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Bucklemming is back, and for them this one is actually pretty enjoyable, so I'll take it. Plus you can't be mad about Spike and Cordelia as feuding witches. Dean's guilt is still getting the better of them, and Sam is pushing way too hard trying to make Dean talk about his feelings. I'm sure that won't lead to a catastrophic personal situation for them... This episode is pretty...

This episode is here seemingly only to flog us with the fact that Dean Is Not Doing Well. Sam may have bounced back guilt-free and performatively coping with his hallucifering, but when Dean gets a second to breathe he just dives head-first into feeling trauma, guilt, and loss. And that's a super terrible combo platter on a good day. And this is not a good day... >.> Yes I get a little g...

The trick to this one is to see everyone's perspective, or you end up hating someone in short order, and that is not what we're here for... >.> While I like to stick to the watsonian perspective when I talk about the show, and I do in the episode, I want to mention the doylist perspective here for just a second. This one really feels like the assignment was "have Dean cross a li...

And boy is it ever cruel! The subtitle there refers to the plot climax of this one, but also to season seven as a whole. The entire thing is built on pain being the key to reality, and doesn't that just suck! Like, massively! It sucks for Sam, it sucks for Dean, and it sucks for all of us! But we shall endure. :'D We lose Cas right at the start, and then Dean carries his coat away like a w...

Same as the old boss... (won't get fooled again... *screaming*) Welcome to season seven, where they could've done something truly great but instead did this... We could've had a season of Godstiel, trying to save Cas from himself and Leviathan Possession, but no. Though the specific *way* they screwed this up becomes the foundation for the relationship between Dean and Cas for the rest...

A season finale that really runs as part one of a two-parter. I had to firmly sort the events of this one out of the events of 7.01, and mostly succeeded, I hope. Poor Sam has to put himself back together after Cas breaks his wall in a desperate last-ditch attempt to go through with his awful plan. Somewhere along the line, this power grab stopped being About Saving Dean and morphed into something...

Things really start falling apart... Cas's plans are breaking down, Bobby's chasing leads from H.P. Lovecraft, and Dean's chasing the demons who went after Lisa and Ben, and makes terrible choices as a result. It's just Bad Decisions Day all around! LINKS! The Superwiki Page My Tag Filming locations map Sera introduces 6.21 and 6.22 Extended promo clip for 6.21 and 6.22 My reply to...

This week: Studies in new levels of crippling emotional pain! That's right, we've arrived at The Agonies! I really don't believe I have to work hard to introduce this one, so I'll yammer about the caption i put on the graphic this week: big plans for that fish. Yes, Cas is the fish. Way down the line, he's just got so much fish and fishing imagery attached to him, that really t...

Hello everyone, this is your captain speaking. If you look out the left side of the plane, you can watch Castiel's carefully constructed plans begin to unravel in catastrophic fashion! Because by the end of this episode, he's reaching the point of no return. He's got maybe one more chance to take it all back after the events of this episode, but we all know he's passed that emotion...

We get yet another peek at the undercurrent of season 6, the bigger picture of what's really going on with Cas. And again, it's one of those things you can't notice until you know the full trick of the season. But on rewatch, it's so much more heartbreaking when you know what's coming. I also really do think this is where Dean's fascination with cowboys and the wild west mo...

For an episode that feels very much like a throwaway MotW romp of silliness on a first watch of the series, this one sure does have some much stronger implications buried in it when you know what's coming three episodes down the road... By the time we learn Crowley loaned 50k souls to smack down Raphael before the events of s6 that we've witnessed to this point, I think we forget that this...

Yes, the title is Agatha Christie, and the themes are kind of similar in a general sense... a bunch of people all enticed to the same location and everyone ends up dead. Well..., not entirely everyone. Their true "host" for these events is still walking around (Eve) and Sam, Dean, and Bobby all live to fight another day. But everyone else? Eh... not so much. Khan worm monster gets squish...

I realized after i finished editing this one that I didn’t even talk about the title of this one. It’s a reference to a very specific fourth wall break in cinema history. From my second favorite movie released the year I was born, Blazing Saddles. I’ll link to a post with the video clip from the end of the film below though. For anyone who doesn’t know the film though, it’s a western. It’s a dang...

Do I have to describe this one? >.> Haunted kidney, Baby is a sex doll, and this is about as far from a win as the Winchesters ever get. Dean's relationship with Lisa is firmly and officially over. Sam Sams, and pretty much everyone else dies, so... wheee? >.> In better news, this is officially the shortest episode of the SPN Georg podcast to date, so there's that... LINKS! The...

Yes, I had to watch it again, despite Sam's specific struggles in this episode being a source of... let's call it personal emotional distress for me. So I'm gonna talk lightly about it as much as possible. I also am super creeped by the concept of the spider people, so... winning all around for me I guess. >.> In far better news, this episode has our only full draft script from s...

No I will never be over the fact this is the only episode we actually hear dragons exist, and they're basically... dudes. I mean, par for the course, but still disappointing just a little bit. Dean gets to experience having wealth, Sam gets told the truth about his soulless year, Cas is the dingdong who breaks the news (and gosh is he looking ragged too...), and we're into the murky middle...

This is in my top three favorite episodes of the entire series! Enough said! Okay, fine, I'll say more. This one asks us several Big Questions and is as vague as Death about the answers. What is a soul even? Who is Sam without his and was existing without his soul *really* living? Or really *Sam*? And what's the larger point of season 6 as a whole? Because yes it really is all about the so...

There's just a lot going on in this one. So much. We get the return of Meg, in an enemy-of-my-enemy situation, we get Samuel and learn the depths to which he's willing to sink to get what he wants, the horror of his current situation, and we learn that Crowley was never able to get Sam's soul out of the cage making all their work for him bringing in monsters to torture (and yeesh to th...

I love this one. Even if it ruined Space Oddity for me forever. :'D It's like nine different crimes against Dean Winchester in a glittery glue bomb. Plus it's also the absolute best Soulless! Sam episode. I do thoroughly enjoy every minute of this episode, though, so I'll just let everyone else go about enjoying it, too and stop yammering in the notes about it. :'D LINKS! The S...

(except these dogs, because they're actually monsters, but purgatory probably needs doggos too so...) I am not gonna sugar coat this one. It's... not good lol. Like it's one of the episodes I'd repeatedly forget existed at all until it came back up on the rewatch. Unfortunately I've rewatched the series so many times now that I'm incapable of forgetting it exists now. Like...

The Campbells are up to some shady shit. The Alpha Vampire gets to break some delightfully terrible news. And oh yeah, Sam popped outta hell wrong! I think I covered pretty much everything I wanted to in this one, so I’m gonna lay out some puzzling conundrums in this space for everyone to ponder instead: The Alpha Vampire could tell Sam had no soul at ten paces, but apparently none of the other su...

aka truth coming out of her well to punch humanity in the nuts... Welcome to the brutal, painful truth. Let’s start this week with a trigger warning for suicide and implied offscreen rape of a minor, because even if this show will gloss over stuff like that, I try to give a heads up about it. Because yikes… Poor Dean has been desperate for the truth all season long, but everyone and everything has...

Dean gets to be a vampire for just long enough to have some awkward homoerotic tension and blow up his relationship with Lisa. We all get clobbered with just how Not Right Sam is behaving, and if seeing it from Dean’s pov isn’t enough, Samuel explains it in complete sentences for us. There’s just nothing subtle about this one, folks... But gosh is it fun to talk about :D LINKS! The Superwiki page...

Welcome to our favorite director, Jensen Ackles! There’s just so much that happens in this episode, and he did a great job with it. Like a lot of season six, it looks like a fairly straightforward MotW case (or series of cases), but rewatching s6 is so much more interesting when you know where everything is headed. The monsters are all acting “weird;” something is really really wrong with Sam, and...

CAS! IS BACK! FINALLY. And also unfortunately just in time to set him up to take the big fall for basically all of s6.... >.> So much of season six makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE on a rewatch, which is one of the reasons I was so excited to get to this point in the podcast. For folks who’ve never rewatched the series, or maybe only rewatched favorite episodes, hopefully we’re all learning a new ap...