SPN Georg

Aah, Croatoan. The midseason finale of s2. There’s just... too much in this episode to sum it up tidily in a little synopsis like this. I really tried to keep the podcast under an hour and a half and came SO CLOSE but still failed (don’t worry, it was over two hours before I edited it >.>). So instead, I’m just gonna cackle about the fact John had a crackpot theory about the Roanoke Colony d...

Heck, I can’t believe I’ve done 30 of these now! I’m 1/11th of the way through the series! LOLOLOL! Poor Dean, has his second-worst fears confirmed, that John sold his soul to Hell for Dean to live. Don’t worry, he still has his worst fears waiting to be confirmed-- what that whole thing about having to possibly kill Sam if Dean fails to save him could possibly mean... Things referenced in this ep...

I always thoroughly enjoy this episode. You can’t go wrong with Linda Blair, Sam and Dean both reaching Peak Competency in extremely trying circumstances, and demonstrating what professional hunters with a lifetime of experience working together are capable of. Even when the real monster is actually just another selfish human. They go in expecting a vengeful spirit, and discover it’s a death omen...

Aah, a nice distracting MotW episode! But also one where we get to tangentially explore Dean’s relationship with his parents and hunting through Jo’s essentially opposite relationship with hunting and her parents... Plus serial killers, Sam is oddly written due to Jared’s surgery on his hand, and I actually remembered to introduce myself at the beginning of the episode again! Also, everyone be gra...

aka that one where I forgot to introduce myself at the beginning of the episode. (Hi, I’m Mittens... just pretend I said it in the podcast) But it took me 27 episodes before I completely forgot who I was, and it’s possibly appropriate for the episode about mind control powers... :’D This is Ben Edlund’s first episode, and oddly my shortest episode in a while (yay?!), and these are not the droids y...

When Dean’s current character arc is paralleled to a zombie girl, we know there will be Feelings™. This boy has so much guilt-- blaming himself and his continued existence as an alive person on the planet for his father’s death, blaming himself for everything Sam has been through since John’s death because of that, and still unable to address the “if you can’t save him, you’ll have to kill hi...

Episode 25 already? Wow! But also, this episode is a big one. A difficult one, too, since it marks a lot of firsts and introduces a lot of Big Concepts into the show that Sam and Dean will wrestle with for the rest of the series. Mostly, it clarifies that the morality of hunting isn’t black and white. Monsters aren’t all evil things that need to die. And Dean gets told that he’s just a killer for...

So this week’s episode is a bit late, and a bit shaky... I have had an unbelievable *checks clock* 28 hours of the most ridiculous series of technical difficulties both with my laptop and in real life. It has been a doozy, folks. I’m just gonna apologize in advance if this episode is a little bit glitchy, but IT EXISTS and eight hours ago I thought I’d lost the whole thing, so I’m gonna count this...

Gosh I love this song... Welcome to Season Two! Most of the episode, it looks like Dean’s time of dying, but he just refused to go. Or, well... things happen, etc. etc., and surprise! Dean does not permadie in episode 1 of season 2, and in fact they go on to make quite a goodly number more episodes! Uh... spoiler alert? Welcome to the official merge lane at the top of the on ramp to the Spiral Nar...

I can’t believe I finally made it to the end of the first season! Wheee! Er, or, maybe something less celebratory sounding considering the circumstances of this episode... We finally get to meet Bobby! YAY! But Meg kills his dog... BOO. But Bobby teaches them some invaluable lessons about demons! YAY! But one of those lessons is that humans are possessed and trapped in their bodies by the demons.....

This week we visit a fictional town (in our universe, it’s real enough in the SPN universe) that was “created for sinners.” I like to think it’s Chuck taking a little dig at everyone, and they have no idea yet... We also get our first introduction to Carry On Wayward Son in canon, which I marvel at probably longer than I should’ve, but this is my podcast and I do what I want. :’D Impossible d...

Welcome to another installment of the Free Will United Against John Winchester’s Direct Orders Fan Club! I hope everyone brought their clubs! :’D We are introduced to the Colt, are informed that yes, vampires are a thing that exist, and begin learning the extent of things that John had been keeping hidden from Sam and Dean, ostensibly in the name of keeping them safe. Since I talked an awful lot t...

Once again, Sam finds a clue to follow to a new hunt, prompted partly by three short entries in John’s journal of seemingly unrelated murders separated by decades. He and Dean are on the hunt for something that connects them all together. Sam is also pushed to the forefront of information gathering, through a budding relationship with Sarah Blake. Yes, we finally get a bit of a look at Sam’s deepe...

Heck this one just absolutely murders me with Dean feels. This boy tries so hard, and thinks he fails at everything, and has been carrying this burden around most of his life. I could ramble on about this forever, but luckily it’s gish week and I’m thoroughly distracted or else I’d be having another Dean-induced breakdown on this post. Consider yourselves spared. I do however break down frequently...

Pranks can go horribly, terribly wrong, and sometimes they can go so awry they can unwittingly alter reality. What was likely intended to be a fun MotW episode at the time really does explore a lot of deeper themes about how the story can be made real just by the power of belief. We also get to gently poke fun at some of the earlier episodes and the frequently bumbling approach of Sam and Dean as...

And we’re back to mytharc! What’s the point of this episode? What have we learned other than that Dean can’t even imagine a life for himself out beyond hunting, and that Sam can’t even imagine a life for himself where he continues to hunt? Well, for one thing, we learn that Dean also has very little faith in his own abilities as a hunter and is still conditioned to defer to John’s orders, even whe...

Here we are, our very first entirely human bad guys, no supernatural connections at all. They don’t have a reaper on a leash or an old god in an orchard they sacrifice people to. Not even the angry spirits of the many people they’d hunted over the years. Just... really awful people. :’D In Dean’s words from this episode: demons I get, people are crazy. I mention in the podcast that this episode ha...

Sam’s the one having nightmares, but at least he has Dean to support him through it. It’s far more than Dean himself has ever had. Yes, another episode where something supernatural happens to Sam, and we the audience understand and relate to the supernatural difficulty through the filter of Dean’s perceptions, reactions, and emotions. We also get to feel righteously judgmental toward John Winchest...

Yeah, I'm even gonna take the slightly cringe episodes seriously, at least for my purposes of character analysis. And while the racist truck is basically a slow-motion car crash, so are my feelings for what is revealed about Dean in this episode. Even with my sad Dean feels, a segment at the beginning of the episode I took to explain how I think of Death's role in the cosmic structure of the Super...

So we're officially here, the first episode that I had to stop and stare at a wall for a few minutes and then immediately go back and watch it again. I had been enjoying the show before this. It felt like a fun little adventure story about chasing a mysterious monster that had altered their lives forever, seeking revenge and answers and trying to find their father. But this episode? This changed t...

This week we get to talk about a lot of firsts... the first time we get to see Sam speak to John in canon! The first time we meet Meg! The first time Dean is denied a slice of pie! Wheee! (and I only get a little bit mad about the finale like... twice... maybe three times... >.>) Seriously though, there is a lot going on in this episode, big themes that will carry throughout the series about...

Hello again! Join me on an adventure in being eminently frustrated with Sam! I mean, I feel for him, I get his frustration, but this feels like the first time he's ever really been confronted with the position that Dean's been in since he was four regarding John. He just lacks any sort of coping mechanism for dealing with it... (unless you’re someone who totally relates to Sam in this episode, bec...

Welcome to another episode of SPNGeorg! This week we take Sam and Dean Home, a place that Dean swore never to return to, while Sam feels compelled to save the people he saw in his nightmare from the same fate their family suffered. And John... basically hides and does a bit of handwringing over the whole mess. There’s an awful lot of seeds planted in this episode that will take years to bear fruit...

In which I endeavor to convince even one person that this episode isn't the complete trash Chuck seemed to think it was... I am fairly certain the main reason he hated it was because he wasn't really interested in the deeper character narrative of Dean's tormented childhood. Links and things referenced in this episode, and helpful references in general: Last time for Kripke's original five episode...

Welcome back for a bit of Urban Legend, and what already feels a little bit like a throwback to the original concept of Supernatural before it began evolving into a substantially bigger mytharc driven series. I suppose that's what happens when production issues make these sorts of delays and changes necessary. Lucky us! Just a few things I referred to in this episode: The quotes about how John Shi...