Michael creates stronger monsters on SPN! (My 14x02 Thoughts)
I also got a tumblr page (link on the side) so many of the gifs used here have been reblogged there (since I have no clue as to how to make a gif).
Alright so here is a jotted recap of the episode with my initial thoughts included throughout and after the episode. I do it this way because my memory sucks when it comes to recalling things that don't revolve around my OTP for the series.
SEASON 14
**MAJOR SPOILER ALERT**
"Supernatural" - ep. 14x02 ("Gods and Monsters") [CW Promo]
[My Tumblr Page for 14x02] [Producer's Preview]
Synopsis: RICHARD SPEIGHT, JR. RETURNS TO DIRECT - Sam (Jared Padalecki) finds a clue to Dean’s (Jensen Ackles) whereabouts, so he, Mary (guest star Samantha Smith) and Bobby (guest star Jim Beaver) set out to investigate. Castiel (Misha Collins) imparts some sage advice on Jack (Alexander Calvert), who, still desperate to belong, seeks out a familial connection.
Will we see Dean in this?
THEN
- Michael attacks Dean
- Jack intervenes
- Lucifer steals Jack's grace
- Lucifer takes Jack and Sam
- Dean makes a deal with Michael
- Dean vs. Lucifer
- Dean kills Lucifer
- Michael takes control over Dean
NOW
Abandoned Church
- Many poeple are chained down inside
- One man bleeds over a goblet (from his throat)
- Michael appears
- Michael heals the cut
- Michael mixes the blood with a bit of his grace
- Michael force-feeds the concoction to the Man
- The Man's insides start to glow before he burns out
- "Too much that. How disappointing." -Michael
- Michael moves the dead man to the pile of dead bodies
- Michael addresses his other prisoners
- "Alright, who's next?" -Michael
- Very methodical Michael
TITLE CARD
Bunker
- Bobby wonders why Michael wouldn't travel south
- Mary confirms that Sister Jo's intel has Michael in Duluth
- "Are you sure Michael didn't touch down in Orlando?" -Bobby
- Sam finds articles of a massive body dump in Duluth with eyes burned out
- Everyone believes it's Michael
- Sam reminds Castiel that he can't tag along
- Castiel understands...Michael would sense Castiel's grace (losing their advantage)
- Castiel complains about being a babysitter for Jack and Nick
- Castiel still can't look at Nick without seeing Lucifer
- Jack interrupts
- "You talking about my dad again? I understand. Being around Nick is hard for me too." -Jack
- The Hunters tell Jack that he can't tag along with them this time
- Jack knows that he needs to improve
Bunker Room
- Nick suffers with memories of Lucifer's actions
- Montage of Lucifer's kills
- I love old archive footage like this
- Castiel brings in some food
- Nick notices Castiel's discomfort in his presence
- "I'm not him, Castiel." -Nick
- "I know." -Castiel
- "But you still can't look at me." -Nick
- "It's difficult." -Castiel
- Castiel can't separate Lucifer's actions from Nick
- Nick understands that
- Nick doesn't understand why he'd let Lucifer possess him
- Castiel tells Nick that he was vulnerable and Lucifer took advantage of that
- Nick wonders what vulnerable state he was in
- Castiel brings up Nick's family
- Nick remembers the horror (5x01 flashbacks)
- "Who could do that?" -Nick
- "A man...broke into your house and you weren't there." -Castiel
- "That wasn't a man, that was a monster and then Lucifer found me and made
- me into a monster too." -Nick
- Any chance that Lucifer or the demons were behind his family's murder to get Nick to that vulernable state?
WEBCLIP No. 1 -- Morgue
- The Morgue Technician lists off the numerous bodies they found
- "We don't usually see this kind of action in Duluth." -Technician
- Mary wonders about the injuries being consistent
- Technician comments on how they all believe that it's the work of a "spree killer"
- Bobby starts asking a lot of question (but he uses short-forms)
- Sam clears his throat
- Technician admits that they don't know how the victims died yet (lots of internal trauma with throat wounds)
- A phone rings
- Technician excuses herself
- Sam questions Bobby about his line of questions
- "DFA?" -Sam
- "I've been fighting a friggin' Apocalypse for 15 years, my FBI might be a little rusty." -Bobby
- Oh Bobby, I missed you so much!
- The hunters put on gloves and investigate the bodies
- The three bodies are vampires
- Mary wonders why Michael would be hunting down vampires
- Sam asks the technician if anyone claimed the bodies
- Technician said that someone came to see if she knew someone
- Sam wonders if they could see the security footage
Bunker
- Castiel finds Jack doing research
- Jack is trying to figure out how long his grace will regenerate
- Castiel thinks that it could take one month to up to a century to regain an archangel's grace
- Castiel tells Jack to focus on what he has
- Jack argues that Castiel doesn't know what he's dealing with
- Castiel reveals that he lost his grace after the 'Great Fall'
- Castiel had to relearn the basics
- Jack wonders how he did it
- "I had Sam and Dean but I had something else that was extremely helpful,
- I had myself, the basic me." -Castiel
- Castiel brings up how Sam and Dean weren't always hunters
- Sam and Dean took years to hone their skills to be the hunters they are today
- Castiel tells Jack that his past is important but it's not the only thing
Hotel
- Michael gets dressed in a suit
- Michael's reflection shifts into Dean
- "Get out!" -Dean
- "I don't think so." -Michael
- "You can't." -Dean
- Michael punches the mirror, showing that he's still in control
- "I own you. Hang on and enjoy the ride." -Michael
- Michael walks away
- How? Dean revoked his consent like Sam did with Gadreel so how is Michael still there?
COMMERICAL
Bunker
- Castiel talks to Sam on the phone
- Castiel hasn't heard of any history encounters between an archangel and vampires
- Castiel doesn't get why
- Nick rushes in with a laptop
- Nick reveals that his family's murders were never solved in his absence...cold cases now
- Castiel tries to comfort Nick
- Nick flinches and tries to snap at Castiel like Lucifer used to do
- Castiel backs away
- Nick shakes his head
- "Why did you do that?" -Castiel
- "Do what?" -Nick
- "What went through your head just now?" -Castiel
- Nick doesn't understand
- Castiel checks over Nick's psyche and finds more damage was done by Lucifer
- Castiel uses his powers to examine Nick's soul and psyche
- "Lucifer may have inflicted more of his psyche on your presence." -Castiel
- Nick leaves to find answers about his family's case
Motel
- Sirens are heard
- FBI bang on the door
- The woman tries to run
- FBI barge in and it's the hunters (Sam, Mary & Bobby)
- Sam holds a gun at the woman
- Bobby told the woman that she should have dumped her car after she went to the morgue
- Sam reveals that the woman is a vampire
- Vampire reveals that her nest fed on animal blood
- Hunters pause in their attack
- Vampire tries to explain the capture of her nest
- Vampire doesn't know who her captor was and she never saw his actions
- Vampire escaped but a majority of her nest were killed while doing so
- "He wasn't killing, it was like he was experimenting." -Vampire
Hotel
- Michael walks with a woman in a red dress
- Flirting between them
- "You are terrible." -Woman
- "You have no idea." -Michael
- Woman reveals her fangs and tries to attack Michael
- Michael chokes the creature instead
- Michael's eyes glow blue
- The creature struggles in his hold
- "Did you honestly think I didn't know who you are?
- You think you picked me, I picked you." -Michael
- Michael throws the creature into the wall
- Michael demands for her to summon her master
- Was she a werewolf?
COMMERICAL
Bunker
- Castiel flips through a book
- Nick tries to get answers from a police captain
- Nick can't get answers from a cold case
- Castiel apologizes
- Nick rants about no evidence being processed from the case
- Nick thinks he has nothing
- Castiel tells Nick that he has a second chance
- Nick argues that Castiel doesn't understand
- Castiel admits that he's occupying a vessel like Lucifer
- "I am occupying someone else's." -Castiel
- Castiel brings up Jimmy Novak
- "This was Jimmy Novak." -Castiel
- Castiel sadly admits that Jimmy is dead
- Nick questions Castiel's difference with Lucifer...there isn't any
- "Castiel, you're just a stone-cold body snatcher. You're no better than Lucifer." -Nick
- Castiel decides to leave
- "In all my thousands of years, what happened to Jimmy Novak, his family,
- my greatest regret." -Castiel
- Castiel walks away to check on Jack
Hotel
- Michael has his meeting with the creature's master
- "She thinks you're a god." -Pack Leader
- "An archangel but close." -Michael
- "And I'm a leader of a werewolf pack." -Pack Leader
- Michael praises the Pack Leader for his survival tactic
- Michael thinks humans are the waste of the Earth
- "Who made them top dog, pardon the pun." -Michael
- Michael thinks the creatures only hunt for humans to survive (there is purity in that)
- Michael has perfected the way to enhance a creature's abilities
- "I have cracked the code." -Michael
- Michael wants the creatures to be the hunters instead
Neighborhood
- Jack visits Kelly's parents
- Jack plays off that she's Kelly's intern
- Kelly's parents haven't heard from Kelly in a while
- Mrs. Kline brings up Kelly's pregnancy
- Jack admits that Kelly had the baby
- "We have a grandson!" -Mrs. Kline
- Jack tries to share how Kelly was as a mother
- "Her son loves her very much." -Jack
- "She made him feel safe and wanted." -Jack
- Jack gets emotional
- Jack thinks he needs to leave
- Kelly's Parents give Jack a message to pass to Kelly
- "If you see Kelly, tell her we miss her." -Mr. Jack Kline Sr.
- "I will. I miss her too." -Jack
- Mrs. Kline hugs Jack
Motel
- Vampire tries to pack in a rush
- Michael appears
- Michael brings up the hunters visiting the vampire
- Michael wanted the hunters to find her
- Vampire is speechless (she was bait)
- "Rule No. 1, you can't have a trap without bait." -Michael
- Michael burns the vampire from the inside out when his eyes flash blue
COMMERICAL
Bunker
- Castiel scolds Jack for leaving the bunker without backup
- Jack wanted to meet his remaining family
- Castiel wonders if that helped
- Jack thinks it did but he didn't tell them his true identity
- "I couldn't tell them that she died. They just love her so much. I know I should've." -Jack
- "What you did, you did from a place of kindness." -Castiel
- Castiel comments that there are worst ways to be human than be kind
- Jack wonders if Sam checked in
- Castiel knows that Sam has a location for Michael
- Castiel and Jack argue over Dean's fate
- "Dean doesn't matter." -Jack
- Castiel reveals that containing Michael is the plan, not killing him
- "If he can't be saved, if it comes down to him or Michael, Michael has to be stopped." -Jack
- Jack reminds Castiel that Michael can't turn their world into the Apocalypse World
- Jack questions what Dean would want
- That was a weird shift between their two conversation topics
Another Home
- Nick visits Artie (witness to his family's murder)
- Nick picks apart Artie's claim that he didn't witness anything
- Nick believes that Artie was paid off
- "Oh Artie, who got to you?" -Nick
- Nick gets aggressive on Artie and grabs his neck
- Artie freaks out
Abandoned Church
- Sam, Mary and Bobby search the place
- Mary sees the pile of dried blood
- Werewolves ambush the church
- Sam shoots silver bullets but it doesn't work
- Sam beheads a werewolf to kill it
- More werewolves swarm
- The fighting continue until the werewolves are beheaded
- "Did anyone get bit?" -Sam
- "No." -Mary
- "I'm okay." -Bobby
- The hunters are confused by what they just encountered
- "What kind of werewolves were those?" -Bobby
- "Silver didn't touch them." -Mary
- Michael arrives
- Michael stumbles to the post
- Michael takes off his hat and claims that he's Dean
- "Sammy...it's me."- Dean
- I'm suspicious!
COMMERICAL
Church
- Dean catches his breath as he takes a seat
- "Dean, is it really you?" -Sam
- Dean reassures Sam that he's himself
- Sam wonders how Dean is doing
- "Are you okay?" -Sam
- "No, I'm not okay!" -Dean
- Dean reveals that Michael just left his body and he doesn't know why
- The hunters are confused
- Me too
Artie's House
- Nick is covered in blood with a hammer in his hands
- Artie is dead on the floor
- Did Nick kill his family without realizing it?
CREDITS
14x03 Promo = Dean is back at the bunker = Castiel tries to look into Dean's head for Michael's actions (by Dean's request) = Everyone wonders if Dean is really himself = Billie & Jody are shown
For more of my thoughts taken directly after watching the episode, check out my youtube video for it here
==> [My After Show Video for 14x02]
See you next week!