When scary becomes funny
By fred | February 17, 2007
(S01E15) I watch a lot of TV, and another show I watch regularly is Supernatural. It’s like a very nice mix of everything teenagers love, with horror, blood, monsters, etc as in X-Files or those horror movies, but it’s not too teen-targeted that not only 14yo will like watching it.
At the last episode was a bit different that it used to be. The show went to a quite different direction this week, targeting comedy. Not that the show has ever lacked humor anyways, but it wasn’t he main point of the show, obviously.
This time it was, more than the usual hunting the “bad guy� story or anything. And it was brilliant! Especially because they pretty much nailed it every time.
I was talking about X-Files just before, and yes this episode definitely had a taste of X-Files Bad Blood, since both didn’t feature the story as it happened, but portrayed trough the eyes/memory of the main characters.
And just like on X-Files, it lead to a lot of funny somewhat different vision of things each time, and all were really real done, kudos to the actors who did a great job there.
I have to say, one thing that really killed me for quite a while was when Dean was telling the story, and it went pretty much that way :
Hot Girl: My God you are attractive !
Dean: Thanks.
(…)
Sam: Dean, what do you think you’re doing? This a pretty serious investigation! We don’t have time for your blah blahblah! Blah blah blahblah blahblahblah. Blahblahblah!
I couldn’t stop laughing. That or Dean’s face with his mouth filled with candies, it was all hilarious. All the episode was filled with the brothers picking at each others, which isn’t new, but this time they could go all the way, and have them act as the other described it, and that really added a brand new dimension to it (“You brave little soldier! I acknowledge your pain. Come here… Too precious for this world.â€?)
Regarding the story itself, it was not an amazing one, but it was still a good story, even though it got quickly pretty clear what it was all about. Really, and they didn’t really go low of the clues.
I mean, what else could explain an alien abduction (with anal probing, again, again, and again and again, and again, and again, and again and again, and then one more time! And for the big finale, a slow dance!), an alligator in the subway, etc. They even mentioned “urban legend� a couple times I believe.
Add all that together, and the pranks they were doing on each other, only it wasn’t them, and didn’t take long to figure it all out. But it didn’t mattered this time, because for once the show wasn’t really about the hunting, not really.
The ending was also not so different. We knew their fight was fake, and despite an ending action scene that was pretty cool once chainsaws were out, we could sense they didn’t really killed the real guy either.
I also felt that leaving the bed on the stage was like a huge sign, but didn’t seem to bother any of them, including Bobby (Jim Beaver), so whatever.
All in all the episode was hilarious. The story didn’t suffer much, it all felt pretty natural even, and we know the trickster might be back later on!
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Shows: Supernatural
