3.16 No Rest For the Wicked: We Are Not Gonna Make the Same Mistakes All Over Again

[bardicvoice]

 
3.16  No Rest For the Wicked: We Are Not Gonna Make the Same Mistakes All Over Again

No more deals, no time.

Sam shrugs off Lilith’s best shot;

Dean’s soul screams in Hell.

Episode Summary

Waking from a nightmare of hellhound pursuit and attack with only thirty hours remaining on his contract, Dean learned that Bobby had figured out how to locate

Comments

[shadow_of_doubt]

This was absolutely beautiful!

[bardicvoice]

Thank you! The show broke me; glad I managed to scrape the pieces into some semblance of sense!

[erinrua]

You've said everything I wish I'd been eloquent enough to say in my review. :-) Bravo, excellent meta/review, and I think I agree/concur with everything you've said.

THANK you for voicing all the things my emotions would not allow. :-) Definitely saving to mems.
Cheers ~

Erin
P.S.
LOL, and yeah, I chuckled when I saw the car number! Oh, Eric! :-p

[bardicvoice]

Thank you! I'm glad the words worked ...

[roguebitch]

I don’t know who was responsible for making the cop car number 54 - Jerry Wanek, I suspect! - but it made me laugh on a rewatch when I noticed it as Sam, Dean, and Bobby were hiding it under branches and suddenly heard, Car 54, Where Are You? in my head! (Yes, I’m old enough to remember that …)

Yeah, I sang that when I saw the car's number, too. ;->

I thought Dean's hell (or whatever it is) was very Hellraiser-inspired.

Excellent and thoughtful meta, as usual. I'm glad you're not one of the ones hating on the episode.

[bardicvoice]

I couldn't imagine hating the episode! Maybe it's simply that I accept the show on its own terms rather than attempting to impose on it my opinions of what story it's telling and how it should be told, but I can't imagine truly hating an episode; it's made with too much love and care for that! Even when it's not firing evenly on all cylinders, which sometimes happens, this show has such a sweet and powerful engine that I love to feel and hear it!

Thank you for stopping to chat!

[roguebitch]

I agree with you...I've been bothered by the vitriol, but even if I thought it was flawed, I still love the show and the episodes. I figure that I can respect the journey and all will be revealed eventually and there's a method to Kripke's madness.

[anonymous]

I loved this episode as well, and I always enjoy your commentary. My friends and I saw this together, and while I thought that Lilith took over Ruby when she and Sam separated, one of my friends posits that Lilith jumped to Ruby before she shoved Dean against the fence. Lilith would have had the power to get out of Ruby's devil's trap. Either way works for me, and certainly something I'll be thinking about until Kripke's next convention appearance (*crossing fingers*).

I know Kripke mentioned that there will be no full episode commentaries for S3, but I hope they decide to do this one (my wish list includes commentaries with Kripke, Kim Manners, and both boys - either separately or together), because it was an outstanding episode.

[bardicvoice]

Thanks for stopping!

I debated when Lilith made her entry into Ruby, but I really think Ruby was still Ruby when they were outside the house for two main reasons: first, that Dean's new "demonvision" needed the opportunity to see Ruby's true appearance in order for him to later see that the demon in residence wasn't the identical ugly he'd seen before (and so that in some future time, if he remains able to see demons when he comes back, he'll be able to recognize Ruby in whatever host she's wearing!); and second, that Ruby while outside was so perfectly in tune with the pissed-off Ruby we'd seen stuck under the devil's trap, striking back hard and nasty at Dean, while the inside Ruby instead struck the sympathetic note that Lilith might have expected Ruby to have been playing (I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy) in order to stay close to the boys

[bardicvoice]

Word! I agree!!