Pretty good so far.
Who is the actress playing the birth mother of the boy?
Is she Ever Carradine?
Yes, it was Ever Carridine.
I love how the kid is like the one Billy Mumy played in The Twilight Zone. I’m surprised he didn’t actually send somebody to a cornfield.
Good episode! I loved Castiel getting turned into an action figure (I want one!) and Dean’s hairy palms. I also must support SPNs tradition of hiring child actors who can actually act, through I don’t buy that Jesse would have been so mature about his decision to leave his parents.
October 29th? Sigh
Oh, and I also got that slightly icky feeling I always get when Sam and Dean lie to a kid to get into his house when mom and dad are out. Yeah, I know they’re hardly going to hurt the kid (and in this case, the kid could hurt them), but it makes me feel not-quite-right.
The mom’s story was one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen on this show.
My fave was Castiel. “It wasn’t me!”
This a.m. I was riding up in the elevator. A young lass was leaning against the other wall. When she got ready to exit, her leather/vinyl shoulder bag audibly loosened itself from where it had been trapped between her and the wall. I nearly laughed out loud. 
I want a Castiel action figure! 
It was a good episode, though I waited in vain for any Good Omens reference.
And I know I’m a couple of weeks late, but I can’t believe there wasn’t a thread for The End, which I thought was the best episode of the season so far. “This isn’t funny Dean! The voice says I’m almost out of minutes!” 
Didn’t hate it or anything, but I can’t say that I enjoyed ‘The End’ all that much.
This week’s episode, I loved.
Dean: The more I think about it the more I wish dad had lied to us.
Sam: Me too.
I know what they mean and I think I can understand. Just having the opportunity, like their half brother had, to not know about the evil would have been nice.
I thought it was a big improvement over last week’s episode. The birth mom was fantastic, the kid was great, and I also want a Cas doll. And a Sam doll and a Dean doll and a little Impala for them all to drive around in. It would be like Plastic Winchester Theater!
Okay, stupid fantasy aside, it was a really good episode. Very freaky, very sad and depressing, and had a few really hilarious moments too. All the elements necessary for a good episode of SPN.
Oh, and they haven’t been TOTALLY overt with the Good Omens references, but you KNOW they’re thinking about it. Jesse totally = Adam.
Wow, that kid is adorable. I hope Chris Carter saw this episode (quite possible considering Supernatural took two of his writers) and keeps him in mind to play William in the next X-Files movie.
We all knew that they weren’t going to gank a kid, right? I’m sort of surprised that Cas seemed to think he had a shot at talking them into it.
Mahaloth, ignorance is only bliss until you’re eaten by ghouls and left to rot in a basement. They should keep that in mind before they envy the unaware too much.
I have a question on the episode – I think I may have missed something. It seems that an “antichrist” is particularly valued by demons as something rare and special. Yet the creation of one didn’t seem especially difficult – find a woman of childbearing age who is also a virgin (okay, maybe that’s the hard part ), possess her, impregnate her, and keep possession of her until she brings the child to term. Then, voila, antichrist. I would think there’d be hundreds of the little buggers running around.
Although they kind of glossed over exactly how the impregnation occurred – maybe that’s the hard part?
The fangirls are considering this exact same point, and have come to the same conclusion, that there might be some kind of unusual circumstances necessary for the impregnantion to work.
This is what we like to call “fanwank”. Maybe the show will clear it up for us later. If enough fans go on about something enough on the internet, it will eventually show up in the actual show.
No, fanwank is what Dean was suffering from
Ahhahahaha. I am a twelve-year-old boy at heart, apparently, because I laaaaughed my ass off at that scene. Also the “his face froze like that!” scene.
I finally got around to watching it tonight–the palms were funny enough, but for some reason, it was Sam reminding him that he could also go blind that really killed me.
Dammit, we don’t get this show until a week after you guys have seen it. I’m always late to this party. I loved it - especially “His face froze like that.” “Like what?” “Like this.” And the hairy palm - “The nurse was hot, and I was bored.” So, we’ll be seeing this kid again in what, three episodes? Cas is turning into the perfect straight man.
So, would it have killed Sam and Dean to tell that poor woman how to get a non-possession tattoo?
I hate the song “I believe the children are our future” with an insane passion and just the title of this thread gave me an earworm.
For some reason, I’m always amused by Dean’s eating scenes. The fact that he apparently knocked back a whole ham amuses the hell outta me.
I liked the episode. I’ve never heard of “scratching your brains out” so that aspect didn’t make much sense, but otherwise, very funny and very sad.
I read somewhere that this started because Jensen Ackles thought it would be funny if Dean just ate a LOT, and basically just stuffed a huge amount of food into his face in a scene where he was standing around in the background at a party. (I’m pretty sure this is in the season 1 episode “Provenance”, aka, The Evil Painting Episode.) The writers decided that it was so funny that they started putting it into the show all the time, and he began to regret it. He said in the interview that he does end up eating most of the food because it’s just not always possible to spit it out.
So that’s gotta get old for him, but the result is often hilarious.
