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2.15 Tall Tales

Bobby: "Aliens?"
Dean: "Yeah."
Bobby: "Aliens?"
Dean: "Yeah."

So they followed last week's exceptional episode full of gut-wrenching drama with, of all things, Dean and Sam meet the National Inquirer. Slow-dancing aliens, alligators in the sewers... I think my favorite scene was Dean stuffing those huge candies into his mouth. I laughed so hard I almost passed out. As Dean said, that trickster had style. And keeping the trickster alive in the end? Smart move. Because they absolutely have to bring him back.

As usual, the Winchester brothers took it to the next level. Anyone who has ever had to share a room with a sibling (I have) can relate to Dean and Sam in a motel room driving each other nuts. The two of them wrestling on the bed was just hilarious; you could kind of see them at, like, twelve and eight, because that's how they were acting.

I particularly loved each of them relating a radically different side of the story to Bobby. Was Dean really drinking purple nurples with Starla the sloppy drunk, or exchanging folklore with a classy grad student who was smitten with him? Probably somewhere in between those two extremes. And I somehow doubt that Sam actually hugged a student and called him a brave little soldier.

Season two has been one good episode after another, and Ackles and Padalecki have learned to play off each other like tennis masters. I'm also really liking Jim Beaver as Bobby, especially in these last two outstanding episodes.

Bits and pieces:

-- Apparently, tricksters can be killed with a stake through the heart. Unlike vamps in this 'verse, who cannot be killed with a stake through the heart.

-- The motel room was just really ugly. It was called "King's Lair" and had faux royal-looking headboards and a grungy kitchen.

-- Dean and Sam pretended to be reporters from the local paper. They probably should have said they were from "Weekly World News" again because that would have fit. WWN was even mentioned. I don't think they ever said where they were, but when the boys were "checking for wires," they were wearing uniform jackets with "Ohio Connect DSL" on them.

Quotes:

Bobby: "Come on, now. You're bickering like an old married couple."
Dean: "No. See, married couples can get divorced."

Grad student: (to Dean) "Please. I can't even concentrate. It's like staring into the sun."

Curtis: "They probed me. Again and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and then one more time."
Dean: "Yikes."
Curtis: "And that's not even the worst of it."
Dean: "How could it get any worse? Some alien made you his bitch."
Curtis: (long pause) "They... they made me.... slow dance."

Sam: "Look, man. I know this all has to be so hard."
Student: "Um, not so much."
Sam: "... but I want you know I'm here for you. You brave little soldier. I acknowledge your pain. Come here. (hugs him) You're too precious for this world."

Dean: "These punishments. They're almost poetic. Actually, it'd be more like a limerick."

Sam: "I'll call Bobby. Maybe he's run into something like this before."
Dean: "Oh, I'm sure he has. Just your typical haunted campus, alien abduction, alligator in a sewer gig."

Four out of four stars,

Billie





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