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Supernatural 12x14 EARLY Early Access! (Patreon)

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Supernatural 12x14 "The Raid" Reaction

Welcome to my reaction to Supernatural Season 12 Episode 14! I hope you all enjoy! Patreon for Full Reactions, Movie Reactions & More!: https://www.patreon.com/sesskasays

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Elisia

I love this episode so much. I love seeing Sam be just a complete badass against one of the most powerful monsters out there, I love the complexity of the opening scene, the different sides and points of view that Mary, Dean and Sam all have, and I love that we are kind of getting a reversal of roles with the Winchesters. Back in season 1, you had Sam and John on opposite sides, and Dean was the one playing peacemaker and in the middle between the two, and now it is Dean and Mary with Sammy in the middle. I like that both boys are kind of getting a taste of what the other went through with John. I gotta say, this episode is kind of the epitome of Sam. He is a total badass, one of the two best hunters on the entire planet. he is battle-hardened, experienced, skilled and extremely clever, both in battle and in terms of strategy, with his knowledge of the supernatural, of weapons, of lore just as impressive a weapon in his hands as the colt itself, not to mention brave and selfless. Taking out the Alpha Vamp is an incredibly impressive feat, considering the last time we were dealing with Alphas, not even the King of Hell and an Angel of the Lord were really able to handle them. And yet, despite his track record, his history, Sam has such a low opinion of himself. He sees himself so worthless that he can't even take credit for taking out the alpha vamp, he gives the credit to the BMOL. He sees what they are trying to do for the world, and seems blinded to what he has already done. He just wants to be a part of making the world a better place, changing the world, and doesn't seem to think what he has done really counts. He is even willing to work with the people who kidnapped, drugged and tortured him because he thinks it is better for the world (and that is a whole other topic, the amount of times Sam has to not only see and speak to, but also help and work with his abusers). And I think, in that opening scene with him and Dean and his mother, we can really see on another level why Sam is willing to work with the BMOL, or at least hear Mary out. He is such a scared, little kid in that scene who just wants his mom. He wants to have her in his life, he wants to be with her and he doesn't want to leave her. He also doesn't have that same level of betrayal that Dean, who had 4 years with Mary as a more close, attentive mother, does. All Sam has of Mary are pictures, a meeting of a younger version of her, and like 5 seconds of her as a ghost. So this distant, driven version of Mary is all that Sam knows, and he doesn't care as long as he gets any version of her at all. Dean on the other hand, I love that we are getting to see his struggle. Because he remembers a Mary who doted on her kids, who was attentive and nurturing and taking care of their every need. And that image became frozen in his mind when Mary died. So to have her come back and not be that is jarring, and anxiety-inducing for him. Also, infuriating because as much as Mary got robbed of being a mother to those boys, he got robbed of being her child. And now, not only are they now both adults, but he is technically speaking actually older than her. And she sort of just jumps into treating Sam and Dean like adults, so I think Dean is suffering from feeling like he, once again, got robbed of being a child, of having just a little bit of the parental weight he has been carrying most of his life lifted from his shoulders. Having to come to terms with seeing a parent as another person is hard for most people even with their entire lives knowing them, but in this dynamic I feel like the show is doing a solid job of demonstrating how disorienting this is for Dean. And then, I also love that they are showing us that, as similar as Ketch and Dean are, they are also completely different now. Honestly, season 1 or 2, or even 3 Dean probably would have been Ketch's best friend. The complete black/white thinking about monsters, the lack of remorse for anything supernatural, the nuance, it wasn't something that Dean has always had. In fact, its a very old-school way of Hunting, that we saw in people like John Winchester, Gordon Walker, Walt and Roy even. All of them probably would have signed right up to the BMOL if they had arrived in America back then. It was really only through Sam, that Dean started to broaden his perspective and open his mind. Sam, and the experiences they went through together. Because of the way they hunt. Boots on the ground, simple weapons, hard, difficult decisions. Choices that force them to think about the morality of what they are doing, big and small picture. I think the problem with the BMOL is that they have so thoroughly simplified hunting (their fancy tech, their large scale assaults etc), that they have distanced themselves too far from the purpose of hunting, of destroying evil. The ease with which they can kill has taken out the hardship of hunting, and also further dehumanizes the process. They are looking so big picture that it obscures the actual picture they are trying to see, and they have gone the complete opposite extreme, so that the balance of life and death that hunting is supposed to be is completely lost. And, the problem with Mary in particular isn't that she sided with them, necessarily, but that she is trying so hard to see big picture (a safer world for her sons) that she is missing the small moments of them needing her now. Because it is too painful for her to examine the right here and now, given her sudden resurrection into her adult kids lives. Overall this is just a beautifully complex, and important episode, but also season so far. Personally I love that after such a grand, massive antagonist of last season, we kind of scale down and return to sort of the basic theme of the first 5 seasons of Supernatural, which is good vs bad, and when something goes from morally correct, to not. Where that line is.

Thomas Corp
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Seeing the comments you’ve made of expressing love for Sam especially, I figured you’d quite like this episode. Good reversal of Sam playing peacemaker between his big brother and their mom, compared to when Dean had to do the same thing between his little brother and their father. Seems that Dean’s none too happy about how the foot’s on the other hand now, and I do like how Jared plays the scene by giving Sam a look that suggests that Sam’s picking up the hypocrisy yet is choosing not to call Dean out on it. Sam did get the very good kill. Love how he clocks that he could count on Mick rushing him to get the bullet. I would have echoed his offer, “Please, by all means. I don’t even like him, go ahead, kill him.” concerning Mick. Great how even the Alpha has that, “I’m not even mad, that’s amazing.” look on his face when he figures out what happened. Sam does have the view of aiming to make the world the better place and doesn’t seem to hold himself in much in the way of high esteem. And yeah, he is probably in agreement with working with the Brits in part to be with his mom. There is the good contrast between the boys with how it pertains to their mom. Like you said, Dean did have the four years. And he has, as you say, that frozen image of his mom. Now having her back, and the reality doesn’t match that image, it throws the big curveball for Dean. By contrast, Sam, though he too is hurt by the choice Mary made, has less frame of reference, nor any real life experience with his mom in his head, and largely is dealing with her from scratch. Neither one of them can quite see her as her own person. As you say, having to come to terms with seeing a parent as another person is hard for most people even with their entire lives knowing them. Not knowing a parent most if not all of one’s life exacerbates that feeling. There’s the one line from Daredevil, “Growing up without your parents, you don’t grow to see them as people.” Early show Dean and Ketch would definitely have been best friends. Now, after what he’s gone through, Dean’s seen and done too much to deal in absolutes like how Ketch and the other Brits have been doing. The Brits have gotten complacent and distant from what they do, like you said. They also have settled in the very dehumanizing black-and-white outlook on all supernatural beings that makes them little to no better than that which they set out to destroy. Focusing on a bigger picture is important, but without balance and nuance, it proves disastrous over time. You get that of Mary’s focusing on her big picture of making the world for her boys, that she is overlooking the more immediate needs that they have. The Brits also annoy with they’re being convinced of their own superiority, which backfires on them here, nice to see them sweat. They had no back up plans, which is such a button for Jess, I agree. That thing when you ask, “And what if something happens?” and you get the response, “Don’t worry, it won’t.” Seeing Mick’s confidence crumble, you say, “Well, well, well, you chaps are human, after all.” Mick irks me too with that thing of him all but outright saying that he views the U.S. hunters as basically being “Americans who saw too many movies as a child; orphans of a bankrupt culture who thinks they’re John Wayne, Rambo, Marshal Dillon.” Wish I was in the show as I’d piss him off by saying, “Partial to Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff myself.” Jess is definitely right that Bobby would just see the Brits as a bunch of idjits. Messy though the whole situation is, it is good drama.