This episode of Supernatural contains a pretty standard horror story of an ultra-religious and seemingly friendly family who is not quite like they appear - but the episode does it well with plenty of hearkening back to past episodes - reminds me of a mixture of s1 episode 12 - faith and season 1 episode 14 - nightmare.
We may find out in the end that this episode is skippable in a supernatural essential episodes binge like some other for-shadowing episodes of past seasons. Then again we may find out it play's an important part in Sam's story arc and certain events in the episode may be mentioned again when it comes to the Men of Letter's. Either way the episode was gripping and foreboding enough for me to recommend generally.
We see some possible foreshadowing of a return of the psychics as a supernatural faction in the coming season or seasons and we also get some foreshadowing of what the British men of letter's are like and why they might clash with the more ideological Winchester brother's - who have different idea's about virtue and what doing the right thing is.
I did not predict the ending of this episode. This episode made me care about this young psychic girl through Sam and through empathy with her struggle in the episode. There is one thing for sure to me. Sam made a mistake in assuming that she could just go and live on a farm and live a normal life as a young girl. People like her, and Sam can not live normal lives in the Supernatural universe. Instead of Sam giving her their number and telling her to contact him if she needs help he needed to be even more involved if he cared to make sure nothing could happen to her. Psychics are a feared and very important faction in the world of supernatural.
It appears something did happen to her after Sam gave this girl hope and she was to be transferred to live with other family. A mysterious figure following Sam and Dean early in the episode and later showed up to kill her. We do not see the struggle but we see the end result. It is her lying on the ground in a pool of blood. Thus we assume she is dead. Since we did not see the actual struggle, I would very much like a reversal of this, that it turns out the girl was alive. That would be a surprise too. In that case I would add this episode to the list of ones not to skip in a story arc binge. I actually hoped watching that she might kick butt against who wanted to kill her and then call Sam and become a part of the roster of characters on the show to be guided by Sam and Dean's experience.
However instead the ending of the episode served as a foreshadowing of the inevitable conflict coming between the Winchestors and the men of letter's. They have very different ideas about what 'doing the right thing' is. If psychics are coming back as a faction, the men of letter's believe in eliminating them i.e killing them just as it was revealed in earlier episodes that they kill every supernatural creature considered a threat who enters Britain. This is not only vampires which was the example we had in earlier episodes for creatures for elimination in Britain. This includes psychics, who Sam and Dean consider people, as Sam was one himself. For Sam and Dean it is just wrong to take the life of a good person.
Since Sam foolishly left this girl to live the normal life he hoped for her ,leaving her with a simple phone number, what happens when Sam finds out the truth? That the men of letter's followed them to test what they would do about this psychic girl and to "eliminate" her when Sam and Dean failed to.
We may find out in the end that this episode is skippable in a supernatural essential episodes binge like some other for-shadowing episodes of past seasons. Then again we may find out it play's an important part in Sam's story arc and certain events in the episode may be mentioned again when it comes to the Men of Letter's. Either way the episode was gripping and foreboding enough for me to recommend generally.
- General Review - Small hints or SPOILERS:
We see some possible foreshadowing of a return of the psychics as a supernatural faction in the coming season or seasons and we also get some foreshadowing of what the British men of letter's are like and why they might clash with the more ideological Winchester brother's - who have different idea's about virtue and what doing the right thing is.
- More detailed review with heavier hints / moderate SPOILERS:
I did not predict the ending of this episode. This episode made me care about this young psychic girl through Sam and through empathy with her struggle in the episode. There is one thing for sure to me. Sam made a mistake in assuming that she could just go and live on a farm and live a normal life as a young girl. People like her, and Sam can not live normal lives in the Supernatural universe. Instead of Sam giving her their number and telling her to contact him if she needs help he needed to be even more involved if he cared to make sure nothing could happen to her. Psychics are a feared and very important faction in the world of supernatural.
- Detailed review with MAJOR SPOILERS:
It appears something did happen to her after Sam gave this girl hope and she was to be transferred to live with other family. A mysterious figure following Sam and Dean early in the episode and later showed up to kill her. We do not see the struggle but we see the end result. It is her lying on the ground in a pool of blood. Thus we assume she is dead. Since we did not see the actual struggle, I would very much like a reversal of this, that it turns out the girl was alive. That would be a surprise too. In that case I would add this episode to the list of ones not to skip in a story arc binge. I actually hoped watching that she might kick butt against who wanted to kill her and then call Sam and become a part of the roster of characters on the show to be guided by Sam and Dean's experience.
However instead the ending of the episode served as a foreshadowing of the inevitable conflict coming between the Winchestors and the men of letter's. They have very different ideas about what 'doing the right thing' is. If psychics are coming back as a faction, the men of letter's believe in eliminating them i.e killing them just as it was revealed in earlier episodes that they kill every supernatural creature considered a threat who enters Britain. This is not only vampires which was the example we had in earlier episodes for creatures for elimination in Britain. This includes psychics, who Sam and Dean consider people, as Sam was one himself. For Sam and Dean it is just wrong to take the life of a good person.
Since Sam foolishly left this girl to live the normal life he hoped for her ,leaving her with a simple phone number, what happens when Sam finds out the truth? That the men of letter's followed them to test what they would do about this psychic girl and to "eliminate" her when Sam and Dean failed to.