I feel as if my feelings for this episode are two fold. There's the rest of the episode, then there's the ending.
Let's start with the rest of the episode.
So a hot dog eating contest.
"That's no hot dog." Really? And whoops he did cheat. And now he's dead.
Dean being so pissed/hurt about Sam "just being honest". That was really good. Cause you could see that what Sam had said did hurt him.
So the other contestant's wife is Roma? It was a nice misdirect, especially when the wife showed up and revealed she was having an affair with the vic.
Princess Jasmine?
Dean taking the interview with the hot blonde, of course. And she has a suction mark too.
Sam getting the trainer job, Dean as 'lunch lady' (which we knew from the previews).
Wait, Sam dated someone "bendy"? Who? When?! (And that was a subtle but nice allusion to Lisa.)
So it's fat sucking monster?
Okay, pure superficial moment but hot sexy did Sam look in his yoga gear/trainer outfit?
Wow, the Sheriff sounds like the one from Fargo.
Oh Dean, always with the pudding!
Figuring out they're hunters.
"A fish taco?" Cute.
So the brother is also a fat sucker, just...evil? I felt sorry for the wife when the husband died. And then the cook killed too?
Sam got a bit of a fight scene (which is more than he has had lately). Nice save, Dean!
And once again Dean is all "all monsters are bad", despite having just let Garth and that whole group of werewolves go and live in peace. Seriously, the writers (and Dean) need to maintain some consistency here! Sometimes Dean seems to think it's okay to let 'good' creatures live, other times he wants to gank them all! Decide already!
And then the final scene. Finally talking. Dean tells Sam he would do it again (which is so IC for Dean, yay). Sam wondering what the upside to his being alive is (really, Sammy? Aside from being with your brother, all the good you've done since being brought back and all the good you can yet do?). And yeah, Sam is probably right. Dean probably did bring Sam back so he wouldn't be alone. But is that such a bad thing? Does Sam really want Dean to have to go through the rest of his life completely alone?
But it was Sam saying he wouldn't do the same for Dean that really got my blood boiling. Because he has. We've seen it. One of the big sticking points of Season 8 was how many people were all "Sam wouldn't just let Dean rot in Purgatory" and people being upset that Sam didn't look for him because that's not Sam. And here we have him basically saying that Season 8 Sam was true?
This angers and disappoints me because it feels incredibly OOC to me.
So I guess I thought the main part of the episode had some problems (again, Dean and his switching POV on monsters) but wasn't bad per se. The last few minutes, another story.
Let's start with the rest of the episode.
So a hot dog eating contest.
"That's no hot dog." Really? And whoops he did cheat. And now he's dead.
Dean being so pissed/hurt about Sam "just being honest". That was really good. Cause you could see that what Sam had said did hurt him.
So the other contestant's wife is Roma? It was a nice misdirect, especially when the wife showed up and revealed she was having an affair with the vic.
Princess Jasmine?
Dean taking the interview with the hot blonde, of course. And she has a suction mark too.
Sam getting the trainer job, Dean as 'lunch lady' (which we knew from the previews).
Wait, Sam dated someone "bendy"? Who? When?! (And that was a subtle but nice allusion to Lisa.)
So it's fat sucking monster?
Okay, pure superficial moment but hot sexy did Sam look in his yoga gear/trainer outfit?
Wow, the Sheriff sounds like the one from Fargo.
Oh Dean, always with the pudding!
Figuring out they're hunters.
"A fish taco?" Cute.
So the brother is also a fat sucker, just...evil? I felt sorry for the wife when the husband died. And then the cook killed too?
Sam got a bit of a fight scene (which is more than he has had lately). Nice save, Dean!
And once again Dean is all "all monsters are bad", despite having just let Garth and that whole group of werewolves go and live in peace. Seriously, the writers (and Dean) need to maintain some consistency here! Sometimes Dean seems to think it's okay to let 'good' creatures live, other times he wants to gank them all! Decide already!
And then the final scene. Finally talking. Dean tells Sam he would do it again (which is so IC for Dean, yay). Sam wondering what the upside to his being alive is (really, Sammy? Aside from being with your brother, all the good you've done since being brought back and all the good you can yet do?). And yeah, Sam is probably right. Dean probably did bring Sam back so he wouldn't be alone. But is that such a bad thing? Does Sam really want Dean to have to go through the rest of his life completely alone?
But it was Sam saying he wouldn't do the same for Dean that really got my blood boiling. Because he has. We've seen it. One of the big sticking points of Season 8 was how many people were all "Sam wouldn't just let Dean rot in Purgatory" and people being upset that Sam didn't look for him because that's not Sam. And here we have him basically saying that Season 8 Sam was true?
This angers and disappoints me because it feels incredibly OOC to me.
So I guess I thought the main part of the episode had some problems (again, Dean and his switching POV on monsters) but wasn't bad per se. The last few minutes, another story.
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