1.2 Wendigo Episode Discussion

[Phoenix_Rising]

Sam and Dean, working with intel gleaned from their father's journal, search for some lost campers, who they think may have been taken by a Wendigo.

Lets Discuss this episode!

[smileyone]

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Ok... now unlike the 'Pilot' ep... I have actually watched this one again very recently... as the good folks at 'Living TV' have in their wisdom firmly decided that it's time to show the good UK Citizens that 'brand new show' called Supernatural... we are a few eps in and yes... although I have watched all these eps to their deaths in the past, I weirdly find myself sat down in front of my TV once again watching them all... then, I switch up a channel and have the ep again on Living 2.... I know... one of these days I will get a life...

Ok then... S1 Ep2 Wendigo... EP Breakdown .... Smiley Style....

Ok... fresh after the sad but untimely death of Jess... Dean decides to at least let Sam have a peak at Daddy's Journal... cause quite annoyingly, we mere mortals are still not allowed to glance over their shoulders as they sit there reading reams of the stuff... all we get is just the odd matchstick drawing etc... seriously, my school kids could have drawn a better monster then that thing, but no matter...

'back to happy place, Smiley.... still happy with Daddy...'... and breathe..... whoooosshhhhh.....

and we're back....

ummm... they decide to follow this set of co-ordinates that go somewhere... at this point I would like to make a mental note to myself...

* Pay more attention to names of towns and mountainsides etc.. that feature in each ep!!!*

At this point, I can't remember the name of the hill/mountain that they end up on... so for arguements sake... lets call it one of the side mountains/hills off the Alps!!!... They hear that lots of campers have gone missing, but Heidi and her Grandad are still quite safe cause they are on another mountain and in an entirely different story... so they momentarily breathe a sigh of relief before they get back to worrying about these missing campers!!!

They catch up with Hally or Hailey or whoever, who has lost her brother... one of those missing campers... she is a bit clingy not to mention a bit stressed about the whole thing... and seems hellbent on thinking he's in trouble and not in fact hiding in some cave getting busy with his lass etc... anyway, he appears to be a good lad, who doesn't normally stray away... so the boys decide to help! They pose as sexy little Park Rangers... without the guns and all.... But not before Dean hits on the lass... she has a go at him for something... God only knows what... he looks unimpressed that she calls him on his faults... Sam smiles a quick smirk... unknown to Dean... we all laugh and shout... 'You Go Girl!!!' at the screen.... we start to warm to her....

Some basic story arises that people keep disappearing at regular intervals, so they catch up with this last known survivor who swears it wasn't a grizzly but was in fact some real baddie badass demon... they believe him... he is happy... they leave and he is never seen or even thought of again!!!

The story then switches to the woods where the boys are joined by Hailey and her other brother, [also a good lad, who actually didn't bond with his older brother by going camping with him]... anyway... much to her relief I suppose... they are led by Roy, this really cocky guide who swears blind he knows the woods better then God himself... Dean tuts at that one straight from the start... They start working out that the baddie thing is faster then an olympic runner on steroids... so therefore deduce that they are after a Wendigo...

The boys are a tiny bit pissed with Daddy when they eventually work out that he was never actually there trying to kill the thing but rather sent them there instead to do the job... cause God Forbid... Daddy might suck at the whole hunting thing for two straight jobs in a row... their mood then changes momentarily to one of relief... we start to wonder what exactly Daddy is up to....

Hailey has yet another pop at Dean for his choice of clothing gear and nutritional food intakes... seems that shorts and M&M's are not in fact standard camping/hunting baddie Wendigo like creature/find lost brother gear.... she's a fiesty one... Dean starts warming to the challenge of her... we start wishing she could have a more recurring role in the show...

Sam does some more quiet gloating.... which we are ok about cause Sam does start trying to take to the whole 'family business' effort and on a first appearance, seems to have taken to it like a duck to water... He starts getting a bit bossy with Roy... telling him to stay put... but Cocky Roy ignores him and wanders off anyway... then strangely dies UP a tree... which as you know is an unique way to go... we like it!!! Mightily impressed we are with more blood dripping down on foreheads stuff... Sam looks all horrified again... we are really feeling his pain here... !!! In fact we start reaching for our screens to give him a hug... he then wanders off...

Dean is a bit smitten by the fiesty one so then unwittingly gets both him and her captured by the Wendigo... but Sam is so very rapidly there to save the day.... lots of shouting and arm flailing/waving happens about here, thus scaring Wendigo off for a bit... we start to really champion Sam... and start thinking that we were really wrong to think him so dumb etc... initially in the Pilot...

Anyway.... Dean, a bit jealous now over all the attention that Sam is stealing off him, then offers himself and his lovely body up to the Wendigo... stating something along the lines of ... 'I taste Good... You know you want me!!!' etc... so that the original lost brother could escape... although how he could by himself is a total mystery to us as he looks nearly fully dead when first we see him anyway... we start willing him to move....

It must be added at this stage that this is where Dean went wrong... offering himself up to the Wendigo just to get in our good books and gain some of that 'love' ground back off Sammy... If only he had offered himself up to us in the first place... we would be honest enough to tell him whether he 'tasted good' or not.... the Wendigo would have just grunted his way thru dinner.... we girlies would have taken our time.... we would have still loved him now and that Sam and his flyaway hair would have been all but forgotton about... but anyway... didn't happen... sorry Dean, you'll know for next time!!! ]

And back to Dean, being Dean who is a bit too handy with knives and guns etc... realises that only fire and some nasty bug like spray will kill the Wendigo so he douses the creature in so much of it... it starts to gas the rest of them in the cave... they all run out into daylight... all happy that nightmare is over... Hailey stops being so fiesty and opinionated and plants a big kiss on Dean... Sam looks on with a sad but envious face.... we are all back firmly again on the side of Sam!!! The ep draws to a close right there with them both driving off in the Impala...

Things I was mightily impressed about in this ep was the fact that at some stage in the cave... Sam had his arms spread out straight to each side with the whole camping family quite firmly hiding behind him... He looked a bit like the Michelin Man... what with his 50 layers of flannel and all.... He also scared us with that look just then.... we all started to think that the very best and safest place to be at that stage was with that lot behind him... there was room for another 20 of us at least... before he started to buckle under the pressure of crowd control behind him....

The Wendigo also seemed like a really scary creature too... he reminded me a little of that thing from LOTR... but obviously wasn't cause we weren't talking about rings etc... the whole time... He did however sort of draw out his death... now I know bug spray and fire will linger on a death... but I dunno... Dean used up near a whole can!!! The cave was tidy though... I like a creature with a sense of neatness...

This was a good ep, overall.... showed Sam to be finally embracing the whole world of hunting... the brotherly relationship showed itself to be still a strong one... and one we were starting to like!!! Wendigo story was also quite funny in places... quite a good and somewhat scary Supernatural based story... We were also starting to build up a picture of the man who was Daddy... and that the whole family bond was quite a strong one...

We were all thinking that we will go back again for another look at the next ep.... as the credits roll, we start humming along with the basic tune of the theme music...

[Calena]

I didn't like this ep very much. It had some high points, like "I don't do shorts" and the M&Ms rations, but overall it was too much a slasher flick set in the woods for me. E. however loved it because he actually knew what a Wendigo was from playing AD&D.

[Phoenix_Rising]

I love Dean's quote. Oh Sweetheart, I don't do shorts."

Hmm...



Ya sure about that Dean?

Hehe.

[smileyone]

^^^ Ok... So sorry... I know it's so early in the morning ... and I am about to head off to a 12 hours straight work shift, but... * with foot planted well in the gutter*... What on God's earth is going on with those shorts??? Why am I staring? Why are my eyes stuck focussing so hard on the one spot??? I want to say so much but I keep getting the phrase... 'family site' drilled into my head.... I'm not surprised he's looking down with that look on his face....