Supernatural: Season 1, episode 12

[lit_gal]

And I backed up and watched Faith, the show where Sam learns that evil comes in human packages


Two strong men saving children… is there any sexier in the world? This had a good, exciting opening. Oh geez…. Dean!!! Electricity plus water!! Electricity plus water!!! I know he was backed into a corner, but really… that was not smart. I’m not surprised Dean’s in the hospital. It’s nice that they’re finally getting thanked by the police.

ACK!! Dean’s dying? Clearly, that’s not going to happen, so it’s time for Sam to save his brother. Awwww… Dean is just too willing to accept his own death. I like a good self-sacrifice, and Dean does it so very well. It kills me that these boys keep calling their father and their father keeps not answering those calls.

Hey! It’s Darla from Angel the Series. Lela? That’s an odd name. And I love that Dean is dying and he still has time to use corny pickup lines on the girls. Dean seems very uncomfortable with the thought that the Lord had picked him for healing—for someone who fights evil, he does not seem to align himself with good. I really seriously hope that the blind guy actually healed him as opposed to putting a demon in…. AAAACCKKK! There was a demon there!! Did that guy move Dean’s heart problem to another man? Okay, that’s on the evil side.

The preacher doesn’t seem like the evil sort… more the sort to get used. I wonder who is using him, though. Whoa… okay, a reaper… that’s creepy. I know the boys are blaming the preacher, but I don’t think he’s the one playing God. I’m pretty sure that it’s his wife.

Oh Sam, people can be evil. Please don’t start having Buffy’s issues where you can’t ever kill a human. If you fight evil you have to admit that some humans are evil. And now that Dean has figured out that the preacher’s wife is the evil magician, Dean is the next on her list of immoral people!

It is sad that Lela never got healed, but this is not the sort of universe where things turn out fairly. Sam trying to be a wing man is cute. You know, when Dean is talking about how hard it must be to have so much faith in something only to have it let you down, I kept thinking about Dean’s faith in his father.

Comments

[spiceblueeyes.livejournal.com]

That's my favorite ep in season 1, cause of the beautiful Dean!whump ;)

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

There is beautiful Dean!whump in this episode, and Dean handles being whumped so very well

[zazreil.livejournal.com]

On my season 1 list of top 5 episodes this ranks number two. I love it because of Sam's desperation to save Dean. We get to see Dean's love for Sam over and over again but though it is there, we don't get to see Sam's for Dean as much so every time we do I am beyond happy. Yeah and I have to admit because Jensen does a kick butt job at self-sacrificing Dean Whumpage.

Oh and because it has one of my favorite songs brilliantly used and it is one of the few episodes this season that I can not directly trace back to an urban legend or horror film.

Zaz

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

It is wonderful to see these episodes where the relationship moves front and center. Sam really is desperate to save Dean--no matter what. And Dean... he may be the tough fighter, but he has some of Daniel Jackson's fatalism to him. I really like that as a character.

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

This is one of my favorite episodes. I love the way the issue of faith is dealt with in Leia. I love that she hasn't lost it even though she hasn't been healed.

Dean's belief that he isn't worthy to be healed, that he has to be the one to sacrifice, never benefit just breaks my heart.

[tpena19.livejournal.com]

All I could think through this ep was about how Darla was a vamp and couldn't die like that, lol. She just is Darla forever, heh.

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

And for me, she's more Dexter's wife than Darla.