Supernatural Rewatch - 1.18
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shinysylverDate watched: Wednesday, July 1
Episode: 1.18 Something Wicked
Something Wicked is our first real look into the childhood experiences of Sam and Dean. The episodes that include flashbacks like this tend to be both fun and absolutely heartbreaking.
This episode makes it clear that Dean never got to be a child—not even a little—from the moment the nursery was on fire and he was handed his baby brother. The flashbacks show him, very young, taking care of Sam while his father hunts. The constant reiteration by both his father and himself that Sam is Dean’s responsibility explains why he can’t let go and let Sam be an adult later.
Seriously though, the moment when he gives up the Lucky Charms that he really wanted so that Sam could have them just kills me. Then at the end of the episode Sam says that he wished that he’d gotten to be a child, Dean’s answer is that he wishes Sam had gotten that chance too. Dean doesn’t mourn for his own lost childhood, he mourns for Sam’s. He really is more parent than brother in a lot of ways.
In case y’all haven’t figured it out yet—and after 18 episodes you should have—I have a lot of Dean feels.
Random thoughts:
-Sam uses microfilm for research. The librarian in me is in love because that is realistic. You can’t just type any old thing into a search engine and have it pop up answers. A lot of that stuff is still on microfilm. The call out to Lexus-Nexus was also nice.
-Sam’s dog t-shirt is strangely mesmerizing, I couldn’t stop staring at it.
-Watching them laugh so openly in these early episodes is bittersweet because I miss that relatively unencumbered lightness in later seasons. (How sad is it that an episode all about their lack of a childhood is considered light for this show?)
Episode: 1.18 Something Wicked
Something Wicked is our first real look into the childhood experiences of Sam and Dean. The episodes that include flashbacks like this tend to be both fun and absolutely heartbreaking.
This episode makes it clear that Dean never got to be a child—not even a little—from the moment the nursery was on fire and he was handed his baby brother. The flashbacks show him, very young, taking care of Sam while his father hunts. The constant reiteration by both his father and himself that Sam is Dean’s responsibility explains why he can’t let go and let Sam be an adult later.
Seriously though, the moment when he gives up the Lucky Charms that he really wanted so that Sam could have them just kills me. Then at the end of the episode Sam says that he wished that he’d gotten to be a child, Dean’s answer is that he wishes Sam had gotten that chance too. Dean doesn’t mourn for his own lost childhood, he mourns for Sam’s. He really is more parent than brother in a lot of ways.
In case y’all haven’t figured it out yet—and after 18 episodes you should have—I have a lot of Dean feels.
Random thoughts:
-Sam uses microfilm for research. The librarian in me is in love because that is realistic. You can’t just type any old thing into a search engine and have it pop up answers. A lot of that stuff is still on microfilm. The call out to Lexus-Nexus was also nice.
-Sam’s dog t-shirt is strangely mesmerizing, I couldn’t stop staring at it.
-Watching them laugh so openly in these early episodes is bittersweet because I miss that relatively unencumbered lightness in later seasons. (How sad is it that an episode all about their lack of a childhood is considered light for this show?)
