Supernatural“It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester”
Original Air Date: Oct 30, 2008
Jenny D - TwoCents Staff Writer
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The crew over at Supernatural sure knows how to put on a Halloween episode. It takes me back to the day when I used to look forward to "Buffy" Halloween episodes, except these are a lot more gruesome. After a nice little montage of past Halloween highlights, we begin the episode. It is a typical Halloween in suburbia.
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Original Air Date: Oct 30, 2008
Jenny D - TwoCents Staff Writer
JennyD@thetwocentscorp.com
The crew over at Supernatural sure knows how to put on a Halloween episode. It takes me back to the day when I used to look forward to "Buffy" Halloween episodes, except these are a lot more gruesome. After a nice little montage of past Halloween highlights, we begin the episode. It is a typical Halloween in suburbia. The wife comes home with enough candy to feed an army and one of the last pumpkins she had to fight someone for. The husband insists on having some candy, but she tells him to save it for Halloween. AS soon as she turns her back, he digs in. AS he eats, he feels something in his mouth. And with an ingenious way to film, we actually see from the back of his throat, that he has a razor blade stuck. Your mom always said to never eat the candy before she checked it! But this candy just came from the store. He starts spitting out blood and razors and falls to the floor. His wife comes in to find him laying in a pool of blood.
Sam and Dean arrive to investigate. While Sam questions the wife, Dean searches the house for something supernatural. They find it; a hex bag. We are dealing with witches here.
At a Halloween party, some teenagers are bobbing for apples. Tracy goes first and is successful. Not wanting to be shown up in front of some guys, Jenny decides to take her chance at it. She tries a couple times, then finds that she cannot get out of the water. Her friends try to help her as the water begins to boil. They finally get her out, but it is too late. Sam and Dean interview Tracy, who tries to find out if there is anything in common between Luke Wallace, the man who swallowed razors, and Jenny. Tracy says she doesn’t know Luke and cannot help them more. AS Dean interviews Tracy, Sam finds another hex bag. After some research, they find out that this ritual requires 3 blood sacrifices to raise the demon Samhain. This can only be done every 600 years on Halloween. It is said that people began wearing masks on Halloween so Samhain could not see them.
Dean sits outside the Wallace how, gorging himself with candy (you would have thought he wouldn’t after what happened to Luke), and sees Tracy show up at their house. Tracy said she didn’t know them, but apparently she is their babysitter. Sam said he found out that Tracy had gotten into a fight with a teacher and was suspended. They head to high school, where Dean is having flashbacks of Hell when looking at some disturbing mask. Sam asks Dean if this brings back memories, meaning high school, not Hell. They talk to the teacher, Don, who said that Tracy began drawing disturbing images and he thought she would have killed him if it had not been for the principal being there to help. They confirm that some of the images include ones form the hex bag. Sam and Dean head to find Tracy after they find out she lives on her own.
They are unable to track her down. Upon returning to their hotel room, Castile is there with another angel, Uriel, a “specialist”. The angels want to know if they killed the witch and stopped the ritual to raise Samhain. Sam and Dean beat around the bush and say they are taking care of it. The angels want to destroy the whole town, but Sam and Dean insist they will get the job done. Castile warns them, telling them that the witch knows who they are and that they found a hex bag in their hotel room. Sam and Dean realize that it is after they spoke to the teacher that this happened, not after Tracy. They head to the school and find bones in his desk drawer. He must be the witch.
They find Don at the Wallace preparing to complete a ritual, which includes Tracy bound and gagged, and not in a kinky way. Sam and Dean arrive just in time to shoot Don. Which isn’t good since he was not the only witch, Tracy is too. The third blood sacrifice has happened, releasing Samhain. Sam wipes blood on his and Dean’s face as “masks”. Samhain possesses Don’s body, does not see them because of their masks. Luckily for the kids wandering around outside that night had their masks on too. Samhain goes to the cemetery where he locks some students who are partying in a crypt in. Zombies start coming out of the walls as Sam and Dean come to help them. Dean fights off the zombies as Sam goes to fight Samhain. He uses his mind powers to exorcize Samhain, although it takes a lot for Sam to do so.
After all is said and done, Castile talks to Dean about the whole situation being a test. Of course, Dean feels as though he had failed, but he didn’t. He was happy that Sam and Dean saved the town, but warns that now that he seal is broken, they are one step closer to Hell on Earth. He admits that he questions things anymore and that Dan has some tough decisions ahead of him.
I LOVE Halloween episodes! I will give that one a 10! I thought it was a great episode and liked how they brought in Uriel.
What did YOU think about this episode? Leave your TwoCents in the comments. See you next week.
I love Supernatural and I thought this episode was great. I can't help but have a bad feeling in my stomach though about Sam. It seems like the boys are going to deal with some really tough stuff this season.
ReplyDeleteI agree, but it is exciting to see a more bad *ss Sam, don't you agree? I think that we are being set up for a roller coaster with these brothers!
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