Quick Reaction: 12x18 The Memory Remains

[hells_half_acre]

Hellllllllllllooooooooo

So, usual rules apply - let's just get right to it.

Oh, first - quick note: those of you who like my rewatches - I won't be doing one this weekend, because my mother is visiting. So, week off!

Now back to S12...

Comments

[liliaeth]

Good episode, and I loved how the sheriff, despite his family's legacy, was a decent guy, who just wanted to make up for the crap his family did. I guess I can understand why he didn't stand up to his dad in order to stop him. With a man like that, who's probably got several other illegitimate children out there, if the guy had stood up to him in the past, Daddy dearest would probably just have used the disobedient son as the next sacrifice and moved on

[hells_half_acre]

What I'd wonder about is what the god would have done to Pete, once he no longer needed him, because Pete, unlike the family, didn't keep the god trapped somewhere that it would be impossible for it to get out. Chances are probably big that Moloch, Molek, whatever would have killed Pete, as soon as it was fed up enough and strong enough to do so.

Yeah, we wondered about that too. We figured that probably the God was just biding his time until he was strong enough to rampage on his own.

I've also been thinking a bit more about last week's ep and how they had Mick kill his friend....
In the flashbacks we saw so far, both Henry, and Josey as possessed by Abaddon, were supposed to be initiated in the MOL together. What's the chance that the American Men of Letters, kept the 'kill someone to move on' bit until later on in their initiates education, and make sure to have two initiates at the same time, who then have to fight to the death, for which of the two gets to be a full member?Whoa, that's disturbing to think about. Hopefully they

[liliaeth]

I mean, if you really think about it, that god gave the Bishop family the bare minimum of what they demanded of it in exchange for feeding it

[lon_dubh]

...while Dean gets super distracted by a hot waitress (who looks a LOT like Jo)...

Oh thank god, I thought I was the only one who saw the resemblance.

Though now I gotta wonder if Dean noticed other than subliminally.

[hells_half_acre]

I'm guessing not. Because if he did, he would have gotten angsty, I'm sure.

[borgmama1of5]

Oh, I never thought about Ketch wondering about Mary's apparent non-aging...I guess I just assumed she told him her backstory. But now that you point it out, the BMoL would probably have issues with someone being resurrected...and kill them again on principle? I just thought he was perving on her...

Until I read your thought I would have put money on a big scene where Ketch hesitates killing a Winchester because he's sweet on Mary and that's his undoing. But now you've got me rethinking that!

Solid episode--put me in mind of the episode last season where Sam almost died from being shot by the werewolf. Not quite as anxiety-provoking over Dean in danger, but in the ballpark IMO.

[hells_half_acre]

He may have just been perving on her. I just couldn't tell.

We'll have to wait and see how it comes up! If it comes down to just his feelings, then the scene was just about his feelings and not about Mary at all.

Yeah, very much a good horror-episode episode. Last season's Red Meat was more adrenaline/urgent than this one... this one was more about the suspense and creepiness.

[elvit]

> while Dean gets super distracted by a hot waitress (who looks a LOT like Jo)

- Oh thanks for that! Now I know I'm not alone!

[hells_half_acre]

I'm also glad that I wasn't the only one!!

[phyllis2779]

When the boys wonder about what their legacy will be they don't think at all about the Winchester Gospels. Cass did say in season 4 that the Supernatural books would one day be known as the Winchester Gospels. The books are still available on the Internet -- Charlie read them there, so did the students in the Fan Fiction episode. Perhaps stopping the Apocalypse wiped out the validity of the books as the Winchester Gospels but in a way the books themselves are a Winchester legacy. But either Sam and Dean have clearly forgotten about the books or they hate them so much they wouldn't think of them as a legacy. Or the writers just forgot about them or chose to ignore them. I tend to believe the last explanation.

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I don't think the writers have forgotten about them - I think Sam and Dean have. Or, they've relegated them to being bad pulp novels that everyone will forget about with time.

Whether or not Cas's proclamation that they'll become as well known as the other Gospels remains to be seen - whether they were negated by the diverted apocalypse, or whether that just continues the mythos. Who knows!

Personally, without a super-major event to mark them, I think Sam and Dean might be right. Though, personally, I've love to see Sam and Dean become legends passed down through generations.