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1.18 Something Wicked Dean: "Don't worry. I'm sure there's something in Fitchburg worth killing." I didn't like this one. Maybe it was too overly dramatic and simplistic. Maybe it was just too much like a truly awful Buffy episode called "Killed by Death". If you're going to rip off Buffy, people, why not rip off a good one? At least there were interesting flashbacks to little Dean taking care of little Sam in a (familiar) ugly, kitschy motel room while John was out demon hunting. Unfortunately, big brother Dean identified so strongly with young big brother Michael that he decided it was okay to use Michael as bait -- which I thought was a leap Dean shouldn't have taken. I also noticed that the boy who played Michael looked a lot more like Dean than the boy who played young Dean. Stronger actor, too. I wonder if that was a deliberate choice by the director. So Dean confronted his childhood fear and guilt. He got to replay the past and save Sam this time, all by himself. All valid dramatic themes, yes, but this episode still left me cold. There wasn't a single witty line, either. I like a little wry self-deprecation and black humor with my horror series...eses. Buffy has pretty much spoiled me for anything else. Bits and pieces: -- I liked the red herring with the old woman and the inverted cross. If she had turned out to be the shtriga, I would have felt cheated. -- Dean was really good with young Michael, but that didn't seem Dean-like. He was more uncomfortable with kids in "Dead in the Water," and that wasn't that long ago. -- This week, we went to Fitchburg, Wisconsin. In flashback, we went to Fort Douglas, also in Wisconsin. -- Dean had a MasterCard with the name "Kris Warren" on it. Google told me that Kris Warren is a guitarist. Sam masqueraded as Dr. Jerry Kaplan, Bikini Inspector at the Center for Disease Control. -- During their CDC masquerade, the guys were wearing nice suits. Much better than their earlier Blues Brothers Homeland Security garb. -- Who was Pastor Jim? Was he mentioned earlier or was this the first time? -- Sam: "I've really given you a lot of crap for always following Dad's orders. But I know why you do." Dean: "Oh, god. Kill me now." Two out of four stars, Billie |
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