Supernatural 2x06: Road Kill

[vaznetti]

I liked the double story here -- what Molly saw, and what Sam and Dean knew. And there were two ghosts, after all.

I liked that Molly was a ghost, too: I mean, I started to wonder the minute she got out of the car all alone, and there was more and more evidence for it as the episode progressed. It was a neat way of approaching a case -- from the ghost's perspective, for a change -- and a nice insight into Sam and Dean. Sam, especially, who was so gentle with her, and I liked the way a lot of what he said here looked back to Houses of the Holy. No one knows where the dead go, of course, not even the people who lay them to rest.

I didn't really like that, even though she was a ghost, she was playing the screaming-girl-victim part. I could have lived without that, really.

"You're like a walking encyclopedia of weirdness." I <3 Dean!

And as always, elements of Molly's story (and of the farmer's) mirror elements of Sam and Dean's story. Dean's face, listening to the speech Sam gave, at the end, about needing to move on, was interesting: he still isn't quite sure he should be here either, although he's not ready to give up and move on. And Sam's response to the photograph album, that ghosts are good people, often, at least at first -- well, that's his story too, or might be.

I rather liked the shot of Sam and Dean reading microfiche, rather than finding newspaper articles online (I wasn't hallucinating that, was I?) because really, searchable online databases of local newspaper articles are far less likely than werewolves. And speaking of that, next week's epside looks awesome.

A nice episode, aside from the screaming girl stuff. But now I'm sleepy; this was a long day. Yes. Sleepy.

Comments

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

The screaminess was one thing, but the clothes really set me off. Those low-rise jeans were absolutely not happening in 1992. The devil is in the details.

[vaznetti]

You know, that put me off as well -- I kept looking at her and thinking that she couldn't be a very old ghost, because her clothes were so modern!