Supernatural March Madness 2011, Round 2, East and Midwest

Now the choices are getting a bit more difficult.  It only gets harder from here, folks!  Go vote in Part 1 of Round 2!

Supernatural March Madness 2011, Round 1, West

Here we go, the last part of Round One!  A couple of these are thinkers…it only gets more challenging from here!

Supernatural: Unforgiven

Sam does a fairly decent impression of the Season Two title card. Don't try this at home, kids.

It’s not too tough to figure out to whom the title of this episode refers.  Without his soul, Sam did some horrendous things, and having Dean around again after a year only somewhat mitigated that horrendousness.  And in this second episode with his soul reinstated, he comes face to face with one instance.  Sam being Sam once more, he wants to atone for his misdeeds, even if he’s not entirely sure what they are.

Supernatural March Madness 2011, Round 1, South

Part 3 of Round 1 is now open for voting!  This is a somewhat more challenging division.

Supernatural March Madness 2011, Round 1, Midwest

Here we go with the next round of voting in Round 1 of the tournament!

Supernatural March Madness 2011, Round 1, East

Here we go, folks, the annual March Madness Tournament of Episodes!  This one is pretty easy, but beware, the choices will get harder!

Supernatural: Mannequin 3, The Reckoning

Next week, on CSI: New Jersey...either that or Jared and Jensen are auditioning for a remake of Barney Miller.

Note:  I know the recap/review for Unforgiven is missing here.  It’s coming.  I just got this one finished first.

Hmm.  Well, that was an episode.  I must admit, I’m a bit of a Pollyanna.  I’m not one to say mean and nasty things.  Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, I’ll find a positive slant to anything.  Fender bender?  At least I’m not hurt.  Home sick?  At least I don’t have to go out in bad weather.  This episode?  Boy, Sam’s hair looked really nice in that last scene.  See?  

Supernatural: Like A Virgin

So, I figure if we time it right, we can tunnel out of this motel and make it back to Bobby's before anyone realizes we aren't really Pierre and Francois Chevalier.

We’ve all been waiting for it.  And waiting, and waiting…and then waiting an extra week due to a last minute network decision.  But this is it: the hiatus finally ended, and Sam gets his soul back.  Now to get to the juicy stuff.  And Oh My Chuck, is that Aerosmith playing over “The Road So Far?”  It is!  They had to scrimp and save for five and a half years, but they finally managed to afford an Aerosmith song.  Awesome.  As the strains of “Back in the Saddle” fade, we see a frightened woman in a small plane flying through an electrical storm.  Yeah, that looks like a fun date.  Not.  Poor Penny here is freaking out, despite the reassurances of Stan the pilot boyfriend, especially once she sees something large and inexplicable flap by her window.  Stan continues to be reassuring…right up until the second something breaks the windshield and snatches him out of the plane.  Which then starts a nosedive, Penny screaming all the way.  Now that we’ve got that out of the way…

Supernatural: Appointment in Samarra

The Dream Team....OF DEATH!!!

I’ve missed Sam.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been very intrigued–and very entertained the past couple of episodes–by soulless Sam.  But I recently caught a rerun of  “Lazarus Rising” on TNT, and it reminded me how much I miss original recipe Sam.  The guy who wept over the loss of his brother, clung to him in relief when he came back(in a manly way, of course), and grinned gleefully at Pamela Barnes’ innuendos.  I’ve missed the bitchfaces and eye rolls and surprise and determination, and all those other emotions that regularly play out in his expressions.  We’ve had glimpses this season, but they’ve all been Soulless Sam playing the guy he used to be.

Dean, as we know, has also been missing original Sam, which this time around brings him to a shady doctor’s office above a Chinese grocery store.  Still looking for a way to retrieve Sam’s soul, he’s come to an underground physician who specializes in patching up hunters with the desperate notion of contacting Death for assistance.  This doc(played by none other than Freddy Kruger, er, Robert Englund), it turns out, also specializes in making people dead for three minutes at a time.  Under the influence of the good doctor’s potion–read: dead–Dean is greeted by a very annoyed Tessa, not Death.  When Death does pop up a few seconds later, Dean’s plan to deal with him is immediately shot to hell.  If you want your ring back…sorry, already know where it is.  Bring back Sam and Adam from Lucifer’s cage…sorry, I’ll only do one, you pick.  Hack off the damaged part of Sam’s soul…sorry, doesn’t work that way, how about a wall instead?  Okay, let’s go that route…oh, I never said I would do this.  Death, will however, fetch Sam’s soul if Dean can last a day in his shoes.  Dean has to wear Death’s ring and do his job for 24 hours.

SMM Preliminary Round 2

The gear up for the Supernatural March Madness continues! The second round of preliminary voting in now open.