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This episode carry's tension throughout, but also frustrated me to no end. The people they save are so selfish, no one checked Sams pulse, the police officer who doesn't listen. Again, the lying jerk whom they saved lying over and over agin meanwhile he is a Murdered. Not sure how Sam was able to drag his mostly dead ass out of the woods..... yet I could not stop watching and hoping the boys would somehow make it through another episode alive!

You actually can jump from episode that have 9+ ratings, to each other, and miss little of the essential plot line...but should you?

I say no. Perhaps, when the series has ended, it might be the best way to stream (there are 12 seasons at present, and no signs of immediate ending), yet if these are "live" to you, as they are to me, i suggest you watch 'em. If you've watched more than 2 seasons, and you really should, and if you enjoy the show, then please watch ALL the episodes.

The creative staff spends (expends?) an awful lot of effort making the filler episodes interesting and enjoyable, and this is episode is a very good example of that. While it is certainly not worth the "10 out of 10" rating i have allotted, it is very much worth seeing.

See, there's an interesting, normal, existential, and practical side to the creative input in this show that seldom fails to fascinate: unlike Star Trek Deep Space 9, where "filler" episodes were true throw- aways, The extraneous episodes of Supernatural have a lot to offer.

Philosophically, while a show like FIREFLY has an innate value value in every episode (fleshing out the universe ('verse)) has its own fascination - even if you disallow Whedon's input - there CAN be innate value in a show's filler episodes...as long as the creative staff makes it so.

To set the stage for all "later" filler episodes of Supernatural, please bear this in mind: The brothers become - and this is a natural occurrence - somewhat complacent about "ordinary" evil supernatural phenomena...

Please, attend the psychological effects of succeeding at a grand scale: you become quite unconcerned about your ability to handle things at a much lesser scale. And, in fact, (if you view preceding episodes and demon's reaction to encountering the Winchesters), the bad guys are stunned to discover that Sam and Dean are merely human!

Add to this the fact that they have occasionally (in the past) possessed super-human abilities, their latter-day complacency is not merely understandable, but a necessary adjunct to their current character growth.

As Dick Francis's recurring character pronounces (P.S. if interested in Dick Francis's mysteries, do yourself a favor and do NOT watch the ITN series...ITN wasn't very good back then, you'll have to read the books) : (Sid Halleck) "It's not that we're that good, it's just that we've discovered things, and evil folk are over-compensating" (paraphase/ not quote!!!); one should bear in mind that success has its own series of penalties, psychologically unavoidable, and chronicalling said performance degradation has its own merit.

So may it be with Caesar.

Pretty good episode. Spoilers!!

When the officer that tased dean calls his friend, "Charlie", and then shows a picture of a dark haired man with cuts on his face, dead in his car. I know him from some other movie, but when I went to look him up, he's not listed at all. Help?

Boring plot, lame werewolfs and fake deaths nobody would take seriously.

Spoilers, but who cares? Who writes this garbage? Sam dies, apparently, and Dean checks his pulse and heartbeat. These are two things anyone can do. You don't need to be a medical professional to check a pulse. So to think that Dead Winchester of all people can't check a pulse correctly, OMFG!!! Sam wasn't dead, only unconscious. That's pretty freakin' bad! At the end they explain this by saying Sam was mostly dead. "Mostly dead" was a joke made up in the movie Princess Bride because there's obviously no such thing as "mostly dead" and only an idiot would write that into an episode as a medical fact.

We've seen this before. This felt like little more than fan service, bringing back a stupid situation to involve the Reaper. Sam and Dean are unbelievably stupid hauling people through the woods, and everything keeps turning on them 'getting a signal.' It was super predictable. I felt like Jared and Jensen were trying their best to emote, but their lines were just agonized crying "Sam!" "No!" etc. The editing was choppy and felt like a hundred cuts between locations. False tension from the 'adult' werewolves following. Just the worst.

Great acting from Jared (Sam) and Jensen (Dean), but I really did not like Corbin. When Sam got shot and was being patched up by Dean, Corbin kept pushing Dean to untie them first. I knew right then, that was a bad sign... The gunshot is more critical. Corbin could have waited 10 seconds. Then later on, he felt justified killing Sam in order to convince Dean to leave Sam behind in order save them... He's been dishonest from the beginning of the episode, and was lying throughout. And finally, Corbin then wants to change his girlfriend into a werewolf when she clearly did not want that. I know it's an impossible situation, but this Corbin guy really went too far and ruined the episode for me.