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Playthings & Nightshifter
I made a couple comments about "Playthings" last year, and again, I don't really have a whole lot to add.
I like this one. Good, solid stand-alone case but with back story and character developments.
I'd waited since the beginning for them to do something with voodoo or hoodoo. This isn't exactly what I had in mind (I want an all-out trip to New Orleans), but it's a start.
I love the classic haunted hotel, and the twists in the case.
I figure they were watching The Shining when they wrote this one. That bar/dining room is clearly Shining inspired.
And of course we have the key exchange in the ep, wherein Sam, in a drunken stupor, makes Dean promise to kill him (Sam) if Sam ever becomes something not!Sam. They just keep piling on the angst, and poor Dean's got no choice but to carry on (wayward son).
Nightshifter
Now, I did do a fairly thorough write-up of this one last year.
Another favorite amongst the people I know, with a great case (both supernatural and non-), delightful guest character(s), and more angst and oh!noez!
Oh, Ronald. We hardly knew ye. You would have been great in R&D, and I was going to hook you up with Ash when this was over. Y'all would have geeked out together something fierce. (Ronald kind of reminds me of some of the guest characters in N3.)
Ah, Hendricksen. I learned to love you, but here, you scare me. Well, you scare me for Dean.
Oh, Dean. You just can't catch a break, can you. And the look on your face, your body language, when the SWAT guy finds you with the dead 'shifter. You know what's waiting for you, don't you. You're resigned to not having much of a future. Lucky for you, the SWAT guy is really your brother with an escape plan.
And Sam. Oh, Sam. Knowing your brother is a wanted felon. Knowing y'all are trapped like rats with no way out. You're becoming quite a force to be reckoned with, what with taking out not one, but two SWAT guys, then scaring your brother by showing up in disguise before the two of you make your escape.
*cue Styx*
*cue me flailing*
I like this one. Good, solid stand-alone case but with back story and character developments.
I'd waited since the beginning for them to do something with voodoo or hoodoo. This isn't exactly what I had in mind (I want an all-out trip to New Orleans), but it's a start.
I love the classic haunted hotel, and the twists in the case.
I figure they were watching The Shining when they wrote this one. That bar/dining room is clearly Shining inspired.
And of course we have the key exchange in the ep, wherein Sam, in a drunken stupor, makes Dean promise to kill him (Sam) if Sam ever becomes something not!Sam. They just keep piling on the angst, and poor Dean's got no choice but to carry on (wayward son).
Nightshifter
Now, I did do a fairly thorough write-up of this one last year.
Another favorite amongst the people I know, with a great case (both supernatural and non-), delightful guest character(s), and more angst and oh!noez!
Oh, Ronald. We hardly knew ye. You would have been great in R&D, and I was going to hook you up with Ash when this was over. Y'all would have geeked out together something fierce. (Ronald kind of reminds me of some of the guest characters in N3.)
Ah, Hendricksen. I learned to love you, but here, you scare me. Well, you scare me for Dean.
Oh, Dean. You just can't catch a break, can you. And the look on your face, your body language, when the SWAT guy finds you with the dead 'shifter. You know what's waiting for you, don't you. You're resigned to not having much of a future. Lucky for you, the SWAT guy is really your brother with an escape plan.
And Sam. Oh, Sam. Knowing your brother is a wanted felon. Knowing y'all are trapped like rats with no way out. You're becoming quite a force to be reckoned with, what with taking out not one, but two SWAT guys, then scaring your brother by showing up in disguise before the two of you make your escape.
*cue Styx*
*cue me flailing*