It's time for the inevitable 'Twilight' parody...
What's it about?
During a fight with vampires, Dean is bitten and transformed. To obtain a cure, Samuel tells Dean to get the blood of the vampire that bit him. However, the vampire alpha is part of the pack that Dean must infiltrate.
Review
Where to begin? I've mentioned it before but 'Supernatural' has been one of my favourite shows for the past five years and I've been afraid that going in to an unexpected season six that I would end up regretting the fact that it had continued beyond the original plans of creator Eric Kripkie.
Unfortunately I am drastically close to reaching this conclusion, 'Supernatural' has gone from the show I'm desperate to watch the second I have access to it to the show I watch once I've seen everything else. Previous episode 'A Weekend At Bobby's' did go some way to improving my outlook on the season but the first 25-30 minutes of this episode undid all that work.
Eventually a show like 'Supernatural' has to parody the pop culture equivalents of its time; namely 'The Vampire Diaries' and 'Twilight' both of which I'm told a phenomena but neither of which I care for too much. I've seen the 'Twilight' movies but never read a book and I quit 'Diaries' after the title card of the pilot.
Fair enough this episode does show the potential dangers of being a superfan of these franchises if we were to live in a world where monsters were real but beyond that this is nothing more than a gimmick episodes and in my opinion there are too many of these floating around at the moment.
When you consider previous vampire episodes of this show they have taken the idea of the bloodsucker and put a new spin on their motivations. In particular the episode guest starring Amber Benson springs to mind. This episode does none of that. At least not until the closing minutes of the show.
We do have the required moment of 'ooooh so Sam is evil?' when he clearly allows his brother to be turned in to a vampire, on a side note do not get me started on the extremely obvious plot device of the vampire 'cure' which never existed before, but aside from this there is nothing original in these plot on show here.
Clearly there are ulterior motives to both Grandpa Campbell and our young Sam but neither of which are going to be outed any time soon so be prepared to sit through many evil glares and long lasting close-up shots.
I'll bet my entire life savings on the fact that one of them will be the 'alpha' character who is references in this episode, I assume this is the beginning of ramping up the storyline of monsters acting weird.
All moaning aside once Dean gets hold of machete and lets lose on the vampires nest this episode gets interesting. It's good to see some blood splatter for once, I think the violence factor is something that has been sorely missing from recent episodes, and also good to see a villain which actually puts up a good fight.
Save for the violence there's not a lot to save this episode apart from the drug induced trip that Dean undertakes in order to return to human form but even then you could accuse this of being a plot device in order to have him remember that it was Sam who allowed him to be turned and further the distrust between the brothers.
There's not a lot outrightly wrong with this episode but then again there's not a lot right with it either. The writers really need to buck up their ideas of I might have to consider jumping ship before the end.
Next week...
When several people kill themselves under strange circumstances, Sam and Dean discover that they were driven insane by the Goddess of Truth, who forced them to tell the truth against their will. However, when the brothers track down the goddess Veritas, she uses her powers on Dean.
Overall
Story 2.5
Character 3.0
Scares 2.5
Overall 3.0
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