Bedtime Stories - A Review
Bedtime Stories
Supernatural Season 3, episode #5.
Airdate: Thursday Nov 1, 2007.
Written by Cathryn Humphries.
Directed by Mike Rohl.
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Synopsis: Click here to read the episode summary
Heading to New York to investigate a suspected werewolf attack, the Winchesters have another argument about Sam wanting to break Dean’s demonic contract. Without resolving the issue, they proceed with the case and find that the attacks were done in a fairytale like way by apparently ordinary people. This turns their attention to a ghost child that can control people’s minds. But there’s no grave or bones to burn because this ghost is that of a long-term comatose patient. While Dean fights off a man who believes he’s the big bad wolf, Sam gets the girl’s father to accept that his daughter was comatose due to no accident and to let her go. After the girl dies and the ghost vanishes, Dean also tells Sam that letting go is good advise. Later, while Dean sleeps, Sam packs up and leaves taking the colt with him. He confronts the crossroads demon, but she refuses to let Dean out of his contract. Then, even though the demon said that her death wouldn’t get Dean off, Sam shoots and kills her.
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Praises: Supernatural returned to it’s roots in this episode and very successfully too. I was happy to have an episode with no distracting new cast members. It was just the boys doing what they do best with some brotherly interaction and some mytharc thrown in. Sam did the talking, Dean did the fighting, and they got rid of the bad thing in the end. There were even flashbacks scenes of their Dad in the intro and Sam mentioned him in his remark to Dean that “you’re not Dad!”. It was good to be reminded that though John is gone, he’s not forgotten. A couple scenes stood out for me in this episode. When Dean walked away from Sam right after telling him that he should just let him go, was particularly poignant. My heart wrenched a little for Sam. And, when Jared shot his girlfriend…um, I mean when Sam shot the Crossroads demon. It seemed cold, but I uttered a “yeah!”. Demons lie and if there was even the slightest chance that it could get Dean out of the contract…[wow, did I get drawn into the story there, or what?]. I also liked the twist in the case where the ghostly remains turned out to be that of a coma victim.
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Nags: As always, my biggest nag is with the “scary” creature. This time, the little girl ghost was just too adorable. She was not even a little evil looking. No way was she believable as an angry ghost capable of killing multiple people. Getting a child to appear evil is hard to do, but a little of the ghostly distortion like was done in Provenance would have helped. And why was this ghost so different that it was capable of taking over people’s minds? Was it because it’s body was still alive? Were the people that it influenced special in some way? I feel gypped because Sam didn’t give a good explanation for this one. All in all, this episode, though not especially outstanding, was comfortingly familiar (yes, you can say that about a “horror” show) and an enjoyable way to spend an hour of my time.
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My Rating: excellent episode. 4 out of 5 stars.
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