rionaleonhart | We Will Be A Family If It Kills Us.

I love Ruby, and I'm fascinated by Castiel, but it was really nice to have a good old-fashioned 'the Winchesters tackle a case' episode again. And I rather liked the family they were trying to save. Yay for enjoyable minor characters!

I was a little afraid that my love for Supernatural might have dimmed over the hiatus, but this episode quickly reawakened it. This pleases me.

When I heard 'Uncle Ted', my immediate thought was of T-Bag. WATCH OUT FOR YOUR UNCLE, SMALL CHILDREN. And - oh, my, I've just realised that the mother's name was Susan. Suzie. And Uncle Ted. And Suzie's two children. That is amazing, and also horrible (especially given that Uncle Ted is actually Susan's brother in this case).

Of course, the 'Uncle Ted' connection meant that, when the girl stuck her hand under her bed and it was licked by Something That Obviously Wasn't Going To Be The Dog, I was compelled to shout 'THAT'S NOT THE DOG, IT'S T-BAG' at the screen.

As it was never confirmed that the hand-licker was one of the Incest Twins, I am going to assume that it actually was Uncle Ted. Hey, what's a little more incest to this episode?

(Supernatural has had quite a bit of incest lately, hasn't it? Do you think, by any chance, that they're poking fun at the fandom? I sort of love it when things poke fun at their fandoms.)

(I was rather impressed by the Incest Twins' ability to write, actually. Especially as they didn't appear to be able to speak, and I'll be surprised if their father-stroke-grandfather gave them many books.)

Overall, I liked this episode, but let's stop giving Dean great long emotional speeches at the ends of episodes, shall we? Jensen handles them well, but there's always going to be a slight air of ridiculousness around a great long emotional speech, and they should really be used very sparingly indeed. Using them two episodes in a row is just going to make my eyes roll all the way out of a cupboard.

...you know, like - like the baseball rolled out of a cupboard into Danny's room?

Okay, my metaphors may possibly need some work.

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I was actually quite freaked out watching this episode. Because I was watching it alone, at night, and with my cat the only other person in the house to protect me (he wouldn't do a good job, i wager).

i love how they just threw the brother (twin?) in there at the end but then didn't mention him or refer to him EVER AGAIN. Or even hint that there was more than one person/thing in the walls before he came along. after thought, much?

i am kinda sick of SPN making people who are victims also be monsters and thus deserve what's coming to them (usually death at the hands of the winchesters). way to show compassion, SPN.

but i think it was a bit of poking fun at the fandom. incest is BAD, fans, BAD. it makes dean grumpy.

Or even hint that there was more than one person/thing in the walls before he came along. after thought, much?
Actually I think the night vision thing was a hint that he was there, only I didn't realize it until afterwards. The kid, what'shisface, Danny was it? He wouldn't have night vision like that, and we saw the girl come in, so it must've been the brother watching them.

Oh, wow, I hadn't thought of that! I was wondering about the night vision scene! That's a bit brilliant.

I wondered about that as well, it wasn't until a friend of mine was watching after I had and simultaneously commenting at me that it fell into place for me. At the time I was watching I just thought maybe they were trying to outline it's really really dark in there. Ahahahaha. I'm awesome. [faceplant]

Oh, I am quite glad that I wasn't watching that episode alone in the dark.

i am kinda sick of SPN making people who are victims also be monsters and thus deserve what's coming to them

I thought Dean looked a bit freaked out after he shot the guy. I thought that perhaps, when he said nobody would be dying that night, there was a part of him that hoped nobody at all would die, freaky incest twins included.

Dean's 'ewww, incest?' reaction amused me rather a lot, I have to confess.

there was a part of him that hoped nobody at all would die - I originally read that as he hoped everybody would die! ok, brain. right. yes.

they didn't seem to entertain any ideas about how to not kill the freaky incest twins and still escape alive. though i guess maybe it was self-defense.

Dean's 'ewww, incest?' reaction amused me rather a lot, I have to confess. Like he was protesting just a bit too much? ;D

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