Supernatural Episode Review - 4x13 - After School Special
………why is Lana flying? How can you take a story like Superman and veer this far away from CANON? I mean, I don’t really care, but for the sake of what is RIGHT, why? WHY?
Then: Waaay back to Season 1 and how Sam was pissy back then. Flashback family. Wow Sammy was a moody pissy bitch. Now it’s more Dean’s role. LOL
Seriously? I really don’t like the kid they have play Dean. At all. The last kid they had play Sam, I’m really fine with, but NOT the Dean kid. *sigh*
Uhm, we open to high schoolers being mean to a girl who apparently is a slut. And then the slut girl in turn is really mean. The slut kinda looks like a young Ruby. And uhm…the girl she was mean to totally kicks her ass. Like throw down BITCH style - flushes her in the toilet and everything. Wow, there are so many people I’d like to do that to…’cept maybe not with the death part.
Oh man. Black ooze comes out of her eye. Did we step back to the X-Files in tribute to Kim Manners? Rest in peace, Kim. You did a wonderful job and will be sorely missed.
Sam’s back in white scrubs pretending to be an orderly or some shit. He’s talking to the murderer girl and discussing possession. Murderer girl didn’t see any normal signs of possession. No black smoke or sulfur. The boys discuss upon Sam’s
Truman high, home of the Bombers - they went there for a month. Sam has an idea for their cover as Foreigner’s Long, Long Way From Home starts…
…We have new Kansas Plates…or rather, old flashback plates. Ugh. This “kid” looks nothing like Dean either. And they are SO not four years apart. I really…*sigh* I’m always disappointed by these flashbacks. I’m not sure why I even get excited anymore. Dean is just always over the top or overly violent for a child or overly aloof for a teenager or whatever he is - he looks fucking 20 and Sam looks like 10. Whatever. I’m not even gonna try with Dean’s scene.
I like little Sammy. He’s awesome. He has a butterfly knife and totally sticks up for Barry, the geeky awesome kid I already love, and intimidates the annoying fat kid with his steely 10-year-old-kick-ass-awesome-self. ROCK ON LIL SAMMY!
Gym teacher Dean? I...honestly, I have no words. Amusing? Yes. Disturbing? Extremely. The sweatband? Too much.
More oozing demon sludge or whatever from some kid’s ear after he shoves an asshole jock’s first in a blender. Ouch.
TRACK SUIT DEAN? AWESOMELY HOT! HE LOOKS HOT IN RED!
We’re calling it ectoplasm, I still like demon sludge. A pissy ghost is the culprit the boys figure.
Aww Barry committed suicide. He slit his wrists in the girl’s bathroom.
FUCK OFF ASSHOLES - I LIKE BARRY! He wants to be a vet. Aww. They’re nicer than people. PREACH IT BARRY. PREACH IT!
Dean’s messing around with some chick and I hurl. Blondie doesn’t get Dean’s lifestyle. I don’t like this guy. Have I mentioned that? She makes some comment about missing his dad and of course Dean does - but he gets SERIOUS CRED because he totally acknowledges Sammy in the hallway!
Mini Sammy is SO FUCKING AWESOME. Fat kid hits him and he looks extremely rageful - JUST LIKE BIG SAMMY! I LOVE THIS KID! He’s like a mini-Jared - with all the kinda-fake facial expressions. And I mean that in the best possible way! HEE! CUTIE PIE! GO AWAY NOT-RIGHT DEAN! Can’t they just get someone that has the same charisma and…as…Jensen…well, I kind of answered my own question there didn’t I? That’s probably why none of these kids match up.
Meanwhile, big Sammy and Dean are torching Barry’s remains, trying to get him to rest, but methinks there’s more to this as we’re not even half over yet.
Sammy’s melancholy. Sam thinks if maybe they had stayed longer, he could have helped. Dean tries to help, but Sam likes guilt. Dean hated the school. Sam says it wasn’t all bad. Lil Dean threatens to beat up fat kid. But Sam doesn’t want him to. He doesn’t want to be the freak - he wants to be normal. Dean doesn’t understand. Dean’s itching to get out of town.
Sam wrote about killing a werewolf last summer and the teacher wonders why he wrote fiction. SAMMY IS CRYING OUT FOR HELP. And a teacher is taking an interest in Sam and telling him he has OPTIONS. Well this is a first for Sammy, apparently. And the seeds have been planted. Mr. Wyatt is nice and well-meaning. Sammy needs this; he’s kind of a sad child. Big Sammy muses on this rehashed information.
……*taps foot* I’m kinda…bored again. I mean, this is better than the magic shit from last week, but…kinda sloooooooooooow. Are we ever going to see His Holy Hotness again? Has he like…flown away? BRING HIM BACK AND BRING BACK MY INTEREST IN THIS SHOW.
This also reminds me of a story by . Over over over…If you read the story, you’ll know what that means, but it’s kinda similar in terms of the whole school and old friend and flashback and yeah.
Sam wants to talk to Mr. Wyatt. And we flashback again. Or rather…we keep changing back and forth. And then some girl stabs Sam with a pencil and Sam throws some salt in her mouth which he conveniently carries with him. Guess he didn’t talk to Mr. Wyatt.
They theorize that the ghost is piggybacking on people from the bus because all the kids that were possessed rode the same bus. So they go to check it out. Apparently the bus driver is new - a Mr. McGreggor. Sam knew his son too. It’s the fat kid. Wow, color me surprised. Fat kid picked on Sam and Barry again and this time Sammy totally kicks his ass. Have I mentioned my love for LIL SAMMY HERE? Sam comes up with a nice knew catchphrase, “Dirk the Jerk,” and everyone starts calling him that.
They visit Daddy McGreggor. Dirk went bad. Drinking and drugs. Whoops. Looks like Sammy’s name there was a turning point or some shit. Guilt Sam. His mother died when he was thirteen and he took care of her. That doesn’t excuse that he was a jerk. Stop being so guilty Sammy. Dirk was cremated. Yes, all of him - because Dean asks. Daddy kept a lock of his hair which he keeps in his bus in the bible.
Uh…I dunno who’s possessed - some adult on the bus.
*sigh*
Back on the bus, Eddie, the driver is gonna…I dunno, kill ‘em all? Get out of town? Who the hell knows. Sammy shows up with a shotgun and Dean ties up the possessed bald dude with a salt-soaked rope or some shit. Dean explains to the kids on the bus that he’s not really the substitute gym teacher, he’s more like 21 Jump Street - the Bus Driver sells pot. *yawn*
Sam tries to reason with the cueball, but this is pointless because he’s a pissed off spirit. Did you really expect him to be all “OK! Sure! Send my spirit wherever it’s gonna go, mmkay? Love you Sammy! BYE! THANKS!” Jesus Christ. Sam preaches that he’s not evil and he’s seen real evil and they took out shit on each other. Oh my GOD, is this really an After School Special? I feel like…I’ve been ‘messaged.’ Like I’m supposed to take some LESSON from this drivel.
Dirk’s bitter though, so fuck you Sam. Dean is sent to find the hair. Why it has to be on the bus, or anywhere near here, I don’t know. Dean starts searching the bus driver as Dirk beats Sam to a pulp. Then Dean burns the hair and Dirk explodes. There’s a joke, but I don’t care. Seriously - if the fucker was serious about people not finding the hair - he would have put it like…in a tree somewhere.
Lil Dean gets busted and told that he’s a lonely lost little kid. She pretty much nails him. And I really hate this guy. Have I mentioned that yet? I REALLY HATE THIS KID. Sammy on the other hand is getting props from like EVERYONE. Then John calls and they leave. Should we be concerned that like…Dean has not changed his clothes in 15 years?
Barry looks on as they leave.
Sam finally makes it back to Mr. Wyatt. Thanks him. Sam says he went to college because of him and then people grow up, responsibility and all that. But he tells him that he took an interest in him when no one else did. Mr. Wyatt tells him that all that matters is that he’s happy. Oh for FUCK’S SAKE WE END THERE?
Next week: Strippers on a love spell? F’real? Seriously? You’re gonna give us more of this SHIT instead of just finishing your fucking ARC? What the hell happened to what Sam and Ruby were doing last week you assholes? What happened to like…this show not sucking? This is just…UGH.
I just…I dunno. I never like these episodes with flashbacks. I understand we get information and it’s nice to see the boys in different situations, but I never like the actors (‘CEPT FOR LIL SAM - HE ROCKS) and it’s never really a revelation of mass proportions or anything. I usually seem to be the minority when it comes to the flashbacks - that’s fine - I just…I expect more and I’m always disappointed. I was less disappointed with Sam’s part here, but the Dean shit just never lives up for me. *SIGH*