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Post by thesnowleopard on Feb 8, 2017 1:28:14 GMT -5
Shiny new discussion thread just for this week's episode. Please try to use spoiler code for any spoilers before the show begins airing on the East Coast for those who hate to be spoiled beforehand, but want to chat about the anticipation.
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Post by rizrax on Feb 8, 2017 13:28:28 GMT -5
So happy to see this thread here thesnowleopard! I'm really looking forward to this one and am hoping for humour with a bitter-sweet edge. If they get it right (Mystery Spot) then it will be fabulous, giving Jensen the perfect platform to do what he does and for Dean to be what we love him to be. Bit nervous about Glynn though.I wasn't mad keen on The One You've Been Waiting For....
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Post by gobeklitepe1 on Feb 9, 2017 10:21:58 GMT -5
Great to see we have a home for your live recaps. I'm sort of looking forward to tonight's episode; then again the writers have demonstrated a unique ability to disappoint me.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Feb 9, 2017 20:00:42 GMT -5
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Post by thesnowleopard on Feb 9, 2017 20:04:34 GMT -5
Starting now.
Recap of witches and bunnies and Rowena.
Cut to Now. A guy is running through the deep, dark woods. He's wounded and scared. He calls someone to tell them to run. He's being chased by...Dean Winchester.
When Dean corners him, the dying man has drawn a glowing pink sigil on a tree that blasts Dean and tosses him into the leaves, unconscious.
Title cards.
We are in Eureka Springs, KS.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Feb 9, 2017 20:10:17 GMT -5
Dean wakes up in the woods, hugging a very large rabbit. A very large, *tame* rabbit. His phone is busted. When he tries to ask a nearby jogger with a baby to call on a phone, she gives him money, thinking he's homeless. He eventually gets a bored Yuppy dude to lend him a phone and he calls Sam. He can't remember where he is until he sees and hears a passing truck.
Cue the sneak peek, set in a diner with waffles, where Dean (and Sam) thinks he's been on a bender and blacked out, and Dean gets slapped by a girl he doesn't remember getting jiggy with. They also briefly discuss the "devil baby mama drama" that nobody in the audience actually cares about and Sam says he will text Mary.
Cut to the Brothers in FBI mufti at an autopsy of their case, a guy Dean thinks was killed by the Mob. But it turns out he was filled with paper money--and a hex bag.
They talk about their next step as they get in the car and Dean can't remember which key to use. He also can't remember whether he's in reverse or not. Sam still thinks Dean is hung over until Dean has a major dizzy spell and can't remember his own name. Whoops.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Feb 9, 2017 20:24:49 GMT -5
That was an awfully early commercial break. They usually don't come until about the twenty-minute mark.
Dean insists he's fine while Sam figures he got hexed. Dean figures he would have been killed if hexed. Sam tests him by asking about the members of Bon Jovi (Dean can only remember Bon Jovi). Dean also forgets the name for lamp.
Dean insists Sam not call Mary or Castiel, so we cut to Rowena cheating at cards (rather nicely lit scene, I must say). She gets a call--from Sam.
Rowena teases Sam about being in his contact list and asks if she's got her own "ring tone."
She starts asking questions and thinks it might be an "Obliviate" spell. To get rid of it, "ideally, [you] kill the witch."
Sam turns around and finds Dean gone. Dean went for ice and forgot where their room number was.
Sam asks Dean the last thing he did and Dean says that he just forgot to get ice.
Off to a law office where Dean remembers being with Sam the day before.
FYI, I got a thunderstorm coming fairly quickly here.
They check out a photo that Dean doesn't remember. Sam says he went to do research and Dena went for a burger. Cut to a burger joint, where they see the girl from the waffle place. She's a waitress and she's still pissed.
Sam introduces them as FBI and she says Dean used a rock ID. She's kind of annoying.
She finally gets over her butthurt long enough to tell them that Dean came in, killed four shots of tequila, rode the bull, then rode the waitress. Then he got a call or saw something and ran out.
The waitress realizes Dean remembers known of this and apologizes, figuring he'd been roofied.
So, they score some CCTV footage of Dean leaving the bar and confronting Doomed Teaser Witch(?), who TKs Dean into some garbage bags. Sam realizes the guy was in a photo at the law office.
Dean has no forgotten he can use guns.
Out back, Sam finds a pistol shell from a shot Dean and Dean today gets a dizzy spell. He now can't remember supernatural things like witches. Sam reminds him and Dean thinks that's "awesome."
And even flashlights are confusing.
In the woods, Sam is surprised to find himself giving Dean The Talk.
Sam finds evidence of Dean shooting people and then the spell runes the witch used, but no witch. Oh...but Dean finds him. The guy is pretty dead. Looks like Dean killed him, after all.
Sam is worried. Killing the witch didn't do the trick.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Feb 9, 2017 20:47:59 GMT -5
In the woods, two other witches, a man and a blonde woman, find the dead guy and the woman vows vengeance. The other guy warns her that "Gideon" (the dead guy) wanted them to run. She doesn't want to run. Oh, yay, two vengeful bitchy women two weeks in a row. I sure hope we're not going for a bathetic sob story for these two.
Anyhoo, back at the motel, Dean doesn't remember finding the dead guy and is cute and complimentary to Rowena when she shows up (which she finds flattering). She says the spell used was an ancient Celtic one ("language of the trees," i.e., druids). She recognizes the dead guy as Gideon Lochlin, from a family (a trio) of witches who came over to America a hundred years ago and created their own little kingdom in one backwater on the Mississippi. The other two are Lloyd and Katrina. We see all this over a montage of the other two resurrecting the first guy. She dislikes them and thought they were dead.
All of their magic comes from a book called The Black Grimoire.
She says that the Hunters killed the family. As Dean watches Scooby-Doo, Rowena tells Sam they need to kill the witch or Dean will slowly forget to do everything, including breath. He will die.
In the bathroom, Sam breaks the news to Dean, who is upset. Sam says they'll figure something out.
In the bedroom, Rowena asks Sam how Dean is and Sam says, "Like you care?" Rowena, wisely, doesn't pursue it. Sam admits this is worse than just watching Dean die.
In the bathroom, Dean tries to run through the basic facts of his life, slowly forgetting them.
Meanwhile, Rowena lets slip she wants The Black Grimoire (which could also save Dean's life), but also figures it's good to have a Winchester owe her one.
Sam wants to leave Rowena back at the the motel room with Dean, hoping to force one of the witches to read the book for him. Or Sam can just kill them all.
Oh, Dean.
Dean is like a little child with Rowena. She hands him a voodoo doll to play with and tells him her origin story with the Lochlins, figuring he won't remember.
Sam goes after the witches, bodyguards first.
Oh, Jesus, Rowena's actually complimenting Dean! She unburdens herself to him in his blank state, admitting that seeing Chuck and Amara fight was a real shock to the system.
They get a call from Sam, who is going to send them the translation. I'm sure that will all work out. [/sarcasm]
He goes after Katrina, who knew Sam was coming. And, of course, they set a trap. Sam gets knocked out by Lloyd. Katrina speaks a spell that enlivens her dead butterfly collection and makes Sam scream as his ears bleed.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Feb 9, 2017 20:55:39 GMT -5
Dean wakes up in the Impala, with notes from Rowena briefly explaining Sam has been kidnapped and to stay in the car.
Meanwhile, Lloyd and Katrina fight while tying up Sam. Lloyd blames Katrina.
Oh, and Rowena has decided to ride to the rescue. She meets Katrina first. Katrina doesn't remember her. At first. When she does, she's nasty.
Sam wakes up as Lloyd is beginning a spell to swap souls with his brother and bring him back from the dead.
Boy, Katrina is mighty stupid. Rowena TKs her into a wall.
Dean ignores Rowena's command to stay and opens up the trunk. Rowena was smart enough to leave him notes identifying the gun with witch-killing bullets.
Inside, Katrina has pinned Rowena to a wall and is about to kill her when Dean comes in and levels a gun at him. Katrina is contemptuous, even when Dean shows her the note saying "witch killing bullets" and stupidly turns her back on him. So, Dean shoots her down.
Upstairs, Sam gets loose and fights Lloyd, who comes down the stairs. Dean is momentarily confused who is the good or bad guy until Sam identifies himself as "brother" and Lloyd" as "witch" and Dean shoots Lloyd.
Moral of the story: Don't mess with Dean Winchester.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Feb 9, 2017 21:04:39 GMT -5
Sam waits anxiously downstairs as Rowena says the spell and pink light spills out. Dean and Rowena come back downstairs. Dean still looks confused, to Sam's consternation, then bursts out laughing at Sam. He remembers. He was just doing a little prank on Sam.
As they see her off in a taxi, Sam relieves Rowena of the magic book, though admits they do now owe her one.
Rowena rather wistfully asks Dean, if he remembers any "odd conversations," to let her know. Totally deadpan (and totally lying) Dean calmly assures he doesn't remember a thing. Hmm.
Sam and Dean have a brief conversation by the car, with Sam saying it's almost too bad that Dean couldn't have still forgotten all that bad stuff. Dean says yeah, but the problem he was actually forgetting everything.
We then get a montage of Dean's "forgotten" memories and riding the bull over Bobby Goldsboro's "Broomstick Cowboy" that make it pretty clear he remembers everything when he was hexed. Hmmmm.
And again, Riverdale's cutting into SPN's time so no preview. Bastards.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Feb 9, 2017 21:11:58 GMT -5
So...odd one. Wasn't impressed by the witches, who were too stupid to have lived over a century. Some of it was reminiscent of "Malleus Maleficarum," though Rowena's a *little* more trustworthy than Ruby and much better acted.
Jensen's acting was good. I especially liked Dean and Rowena together, and Rowena getting confessional with him. Also her going into the lion's den to help rescue Sam. They perhaps played it a little too light and "funny" with Dean forgetting things, but that bathroom scene was heartbreaking and he was badass at the end.
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Post by SkeksisGirl on Feb 9, 2017 21:38:30 GMT -5
Gonna have to see this episode myself.
Thanks for the recap Snow!
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Post by thesnowleopard on Feb 9, 2017 21:52:46 GMT -5
You're welcome!
My impression is that Jensen Ackles really fears ever getting Alzheimer's. Can't say I blame him.
It was interesting that Dean was so sweet with dementia because personality changes do occur with dementia and it's not always pretty.
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Post by SkeksisGirl on Feb 9, 2017 22:56:08 GMT -5
My 104 year old Paternal Grandmother has dementia.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Feb 9, 2017 23:29:19 GMT -5
Well, Dean is technically only about 77....
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