Tuesdays are Supernatural!

[fett527]

You had to salt the hook and melt it to kill the hook man not just melt it. You would've noticed that if you payed attention.

Nanny-nanny-boo-boo. :\ Just discuss the episodes mang.

 

[WizarDru]

I'm also sceptical that an old cast iron stove could generate enough heat to melt silver, but I'll let that pass since I don't actually know one way or another.

Silver melts at a range, starting at roughly 720 degrees and going up to over 900 degrees, depending on the quality of the silver and if it's laced with copper or other materials. An old cast-iron stove surface can get to at least 800 degrees; internally it would be hotter. Maybe not as quickly as shown, depending on how long he was at it, but it was certainly plausible.

 

[spatha]

Actually, if you had been paying attention, you'd have noticed that Dean didn't salt the hook. He salted and burned the bones, and then he melted the necklace. No salt involved.

I'm also sceptical that an old cast iron stove could generate enough heat to melt silver, but I'll let that pass since I don't actually know one way or another.

I thought they showed him throwing salt into the fire before he started to initialy burn the silver items.

 

[Desdichado]

I thought they showed him throwing salt into the fire before he started to initialy burn the silver items.

I didn't see it, but I concede that I might have looked away for a second when he did it. I did for sure see him salting the bones before he lit them up, though.

 

[spatha]

I didn't see it, but I concede that I might have looked away for a second when he did it. I did for sure see him salting the bones before he lit them up, though.

When it first showed him in the basment in front of the wood stove it looked like he threw something on the fire in a motion like someone casting sand or salt would make. It then showed him throw in some silver items.

 

[Desdichado]

Doh! Maybe I really wasn't paying attention!

 

[Crothian]

good episode, the hook ghost looks goo with the effects.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Excellent episode. If they'd just move this out of competition with other popular shows (and not show repeats at the same time as the Veronica Mars repeats), this could be my Buffy replacement.

 

[takyris]

Just saw it last night, and yeah, he does throw what looks like salt (or sand -- it's hard to tell in the firelight, but it's clear that he's throwing a granular substance, and salt is the logical contender in this case) into the fire. It's very fast, and if I recall correctly, it's right in the opening of the scene. It's missable, but it's there.

They did a good job of not showing too much of the bad guy in this episode. I think they realize that they don't have that big a budget, and also that "nineteenth-century preacher with hook" doesn't really look scary in bright light and a straight-on camera angle. I liked how little we got to see of him, except for the hook -- which, if something like this ever happened, would be what I was paying attention to anyway. It's like a comedian I vaguely remember riffing about being held up at gunpoint and later being asked what the assailant's lips looked like, for the composite sketch. He joked that he really doesn't look at guy's lips in ANY case, but then launched a massive and detailed description of the gun.

 

[WizarDru]

They did a good job of not showing too much of the bad guy in this episode. I think they realize that they don't have that big a budget, and also that "nineteenth-century preacher with hook" doesn't really look scary in bright light and a straight-on camera angle. I liked how little we got to see of him, except for the hook -- which, if something like this ever happened, would be what I was paying attention to anyway.

Sometimes less is more and letting your mind fill in the gaps works well for horror. I really liked the 'invisible hook scratching the wall' idea. He's here...but we can only so what he wants us to see...and he's getting closer...closer....