No, I’ve not seen it, though I plan to, just to see what Padalecki’s up to and how he’d handle a non-horror role. I’d love the chance to review it, though I’m not sure it’d be in keeping with the mission statement for Pink Raygun. (Unless there are horror elements I’ve missed hearing about!)

I hope that by this time you’ve gotten the opportunity to rewatch this particular ep. It’s funny, sure, but it’s sad at the same time. I was thinking about this ep this morning, on my drive to work. You know the scene where Dean’s waking up from his nightmare, and Sam says, “Dean, wake up.” Well, if this had been Season 1 or 2, then Sam, upon discovering Dean was having a nightmare (which heretofore this season we’ve never seen him having) then Sam would have been ON his FEET and at Dean’s side with a hand on Dean’s shoulder to gently wake him. Or, maybe the distance between the brothers prevents that kind of brotherly concern? If that’s so, then I’d like to see a lot more of the “falling out” brotherly interaction that the setup for this season seems to have promised us.

But…Sam’s hair takes care of all kinds of sins. Nothing should be that easy on the eye. Nothing.

Happy Thursday!

Best Regards,

Sylvia (Who doesn’t really care for Kinkade’s style, but…)

Thanks so much for your hilarious response to my comment.
You made my day!
It made me smile and I actually laughed out loud.

Anyway, from one fangirl to another, I am so glad I am not alone in the way I
feel about this show.

A ride in the impala would be the ultimate experience. Riding in the dark..lounging in
the backseat.with Sam in the front and Dean in the drivers seat….on the road
to the next adventure.

Oh my! What fun that would be.

And you are right…one time wouldn’t be enough………..

Take care
Joan
and Dean

I’ve only had the chance to watch Wishful Thinking once (normally I rewatch the show oh, six or seven times at least!) due to computer and cable problems (*kicks computer and cable*), so I am sure there are many things I missed just watching it once. However, the scene with Jared and Jensen at the end really stuck with me. Dean remembers everything about hell? I think my heart fell to the floor when he said that. How does he have walking around sensen???

Both of the boys looked so beautiful. I love it when they are shot outside during pretty weather – they just look so healthy and gorgeous in the sunshine. And Jared’s hair – WOW! This is my favorite season so far as far as his hair goes.

As always, I enjoyed reading yoru recap and review. Hopefully I will be able to rewatch Wishful Thinking and tonight’s show this weekend. Keep your fingers crossed!

Take care everyone.

There is nothing wrong with you. Nothing. Or at least nothing that a nice ride in a certain Impala won’t cure. Then again, maybe you’re incurable. I know I am, because if I got one ride in the Impala, I’d just one another. And then another. And then another. And then, one more after that.

Best Regards,

Spoiler Free Sylvia (Who is also keeping her eyes peeled for your metaphorical semi.)

Thanks for asking about my morning coffee. It was great, as always. I do enjoy drinking tea as well.
I like Earl Grey.

Yes, Jensen is beautiful!

You know, the more I think about it, the more I realize how unusual it was for Dean to open up like that. But, that scene sure made a fan girl happy.

Thanks also, for liking my list.

BTW – I seriously ‘heart you’. I truly enjoy reading your fabulous reviews and also your comments. It makes my day!

Anyway, tomorrow is Thursday. No spoilers for me so I am so READY for that semi.

I know! There is something seriously wrong with me.

LOL

Take care
Joan

Oh, my YES! That kid was too funny! My shallow focus on the boys curtails my paying attention to secondary characters more than is probably prudent but he was totally fun! As for T. Bear, I don’t think he’ll ever properly recover.

Eclipsing Season 2? Now that’s saying something!

Best Regards,

Sylvia

I cracked up for the rest of the episode after that.

And as for Teddy’s suicide attempt, my friend and I were chanting “STUFFING” before as soon as he busted out the gun.

I love this show. And this season is already starting to eclipse Season 2 as my favorite.

You are a True Fan after my own heart, and I never get tired of hearing you enjoyed my reviews!

And I want what you want. Darkness. Angst. Emo. Tears. Bloody noses and bloody hearts. Bad things. Things that hide in the deep pits of hell….oh, man. BRING it. We want it! Of course, like you say, it’s fun to have soda coming out of your nose, but enough is enough. The way I figure it, Show is keeping the good stuff in the wings and we won’t even see it coming. THEN we’ll be sorry.

As for Sam’s hair? There aren’t enough words to describe how fabulous it is. : D

Best Regards,

Syliva

Welcome to Tuesday! How was your coffee? I had Earl Grey tea because I was out of Irish Breakfast.

There was so much to love about this ep; I adored your list! I think my two favorites of what you mentioned were “Sam dying again,” (which was totally ironic), and the fact that Sam was “writing a book called supernatural.” Those are subtle enough to fly under the radar, and show up again on repeat viewings. : D

I agree with you that Show is very likely going to have this season’s version of the Impala getting hit by a semi. I’m not sure I could take it a second time around. (Even though, at the same time, I hope that’s where Show is going. Otherwise, I’m watching the wrong show!)

Dean is different coming back from hell, but he’s still Dean. In that, he doesn’t open up like that, he never has, even this season. Not without some sort of prompt or extenuating circumstances. Still, I liked the scene very much. A lot of fans do, that’s the feedback that I’ve been getting. It’s so wonderful to watch Ackles do his thing, isn’t it? He’s beautiful and talented and we are all quite
QUITE spoiled!

Best Regards,

Sylvia

But anyway, I too, like so many others, am ready for the funny to be over and the angst to return. Show does so much more for me when it incorporates subtle humor in with the serious episodes rather than giving us one big slab of it week after week. The funny shows are great and I had some pop snorting out of my nose moments, but what brings me back week after week are those two beautiful boys interacting together, dithering (I love that word, by the way), fighting for survival, hurting and getting beat up but getting up next episode to do it all again.

I’m hoping to get all my angst back this week. We shall see. The angels are back and I’m not sure how I feel about them yet. The jury’s still out on that one.

Props to your observations on Samhair, the final scene, and your exactly right about the teddy bear. I laughed at the stuffing but I really hope no kids were watching.

How glad I am that you’ve joined the throng. And I think you are right, Show went into Funny Valley, but soon they will be going into the Vale of Despond. The humor being out of place was, to a regular viewer, having all those funny eps in a row. So many, when what we really want is to see the boys suffering, whack jobs that we are. That you are too, now, heh heh.

The T. Bear incident was twisted, but in a good way. I’m sticking by my opinion that small children shouldn’t be allowed to watch it.

Best Regards,

Sylvia

The preview for next week (this week, now) definitely look dark. I don’t know exactly what I saw, but yeah. Someone is going to suffer, and it’s not going to be pretty. (Or, at least it’s probably not supposed to be pretty, but with Sam and Dean, it’s a given that they’ll look really, really GOOD whilst suffering.)

Ackles rocks, doesn’t he? My only worry for him is that he should get the brilliant and fun opportunities he deserves.

Best Regards,

Sylvia

You made me laugh in return, so thank you! I can’t imagine that they actually have writing awards for writing about hair, but it’s nice to think that I’d be up for one if they did. (Plus you liked the ELAC hair description, one of my personal favorites.)

I think Padalecki’s low-key acting is the perfect foil to what Ackles is doing. Both boys can’t be in focus at the same time (something I’ve noticed in the screen caps I get), so one of them has to be. The season thus far seems to be about Dean, but there’s Sam, watching and listening and waiting for the you-know-what to hit the fan. Plus he broods well. Heck, he broods BEAUTIFULLY and I don’t think I’ll be getting much argument on that.

Angst and darkness, here we come! (Cause it’s only going to get darker before it gets lighter. Otherwise, I’ve been watching the wrong show.)

Best Regards,

Sylvia

No it’s not Thursday, but it almost is! The way my schedule works, by the time I get one article done, I’ve got a new ep to watch, which is kind of fun. Until, yeah, until the hiatus starts for the season, dangit.

Both boys did such a great job, I didn’t pay nearly enough attention to Padalecki’s subtle acting in this one, but you’re right. Underplayed, with smoky tones, add that to his green eyes, and whamo! Brilliant. (His hair was just perfect, yes!)

I think that Show is gearing up for darkness too. I’m spoiler free and hope to remain so, but stuff still trickles through just the same. Plus, this is how Show does it, they give us the funny and then whap us all upside of our collective heads. I think, come the dawn, we’ll be sorry for what we wished for in that we’ll have gotten it in spades.

As for Ackles. Whoever gets him next for their project will be luckier than a lucky thing. The man simply does not know how to do things badly.

Best Regards,

Sylvia

Okay, this episode did a number on me. It tickled my funny bone and it also brought tears to my eyes and made my heart ache. It was twisted on way too many levels.

Let me count the ways:

1. The human sized teddy bear trying to commit suicide – stuffing and all. I fell on the floor.

2. The teddy bear getting drunk, reading inappropriate magazines, watching the news channels. LOL

3. Dean throwing up! I almost lost my dinner. Boy, he looked pale.

4. Teddy Bear Doctors!  He He

5. Lollipop Disease

6. Flaming Pissed off Teddy Bear

7. Dean’s reaction to the women in the showers

8. The scene with Sam and the ghostly white teenage boy

9. Audrey carrying teddy, at the end, with the bandage on the back of his head!

10. Sam dying AGAIN

11. Sam and Dean being health inspectors

12. Sam writing a book called ‘Supernatural’ LOL again

13. Their expressions when the hot chick and the nerd were kissing

14. The annoying waiter

Other things I need to comment on:

Audrey was so cute. I loved the way she said her name to Dean and the way she answered her Teddy with the ‘Tea Parties’ statement.

Jared looked especially yummy during this episode.

Dean is always lying, fully clothed, on top of the covers now.

I am beyond happy to see the return of the laptop.

I always enjoy the scenes where Jensen interacts with kid actors.

Dean called his brother Sammy. I don’t know what it is but every time Dean says ‘Sammy’, my heart just melts.

I love the ease Jared and Jensen have with each other.

Now, let’s move on to the meaty stuff.

As much as I enjoy the funny episodes, I am SO ready for several emo-filled, angst, soul-bearing, gut-wrenching rip your heart out episodes. I am half-afraid of what is coming
because we have had too many lighter episodes in recent weeks which means Kripke
is going to send a SEMI-TRUCK our way soon. I am sure you remember the last scene
of Season 1? The impala will be us! He is going to hit us, full-force, with episodes
which will rip out our hearts and pulverize our hearts and shatter them into a million pieces. SHOW is going to make us cry, scream and stare at disbelief at the TV screen. It is not going to be pretty.

Sam wanting Lilith’s head on a platter…BLOODY! Oh my! Where has our Sammy gone? He is definitely grown up now.

Yes, it was out of character for Dean to open up to Sam where a stranger could hear him
but I honestly wasn’t surprised. Dean is different now. He has changed. The changes
are subtle but they are there. Each week, a different layer is revealed. I thought it was cool that Dean talked to Sam in a place where they were surrounded by so much beauty. Serene, quiet, breathtakingly beautiful. To me it was ‘Heaven on Earth’. What a stark contrast to Dean on the inside. The outside was gorgeous but the inside was pure chaos and devastation and hurt. I can’t even begin to imagine what he saw but the burden he is carrying must be eating away at him. He is internalizing everything. It must be excruciatingly horrible if he can’t even talk to Sam about it. My stomach hurts, just thinking about the scene when the dam bursts and everything is revealed to us.
The show has only scratched the surface of what Dean saw in the ‘pit’.

Sylvia, I agree with you. Jensen Ackles owned that scene. I re-watched it three times.
His delivery was so spot-on. The way his mouth quivers. The expression on his face.
The sorrow in his eyes. The conviction in his voice when “It’s right here–forever.”
My jaw dropped and tears welled up in my eyes as I watched the beauty that
is Jensen Ackles. HE TOTALLY floored me in that scene. I have always thought he was a really good actor but this year, he has attained greatness.

Take care
Joan

I think the drinking was a running gag for Dean, like the newspaper, which ever seemed to be in his hands. Or the drinking could be a throw back to those comments Sam used to make about The Dad, and how Dean used to dismissed. Plus, before it was Sam who couldn’t handle his liquor and now look! (Not that Dean’s not handling it, but he’s doing an awful lot of it!)

Best Regards,

Sylvia

But yeah, the giant, suicidal teddy bear was way over the top. Even though it led to a great visual joke at the end of the episode with the little girl hugging her normal-sized teddy bear that had the back of it’s head bandaged up.

Couldn’t agree with you more about this episode. Enough with the funny but I did like it.

Sam has really been looking beautifully hotter this season. I was also mesmerized by Sam in that scene when Dean woke up from his nightmare. Loved your description of his hair. Honestly, you should win some kind of writing award just for that (and also for the way you described it in your review of ELAC. I couldn’t stop laughing for days.)

The scene where Sam says that his would wish for Lillith’s head on a plate, bloody, just broke my heart for him. A normal, safe life is totally out of reach for him with the demon blood he has within him through no fault of his own. Jared’s delivery was just awesome … calm, low-key but devastating.

The last scene with Dean admitting he remembers Hell I felt was kind of flat despite Jensen’s great acting. And I think the problem with it was exactly what you said.

Anyway, I think this week we are back to the angst (and something else that I am very worried about how they will portray but I won’t say more because it’s a spoiler). Man, this show gets me so worked up but I love every second of it.

All the best,
Tonia