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Justice in war... the code of ethics that judges actions on the battlefield. On the surface, this episode makes us question what is right, cuts off almost every choice Sam and Dean could’ve made, and backs them so far into a corner they’re literally shackled together and shoved in a cage. It was a situation that we won’t find out for most of an entire additional season of the show that was specifi...

Aah, the one where Doris the average human waitress kills Dean Winchester at least twice! A pig in a poke. Yet another mirror for Chuck's Process encapsulated in a single episode... A message appropriately delivered by God's own little messenger, Gabriel. Heck, there’s just too much in this episode to tidily sum it up in one little blurb paragraph, yes? So many memes have come from this one little...

When we left Dean at the end of the last episode, after spending the entire season to that point accepting his own fate, not fighting back against it despite being truly terrified of it, he’d finally learned something about that fate that was too big to ignore: the fact that all demons started out as human souls corrupted by Hell. He would’ve taken an eternity of torture in Hell, but becoming a de...

aka that one where we learn about witches, hex bags, and how demons are made... For an episode that does a TON of work and covers a lot of ground creating lore that will become a core part of the show for the rest of the series, I am SHOCKED, I tell you, at how short I managed to keep this podcast ep! I think I finally settled on a good format that I can work with! YAY! So as always, I’m intereste...

well, I’ve now been doing this for just a few days shy of a year. I’m mildly impressed with myself for sticking to it, never missing an episode even in weeks where real life and technical difficulties tried to interfere... like this week! When I lost an hour of recording and had to start over... I guess I can assume that the lost episode was probably a stellar performance that could never be repli...

I’ll begin this week by apologizing for the short length of this one, but I’ve had a migraine for the last three days and it was either record or miss my posting date... luckily I’ve typed up what serves as a nice summary of this one about three years ago, and my general thoughts on it. You can read that here (it’s pretty short for an episode post for me, too). This episode is a turning point for...

Let me just take a moment to scream YES! FIFTY! Thank you to everyone who’s listened. We’ve hit a milestone! And we’re still nowhere near close to done lol! Here we are, though, at a one-off episode for both writer and director that Kripke has mentioned he doesn’t care for. All things considered, I do enjoy this episode. No big plot movement, but a nice bit of character respite before Dean takes a...

This little MotW episode weirdly encapsulates the entire overarching metanarrative of Supernatural in miniature, and isn’t that incredible? A little girl’s spirit using fairy tales that bleed over into reality, manipulating people-- sometimes directly, but the Winchesters specifically because of who they are and can’t abide the suffering of others when they are able to step in and fix things-- thr...

I cannot BELIEVE I failed to use the phrase “it’s spirals all the way down” in this entire episode, but that’s what it boils down to honestly. This episode feels like it hits on so many themes that become the big spiral narrative of the entire show. Not to mention miscommunication between Sam and Dean, which knowing what the future holds for them even out through s4 and s5 sets up SO MUCH of...

Destiny. Something that will become a core theme of the show, opposite Free Will. In this case, at least, it’s just a cursed rabbit’s foot that escaped the curse box John Winchester had stuffed it in and hidden away in his secret storage locker rather than actually destroying the thing years ago. Funny how what goes around eventually comes around again, yes? Locking up problems is never an actual...

I wrestled with the jokey tagline on the image this week. I nearly went with something about Ruby, since she’s the other Big Deal Thing happening in this episode, but I’m still stuck on the thematic similarity between Lisa and Carmen from Dean’s djinn dream in 2.20. I mean, they even look similar. Like, maybe his long-ago memories of Lisa influenced his mental process in choosing that particular E...

Why tf did Sam open that motel room door and *observe with his eyes*. I mean wtf did he think he was gonna see? Sound travels through doors, Sam. You could’ve just called and left him a voice mail. Or did you think he was gonna be demurely under the covers with the doublemint twins? Truly sad, Sammy. Oh, and this episode also sets up the Main Problems of s3: Who was that masked chick? (Ruby!) Wait...

For just a minute, yeah, this episode feels hopeful. Despite ~everything still hanging over them~ they got a MASSIVE win. Like, win of a lifetime, quite literally. Sure they still have problems going into s3-- Dean’s deal and his one year left to live, the worry over whether Sam “came back right” (spoiler alert, he did, this is all just mind games being put in place to manipulate them), and o...

Where once again I mention something in passing on the episode graphic that I completely fail to mention in the actual podcast! But this one is a blink-and-you-miss-it handful of frames  that’s far more ominous with the context of the rest of the series. And in context of this early part of the show (and the next two seasons or so) makes Sam’s hiding the whole demon blood from Dean at least a...

no really, this episode is A Lot. Being #42 must be some sort of cosmic joke. Djinn, the introduction of El Sol and everything that implies, Dean’s horrifying self-worth issues, the cases Dean discovers were “undone” in his dream world (the Shtriga that nearly killed Sam as a child and became a punishment from John as an adult, their first demon and the plane crash case that exposed Dean’s fe...

Poor Victor Henriksen. The Winchesters are just so far above his pay grade right now. :’D But also, yeah, things never stay locked up on Supernatural-- from curse boxes to wherever Amara was stashed away since the dawn of creation, if there’s a lock then there’s always a key, or a blowtorch in this case. Also, working from “sanitized” reports that don’t come close to the truth always lead to...

I didn’t even realize until i was entering the metadata for the mp3 file last night that this was EPISODE 40 of spngeorg! First off, I can’t believe I’ve stuck with this project for 40 whole entire weeks, or that we’re still in s2 of 15 of Supernatural. :’D Thanks to everyone who’s been on this ride with me! On to the actual episode! I LOVE THIS ONE. Seriously, if I haven’t made myself clear, it’s...

This episode always hurts. It hurts more knowing how much more Sam and Dean will eventually learn about werewolves, and what they might have been able to do to help Madison if only they had known. Some episodes just get better with hindsight, but this one just feels more painful-- for Madison, yes, but also for Sam. That boy just carries so much guilt. I do appreciate this one for the chance for S...

*all along the watchtower plays in the distance* lol... even if in this episode the song tied to the guest star of the week was House of the Rising Sun, same deal. And once again, if you haven’t watched Battlestar Galactica, can I take this opportunity to recommend it most strongly. Then you’ll get this reference. :’D I love this episode. It’s a wonderful exemplar of the inside-out storytelling Su...

Once again, I shall use this space to laugh about something I didn’t even mention in the actual podcast: the snarky comment in this week’s title card. For those who can’t see it, it’s “That episode that makes fun of Urban Legends, you know that thing this show was originally intended to be about...” Because yeah, the original pitch Kripke made for Supernatural was (aside from “Star Wars...

Yeah, in an episode where Sam isn’t *actually Sam* until right near the end, I spend a lot of this episode going “Sam... er, well Meg really, but she’s using Sam’s face,” and “Meg... but Sam because those are his fists.” I think I at least achieved the objective that nobody will forget that Sam is just Not Sam for most of this one, which was my goal. :’D So how does Meg’s little game fit...

yeah... welcome to the screaming portion of the inside of my head :’D So much of the foundation of angel lore, God’s Will in the Supernatural Universe, and the spiral narrative overall is planted firmly in this episode: Sera Gamble’s sneaky trick to get to write about “angels” while Kripke was still on the No Angels in SPN Ever line. But also predates Dean finding a handhold on his own free w...

Aah, Ben Edlund, that scamp who’s always shining lights into the underbelly of this show and the nature of storytelling itself. This episode is about subtext, and about why trusting the surface level read of the story will get you killed and replaced by mandroids leave you confused. The real story is never just what’s happening on the surface. And this entire episode serves as an excellent reminde...

Creepy dolls, yes, but also some meta goodness. When you have a dollhouse that’s an exact replica of the big house, and everything that happens in reality also happens in the dollhouse, you get a tidy metaphor for the concept of “as above, so below” that the show leans on completely in later seasons. “Smashing toys” here might be literal, but... it’s like the whole plot of the cosmic non...

Aah, Hunted. The truth of John’s final order to Dean finally comes out, and this episode goes to prove exactly why it took him so long to tell Sam. Their behaviors and actions in this episode, now that I’m really thinking about it, kind of set the groundwork for my tag sam sympathizes and Dean empathizes , even if the first post in that tag is my rant about 9.14... (i just reread that post and it...