#Supernatural 1x5

[my-supernatural-rewatch]

Episode Five: Bloody Mary

Dean Winchester in the Supernatural episode Bloody Mary

Never one of my favorites but on this rewatch I realized it's actually pretty damn scary.

A child's game of Bloody Mary unleashes the vengeful spirit of a woman who travels through mirrors and seeks revenge on those with guilty secrets.

This one will probably not be that long either.

Right out the gate, we get concerned Dean who wants to talk about Sam and all the bad dreams he's having. Sam isn't very forthcoming. Big surprise.

I know we get a lot of "no chick flick moments" and all from Dean in the dialogue. But we also get Dean consistently saying to Sam basically "LET'S TALK ABOU THIS" so the narrative that Dean doens't like to talk about his or anyone else's feelings is already dispelled within the first five episodes of the first season yet it stuck to Dean for the entire series.

Make it make sense.

Right here is where I'm going to remind anyone who might come across this and decide to read it that I am not writing full synposes of the episodes so if you haven't actually seen the episodes there's a good chance you will be lost reading these posts if you're looking for any semblance of a plotline. This is definitely one of those posts that will completely confuse you if you don't know the episode. Sorry/not sorry.

I'm wondering if this is the only episode where we see the brothers bribe someone? It probalby isn't but at least it's the first. Sam bribes the coroner's assistant with money Dean won in a poker game.

Which gives us more of Sam trying to take the moral highground when Dean complains that it's HIS money by dismissing it becuase Dean won it playing poker. As if that isn't working for the money.

Christ, Sam.

Also on Sam: Yet another episode where he changes his voice when talking to the family of the victim so he sounds more sympathetic. How did ai never notice this before?

Cute brothers moment in the bathroom when they're both standing in front of the mirror talking about Bloody Mary and both refuse to say the words.

Okay, an important plot point: Bloody Mary only kills people with a terrible secret that they're absorbed with guilt over. Spoiler: Sam feels guility because he had dreams of Jessica on the ceiling burning for days before she died and he not only didn't warn her but he also took the fuck off with his brother to find their missing father who isn't really fucking missing. (Hey, does this mean we can pin Jessica's death on John?)

Another Dean myth dispelled in this episode is his intelligence. I mean they already pretty much have shown us Dean's no dunce, but in this ep he spends a LOT of time doing research, absorbing the material, and explaining things. And in one scene, he decides to do a national search for dead women fitting Bloody Mary's profile, against Sam's judgement...and THAT is how they figure out who she is.

Check out the big brain on Dean, motherfuckers!

They drive from Toledo, Ohio to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and back to interview someone, and my geography knowledge is so limited that I had to Google how long that would take. In one of what I would guess is one of their shorter trips, it's only about 3 hours round-trip. (THESE are the things I'm thinking about while watching the show?)

The name of this week's damsel in distress is...Charlie. I get there were over 300 episodes of this show but it drives me nuts how often they re-use names. (Amelia anyone?) Anyway...

Using his patented compassion and soft looks Dean's the one who gets Charlie to admit the thing she's guilty about (a troubled boyfriend who threatend to kill himself if she left him and then who DID kill himself after she responded "Go ahead").

In the Impala, the brothers are discussing how to call out the spirit and Sam says he has the guilt so he'll do the summoning. Dean has had enough of his emo, fatalistic bullshit so he stops the car and tells Sam to fess up his secret for fuck's sake.

Dean's concerns are that the spirit will kill Sam, and he reminds Sam that it isn't his fault that Jessica died. Someone should tell Dean we've decided it's John's fault because what does Dean say?

"Why don't you take a swing at ME? I'm the one who dragged you away from her in the first place."

Setting up a decades-long argument among SPN fans who think Sam made his own decision because he wanted to go back to hunting and those who blame Dean for goddamn everything.

To be fair to Sam, his response is, "I don't blame you."

Thanks for that, Sammy. (That's from me, not Dean.)

Dean really doesn't want Sam to call out the spirit but Sam is damned and determined to. It feels less like he's doing it to save poor first Charlie and more like he's doing it because he feels like he shoudl be punished for what he did (or really in this case didn't) do.

And thus begins the storyline of emo Sam feels guilty about everything that isn't his fault for the next two seasons culminating in Dean going to hell...

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Inside the antique shop where Mary's mirror is supposed to be, Sam is trying to call her out while Dean goes outside to talk to the cops who have shown up since someone is mucking about in the shop. When he can't convince the cops that he is the adopted son of Mr. Yamashiro, Dean knocks both cops out.

How often has Dean (or Sam) done this? I feel like not often.

We're also on a steady stream of slowly showing how well Dean can handle himself in a fight and I'm here for it.

Hey back to smart Dean (and skipping over pretty much the rest of the story): He breaks the first mirror that Mary appears in when she seems to have Sam in his trance and it gets Sam out of his trance, but it doesn't kill her. She shows up again and Dean...not Sam, Dean, gets the idea to hold another mirror up to her...and she kills herself when she looks in it.

Dean is a smarty. Stop telling me he isn't.

But not that smart...this time he only gets a handshake from the woman he saved...not even a kiss on the cheek. Oh well, Dean. Better luck next time.

We end the episode with Dean asking Sam what it is he feels guilty about...what his secret is, and Sam says this:

"Look...you're my brother and I'd die for you, but there are some things I need to keep to myself."

Two things: Sam telling Dean he'd die for him is kind of huge. Up until now, he's been acting like Dean is an inconvenience. So I loved hearing that. But, again, we get Sam not opening up to Dean about his secret...and yet fandom lore is that Dean is the one who always refuses to open up.

Some notes for posterity:

The significant music from this episode comes from Def Leppard -Rock of Ages (the first but not the last time we hear this one!), Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down, and The Rolling Stones - Laugh, I Nearly Died.

The brothers pose as medical students from Ohio State but don’t give out their names. When they introduce themselves to the first victim's family, they give their first names and say they worked with the victim. When Dean is talking with the police he tells them he's the adopted son of Mr. Yamashiro.

This hunt takes place in Toledo, Ohio, and they take a trip to Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Dean wears John’s jacket in this episode.

[deancrowleycas]

oh he's perfect

[deanclitoris]

[catnipster69]

Do you think the actors who had to say “Bloody Mary” three times in front of a mirror were… kind of freaked out about it?

[arcanespillo]

“Bloody Mary”

Supernatural S1E05

[ilostmyshoe28]

sam winchester season 1

[17yearslatewithlattes]

Very funny how. Sam judges Dean so hard for the ways he acquires money. But that won’t stop him from using the money! No alternate suggestions either. He’s certainly not gonna try making any himself

[perplexed-angel]

"Because unlike some people Betty's easy to talk to." Remind smr of the lily sunder car scene

[totallyunbiasedspnpolls]

BEST NEEDLE DROP IN SPN (PT.3)

This will probably be our toughest triad of polls KNOWN TO THE SPN FANDOM. (In our humble opinion, at any rate.) Firstly: what is a needle drop? For the purposes of these polls, a needle drop is an instance of music licensing, or music not written for (but brilliantly used in) the show. There were bunches, but we narrowed it down to our top 30, divided at random into groups of 10. The three winners of these polls will then compete for the A-1, first place, bestest needle drop in hit cult series, Supernatural. Hold onto your headphones, fandom, and LET'S GET VOTING!

NOTE: We didn't include 'Carry On Wayward Son', because come on, that just wouldn't be fair. Oh, and we used the original show selections, not whatever transpired via Netflix. Part 1 Part 2

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Claudia's Celebration of Life: Spark in the Dark - Voice

As the title suggests, this event is to celebrate the wonderful Claudia; her personality, her aspirations, her journey. The heart for the past two seasons of AMC Interview with The Vampire. This is to take the narrative back to her, proving she's not just a shingle roof for us. 5. Aug 19th & 20th: Claudia's Voice and Lack There Of (e.g. Claudia's diaries as her outlet and how they're used by others)

One underrated moment/aspect of Claudia's powers that I thought was really cool was in 1x5, where she's yelling at Loustat so loudly that her mirror breaks.

Sonic powers are not an uncommon trait for vampires. One example is the Bruxa, made popular in The Witcher video game & tv show.

Like Claudia, a Bruxa in The Witcher 3 was even featured singing a creepy song to lull/lure prey, the Lullaby of Woe.

However, another supernatural creature this all resembles is the Banshee (naturally, I'm thinking of Lydia Martin from Teen Wolf).

Banshees are fairies or spirits/ghosts that haunt graves and foretell people's deaths with her screams & cries.

So with all the buzz around ghost!Claudia potentially coming back in S3, I'm geeking over the prospect of Claudia as a ghostly "Wailing Woman," airing out all her grievances & resentments towards Lestat in spectacular fashion.

I want her just screaming curses in Lestat's ears/mind/soul, while he's asleep, while he's having sex, while he's enjoying a snack--and especially while he's in the booth making his album. I want her mocking his lyrics, telling him he can't sing & all his songs suck. I hope AMC's compiling all the fan complaints & critiques about Long Face and has ghost!Claudia use them on him to his face. Heckling him non-stop, shrill & ear-piercing, so he sings louder, tryna drown her voice out.

I want Claudia's voice to be a source of perpetual torment for Lestat.

No rest for the wicked!

[meat-wentz]

rewatching supernatural rn and having fall out boy on the soundtrack as early as 1x5 was Such a 2005 choice. rare cw W tbh

the thing about cw is that. they have never once slipped up on a soundtrack. they’re like banger after banger after banger and im always like trying to figure out what their financial situation is like what is the music budget over there, they’re shaping entire generations just by putting a little song in the background of a heterosexual gay dude doing the most.

[ca-suffit]

girl if it took u until 1x5 to see Lestat as abusive then idk why anyone is in ur inbox asking srs questions about show analysis. Fucking hell lol.

"framed as DV"

"redefined as abusive"

If u needed the context of 1x5 to see all that shit as abnormal in the first place then jfc. No wonder ppl luv to say it's a story about monsters, u don't even know what ur looking at. U need it to be about supernatural things cuz ur range for talking about real shit is garbage.

[ipromiseimawriter]

1x5 (Bloody Mary):

HHHHHHJEGHJHRKKJRG THIS EPISODE <:]

that's all

full spn rewatch-to-watch is starting ig (or it technically already did but y’know)

1x3 (Dead in the Water) is literally one of THE Dean eps of all time. crying screaming gnashing my teeth about this weird man’s genuine empathy for traumatized kids. Giving them the comfort he didn’t really get. nobody look @ me

Also “we don’t have to hug or anything”, bich you wanna hug your brother so bad. shut up!!!!

[supernovagifs]

Supernatural Season Masterlist

Below are Supernatural Episodes

Season 1

1x1 - Pilot

1x2 - Wendigo

1x3 - Dead in the Water

1x4 - Phantom Traveler

1x5 - Bloody Mary

1x6 - Skin

1x7 - Hook Man

1x8 - Bugs

1x9 - Home

1x10 - Asylum

1x11 - Scarecrow

1x12 - Faith

1x13 - Route 666

1x14 - Nightmare

1x15 - The Benders

1x16 - Shadow

1x17 - Hell House

1x18 - Something Wicked

1x19 - Provenance

1x20 - Dead Man's Blood

1x21 - Salvation

1x22 - Devil's Trap

Season 2

2x1 - In My Time of Dying

2x2 - Everybody Loves a Clown

2x3 - Bloodlust

2x4 - Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

2x5 - Simon Said

2x6 - No Exit

2x7 - The Usual Suspects

2x8 - Crossroad Blues

2x9 - Croatoan

2x10 - Hunted

2x11 - Playthings

2x12 - Nightshifter

2x13 - Houses of the Holy

2x14 - Born Under a Bad Sign

2x15 - Tall Tales

2x16 - Roadkill

2x17 - Heart

2x18 - Hollywood Babylon

2x19 - Folsom Prison Blues

2x20 - What Is and What Should Never Be

2x21 - All Hell Breaks Loose (Part 1)

2x22 - All Hell Breaks Loose (Part 2)

Season 3

3x1 - The Magnificent Seven

3x2 - The Kids Are Alright

3x3 - Bad Day at Black Rock

3x4 - Sin City

3x5 - Bedtime Stories

3x6 - Red Sky at Morning

3x7 - Fresh Blood

3x8 - A Very Supernatural Christmas

3x9 - Malleus Maleficarum

3x10 - Dream a Little Dream of Me

3x11 - Mystery Spot

3x12 - Jus in Bello

3x13 - Ghostfacers!

3x14 - Long-Distance Call

3x15 - Time Is On My Side

3x16 - No Rest for the Wicked

Season 4

4x1 - Lazarus Rising

4x2 - Are You There God? It's Me, Dean Winchester

4x3 - In the Beginning

4x4 - Metamorphosis

4x5 - Monster Movie

4x6 - Yellow Fever

4x7 - It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester

4x8 - Wishful Thinking

4x9 - I Know What You Did Last Summer

4x10 - Heaven and Hell

4x11 - Family Remains

4x12 - Criss Angel Is a Douche Bag

4x13 - After School Special

4x14 - Sex and Violence

4x15 - Death Takes a Holiday

4x16 - On the Head of a Pin

4x17 - It's a Terrible Life

4x18 - The Monster at the End of This Book

4x19 - Jump the Shark

4x20 - The Rapture

4x21 - When the Levee Breaks

4x22 - Lucifer Rising

Season 5

5x1 - Sympathy for the Devil

5x2 - Good God, Y'All!

5x3 - Free To Be You and Me

5x4 - The End

5x5 - Fallen Idols

5x6 - I Believe the Children Are Our Future

5x7 - The Curious Case of Dean Winchester

5x8 - Changing Channels

5x9 - The Real Ghostbusters

5x10 - Abandon All Hope

5x11 - Sam, Interrupted

5x12 - Swap Meat

5x13 - The Song Remains the Same

5x14 - My Bloody Valentine

5x15 - Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

5x16 - Dark Side of the Moon

5x17 - 99 Problems

5x18 - Point of No Return

5x19 - Hammer of the Gods

5x20 - The Devil You Know

5x21 - Two Minutes to Midnight

5x22 - Swan Song

Season 6

6x1 - Exile on Main St.

6x2 - Two and a Half Men

6x3 - The Third Man

6x4 - Weekend at Bobby's

6x5 - Live Free or Twihard

6x6 - You Can't Handle the Truth

6x7 - Family Matters

6x8 - All Dogs Go to Heaven

6x9 - Clap Your Hands If You Believe…

6x10 - Caged Heat

6x11 - Appointment in Samarra

6x12 - Like a Virgin

6x13 - Unforgiven

6x14 - Mannequin 3: The Reckoning

6x15 - The French Mistake

6x16 - And Then There Were None

6x17 - My Heart Will Go On

6x18 - Frontierland

6x19 - Mommy Dearest

6x20 - The Man Who Would Be King

6x21 - Let It Bleed

6x22 - The Man Who Knew Too Much

Season 7

7x1 - Meet the New Boss

7x2 - Hello, Cruel World

7x3 - The Girl Next Door

7x4 - Defending Your Life

7x5 - Shut Up, Dr. Phil

7x6 - Slash Fiction

7x7 - The Mentalists

7x8 - Season 7, Time for a Wedding!

7x9 - How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters

7x10 - Death's Door

7x11 - Adventures in Babysitting

7x12 - Time After Time

7x13 - The Slice Girls

7x14 - Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie

7x15 - Repo Man

7x16 - Out With the Old

7x17 - The Born-Again Identity

7x18 - Party On, Garth

7x19 - Of Grave Importance

7x20 - The Girl With the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo

7x21 - Reading Is Fundamental

7x22 - There Will Be Blood

7x23 - Survival of the Fittest

Season 8

8x1 - We Need to Talk About Kevin

8x2 - What's Up, Tiger Mommy?

8x3 - Heartache

8x4 - Bitten

8x5 - Blood Brother

8x6 - Southern Comfort

8x7 - A Little Slice of Kevin

8x8 - Hunteri Heroici

8x9 - Citizen Fang

8x10 - Torn and Frayed

8x11 - LARP and the Real Girl

8x12 - As Time Goes By

8x13 - Everybody Hates Hitler

8x14 - Trial and Error

8x15 - Man's Best Friend with Benefits

8x16 - Remember the Titans

8x17 - Goodbye Stranger

8x18 - Freaks and Geeks

8x19 - Taxi Driver

8x20 - Pac-Man Fever

8x21 - The Great Escapist

8x22 - Clip Show

8x23 - Sacrifice

Season 9

9x1 - I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here

9x2 - Devil May Care

9x3 - I'm No Angel

9x4 - Slumber Party

9x5 - Dog Dean Afternoon

9x6 - Heaven Can't Wait

9x7 - Bad Boys

9x8 - Rock and a Hard Place

9x9 - Holy Terror

9x10 - Road Trip

9x11 - First Born

9x12 - Sharp Teeth

9x13 - The Purge

9x14 - Captives

9x15 - #THINMAN

9x16 - Blade Runners

9x17 - Mother's Little Helper

9x18 - Meta Fiction

9x19 - Alex Annie Alexis Ann

9x20 - Bloodlines

9x21 - King of the Damned

9x22 - Stairway to Heaven

9x23 - Do You Believe in Miracles?

Season 10

10x1 - Black

10x2 - Reichenbach

10x3 - Soul Survivor

10x4 - Paper Moon

10x5 - Fan Fiction

10x6 - Ask Jeeves

10x7 - Girls, Girls, Girls

10x8 - Hibbing 911

10x9 - The Things We Left Behind

10x10 - The Hunter Games

10x11 - There's No Place Like Home

10x12 - About a Boy

10x13 - Halt & Catch Fire

10x14 - The Executioner's Song

10x15 - The Things They Carried

10x16 - Paint It Black

10x17 - Inside Man

10x18 - Book of the Damned

10x19 - The Werther Project

10x20 - Angel Heart

10x21 - Dark Dynasty

10x22 - The Prisoner

10x23 - Brother's Keeper

Season 11

11x1 - Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire

11x2 - Form and Void

11x3 - The Bad Seed

11x4 - Baby

11x5 - Thin Lizzie

11x6 - Our Little World

11x7 - Plush

11x8 - Just My Imagination

11x9 - O Brother Where Art Thou?

11x10 - The Devil in the Details

11x11 - Into the Mystic

11x12 - Don't You Forget About Me

11x13 - Love Hurts

11x14 - The Vessel

11x15 - Beyond the Mat

11x16 - Safe House

11x17 - Red Meat

11x18 - Hell's Angel

11x19 - The Chitters

11x20 - Don't Call Me Shurley

11x21 - "All in the Family

11x22 - We Happy Few

11x23 - Alpha and Omega

Season 12

12x1 - Keep Calm and Carry On

12x2 - Mamma Mia

12x3 - The Foundry

12x4 - American Nightmare

12x5 - The One You've Been Waiting For

12x6 - Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox

12x7 - Rock Never Dies

12x8 - LOTUS

12x9 - First Blood

12x10 - Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets

12x11 - Regarding Dean

12x12 - Stuck in the Middle (With You)

12x13 - Family Feud

12x14 - The Raid

12x15 - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell

12x16 - Ladies Drink Free

12x17 - The British Invasion

12x18 - The Memory Remains

12x19 - The Future

12x20 - Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes

12x21 - There's Something About Mary

12x22 - Who We Are

12x23 - All Along the Watchtower

Season 13

13x1 - Lost and Found

13x2 - The Rising Son

13x3 - Patience

13x4 - The Big Empty

13x5 - Advanced Thanatology

13x6 - Tombstone

13x7 - War of the Worlds

13x8 - The Scorpion and the Frog

13x9 - The Bad Place

13x10 - Wayward Sisters

13x11 - Breakdown

13x12 - Various & Sundry Villains

13x13 - Devil's Bargain

13x14 - Good Intentions

13x15 - A Most Holy Man

13x16 - Scoobynatural

13x17 - The Thing

13x18 - Bring 'em Back Alive

13x19 - Funeralia

13x20 - Unfinished Business

13x21 - Beat the Devil

13x22 - Exodus

13x23 - Let the Good Times Roll

Season 14

14x1 - Stranger in a Strange Land

14x2 - Gods and Monsters

14x3 - The Scar

14x4 - Mint Condition

14x5 - Nightmare Logic

14x6 - Optimism

14x7 - Unhuman Nature

14x8 - Byzantium

14x9 - The Spear

14x10 - Nihilism

14x11 - Damaged Goods

14x12 - Prophet and Loss

14x13 - Lebanon

14x14 - Ouroboros

14x15 - Peace of Mind

14x16 - Don't Go in the Woods

14x17 - Game Night

14x18 - Absence

14x19 - Jack in the Box

14x20 - Moriah

Season 15

15x1 - Back and to the Future

15x2 - Raising Hell

15x3 - The Rupture

15x4 - Atomic Monsters

15x5 - Proverbs 17:3

15x6 - Golden Time

15x7 - Last Call

15x8 - Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven

15x9 - The Trap

15x10 - The Heroes' Journey

15x11 - The Gamblers

15x12 - Galaxy Brain

15x13 - Destiny's Child

15x14 - Last Holiday

15x15 - Gimme Shelter

15x16 - Drag Me Away (From You)

15x17 - Unity

15x18 - Despair

15x19 - Inherit the Earth

15x20 - Carry On

[7deadlycinderellas]

Lost season 1x05-1x06

And we're back for 1x5 and 1x6- White Rabbit and House of the Rising Sun. By this point in season 1, the format is neatly set and it continues here: with our first solo Jack episode and our first Jin/Sun episode.

White Rabbit continues the survival plot- the first death among the survivors happens (a situation which allows Jack another opportunity to be the hero), and the search for water begins. Tension among the survivors- mainly caused by Sawyer's hoarding, begins

It also introduces a series-long mystery- the ghostly apparitions of the dead on the island- namely, of Jack's father Christian, and his vanishing from his coffin. This is another moment when I seriously question fans who were convinced nothing supernatural was going on- in my hunt for OG episode threads I found a couple of people convinced the coffin was put in the PLANE empty rather than acknowledge that the body moved.

It also introduces a theme and one of my early favorite character beats- literary references and illusions and and the revelation that Sawyer is a huge reader- which very much was in contrast to the violent redneck stereotype he had been set up as.

House of the Rising Sun technically is a dual Jin/Sun episode, though the overt development and point of view belongs to Sun- my memory is a bit fuzzy, but I recall most of their episodes actually favoring her perspective in general, which is interesting.

And this episode was a pretty big shocker when it came out. Jin and Sun were set up as a very specific Asian stereotype- that of the domineering, misogynistic husband and the submissive wife- and few fans seemed to question it. I saw a number of comments of people assuming that they were an arranged marriage (and an upsetting number of rather racist comments in general- I saw someone who said they would probably try and eat Vincent), and the revelation that 1. The two of them had been deeply in love and that 2. Jin's increasingly violent behavior had disturbed Sun greatly and that she had genuinely been planning to leave him was a huge surprise to a lot of people.

And the revelation that Sun has spoken and understood English the whole time was another on a continuing, but never really explored theme- that of secrets and deceptions (better known as Kate's specialty). If you asked most of the survivors on the island, Sun would probably be regarded as one of the nicest, and her ability to be cutthroat and ruthless would probably never be expected.

Stray Observations:

*I harp on Jack's 00's white male leadness a lot, but it seemingly wore on people in 04 too- quote from the TWoP thread: "I'm glad we got Jack's episode out of the way now. I don't know how much more of him I could have taken tonite! "

*Sawyer's first book from his crash hoard is Watership Down- excellent choice from my perspective!

*I know the writers toyed with pursing Michael/Sun at some point and I am so glad they didn't- one overly dramatic love triangle is plenty, and as far as couples, Jin/Sun are top tier (seriously, the flower in the airport would have melted my resolve the way it did Sun's too)

*First appearance of Hurley's CD player funded ending montages- a TVism that's end later in the season really drives the survivors situation in.

TWop thread for 1x5

TWop thread for 1x6

[arcanespillo]

“Bloody Mary”

Supernatural S1E05