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4.19 Jump the Shark Dean: "Adam doesn't have to be cursed." Sam: "He's a Winchester. He's already cursed." Creepy. Nightmare-inducing. Also tragic. Supernatural is the only show I watch that sometimes scares me. Something under the bed grabs you, drags you under, and eats you alive? Plus we had Dean buried in a crypt full of body parts, as well as crawling through tight spaces -- twice. Yes, let's hit some of the big fears, why don't we? Personally, I'm never parking over a grate again. Dean told Sam, "I think it's too late for us." As if they were ruined, somehow. That really got to me. There will be no happy ending for the Winchesters. No real friends, no marriages, no kids, no future. Dean and Sam will keep doing what they do until something gets them. (Or the world ends, or they kill each other, whichever comes first.) They don't feel sorry for themselves; they just do the job. It's high tragedy. Unfortunately, it was too late for Adam, too. His ignorance of who he was actually killed him. Dean and Sam had a brother, and they'll never get to know him. I did fall for it; I thought Adam was the real deal, so good writing, there. And Adam was believable as their brother. He was smart, brave, straight-forward; he was even a good shot. What a horrible way to die. I liked that they gave him a Viking funeral, a hunter's funeral, like their father. Dean couldn't accept Adam's existence because he couldn't let John topple off his pedestal. I completely understand Dean's need to see his father as a hero. But Dean spent his deprived, lonely childhood on the road taking care of Sam; he wouldn't be human if he didn't envy Adam, just a little. If Dean ever really thought about what John did to him, he'd never stop being angry about it. Yes, John taught his two elder sons how to protect themselves, how to fight evil. But he also took away their childhoods and any possibility of a normal life. And yet, I can't blame John, either. He never chose the life; it happened to him because Mary was a hunter. And Mary had no choice because her parents were hunters. It's like human dominoes. Sam's reaction to Adam's doppelganger was a lot more positive than Dean's, and why not? This time, Sam got to be the wise older brother, the one to teach Adam what he needed to know. And Adam was in college like Sam, too. Sam has become so powerful (clearly, his psychic crap doesn't work on ghouls) that it was a shock to see him totally helpless and bleeding out. A reminder that Sam isn't evil, and isn't a demon. Yet, anyway. Maybe that was the point of this episode. Sam and Dean are family, and they trust only each other. Again, and still. Bits and pieces: -- Jump the shark. What a great title. Especially since Supernatural keeps getting better and most certainly hasn't jumped the shark. So what did it mean in relation to the story? Is introducing a formerly unknown sibling a shark-jumping plot? [Added later: yes, it is. Thanks, Mark.] -- [Jess contributed an insight as to why Sam's psychic crap didn't work. Because Sam's power is in the demon blood, and they were draining it. Thanks, Jess.] -- Dean doesn't wake up well when he's slept in the car. Sam apparently does fine, because he was brushing his teeth in the great outdoors. I wonder if they did a sleeping in the car scene so they wouldn't have to set dress two motel rooms? (Loved the oars.) -- Dean got out of the crypt by using a coffin rail to break a stained glass window of an angel. A little interesting symbolism there. -- Keep pressure on that? How is Sam supposed to keep pressure on both arms at once? With the arms he's supposed to keep pressure on? -- Ghouls apparently take the form of the last person they ate. That was a particularly ghoulish twist. Pun intended. Why did the ghouls collect Sam's blood in bowls? To drink? It reminded me of Meg and the bowl of blood. -- Adam Milligan and his mother lived in Windom, Minnesota. Mom was a nurse. A number of female characters in Supernatural have been nurses. -- Dean did FBI agent Nugent again. Quotes: Sam: "A hunter rolls into town, kills a monster, saves the girl, sometimes a girl's grateful." Dean: "Now I'm thinking about Dad sex. Stop talking." Adam: "Okay. So basically you're saying that every movie monster, every nightmare that I've ever had, that's all real." Dean: "Godzilla's just a movie." Cemetery guy: "Tell me, Agent Nugent, have you thought about where you might like to spend eternity?" Dean: "All the damned time." Dean: "Sloppy Joe." Ick. Dean, how could you? Yeah, I know, snark in the face of extreme danger. But really, Dean. Shuddery and scary. And ick, Billie View all comments or post a comment. |
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