Sin City - A Review
Sin City
Supernatural Season 3, episode #4.
Airdate: Thursday, Oct 25, 2007.
Written by Robert Singer & Jeremy Carver.
Directed by Charles Beeson.
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Synopsis: Click here to read the episode summary
The brothers are at Bobby’s trying to restore the demon-killer colt, when demonic omens and a couple of unexplained suicides sends them to a Ohio town where the people have turned their community into a den of drinking and whoring. The brothers find that several people, though changed, are not demon possessed. But a fellow hunter is lured into a trap by a female demon and killed. Dean confronts the demon on his own and gets trapped with her in a cave-in. Attempting a rescue, Sam unknowingly recruits the assistance of the other demon in the town, the priest. When he is attacked, Bobby comes to his rescue armed with the newly restored colt. Demon Ruby had helped Bobby fully restore the gun as a demon-killer. Sam then uses the colt to kill both demons in a shockingly coldblooded manner and rescues Dean.
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Praises: This episode was all about the Supernatural mythology. We got to see the colt rebuilt. Sam's aborted destiny as the leader of a demonic army was reiterated yet again. And it was made perfectly clear that Sam is different. Whether Sam is different because of his anguish over Dean's impending demise and the weight of the secrets that he's carrying, or because he is turning evil, is still a question. Jared is doing an excellent job of portraying a changing Sam. Showing us his old boyish, emo self, mixed in with the more reserved man he's become, and then scaring us (and Dean) with those glimpses of the coldblooded killer that may be his future. On the lighter side, there were a couple amusing scenes that caught my attention: Sam physically dragging his brother away from the temptation of the woman in the car, and Dean putting a pile of quarters atop the “Magic Fingers” in the motel room (see 2.13-Houses of the Holy for explanation). The character Richie was also amusing, though not at all believable as a hunter. His line, “FYI Winchester, words hurt” seemed to have special meaning later when Dean expressed doubts about Sam, reminding us of yellow-eyed demon's tormenting words to him from the season 2 finale.
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Nags: This episode lacked Dean's snarkisms to give us comic relief. There were no scary moments to jolt us out of our boredom. And there were no big fight scenes where Dean gets thrown into a wall and Sam gets choked to get us charged up. The result was a monotonous and depressing episode that too wordy and worst of all, damn preachy. As for Richie, he was so obviously there to be killed that he might as well have had a red shirt on, ala “Star Trek”. And why weren't the brothers even a little suspicious of a priest who hangs out in a bar? If that isn't a sign of demon possession, then I don't know what is. So far the demons that escaped hell through the devil's gate have been a blah lot. Someone needs to remind the shows writers that demons are supposed to be terrifying creatures, not chatty existentialists. With the loss of two of the show's writers, Raelle Tucker and John Shiban, I am now more than a little worried that season 3 is going to flop.
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My Rating: good episode. 3 out of 5 stars.
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