#and also moffat casting himself as sherlock's older brother

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S1:E2 - “Wendigo” - spank your inner moppet and move on.

My main take-aways from this episode are that:

Baby Cory Monteith, pre-Glee!  He looks far older in this than he did in Glee, which causes me significant cognitive dissonance since this... came out... before Glee?  *jazz hands*  TV MAGIC!

Sam is the kind of sociopathic that you see in emotionally immature young children who don’t yet have any acknowledgment of the emotional consequences of their actions.  I literally paused the episode MULTIPLE TIMES to look at BQS, gesture emphatically, and yell, “LAWYER.”

Sam was going to be a lawyer?  Really?  Dear god, he is so shit with people it’s actually astonishing to me.  From his emotionally probing questions which obviously are opening deep wounds in the psyches of the MOW’s victims/families to his SUPER IDIOTIC AND USELESS attempts to talk down gun-totin’ back woodsman Callum Keith Rennie, I am just.  HOLY SHIT YOU ARE SO BAD AT PEOPLE, YOU WOULD HAVE MADE AN AWFUL LAWYER.

Speaking of conversations bringing up past trauma, do none of these people just develop rote, flippant answers to questions they’ve clearly been asked hundreds of times?  All of the “victims” so far, ie: the people that Sam and/or Dean need to interview, have all the trauma right there, at the surface, just waiting for a probing question to catch them off guard and bring it all bubbling back up, which... I mean, yes but also no.  I get that it’s to move the plot forward, but most people develop some sort of coping mechanism.

I did really like the whole conflict re Sam and Dean arguing over whether or not to bring the victim’s sister along.  It was pretty clear that Dean was coming at it from a “if YOU were out there nothing could keep me from your side” angle whilst Sam was approaching from a “but if we TELL THIS GIRL THE TRUTH maybe it will KEEP HER SAFE.”  These characterizations seem consistent with their respective traumas, so, yay.

Also every time Sam is an asshole, Dean gets this look on his face like, “That is NOT how I raised you, young man,” and I find this hilarious.

Wendigos are apparently made of marshmallow, since the slightest spark will cause them to catch fire, flame out, and then get all crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside.

Victim’s Sister: “I don’t know how I could ever repay you.”

Dean: *smiles like he’s got at least fifteen graphic suggestions*

Victim’s Sister: *leans in, kisses him on the cheek*  “I hope you find your father.”

Dean: *smile wipes away, replaced by emotionally vulnerable expression of deep wounding and hurt and this is the famed lady’s man I’ve heard about so often and with such detail?  Really?  This is a sad puppy.  A pretty puppy, but a sad puppy nonetheless.*

Finally: the nightmare sequence in the beginning where the hand reaches out from the grave to grab Sam made me jump and shout JESUS FUCKING CHRIST and then BQS laughed at me and said, “And THIS is why we watch it during the day, Anna.”