Tuesdays are Supernatural!

[devilbat]

I was extremely irritated by the opening dialogue between the brothers, where they do that horrible explanation of the situation by telling each other things they already know full well, very basic things about their childhood.

Yeah, that bugged me too.

 

[Welverin]

Welverin: Not sure what you mean by "What on earth am I talking about?" I'm talking about the last few minutes of the episode... >snip spoilers<

Ah, there we go. I was watching something else so when this started I hit the record button a couple two three times to record for an hour and when I watched it later the last thing I saw was

Spoiler

the brothers just leaving the house after the ghost got sucked into hell and a short glimpse of someone looking at a map

, so it sounded like you were talking about the beginning, but somethings were off, which was just plain confusing.

Worst part is I was all prepared to catch the end of the reair tonight, but made the mistake of flipping to NBC and seeing that there was an episode of scrubs on and didn't switch back in time.

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

What are you talking about? Dish Network can get you like ten WB stations, depending on the package you want. If you can get ABC or NBC, you can almost always get the WB, except in rare cases where there isn't a local WB station in your area and thus isn't covered under the local package.

We have a local WB, they're part of some exclusivity deal with Frontier Dish, so that WB is advertized as "Exclusively on Time-Warner Cable". I have the America's 180 package. Everything but the HBO and Showtime familes.

 

[Kaledor]

I was able to catch the reair last night and I'm very upset that my WB cut off the ending when it aired it the first time. There was a good 5-10 minutes of material AND the actual kick-off to the rest of the season-- those last few minutes make the show not just about finding a lost parent, but now it's about personal revenge for the younger brother.
Ah well, at least I got to catch it on reair.

'Course, I was so excited about what to me was "Deleted Scenes" or an "Extended Cut", that I completely missed the note and cookies. I saw Sam open the door to his appartment after getting out of Dean's car, but then the next thing I saw was him walking into the bedroom with a cookie!

So, was I momentarily blind with excitement, or did my WB cut another scene?

Do we actually get to read the note from Jess or is it just implied that it must be from her? Or is it possibly from the mystery man that is in the very beginning?

 

[Desdichado]

Do we actually get to read the note from Jess or is it just implied that it must be from her? Or is it possibly from the mystery man that is in the very beginning?

That mystery man would have been a little too cute for my taste; the note was on a plate of cookies that said "I missed you" or "I love you" or something like that.

Waitaminute... am I forgetting something? What mystery man are you talking about, anyway? The only mysterious man at the very beginning is Sam and Dean's father, who we don't see except in the 22 years ago prologue, or am I forgetting something?

 

[Einan]

At the very beginning of the episode the mother goes out to investigate the noise, and we see a shadowy figure standing in the window. The mother says something to him and he raises his finger to his mouth and says, "Shhhh...". We are meant to think it's the father, as the mother did. However, a split second later we see the father sitting in an easy chair looking tired, and jolts upright when he hears his wife scream. He goes into check on the baby, is relieved that it's okay, sees the blood on the pillow and looks up.

I almost missed the fact that the shadowy figure wasn't the dad. Very subtle and very creepy when you think about it. All in all, for a pilot episode, it was pretty darn good. I'll definitely be watching again.

Einan

 

[Kaledor]

At the very beginning of the episode the mother goes out to investigate the noise, and we see a shadowy figure standing in the window. The mother says something to him and he raises his finger to his mouth and says, "Shhhh...". We are meant to think it's the father, as the mother did.

Yup, that mystery man. Though I think he was standing over the crib looking down at Sammy. It's the "thing" that the dad has been hunting all along. And when you look at the wall of the hotel room that the dad rented in the Jerico, it appears that the dad believes the man to be the/a Devil. We see a couple of pieces of paper on the wall. Dean is looking at the missing men photos, while Sam is investigating the other side of the room... he glances over some drawing of demons and such, some latin phrases that I don't recall (something about burning, IIRC), and then finally Sam finds the info on the Woman in White and Constance.

 

[Desdichado]

At the very beginning of the episode the mother goes out to investigate the noise, and we see a shadowy figure standing in the window. The mother says something to him and he raises his finger to his mouth and says, "Shhhh...". We are meant to think it's the father, as the mother did. However, a split second later we see the father sitting in an easy chair looking tired, and jolts upright when he hears his wife scream. He goes into check on the baby, is relieved that it's okay, sees the blood on the pillow and looks up.

Oh, duh, yeah. Sorry, I forgot about that scene for a moment there.

 

[Mad Hatter]

I thought that initial scene with the Mystery Guy was very well done. I think it adds a whole new dimension.

 

[takyris]

Welverin: Aha! Didn't realize that the last few minutes were cut in so many places. Sorry about that!

Re: Mystery Man. Oh yeah. While "woman pinned, dead, to ceiling, and then catching fire" struck me as silly rather than frightening, the stuff up to that point in the first few minutes was immensely scary. Mom realizing that that wasn't dad upstairs in the baby's room saying "Shhhh...." is... well, it's most likely the fact that I've got a 10 month old baby myself, but I pretty much freaked right at that point.

And the show can now zing us any time it wants by having blood drop onto somebody's face.

(Agree on the awful "As you know, brother" dialogue -- clumsy as heck, and I'd have liked to see it handled better, but some form of it was necessary to get the rules established. My gut feeling is that if you could be a fly on the wall, you'd have heard a heated discussion about that particular bit of conversation among the writers, and the version that made it to the screen was the one that was sort of a compromise that left nobody really happy.)