You guys!  It’s Sex Luthor’s wife from Smallville!  You know, I was kind of surprised–I remembered a lot of this episode too.  S2 was apparently pretty memorable, which I hadn’t really thought about before.  But anyway, this was another light mythology episode so again, I’m gonna keep it short (well, short for me anyway), and save the big guns for the heavy-duty episodes coming up.

The thrust of this episode is that it was a running parallel between the story of the week (Sam having to kill a werewolf that he … well, maybe didn’t LOVE, but definitely liked a lot), and the standing plot of Dean maybe having to kill Sam if he can’t save him.  And of course, we continue with Dean’s evolution toward “monsters”.

And in fact, let’s deal with that first, because it’s the easier of the two themes.  In this case, it’s true that the werewolves (which Dean was REALLY excited about, hilariously) didn’t know what they were or what they were doing, and it certainly wasn’t their choice.  He still felt that there was no other option than to kill them, but he did more willingly make an effort to save the girl, and you could tell that he is feeling more morally convicted at this point.  I sincerely love the character evolution on this show, and I do love watching it on DVD because I think that seeing everything close together makes the subtleties stand out more, which is kind of fun.

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I love this episode but it is light on mythology, so I’m going to keep this one short and sweet.  And first things first … TRICIA HELFER!  Man, I love her, and sweet southern Jesus, is she good at crying.  I felt like the guy was REALLY familiar also, so I went and IMDBed him, and OMG, you guys.  You will not believe this.  I had to go back all the way to 1993–he was the hometown boyfriend in Son-In-Law!  Yeah, that’s right–Son-In-Law was SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO.  God in heaven.

Now, this was an episode that I actually remembered and I was able to watch this one this time around with the knowledge that Six (Tricia Helfer’s BSG name and the only name I ever want to know her by) was actually dead.  Again, I love the willingness of the show to experiment with their format.  We didn’t actually find out that she was dead until well over halfway in, even though the boys knew.  Very cool.

One of the major things here is that this experience is another step in Dean’s evolution from seeing the world in strictly black and white to accepting a few more grays.  He’s such an asshole to Six throughout the episode, while Sam is just generally more sensitive and sympathetic to her–even more so than usual.

A big focal point of the episode was what happens to people when they die.  Sam says that angry spirits are like wounded animals that lash out, and that they weren’t evil people, just sometimes bad things happen to them and they get stuck in loops.  And he mentions the idea of unfinished business, which of course was what was keeping Molly/Six there even after she was cremated–not only was she unaware that she was dead, but she was also desperate to see her husband again, although in the end, she loved him enough not to.

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Okay, before we even get going on this at all, let me give a renewed shout out to Patty, for her tireless BSG count and even more tireless commenting.  Actually, you guys have all been amazing on the commenting, so shout out to that too.

And second huge shout out to hockeybychoice, who is a goddess among mere mortals for going back and finding an actual accurate Supernatural Cuss Count.  Apparently there are so many they go in one ear and out the other for me, so the double checking was AMAZING and netted quite a few more cusses than I had initially caught.  The official count, before this episode, is:

• Ass: 58
• Bitch: 20
• Son of a bitch: 37
• Bastard: 16
• Dick: 1
• Crap: 54

Love it!  I may go back in and do a search for “damn”, but in the meantime … WHOA.  I know that must’ve taken an assload of time and I appreciate it, and so do future generations of SPN lovers who will no doubt be like, “Dude, they say ‘son of a bitch’ an awful lot.  I wonder how many times?”  Yay!

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I really liked this episode for the somewhat different format, with Sam and Dean trying to figure out their own mystery.  It was very Memento-ish.  At least I think it was.  I’ve never actually seen that movie but I still like to reference it like I have, much like I like to say, “I drink your milkshake!  I drink it up!”

Anyway, just to cut right to the chase, Sam is all covered in blood and killed a hunter, but it wasn’t actually him, it was a demon.  And it wasn’t just ANY demon, it was MEG.  And she locked herself in Sam’s body by burning a binding symbol on his arm.  It looked pretty painful, but it did lead to Bobby giving the boys anti-possession charms and … doesn’t it seem like he could’ve given those to them sooner?  If he just had them laying around the house, you know?  So not on the ball there, Bobby.

Anyway, Meg keeps basically trying as Sam, to get Dean to kill Sam.  For a long time, I was like, why doesn’t Sam just kill his own damn self?  But finding out that Meg was testing Dean made more sense.  Dean says he’s tried his whole life to keep Sam safe and he just can’t do it.  He’d rather die.  And then Sam tells Dean he’d live to regret this and knocks him out and bails.

And where does he go?  To Duluth, to a bar, where who is the bartender but … JO!  Yay!  Any chance to see Jo is one that I’m excited about.  Sam (correctly) accuses Jo of carrying a torch for Dean, and then promptly crushes her by saying that Dean likes her in a little sister sort of way.  And that is some cold shit, even for a demon.  Somehow demon Sam thinks this is a good pickup line, and puts the moves on Jo.  The end up fighting, he knocks her out, and at least she has the good sense to know that he’s not really Sam.

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Oh my GOD, you guys.  Literally.  This episode … basically, I don’t want to spoil anything for anyone and I promise I won’t, but you DO need to pretty much keep every detail of this episode in mind.  Basically, let me give you a bulleted list of everything I made note of, and keep in mind that the comments on this post will probably be pretty spoilery.

• God is too busy for house calls
• Dean has angels on the bullcrap list because he’s never seen one and never known anyone who has seen one, which in their line of work …
• You can expect a miracle but in the meantime, work your butt off
• The painting of Michael with his flaming sword–he’s the fighter of demons and a holy force against evil
• Angels are god’s warriors
• Sam prays every day
• The rules of man and the rules of God are two very different things

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Man, I don’t think I realized how much love the fans had for S2 of Supernatural until we started to dig into it (probably because I came in late after watching S1 and S2 in an obsessive marathon), but I can totally see why.  It is fucking MEATY.  Much like S4.  Ask me again after the rewatch which is my favorite season.

But anyway, bottom line is that a lot of S2 is very mythology heavy, and this episode was not so much.  It does fit into a larger overall arc, but the story itself was somewhat stand alone so I’m going to go a little easy on this one (especially since the next one … oh my GOD–literally).

The first thing is Ronald.  I know he’s dead, but we do see him again in one way or another (I’ll leave it mysterious like that so you won’t know in what form or situation), so file him away.  I had forgotten who he was the first time I watched the series, so it’s a hot tip.  Secondly, I am in LOVE with the word “Mandroid,” particularly because I have a Droid and am now calling it Mandroid.  And I was SO cracked up when Ronald told Sam that maybe he was working for the mandroid, and Sam got SO annoyed, and was like, “We’re not working for the mandroid!”  God, the hilarity of Sam is so underrated sometimes.  And, terrible segue, the scene where Ronald gets shot and it all happens in silence and slow-mo, and Sam sees it coming but can’t stop it, is awful but like in a really beautiful way.  Loved that scene.

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