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SPN GeorgEpisode 7.02 Hello, Cruel WorldAnd boy is it ever cruel! The subtitle there refers to the plot climax of this one, but also to season seven as a whole. The entire thing is built on pain being the key to reality, and doesn't that just suck! Like, massively! It sucks for Sam, it sucks for Dean, and it sucks for all of us! But we shall endure. :'D
We lose Cas right at the start, and then Dean carries his coat away like a widow leaving a soldier's funeral with a flag, and that sets the stage for his grief and...
2023-10-2054 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 6.06 You Can't Handle the Truthaka truth coming out of her well to punch humanity in the nuts...
Welcome to the brutal, painful truth. Let’s start this week with a trigger warning for suicide and implied offscreen rape of a minor, because even if this show will gloss over stuff like that, I try to give a heads up about it. Because yikes…
Poor Dean has been desperate for the truth all season long, but everyone and everything has stood in his way. And now? he’s about to be kicked, repeatedly and forcefully, with the harshe...
2023-06-1654 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear PlaidSlightly off kilter since it was written, filmed, and intended to air BEFORE what we all think of as 5.14, it still punches us all in the face with Bobby Feels, with Sad Dean Feels, with zombie pie, and with JODY MILLS.
It’s an exceptionally short episode this week, so here let’s get right to the bonus material:
The Superwiki page
My tag
Rewatch notes from June 2019 and April 2017
Lizbob’s post about this episode, which I think is essential reading for all the emotional threads, as well as her...
2023-02-1147 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.14 My Bloody ValentineFamine. We’re back to the Horsemen, the apocalypse, and learn some deep truths about Team Free Will. I think the most important takeaways from this episode are to remember that it was written and produced to come AFTER the episode that aired as 5.15 (Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid), and immediately before 5.16 Dark Side of the Moon. It makes so much more sense emotionally and for character continuity that way... thanks 2012 Winter Olympics for screwing it up lol.
The surface level read of Dean and Cas’s revelations in this one obscure a much deeper truth for bo...
2023-02-031h 05
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.13 The Song Remains the SameHeaven (and in this case, specifically Michael) has an agenda. The long-scheduled apocalypse is proceeding apace, but how does one convince one’s recalcitrant vessel to play along? Well, a nice little demonstration of power, combined with a charmingly delivered (I’m sure Michael thought he was ever so polite about it) reminder that there’s no such thing as Free Will and everything in the history of the universe had been leading them to that moment where Dean will say yes and accept his fate.
Kinda horrifying, when you think about it in those terms alongside Dean’s...
2023-01-271h 05
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.12 Swap MeatThat one where Sam was Gary! A true MotW that has Dean mostly tiptoeing around Sam in the aftermath of his confession at the end of the previous episode. Even when “Sam” is behaving in incredibly un-Sam-like ways, Dean’s still hesitant to poke too hard at it. I’m not sure this episode could’ve worked under other circumstances (Dean would’ve twigged to it sooner if he wasn’t trying so hard to be agreeable with Sam), or otherwise would’ve just been sad (like if the reason the other didn’t twig to it was due to them being on th...
2023-01-2057 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.11 Sam, InterruptedIt hits me once in a while how many monsters almost managed to take out Sam and Dean, and the wraith in this episode is an especially good example-- she of the “okie dokie” and the absolute confidence in her own understanding of the situation to control it all, to manipulate the story to her own advantage with a smile on her face and a spring in her step. She really thought she was invincible, right up to the moment she wasn’t.
Is that just “plot armor” for Sam and Dean? Eh, I don’t think so. I mean, th...
2023-01-131h 07
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.10 Abandon All Hope...Why bring back the magical Colt after hyping it up all season as potentially the only weapon that can kill Lucifer only to bring it back, declare oopsie no there are actually five random and unspecified exceptions to this weapon’s power that we will never actually address in canon, and then lose it in the woods to have it disappear without another mention for years? Yeah, I got no idea either. Such is the fate of so many Special Weapons on this show. This one just bugs me for so many reasons.
We bid farewell to El...
2023-01-061h 03
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.09 The Real GhostbustersChuck makes problems for everyone. But that’s pretty much the meta overview of the entire series, isn’t it? In this episode, he specifically gets to be a petty lil guy, though, which gave me an awful lot of real estate to roll around on.
I think I started this episode by hoping it would come in shorter than last week, and... uh... sorry about that? I was really on track to succeed at that! And then I had to keep adding in meta tangents. Once again, though, at least it’s a fun episode to spend...
2022-12-301h 21
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.08 Changing Channelslike the graphic says, play your roles or be stuck in tv land forever! if that ain’t the most meta thing ever said in canon...
This episode is definitely a favorite, but it’s also a really rich one to discuss for so many reasons. It’s basically just a way scaled back and condensed version of s15. Thematically, if you leave off the wtf of 15.20, it’s the s15 speed run.
Since I ran so long in the talky-talky, I’ll keep this short and get right to the links for this week:
The...
2022-12-231h 18
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.07 The Curious Case of Dean Winchesterlike the graphic says, sit down, shut up, play the game while you watch your brother die... a chuck metaphor with gambling!
It amuses me to no end that while I was editing this week’s audio, I had the TNT loop on the background and watched 15.09 The Trap and 15.11 The Gamblers. Both of which involved Chuck, gambling as a life and death scenario, and being pushed to just play Chuck’s game and do what they’re told-- sit back and accept his endgame for their story.
Wow! The Pain!
I promise I will...
2022-12-1650 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.06 I Believe the Children Are Our Future*steadfastly refuses to sing the song despite having to sing it about 50 times when i was in 6th grade...*
There’s a lot to unpack in this episode. There’s some similarities to Jack’s endgame problem-- wanting a world without lies. Sure, lies can cause problems, but so can the truth, if you’re suddenly overwhelmed with it and forced to deal with it.
Poor Cas gets turned into a toy for a hot minute, and the nature of how Dean interacts with him is evolving, too. After the horror of 5.04, it’s hard to blame h...
2022-12-0955 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.05 Fallen IdolsIt’s a short one this week, friendos! The podcast, yes, but also the episode itself. It runs so short they included a SOON segment at the end of the ep promoting the next three episodes!
And for one filled with painful irony-- a god cosplaying as beloved icons in order to devour fans of said icons-- and a good number of classic lines (four score and seven years ago, I had a funny hat!), the episode overall is pretty straightforward.
Plus, as a nice break, Sam and Dean actually communicate well! They make a li...
2022-12-0255 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.04 The EndI survived this one. It’s Thanksgiving day as I type this up, and I’m giving thanks for that.
Despite my personal issues with this one, there’s a ton of important stuff for Dean here-- stuff that I believe will haunt him (and in some ways stunt his emotional growth out of the fear that he could become That, or that Cas could, if he’s not careful) for years to come. Plus this one really doubles down on his previous feelings about Zachariah. None of them are positive, lol!
ANYWAY, let’s just be gl...
2022-11-251h 05
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.03 Free to Be You and MeWe all love this one for the wonderful growing relationship between Dean and Cas, and wail at the horror of everything Sam experiences-- from being force-fed demon blood, the compounding guilt, the fear that he can never get out or his life and destiny can never change, and his first face to face with Lucifer... it’s a big one.
How free are they, really? Is destiny still coming for them? Are they doomed to play out the Grand Narrative being written for them?
(points forcefully at the series finale and screams incoherently)
Li...
2022-11-181h 11
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.02 Good God, Y'allEdwin Starr gave us the perfect title for both halves of this episode. :’D
Good God... or at least Cas is hoping God would care about his creation, even if we eventually learn the truth years down the line. The hope and faith Cas has now is destined to be shattered in horrific ways that will power his arc for the rest of the series, though, so I am here for it.
And War, the first Horseman of the apocalypse we meet and definitely the easiest to defeat at least. Even if you can’t actu...
2022-11-1156 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 5.01 Sympathy for the DevilWelcome to Season 5, where every angel suddenly has a sword with zero explanation! That sentence sums up my general feelings about season five in a meta fashion. It’s all very Chuck.
Dean is having a really hard time dealing with the fallout of s4-- the devil’s on the loose, and it’s all because he failed Sam, and because Sam basically renounced him, trusted a demon more than him...
Sam was manipulated all last season into Doing The Thing He Did, so convinced of his own power, his own righteousness, thought he was sa...
2022-11-041h 06
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.22 Lucifer RisingSpoiler alert: Chuck won. Mostly, anyway. Team Free Will is just finding their spark, and just having their eyes opened to just how badly the story had been manipulating them before. Only none of it happens in time to stop the apocalypse, and Chuck’s story gets to continue chugging along.
I hacked out this post the other day that sort of sums up my feelings on 4.22 vs 15.20, and I think it serves as a nice intro piece to this episode
We all know what happens in this one, and I have lots to say ab...
2022-10-281h 19
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.21 When The Levee BreaksThe penultimate episode of any season ramps up the drama, but hooboy, this one is made of angst! We’re closing in on the end of Chuck’s One Perfect Season, where everything worked perfectly for his story from start to finish. At least he’s never really gonna meet with this much success ever again (because 15.20 doesn’t count lol).
Sam’s in demon detox, Cas is doing Heaven’s errands, and Dean is breaking his own heart. But Sam? He gets some twisted A Christmas Carol experience, Dean wrestles with his complete inability to save Sam from goi...
2022-10-211h 14
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.20 The RapturePoor Jimmy Novak. And poor Sam. And poor Dean. And poor Amelia and Claire. And honestly, poor Cas. Poor dude just got heaven-tortured into a mental reboot. All those "doorways to doubt" have been slammed shut, and his compassion for humanity has been erased. (don't worry, he'll get that back eventually)
As for Sam, his whole bleak secret gets exposed in the worst way possible (driven into withdrawal by Ruby deliberately ignoring his pleas for a refill, and then pushed into a situation where he had a whole demon *right there* to drain, and innocents' lives on...
2022-10-141h 01
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.19 Jump the SharkGolly, I spend this whole podcast talking about the pointlessness of revenge, but that’s rather conditional. And specifically in this case, in s4 overall, and every other revenge arc that comes to failure in this entire series, that condition is ACTUALLY KNOWING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SITUATION!
Blind revenge is always doomed to fail. These ghouls enacted this massive plot for revenge against John Winchester, not even knowing he’d died more than two years before. This was entirely a situation of their own making. They could’ve gone on the rest of their lives just doing...
2022-10-071h 04
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.18 The Monster at the End of This BookWelcome to Chuck’s story. Was Chuck written deliberately to eventually grow into the Overarching Big Bad of the entire series? I really doubt it. Does it work perfectly anyway? Yes, yes it does.
And because of that, rewatching this episode with the clarity of hindsight becomes a transformative experience. Oh Chuck, I see what you did there... you cruel, capricious god
(who really should’ve been properly overcome within the narrative, but it was always His Story, and the show we watched on our screens was His Narrative... and understanding that makes it weirdly easi...
2022-09-301h 16
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.17 It's a Terrible LifeGosh I love this episode. It throws the viewer off balance wondering what the heck is actually going on, right up to the end when Zachariah boops Dean and all the rest of us back to “reality” and washes the bright colors away again. The real hunt/case of this episode isn’t the ghost Sam and Dean learn to deal with, it’s whatever the heck Zachariah’s actually up to with the entire charade. And what that boils down to is the concentrated essence of manipulation by cosmic forces that is s4. And all that ONE EPISODE BEFORE we m...
2022-09-231h 09
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.16 On the Head of a PinThis... is a big one. This is the episode where I first sat up and realized why Cas stuck around, why he became such an important and beloved character (s7 was airing at the time of my first watch, if you needed context for that). His entire character arc for the rest of the series pretty much takes off right here. But the seeds of his entire relationship with Dean are also planted here. This was the first episode of Supernatural that I watched, got to the end of, and then immediately went back and watched it again. It’s...
2022-09-161h 11
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.15 Death Takes a HolidayRIP Pamela. RIP Dean beginning to feel even remotely good about himself. RIP Sam’s secrets (well... soon... we the audience have seen a glimpse, but Dean is still getting stonewalled...)
This is a hard episode, and even more so because it follows several MotW episodes and wrenches us back into the big mytharc plots. But also because we can watch Sam completely abandon the concept of being “careful” with his demon powers and “not letting it get too far” that he’d promised Dean earlier this season. It hurts.
We watch Dean regain memories of one of the...
2022-09-091h 04
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.14 Sex and ViolenceDid someone say queer Dean content? Because we have some of that here...
Truly there’s been so much written about this episode, strictly about Dean and his sexuality, that I’m gonna take one little paragraph here to say that the surface-level parallels (including the vast majority of the THEN segment of this episode) are all sending up flaming red flags about Sam and what he’s secretly up to with Ruby. Even though Ruby isn’t even *in* this episode. Because if we weren’t already worried about Sam and the terrible secrets he’s keeping from...
2022-09-021h 11
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.13 After School SpecialPoor Sam thought he completely understood the situation when he was a freshman in high school, but fifteen years later from an adult perspective things look very, very different. And doesn’t this just define a big part of Sam? This burden of guilt he carries for so many things that aren’t really his fault, yet he still feels responsible for? Owwww.
Granted, this theme pretty much sums up the mytharc plot of s4, too, from both Sam and Dean’s perspectives-- not having the full story, believing they know the right thing from Sam’s putting...
2022-08-261h 01
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.12 Criss Angel Is a DouchebagDisclaimer: I have no idea what kind of person the actual Criss Angel is, but the dollar store version of him in this episode is most definitely a douchebag. They don’t let us forget! It’s like this episode was written to test the network censor’s last nerve over how many times they could say “douchebag” in a single episode. :’D
Sometimes when I’m editing an episode, I have to stop and debate whether or not to go back and add a clarification or expand on something I said, and I’m still genuinely turning this one...
2022-08-191h 03
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.11 Family RemainsI know this is an episode that a lot of people forget exists (or really try to forget it exists). But for how truly terrible the rest of this episode is, that final scene with Sam and Dean under the bridge is *critical* to Dean’s character, and understanding the breaking point of s4, as well as Dean’s arc going forward. For like... the rest of the series. So yeah, I’m mad it’s at the tail end of an episode almost nobody rewatches because the rest of it is so terribly forgettable.
He didn’t just spe...
2022-08-1248 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.10 Heaven and HellIf their ability to find an escape hatch out of this one irritated Chuck, I can’t help but imagine that’s at least part of what pushes him in 4.18 to “write himself into the story,” you know? When does Chuck ever show up in the story, when the Winchesters could really use a helping hand from a loving God? Nah. Well, maybe a little bit... but mostly it’s when they’re finding loopholes in the story-- the whole “we’ll find another way” rather than make this most awful choice the narrative has been pushing them toward. But that’s besides t...
2022-08-051h 10
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.09: I Know What You Did Last Summeraka that one where Chuck submitted fic to a bang because he wanted art for it
I joke, but... it’s kinda like he was trying to fill in those missing months while Dean was in Hell a little bit, and then Anna was forced to beta it, and illustrated a few scenes.
Yes, this is a two-parter that ends on a big cliffhanger, and it’s not even a midseason finale, let alone a season finale. We go right into the second half next week, and together these episodes give us yet another mirror to h...
2022-07-291h 04
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.08 Wishful ThinkingI am so personally partial to episodes wherein Sam and Dean experience maximum wtf, which so often defines Edlund episodes. Especially as the series continues and they have leveled up so much since the early days of “this is so far out of our paygrade” for every little monster they run across. Sometimes knocking them completely off balance is the best way to shake loose important character development. As it is in this episode.
Directly to the point today, with the links relevant to this week’s episode:
The Superwiki page for this episode
My ta...
2022-07-2254 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam WinchesterWhat I consider to be the beginning of Castiel’s arc toward truly understanding Free Will and eventually accepting it for himself, this episode is packed with things that will become central tenets of the show for the rest of the series. Considering this is Julie Siege’s first episode, and she only wrote a total of six episodes over two seasons, her impact on the core of the narrative of the entire series can’t really be overstated.
Sam battles with his own power, his addiction to it, and can’t even see just how much it’s alr...
2022-07-151h 08
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.06 Yellow FeverWhere everything is scary. Poor Dean is infected with Ghost Sickness, forced to experience the fear of a murdered man. He’s infected not because he’s a dick, not because he uses fear as a weapon or scares people because of his job, because Sam does all of that too. He’s infected because he’s buried a terrible secret about himself-- one that he feels ashamed of. Times like this I’m glad I do an “all spoilers on the table” podcast, because it’s what he did in Hell and specifically the fact he’s covering it up that made him...
2022-07-081h 05
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.05 Monster MovieAah, I love Ben Edlund. This one feels, in retrospect, like a microcosm view of the Grand Narrative of Supernatural as Chuck’s story. I could probably do a thesis paper on this episode, but instead I kept the podcast version under an hour... I mean, the queercoding in this one ALONE, the direct commentary on the Hays Code shoved into every level of the storytelling from the surface “black and white that’s all shades of grey” in the most literal sense to Dean’s admission that the “simple” film he’d want to live out is Porky’s II, there’s almost...
2022-07-0159 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.04 MetamorphosisMajor important developments, ahoy! Dean discovers what Sam has been up to with Ruby since he was dragged to Hell, and he is not impressed. If it was all so great-- as Sam has desperately tried to convince himself-- then why hide it from Dean? From everyone? Why completely cut even Bobby out of his life completely and lie about Ruby? Sam attempts to justify his choices and actions, but savvy viewers who know how all of this plays out by the end of s4 will be able to see the season-long addiction metaphor Sam is already struggling with...
2022-06-241h 00
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.03 In The BeginningOr at least, In the Beginning as it stands in canon until we find out about the earliest events in creation... but this is early enough to be getting on with for the current storyline. :’D
Sam is barely even in this one, off doing shady shit with Ruby. Dean is told to “stop it,” but not what “it” is. He assumes it’s something to do with his parents, something that happened in the past, and runs smack into the knowledge that Mary was raised a hunter and made a deal with the YED that led to all the eve...
2022-06-181h 06
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.02 Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean WinchesterAah, and episode where Dean doesn’t get any pie, but instead is handed an existential crisis! After wrestling with issues about his belief in angels and then God, he comes to the conclusion that if God is real, then he has to be a jerk, because why would he let all this awful stuff happen to people? And that is a very valid question.
Cas talks him through it in a way that provides zero comfort, and pretty much only makes things worse by confirming that the devil is also real and trying to escape. Also, th...
2022-06-101h 09
SPN GeorgEpisode 4.01 Lazarus RisingHERE WE GO! We all know what this one is. This is the one where the destiel starts!
and some other stuff happens, but come on folks... WE GET CAS NOW! Watching him grow into the person we will know at the end of the series is an absolutely glorious journey I’m thrilled to talk about with everyone now. :D
As promised in the podcast, I have a lot more reference posts for folks to read this week, and I hope at least some of it feels worth it to y’all.
The...
2022-06-031h 23
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.16 No Rest for the WickedAah, the end of season three. Maybe it’s not exactly where the writers intended to end up (with six planned episodes slashed from the season), but hooboy does this one pretty effectively set up Sam’s entire arc in s4... and honestly? When we understand what Sam was originally intended to sacrifice of himself to save Dean from going to Hell, I really REALLY appreciate s4 for what we got instead.
So, this episode ends up being a HECK of a lot of Dean saying random things out of frustration/anger that end up being the Oops...
2022-05-2757 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.15 Time Is On My SideAnd once again, I realized I left something out of the podcast that could probably be a whole episode on its own... the tagline on my title card this week. In this episode, we learn that John had hunted Doc Benton years ago, probably in the 80′s when he first became a hunter. He cut out Benton’s heart and thought the job was done. Clearly it was not. Over the years, we learn of so many of these old cases that he either half-assed (maybe out of inexperience, maybe out of lack of information, maybe out of carelessness or b...
2022-05-2058 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.14 Long-Distance CallHere at the tail end of strike-shortened season 3, where multiple plotlines of the early season have been put on the back burner to await development in s4 (notably Sam and his demon powers, and the temptation to go to the dark side) in capitulation to the fact they wouldn’t have enough time to develop them fully to save Dean from Hell... instead we dive headlong into the unavoidable and turn the wrench that will seal Dean’s fate.
For the second time in two weeks, Sam is tied to a chair, helpless to save an innocent seat...
2022-05-131h 04
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.13 GhostfacersA little meta statement on the Writer’s Strike and a genre shift from the Reality TV format back into the standard scripted drama of the overarching Supernatural narrative. Sam and Dean actually curse! The Ghostfacers think what they’re experiencing is “reality,” but from our perspective already entrenched in the Supernatural world of Sam and Dean, we can see how little they really understand about the supernatural they’re merely attempting to prove the existence of. It’s wonderfully refreshing, also, that even after all their experiences over the course of the episode, they’re still able to return to their...
2022-05-061h 08
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.12 Jus in BelloJustice in war... the code of ethics that judges actions on the battlefield. On the surface, this episode makes us question what is right, cuts off almost every choice Sam and Dean could’ve made, and backs them so far into a corner they’re literally shackled together and shoved in a cage. It was a situation that we won’t find out for most of an entire additional season of the show that was specifically engineered to shove this exact pressure point to see what would happen.
It’s incredibly easy to watch this episode from that sur...
2022-04-291h 10
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.11 Mystery SpotAah, the one where Doris the average human waitress kills Dean Winchester at least twice! A pig in a poke. Yet another mirror for Chuck's Process encapsulated in a single episode... A message appropriately delivered by God's own little messenger, Gabriel. Heck, there’s just too much in this episode to tidily sum it up in one little blurb paragraph, yes?
So many memes have come from this one little episode, too. Clowns or midgets? Yesterday was Tuesday, but today is Tuesday, too! Heat of the Moment (I still feel like checking the calendar every time I he...
2022-04-221h 10
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.10 Dream a Little Dream of MeWhen we left Dean at the end of the last episode, after spending the entire season to that point accepting his own fate, not fighting back against it despite being truly terrified of it, he’d finally learned something about that fate that was too big to ignore: the fact that all demons started out as human souls corrupted by Hell. He would’ve taken an eternity of torture in Hell, but becoming a demon? Becoming the thing he’d spent his entire life hunting and seeking revenge against, and being powerless to stop it? OW.
But that w...
2022-04-151h 15
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.09 Malleus Maleficarumaka that one where we learn about witches, hex bags, and how demons are made...
For an episode that does a TON of work and covers a lot of ground creating lore that will become a core part of the show for the rest of the series, I am SHOCKED, I tell you, at how short I managed to keep this podcast ep! I think I finally settled on a good format that I can work with! YAY! So as always, I’m interested in feedback from listeners, if there’s anything I can do to make this...
2022-04-081h 02
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmaswell, I’ve now been doing this for just a few days shy of a year. I’m mildly impressed with myself for sticking to it, never missing an episode even in weeks where real life and technical difficulties tried to interfere... like this week! When I lost an hour of recording and had to start over... I guess I can assume that the lost episode was probably a stellar performance that could never be replicated and nobody would ever know... but I won’t :’D
I love this episode. There is a LOT going on in here, an...
2022-04-011h 15
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.07 Fresh BloodI’ll begin this week by apologizing for the short length of this one, but I’ve had a migraine for the last three days and it was either record or miss my posting date... luckily I’ve typed up what serves as a nice summary of this one about three years ago, and my general thoughts on it. You can read that here (it’s pretty short for an episode post for me, too).
This episode is a turning point for both Sam and Dean, though. It’s also got a nice “nothing stays locked up forever” remi...
2022-03-2500 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.06 Red Sky At MorningLet me just take a moment to scream YES! FIFTY! Thank you to everyone who’s listened. We’ve hit a milestone! And we’re still nowhere near close to done lol!
Here we are, though, at a one-off episode for both writer and director that Kripke has mentioned he doesn’t care for. All things considered, I do enjoy this episode. No big plot movement, but a nice bit of character respite before Dean takes a dive toward his own personal reckoning over the next few episodes. They do deal with the fallout over Sam killing the cros...
2022-03-181h 16
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.05 Bedtime StoriesThis little MotW episode weirdly encapsulates the entire overarching metanarrative of Supernatural in miniature, and isn’t that incredible? A little girl’s spirit using fairy tales that bleed over into reality, manipulating people-- sometimes directly, but the Winchesters specifically because of who they are and can’t abide the suffering of others when they are able to step in and fix things-- through the retelling of those stories for her own reasons.
Does this make Chuck’s involvement and meddling in reality a desperate cry for help? Because it kinda looks that way. When paralleled to Callie i...
2022-03-111h 21
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.04 Sin CityI cannot BELIEVE I failed to use the phrase “it’s spirals all the way down” in this entire episode, but that’s what it boils down to honestly. This episode feels like it hits on so many themes that become the big spiral narrative of the entire show. Not to mention miscommunication between Sam and Dean, which knowing what the future holds for them even out through s4 and s5 sets up SO MUCH of their issues with Sam, his relationship with Ruby (which will be mirrored a lot in Dean’s relationship with Cas beginning in s4), Dean’s issu...
2022-03-041h 34
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.03 Bad Day At Black RockDestiny. Something that will become a core theme of the show, opposite Free Will. In this case, at least, it’s just a cursed rabbit’s foot that escaped the curse box John Winchester had stuffed it in and hidden away in his secret storage locker rather than actually destroying the thing years ago. Funny how what goes around eventually comes around again, yes? Locking up problems is never an actual solution on this show (or in real life, fwiw).
Rather than start singing the Circle of Life here, I’ll stay on point. :’D
Let’s be...
2022-02-251h 28
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.02 The Kids Are AlrightI wrestled with the jokey tagline on the image this week. I nearly went with something about Ruby, since she’s the other Big Deal Thing happening in this episode, but I’m still stuck on the thematic similarity between Lisa and Carmen from Dean’s djinn dream in 2.20. I mean, they even look similar. Like, maybe his long-ago memories of Lisa influenced his mental process in choosing that particular El Sol ad model as his ideal partner in his dream world, you know? And then the reality of Lisa when he walks back into her life in this episod...
2022-02-181h 21
SPN GeorgEpisode 3.01 The Magnificent SevenWhy tf did Sam open that motel room door and *observe with his eyes*. I mean wtf did he think he was gonna see? Sound travels through doors, Sam. You could’ve just called and left him a voice mail. Or did you think he was gonna be demurely under the covers with the doublemint twins? Truly sad, Sammy.
Oh, and this episode also sets up the Main Problems of s3:
Who was that masked chick? (Ruby!)
Wait, there’s a kind of knife that can KILL DEMONS?! (thanks again Ruby!)
What the hell did they (read...
2022-02-111h 31
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part TwoFor just a minute, yeah, this episode feels hopeful. Despite ~everything still hanging over them~ they got a MASSIVE win. Like, win of a lifetime, quite literally. Sure they still have problems going into s3-- Dean’s deal and his one year left to live, the worry over whether Sam “came back right” (spoiler alert, he did, this is all just mind games being put in place to manipulate them), and oopsie all those freshly escaped demons wreaking havoc... but heck this one does end on a good note otherwise.
Yes, that sounds ridiculous, but it’s true! Y...
2022-02-041h 23
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.21 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part 1Where once again I mention something in passing on the episode graphic that I completely fail to mention in the actual podcast! But this one is a blink-and-you-miss-it handful of frames that’s far more ominous with the context of the rest of the series. And in context of this early part of the show (and the next two seasons or so) makes Sam’s hiding the whole demon blood from Dean at least a little more understandable but also 10000x more horrifying.
(for reference, Dean doesn’t learn about the demon blood thing that Sam learns in this...
2022-01-281h 11
SPN GeorgEpisode 2x20 What Is And What Should Never Beno really, this episode is A Lot. Being #42 must be some sort of cosmic joke. Djinn, the introduction of El Sol and everything that implies, Dean’s horrifying self-worth issues, the cases Dean discovers were “undone” in his dream world (the Shtriga that nearly killed Sam as a child and became a punishment from John as an adult, their first demon and the plane crash case that exposed Dean’s fears, the clown/rakshasa that follows kids home and murders their parents, and the little girl from Playthings bringing up Dean’s promise to Sam that he will kill him rather...
2022-01-211h 51
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.19 Folsom Prison BluesPoor Victor Henriksen. The Winchesters are just so far above his pay grade right now. :’D
But also, yeah, things never stay locked up on Supernatural-- from curse boxes to wherever Amara was stashed away since the dawn of creation, if there’s a lock then there’s always a key, or a blowtorch in this case.
Also, working from “sanitized” reports that don’t come close to the truth always lead to surprise outcomes. And hiding the truth to protect yourself or others is pretty much always gonna blow up in your face down the line....
2022-01-141h 23
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.18 Hollywood BabylonI didn’t even realize until i was entering the metadata for the mp3 file last night that this was EPISODE 40 of spngeorg! First off, I can’t believe I’ve stuck with this project for 40 whole entire weeks, or that we’re still in s2 of 15 of Supernatural. :’D Thanks to everyone who’s been on this ride with me!
On to the actual episode!
I LOVE THIS ONE. Seriously, if I haven’t made myself clear, it’s episodes like this one that make Supernatural what it is. There’s so many meta seeds planted here...
2022-01-071h 19
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.17 HeartThis episode always hurts. It hurts more knowing how much more Sam and Dean will eventually learn about werewolves, and what they might have been able to do to help Madison if only they had known. Some episodes just get better with hindsight, but this one just feels more painful-- for Madison, yes, but also for Sam. That boy just carries so much guilt.
I do appreciate this one for the chance for Sam to maybe understand just a little how heavy the baggage Dean has been carrying all season is, even if it doesn’t really ch...
2021-12-311h 27
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.16 Roadkill*all along the watchtower plays in the distance* lol... even if in this episode the song tied to the guest star of the week was House of the Rising Sun, same deal. And once again, if you haven’t watched Battlestar Galactica, can I take this opportunity to recommend it most strongly. Then you’ll get this reference. :’D
I love this episode. It’s a wonderful exemplar of the inside-out storytelling Supernatural uses really well most of the time, and helps us get through difficult things when we know the trick of them. Since this is why I st...
2021-12-241h 15
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.15 Tall TalesOnce again, I shall use this space to laugh about something I didn’t even mention in the actual podcast: the snarky comment in this week’s title card. For those who can’t see it, it’s “That episode that makes fun of Urban Legends, you know that thing this show was originally intended to be about...” Because yeah, the original pitch Kripke made for Supernatural was (aside from “Star Wars in truck stop America” that we always hear) along the lines of “two brothers traveling the back roads investigating urban legends that are really real.”
I mean, just look at s1...
2021-12-171h 33
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.14 Born Under A Bad SignYeah, in an episode where Sam isn’t *actually Sam* until right near the end, I spend a lot of this episode going “Sam... er, well Meg really, but she’s using Sam’s face,” and “Meg... but Sam because those are his fists.” I think I at least achieved the objective that nobody will forget that Sam is just Not Sam for most of this one, which was my goal. :’D
So how does Meg’s little game fit in with the Grand Plan of the Yellow Eyed Demon? Where’s Chuck in all of this mess that on the surfa...
2021-12-101h 24
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.13 Houses of the Holyyeah... welcome to the screaming portion of the inside of my head :’D
So much of the foundation of angel lore, God’s Will in the Supernatural Universe, and the spiral narrative overall is planted firmly in this episode: Sera Gamble’s sneaky trick to get to write about “angels” while Kripke was still on the No Angels in SPN Ever line. But also predates Dean finding a handhold on his own free will and beginning to think he actually has true autonomy in the universe. (that doesn’t really come for him until mid s3 when he gets to sh...
2021-12-031h 31
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.12 NightshifterAah, Ben Edlund, that scamp who’s always shining lights into the underbelly of this show and the nature of storytelling itself. This episode is about subtext, and about why trusting the surface level read of the story will get you killed and replaced by mandroids leave you confused. The real story is never just what’s happening on the surface. And this entire episode serves as an excellent reminder of that fact.
Plus, Sam being a dick actually gets a guy Dean liked killed (there’s reasons I am not a Sam Girl... I can’t forgive...
2021-11-261h 25
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.11 PlaythingsCreepy dolls, yes, but also some meta goodness. When you have a dollhouse that’s an exact replica of the big house, and everything that happens in reality also happens in the dollhouse, you get a tidy metaphor for the concept of “as above, so below” that the show leans on completely in later seasons. “Smashing toys” here might be literal, but... it’s like the whole plot of the cosmic nonsense from Chuck, the archangels, right on down the line.
Plus Dean must confront the fact that people might think he’s queer, and mostly he just feels uncom...
2021-11-191h 04
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.10 HuntedAah, Hunted. The truth of John’s final order to Dean finally comes out, and this episode goes to prove exactly why it took him so long to tell Sam. Their behaviors and actions in this episode, now that I’m really thinking about it, kind of set the groundwork for my tag sam sympathizes and Dean empathizes, even if the first post in that tag is my rant about 9.14... (i just reread that post and it goes a long way to explaining my thoughts about these two morons and their disgustingly unhealthy codependency, so it’s worth a read i...
2021-11-121h 39
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.09 CroatoanAah, Croatoan. The midseason finale of s2. There’s just... too much in this episode to sum it up tidily in a little synopsis like this. I really tried to keep the podcast under an hour and a half and came SO CLOSE but still failed (don’t worry, it was over two hours before I edited it >.>). So instead, I’m just gonna cackle about the fact John had a crackpot theory about the Roanoke Colony disappearance that Azazel probably laughed his ass off over as he planned out this whole test for the Winchesters.
Is Sam im...
2021-11-051h 32
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.08 Crossroad BluesHeck, I can’t believe I’ve done 30 of these now! I’m 1/11th of the way through the series! LOLOLOL!
Poor Dean, has his second-worst fears confirmed, that John sold his soul to Hell for Dean to live. Don’t worry, he still has his worst fears waiting to be confirmed-- what that whole thing about having to possibly kill Sam if Dean fails to save him could possibly mean...
Things referenced in this episode:
The Superwiki page for this episode
My tag for this episode (heck it’s only one page...
2021-10-291h 07
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.07 The Usual SuspectsI always thoroughly enjoy this episode. You can’t go wrong with Linda Blair, Sam and Dean both reaching Peak Competency in extremely trying circumstances, and demonstrating what professional hunters with a lifetime of experience working together are capable of. Even when the real monster is actually just another selfish human.
They go in expecting a vengeful spirit, and discover it’s a death omen instead, in search of justice for her own murder even when she’s lost the ability to communicate. She finds a way and justice is served. Satisfying!
Plus Dean is uncere...
2021-10-221h 21
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.06 No ExitAah, a nice distracting MotW episode! But also one where we get to tangentially explore Dean’s relationship with his parents and hunting through Jo’s essentially opposite relationship with hunting and her parents...
Plus serial killers, Sam is oddly written due to Jared’s surgery on his hand, and I actually remembered to introduce myself at the beginning of the episode again! Also, everyone be grateful I cut out the bit where my entire family was singing Tiny Dancer for no discernible reason!
Things referenced in this episode:
The Superwiki page for this e...
2021-10-151h 14
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.05 Simon Saidaka that one where I forgot to introduce myself at the beginning of the episode. (Hi, I’m Mittens... just pretend I said it in the podcast) But it took me 27 episodes before I completely forgot who I was, and it’s possibly appropriate for the episode about mind control powers... :’D
This is Ben Edlund’s first episode, and oddly my shortest episode in a while (yay?!), and these are not the droids you are looking for.
Dean’s first brush with mind control is more than a little distressing for him, even when he has to...
2021-10-081h 15
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.04 Children Shouldn't Play With Dead ThingsWhen Dean’s current character arc is paralleled to a zombie girl, we know there will be Feelings™. This boy has so much guilt-- blaming himself and his continued existence as an alive person on the planet for his father’s death, blaming himself for everything Sam has been through since John’s death because of that, and still unable to address the “if you can’t save him, you’ll have to kill him” order at all... Meanwhile Sam continues making choices for himself based on what he believes his dead father would’ve wanted, and of course, Dean just feels all...
2021-10-011h 25
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.03 BloodlustEpisode 25 already? Wow! But also, this episode is a big one. A difficult one, too, since it marks a lot of firsts and introduces a lot of Big Concepts into the show that Sam and Dean will wrestle with for the rest of the series. Mostly, it clarifies that the morality of hunting isn’t black and white. Monsters aren’t all evil things that need to die. And Dean gets told that he’s just a killer for the first time. Which... is honestly what will eventually drive him to the culmination of his entire character arc over the ne...
2021-09-241h 40
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.02 Everybody Loves A ClownSo this week’s episode is a bit late, and a bit shaky... I have had an unbelievable *checks clock* 28 hours of the most ridiculous series of technical difficulties both with my laptop and in real life. It has been a doozy, folks. I’m just gonna apologize in advance if this episode is a little bit glitchy, but IT EXISTS and eight hours ago I thought I’d lost the whole thing, so I’m gonna count this as a win and move on. LOL.
On to the actual episode! More Dean Pain! And Sam suffers clowns...
2021-09-171h 30
SPN GeorgEpisode 2.01 In My Time Of DyingGosh I love this song...
Welcome to Season Two! Most of the episode, it looks like Dean’s time of dying, but he just refused to go. Or, well... things happen, etc. etc., and surprise! Dean does not permadie in episode 1 of season 2, and in fact they go on to make quite a goodly number more episodes! Uh... spoiler alert?
Welcome to the official merge lane at the top of the on ramp to the Spiral Narrative of the entire series, the staking of Dean’s position on free will versus fate, the beginning of Dean...
2021-09-101h 36
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.22 Devil's TrapI can’t believe I finally made it to the end of the first season! Wheee! Er, or, maybe something less celebratory sounding considering the circumstances of this episode...
We finally get to meet Bobby! YAY! But Meg kills his dog... BOO. But Bobby teaches them some invaluable lessons about demons! YAY! But one of those lessons is that humans are possessed and trapped in their bodies by the demons... BOO. But they are able to free Meg from her possession! YAY! But sadly she dies of her injuries... BOO...
Heck I could probably just go...
2021-09-031h 32
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.21 SalvationThis week we visit a fictional town (in our universe, it’s real enough in the SPN universe) that was “created for sinners.” I like to think it’s Chuck taking a little dig at everyone, and they have no idea yet...
We also get our first introduction to Carry On Wayward Son in canon, which I marvel at probably longer than I should’ve, but this is my podcast and I do what I want. :’D
Impossible desires are explored: John wants Mary back (and he just wants this whole nightmare to end in general), Sam...
2021-08-271h 23
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.20 Dead Man's BloodWelcome to another installment of the Free Will United Against John Winchester’s Direct Orders Fan Club! I hope everyone brought their clubs! :’D
We are introduced to the Colt, are informed that yes, vampires are a thing that exist, and begin learning the extent of things that John had been keeping hidden from Sam and Dean, ostensibly in the name of keeping them safe.
Since I talked an awful lot this week, I’ll keep these notes short and get right to the links to important reference materials:
The Superwiki page for this e...
2021-08-201h 31
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.19 ProvenanceOnce again, Sam finds a clue to follow to a new hunt, prompted partly by three short entries in John’s journal of seemingly unrelated murders separated by decades. He and Dean are on the hunt for something that connects them all together. Sam is also pushed to the forefront of information gathering, through a budding relationship with Sarah Blake.
Yes, we finally get a bit of a look at Sam’s deeper emotional state, something beyond “find Dad, get revenge, bottle everything else.” Plus, Dean is a good brother. :’)
Things referenced in this episode include:
2021-08-131h 11
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.18 Something WickedHeck this one just absolutely murders me with Dean feels. This boy tries so hard, and thinks he fails at everything, and has been carrying this burden around most of his life. I could ramble on about this forever, but luckily it’s gish week and I’m thoroughly distracted or else I’d be having another Dean-induced breakdown on this post. Consider yourselves spared.
I do however break down frequently during this episode, so consider yourselves warned :’D
Things referenced in this post:
My tag for this episode
The Superwiki page for...
2021-08-061h 15
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.17 Hell HousePranks can go horribly, terribly wrong, and sometimes they can go so awry they can unwittingly alter reality.
What was likely intended to be a fun MotW episode at the time really does explore a lot of deeper themes about how the story can be made real just by the power of belief. We also get to gently poke fun at some of the earlier episodes and the frequently bumbling approach of Sam and Dean as they began to feel their way through hunting on their own through Sam and Dean’s reactions to Ed and Harry. Th...
2021-07-301h 12
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.16 ShadowAnd we’re back to mytharc! What’s the point of this episode? What have we learned other than that Dean can’t even imagine a life for himself out beyond hunting, and that Sam can’t even imagine a life for himself where he continues to hunt? Well, for one thing, we learn that Dean also has very little faith in his own abilities as a hunter and is still conditioned to defer to John’s orders, even when those orders seemingly nearly got them killed by their own ignorance of what John should’ve told them.
After I fi...
2021-07-231h 28
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.15 The BendersHere we are, our very first entirely human bad guys, no supernatural connections at all. They don’t have a reaper on a leash or an old god in an orchard they sacrifice people to. Not even the angry spirits of the many people they’d hunted over the years. Just... really awful people. :’D
In Dean’s words from this episode: demons I get, people are crazy.
I mention in the podcast that this episode has themes taken from Deliverance (about psycho redneck hillbillies hunting people... “looking for love in all the wrong places,” as Jenkins s...
2021-07-1658 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.14 NightmareSam’s the one having nightmares, but at least he has Dean to support him through it. It’s far more than Dean himself has ever had. Yes, another episode where something supernatural happens to Sam, and we the audience understand and relate to the supernatural difficulty through the filter of Dean’s perceptions, reactions, and emotions.
We also get to feel righteously judgmental toward John Winchester, righteously heartbroken over Dean’s entire life, and speculatively side-eye-y toward Chuck in the distant future. I mean, why is any of this happening to the Winchesters (or in this episode...
2021-07-091h 10
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.13 Route 666Yeah, I'm even gonna take the slightly cringe episodes seriously, at least for my purposes of character analysis. And while the racist truck is basically a slow-motion car crash, so are my feelings for what is revealed about Dean in this episode.
Even with my sad Dean feels, a segment at the beginning of the episode I took to explain how I think of Death's role in the cosmic structure of the Supernatural universe, AND a long and slightly rambling story in the outro, this one still clocks in at under an hour. Totally not surprised, but...
2021-07-0259 min
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.12 FaithSo we're officially here, the first episode that I had to stop and stare at a wall for a few minutes and then immediately go back and watch it again. I had been enjoying the show before this. It felt like a fun little adventure story about chasing a mysterious monster that had altered their lives forever, seeking revenge and answers and trying to find their father. But this episode? This changed things for me, far more than Home even did.
Maybe I just have a thing for Capital-D Death, in a cosmic sense. Then again, so...
2021-06-251h 34
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.11 ScarecrowThis week we get to talk about a lot of firsts... the first time we get to see Sam speak to John in canon! The first time we meet Meg! The first time Dean is denied a slice of pie! Wheee!
(and I only get a little bit mad about the finale like... twice... maybe three times... >.>)
Seriously though, there is a lot going on in this episode, big themes that will carry throughout the series about sacrifice, family, and what we do for selfish reasons versus selfless reasons. Have some fun links! I should...
2021-06-181h 19
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.10 AsylumHello again! Join me on an adventure in being eminently frustrated with Sam!
I mean, I feel for him, I get his frustration, but this feels like the first time he's ever really been confronted with the position that Dean's been in since he was four regarding John. He just lacks any sort of coping mechanism for dealing with it...
(unless you’re someone who totally relates to Sam in this episode, because honestly I am entirely baffled... I’m eager to understand, if that’s possible)
Links referenced in this weeks’ episode include...
2021-06-111h 15
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.09 HomeWelcome to another episode of SPNGeorg! This week we take Sam and Dean Home, a place that Dean swore never to return to, while Sam feels compelled to save the people he saw in his nightmare from the same fate their family suffered. And John... basically hides and does a bit of handwringing over the whole mess.
There’s an awful lot of seeds planted in this episode that will take years to bear fruit, but I appreciate this episode for the fertile ground it gives us.
References I used this week:
My ta...
2021-06-041h 30
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.08 BugsIn which I endeavor to convince even one person that this episode isn't the complete trash Chuck seemed to think it was... I am fairly certain the main reason he hated it was because he wasn't really interested in the deeper character narrative of Dean's tormented childhood.
Links and things referenced in this episode, and helpful references in general:
Last time for Kripke's original five episode arenas
My tag for this episode
and last but not least, the Superwiki page for Bugs
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2021-05-281h 14
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.07 Hook ManWelcome back for a bit of Urban Legend, and what already feels a little bit like a throwback to the original concept of Supernatural before it began evolving into a substantially bigger mytharc driven series. I suppose that's what happens when production issues make these sorts of delays and changes necessary. Lucky us!
Just a few things I referred to in this episode:
The quotes about how John Shiban was asked to join the SPN writing staff can be found here.
The network arenas from the original first five episodes can be found...
2021-05-211h 18
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.06 SkinWelcome to Dean's series long debacle with identity issues!
Gosh what else can I really say about this one? Heck I should probably say something more about it here... lol.
Sam still keeps in touch with his college friends, who know nothing about his life outside of the guy they knew in school. All that's about to change, as they learn far more than they ever could've bargained for. He might manage to save his friends, but Dean loses his identity in the process.
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2021-05-141h 15
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.05 Bloody MaryHi everyone! This week we finally begin digging into the roots of the bigger cosmology of the Supernatural universe! I'm not sure the concepts of guilt and choice and fate vs free will were intended to spring from how we process and internalize guilt as presented in this episode, but nevertheless it will have far-reaching consequences even through s15. Small changes and production difficulties at the very beginning of the series had a vast ripple effect on how this universe grew and developed (and was revealed to us), and a few basic bits of all of that was planted...
2021-05-071h 19
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.04 Phantom TravelerWith the recent interview with Jerry Wanek reminding me of some interesting early episode behind the scenes stuff, as well as our Supernatural Script Hunt group going public this week, I thought it was a perfect time to talk about some of the origin story of how the series grew from Kripke's original ideas into the story we know and love. We'll also fully discuss 1.04 Phantom Traveler, but I do drop a rather larger than usual number of links in this one. So... here's some links! :'D
The Superwiki page for this episode: http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/1.04...
2021-05-011h 26
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.03 Dead in the WaterOh my gosh, I think I might actually be getting a little bit good at this? Maybe? Hopefully? Maybe this is how Kripke felt when this episode of Supernatural first aired, too. Hmmm.
Come dive into the dark unknown depths of Dean Winchester and stay for a pleasant swim.
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2021-04-231h 08
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.02 WendigoHi everyone! I know this is on the long side, but we're setting up an entire universe here, and that comes with personal disclaimers about how I intend to talk about this show. Plus now that we're looking back to the beginning of the series, I hope we can approach the characters with a more nuanced and thoughtful approach, knowing that they're not just the surface level two-dimensional characters a lot of us had as first impressions of them fifteen years ago. It provides a lot of interesting insights into both Sam and Dean, and it's been fun for...
2021-04-161h 42
SPN GeorgEpisode 1.01 The Woman In WhiteWelcome back for the first full episode of SPNGeorg! We're introduced to the world of Supernatural, and get to know Sam and Dean Winchester through a series of dead women! (one of them is actually in pink... a color that will come to symbolize Death on this show over the years, but yes, Mary's Iconic White Nightgown is actually pink...)
In happy podcast news, SPN Georg is now available on most podcast platforms! More will hopefully become available in the next few days, so keep checking if your favorite platform isn't listed yet (I'm looking at you...
2021-04-101h 36
SPN GeorgEpisode 0 - Who are we and why are we here?I am the Spiders Georg of Supernatural rewatches. After watching the entire series on a loop for the better part of a decade, as well as reading and writing meta and fanfic, rather than attempt to organize the millions of words I've written about the show, I thought I might try just rewatching it all again, but out loud this time.
I'll be using a lot of my meta tags from tumblr for reference in the making of this podcast-- probably leaning heavily into "It's spirals all the way down," "Chuck's process," "spn cosmology," and "the scheherazade...
2021-04-0344 min