so much.
Sam: Lemme see your knife.
Dean: What for?
Sam: So I can gouge my eyes out.
Dean: (chuckles) It was a beautiful, natural act, Sam.
Sam: It's a part of you I never wanted to see, Dean.
Dean: (chuckles) Hey, I appreciate you giving me a little quality time with the Doublemint twins.
Sam: Yeah, no problem.
Dean: Really? Well, I gotta say I was expecting a weary sigh or an eye roll or something.
Sam: No, not at all. You deserve to have a little fun.
Dean: Well, I am in violent agreement with you there.
It is nice to see Dean so happy, isn't it? Of course, the reason for that happiness is less than pleasant. I don't want to get into the whole "Dean wasn't himself in this episode" debate. To me, this is still Dean...just magnified because he's living it up. He's got one year to live, so he's going to live life to the fullest, no doubts, no hesitations.
* So 17 U.S. cities have had demonic clouds? Oh, please let Seattle be one of them!!! Heehee! Hey! I can dream, can't I? They need to have an episode set in Washington somewhere. Just one. That's all I ask. Meanwhile, Dean wishes the demons would show themselves already and Sam reminds him to be "careful what you wish for".
* Dean eating just makes me giggle.
Bobby: So we're eating bacon cheeseburgers for breakfast are we?
Dean: Well...sold my soul, got a year to live. I ain’t sweating the cholesterol.
Dean: Candygram!
*gigglesnort*
* The trio enter the farmhouse where the cicadas have been swarming and are met with quite a stench, which they discover is coming from three decaying corpses sitting in the livingroom. And I didn't notice until the second viewing, but the program on the TV in front of the dead family is Dallas! Heehee!
* I just want to point out how irritating those CW ads are! You know...the ones they place at the bottom of the screen? Did we learn nothing from Lewis Black's scathing speech at this year's Emmy's, CW? Hmmmm? Thanks so much for covering up the lower half of the screen to tell me that I'm watching Supernatural. No? Really? I thought it was C.S.I. Grrrrr. I was hoping with Hi-Def I would avoid these things, but apparently not. Idiots!
Dean doesn't like being covered up by annoying on-screen ads!
* ROFL over the hand signals! It reminded me of Dark Angel. *g*
* Dean ventures out on the porch. Btw, I'd love to have a place with a porch like that! The swing to relax on and everything. But I digress... Dean goes out to investigate and gets knocked down by Isaac, who (joined by his wife, Tamara), are old friends of Bobby's. The Dean POV shot is great! And Jensen's excellent comic delivery of his line....the best comic line of the episode!
Dean: Hellooooo? Bleeding here.
And if you'll allow me to be a little fangirlly here...Jensen's voice on this line? *Guh* So sexy. It's low and rough and....*flails*
* Again, it took me a while to figure out they're at Isaac and Tamara's house in these scenes. Maybe it's just me...I don't know.
* I like Tamara and Isaac. Once again, even though I read the sides they weren't what I was expecting. But I like that Kripke & Co. keep me guessing. It's amusing watching Sam get all happy over watching this hunting couple interact. Oh, and btw that doll hanging by Sam & Bobby was just a tad disturbing. The Scooby Doo line from Isaac was fun. Oh, Kripke!
* Turns out the word has gotten out (that was quick...it's been one week!) that the door to Hell was opened and an army of demons escaped. The blame apparently is being placed on the Winchester brothers. Isaac has no trouble pointing this out to Sam & Dean, who seem a bit surprised and offended.
Isaac: You brought war down on us. On all of us.
* Emerging from the mists of the night comes...Ruby! What a cool entrance for a character. She literally appears from the shadow of that tree. Beautifully shot.
* DemonEnvy walks into a random clothing store and puts the whammy on a blond-haired woman, making her want a pair of green pumps that another woman is already admiring. I'm not big on shoes, but seriously? Those things are ugly. But, the girl's just gotta have them. Btw, that brunette looks familiar. Didn't she play one of John's guards in Salvation? Anyway, she doesn't want to part with the shoes, so blondie follows her outside where she rams her head into a handy windsheild and takes off casually with the coveted shoes. If I'm gonna be nitpicky about this shot, it would be about the near perfect cracks in the glass. Would it really break that symmetrically? Kudos to this actress, though....that little hand tremor at the end was great.
* OMG! I am watching C.S.I.!!!! *gigglesnort* Just kidding...it's just the police gathering evidence at the crime scene with Sam watching. Inside the store, Dean is consoling another pretty blonde.
Sam: Dean, what are you doing?
Dean: I'm comforting the bereaved. What are you doin'?
Sam: Workin'. Dead body, possible demon attack, that kind of stuff...
Jared's delivery of "workin'" just cracks me up!
* Dean, man! Come on! You can't possibly think Sam is gonna fall for the whole "my-days-are-numbered" bit. Oh, wait..guess he did. Jeesh. Good to see Sammy change his tune by the end of the episode. Jensen's whole "sicky-poo" performance here is great!
* Damn! Bobby cleans up good! Even Dean is surprised. They discuss how there's no sign of demons, not even in the woman who carried out the attack. Sam says there's no sulfer, nothing to go on. Dean points out the store's video camera.
Dean: See. I'm workin'!
*giggles*
* They see "their guy" as Sam calls him on the video footage, working his mojo. Next we see the out on the street - Dean & Bobby going one way and Sam the other. How cute is that quick little pat Dean gives Sam? Thinking about it now, I really don't get the purpose of this scene, except to further show Ruby following Sam. Are they expecting that guy to still be on the street somehow? I dunno. Love the nice closup of Sam at the end though...very pretty.
* Bobby & Dean are staking out The Terminal Pub in Bobby's car, waiting for signs of "their guy". Sam pulls another sneak attack on his big brother ala Provenance "it's not funny". Heh...I beg to differ. Then proceeds to smash Dean's face into the dash as he climbs into the backseat. Heehee! Love the eye roll! So DemonEnvy guy's name is really Walter Rosen. Bobby points out that these demons that escaped through the gate are going to be able to do things they've never seen before. Sam makes a point of saying they're the demons "they" let out. Seems to me it was Jake who opened that door. The rest of them were trying to close it. *Sigh*
* Anyway, DemonEnvy enters the bar, closely followed by Tamara & Isaac, which makes Bobby none too happy. While the hunting couple is all set to capture Walter, they're already trapped...in a bar full of demons! Yikes! Bobby & the boys are trying to get inside and meanwhile the demons are having some fun, making Isaac drink a jug of Draino (well, not Draino exactly, but the same thing...whatever). What a nasty way to go. But before Tamara becomes their next victim, Bobby's car smashes through the wall. I'm so glad that wasn't the Impala! 'Course there's no way Dean would let his baby do something like that. :) Bedlam ensues, with Bobby & Dean throwing Holy Water & Sam getting Tamara into the car. Dean manages to trap DemonEnvy in the trunk, with yet another Devil's Trap/Circle-Thingy and they escape.
* Tamara wants to go back to the bar to get Isaac and Dean's willing to go with her despite Sam's argument that it's suicide. I'm sure this is just the beginning of Dean putting his life on the line. As he says he's "dead already", so what has he got to lose? But Sam's not going to let him get off that easy.
Sam: How are you gonna kill 'em? Can't shoot 'em. Can't stab 'em. They're not just gonna wait in line to get exorcised!
Bobby's learned they're dealing with the Seven Deadly Sins...live and in person. Dean's response is, well, typically Dean....
Dean: What's in the booooox?....Brad Pitt? Seven? No?
Heehee! I love it when Dean references movies.
Bobby then proceeds to go ballistic, yelling at Tamara that they need to stop rushing blindly into situations before they know what they're up against.
* The next scene is pure gold, mostly due to Josh Daugherty's brilliant performance as DemonEnvy. He owns this scene and that's quite an accomplishment when you're acting opposite the trio of Jensen, Jared, and Jim. Envy's power and taunting of the group is quite intimidating....to almost everyone.
Envy: Thanks to you my kind are everywhere. I am legion, for we are many.
His threats just continue to build, turning the tables and saying the 4 of them are not free from sin. He points out that Dean is "a walking billboard of gluttony and lust" and Dean can't argue with that assessment. He also drags up Tamara's rage, eluding to what drove her and Isaac to hunt. Calling them violent animals he threatens that they'll be slaughtered like animals too. Everyone looks frightened at this, except Dean, of course. With death already waiting for him, he's no longer afraid of it. He's already accepted it as inevitable. So he then makes his own threat at Envy, telling him it doesn't matter if the others are coming after him because he's going to be in hell. "Someone send this clown packing." Tamara quickly volunteers and begins the exorcism.
Oh, another point about this scene...the lighting and camera work. Top notch! Love the candles in the background....just gorgeous - and all those deep shadows.
* The boys discuss their next move with Bobby agreeing that the other demons will be hunting them. Dean suggests the rest of them take off while he stays to hold them off for a little while and again Sam protests, saying he can just forget about it.
Dean: There's six of them...guys. We're out manned, we're out gunned. We'll be dead by dawn!
Bobby: Maybe. But there's no place to run that they won't find us.
Sam: Look, if we're going down we're going down together, alright?
*hugs Sam* Now it's Sammy in LittleBrotherProtectiveMode!
Tamara finishes the exorcism, telling the guys that Walter Rosen didn't survive.
* The next scene is again, visually beautiful with lots of darkness and candlelight. It's also a quiet scene between the brothers, with no words spoken between them, only looks. At first I was expecting a deep conversation here, but now I'm happy with the way they played this. It's a further testament to their combined acting skills that the two of them can express so much without saying any lines at all. The music helps a lot in the scene as well...ominous and foreboding. The radio mysteriously turns on, signaling the arrival of the demons.
* Only on Supernatural will you see a closeup of rock salt! :D
* Isaac can be heard shouting outside for help, but Bobby reminds a distraught Tamara that this is just a demon possessing Isaac's corpse. As he approaches the door his taunts get more vicious, ending with a reminder about the death of their daughter to supernatural beings. This pushes Tamara over the edge and she rushes at him, but recognizes that he's not her husband before stabbing him with a Palo Santo stake.
* With the salt line at the door broken, the other demons run inside, with one going straight for Bobby. He easily leads the demon under a circle on the ceiling and proceeds to exorcise it.
* Meanwhile, Dean has his hands full with Lust, who quickly puts the whammy on him and *yay* DeanKissing ensues! So hot! Dean just can't resist kissing these demons.
* Sam, on the other hand, gets confronted by the 3 remaining demons, the main one being Pride. He immediately spots the circle on the ceiling and breaks it. This dude seriously freaks me out. Another great acting job with all his facial expressions working so well with those creepy black eyes! His taunting of Sam is even better than Envy's.
Pride: And you are Sam Winchester. That’s right I’ve heard of you. We’ve all heard of you. The prodigy. The boy king. Looking at you now, I gotta tell you - don’t believe the hype.
Pride: You're fair game now, boy. And it's open season.
Oooh....
* Back to Dean....*guh* Love it when he's kissing a girl. There I said it. I'm not ashamed. *fans self* Is it hot in here? My question is...Dean's under her spell or whatever, right? So how does he manage to break free and dunk her in the tub of holy water? Was he just playing along and acting like she was affecting him? If so, how? The amulet? One of those little charms Bobby gave the boys in BUABS?
More cool visuals of the girl with her head underwater with the rosary. Nice!
* Meanwhile, Sam finds himself quickly put in a chokehold by Pride, but he's about to be rescued by mysterywoman, Ruby. The change in film speed is cool, as is that knife..whoah.
Sam: Who the hell are you?
Ruby: I'm the girl that just saved your ass.
Sam: Well, I just saved yours too.
Ruby: See you around Sam.
Sam: Wait!
Ruby then vanishes as quickly as she appeared. Hmmmmm......*speculation mode kicks in* Is she just another hunter with some super evasion skills? Some supernatural being?
* The season's first salt & burn. So out of seven possessions, only 2 people survived! Man! It sucks to be demon possessed. Your odds of surviving aren't very high and your family/friends will never know what happened to you. Dean comments that Bobby looks like "hell warmed over" and the elder hunter complains about doing exorcisms all night. Huh? Since Isaac and the 3 demons that attacked Sam were already dead, that only left the one Bobby trapped along with Lust (Dean's demon). That's only 2 exorcisms by my count. Unless they need to exorcise the demons out of already dead hosts??? Just to make sure they end up back in hell? I have no idea...
Dean: I'm just gonna ask it again. Who was that masked chick? Actually the more troubling question would be how come a girl can fight better than you?
Sam: Three demons, Dean.
Dean: Ah.
Sam: At once.
Dean: Hey, whatever it takes to get you through the night, pal.
Sam: If you want a troubling question I've got one for you.
Dean: What's that?
weSam: If we let out the seven deadly sins, what else did we let out?
Dean: You're right. That is troubling.
I just love this new practice of lighting all the matches at once and throwing the whole matchbook to torch a corpse. So cool! Great sound effect, too.
* Sam asks Bobby if they can win this war, but he has no answer. They're up against unsurmountable odds, with hundreds of demons now on the loose.
* Now we get to my favorite scene of the episode. Of course, it's the big discussion between the brothers we've been waiting for. Sam wants to head to Louisiana to investigate a way to break Dean's demon deal. Dean, naturally, shoots it down and suggests going to Reno. *giggle* I'm still pushing for Vegas, myself. C'mon Kripke! Give me an eppy in Vegas, please!
Sam finally says he's had enough of being nice to him and that Dean doesn't even seem to care about trying to save his own life. Dean finally confesses that if they try to get out of the deal in any way, Sam dies.
Sam: How could you make that deal, Dean?
Dean: 'Cause I couldn't live with you dead. Couldn't do it.
Sam: So what now? I live and you die?
Dean: That's the general idea. Yeah.
Sam: Yeah? You're a hypocrite, Dean. How did you feel when Dad sold his soul for you? 'Cause I was there. I remember. You were twisted and broken. And now you go and do the same thing...to me. (pause) What you did was selfish.
Dean: Yeah. You're right. It was selfish, but I'm okay with that.
Sam: I'm not.
Dean: Tough. After everything that I've done for this family, I think I'm entitled. (pause) Truth is I'm tired, Sam. I don't know, it's like there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Sam: That's hellfire, Dean.
Dean: Yeah, whatever. You're alive, I feel good. For the first time in a long time. I got a year to live, Sam. I'd like to make the most of it. So what do you say we kill some evil sons-of-bitches and we raise a little hell? Huh?
Sam: You're unbelievable.
Dean: Very true.
And with that the brothers climb into the Impala and head back out on the road!
Another strong season opener which promises more good things to come. Season Three is underway!!! Whoohoo!
If you read my First Impressions post you already know I thoroughly enjoyed and loved this first episode of season three. Here I'll go into much more detail, with quotes and caps included. Please remember that the caps here are just small for the review. I'll be posting the full sized caps in a regular picspam later on.
All the caps within this review were taken from my own Hi-Def recording of the episode. You're free to take any that you like, as long as you give me credit. There are 167 caps, but most of them are clickable thumbnails in consideration of my fellow dial-up users.
Enjoy the review! :D
Look, Dad's gone now. We have to carry out his legacy.
And that means hunting down as many evil sons-of-bitches as we possibly can.
And with that voice over from Dean, we get a nice recap of Season Two highlights. What a great way to start off Supernatural's third season!
* We start out with a guy in Illinois innocently taking out the garbage and making an envious (heh, get it?) glance at his neighbor's fancy sports car. Suddenly the streetlights flicker, the trash cans shake, and before we know it a rather monstrous-looking cloud is approaching. Tendrils of smoke swirl out, knock the guy down, and before you can say inhaling smoke is dangerous he's possessed by a demon. We'll get back to him later, meanwhile the cloud appears to envelope Chicago! Btw, the effects work is excellent!
* The new title card is awesome! It's like with each season it stays relatively simple, yet they continue to build onto it with the effects. Does that make sense? The clouds are soooo cool! And did you spot the creepy skeleton fingers right at the beginning? The Devil's Trap makes an appearence as well. Or is that one of those protective circles...I'm still confused about the differences between the two.
* Aaah...the boys are back! Sam's got his nose in a book and Dean's getting some action...of the female kind..heh. I just can't see that thumbs up sign from Dean enough. It's so darn cute!
* Bobby! And a new car to rave over. I have no idea what kind it is, but I've heard around that it's a Chevelle. (?) Anyway, he's found something and wants the boys to join up with him.
* So Sam ventures into the motel room to get Dean...and winds up seeing way more than he bargained for! Poor Sammy! *giggles* Jared's facial expressions are priceless!
* Well, Dean's certainly having a fun time...Sam, not so much.
Sam: Lemme see your knife.
Dean: What for?
Sam: So I can gouge my eyes out.
Dean: (chuckles) It was a beautiful, natural act, Sam.
Sam: It's a part of you I never wanted to see, Dean.
Dean: (chuckles) Hey, I appreciate you giving me a little quality time with the Doublemint twins.
Sam: Yeah, no problem.
Dean: Really? Well, I gotta say I was expecting a weary sigh or an eye roll or something.
Sam: No, not at all. You deserve to have a little fun.
Dean: Well, I am in violent agreement with you there.
It is nice to see Dean so happy, isn't it? Of course, the reason for that happiness is less than pleasant. I don't want to get into the whole "Dean wasn't himself in this episode" debate. To me, this is still Dean...just magnified because he's living it up. He's got one year to live, so he's going to live life to the fullest, no doubts, no hesitations.
* So 17 U.S. cities have had demonic clouds? Oh, please let Seattle be one of them!!! Heehee! Hey! I can dream, can't I? They need to have an episode set in Washington somewhere. Just one. That's all I ask. Meanwhile, Dean wishes the demons would show themselves already and Sam reminds him to be "careful what you wish for".
* Dean eating just makes me giggle.
Bobby: So we're eating bacon cheeseburgers for breakfast are we?
Dean: Well...sold my soul, got a year to live. I ain’t sweating the cholesterol.
Dean: Candygram!
*gigglesnort*
* The trio enter the farmhouse where the cicadas have been swarming and are met with quite a stench, which they discover is coming from three decaying corpses sitting in the livingroom. And I didn't notice until the second viewing, but the program on the TV in front of the dead family is Dallas! Heehee!
* I just want to point out how irritating those CW ads are! You know...the ones they place at the bottom of the screen? Did we learn nothing from Lewis Black's scathing speech at this year's Emmy's, CW? Hmmmm? Thanks so much for covering up the lower half of the screen to tell me that I'm watching Supernatural. No? Really? I thought it was C.S.I. Grrrrr. I was hoping with Hi-Def I would avoid these things, but apparently not. Idiots!
Dean doesn't like being covered up by annoying on-screen ads!
* ROFL over the hand signals! It reminded me of Dark Angel. *g*
* Dean ventures out on the porch. Btw, I'd love to have a place with a porch like that! The swing to relax on and everything. But I digress... Dean goes out to investigate and gets knocked down by Isaac, who (joined by his wife, Tamara), are old friends of Bobby's. The Dean POV shot is great! And Jensen's excellent comic delivery of his line....the best comic line of the episode!
Dean: Hellooooo? Bleeding here.
And if you'll allow me to be a little fangirlly here...Jensen's voice on this line? *Guh* So sexy. It's low and rough and....*flails*
* Again, it took me a while to figure out they're at Isaac and Tamara's house in these scenes. Maybe it's just me...I don't know.
* I like Tamara and Isaac. Once again, even though I read the sides they weren't what I was expecting. But I like that Kripke & Co. keep me guessing. It's amusing watching Sam get all happy over watching this hunting couple interact. Oh, and btw that doll hanging by Sam & Bobby was just a tad disturbing. The Scooby Doo line from Isaac was fun. Oh, Kripke!
* Turns out the word has gotten out (that was quick...it's been one week!) that the door to Hell was opened and an army of demons escaped. The blame apparently is being placed on the Winchester brothers. Isaac has no trouble pointing this out to Sam & Dean, who seem a bit surprised and offended.
Isaac: You brought war down on us. On all of us.
* Emerging from the mists of the night comes...Ruby! What a cool entrance for a character. She literally appears from the shadow of that tree. Beautifully shot.
* DemonEnvy walks into a random clothing store and puts the whammy on a blond-haired woman, making her want a pair of green pumps that another woman is already admiring. I'm not big on shoes, but seriously? Those things are ugly. But, the girl's just gotta have them. Btw, that brunette looks familiar. Didn't she play one of John's guards in Salvation? Anyway, she doesn't want to part with the shoes, so blondie follows her outside where she rams her head into a handy windsheild and takes off casually with the coveted shoes. If I'm gonna be nitpicky about this shot, it would be about the near perfect cracks in the glass. Would it really break that symmetrically? Kudos to this actress, though....that little hand tremor at the end was great.
* OMG! I am watching C.S.I.!!!! *gigglesnort* Just kidding...it's just the police gathering evidence at the crime scene with Sam watching. Inside the store, Dean is consoling another pretty blonde.
Sam: Dean, what are you doing?
Dean: I'm comforting the bereaved. What are you doin'?
Sam: Workin'. Dead body, possible demon attack, that kind of stuff...
Jared's delivery of "workin'" just cracks me up!
* Dean, man! Come on! You can't possibly think Sam is gonna fall for the whole "my-days-are-numbered" bit. Oh, wait..guess he did. Jeesh. Good to see Sammy change his tune by the end of the episode. Jensen's whole "sicky-poo" performance here is great!
* Damn! Bobby cleans up good! Even Dean is surprised. They discuss how there's no sign of demons, not even in the woman who carried out the attack. Sam says there's no sulfer, nothing to go on. Dean points out the store's video camera.
Dean: See. I'm workin'!
*giggles*
* They see "their guy" as Sam calls him on the video footage, working his mojo. Next we see the out on the street - Dean & Bobby going one way and Sam the other. How cute is that quick little pat Dean gives Sam? Thinking about it now, I really don't get the purpose of this scene, except to further show Ruby following Sam. Are they expecting that guy to still be on the street somehow? I dunno. Love the nice closup of Sam at the end though...very pretty.
* Bobby & Dean are staking out The Terminal Pub in Bobby's car, waiting for signs of "their guy". Sam pulls another sneak attack on his big brother ala Provenance "it's not funny". Heh...I beg to differ. Then proceeds to smash Dean's face into the dash as he climbs into the backseat. Heehee! Love the eye roll! So DemonEnvy guy's name is really Walter Rosen. Bobby points out that these demons that escaped through the gate are going to be able to do things they've never seen before. Sam makes a point of saying they're the demons "they" let out. Seems to me it was Jake who opened that door. The rest of them were trying to close it. *Sigh*
* Anyway, DemonEnvy enters the bar, closely followed by Tamara & Isaac, which makes Bobby none too happy. While the hunting couple is all set to capture Walter, they're already trapped...in a bar full of demons! Yikes! Bobby & the boys are trying to get inside and meanwhile the demons are having some fun, making Isaac drink a jug of Draino (well, not Draino exactly, but the same thing...whatever). What a nasty way to go. But before Tamara becomes their next victim, Bobby's car smashes through the wall. I'm so glad that wasn't the Impala! 'Course there's no way Dean would let his baby do something like that. :) Bedlam ensues, with Bobby & Dean throwing Holy Water & Sam getting Tamara into the car. Dean manages to trap DemonEnvy in the trunk, with yet another Devil's Trap/Circle-Thingy and they escape.
* Tamara wants to go back to the bar to get Isaac and Dean's willing to go with her despite Sam's argument that it's suicide. I'm sure this is just the beginning of Dean putting his life on the line. As he says he's "dead already", so what has he got to lose? But Sam's not going to let him get off that easy.
Sam: How are you gonna kill 'em? Can't shoot 'em. Can't stab 'em. They're not just gonna wait in line to get exorcised!
Bobby's learned they're dealing with the Seven Deadly Sins...live and in person. Dean's response is, well, typically Dean....
Dean: What's in the booooox?....Brad Pitt? Seven? No?
Heehee! I love it when Dean references movies.
Bobby then proceeds to go ballistic, yelling at Tamara that they need to stop rushing blindly into situations before they know what they're up against.
* The next scene is pure gold, mostly due to Josh Daugherty's brilliant performance as DemonEnvy. He owns this scene and that's quite an accomplishment when you're acting opposite the trio of Jensen, Jared, and Jim. Envy's power and taunting of the group is quite intimidating....to almost everyone.
Envy: Thanks to you my kind are everywhere. I am legion, for we are many.
His threats just continue to build, turning the tables and saying the 4 of them are not free from sin. He points out that Dean is "a walking billboard of gluttony and lust" and Dean can't argue with that assessment. He also drags up Tamara's rage, eluding to what drove her and Isaac to hunt. Calling them violent animals he threatens that they'll be slaughtered like animals too. Everyone looks frightened at this, except Dean, of course. With death already waiting for him, he's no longer afraid of it. He's already accepted it as inevitable. So he then makes his own threat at Envy, telling him it doesn't matter if the others are coming after him because he's going to be in hell. "Someone send this clown packing." Tamara quickly volunteers and begins the exorcism.
Oh, another point about this scene...the lighting and camera work. Top notch! Love the candles in the background....just gorgeous - and all those deep shadows.
* The boys discuss their next move with Bobby agreeing that the other demons will be hunting them. Dean suggests the rest of them take off while he stays to hold them off for a little while and again Sam protests, saying he can just forget about it.
Dean: There's six of them...guys. We're out manned, we're out gunned. We'll be dead by dawn!
Bobby: Maybe. But there's no place to run that they won't find us.
Sam: Look, if we're going down we're going down together, alright?
*hugs Sam* Now it's Sammy in LittleBrotherProtectiveMode!
Tamara finishes the exorcism, telling the guys that Walter Rosen didn't survive.
* The next scene is again, visually beautiful with lots of darkness and candlelight. It's also a quiet scene between the brothers, with no words spoken between them, only looks. At first I was expecting a deep conversation here, but now I'm happy with the way they played this. It's a further testament to their combined acting skills that the two of them can express so much without saying any lines at all. The music helps a lot in the scene as well...ominous and foreboding. The radio mysteriously turns on, signaling the arrival of the demons.
* Only on Supernatural will you see a closeup of rock salt! :D
* Isaac can be heard shouting outside for help, but Bobby reminds a distraught Tamara that this is just a demon possessing Isaac's corpse. As he approaches the door his taunts get more vicious, ending with a reminder about the death of their daughter to supernatural beings. This pushes Tamara over the edge and she rushes at him, but recognizes that he's not her husband before stabbing him with a Palo Santo stake.
* With the salt line at the door broken, the other demons run inside, with one going straight for Bobby. He easily leads the demon under a circle on the ceiling and proceeds to exorcise it.
* Meanwhile, Dean has his hands full with Lust, who quickly puts the whammy on him and *yay* DeanKissing ensues! So hot! Dean just can't resist kissing these demons.
* Sam, on the other hand, gets confronted by the 3 remaining demons, the main one being Pride. He immediately spots the circle on the ceiling and breaks it. This dude seriously freaks me out. Another great acting job with all his facial expressions working so well with those creepy black eyes! His taunting of Sam is even better than Envy's.
Pride: And you are Sam Winchester. That’s right I’ve heard of you. We’ve all heard of you. The prodigy. The boy king. Looking at you now, I gotta tell you - don’t believe the hype.
Pride: You're fair game now, boy. And it's open season.
Oooh....
* Back to Dean....*guh* Love it when he's kissing a girl. There I said it. I'm not ashamed. *fans self* Is it hot in here? My question is...Dean's under her spell or whatever, right? So how does he manage to break free and dunk her in the tub of holy water? Was he just playing along and acting like she was affecting him? If so, how? The amulet? One of those little charms Bobby gave the boys in BUABS?
More cool visuals of the girl with her head underwater with the rosary. Nice!
* Meanwhile, Sam finds himself quickly put in a chokehold by Pride, but he's about to be rescued by mysterywoman, Ruby. The change in film speed is cool, as is that knife..whoah.
Sam: Who the hell are you?
Ruby: I'm the girl that just saved your ass.
Sam: Well, I just saved yours too.
Ruby: See you around Sam.
Sam: Wait!
Ruby then vanishes as quickly as she appeared. Hmmmmm......*speculation mode kicks in* Is she just another hunter with some super evasion skills? Some supernatural being?
* The season's first salt & burn. So out of seven possessions, only 2 people survived! Man! It sucks to be demon possessed. Your odds of surviving aren't very high and your family/friends will never know what happened to you. Dean comments that Bobby looks like "hell warmed over" and the elder hunter complains about doing exorcisms all night. Huh? Since Isaac and the 3 demons that attacked Sam were already dead, that only left the one Bobby trapped along with Lust (Dean's demon). That's only 2 exorcisms by my count. Unless they need to exorcise the demons out of already dead hosts??? Just to make sure they end up back in hell? I have no idea...
Dean: I'm just gonna ask it again. Who was that masked chick? Actually the more troubling question would be how come a girl can fight better than you?
Sam: Three demons, Dean.
Dean: Ah.
Sam: At once.
Dean: Hey, whatever it takes to get you through the night, pal.
Sam: If you want a troubling question I've got one for you.
Dean: What's that?
weSam: If we let out the seven deadly sins, what else did we let out?
Dean: You're right. That is troubling.
I just love this new practice of lighting all the matches at once and throwing the whole matchbook to torch a corpse. So cool! Great sound effect, too.
* Sam asks Bobby if they can win this war, but he has no answer. They're up against unsurmountable odds, with hundreds of demons now on the loose.
* Now we get to my favorite scene of the episode. Of course, it's the big discussion between the brothers we've been waiting for. Sam wants to head to Louisiana to investigate a way to break Dean's demon deal. Dean, naturally, shoots it down and suggests going to Reno. *giggle* I'm still pushing for Vegas, myself. C'mon Kripke! Give me an eppy in Vegas, please!
Sam finally says he's had enough of being nice to him and that Dean doesn't even seem to care about trying to save his own life. Dean finally confesses that if they try to get out of the deal in any way, Sam dies.
Sam: How could you make that deal, Dean?
Dean: 'Cause I couldn't live with you dead. Couldn't do it.
Sam: So what now? I live and you die?
Dean: That's the general idea. Yeah.
Sam: Yeah? You're a hypocrite, Dean. How did you feel when Dad sold his soul for you? 'Cause I was there. I remember. You were twisted and broken. And now you go and do the same thing...to me. (pause) What you did was selfish.
Dean: Yeah. You're right. It was selfish, but I'm okay with that.
Sam: I'm not.
Dean: Tough. After everything that I've done for this family, I think I'm entitled. (pause) Truth is I'm tired, Sam. I don't know, it's like there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Sam: That's hellfire, Dean.
Dean: Yeah, whatever. You're alive, I feel good. For the first time in a long time. I got a year to live, Sam. I'd like to make the most of it. So what do you say we kill some evil sons-of-bitches and we raise a little hell? Huh?
Sam: You're unbelievable.
Dean: Very true.
And with that the brothers climb into the Impala and head back out on the road!
Another strong season opener which promises more good things to come. Season Three is underway!!! Whoohoo!
