Supernatural – Humans: you crazy!

Interestingly enough, the episode titled “The Benders” aired as the 15th episode of Supernatural‘s first season; and now, here we are, the 15th episode of the seventh season. It was said before that the theme of this season was to get back to the show’s roots — and we’ve seen several examples of that already — so could this have been a conscious decision to bring back something from way back when?

Unrelated to the call-back to the first season,this episode started off with a flashback to four years ago, to a case we were never privy to. It stands to reason there are plenty of cases the Winchesters have been involved in that we, the viewers, would only perhaps hear of in passing, or not at all. the other thing I guess we need to keep in mind is that though we are at the seventh season of the show, it doesn’t mean seven years have passed. Come to think of it, that’s an odd thing to consider. If Dean were to say “it’s 2012″ in an episode this season, wouldn’t that mean we should assume each season is one year of the series? Alright, I’m heading down a rat hole now. …

Back to the season one reference. The episode “The Benders” relates to this one because, once again, we find sick and twisted humans can sometimes be more trouble for Sam, Dean and others than the supernatural. “The Benders” had some sickos who hunted humans for fun, and nothing about their game was otherworldly. Just like Jeffrey in this episode, they were nothing more than crazy humans. It’s good that it took six seasons for the writers to dig up that theme once more, but it’s an effective idea for a series such as this, and it matched with where things are going perfectly. The rest of the season — or at least the next episode or so — is going to be about Sam’s unraveling. Having a crazy-person episode lead into — or support — Sam’s “visions” of Satan works quite well.

I could definitely see this episode as a plot for a movie some day. Think the perfect murder, where the killer is excused of the atrocities he’s committed because it’s proven without a shadow of a doubt that he was possessed by a demon. Hell, if Jeffrey wasn’t so crazy and just stopped everything once he was free, he’d have committed the perfect crimes. Then again, he’s batshit crazy, so there’s that. How long before someone simply gets purposely possessed by a demon so he can seemingly innocently commit one murder?

I’m wondering how Sam’s going to rid his mind of these visions plaguing him lately. Will it call for him to have no choice but to visit “the cage” to put an end to it once and for all?

Oh, one last unrelated item: What’s with wiccansweb.com not being live? Don’t we all want to get our wiccan on?

Clacked by Keith McDuffee
on Feb 17, 2012 @ 22:37 EST5EDT