SPN Rewatch--Season 10 Part 1
Rewatch of Supernatural 2022
Season 10
This is the season that has my all-time favorite episode of the entire series…
196. Black (10.01)-W: Carver/D: Singer
Road so Far-Music: ‘Heartbreaker’ by Pat Benatar; ends with Dean ‘s black eyes
Fakeout-demon taunting how ‘a Winchester is one of us’ turns out she’s talking to Sam not Dean
Sam has total disregard for vessel as he tortures demon-'where’s Crowley?...Where’s my brother?’-Sam totally out of control!
Arm in sling
4 weeks pass
Sam talking to hunter Mike
Sam very scruffy
Note: ‘Sammy let me go’
Cas: ‘Sam...you can't blame what that demon did to your shoulder on me; you were out of...’-we never find out exactly what happened to his shoulder
Cas is coughing a lot (but doesn’t have cough in any other episode)
Sam hoping Dean left because he didn’t have a choice
Dean singing karaoke (first ‘I’m Too Sexy,’ later ‘Imaginary Lover’)
Anne Marie and Dean in bed, she is on her break: ‘Then you had to go and do that thing with the thing’
Dean playing foosball with Crowley
Dean beats up Anne Marie’s ex but stops before killing him
Hannah wants Cas to help find rogue angels who need to be punished
Sam in really nice suit
Sam sees Dean’s black eyes on crime video
Cas is back in self-sacrificing mode
Crowley tells Sam Dean is a demon-Sam is furious, blames Crowley: ‘…what’s really eating you up…it’s that he’s with me and he’s having the time of his life’
At this point Dean has been a demon for 6 weeks
Crowley trying to get Dean to step into role of Crowley’s right-hand demon and Dean doesn’t want any part of it
Crowley tells Dean to decide and that Sam is coming for Dean
Sam is driving a strange car which stops randomly
I can’t believe Sam just naively lets strange man come over to help without any protective behavior!
Anne Marie: ‘I wait tables at a roadhouse. I meet the bad guys. I meet the good guys. And maybe for a second there, I thought you were a good guy playing bad’-Dean: ‘The kind of guy who sleeps with every skank in every small town dive that he passes through?’-Non-demon Dean would not be so cruel
Hannah is totally hard-line against the angels who just want to be left alone on Earth; Cas’ attempts to mediate end in angel’s death
Sam tries to save Cole from going after Dean: ‘He’s a monster’-Cole doesn’t listen
Dean not at all interested in saving Sam from Cole: ‘I told him to let me go. So whatever jam he's in now, that is his problem’-cue collective gasp of horror at just how awful Demon Dean is!
Cliffhanger ending!!!
197. Reichenbach (10.02)-W: Dabb/D: Wright
Recap-previous episode
2003-Dean wearing very flare-legged jeans, John’s leather jacket; has killed man-the CGI work they did to make Dean’s face younger is not quite right and very disconcerting
Sam tries to tell Cole about monsters, said Dean would have had a reason for killing Cole’s dad
Cole brings out a hammer (Dean uses hammer next episode…)
Nice cut from Dean punching bouncer to Cole punching Sam
Crowley stringing Dean along-‘Death is your drug’-offers choice of working for Crowley and killing those who ‘deserve it’ or Dean will end up killing civilians
Last week Hannah was totally militant about angels not having any reason to be on earth-this week she wants Cas to explain the appeal to her (I find her character annoying)
Lester on cheating in marriage: ‘…It’s different when guys do it’-Dean decides Lester is douchebag who needs to die
So lady tow-truck driver is just going to take random strangers to her home where her kid is sleeping and let them hang out there while she gets parts for their car? Really???
Dean has had it with Crowley: ‘I ain't your friggin' bestie, and I ain't taking orders from you’-Crowley realizes he cannot control Demon Dean after all, calls Sam to tell him where Dean is in exchange for the first blade
Metatron tries to make deal for his freedom in exchange for Cas’ grace-Cas won’t let Hannah do it-Cas: ‘My life…my choice’
Dean when Sam finds him: ‘Did you ever stop to think that if I wanted to be cured, I wouldn't have bailed?…right now, I'm doing all I can not to come over there and rip your throat out with my teeth. I'm giving you a chance, Sam. You should take it’-Sam: ‘You’re my brother and I’m here to take you home’
Dean mocks Cole and beats the crap out of him but lets him live
Sam handcuffs Dean in the Impala: ‘This thing is filthy’-Dean: ‘It’s just a car’-Ouch!
Sam thinks Dean showed Cole mercy: ‘You call that mercy? Imagine you spend your whole life hunting down the guy that knifed your father. When you finally find him...He whips you like a dog. How do you think that feels? That kid's gonna spend his whole life knowing that he had his shot and that he couldn't beat me. That ain't mercy. That's the worst thing I could have done to him’-Oh man, this is not Dean…
Fascinating how Demon Dean, unlike every other powerful demon/evil creature, was not at all interested in power-which totally flummoxed Crowley-this was a very cool direction to take with the character!
198. Soul Survivor (10.03)-W: Buckner & Ross-Leming/D: Ackles
Recap: rogue angel, Crowley can’t control Demon Dean, Sam captures Dean
Sam is not wearing his shoulder splint while getting the blood blessed by a priest?
Sam not using his own blood-because he knows how weak he got with Crowley and can’t risk that with Dean?
Dean: ‘…did it ever occur to you that maybe I don’t want to be fixed?...what do you care?’-Sam doesn’t engage in debating Dean
Dean: ‘You know I hate shots’-Sam: ‘I hate demons’
Cas is no longer coughing even though his grace situation is supposed to be worse
Dean says Crowley told him how far Sam went-flashback to Sam setting Lester up to summon crossroads demon so Sam can get hold of one and Lester makes deal before Sam can stop him-Dean: ‘That line that we thought was so clear between us and the things that we hunted, ain’t so clear is it? Wow. You might actually be worse than me! I mean, you took a guy at his lowest, used him, and it cost him his life and his soul. Nice work’-I struggled with seeing the equivalency between what Sam and Dean did, particularly since both have done worse things in the past
Dean: ‘If this doesn’t’ work, we both know what you got to do to me, right?’-made me think of Sam making Dean promise to kill him if he went darkside back in season 2
Demon tells Crowley about Cas’ fading grace so Crowley can get rid of Cas
Crowley really off his game, still obsessing over Dean
Crowley can disintegrate demon by snapping fingers-don’t recall seeing that before
Hannah to Cas: ‘Your preference is to die for your principles, it’s very noble but it is meaningless’
Sam afraid he’s killing Dean but Cas on phone points out there aren’t any other options
Dean: ‘…your guilt-ridden, weight-of-the-world bro has been M.I.A. for quite some time now…You notice I tried to get as far away from you as possible? Away from your whining, your complaining. I chose the King of Hell over you! Maybe I was just tired of babysitting you. Or always having to yank your lame ass out of the fire since forever…’---Sam: ‘This family is all we have ever had’-Dean: ‘Well then we got nothin’-Sam: ‘Would you say that to Dad?’-Dean: ‘…There’s a man who brainwashed us into wasting our lives fighting his losing battle’
Rogue angel punches Hannah and she is down for the count-angel fistfights don’t make any sense, sometimes the angels can take a beating and keep going and sometimes they are wimps!
Sam looks at the pie leftover that has been sitting in Dean’s room for at least 6 weeks-it should be awfully gross and smelly!
Crowley gives Cas the rogue angel’s grace because ‘…you’re useless to me dead’-I don’t think Crowley ever fully recovered from being almost humanized
For Dean as he became less demon the cuffs and demon trap didn’t work-why was it different for Crowley?
Sam locks bunker down to keep Demon Dean inside and maybe lure him to where Sam would know his location?
Sam has amazing reflexes with his knife when Demon Dean comes at him with the hammer
How did Cas get in the bunker without a) anyone letting him in and b) not making any noise?
Cas on why Dean wanted to stay a demon: ‘Only humans can feel real joy but also such profound pain’
And Cas has to point out Sam really hasn’t fixed Dean: ‘But the mark of Cain, that he still has’-Sam: ‘One battle at a time…I’m just gonna go grab my brother some cholesterol and then I’m gonna get drunk’
Dean: ‘What did Sam say? Does he want a divorce?’-Cas: ‘…It’d take a lot more than trying to kill Sam with a hammer to make him want to walk away’
Hello Rowena
Curing Dean was brutal
Demon Dean’s time was short, only 3 episodes, but real Dean was needed back by episode 200…and the episodes we did get were very effective in showing us what Dean became as a demon
199. Paper Moon (10.04)-W: Glass/D: Szwarc
Recap: Werewolf lore; curing Dean; Sam and Lester
Music as episode starts is ‘Werewolves of London’
Lame attempt to give more explanation for Sam’s arm is done by Dean making fun of it…sigh
Fancy Game Warden uniforms
Dean is ready to kill Kate without looking for any alternative suspects-Sam doesn’t want Dean to pull the trigger
Kate saved her sister from death by turning her
Kate trying to save sister from Sam and Dean: ‘I owe her every chance to make it right’
Dean comes up with fake cure idea to get Kate’s confidence
Sam: ‘How can you possibly blame Kate for fighting for her sister? We do it all the time’-Dean: ‘…and that’s worked wonders for us’
Why is Kate riding shotgun in Impala? And why are boys risking talking about her situation while she is asleep?
Kate is insistent that she can save her sister, taking away her sister’s agency in what she’s been doing
Pretty lame how Dean is caught right away
Kate kills her sister
Kate calls them from pay phone-how did she know Dean’s number?
This episode tried to have the boys address what just happened with Dean in their typical ‘blow-it-off’ way but none of the dialog around Demon Dean and Dean’s deflection to off-the-rails-Sam felt right. Dean’s admission ‘It’s embarrassing…all of it. The note. Crowley. Everything’ contrasted with Sam saying he ‘lied about Lester‘-trying to make Sam’s behavior equal to Dean’s-just doesn’t work for me. I would have expected a bit more remorse from Dean.
200. Fan Fiction (10.05)-W: Thompson/D: Sgriccia
Recap: Blank screen then typing begins: Supernatural Pilot created by Eric Kripke
Run through all the different title cards to date
Dean doing car maintenance to ‘Sundown’ by Gordon Lightfoot
‘We got work to do’ as boys shut trunk
Sam was in ‘Our Town’ and did tech for ‘Oklahoma’
The look on Sam and Dean’s faces when the singing starts!
Dean: ‘There is no singing in Supernatural!’ -Maeve: ‘Well this is Marie’s interpretation…’
The BM-Boy Melodrama scene
Dean: ‘There is no space in Supernatural’-Marie: ‘Well, not canonically, no. But this is transformative fiction’
Chuck stopped writing after Swan Song
Dean: ‘You wrote your own ending? With spaceships?’-Marie: ‘And robots and some ninjas and then Dean becomes a woman…it’s just for a few scenes’
When Dean tells Marie what really happened: ‘That is some of the worst fanfiction I ever heard!’
Sam: ‘…shouldn’t it be Deastiel?...How about Sastiel? Samstiel?...CasDean?’
Maggie: ‘If it’s not canon then it shouldn’t be in the show’
When boys tell Marie and Maeve it’s all real and who they are the girls laugh-Marie: ‘Those books are works of fiction’-Maeve: ‘And you guys are way too old be to Sam or Dean’-ouch!
The ridiculousness of the scarecrow that Marie thinks is so horrifying
Marie: ‘This is all my fault. If I hadn’t written this dumb play, none of this would’ve happened’--Dean: Ok, first of all the play is not dumb’-Maeve: ‘I thought you didn’t believe in this interpretation?’-Dean: ‘Yeah I don’t…like at all…but you do…and I need you to believe in it with all you got’
Marie to Dean: ‘…if Sam and Dean were real, they wouldn’t back down from a fight, especially my sweet, brave, selfless Sam’
Sam asks where’s Chuck-Marie: ‘Oh…I love him. I do ! But honestly, the whole author introducing himself into the narrative thing, it's just not my favorite. I kind of hate the meta stories’-Sam and Dean in sync: ‘Me too’
Dean: ‘I know I have expressed some differences of opinion, regarding this particular version of Supernatural. But tonight, it is all about Marie's vision. This is Marie's Supernatural. So, I want you to get out there, and I want you to stand as close as she wants you to, and I want you to put as much sub and add text, as you possibly can. There is no other road. No other way. No day, but today…Now you get out there and you kick it in the ass’-and the company goes ‘Ghostfacers!’
Dean is nodding to the music
Calliope about second act: ‘There’s robots and tentacles and space…I can’t even…’
Single Man Tear song
Calliope sums up why we love this show: ‘Supernatural has everything. Life. Death. Resurrection. Redemption. But above all, family. All set to music you can really tap your toe to. It isn't some meandering piece of genre dreck. It's epic!’
Maeve to Sam: ‘You know if you’d cut your hair a little you’d make a pretty good Dean’
Dean: ‘I have my version and you have yours’
Marie gives Dean the prop Samulet: ‘Just take it. Jerk’-Dean says ‘bitch’ automatically then looks utterly horrified at what he just said to Marie who laughs-pretty sure at this point she believes who they are
Actor Sam and Dean on stage: ‘…the two of us against the world’
Sam: ‘What she said’
When Sam asks ‘who’s that’-Maeve: ‘Oh that’s Adam, John Winchester’s other kid…He’s still trapped in the cage in hell with Lucifer’
This version of Carry On-and Sam and Dean’s faces listening to it
Dean hangs the Samulet on the rearview mirror
Chuck: ‘Not bad’
Being completely honest, this is my favorite episode of the entire show and if I could only watch one episode ever again this would be it-it truly is a love letter to the fans, pointing out all the stuff that goes on in fandom but doing it with appreciation for the fans’ passion, complete with irresistible songs!
201. Ask Jeeves (10.06)-W: Charmelo & Snyder/D: MacCarthy
Recap: curing of Demon Dean; various monsters
That is one heck of a fall over the railing into the glass table!
Dean is fixing the running light on the Impala
They still have a working phone of Bobby’s???
Sam mentions the fed suits are in the trunk
Amusing music throughout the episode
Older women as cougars after Sam are annoying
Smart Dean notices the book symbol matches the necklace
We get a pipe, rope, wrench, knife, and candlestick-game of Clue anyone?
Dean empties gun into shapeshifter
Dash wants to let the world know the Winchesters are heroes-that was a nice acknowledgment even if not going to actually happen
Sam worries that Dean shot so many times because of ‘demon residue’-Dean blows it off
This was a fun ‘whodunit’ episode, more of a mystery than a typical case
202. Girls, Girls, Girls (10.07)-W: Berens/D: Singer
Recap: Cole; witches lore; Cas and Hannah
Dean is on a dating app-really??? After just getting over being Demon Dean???
Cas is suddenly gung-ho on finding all the rogue angels-an odd position for him to take
Hannah gets naked in front of Cas to take a shower, a scene that felt very unnecessary and not contributing to either character
Dean doesn’t pay for sex: ‘No cash for ass’
Dean figures out Shaylene operating under duress: ‘I love my job’-Dean: ‘It doesn’t look like love to me’
Rowena has a demon-killing spell
Aftermath of angel possession-really does a number on the vessel and their loved ones
Crowley upset with minions: ‘So, you and your half-wit pal threw me into the sex trade? I'm evil. That's just tacky’
Types of witches: Borrowers get power from a demon; Naturals are born with power; Students can be trained
Suits
Hannah has crisis of conscience, decides to give up vessel-Cas looks sad
Lore on demon-killing spell says only one witch knew that spell 300 years ago-Rowena
Rowena comes across as a one-dimensional cartoony character in this episode
Cole catches Dean, now prepared to deal with him as a demon
Dean ready to face Cole’s judgment: ‘You’re gonna give me five minutes and we’re gonna talk…after that if you don’t like what you hear, you still want me dead, you take your shot’
Dean explains what happened to Cole’s father
Dean tells Sam to stand down when Sam sees Cole holding gun on Dean
Dean: ‘…but those stories that we tell to keep us going?...They take us to dark places, the kind of place where I might beat the crap out of a good man just for the fun of it. The people who love me, they pulled me back from that edge...Now, the truth is...I'm past saving. I know how my story ends. It's at the edge of a blade or the barrel of a gun. (Or on a piece of rebar…) So, the question is, is that gonna be today? That gonna be that gun?’
It is daylight when Cole confronts Dean in the alley-it is night when Cole drives away…how long did they talk???
Sam: ‘What you said back there about being past saving, were you really…’-Dean: ‘I was just telling the guy what he needed to hear’
Rowena is Crowley’s mother?!
203. Hibbing 911 (10.08)-W: Klein/D: Andrew
Recap: Mark of Cain; Jody and Alexis; Donna
Researching the mark
Sam didn’t tell Jody that Dean was back
Sam tells Jody to enjoy the retreat-‘Screw you, Winchester’-we know what she really said…
Jody annoyed by Donna, but Donna gets things done
Why would monster hide in the dumpster just to get a victim? Ick
Suits
Dean: ‘This badge means something’-Sam: ‘I made it at Kinko’s’
Donna calls Jody out on her attitude
Jody is concerned about Dean, he says it’s nothing he can’t handle
Jody apologizes to Donna
Jody pulls machete out-Donna’s face
Donna gets ‘the monster talk’ from Jody
Jody and Donna include themselves on the hunt
The boys are taken out by one hit?
Smart Donna breaks glasses to saw through rope and saves Jody
Dean: ‘For the first time since I’ve been back I didn’t feel like the mark was pushing me…I felt like me again’-truth or just pacifying Sam?
The family theme plays over Donna and Jody with the boys
Strange plot but Jody and Donna were awesome
204. The Things We Left Behind (10.09)-W: Dabb/D: Bee
Recap: Dean shooting maid; Rowena and Crowley; Jimmy Novak
Dean having nightmares about killing
Claire in home for troubled teens
Jimmy’s soul is in heaven from when Raphael destroyed Cas’ vessel
Story is totally ignoring that Cas possessed Claire briefly as well in 4.20
Mom left Claire at grandma’s a few months after Jimmy’s brief reappearance 6 years ago
Cas describing his job: ‘I fight certain deadly threats to humanity’
Cas interview trying to get custody is painful
Dean laughing at 3 Stooges
Sam made grilled cheese for Dean
Cas breaks Claire out when he can’t get custody-he’s been hanging around the Winchesters too long…
Rowena has been in Crowley’s dungeon for weeks
Claire takes off with Cas’ wallet at restaurant-how did he pay the bill?
Cas calls Sam and Dean to help with emergency-dealing with Claire
Dean is wearing lavender plaid shirt that is one of the prettiest ones
Dean advising Cas: ‘There’s some stuff you just got to let go…the people you let down, the ones you can’t save, you got to forget about them for your own good’-Cas: ‘Is that what you do?’-Dean: ‘That’s the opposite of what I do. But I ain’t exactly a role model’
Dean makes Cas promise to take him out if he goes dark side: ‘And don’t let Sam get in the way because he’ll try. I can’t go down that road again, man, I can’t be that thing again’-first hint we get that Dean has any regret for things he did as Demon Dean
Only certain demons are allowed topside
Reason Rowena says she’s in dungeon: ‘I was a horrible mother’
Rowena insists on calling Crowley ‘Fergus’
She left Crowley at age of 8
Randy manipulating Claire to commit robbery
Claire really stuck on blaming Cas for taking her dad, and Sam and Dean for standing by
Cas to Dean: ‘Did you love your father?’-Dean: ‘John Winchester’s not going to win any “Number One Dad” awards, you know? But…damn if he wasn’t there when we needed him’-Sam: ‘Tell him about that time in New York’-Dean: ‘…me and Sam begged the old man to let us go to the city for once… by about midnight, Sam and Dad are zonked, and I figure… Screw it. I’m going to CBGB…I sneak in, and it is nuts. I mean, people are drinking and they’re smoking and they’re-they’re snorting whatever…And, uh, my mind is blown. I don’t even know what to do. Then this girl walks up and she says “Hey, why don’t you come over and sit down with me and my friends at our table?” ‘-Sam: ‘And they got him drunk. First time’-Dean: ‘But not fun drunk. I’m not quite sure what was in that stuff, but the room starts to spin, and I feel like I’m going to puke forever. And right about that time, I hear him. “Dean Winchester!” My old man. I don’t know how, but he found me. And now I’m really freaking out, because he’s just standing there, not saying anything. I look around, and everybody else is freaking out, too. In fact, nobody’s even looking him in the eye. And finally, this one guy with, like, a safety pin through his nose and a “Kill Everything” tattoo looks up and he says, “Sorry, sir.”…you know what he got for that? Me whining about how much he embarrassed me. Me telling him that I hated him. But then he stopped and turned around and he looked at me and he said, “Son, you don’t like me? That’s fine. It’s not my job to be liked.”’-Sam: ‘It’s my job to raise you right’ (That was the first time Dean got drunk? Really?)
Randy sells Claire out
Rowena works out a lie with the other prisoner to get jailor demon killed, leaves with Crowley, other prisoner left behind
Sam, Cas, and Claire head to car, Dean left in room with thugs who jump him: ‘You guys don’t want to do this’
Sam realizes Dean slow to come out, goes back-why did Cas and Claire go back too?
Dean kneeling amidst bodies-Sam: ‘Tell me it was them or you’-I’m not quite understanding Sam’s horror, they attacked Dean
Appreciated when they had bad guy attempting to rape Claire that she remained clothed
Season 10
This is the season that has my all-time favorite episode of the entire series…
196. Black (10.01)-W: Carver/D: Singer
Road so Far-Music: ‘Heartbreaker’ by Pat Benatar; ends with Dean ‘s black eyes
Fakeout-demon taunting how ‘a Winchester is one of us’ turns out she’s talking to Sam not Dean
Sam has total disregard for vessel as he tortures demon-'where’s Crowley?...Where’s my brother?’-Sam totally out of control!
Arm in sling
4 weeks pass
Sam talking to hunter Mike
Sam very scruffy
Note: ‘Sammy let me go’
Cas: ‘Sam...you can't blame what that demon did to your shoulder on me; you were out of...’-we never find out exactly what happened to his shoulder
Cas is coughing a lot (but doesn’t have cough in any other episode)
Sam hoping Dean left because he didn’t have a choice
Dean singing karaoke (first ‘I’m Too Sexy,’ later ‘Imaginary Lover’)
Anne Marie and Dean in bed, she is on her break: ‘Then you had to go and do that thing with the thing’
Dean playing foosball with Crowley
Dean beats up Anne Marie’s ex but stops before killing him
Hannah wants Cas to help find rogue angels who need to be punished
Sam in really nice suit
Sam sees Dean’s black eyes on crime video
Cas is back in self-sacrificing mode
Crowley tells Sam Dean is a demon-Sam is furious, blames Crowley: ‘…what’s really eating you up…it’s that he’s with me and he’s having the time of his life’
At this point Dean has been a demon for 6 weeks
Crowley trying to get Dean to step into role of Crowley’s right-hand demon and Dean doesn’t want any part of it
Crowley tells Dean to decide and that Sam is coming for Dean
Sam is driving a strange car which stops randomly
I can’t believe Sam just naively lets strange man come over to help without any protective behavior!
Anne Marie: ‘I wait tables at a roadhouse. I meet the bad guys. I meet the good guys. And maybe for a second there, I thought you were a good guy playing bad’-Dean: ‘The kind of guy who sleeps with every skank in every small town dive that he passes through?’-Non-demon Dean would not be so cruel
Hannah is totally hard-line against the angels who just want to be left alone on Earth; Cas’ attempts to mediate end in angel’s death
Sam tries to save Cole from going after Dean: ‘He’s a monster’-Cole doesn’t listen
Dean not at all interested in saving Sam from Cole: ‘I told him to let me go. So whatever jam he's in now, that is his problem’-cue collective gasp of horror at just how awful Demon Dean is!
Cliffhanger ending!!!
197. Reichenbach (10.02)-W: Dabb/D: Wright
Recap-previous episode
2003-Dean wearing very flare-legged jeans, John’s leather jacket; has killed man-the CGI work they did to make Dean’s face younger is not quite right and very disconcerting
Sam tries to tell Cole about monsters, said Dean would have had a reason for killing Cole’s dad
Cole brings out a hammer (Dean uses hammer next episode…)
Nice cut from Dean punching bouncer to Cole punching Sam
Crowley stringing Dean along-‘Death is your drug’-offers choice of working for Crowley and killing those who ‘deserve it’ or Dean will end up killing civilians
Last week Hannah was totally militant about angels not having any reason to be on earth-this week she wants Cas to explain the appeal to her (I find her character annoying)
Lester on cheating in marriage: ‘…It’s different when guys do it’-Dean decides Lester is douchebag who needs to die
So lady tow-truck driver is just going to take random strangers to her home where her kid is sleeping and let them hang out there while she gets parts for their car? Really???
Dean has had it with Crowley: ‘I ain't your friggin' bestie, and I ain't taking orders from you’-Crowley realizes he cannot control Demon Dean after all, calls Sam to tell him where Dean is in exchange for the first blade
Metatron tries to make deal for his freedom in exchange for Cas’ grace-Cas won’t let Hannah do it-Cas: ‘My life…my choice’
Dean when Sam finds him: ‘Did you ever stop to think that if I wanted to be cured, I wouldn't have bailed?…right now, I'm doing all I can not to come over there and rip your throat out with my teeth. I'm giving you a chance, Sam. You should take it’-Sam: ‘You’re my brother and I’m here to take you home’
Dean mocks Cole and beats the crap out of him but lets him live
Sam handcuffs Dean in the Impala: ‘This thing is filthy’-Dean: ‘It’s just a car’-Ouch!
Sam thinks Dean showed Cole mercy: ‘You call that mercy? Imagine you spend your whole life hunting down the guy that knifed your father. When you finally find him...He whips you like a dog. How do you think that feels? That kid's gonna spend his whole life knowing that he had his shot and that he couldn't beat me. That ain't mercy. That's the worst thing I could have done to him’-Oh man, this is not Dean…
Fascinating how Demon Dean, unlike every other powerful demon/evil creature, was not at all interested in power-which totally flummoxed Crowley-this was a very cool direction to take with the character!
198. Soul Survivor (10.03)-W: Buckner & Ross-Leming/D: Ackles
Recap: rogue angel, Crowley can’t control Demon Dean, Sam captures Dean
Sam is not wearing his shoulder splint while getting the blood blessed by a priest?
Sam not using his own blood-because he knows how weak he got with Crowley and can’t risk that with Dean?
Dean: ‘…did it ever occur to you that maybe I don’t want to be fixed?...what do you care?’-Sam doesn’t engage in debating Dean
Dean: ‘You know I hate shots’-Sam: ‘I hate demons’
Cas is no longer coughing even though his grace situation is supposed to be worse
Dean says Crowley told him how far Sam went-flashback to Sam setting Lester up to summon crossroads demon so Sam can get hold of one and Lester makes deal before Sam can stop him-Dean: ‘That line that we thought was so clear between us and the things that we hunted, ain’t so clear is it? Wow. You might actually be worse than me! I mean, you took a guy at his lowest, used him, and it cost him his life and his soul. Nice work’-I struggled with seeing the equivalency between what Sam and Dean did, particularly since both have done worse things in the past
Dean: ‘If this doesn’t’ work, we both know what you got to do to me, right?’-made me think of Sam making Dean promise to kill him if he went darkside back in season 2
Demon tells Crowley about Cas’ fading grace so Crowley can get rid of Cas
Crowley really off his game, still obsessing over Dean
Crowley can disintegrate demon by snapping fingers-don’t recall seeing that before
Hannah to Cas: ‘Your preference is to die for your principles, it’s very noble but it is meaningless’
Sam afraid he’s killing Dean but Cas on phone points out there aren’t any other options
Dean: ‘…your guilt-ridden, weight-of-the-world bro has been M.I.A. for quite some time now…You notice I tried to get as far away from you as possible? Away from your whining, your complaining. I chose the King of Hell over you! Maybe I was just tired of babysitting you. Or always having to yank your lame ass out of the fire since forever…’---Sam: ‘This family is all we have ever had’-Dean: ‘Well then we got nothin’-Sam: ‘Would you say that to Dad?’-Dean: ‘…There’s a man who brainwashed us into wasting our lives fighting his losing battle’
Rogue angel punches Hannah and she is down for the count-angel fistfights don’t make any sense, sometimes the angels can take a beating and keep going and sometimes they are wimps!
Sam looks at the pie leftover that has been sitting in Dean’s room for at least 6 weeks-it should be awfully gross and smelly!
Crowley gives Cas the rogue angel’s grace because ‘…you’re useless to me dead’-I don’t think Crowley ever fully recovered from being almost humanized
For Dean as he became less demon the cuffs and demon trap didn’t work-why was it different for Crowley?
Sam locks bunker down to keep Demon Dean inside and maybe lure him to where Sam would know his location?
Sam has amazing reflexes with his knife when Demon Dean comes at him with the hammer
How did Cas get in the bunker without a) anyone letting him in and b) not making any noise?
Cas on why Dean wanted to stay a demon: ‘Only humans can feel real joy but also such profound pain’
And Cas has to point out Sam really hasn’t fixed Dean: ‘But the mark of Cain, that he still has’-Sam: ‘One battle at a time…I’m just gonna go grab my brother some cholesterol and then I’m gonna get drunk’
Dean: ‘What did Sam say? Does he want a divorce?’-Cas: ‘…It’d take a lot more than trying to kill Sam with a hammer to make him want to walk away’
Hello Rowena
Curing Dean was brutal
Demon Dean’s time was short, only 3 episodes, but real Dean was needed back by episode 200…and the episodes we did get were very effective in showing us what Dean became as a demon
199. Paper Moon (10.04)-W: Glass/D: Szwarc
Recap: Werewolf lore; curing Dean; Sam and Lester
Music as episode starts is ‘Werewolves of London’
Lame attempt to give more explanation for Sam’s arm is done by Dean making fun of it…sigh
Fancy Game Warden uniforms
Dean is ready to kill Kate without looking for any alternative suspects-Sam doesn’t want Dean to pull the trigger
Kate saved her sister from death by turning her
Kate trying to save sister from Sam and Dean: ‘I owe her every chance to make it right’
Dean comes up with fake cure idea to get Kate’s confidence
Sam: ‘How can you possibly blame Kate for fighting for her sister? We do it all the time’-Dean: ‘…and that’s worked wonders for us’
Why is Kate riding shotgun in Impala? And why are boys risking talking about her situation while she is asleep?
Kate is insistent that she can save her sister, taking away her sister’s agency in what she’s been doing
Pretty lame how Dean is caught right away
Kate kills her sister
Kate calls them from pay phone-how did she know Dean’s number?
This episode tried to have the boys address what just happened with Dean in their typical ‘blow-it-off’ way but none of the dialog around Demon Dean and Dean’s deflection to off-the-rails-Sam felt right. Dean’s admission ‘It’s embarrassing…all of it. The note. Crowley. Everything’ contrasted with Sam saying he ‘lied about Lester‘-trying to make Sam’s behavior equal to Dean’s-just doesn’t work for me. I would have expected a bit more remorse from Dean.
200. Fan Fiction (10.05)-W: Thompson/D: Sgriccia
Recap: Blank screen then typing begins: Supernatural Pilot created by Eric Kripke
Run through all the different title cards to date
Dean doing car maintenance to ‘Sundown’ by Gordon Lightfoot
‘We got work to do’ as boys shut trunk
Sam was in ‘Our Town’ and did tech for ‘Oklahoma’
The look on Sam and Dean’s faces when the singing starts!
Dean: ‘There is no singing in Supernatural!’ -Maeve: ‘Well this is Marie’s interpretation…’
The BM-Boy Melodrama scene
Dean: ‘There is no space in Supernatural’-Marie: ‘Well, not canonically, no. But this is transformative fiction’
Chuck stopped writing after Swan Song
Dean: ‘You wrote your own ending? With spaceships?’-Marie: ‘And robots and some ninjas and then Dean becomes a woman…it’s just for a few scenes’
When Dean tells Marie what really happened: ‘That is some of the worst fanfiction I ever heard!’
Sam: ‘…shouldn’t it be Deastiel?...How about Sastiel? Samstiel?...CasDean?’
Maggie: ‘If it’s not canon then it shouldn’t be in the show’
When boys tell Marie and Maeve it’s all real and who they are the girls laugh-Marie: ‘Those books are works of fiction’-Maeve: ‘And you guys are way too old be to Sam or Dean’-ouch!
The ridiculousness of the scarecrow that Marie thinks is so horrifying
Marie: ‘This is all my fault. If I hadn’t written this dumb play, none of this would’ve happened’--Dean: Ok, first of all the play is not dumb’-Maeve: ‘I thought you didn’t believe in this interpretation?’-Dean: ‘Yeah I don’t…like at all…but you do…and I need you to believe in it with all you got’
Marie to Dean: ‘…if Sam and Dean were real, they wouldn’t back down from a fight, especially my sweet, brave, selfless Sam’
Sam asks where’s Chuck-Marie: ‘Oh…I love him. I do ! But honestly, the whole author introducing himself into the narrative thing, it's just not my favorite. I kind of hate the meta stories’-Sam and Dean in sync: ‘Me too’
Dean: ‘I know I have expressed some differences of opinion, regarding this particular version of Supernatural. But tonight, it is all about Marie's vision. This is Marie's Supernatural. So, I want you to get out there, and I want you to stand as close as she wants you to, and I want you to put as much sub and add text, as you possibly can. There is no other road. No other way. No day, but today…Now you get out there and you kick it in the ass’-and the company goes ‘Ghostfacers!’
Dean is nodding to the music
Calliope about second act: ‘There’s robots and tentacles and space…I can’t even…’
Single Man Tear song
Calliope sums up why we love this show: ‘Supernatural has everything. Life. Death. Resurrection. Redemption. But above all, family. All set to music you can really tap your toe to. It isn't some meandering piece of genre dreck. It's epic!’
Maeve to Sam: ‘You know if you’d cut your hair a little you’d make a pretty good Dean’
Dean: ‘I have my version and you have yours’
Marie gives Dean the prop Samulet: ‘Just take it. Jerk’-Dean says ‘bitch’ automatically then looks utterly horrified at what he just said to Marie who laughs-pretty sure at this point she believes who they are
Actor Sam and Dean on stage: ‘…the two of us against the world’
Sam: ‘What she said’
When Sam asks ‘who’s that’-Maeve: ‘Oh that’s Adam, John Winchester’s other kid…He’s still trapped in the cage in hell with Lucifer’
This version of Carry On-and Sam and Dean’s faces listening to it
Dean hangs the Samulet on the rearview mirror
Chuck: ‘Not bad’
Being completely honest, this is my favorite episode of the entire show and if I could only watch one episode ever again this would be it-it truly is a love letter to the fans, pointing out all the stuff that goes on in fandom but doing it with appreciation for the fans’ passion, complete with irresistible songs!
201. Ask Jeeves (10.06)-W: Charmelo & Snyder/D: MacCarthy
Recap: curing of Demon Dean; various monsters
That is one heck of a fall over the railing into the glass table!
Dean is fixing the running light on the Impala
They still have a working phone of Bobby’s???
Sam mentions the fed suits are in the trunk
Amusing music throughout the episode
Older women as cougars after Sam are annoying
Smart Dean notices the book symbol matches the necklace
We get a pipe, rope, wrench, knife, and candlestick-game of Clue anyone?
Dean empties gun into shapeshifter
Dash wants to let the world know the Winchesters are heroes-that was a nice acknowledgment even if not going to actually happen
Sam worries that Dean shot so many times because of ‘demon residue’-Dean blows it off
This was a fun ‘whodunit’ episode, more of a mystery than a typical case
202. Girls, Girls, Girls (10.07)-W: Berens/D: Singer
Recap: Cole; witches lore; Cas and Hannah
Dean is on a dating app-really??? After just getting over being Demon Dean???
Cas is suddenly gung-ho on finding all the rogue angels-an odd position for him to take
Hannah gets naked in front of Cas to take a shower, a scene that felt very unnecessary and not contributing to either character
Dean doesn’t pay for sex: ‘No cash for ass’
Dean figures out Shaylene operating under duress: ‘I love my job’-Dean: ‘It doesn’t look like love to me’
Rowena has a demon-killing spell
Aftermath of angel possession-really does a number on the vessel and their loved ones
Crowley upset with minions: ‘So, you and your half-wit pal threw me into the sex trade? I'm evil. That's just tacky’
Types of witches: Borrowers get power from a demon; Naturals are born with power; Students can be trained
Suits
Hannah has crisis of conscience, decides to give up vessel-Cas looks sad
Lore on demon-killing spell says only one witch knew that spell 300 years ago-Rowena
Rowena comes across as a one-dimensional cartoony character in this episode
Cole catches Dean, now prepared to deal with him as a demon
Dean ready to face Cole’s judgment: ‘You’re gonna give me five minutes and we’re gonna talk…after that if you don’t like what you hear, you still want me dead, you take your shot’
Dean explains what happened to Cole’s father
Dean tells Sam to stand down when Sam sees Cole holding gun on Dean
Dean: ‘…but those stories that we tell to keep us going?...They take us to dark places, the kind of place where I might beat the crap out of a good man just for the fun of it. The people who love me, they pulled me back from that edge...Now, the truth is...I'm past saving. I know how my story ends. It's at the edge of a blade or the barrel of a gun. (Or on a piece of rebar…) So, the question is, is that gonna be today? That gonna be that gun?’
It is daylight when Cole confronts Dean in the alley-it is night when Cole drives away…how long did they talk???
Sam: ‘What you said back there about being past saving, were you really…’-Dean: ‘I was just telling the guy what he needed to hear’
Rowena is Crowley’s mother?!
203. Hibbing 911 (10.08)-W: Klein/D: Andrew
Recap: Mark of Cain; Jody and Alexis; Donna
Researching the mark
Sam didn’t tell Jody that Dean was back
Sam tells Jody to enjoy the retreat-‘Screw you, Winchester’-we know what she really said…
Jody annoyed by Donna, but Donna gets things done
Why would monster hide in the dumpster just to get a victim? Ick
Suits
Dean: ‘This badge means something’-Sam: ‘I made it at Kinko’s’
Donna calls Jody out on her attitude
Jody is concerned about Dean, he says it’s nothing he can’t handle
Jody apologizes to Donna
Jody pulls machete out-Donna’s face
Donna gets ‘the monster talk’ from Jody
Jody and Donna include themselves on the hunt
The boys are taken out by one hit?
Smart Donna breaks glasses to saw through rope and saves Jody
Dean: ‘For the first time since I’ve been back I didn’t feel like the mark was pushing me…I felt like me again’-truth or just pacifying Sam?
The family theme plays over Donna and Jody with the boys
Strange plot but Jody and Donna were awesome
204. The Things We Left Behind (10.09)-W: Dabb/D: Bee
Recap: Dean shooting maid; Rowena and Crowley; Jimmy Novak
Dean having nightmares about killing
Claire in home for troubled teens
Jimmy’s soul is in heaven from when Raphael destroyed Cas’ vessel
Story is totally ignoring that Cas possessed Claire briefly as well in 4.20
Mom left Claire at grandma’s a few months after Jimmy’s brief reappearance 6 years ago
Cas describing his job: ‘I fight certain deadly threats to humanity’
Cas interview trying to get custody is painful
Dean laughing at 3 Stooges
Sam made grilled cheese for Dean
Cas breaks Claire out when he can’t get custody-he’s been hanging around the Winchesters too long…
Rowena has been in Crowley’s dungeon for weeks
Claire takes off with Cas’ wallet at restaurant-how did he pay the bill?
Cas calls Sam and Dean to help with emergency-dealing with Claire
Dean is wearing lavender plaid shirt that is one of the prettiest ones
Dean advising Cas: ‘There’s some stuff you just got to let go…the people you let down, the ones you can’t save, you got to forget about them for your own good’-Cas: ‘Is that what you do?’-Dean: ‘That’s the opposite of what I do. But I ain’t exactly a role model’
Dean makes Cas promise to take him out if he goes dark side: ‘And don’t let Sam get in the way because he’ll try. I can’t go down that road again, man, I can’t be that thing again’-first hint we get that Dean has any regret for things he did as Demon Dean
Only certain demons are allowed topside
Reason Rowena says she’s in dungeon: ‘I was a horrible mother’
Rowena insists on calling Crowley ‘Fergus’
She left Crowley at age of 8
Randy manipulating Claire to commit robbery
Claire really stuck on blaming Cas for taking her dad, and Sam and Dean for standing by
Cas to Dean: ‘Did you love your father?’-Dean: ‘John Winchester’s not going to win any “Number One Dad” awards, you know? But…damn if he wasn’t there when we needed him’-Sam: ‘Tell him about that time in New York’-Dean: ‘…me and Sam begged the old man to let us go to the city for once… by about midnight, Sam and Dad are zonked, and I figure… Screw it. I’m going to CBGB…I sneak in, and it is nuts. I mean, people are drinking and they’re smoking and they’re-they’re snorting whatever…And, uh, my mind is blown. I don’t even know what to do. Then this girl walks up and she says “Hey, why don’t you come over and sit down with me and my friends at our table?” ‘-Sam: ‘And they got him drunk. First time’-Dean: ‘But not fun drunk. I’m not quite sure what was in that stuff, but the room starts to spin, and I feel like I’m going to puke forever. And right about that time, I hear him. “Dean Winchester!” My old man. I don’t know how, but he found me. And now I’m really freaking out, because he’s just standing there, not saying anything. I look around, and everybody else is freaking out, too. In fact, nobody’s even looking him in the eye. And finally, this one guy with, like, a safety pin through his nose and a “Kill Everything” tattoo looks up and he says, “Sorry, sir.”…you know what he got for that? Me whining about how much he embarrassed me. Me telling him that I hated him. But then he stopped and turned around and he looked at me and he said, “Son, you don’t like me? That’s fine. It’s not my job to be liked.”’-Sam: ‘It’s my job to raise you right’ (That was the first time Dean got drunk? Really?)
Randy sells Claire out
Rowena works out a lie with the other prisoner to get jailor demon killed, leaves with Crowley, other prisoner left behind
Sam, Cas, and Claire head to car, Dean left in room with thugs who jump him: ‘You guys don’t want to do this’
Sam realizes Dean slow to come out, goes back-why did Cas and Claire go back too?
Dean kneeling amidst bodies-Sam: ‘Tell me it was them or you’-I’m not quite understanding Sam’s horror, they attacked Dean
Appreciated when they had bad guy attempting to rape Claire that she remained clothed