Hey youtubers it’s charlie and this week on supernatural it was like mommy dearest
werewolf edition.
It was also the first episode to feature garth since he split the bunker back in season 8.
It was also the first time Sam and Dean worked together since the parting of ways.
The story hit that Supernatural sweet spot between horror and comedy, which is where
most of the good stand alone episode fall.
Careful for spoilers if you haven’t seen it yet.
I’ll start with my top 5 moments and then do my review.
Time to drink the kool-aide.
Number 5 - Adrenaline and Sam’s Better Idea.
There was a lot going on in this scene.
It was the first time sam and dean saw each other since dean split and it was the first
time they saw Garth since he split.
Waking up garth was the perfect way to cut the tension.
I wondered if Dean being so cynical was a result of the mark of cain, but they kind
of took it away when Sam just gave garth the back of his hand.
I wonder how many times they had to film that scene.
And how many times Jared Padalecki accidently hit DJ Qualls for real.
Bonus high fives for the Sleepy Hollow shout out with the Ichabod Crane namedrop.
You know the skinny lookin’ guy.
Number 4 - Garth’s backstory.
I was so happy they filled in Garth’s backstory.
I had to wait till the end of the episode to know whether or not to believe it though.
I got the strong cult kool-aide vibe early on, so I kept wondering if Garth was being
an unreliable narrator.
Who else laughed out loud when he said Rocky 3 was the movie he watched before he essentially
was going to kill himself.
World’s greatest movie.
I do wonder how close he actually came to committing suicide.
I felt like he was exaggerating a little bit.
I think it’s more likely that he was just really really depressed.
Number 3 - The maw of fenriss.
I’m talking specifically about the book.
I love how detailed they get with their props, so when Dean opened the book, you could tell
someone went through a lot of trouble to write all that mythology.
But when he first saw it I though I saw a puppy paw print on the cover.
It’s supposed to be a wolf paw print.
But it looked so cute that all I could think about was a puppy cult.
Ragnarok will rain down a hail of wet puppy kisses on your face.
Like I said, perfect balance of comedy and horror.
Number 2 - The episode 11 recap.
Listening to them explain what happened to each other last week was hilarious.
Did anyone else feel like dean was making an abortion joke when he dropped that teen
mom reference.
Like the left over grace was aborted from sam’s body by nurse castiel.
I don’t watch teen mom, so I couldn’t tell if they were referencing some other aspect
of the show.
But I couldn’t stop thinking about it for the rest of the story.
Number 1 - Dean breaks bread with the werewolves.
I’m including the entire visit to the house in this one.
Singing about bringing in sheep, presumably to kill and then cutting strait to dinner.
I can only imagine how sticky everyone got with all that fake blood.
I loved that they cooked Dean’s steak, which I never saw him eat.
I guess if you were a family of werewolves you would still eat as a family, but do you
think that they would bother with plates?
Maybe if they were new werewolves like Garth.
Let me know what your favorite moment was or the funniest.
Waking up garth, dinner time or did you just like seeing garth get a happy ending?
Overall I rate the episode a B, I tend to favor serialized stories, but being a stand
alone this was still a lot of fun.
And it kind of resolved the Garth character, which had been left hanging after season 8.
I feel like if they never used DJ Qualls again you could assume that he just lived out the
rest of his life with his wife’s family.
Which is kind of nice.
I feel like any character buy Sam, Dean and possibly Castiel is allowed a happy ending
on the show.
I really liked the new norse mythology they introduced in the episode.
I was a big fan of the council of gods back in season 5.
so I feel like them using the idea of fenriss and odin was a nice callback to that.
Let me know whether you think any characters on the show are allowed to have happy endings
and do you want to see garth comeback in season 10?
I feel like it’s inevitable, but I don’t expect to see him again before the end of
the season.
Next week the boys cosplay richard simmons on a case, and the teaser looks ridiculous.
so you know it’s going to be awesome.
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Speaking of funny, I just posted my video for Peter Capaldi’s new doctor who costume.
and let’s just say tumblr has been having some fun with it.
Click here to see it and click here for last week’s supernatural video.
Thanks for watching, see you guys tomorrow.
High fives!