Dead in the Water is a bit of a crack in the atmosphere – letting in sadness and trauma – but it’s once we get into this second half – with Faith and on out – that the series starts to get truly existential. Sam: How can you be a skeptic? You have to have it when they don’t.”. You can actually see why people from miles around would come to hear this man speak. That guy. He shakes them off as soon as they are outside. That’s the second one, right? God, yes. I will certainly concede that. I totally get why the relationships didn’t work ultimately – but as story lines they were great shadings for both characters. Music copyright laws can be a real bitch!

Here, they are the teaser. We’re all about neutering art here.

Oh, yeah, we, uh, can't get it workin'. Sam, sitting next to his hunched-over uncomfortable brother, looks around him, taking it all in. Layla Rourke. // he doesn’t even try to run away, he’s ready.

And God, yes, when Bob Dylan came in? Never seems good, does it? That's Layla's car. “Supernatural, Season 9.”

It’s a strong political point.

Sam: Right. You know how some series end and it’s just so perfect and satisfying? There’s a nice shot of Dean with Sam thru the mirror. It’s not just that the picture says Famine; it says Famine! But not to worry: I’m sleeping great.

He says, “To cross a line like that … the Preacher’s wife … black magic?”. But she says it in such a casual incidental way that I didn’t pick up on its weirdness the first time I saw the episode.

The Searchers

Dean doesn’t believe in gift horses. Written by Sera Gamble & Raelle Tucker. Dean is the existential one, the abstract one.

Excellent evocative choice. It makes my heart flutter when I think of everything he’s been through, and he is still such a decent guy. The women smile at SAM and DEAN and move inside the tent. But boy, when fans start to feel protective of your character … worried for your character – that’s when you know you’ve hit the mother lode. Stylistic choice alert: When he sees Sue Ann, there are three razor-sharp quick cuts, with a percussion sound accompanying each cut (a very frightening stylistic choice, popular in every horror movie since the beginning: time the sound effects with the cuts. Yeah. The brothers meet back at the car. They’re big heroes. DEAN Let's go, let's go. thank you for reading and commenting, Cat! No, please. LAYLA (Looking at the picture of the cross in the book) You know Sue Ann had a coptic cross like this. It’s very adult. (Grabbing SAM's shoulder and pointing) Right there! DEAN //. (Staring at DEAN and tucking the cross inside her blouse.)

Like Juno, the most obvious example. Dean torments himself as someone who fails to protect Jo, and she kind of says, dude, you weren’t in the picture for that, I made my own choices. People are touching Dean all OVER this episode. It’s a callback. And word gets out. But in the world of cinema, in the world of acting, that beauty needs to be filled with something else, the actor’s essence. Like most people do. hahaha I know. But to ask art to respect every single individual’s individual triggers …. So, what do you wanna do? One the other side between them is Layla’s mother. She’s awesome. “Faith” announced that the show would not be afraid to “go there”, that it would go where angels fear to tread. SUE ANN The woman stops jogging, takes out an earphone and looks into the forest. DEAN Come up here, child!”. SAM tries to help. This episode really is a full-frontal assault. More shots away from Sam and Dean, of the other people heading to the tent, the mud, the fires, the obvious signs of physical weakness (crutches and canes and walkers), but all done in an almost documentary-like or collage-like effect. There is a long silence, Sam looks down, fighting tears. Considering what happens to him 3 seasons later, when Famine rolls into town, it’s an awesome (if inadvertent) dovetail. Layla has a brain tumor, and Mrs. Rourke is bitter that Dean was healed rather than her daughter. “Faith” is about death. He just wants to blend in, dammit.

Dean is an instant skeptic, but Sam promises to have enough faith for the two of them. Dean tries,think of the scene when Lisa lets him in and he cries on her shoulder – how many times Dean is shown standing at the door of that house, with the same shot practically – of his hand rapping on the door. Because Dean actually can be very polite. DEAN DOCTOR

It’s so real. “Dude, get off me.”. What I love about the character of Roy is that he is allowed to see this much about Dean, even though his healing is bogus.

ROY Sam the guys playing God, he's deciding who lives and who dies. Bummer. It makes me uncomfortable. It’s an interesting link, because there’s a lot of difference obviously.

Neither brother is. (Whispers) Is it still here? They often win Oscars when they do so. Heroes are totally out of favor right now, unless they are wearing tights or were bit by a spider. The Winchester brothers face all of that here. It’s a great Sam episode. Let somebody else die to save her?”. Sexy as hell, too. We're not going to kill a human being Dean. It’s really more just commenting on him, and seeing what it would be like to be a guy like Dean … who looks that way, and gives off a sexual vibe that everybody picks up on (whether they “swing that way” or not) … and how he maneuvers through those land mines. Dean’s scene with Crowley at the bar. This man is a fraud.

Speaking stereotypically. I wish I still drank.

......................... DEAN makes it back to the Impala just as SAM approaches. He was chosen over Layla, and that’s already a bad deal for him. Dean is pacing back and forth, looking out the window, going back to pacing, still beside himself. He stops and looks at them. Unfortunately for him, he is the center of attention in almost any room, by default (Angelina Jolie in Changeling), so he has incorporated that fact into his personality, through the sexuality he throws around recklessly (not just in sexual moments), and the flirting he can’t help but do. The entire “soul-less Sam” arc – as painful as it was, I LOVED the entire thing. Sam is elated. You've come here to be healed, haven't cha? Don’t know if you can catch it in the States on Iplayer, but John Hurt is always worth listening too – honeyed gravel. And to have that resurrected by an outside force and used to condemn Dean – I felt that that was an awful thing to do to these two people who had made a sort of bruised peace with the awful thing that happened. Every single person who works on the show, from producer on down, has said that this is the most challenging job they have ever had in show business.

Agree completely. Otherwise the plot could not move forward and then where would we be. And it was the most interesting part of the episode (Dean Crowley) but i thought the dialogue was cirkular. SAM and DEAN park and open the trunk. (To DEAN.) He feels more comfortable being the center of attention in sexual contexts, because he can kind of control that, and nobody’s getting hurt, and it’s all fun. They all shake hands. And they do so in a way that is ironic rather than adulatory. I LOVE that the show has incorporated this as part of his character – and it’s a huge part of why the character is so … unlike anything else out there right now. Because he makes “you’re a girlie-man” comments, and associates being a girl with being weak? Let's sit here.

So funny.

DEAN Dean will never recover from her death – or from Ellen’s. Some people seem to think Dean “reduces” women to sexual objects. It’s hard to imagine another serious show actually indulging in something like “The French Mistake” and getting away with it.

and Dean’s face when he realizes the betrayal) Dean is certain that it has something to do with his healing so urges Sam to check it out. The kind that want to implement public policy that curtails women’s involvement. But it is not looked at from an “aren’t we so superior to those people” Northeast-elite attitude (you know, those folks who were disgusted by Elvis because he was both sexual AND openly religious, two things they could not reconcile, and two things they did not approve of. While I encountered quite a few younger people (mostly women) in the fandom, there were many people my age and older (again, mostly women).

And he made sure that Sam got to experience some fun (the fireworks, the attempted Christmas, etc.). So beautiful people are not encouraged to use themselves to the fullest in Hollywood: nobody wants them for that.

And when Sam did get his soul back – the catharsis in that hug between the brothers was HUGE. So, uh, we prayed for a miracle. Pretty awesome. I totally agree.

There are 1,000 things going on for him in one tiny moment. Thank goodness.

I’m Generation X, dammit, Sam and Dean’s generation, basically – so I’m coming at it from my own perspective.