3.07 Fresh Blood: One Last Good Thing

[bardicvoice]

3.07  Fresh Blood:  One Last Good Thing

Gordon, hunting Sam,

Becomes what he hates the most.

Dean answers Sam’s plea.

Episode Summary

Hunting a vampire in New York state, the boys found a confused girl who’d been fed vampire blood under the guise of a designer drug by Dixon, a lonely vampire whose nest had been killed by hunters. Dixon was trying to

Comments

[pinkphoenix1985]

brilliant!!! you had me crying over some of the things...it was excellent

[bardicvoice]

Thank you! *hands out virtual Kleenex*

[riverbella]

And somebody I know knocked the review out of the country! I have been crushing on all the love for this episode hard because I loved it so much. The "...be my brother again" conversation was incredible, so nuanced, and I've been hearing in my head ever since all the things Sam didn't say (huge kudos to JaredSeraKim for that bit of perfection), but it was the ending scene that actually brought me to tears. It was so incredibly subtle and so full. Sterling Brown was brilliant. You have to admire his passionate conviction, even if it was twisted and misplaced. But his downfall, being turned, was poetic justice if there ever was such a thing. I'm actually sort of relieved there will be no new episode this week, as I would have to tape it and it makes me ridiculously nervous not to be watching at the same time (ahh, obsession). I also hope the strike will soon come to an end, with the writers getting the best end of the deal, so we will have more of this incredible season to enjoy. (I may be kidding myself, but I cannot help but

[bardicvoice]

Thank you! Everything that was said without actually being spoken aloud had me in awe of the boys, Sera, and Kim. Major wows.

I really do hope that the viewer support for the writers took the AMPTP by surprise and helped contribute to the decision to come back to the bargaining table earlier than had been rumored. And I hope that the news blackout that's been announced actually does help to keep the sniping and rhetoric down to a minimum, and the horsetrading at the table honest and aboveboard!

[spcmla86]

Hi Mary, great review as always. You never disappoint. And like you and a lot of our fellow obsessives, I loved this episode. And like you, I agree that it harkened back to a few episodes in the past two seasons. This episode brings the boys back to where they were after Sam called Dean out on his behavior in CSPWDT and hopefully means that Sam will start letting Dean know about the secrets that he has been keeping.

Thanks again for your insights and I too hope the strike will end soon so we can see this whole season through and have some, if not all, of our questions answered.

See you around.....

[bardicvoice]

Thanks, hon! I too am waiting for the moment when Sam finally starts opening up and telling Dean about the things he's been holding back. And on the strike ... from your fingers on the keyboard to God's eyes!

[yourlibrarian]

To Sam, the Impala is an avatar of Dean, something linked permanently to Dean at a metaphysical level. When Sam looks at that car, he can’t help but see and feel his brother, the same way that Dean can see and feel John. Bobby recognized that symbolic resonance when Sam adamantly refused to write off the wrecked car in In My Time of Dying, understanding that giving up on salvaging the car would have meant accepting that Dean would die.

So true.

Surest proof of love:
Dean offers his kid brother
The keys to his heart.How perfect

[bardicvoice]

Thank you!

Gordon and Kubrick made such an interesting pair. A psychopath turned monster and an over-the-top fundamentalist: what an odd couple! I think that Gordon viewing Kubrick's religious iconography was realizing that it reflected his rigid mindset, the absolute vision of good and evil that made it inevitable that Kubrick would refuse to let Gordon survive even one moment more as a monster, a refutation of what he had been. I think Gordon even regretted that he was evil, and that he was going to effectively martyr Kubrick.

The irony of it all, of course, is that the real message behind the symbolism of Kubrick's faith was meant to be that no one is beyond forgiveness, beyond salvation, if he only seeks redemption. Neither of those two men could perceive that.

[yourlibrarian]

I wonder too if maybe Gordon didn't envy Kubrick in that moment. I'm remembering what he'd said to Dean in Bloodlust, that it's not a sin to need your work. I think that Gordon felt he'd been left with nothing but his work, it was all that he was. Once he's turned he can't be a hunter anymore, he can only be a monster. Kubrick, however, had something outside of himself and his work to believe in (just as Sam and Dean have one another).

[blacklid]

*bows to the master*
As always, I love your insights.
I pimped your section about the brothers on my LJ.

[bardicvoice]

*bows to the peer*

Namaste!

Thank you for the pimpage! I dropped by and enjoyed your little story; thank you for that, too!

Love your "passing of the socket wrench" icon. :)