We Will Be A Family If It Kills Us.
I love Ruby, and I'm fascinated by Castiel, but it was really nice to have a good old-fashioned 'the Winchesters tackle a case' episode again. And I rather liked the family they were trying to save. Yay for enjoyable minor characters!
I was a little afraid that my love for Supernatural might have dimmed over the hiatus, but this episode quickly reawakened it. This pleases me.
When I heard 'Uncle Ted', my immediate thought was of T-Bag. WATCH OUT FOR YOUR UNCLE, SMALL CHILDREN. And - oh, my, I've just realised that the mother's name was Susan. Suzie. And Uncle Ted. And Suzie's two children. That is amazing, and also horrible (especially given that Uncle Ted is actually Susan's brother in this case).
Of course, the 'Uncle Ted' connection meant that, when the girl stuck her hand under her bed and it was licked by Something That Obviously Wasn't Going To Be The Dog, I was compelled to shout 'THAT'S NOT THE DOG, IT'S T-BAG' at the screen.
As it was never confirmed that the hand-licker was one of the Incest Twins, I am going to assume that it actually was Uncle Ted. Hey, what's a little more incest to this episode?
(Supernatural has had quite a bit of incest lately, hasn't it? Do you think, by any chance, that they're poking fun at the fandom? I sort of love it when things poke fun at their fandoms.)
(I was rather impressed by the Incest Twins' ability to write, actually. Especially as they didn't appear to be able to speak, and I'll be surprised if their father-stroke-grandfather gave them many books.)
Overall, I liked this episode, but let's stop giving Dean great long emotional speeches at the ends of episodes, shall we? Jensen handles them well, but there's always going to be a slight air of ridiculousness around a great long emotional speech, and they should really be used very sparingly indeed. Using them two episodes in a row is just going to make my eyes roll all the way out of a cupboard.
...you know, like - like the baseball rolled out of a cupboard into Danny's room?
Okay, my metaphors may possibly need some work.