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Post by thesnowleopard on May 4, 2017 10:57:23 GMT -5
Remember the days when the dumbest things about the show were the titles?
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 4, 2017 19:15:35 GMT -5
Starting now with a recap of Recap of Dean talking about John being on a hunting trip in the Pilot, and some other older stuff, plus a recap of last week that makes it pretty clear nobody lately has bothered to watch any of the older episodes.
Cut to an African American woman named Tasha Banes who is at a B&B run by a racist old woman and her too-friendly son. In her room, Tasha makes a finding spell and goes down into a shed that's very smelly. And full of witch fetishes. Then she gets stabbed and falls.
Cue title cards.
Cue sneak peek with Dean brooding over Castiel obviously having been brainwashed--again--and asking Sam if he can fix the Colt. Which is completely out of character for both of them. Dean is the guy who fixes things. Hell, he was the one who was cleaning the Colt before Sam went off and used it. This is NOT IN CHARACTER for Sam.
They hear a phone vibrate. It's Mary's. Sam answers (because apparently, all Dean can do now is brood over Castiel). It's Alicia and her brother, asking for help find her mother in Wyoming.
Sam volunteers him and Dean to help, using Dean's old "Dad's on a hunting trip" line. I roll my eyes. Hard.
Dean calls Mary and leaves a message. Retch is torturing a shapeshifter that takes first Mary's and then Retch's form. Mary looks uneasy about it.
Oh, Alicia's bro bonds with Dean over the car, while Alicia and Sam bond over not being part of their family. Ugh. Move on, show.
At the B&B, some creepy dude is hanging about. When they enter the B&B, their mother (Doomed Teaser Gal) greets them, looking fine and not at as if she got stabbed. More shapeshifters?
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 4, 2017 19:24:58 GMT -5
Tasha is all chirpy and dismissive of ignoring her calls. And as she has the Brothers pour some wine, while she turns her back and re-aligns a broken finger.
Sam goes to investigate...something, while urging Dean to get drunk. Dear Lord, show. Really?
Ah, but Dean gets to talking with "Tasha" and appears to sense something is off. Or not.
Meanwhile, Mary and Retch are having a spat over the morality of torture. Which makes me snicker. Remember when her eldest son was the best torturer ever?
Mary also eavesdrops on Retch. Poorly. And suspects Mitch is a goner. And Retch is...well, he's quite dumb about being so smug.
Sam gets back with the food and says he found a Missing poster for the guy they saw when they first came in.
Upstairs, Racist Woman is making a wicker man.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 4, 2017 19:40:09 GMT -5
Mary leaves a call for Dean apologizing for continuing to not be there. Dean (and Sam) is outside checking out the cellar, while the twins bond with Not-Mom. And the brother has a date with a cute (boy) bartender.
Sam uncovers Tasha. Dean notes her and the other bodies' hearts have been ripped out. They wonder who is upstairs when everyone in the house is down dead in the basement. Alicia's brother comes down and they don't stop him from seeing his mom's body in time. They let him grieve.
So, shapeshifters of some kind, but what are they up to?
Mary, meanwhile, is skulking around and finds Mick's body. Then she tries to leave quietly. Which goes not so well because her access has been denied in everything, by Retch.
I sure hope we lose him this week.
Oh, and she gets locked into a room where she sees info on every Hunter she knows. And realizes the Bunker is being bugged. She tries to call Dean and opens a door to find Retch.
They have another spat. He lies about Mick's death. She's not fooled.
Mick brags incessantly about how efficient the LoL are. I roll my eyes.
Mary beats him up some and gets beaten a bit, too. He brags about all the people he's killed the Brothers don't know about, how he can keep Mary "safe" and that the American Hunters are going to all be killed. I roll my eyes some more because the logistics are just too stupid.
Mary beats Retch a lot then tries to leave and gets TASERed. Never mind. She's not gonna die this week and Retch is monologuing too much to live.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 4, 2017 19:49:22 GMT -5
Alicia's brother confronts the Mother Thing in the house, but when he forces her to reveal where the center of the magic is, the Racist Woman activates her minions. Dean and the brother go to confront her while the Sam and Alicia get beaten up by her things.
Turns out RW is a powerful witch who is old and dying. She wanted to transfer her magic (and blood guilt) to Tasha and avoid going to Hell, but Tasha refused. So, she killed Tasha and created a twig doll that does what she wants.
So, the brother is confronting the old with while Dean is stuck in a chair. The witch says that if he kills her, the Mother Thing dies. She offers the same deal to him. Oh, and Dean is mostly playing the voice of reason. That gets choked off.
While Sam and Alicia get beaten a lot.
Oh, and Alicia gets stabbed.
Ugh, so over Dean being useless. We do see him straining toward his pistol, though. He finally reaches it and shoots the witch, while the brother is reaching for the ring.
The witch dies and all the dolls turn to dust. Max is upset, but Dean warns him that making the deal would have meant making a deal with a demon.
Oh, and Alicia dies. So, that sucks. Dean finally gets a kill and it's a "bad" one.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 4, 2017 19:58:15 GMT -5
The Brothers try to comfort Max, who is heartbroken and blames himself. He asks them to leave so he can burn the bodies himself. Yeah, he's probably going to make a deal.
In the car, Sam tries to say that Dean did the right thing. Dean doesn't believe it. As we see a montage of Max using the bad magic ring to save Alicia by making a wicker version of her and burning the body of his real sister, Dean makes it pretty clear he knows what Max did.
Dean finally sees Mary's message--both messages. And he's off to the rescue with Sam.
Cut to Mary being awakened in the torture chair by Retch. [sigh]
Oh, and Toni the Twat shows up. So, we're gonna be stuck with these two until at least next week.
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Post by gobeklitepe1 on May 4, 2017 19:59:31 GMT -5
When Mary called Dean, why didn't she add, "Oh, and they've bugged the bunker." I hate when they have characters not give a pertinent piece of info upfront.
And look, Lady Torquemada is back.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 4, 2017 20:11:30 GMT -5
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Post by idahoforspn on May 4, 2017 21:28:01 GMT -5
Maybe I am so used to nothing that I get excited about anything but I enjoyed the episode. It at least gave us back some of our Dean. A lot more than I expected after that awful Sam can you fix the colt scene.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 4, 2017 21:38:53 GMT -5
When Mary called Dean, why didn't she add, "Oh, and they've bugged the bunker." I hate when they have characters not give a pertinent piece of info upfront. And look, Lady Torquemada is back. Yeah, I was quite annoyed by Mary not adding that one piece of information because come on. Also, I would have been happy never to see The Twat again after last season's finale, let alone this season. She and Retch and the LoL need to go up in flames. Maybe Lucifer can lend a hand.
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Post by Mystique on May 4, 2017 23:15:11 GMT -5
I thought it was an alright episode. Some good stuff mixed with some stupid crap within the overall mediocrity of it. I'd say a middle of the road ep. It was better than what has been airing this past month and a half or so. JMO
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