Review Supernatural 04x11
Pretty long read :)
Recap
We meet the Carter family (Brian, Susan; their kids Kate and Danny; Susan's brother Ted) who are about to move into their new home for a fresh start after a car accident killed Brian and Susan's oldest son which almost drove them apart.
When they arrive at their recently bought house they run into Dean and Sam who are checking out the place (as they've apparently been doing with numerous places non-stop since 04x10) because the former owner was pretty brutally killed there in a locked room.
The brothers suspect that the dead guy's daughter (Rebecca), who hung herself because she was ashamed about a pregnancy, is now haunting the house and they try to keep the family out of there to check things out. Too bad for the boys, Ted used to be in construction and sees through their asbestos story, so the family moves in after all.
Pretty soon both Danny and Kate have contact with the ghost and Dean and Sam have no choice but to tell the family what's going on. When the family's car, their dog and the Impala fall victim to the ghost, Dean gathers the family in a circle of salt while Sam looks for her.
Sam has no luck, but the ghost finds Dean and the family and when she crosses the salt it's pretty clear that she's no ghost at all, but the dead guy's daughter AND granddaughter who he has kept hidden away between the walls and in the basement of the house until she became the total killing nutcase she is now.
To make matters even worse, she manages to kidnap Danny and it takes a lot of crawling between walls, into dark holes and another victim (Ted - who dies when he was with Dean, making the latter feel pretty guilty) before they finally manage to find the boy (alive), only to discover that the girl has a brother.
Just in time Dean manages to shoot the brother and Brian -with quite some anger- stabs the sister before she gets to Susan and Kate.
On their way out of town Dean reveals to Sam that after the thirty years he was tortured in Hell, he actually enjoyed the last ten years where he was the one doing the torturing, because finally being the one inflicting the pain felt good and made the pain he suffered disappear. And he know realizes that no matter how many souls he saves, he can never can get rid of the hole inside of him.
My opinion
This episode had a real season 1 feeling to it; it was much darker and creepier than any I have seen in the last season and a half. And although I missed seeing the Angels and finding out how things are with the coming Apocalypse, it still was a great way for the show to return.
Watching it, and especially after it was clear what that bastard had done to his own daughter, it made me think of the gruesome stuff which came to light in the news recently. Apparently the writers had been thinking of that, too, since Dean says something about this being taken out of Austrian headlines. So although they were not really dealing with ghosts, I think the truth was even more scary than any ghost story can ever be :(
I was, again, pleasantly surprised by how they always manage to keep me on the edge of my seat and still are able to make me smile every now and then. When the ball came out of the closet I was so thinking of E.T. :), the boys' reaction to that creepy doll's head was hilarious and Kate claiming to be molested by Casper was pretty funny, too. I couldn't really tell whether Dean was insulted or not when Ted called him Fonzie - I think it was a bit of both.
Dean's confession at the end was heartbreaking and I'm quite curious how this feeling of guilt he has, and how he deals with it will develop throughout the rest of the season. You can take some one out of Hell, but you cannot take the Hell out of that person and I wonder if some one will be able to help him deal with it.
Next week looks promising!
Recap
We meet the Carter family (Brian, Susan; their kids Kate and Danny; Susan's brother Ted) who are about to move into their new home for a fresh start after a car accident killed Brian and Susan's oldest son which almost drove them apart.
When they arrive at their recently bought house they run into Dean and Sam who are checking out the place (as they've apparently been doing with numerous places non-stop since 04x10) because the former owner was pretty brutally killed there in a locked room.
The brothers suspect that the dead guy's daughter (Rebecca), who hung herself because she was ashamed about a pregnancy, is now haunting the house and they try to keep the family out of there to check things out. Too bad for the boys, Ted used to be in construction and sees through their asbestos story, so the family moves in after all.
Pretty soon both Danny and Kate have contact with the ghost and Dean and Sam have no choice but to tell the family what's going on. When the family's car, their dog and the Impala fall victim to the ghost, Dean gathers the family in a circle of salt while Sam looks for her.
Sam has no luck, but the ghost finds Dean and the family and when she crosses the salt it's pretty clear that she's no ghost at all, but the dead guy's daughter AND granddaughter who he has kept hidden away between the walls and in the basement of the house until she became the total killing nutcase she is now.
To make matters even worse, she manages to kidnap Danny and it takes a lot of crawling between walls, into dark holes and another victim (Ted - who dies when he was with Dean, making the latter feel pretty guilty) before they finally manage to find the boy (alive), only to discover that the girl has a brother.
Just in time Dean manages to shoot the brother and Brian -with quite some anger- stabs the sister before she gets to Susan and Kate.
On their way out of town Dean reveals to Sam that after the thirty years he was tortured in Hell, he actually enjoyed the last ten years where he was the one doing the torturing, because finally being the one inflicting the pain felt good and made the pain he suffered disappear. And he know realizes that no matter how many souls he saves, he can never can get rid of the hole inside of him.
My opinion
This episode had a real season 1 feeling to it; it was much darker and creepier than any I have seen in the last season and a half. And although I missed seeing the Angels and finding out how things are with the coming Apocalypse, it still was a great way for the show to return.
Watching it, and especially after it was clear what that bastard had done to his own daughter, it made me think of the gruesome stuff which came to light in the news recently. Apparently the writers had been thinking of that, too, since Dean says something about this being taken out of Austrian headlines. So although they were not really dealing with ghosts, I think the truth was even more scary than any ghost story can ever be :(
I was, again, pleasantly surprised by how they always manage to keep me on the edge of my seat and still are able to make me smile every now and then. When the ball came out of the closet I was so thinking of E.T. :), the boys' reaction to that creepy doll's head was hilarious and Kate claiming to be molested by Casper was pretty funny, too. I couldn't really tell whether Dean was insulted or not when Ted called him Fonzie - I think it was a bit of both.
Dean's confession at the end was heartbreaking and I'm quite curious how this feeling of guilt he has, and how he deals with it will develop throughout the rest of the season. You can take some one out of Hell, but you cannot take the Hell out of that person and I wonder if some one will be able to help him deal with it.
Next week looks promising!