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Grade A! (yup, everytime I watch I love it more)
some bits of fun, an interesting premise, intriguing new characters and introduction to the new digs
Great intro with costuming and setting where we go back to a concentration camp in world war 2, wonderful performance by Hal Linden as the charismatic leader of a rabbinical group who fought with supernatural powers - he made the most of his five minutes.
the actor who played the Golem was fantastic (and how wonderful that he was not mute, but kept reminding the ex-stoner nephew Aaron of his responsibilites (echoes of Dean and Sam taking on their grandparent's legacies, even to the point of them being responsible for a supernatural creature of great power (Castiel)
I am thinking they might seriously make Destiel (DeanxCas) canon if they keep dropping the hints that Dean swings both ways, Dean dealing with being hit on, and slightly dissapointed when it turned out to not be his 'gay thing' - the interaction was a note of comedy, the entire episode ran rather dour for Edlund, but considering the weight of the torture of Jews in Nazi concentration camps, it's not really the place for light humour.
Sam getting struck with a necromancer dart was freaky, (I think that's twice he's been hit with a dart in the neck) and I will say that the blond Nazi seemed much more menacing that the old Commandan.
The storyline reminded me of the narrative in on of my fave books The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, with the Golem, and I think the addition of these characters and their League (along with the Men of Letters) and maybe even the Thule Society - a cabal of necomancing nazis - loosely based on a real Germanic pre-WW2 occult group - is great for future seasons of spn, but it does clash with the existing 'Word of God' tablet mytharc, which we get back to (finally) next week.
Other great notes, Dean's taste in 50's era menswear (the robe), music (the ancient lps) and scotch.
some bits of fun, an interesting premise, intriguing new characters and introduction to the new digs
Great intro with costuming and setting where we go back to a concentration camp in world war 2, wonderful performance by Hal Linden as the charismatic leader of a rabbinical group who fought with supernatural powers - he made the most of his five minutes.
the actor who played the Golem was fantastic (and how wonderful that he was not mute, but kept reminding the ex-stoner nephew Aaron of his responsibilites (echoes of Dean and Sam taking on their grandparent's legacies, even to the point of them being responsible for a supernatural creature of great power (Castiel)
I am thinking they might seriously make Destiel (DeanxCas) canon if they keep dropping the hints that Dean swings both ways, Dean dealing with being hit on, and slightly dissapointed when it turned out to not be his 'gay thing' - the interaction was a note of comedy, the entire episode ran rather dour for Edlund, but considering the weight of the torture of Jews in Nazi concentration camps, it's not really the place for light humour.
Sam getting struck with a necromancer dart was freaky, (I think that's twice he's been hit with a dart in the neck) and I will say that the blond Nazi seemed much more menacing that the old Commandan.
The storyline reminded me of the narrative in on of my fave books The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, with the Golem, and I think the addition of these characters and their League (along with the Men of Letters) and maybe even the Thule Society - a cabal of necomancing nazis - loosely based on a real Germanic pre-WW2 occult group - is great for future seasons of spn, but it does clash with the existing 'Word of God' tablet mytharc, which we get back to (finally) next week.
Other great notes, Dean's taste in 50's era menswear (the robe), music (the ancient lps) and scotch.
