Geek Movie: Star Trek

Okay, so I know this is kind of old news, but I finally got around to watching the most recent adaptation of Star Trek.  It.  Was.  Awesome!  I'm going to assume that everyone's seen the movie, so be advised, there are spoilers here!

Bear in mind that I haven't seen the original Star Trek series, so I hope you won't fault me for that.  I have every intention of watching it now, though.  I do know the basis: Kirk, Spock, Sulu, Bones, Scotty, all that stuff.

Cast

I really loved Chris Pine as Kirk.  He was charming(ish) and certainly a ladies man, if only in his own mind.  He came off stupidly daring and pretty full of himself, just as I thought Kirk should.  But by the end of the movie, he'd evolved just enough where you'd believe he could make a good captain.

Zachary Quinto's Spock was, well, Spock.  He did a great job portraying the (relatively) emotionless Vulcan, but he rocked it even harder when Spock got emotional!  I loved seeing a softer side of Spock with Uhura.

Other Cast Highlights: Simon Pegg as Scotty.  Honestly, what can I say about Simon Pegg?  He's just awesome!  He garnered plenty of laughs from me and my family.  Also, Anton Yelchin as Chekov.  I spent most of the movie alternately trying to figure out if that was his real accent (I decided it was) and cracking up at his pronunciation. (Sidenote: can't wait to see him in Fright Night!  I will be blogging about that too!)

Story

Again, I don't know much about Star Trek, but I assumed that was okay because this was a prequel.  I liked the insight into the characters, especially Spock.  From what I know of the original series, he just seemed really cold, but now I get it a little more.  I loved seeing the camaraderie among the crew evolve as the movie progressed.

Visual Effects

Oh my God.  I was hypnotized for about half the movie because it was just so stunning!  The space scenes were awesome, not to say that anything else wasn't awesome.  It was all completely and totally awesome.  The parts that really stuck out were the red matter and the black holes, the ice cave on what my dad and I jokingly called "Hoth", and the "beaming".  I liked the beaming.

Stand-Out Moments

1. Young Kirk tearing down the road in the Corvette, listening to "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys.  I just screamed "YES!" when that song came on.  Fantastic!

2. Chekov running down the halls of the Enterprise, shouting "I can do zat!"  Hilarious.

3. The Vulcan neck pinch.  I've always wanted to see that.

4. "I am Spock." "Bullshit."  I laughed so hard I almost cried!

5. Scotty in general.  Simon Pegg always keeps me in stitches!

Overall Thoughts

I loved it, honestly!  There were just so many great lines, especially the throwbacks to the original series.  It only helped that my equally-geeky dad was watching with me, so we could make joke references to Star Wars and the like.  Great movie with enough action to be interesting, but enough backstory to make sense.

Supernatural 7x8 "How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters"

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Opening Thoughts: The Jersey Devil?  Not a myth/urban legend I'm too familiar with.  But if there's anyone who can make it awesome, it's the Supernatural writing crew/cast/pretty much everyone involved!  And might I say, DAMN Crowley looks good with facial hair!

We left off with the boys sort of reconciling.  Let's see how that goes.

Open on first-person view of what I believe to be a monster hiding in the woods.  There's a couple going to bed in their RV/trailer.  I'm sure this is about to demonstrate exactly why I don't go camping.  Okay, the guys hanging upside down from a tree.  This is so not going to end well.  And it didn't.  Camping man is ripped apart by unseen monster.  This is why I don't camp.

What are the boys stripping wire for?  Oh, they're trying to light up their new hidey-hole, emphasis on hole.  This place is a dump.  Dean seems to agree.  And the power's out.  Dean starts ranting about how much life sucks.  Get a helmet.  Nah, I'd never say that to Dean.  Okay, maybe I would.

Sam pulls out the research on the Jersey Devil.  The only one I've ever seen was on Cake Boss.  Basically this thing is some sort of mixed-up, possibly made-up monster, except maybe it's not so made up.  Sam shows Bobby the article about the RV couple; the wife's still missing.  Uh, no, it's definitely not a bear.  Oh my God: Dean just said "glamper"!  I am laughing so hard right now!

Shoot, I looked away!  Is this another Biggerson's?  Just guessing from the uniforms.  Wow, the guy they're talking to is named Ranger Rick.  Rick says the rangers have no clue what's out in the forest, but his prevailing theory seems to be that Mother Nature is pissed off and taking it out on animals and people.  Then he realizes that his ranger buddy is probably missing.  Great observational skills there, hun.  Bobby, looking like an awesome G-man, walks in.  He's got an autopsy report; wasn't a leviathan, werewolf, or wendigo (nice bringing that up again!).  Yup, this is a Biggerson's.  Hahaha I can't believe Dean just had a minor altercation with a waiter!  Wow, this waiter's got a temper!  "Big Bird, Ken doll, and creepy uncle"?  Ouch!  Dean's eating turducken?  Nice.  That must be why Guy Bee (director) was asking about it on Twitter today.  Dude, what is that waiter's problem?  He's totally got something to do with this...

Time to investigate the forest.  Who knew Bobby was such a Boy Scout?  Oh, apparently he was a real hunter before he was our kind of hunter.  Aww, they're talking about Sam and Dean's childhood!  Bobby says he couldn't get either of the boys to shoot deer when they were little.  Oh wow, pretty sure I just heard the quote of the night!  "You don't shoot Bambi, you jackass, you shoot Bambi's mother."  The guys find a body up a tree and call Ranger Rick, who appears ineffectual as ever.  Uh oh, monster vision!  And now Rick's been snagged...

The guys rush off to look for Rick.  The Jersey Devil appears to have him up in the trees.  Oh God, it's eating him.  Bobby gets all Jedi-focused and fires a shot, which hits the Jersey Devil.  Looks like it's dead, and remarkably human-looking.  They bring it back to the cabin and drop it on the table.  Suddenly, it springs up again.  The guys pump it full of lead, taking it down again.  It appears to have been a guy named Gerald.  Bobby pokes it with a stick, yes, with a stick, and some odd goo comes out.  Time for a makeshift autopsy!  Gross on all accounts.  Somehow Dean's hungry.  Bobby and Sam try to figure out just what Gerald's been eating - a lot of really gross stuff.  Gerald's adrenal glands are severely swollen.  How is Dean hungry?  Does he have a tapeworm?

The guys head back to Biggerson's.  Dean's starting to sound stoned, and saying he doesn't care about anything.  And why is everyone eating these turducken sandwiches.  Something's up.  Oh God, please don't tell me it's made of people!  Bobby and Sam investigate the sandwich back at the hidey-hole.  Dear lord, the sandwich is oozing the same stuff as Gerald!  This is really gross.  Soylent green moment, anyone?  And why is it always Biggerson's?  By the way, I'm finding that stoned Dean is right up there with drunk Sam in terms of adorable hilarity.

Sam, Dean, and Bobby stake out Biggerson's.  Actually, Sam and Bobby stake it out; Dean's busy sleeping it off.  Sam and Bobby talk about Dean; Sam's worried.  Bobby wants to know how either of them can live when all they do is worry about each other, especially with Lucifer running around Sam's psyche.  Sam says it could be worse.  Bobby replies, "You always were one deep little sonofabitch."  Man, he's got all the good lines tonight!  A delivery truck pulls up to the restaurant.  The guys follow it.

Cut to a random chick walking out to her car.  Monster vision!  Brendon the ill-tempered waiter jumps out of the bushes and starts smashing her head into the pavement.  Something knocks him out. (Side note: I totally called Brendon's involvement in all this!)

The guys conduct surveillance at the meat plant.  They see Edgar, the Leviathan that they dropped a car on earlier this season.  Edgar pulls Brendon out of his trunk and takes him inside.

Inside the meat plant, Edgar instructs someone to put Brendon "with all the others".  Hey, isn't that Dr. Leviathan from before?  Just what kind of "experiment" are we talking about here?  Are they trying to make more Leviathan?!  That grey stuff Gerald was bleeding was about halfway to the black goo the Leviathans ooze.  Edgar instructs Dr. Leviathan to burn the test subjects.

The guys continue their surveillance.  Wait, why is Sammy off on his own?  He's so going to get abducted.  Bobby tries to get "all Sigmund Freud" on Dean, expressing worry for him, and then lecturing him because he's a hunter, not a "person".  Gotta love a good lecture/chewing out from Bobby.  And then he gets another great line!  "You die before me, and I'll kill ya."  Wow writers, awesome work!

Boss Leviathan Dick Roman shows up at the meat plant.  Bahahaha what is this fake commercial we're watching?  "The Rise of Dick"?  Whoever came up with that is a genius!  Bobby starts putting together some super-spy listening device to eavesdrop on the Leviathan and their evil plan.

Inside, Dr. Leviathan gives a progress report to Bossman Dick.  The Leviathan have been adding something to the turducken to alter human DNA.  Bossman Dick is not happy with a few failures that have happened.  He's so about to kill Dr. Leviathan...

Outside, Bobby eavesdrops like a pro.  Sam and Dean watch from the van with binoculars.  They see Bossman Dick and Dr. Leviathan go into an office.  Bossman Dick is not pleased with the "experiments" getting into the papers.  Dr. Leviathan says he'll do anything to make it right.  Bossman Dick makes Dr. Leviathan eat himself.  Yikes.  Oh no, Bobby's been discovered!

Sam and Dean go up to Bobby's spot on the roof, only to discover he's missing.  Conveniently, an industrial cleaning truck pulls into the parking lot.  Can you say "plot device"?  Bobby's in Bossman Dick's office, and there's just a bib left of Dr. Leviathan.  Bobby and Bossman Dick talk a little, mostly about guns.  "I bet you appreciate guns," Bossman Dick says.  "I'd sure appreciate one now," Bobby replies.  Another great line!  Bossman Dick says he's going to eat Bobby, but thinks he can get Sam and Dean when they come to rescue him.  Bobby says they're to smart for that.  Um, no, they're not.  Not at all.  Is if on cue, Sam and Dean bust into the warehouse, spraying industrial cleaner onto the Leviathan like

Back to the office.  Hearing the pained screams of his fellow Leviathan, Bossman Dick realizes Sam and Dean have indeed come to the rescue.  The second he's gone, Bobby starts going through his files and loads up a gun.  Dude, what's up with the heavy breathing?  Is Bobby okay?  Bobby moves to leave the office, but is stopped by Bossman Dick's assistant.  He shoots her and takes off.

In the warehouse, Sam takes on Bossman Dick.  Bobby shows up and shoots him.  Dean throws some more cleaner on Dick, and the guys take off.  The boys make it to the van, but Bobby's still inside fighting.  The get away just as Bossman Dick gets outside and starts shooting at them.  Is everyone okay?  Please tell me everyone's okay?  Bobby?  Bobby?  Please answer!  No, no NO!!!  They can't end it like that!  They just can't!!!!!!!!

Final Thoughts: Freaking the fuck out!  They CANNOT kill Bobby off!  I don't even know what else to say.  I love Bobby; they just can't kill him!  First Cas, now Bobby?  NO!!!!!

Next Week: Bobby's in the hospital, and it doesn't look good.  Did you see Dean move like something brushed against him?  I bet you money it was a reaper.  But they can't kill Bobby, they can't!  Right?

Geek Item of the Week 4

This one took me 25 takes, mostly because my tiny hands found it difficult to hold 5 DVD box sets...

Supernatural 7x7 "Season 7, Time for a Wedding!"

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Opening Thoughts: I don't even know where to begin.  I guess I should start with "*sniff* Our little Sammy's finally growing up!"  Man, I would've loved to be in the writing room when they came up with this one!  Sam getting married...wow.  I can't wait to see who'll walk down the aisle with him - sources say it's a lady we're familiar with!  Enough speculation; on to the episode!

When we left off, the boys finally had it out over Amy.  Oh boy, we're bringing Chuck and Becky back into this!  Does this mean Becky's the bride?!?!

Open in Vegas, on a bartender's short-shorts.  Of course Dean's chatting her up in some strip club.  He digs smart chicks?  C'mon boy, I'm right here!  Sorry, I'm hopelessly in love with a fictional man...*sigh*.  Dean spills his problems in carefully-coded language.  Dean's cell phone interrupts.  Sam's four blocks away, and wants Dean to bring a suit.

Oh sweet Jesus, it's a Vegas chapel.  The lights start to flicker, but they might just be old and crappy.  Dean draws his gun and approaches the door.  Sam opens it from the other side and brings Dean up to the altar.  He actually pins a flower on Dean's lapel.  Dean asks what's going on with the case.  Sammy says he's in love, and he's getting married!  You heard me - married!  Dean is stunned.  The bride enters.  Oh my God, it's got to be Becky.  It is!  What the hell is going on here?!?!

Dean's a little pissed that he wasn't in on this.  Understandable.  Sam says he and Becky met up, ate, and fell in love.  Dean asks them if they've forgotten to seemingly every woman Sam sleeps with.  Seriously, there has to be a love potion or something at work here!  Dean thinks it's suspicious too; after all, it's only been 4 days. Sam is acting so out of character...Dean calls Bobby to fill him in.  He gets in the Impala impostor (when will they bring our baby back?).

Apparently Becky wants to bring Sam to her high school reunion.  There are definitely some ulterior motives at work here.  We're introduced to Becky's friend Guy, who doesn't look all that happy to see Sam.  Becky and Guy "hug" and he passes her a vial of something.  He's a Wiccan.  I KNEW something was up!  If only you could hear me pounding on my keys with smug satisfaction right now.

Dean rolls into town and stops at the bar.  He spies an article about a freak truck accident.

At Becky's apartment, Sam and Becky are having a romantic dinner.  She's all sexied-up in a satin nightie.  "Saving it"?  Does she mean the nightie or her virginity?  All of a sudden, Sam appears to snap out of it.  Becky quickly dumps some of the love potion in his champagne and dopes him up again.  What is wrong with this crazy chick?  Sam goes back to being perfect hubby.

Cut to batting practice.  Some creepy dude watches and works some mojo on the pitching machine.  Million mile an hour fastball to the head spells the end for the batter.  Indiscriminate blood spatter on the camera this time.  Nice touch.

Dean rings the doorbell at Becky's place, holding a barely gift-wrapped waffle iron.  He gives it to Sam and says there's a case.  Apparently the guy that got killed by the truck won the lottery, and the guy at batting practice suddenly got very good at baseball.  Why is Becky talking in such a man voice?  Dean's still not buying this happily married crap.  Becky gets extremely defensive.  Dean thinks it's part of the case, what with people's dream coming true and all.  Sam accuses Dean of being jealous that Sam doesn't need him anymore. When will this stuff wear off again?!

Bobby is not available, so he sends Dean to another hunter.  Becky colors in her diary of crazy.  Dude, she's a nut.  Oh no, Sam made her a fake press pass, all the better to investigate the new case: a guy who jumped from junior salesman to CEO.  Sam found the diary of crazy, and he loves it.  Dear God, I'm going to be ill.

Dean goes to meet up with the other hunter.  Looks like it could be anybody in this place, but it's not; it's DJ Qualls!  Haha nice, open with a remark about Dean's height.  Sounds like Bobby's got a mess of his own in Oregon.  Dean wants to get right down to business, but the other guy wants to read the comics.  They go to investigate the CEO, but Sam and Becky have beaten them to the punch.  Well this is awkward.  Sam says the guy's clean, and the Becky's a natural at hunting.  Dean and Garth go in to see the guy anyway.  They asked him how he got the job.  He tells them it was offered to him, passing over his supervisors, without any specific reason.  Wow, Garth sucks at subtlety.  A lot.  The CEO tells them that he didn't really want the job. His wife, however, seems to be very pleased with this promotion.  The CEO says if he resigns, the news would just - "kill her?" finishes Garth.  Dean and Garth chase down the wife and ask what she did to get her husband the promotion.  She doesn't seem to know anything.

While Sam works the case, Becky looks for honeymoon spots.  The love potion wears off again, but uh oh, Becky's out!

Back at the office, the creepy dude from batting practice tries to drop a large lighting fixture on the CEO's wife.  Dean pulls her out of the way.  The wife tells her she sold her soul.  Garth is confused; demon deals are usually good for 10 years.

At Becky's apartment, Sam's a little woozy from the love potion and a little freaked to discover that he and Becky are married.  Before he can call Dean, Becky clocks him with the waffle iron.  Question: how did she even reach his head?  He's like a foot taller than her!

Okay Fox News, it's a bit sexist to imply (or just outright say) that only guys are excited about the Skyrim launch.  Granted I am not one of the ladies who is, but I have a female friend who is becoming a shut-in to play Skyrim this weekend!

Sam wakes up in a strange room, in a strange cabin, tied to the bed.  Becky hovers like a helicopter of crazy. Oh dear, she took his pants off.  This girl is fucking nuts!  She starts skyping Guy.  So this is her parents' cabin.  She tells Guy she needs more love potion and asks if it's wearing off faster and faster.  Oh thank God, they haven't had sex!  Guy agrees to give her a refill.  Understandably, Sam is pissed as hell.  Yes Becky, this is pretty much exactly the same thing as a roofie.  Sam things Guy's the one killing people.  Except he's not.  Hahaha Spanish Fly...oh Sammy, you're lucky it's not Fly.  Becky says the potion wouldn't work unless Sam really loved her, deep, deep down.  Keep dreaming sister.  She gags Sam and leaves to meet up with Guy, who is setting up the reunion.  All of a sudden, the love potion isn't free anymore.  But he doesn't want money; he wants her soul.  Guy's a Crossroads Demon.  Don't do it, Becky!  You're stupid, but you're not that stupid!  Becky starts a would-be confrontation, but Guy turns on the charm and offers her 25 years instead of the usual 10.  Please do not do this!  No, she didn't!  Please tell me she didn't!

Dean and Garth break into Becky's apartment.  Jesus, does this guy think he's still on Memphis Beat?  Becky's Twitter reveals that she and "the hubster" are on a "romantic trip".  Dean spots a picture of the cabin. Atta boy!

Becky goes back to the cabin.  Looks like Sam's not in love!  She gets all weepy about how she wanted everyone at the reunion to think she was happy.  Sam attempts to speak, but it's just muffle noises.  Becky cuddles up to Sam and carries on about how she's a loser.  Yes, you are.  Now please untie Sammy.  She goes on a fangirl-ish speech about how things were amazing with Chuck (whatever happened to them?).  Oh, Chuck dumped her.  Right sweetheart, your "vibrant sexuality" was what did it.  Definitely not the raging crazy.  She finally removes the gag and lets Sam talk.  He tries to be all reassuring, telling her she's better than this.  No, she really isn't.  Becky goes back to the reunion, which is over.  Guy repeats his offer; Becky says she's in.  Wait, WHAT?!?!  If she's read every Supernatural book, she should know only a dumbass would sell their soul!

Guy tells Becky she's making the right choice.  She goes in for the kiss, but instead lights up a Devil's Trap in the carpet.  Dude, that was kind of awesome!  Guy gets all snarky and asks for Dean's autograph.  Dean pulls out the knife and says he'll carve it into Guy's spleen.  Finally, I LOL.  Guy tells them he's exploiting a loophole in the demon contract and "arranging accidents" trhough a "capable intern".  The creepy dude shows up and knocks everybody across the room.  Dean tries to start the exorcism, but Guy starts choking him.  Creepy dude goes totally Darth Vader on Sam, but Becky sticks the knife through his chest and kills him.  Wow, she's earning some major points here.  Sam tosses the knife to Dean, who tells Guy to call off his deals.  And then Crowley shows up.  Of course Becky goes fangirl.  Whoa, he's got facial hair now.  I like it.  And he's insulting as usual.  Crowley is not pleased with what Guy's been doing.  "This isn't Wall Street; this is HELL!  We have a little thing called INTEGRITY."  Oh my God, I love Crowley right now.  He tells Dean to hand Guy over so he can make an example of him.  Apparently he's been keeping his demons away from Sam and Dean so they can take down the Leviathans.  It never ceases to amaze me what Crowley will do to serve his own interests.  Crowley breaks the deals and disappears with Guy.  Garth, who had been unconscious the whole time, finally comes to.

Aww, are there really on 10 minutes left?  I was just starting to enjoy this one!

Finally, Sam and Becky are getting an annulment!  Dammit Becky, sign the papers!  "So, I'll see you again?"  "Yeah, probably not."  I just LOL'd so hard at that.  Sam tires to convince Becky she's not a loser, but it's not going so well.  Yikes, I just had the creepiest thought: Becky and Garth.  Oh holy shit, it's happening.  I think I really am psychic.  Maybe.

Outside, the boys say their goodbyes to Garth, who needs a lesson in personal space.  "Aww, you made a fwiend."  Damn, Jared's got all the good lines tonight!  The boys talk.  Sam admits he does need Dean, and Dean admits Sam might not need him.  So, have we established anything?  No.  Sam tells Dean he should take care of himself; that much is certainly true.  The boys get in the car and drive away, leaving this fangirl with a smile.

Final Thoughts: I was slow to warm up to this episode, mostly because it was slow to get to the action!  And because of Becky.  She's always annoyed me.  I will admit she did have a somewhat kick-ass moment with the Devil's Trap and stabbing ponytail demon, but she's still the kind of obnoxious nutcase that gives fangirls everywhere a bad name.  I really liked the end of the episode, especially because Jared had me cracking up.  He's got the best deadpan!  I'm glad to see it looks like our boys are getting along again.  Now if we could just get the Impala back...

Next Week: The Jersey Devil?  The last place I heard about that was on Cake Boss.  I kid you not.  At first, I thought it was going to be another Wendigo, but it seems like a similar concept.  Oh please tell me Dean will mock Jersey Shore endlessly!

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Supernatural 7x6 "The Mentalists"

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Apparently when Supernatural's on, my priorities get completely skewed.  I'm watching with my hair up in a towel right now because I couldn't be bothered to dry it, lest I miss the recap of episodes I've already seen haha.

So when we left off, Sam and Dean had split up.  Let's see where that takes us...

Open on a seance.  Really, a Ouija board?  That's just lame.  So they're summoning dead Uncle Danny, who appears to be responding.  He had a dog named Sadie?  I have a dog named Sadie!  Weird coincidence.  Oops, looks like Uncle Danny's getting pissed off.  The Ouija board works; they've got a real ghost!  Oh shit, the ghost just stabbed the medium with the Ouija reader!

Cut to Dean at a gas station, checking his phone.  No messages.  Dude, what the hell is he driving!  No wait, he's just stealing it.  Dean hotwires the car just in time to hear an obnoxious DJ talking about some bizarre murders in Lily Dale, New York.  Murders of psychics.

Dean goes to investigate.  He finds a tape recorder under the table and switches hidden around the room to control "the spirits".  Looks like there's a psychic every 10 feet in this place, due to the annual psychic festival.  Dean walks into a restaurant that apparently doubles as a palm reading salon.  Oh, it's Sammy!  Tense moment between the boys.  Dean tries to talk through it; Sam says nothing.  Hey, they actually mentioned Missouri!  Haven't seen her since season 1.  Sammy's still not talking, no wait, he is now!  Sort of.  So the boys have been apart for a week and a half; pretty sure that's like 20 years in Winchester time haha.

A woman recognizes Sam and Dean and very nearly calls the police, considering the events of the last episode.  Her spoon-bending Russian friend is very odd.  Sam finally cooperates and forks over his file on the murders.  The two dead psychics owned the same (possibly cursed) necklace.  Russian spoon-bender can actually bend spoons!

Sam and Dean go to check out the second psychic's granddaughter, also a psychic.  She looks really familiar; I'll have to check IMDB.  Hang on, she's not psychic. She's just good at reading people.  She pegs Sam and Dean as long-time partners, Sam's pissed, and Dean's stressed, but that was all pretty obvious.  They ask about the necklace, but it's at some store.  Supposedly it's some powerful orb.  Right.  Sam takes the necklace.  The guy at the counter says there's a loss weighing on Sam (Amy) and that it's complicated.  Sure is.  Shockingly, the necklace is fake, so that's not it.

Uh oh, Russian spoon-bender's totally going to be vic #3.  Okay...that fork just bent itself back.  Oh no, oh hell no, he's gonna get stabbed to death with cutlery!  That was gruesome.  Lovely use of the glass coffee table for the under shot with all the blood...Gotta start drying my hair.

At the crime scene, Sam and Dean talk to a local LEO (law enforcement officer) who says the tip line's blowing up with calls from psychics saying a ghost did it.  Apparently Russian spoon-bender also had a vision of his own death before it happened.  Vic #2's granddaughter Melanie calls Dean; looks like her grandmother had a vision of her death, too.  Dean tells her it's really a ghost; Sam tells her they're not FBI.  I'd need a drink too.  So, uh, when's Dean going to ditch that ugly car?  Anyhow, the boys discuss the fact that there are probably a couple few psychics in town, which could be attracting the ghost.  Sam suggests they split up.

Cut to a stereotypical bone reading.  Nice Jamaican accent on the medium.  Whoa, that looks like a pretty legit vision!  Of her own death, no less.  Dean and Melanie show up at the door, and suddenly the accent's gone.  Dean looks around to figure out what's going on, and finds a hidden camera.  When they play back the footage, they see a ghost inflicting the vision.  Looks like they've got until 2am to stop her (the ghost).  Melanie thinks she's seen the ghost in a picture in the museum.  God, Sam's like a foot taller than everyone in the room!  The boys wander away from the tour group to explore.  Did that picture say the "Campbell brothers"?  It did!  But they weren't brothers, they were gay.  Another poke at Sam and Dean's relationship; I can dig it.  It would appear our ghost is psychic Kate Fox.  And she's conveniently buried in the local cemetery.  The curator gives Dean a message - from Ellen!  She's worried about Dean, saying that if "you don't tell someone how bad it is" she'll "kick your ass from beyond".  That sure sounds like Ellen!

Outside, Dean calls Sam out for being a dick.  Sam, understandably, is still really, really pissed.  Dean says Sam couldn't kill Amy, so he did.  Oh wow, "bitch" was definitely not even remotely affectionate in that sentence.  I don't like it when the boys fight!  Okay, maybe I like it a little...

That night, they dig up Kate's grave.  They try to salt and burn her, but she shows up to stop them, saying "Listen, to me.  Why won't anybody listen to me?"  They gank her.  I'm thinking they have the wrong ghost...In a diner, Melanie offers to let Camille (the fake Jamaican medium) stay with her.  As they prepare to leave Camille's place, things start getting weird.  They definitely have the wrong ghost.  Sam instructs Melanie via phone to get salt when the ghost starts to attack Camille.  The girls grab fire pokers, but Melanie gets knocked down.  Off screen, Camille bites it in some nasty-sounding manner.

The boys pull up to the house, and Madeline runs outside, an emotional wreck.  So the ghost is Kate's sister Margret, and Dean's beating himself up over Camille's death.  Melanie asks them to leave, but first Sam wants to know if anything stood out about the murder.  She tells them that Margret ignored her and enjoyed killing Camille.  So the boys decide to salt and burn Margret in broad daylight.  One problem: the coffin's empty.  (PS: I wrote that sentence BEFORE I saw the empty coffin!  Maybe I'm psychic haha).  It seems like somebody's controlling Margret's spirit and killing off the headliners of the festival.

Melanie tells the boys that Camille was asked to take Nikolai the Russian spoon-bender's spot after he died.  It seems like all the dead psychics were doing pretty well for themselves.  Melanie identifies the next possible victim - herself.  Sam goes back to the Emporium to see who bought the items needed to control a spirit.  I feel like the guy at the counter is totally the murderer, and is throwing him off with a fake customer.  At Melanie's, Dean makes a big salt circle for him and Melanie to stand in.

Sam breaks down the door at the address the owner gave him, only to discover it's a lamaze class.  I KNEW it was the pawn shop guy!  Uh oh, Margret's outside Melanie's house!  Sam goes back to the pawn shop and uses the owner's card to find his place and break in.  I'm going to guess it's the table with the skull on it, Sammy.  Oh jeez, pawn shop guy caught Sam off-guard...

...but we all know Sam's a better fighter than a lot of people, so he easily gets the gun.  Pawn shop guy says Margret is helping him because she wants to.  At Melanie's, Margret breaks the windows and blows the salt away.  She knocks Dean down and goes after Melanie, but Dean blows her away with some salt.  Turns out pawn shop guy is a real psychic, and a telekinetic at that, too.  He pulls the gun away from Sam with nothing put his mind.  Dude, Dean's fighting a ghost with a chain!  Good thing pawn shop guy's a lousy shot!  Sam shoots and kills him (I think).  Margret tosses Dean cross the living room, leaving Melanie to fend for herself, which she sucks at.  Just before Margret can choke Melanie out, Sam torches her bones.

Eww...the pawn shop guy was keeping Margret's bones in his bed!  Anyhow, Melanie walks into the diner.  Smooth exit, Sam.  Haven't seen one like it since Dean in 1x19 "Provenance" - love it!  Melanie thanks Dean for saving her, and she says he and Sam seem better.  They flirt, even though they both know Dean's leaving and never coming back.

Outside, Sam's putting his stuff in Dean's car - or the car Dean stole.  Yay!  Sam admits Dean was right about Amy, and that he gets why Dean did it, but he doesn't think Dean's okay.  We all know he isn't.  Oh shoot, missed some brotherly dialogue there because Traci Dinwiddie (Pamela from Supernatural) replied to one of my tweets!  Anyhow, everything seems to be back to what passes for normal with our boys =)

Final Thoughts: It's always interesting in a somewhat sick sort of way to see the boys mad at each other.  When they get mad, they REALLY get mad!  But when they make up, it makes every fangirl's heart melt!  I always go "Awww!" when they're having a brotherly moment.  It was really - I can't think of a word here: cool, insightful, a little bit heart-wrenching? - to watch the boys try to work through their issues.  I'm glad Sam finally came around, even though I totally understood why he was pissed about Amy.  I just hope now Dean can take a break from the torture he's inflicting on his liver...All in all, a good episode!

Next Week: Sammy gets married?!  What the hell?  And who's the mystery bride?  I've heard from sources that it's someone we've seen on the show before, and from the preview I'm pretty sure she's a brunette...hmm...thoughts?

Supernatural 7x6 "Slash Fiction"

Screencap courtesy of Home of the Nutty.  They're the best for Supernatural screencaps - check them out!

Let me start off with another apology.  This review's about twice the length of my normal ones, probably because I was watching online, which meant I could pause and type however much I wanted...which turned out to be a whole lot...

I could not wait to watch this one!  They had me at the title - I mean, "Slash Fiction"?  Hell yeah!  Also, the whole evil!Winchester thing was totally hot when it started in 1x6 "Skin", and it'll probably be totally hot now.  Anyhow, on to the episode!

Sam and Dean walk into a bank - the First Bank of Jericho, to be precise.  As in (fictional) Jericho, California from the pilot episode!  Sam asks Dean if he's sure about this; Dean tell Sam to trust him.  Why do I get the feeling these aren't our boys, but cheap Leviathan knock-offs?  "Dean" flirts with one of the tellers while "Sam" locks the doors.  Then "the boys" pull automatic weapons and force everyone into the bank vault.  "Sam" asks "Dean" if he's ready.  "Dean" winks at the security camera, and they open fire, killing everyone.  Okay, so maybe I stand corrected about the whole "evil!Winchester thing being totally hot" part...

Back at the cabin, Bobby has the Leviathan Chet chained up in the basement.  He injects him with something he refers to as "fruit of the poison tree".  It seems to have no effect.  C'mon, isn't there anything that can kill these guys?!  The real Sam and Dean come downstairs to check Bobby's progress.  Dean remarks that if they can't find anything to kill Chet before the spell (from the last episode) wears off, they'll have to drop a car on him.  Chet says that the Leviathan they dropped the car on isn't dead.  Dean tells him to shut his caketrap.

Sidenote: "caketrap" is now my new favorite word.

Dean pulls up a stool beside Chet, who's turning out to be snarky in a totally annoying kind of way.  Dean asks how Chet found them; he replies that he tracked their aliases.  Sam asks where Chet got their aliases.  Apparently the Leviathans got the aliases when they were inside Cas.  Great, so they probably know EVERYTHING about Sam and Dean...Bobby asks Chet why he's talking to them.  Chet says it's because he's not scared of them, they can't kill him, and he's the least of their problems.  He surmises that they don't know about the Leviathanchesters yet (only he just says they haven't watched the news yet; I just thought this was easier).

Sam, Dean, and Bobby watch as a newscaster relays the story of the bank massacre and the state-wide manhunt in California.  None of them can understand how the Leviathans cloned them.  Chet shouts from the basement that they got Sam and Dean's DNA from a motel shower drain.  I've always thought the boys should be more careful where they leave fingerprints and DNA...Sam figures out the (not terrible difficult) plan: the Leviathans are turning them into the most wanted men in the country.  Dean's all for hunting down "these assmonkeys" and killing them (apparently he's forgotten they can't kill them...).  Man, the writers are on it with his lines!  Bobby points out that pretty much all 50 states are on the lookout for the boys; Dean says that means there's no point in hiding.  Bobby - ever logical - reminds them that the Leviathans are smart, and they don't know how to kill them.  But Sam and Dean say it's personal, after all, these guys are wearing their faces.

(At this point I had to pause to get some laundry out of the dryer - thank God for the Internet, right?  Also, I'm pretty sure there are few things I love more than towels fresh from the dryer)

Bobby tells the boys if there gonna be stupid, they might as well be smart about it (I LOL'd there), and to see a guy named Frank Devereaux, a "jackass and a lunatic" who owes him one.  While Sam and Dean do that, Bobby will try to figure out how to kill Chet.  Good luck...

Can I just take a moment to say what a beautiful piece of machinery the Impala is?  I think I mentioned my love of classic cars in a previous video.  Now back to the show.

The boys stop at a gas station, probably not the brightest move when you're America's Most Wanted.  Sam goes into the minimart (even dumber), and the cashier recognizes him.  Gee Sam, what the hell did you think was going to happen?!  They take off, less-than-smoothly peeling out of the gas station.

Cut to what appears to be a crime scene.  Two FBI agents who identify themselves as Morris and Valente approach the local sheriff.  Another bank robbery, this time Manitoc Savings and Loan in (fictional) Lake, Manitoc, Wisconsin from 1x3 "Dead in the Water"!  Valente gets a text saying Sam and Dean (the real ones) have been spotted at a gas station a thousand miles away.  Well, shit.

The boys pull up to an abandoned-looking house, supposedly Frank Devereaux's place.  Sam knocks and calls for Frank, no answer.  Being the geniuses they are, they decide to open the door and investigate.  Really?  I'm almost certain this place is booby-trapped.  The house is just as disheveled inside as it is outside. Suddenly a light turns on, and Frank is pointing a rather large gun at the boys.  Oh my God, he's Mr. Gibbs from Pirates of the Caribbean!

Why is Drew Barrymore's hair a different color every time I see her in a CoverGirl commerial?  And who knew Audrina Patridge was still relevant?  Not me!  That was probably the most annoying set of commercials ever.

That awkward moment when you have to explain that you're not the serial-killing psychos that have been all over the news; they just happen to look exactly like you.  Okay, Frank is a nut.  And he does not react favorably to hearing Bobby's name, but he does calm down when Sam mentions Port Huron.  Frank's convinced it's the government that cloned Sam and Dean.  He recommends they run to Cuba, but Dean's not having it.  He wants Frank to create new identities for them.  Frank says they can't do any more classic rock homages with their aliases - boo, I love the classic rock homages!  He also says no more credit cards (which I've been saying for quite some time), and to changed their cell phones on a "very unscheduled schedule".  No wonder Bobby sent them to this guy.  If there's anyone crazy enough to make this work, he seems like the type.

Frank then proceeds to demolish Sam's laptop, which was probably all-too-traceable by this point anyway, and hands him a new one with a smile.  Gotta say, I love the classical music playing in the background throughout all this.  Frank then demands $5,000 - cash.  I would ask who has that kind of money laying around, but the boys probably do.  "Let's Blue Steel you up some new ID" - awesome Zoolander reference!

Cut to Bobby pumping Chet full of lead (or whatever else might be loaded in that gun).  Unfortunately, the annoying Leviathan lives, egging Bobby on to shoot him again as if he enjoyed it.  Bobby proclaims that if Chet can bleed, even if he bleeds "black snot", he can die.  Chet continues to be annoying until Bobby, who's pretty pissed off, decapitates him.  This seems to shut Chet up, for now at least.

Frank gives the boys their new IDs and a map with all the places the Leviathanchesters have hit.  There doesn't seem to be a pattern, but I think I know what it is.  Frank wishes the boys luck, albeit sarcastically, and adds that they should ditch the car because their doppelgangers are using one just like it.  Uh oh, Dean's got that look.  Somebody's gonna die...

Back to Bobby at the cabin.  Somebody knocks on the door.  Wait, who the hell besides Sam and Dean even knows about this place?  Good man, Bobby, always arm yourself before answering the door.  Oh look, it's Sheriff Mills!  And she brought beer!  I knew I liked her for a reason.  Mills wants to thank Bobby for saving her from Dr. Leviathan back in 7x2 "Hello, Cruel World".  They chat.  Do I detect some flirting going on?  Mills offers to cook something.  Bobby accepts, saying "Thanks, Sheriff".  "Jodie," she corrects him.  They are SO flirting!  Bobby goes downstairs to check on Chet, who's just putting his head back on.  Damn, I knew that was too easy.  Bobby promptly decapitates Chet again.

Just what the hell are Sam and Dean driving?!  This is an abomination!  It's actually some sort of (I'm guessing) 70's hatchback owned by someone with a young daughter, but Dean seems to think so too, judging by his treatment of the squeaky pony/unicorn thing hanging from the rear view mirror.  He's extra-pissed because they have to drive this "caboodle" while the Impala's on lock down.  "Nobody puts baby in a corner," he remarks.  Supernatural writers FTW!  And apparently Patrick Swayze movies are exempt from Dean's "no chick-flick moments" rule.  Sam turns the radio on, and Air Supply's "All Out of Love" plays.  Really not helping.  Dean lip-syncs while Sam stares and I LOL so hard I might pee.  Finally, Sam shuts the radio off, and they sit in awkward silence...until Sammy figures the pattern out!  From Jericho to Black Water Ridge, Colorado (the location of 1x2 "Wendigo"!) to Lake Manitoc, the Leviathanchesters are following all the jobs the boys worked after Sam left Stanford.  I knew it!  Following the pattern, the next town should be St. Louis from 1x6 "Skin"...wait, huh?  Should I not even bother asking what happened to 1x4 "Phantom Traveler" and 1x5 "Bloody Mary"?  Never mind.  Dean's excited for a burger at Conner's Diner.

Sorry Dean, looks like the Leviathanchesters beat you there.  Apparently "Dean" hates burgers, and "Sam" thinks salads are like "eating self-righteousness".  The Leviathanchesters bitch about all the problems the real Sam and Dean have.  Looks like"Sam" got all of real Sam's Lucifer hallucinations. "Dean" tells some kid to fire up his camera phone, and then he and "Sam" proceed to hold up the diner.

Seriously.  The CW's website has the most annoying commercials, and 4 or 5 of them at once.

Bobby calls the boys to tell them that decapitation - while not a viable kill method - will slow a Leviathan down.  Mills asks Bobby if he wants mayo on his sandwich; the boys hear her, and Dean asks about it.  "What?  No!"  Smooth denial, Bobby.  Dean calls Bobby Richard Gere; Bobby calls Dean an idjit.  I LOL again.  Bobby says it's too late for the boys to catch the Leviathanchesters in St. Louis; looks like they're moving on to Ankeny, Iowa, the setting for 1x7 "Hookman".

Morris and Valente investigate the diner robbery.  If the blood on the jukebox is anything to go by, it was bad.  They talk to a first-responder, who shows them the video from the kid's camera phone.  At the end of the video, "Dean" reveals that they are heading to Iowa.  Valente immediately gets on his cell phone to alert pretty much the whole free world.

At the cabin, Bobby pulls out a generator and some jumper cables and hooks Chet up.  Chet turns himself into Bobby.  Bobby's reaction pretty much sums it up: "Balls...".  Chet/Bobby proceeds to reveal some pretty personal things about the real Bobby: high school dropout, alcoholic, a bad past with his father, and he likes Joni Mitchell...

In Ankeny, Sam and Dean watch as "Sam and Dean" pull up to a hotel.  Dean plans on stealing the rims from their Impala.  Priorities?  Dean calls Bobby, who doesn't have anything new for them.  The local sheriffs show up and arrest the real Sam and Dean.  The Leviathanchesters wink and drive away.

Chet/Bobby taunts Bobby, revealing his feelings for Mills.  Dude, Jim Beaver does evil really well!  Bobby lectures Chet/Bobby on Robert Browning ("A man's reach should exceed his grasp").  Just as Bobby is about to decapitate Chet/Bobby yet again, some drips from above, burning Chet/Bobby's skin clear through.  Bobby runs upstairs to find Mills cleaning the floor.  He kisses her (woot!) and asks what's in the bucket she's using.

Back in Ankeny, Sam and Dean try to tell the sheriff they're not the guys, to no avail.  The Leviathanchesters wait outside the sheriff's office, clone two deputies, and kill a third one.

Man these commercials are driving me nuts.  And so is my suitemate's off-key singing.

Dean demands his phone call; the sheriff's feeling less than generous, considering what Dean supposedly did.  (Got some headphones; fixed one of my problems.  Oooh, I like hearing nothing but Jensen Ackles' voice).  Dean actually begs a little.  Apparently the sheriff acquiesces, because Bobby gets a phone call.  Dean tells Bobby the Leviathanchesters saw him and Sam, and Bobby tells Dean that sodium borate, also called borax and found in industrial cleaners, soaps, and laundry powders, can hurt the Leviathans.  "You want me to Desperate Housewives these mothers?" LOL the writers are doing a fantastic job this season!

Bobby instructs Dean to douse the Leviathanchesters in borax, then decapitate them, keeping the heads away from the bodies.  As he says all this, he puts Chet/Bobby's head into a box.  Thank God Chet finally shut up!  Unfortunately, the sheriff disconnects the call at the talk of decapitation and leaves Dean in his cell.  The sheriff walks back to the squad room area just in time to see one of the Leviathan deputies nomming on the unlucky deputy from before.  The other Leviathan deputy enters, and they morph back into the Leviatanchesters.  Hey sheriff, believe Dean now?

Apparently so, because he lets Dean out of his cell.  Dean orders him to find anything that says borax and bring it back to him, then goes off to find Sam, who's trying to pick his cuffs in the interview room.  Oh shit, that's not Dean; it's "Dean".  In the squad room, Dean takes the dead deputy's gun and runs in "Sam".  "Sammy?  Not Sammy...".  Dean shoots "Sam", who then tosses him into a trophy case.

In the interview room, "Dean" rants about how much it bothers him that Sam and Dean chose to be good.  Okay, the whole evil!Winchester thing is starting to get hot again.

Dean grabs an ax from one of those emergency glass cases.  "Sam" is not impressed.  The sheriff shows up just in time and dumps some borax on "Sam"; Dean decapitates him.  Not gonna lie, it was a little disturbing to see Jared Padalecki's headless body on the floor, oozing black stuff...

"Dean" reveals to Sam that Dean killed Amy.  If you could just see the expression of shock on my face right now.  No joke; I'm shocked, even though I probably shouldn't be.  I really didn't see that coming!  Oh, Sam's shocked too.  Just before "Dean" moves in for the kill, Dean kicks the door in (man that's hot), throws borax on "Dean", and decapitates him.  The sheriff removes Sam's cuffs and tells them the FBI is coming.  Dean asks the sheriff to help fake his and Sam's deaths; the sheriff agrees.  Dean asks Sam if he's okay; Sam lies and says he is.  They are so going to have it out by the end of this episode!

Fade to the sheriff telling Morris and Valente that he shot and killed Sam and Dean, and that their bodies have already been sent to the funeral home.  I like this guy, which probably means he's not going to survive very much longer.  Morris starts to flip out.  What's up his ass?  Despite that little episode, Morris and Valente seem to accept the story; they leave.

At the cabin once more, the news runs a story about Sam and Dean's deaths.  Bobby and Mills have a little flirty moment, and it totally looks like he's going in for a kiss, but he just awkwardly nods and walks away from her.  He gives her the box containing Chet's head and tells her to chuck it off a bridge.  He's going to bury the body in cement (This reminds me a little of the evil doc from 3x15 "Time Is On My Side").  Bobby gives Mills a kiss on the cheek; she smiles.  They should so totally get together!

Back at the sheriff's office, the medical examiner (who's also the sheriff's daughter) asks him what the hell's going on.  Valente shows up, Leviathans out, and kills the sheriff and his daughter.  Even though I suspected that was going to happen, it still made me sad.  Also, that was the indiscriminate blood spatter for the episode!

Commercials, commercials, and more commercials...

Valente unzips one of the body bags, then pulls out his cell phone.  It would appear he's calling his boss.  The Leviathan boss man gets into an SUV limo after telling one of his subordinates to get him a latte.  Crowley appears in the limo, bearing muffins made from baby uvulas.  The hell?  I swear, this show gets so weird sometimes...Crowley wants to get buddy-buddy with Dick Roman (Leviathan boss man).  To put it extremely mildly, Dick is not interested and uses many choice words to describe his hatred for demons.  Crowley tells him to keep the muffins and disappears.

Dean prepares to dump the Leviathanchesters' heads in a lake, musing that they might come in handy later.  Sam's not talking to him.  Dean prods, and prods, until finally Sam brings up Amy.  Super-pissed, he grabs his  stuff, saying he can't even be around Dean.  He tells Dean to leave without him.  Dean nods.  Wait, why is he nodding?!  Does anyone remember how bad things went the last time they split up?  Dean says, "Sorry, Sam" and they go their separate ways (yes that was kind of a Journey reference, but not intentional at first).

Final Thoughts: I do so love episodes that force the boys to confront themselves.  Usually it's figurative, but I'll take a literal confrontation too!  The Leviathanchesters had their moments, but I'm definitely glad they're out of the picture, even though that probably means even more trouble for Sam and Dean down the road.  So they had it out (sort of) and now they're separated.  When are they going to learn?  Dean: Keeping secrets from Sam is bad.  Sam: Taking off on your own isn't a good idea.  *Sigh*...

Next Week (actually tomorrow): The most psychic town in the US, and somebody or something is killing mediums.

Good News! And Not-So-Great News...

The Good News: It's most likely not bed bugs!  Probably an allergic reaction.  I can live with that.

The Not-So-Great News: Probably won't have time for Supernatual tonight.  I'm going to try really hard to have it done before the new one airs Friday!

EDIT: As part of my apology, here's a Doctor Who haiku I wrote (or as I call it: a Doctor haik-Who haha)

Time-traveling box
Strange man with a fez inside
Pond, get some trousers!

EDIT 2: Also, I'm pretty proud of my rudimentary GIMP skills, so here's a picture of me from Halloween that I zapped most of the color out of.  Enjoy!

Apology

Sorry my posts have been scarce lately.  Life sort of gets in the way sometimes haha.  Hopefully I can have a review of the latest Supernatural up tonight!