Saturday, November 5, 2011

A Town Full of Sams

Lily Dale, New York (hahahahahahaha) is where Dean catches the scent of a town full of psychics starting to die. They were pretty gruesome actually. One was "brained to death by her own crystal ball", one was stabbed in the neck with the piece from a Ouija board, and a spoon bender was impaled but cutlery. As sad as it was, it was hilarious (maybe there's something wrong with me?). So Dean travels to Lily Dale (still funny) were stops in at a cafe ( I can't describe, you'll have to watch the episode to see it) where he finds...Sam! After much convincing, Dean gets Sam to agree to work the case with him.

They meet a girl named Melanie, the granddaughter of one of the deceased psychics. She tells them how all the psychics who died had a vision of their deaths before they died and about how her grandmother was a fraud (a town where pretty much everyone was) and how she didn't really believe in all the hocus pocus. That is until her friend Camille has a vision and Dean and Sam watch a security tape of a ghost giving it to her. Melanie recognizes the ghost from the Lily Dale (hehe) museum. The woman's name is Margaret who starred with her sister as a twin psychic act in the 1800's. Side note: the museum owner stops Dean and tells him a woman from the other side, named Ellen wants to say, "If you don't tell someone how bad it really is, she'll kick your ass from beyond." Sam and Dean think it's Margaret's sister, burn her bones and find out it's really Margaret murdering everyone. Oops.

If you're wondering if the tension was building between the brothers, it did. At one point Dean stops Sam (to tell him how bad it really is) and says to him, "You wanna be pissed, fine. But quite being a bitch." Dean only did what he did because he was trying to prevent others from getting hurt and because Sam wouldn't do it because Amy was his friend. Dean also fairly points out that he didn't know if Sam was off the devil path yet and had no choice but to not tell him.

Back to the story, Camille dies and Melanie is next in line. After Sam talks to the new age shop owner and walks in, guns blazing, into a Lamaze class (hahaha) he realizes that the shop owner was controlling Margaret. While Sam goes to stop him, Dean protects Melanie (always the hero). "I'm a real psychic," the shop owner tells Sam (haha irony). Sam shoots the shop owner, killing him, and finds Margaret's bones in his bed (ewww necromancy) and burns them, sending Margaret who knows where. Sam apologizes to Dean and the boys drive off into the sunset (not really, but you get the idea)...not in the Impala, but hey, baby steps. All in all, the episode ended very cleanly, you know, aside from the whole Leviathan issue. Comments!

Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Plot Thickens

Drama, drama, and more drama seemed to plague the secret circle Chance Harbor tonight. Nervous about the lack of communication between her and her grandmother, Cassie and the circle head up to Pine Lake, where Faye's grandfather, Henry, has a lake house. (Henry was the person Jane was going to see). Dawn gets very anxious since she is the one who killed Henry. Charles assures her that he has taken care of the body and has Jane under lock and key and soon after the circle (along with Jake...yeeepp!) arrive at the house, Cassie receives a text from her grandmother saying she had bad service, stopped to see a friend, and would be home in a day. Wonder who the text was from...

The group decides to spend the night at the lake house (Cassie finds her grandmother's scarf...we'll come back to that) and Faye is tormented by the presence of a little girl that seems to be following her around, yet for the time being, she ignores the situation. Settling into a game of truth or dare, Diana dares Cassie to kiss Jake...Adam turns away and Faye flips out. "You're a one-woman-relationship-wrecking crew!" "And you're a bitchy little girl..." Cassie begins. Faye storms out and while exploring the house, Cassie shares another interlude with Jake. Is he beginning to fall in love with Cassie? Well, duh. Too bad he has to kill her; that could ruin the relationship. Maybe that's just me. And Adam and Diana have ... cough. 

Cassie finds Faye outside claiming the little girl is her at six years old when she almost drowned in the lake and her grandfather saved her. Rushing to the docks, Faye plows head first into the depths of the lake, only to be stopped by Jake and Adam who have come on the scene. Cassie sees the little girl and follows her to the dock's edge and places her hands in the water and after much bubbling, brings the body of Henry to the surface. Faye's mother picks her up and Cassie is driven home by Jake.

Inside, Jane is making Cassie breakfast. Having been influenced by the stone that Charles stole from her, she tells Cassie that she never spoke to Henry and never even went in his house. "But I found you scarf," Cassie says. Jane seems to have no idea how it got there. Diana also tells Adam they can't be together anymore (miss I love you and I'll sleep with you but now we're done). And Issac (head witch hunter) tells Jake it's time to kill Cassie (told you it would be an issue). Okay, now the point I was getting at all along was this. Charles and Dawn wanted to make certain that Cassie and the rest of the circle would never find the body or find out that Jane was there. Charles has the power and is in control now and I still think he has resentment over Dawn urging him to kill Nick. He seemed almost too sloppy in covering up their mess. Cassie immediately found the scarf, they found the body, and it quickly becomes clear that Jane is missing her memory. Is he doing it on purpose to reveal his and Dawn's plans? Or maybe he is just doing it to out Dawn for revenge? Until next Thursday (and then until January :( )!

Daddy Issues

This seems to be a recurring them in TVD. Oh well, it always ends up for our benefit. The mysterious cave drawings from last episode turn out to be a visual depiction of the history of the original family with the names of the original family members written in Viking (NiKlaus, Rebekah, Elijah, and Michael). Alaric is having trouble deciphering what they mean and in another attempt to kill Klaus and free Stefan from his compulsion, Elena threatens Rebekah (yeah, I didn't know her name was spelled like that until this episode) that she will wake Michael unless Rebekah tells her the history of the original family. Damon in the meantime has a boys night out with Stefan (...).

This episode was a history lesson indeed, but it did have its twists an turns. In short, Rebekah's family began in Europe, but after a witch named Iyana told them a world where the people were disease free, the family relocated, having already lost a son. (The disease free people were werewolves). Moving there as humans, Rebekah, Elijah, NiKlaus, Michael, the youngest son Henrik, and their mother lived a peaceful life. Michael had a bit of a temper and overreacted when Klaus and Elijah were sparring for fun, clearly labeling him the villain. Once a month, the family along with the rest of the village humans hid in the tunnels (where the pictures are) underground to avoid the werewolves transformation. Klaus and Henrik stayed out one night and Henrik was killed. Having had enough of losing family members, Michael and Rebekah's mother beg Iyana to spell there children to protect them and make them eternal but she refuses. "If she won't do it, then it's up to you," says Michael to (Twist! Twist!) Rebekah's mother. Any guesses who she is?? That's right, the original witch. After successfully turning his remaining children, Michael kills his wife for cheating on him (the reason Klaus is half vampire, half werewolf). The end, aka Michael is bad. Or so Rebekah thinks.

Elena deciphers one of the last sentences on the cave walls and it turns out the symbols depicting Rebekah's mother's death shows the hybrid killing her (because his mother turned her back on him), not Michael. Klaus lied to her. In the end, Damon and Stefan (you didn't think I forgot about them) are found at the bar (where Damon has been encouraging Stefan's drinking habit all night) by Michael, and after Michael wraps his hand around Damon's heart and threatens Stefan to tell him where Klaus is (Stefan shows his humanity...yeeeeppp!), Stefan agrees to lure Klaus back to Mystic Falls.

Can I just say, I really want to see what happens when Rebekah comes face to face with Klaus again. Whether Klaus is more powerful or not, she could still probably tear him apart. The episode ends with Damon (in Elena's bed) talking with Elena until she falls asleep. I'm still in the middle of the whole Stelena vs. Delena debate, BUT if these two keeping going the way they're going, I wouldn't be opposed to that couple. Maybe they'll start dating after Stefan regains his humanity and they'll be an all out brawl like at the beginning of the series?? That would be interesting. I guess we'll have to wait until next week and then endure the hiatus to find out (next week is the mid-season finale...man I'm good...didn't I tell you?).

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

November

So, we had an astronomical snow storm for October here where I live, and as a result I lost the use of my DVR until about twenty minutes ago and, since Supernatural isn't posted until Tuesdays, I haven't watched it yet. But, as much as I love our boys and as much as I'm excited to watch this past Friday's show, it suddenly hit me...it's NOVEMBER. Translation....it will soon be time for the annual hiatus that plagues us during Christmas time. So, I was thinking for this week's Supernatural post, I would give you a Survival Guide to prepare for those vampire-witch-hunter-less winter nights that await us. Here goes.

THE CW SURVIVAL GUIDE: How to Survive (barely) Until the Shows Return

1. Watch every episode up until the hiatus point over and over until you can quote them. This way when they return in January, you have the early episodes memorized.

2. Find people who are as obsessed as you are and talk CW non-stop.

3. Plaster your walls with posters of your favorite hotties so even though you can't watch them, they can watch you ;)

4. Write fan-fictions. Write what you want to happen, even though it probably never will.

5. Write letters to the CW producers demanding the hiatus time be eliminated all together.

6. Watch bloopers of the shows online--HAHAHAHA!

7. Have a countdown clock that starts as soon as the last fall episode ends.

If you have anything else to add, please feel free to comment. I would love to hear you ideas!

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Halloween

It's Halloween in Chance Harbor and with her grandmother going to visit an elder, Henry (who Dawn killed a few episodes ago), Faye and Diana convince Cassie to have a Halloween party. Trying to get Diana and Adam back together and worried about not having a boy to flirt with, Faye drops the hint to Luke and gets Cassie to invite him. Getting the house ready, Cassie finds a piece of the blade that the other "witch" used to attack and her there are two symbols on it.

At a local new age shop, another witch recognizes Cassie and when she goes to him for help on the symbols, he says he can't help her. Little does she know that Jake stalled her car and went over to the shop first and using a witch "cruor" I think it's called and a little blood and a personal item he threatens his life, holding time bomb of the shop owner's life in his hands. Too bad for Jake that Cassie takes a picture of another knife just like her lying around the shop and takes it to ...Adam... to help her decipher it. I think she is going a little backwards on the whole get-Diana-and-Adam-back-together mission, but hey I like them better together anyway.

Oh and my favorite part of the episode was when Luke was revealed to be a witch hunter. I didn't like him and I knew he was bad news and I just liked being proved right. He and another kid in a pig mask kidnap the circle from the party and Jake makes a jar (just like the one he made to kill the shop owner) for each of them. When Luke gets close to dropping the flame in Diana's jar and killed her, Cassie freaks out and ends up exploding the glass. It was pretty cool actually and then I started to wonder if binding the circle makes the leader, aka Cassie, more powerful and she controls the power. We will just have to wait and see. Then Luke gets pissed and grabs Cassie jar. This time when she screams, Luke combusts into flames.

According to what the shop owner told Jake before he killed him, Cassie has dark energy inside her. Another night wraps up as Diana still refuses to take Adam back. I feel bad that Adam is in pain over losing her, but I prefer him better with Cassie and just like the character in the book, he is severely stubborn and it's getting a little annoying. Move on Adam. I love you, but come on. Now Jake wasn't "there" (he was outside talking with his "boss"), but Cassie still doesn't trust him after his little slip of the tongue. "What do you have to go on, just those three symbols?" Cassie only showed him a dagger with two symbols. Silly boy. Just you wait. The episode ends with Jane (Cassie's grandma) finding Henry (the elder) dead on the floor of his home. Someone knocks her out cold and takes the crystal she was using. I'm thinking it was Dawn because she needs another crystal so badly, but I don't know. I've given up trying to predict anything the CW throws my way. Until next week!

Blasts from the Past

I have to say I don't know another town that has more Founding Day celebrations. Bonnie, Caroline, and Elena are of course helping with the set up and just when things are getting back to normal (yeah, right), Damon tells Bonnie that Mason Lockwood is back. Jeremy is still talking to Anna and things are amplified when Elena finds them kissing in the bathroom of the Grill. When does a spell to get rid of Mason's foothold in the physical world, her Grams shows up, along with Lexi and the tomb vampires (not to mention that now that they, along with Mason, are visible to everyone). And guess what's needed to send them back? Yep, the necklace. Who knew a piece of jewelry could be so versatile?

Well, when Lexi shows up and offers to help Elena with Stefan, she has Bonnie postpone the necklace's destruction to keep her here. I was glad they brought Lexi back. They need to have more vampires like her on the show. She locks Stefan up in the basement of the city jail and repeatedly stabs him with a stake (ow). Then of course the tomb vampires are after revenge on the founding families; what else is new? Well for one, Mason and Damon team up to look for a solution to kill Klaus--AWKWARD. Bonnie also knows about Jeremy kissing Anna --DOUBLE AWKWARD. And unfortunately for Elena, the tomb vampires are causing to much hassle (not including killing Tobias Fell) and they have to send the ghost back, including Lexi.

Elena convinces Anna to give back the necklace she had stolen by telling her that she was holding Jeremy back from moving on with his life. What are you going to do? Love a ghost the rest of your life?" She asks Jeremy. But just before Anna goes back to being alone, I was brought to tears at her reunion with her mother. Bonnie destroys the necklace and finally, it seems, Elena gets through to Stefan. "Fight for it," she tells him. "Or you will lose me forever. I won't love a ghost the rest of my life." She leaves him locked up and there are no comments or snarks, just a quiet, serious, contemplative Stefan.

Damon asks Alaric to take Mason's place when he disappears after Bonnie's spell. He and Mason were searching for a solution in a cave and there was a spell preventing Damon from entering a certain part of it. Ric ends up finding a bunch of cave drawings and the necklace Bonnie destroyed reemerges from the fire. From the previews of next week, the cave paintings have something to do with the originals. That should be very interesting, and where the heck is Klaus?

Thoughts, comments, questions?

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Dr. Sam, Dr. Dean at Your Service

So from here on out, I've decided that instead of doing recaps of the shows, I would just talk about what I liked, what I didn't like, and other tidbits I might throw in (more than I already do). Well, let's start this off. Sam and Dean are trying to live their lives as your average everyday hunter. Piece of cake right? Come on you know better. The episode started with a few people dying in extremely weird ways. A girl gets fried under the hair dryer at the salon, one man boils in his hot tub, and another guy is nail-gunned to death by a floating nail gun. Personally, it felt way too final destination and our boys, as our writers, are a little more original a classier than that. It wasn't the normal way for a victim to die, and while nothing is normal about this show, there's still a few criteria that our boys' cases usual follow.

And of course Dean still refuses to tell Sam about Amy and it's starting to take a toll on him. He tells Sam he's okay. "Yeah, ok," says Sam. "Don't say that like 'yeah, ok'," remarks Dean. "Yeah, ok," replies Sam as he walks away. I love their little witty banter.

"Really, from a freakin flask? What are you bad Santa, on the job?" Come Sam, let Dean has his early morning beverage if it helps him. And it turns out, all the mysterious deaths are caused by a witch, the wife of a realtor who she caught cheating on her. The man, Don Stark, is played by non other than James Marsters, aka Brainiac or Milton Fine on Smallville. I was so excited when I saw him on the screen. Anyways, his assistant is the next person Maggie (Don's wife) targets. She uses a kind of ancient Romanian coin as a hex bag to perform the spell. Lucky our favorite duo come in just in time to save the girl's life. It was creepy too. The assistant was biting into a cupcake and it looked like a heart was beating inside it and then she coughed up her insides, literally. A tad gross, but more of what I was expecting. What does that say about me? :)

Apparently aside from her dark alone time, Maggie runs a charity art show. Her friend Sue, is her best friend and wants to be there for her (she also wants to do a lot more, but that's all I'll say about that). Don walks in a tells her to knock it off, meaning her doing what she wants. Turns out he's a witch too and they are at war with one another and he runs her charity event. He also decapitates Sue with a platter, but hey this is Supernatural. Bobby has a spell that will stop her and it involves chicken feet. Sam every so gently places them on the table where Dean is finally enjoying a whole pie. Come on Sam, you couldn't just give him his pie time? "Take the...wouldja take that feet!" Dean yells.

Too bad the feet aren't chilled or the may have worked. So what do our boys do? Why, play Dr. Phil of course! Dean starts to talk to Mr. and Mrs. Witch, saying that they still love each other. But then he rambles off into kinky sex and Sam takes over. Oddly enough, it works and the two make up. Lucky for Sam and Dean, because (although they don't know) a leviathan finds them in their hotel room and Don saves them and removes the coins Maggie was going to use to kill them. Man I hope Don (aka Milton Fine) stays around for some ally action. How ironic would it be if the boys had a witch comrade? And what is going on with the whole leviathan issue? I just loved this episode. The shrink session was the best. Until next week, (or I guess a few days) I bid you a fond farewell!

Questions, comments, theories?