Supernatural: Wishful Thinking

Teddy Bear: "It's a terrible world! Why am I here?"
Audrey: "For tea parties."
Teddy Bear: "Tea parties? (sobs) Is that all there is?"

Absolutely marvelous interpretation of the classic "Monkey's Paw." Although it didn't go quite as dark as I thought it might. Not that I'm complaining.

I absolutely loved the suicidal bigfoot teddy bear; it was laugh out loud funny, over and over again. When it shot itself and stuffing blew out all over the wall, I actually howled. The kid hulking out was good, too, and I liked how Dean helped him resolve his problem in the end. The invisible boy in the shower was okay, although way predictable.

What was best, though, was the serious stuff. (No, okay, the teddy bear was the best part, but the serious stuff was good, too.) Wes realized that there was a dark side to getting the woman he wanted when her soul wasn't in the game. And we were hit over the head with the theme that even with good intentions, magic usually turns out dangerous and wrong. (cough Sam cough)

Uriel got what he wanted; Dean finally told Sam about Hell. I wonder if Uriel made this happen in an attempt to scare Sam straight? If so, I don't think it worked. Sam told Dean that he wouldn't go back to what he once was, the hopeful civilian who wanted to go to law school. Yes, it's cool that Sam has accepted his calling; it's obvious he's into it by now. But "Lilith's head on a plate, bloody"? What is really going on inside of Sam right now?

Gold acting stars for Jensen Ackles for that last scene. It got to me.

Bits and pieces:

— Loved the fake-out opener when you're thinking Psycho but it turned out more like some silly teenage invisible boy movie. Is there a silly teenage invisible boy movie? There must be.

— The waiter with the button-covered suspenders was a hoot. I thought maybe he'd be possessed or something, but no. He was just a wildly enthusiastic waiter with button-covered suspenders. Flair.

— A little inconsistency. Audrey remembered the Winchesters, her teddy's head was bandaged, and her parents were sunburned from being in Bali. But Hope didn't remember Wes. Then again, maybe she didn't want to remember Wes. Poor Wes.

— Concrete, Washington. Great name. It's a real place, too. And waterfront again, which is always a nice change. Extremely rustic and woodsy motel room, verging on the absurd. It even had totems and painted trees on the walls.

— The guys were FBI agents, health inspectors, florists, and teddy bear doctors. No rock names this week. Loved Dean fumbling around for the right fake badge.

Quotes: (and there were a lot of them)

Sam: "I can see you're very interested."
Dean: "Women...showers... we've got to save these people."

Candice: "So what did you say you're calling your book?"
Sam: "Well, the working title is Supernatural. I've been crossing the country gathering stories like yours."

Dean: "Got to tell you, I'm pretty disappointed."
Sam: "Well, you wanted to save naked women."
Dean: "Damn right, I wanted to save some naked women."

Dean: "Bigfoot breaks into a liquor store jonesing for some hooch? Amaretto and Irish Creme. He's a girl-drink drunk."

Sam: "Gotta be a joke. Some big ass mother in a gorilla suit?"
Dean: "Or it's a Bigfoot. Some kind of alcohol-o-porno addict. Kind of like a deep woods Duchovny."

Dean: "Shoot it? Burn it?"
Sam: "I don't know. Both."
Dean: "We don't know that's going to work. I don't want some giant pissed off flaming teddy on our hands."

Sam: "You get what you want, you go really crazy."
Dean: "Yeah. Look at Michael Jackson. Or Hasselhoff."

I think this episode deserves four out of four stars. What did you think?

Billie
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Billie Doux adores Supernatural which is a good thing since apparently, it's eternal.

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