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The Winchesters: Legend of a Mind (2022)
It was solid
While there was nothing SUPER exciting about this episode, it made a lot of ground work and progressed the main plot while still successfully carrying out the plot of the episode. It also gave us even more painful parallels between Dean and Mary, and the ways that John inevitably fails them both. And also hints of the toxic "all monsters are monsters and should die" dogma he tried to drill into his children. Seeing all these glimpses of the person John will inevitably become is heart-wrenching and Drake clearly understands the complexity of the character.
But what is really going to stick with me at the end is John giving Mary the bike. He doesn't ask her to stay when she stops hunting, even though he clearly wants her to. He let's her go. Something the John we know from SPN is never able to do, even if the context is different. He put her happiness first in that moment, and it was so impossibly bittersweet.
Carlos however, remains perfect and a shining gem of a character.
The Winchesters: Teach Your Children Well (2022)
the best kind of dumb
This episodes proves that silly cheesy happiness will always be hilariously entertaining. And I am so happy to see the actually utilizing costumes and make up and effects, something the last seasons of Supernatural fell out of the habit of.
The parallels between Mary and Dean are neverending, and the foreshadowing of the person John becomes gives me all the brainworms.
Seeing new monsters and legends being actualized is a delight as well, something beyond demons an witches and God, which is just people looking like people, is so refreshing, and it's all capped off with a cheesy montage is just *chef's kiss*
The Winchesters (2022)
It's a pilot. And pretty decent as far as pilots go.
While the pacing is a bit rushed and the exposition heavy, it's the sort of thing you can't avoid in a pilot, when you have forty minutes to establish characters, backstory, premise, and to have a plot carried out by the end. If this had been a two hour pilot instead a lot of the little wrinkles would have been smoothed out.
That aside, this was clearly a passion project and you can see that all the cast and crew were invested in it. The casting for Mary and John was almost unsettling in how you could see Sam and Dean in them both, and the new characters like Carlos and Latika are absolutely charming in a heartbreaking way, because you know this story doesn't lead to happy endings.
There are a lot of parallels to the original Supernatural pilot that, instead of feeling like heavy-handed fanservice, feels more like tragic symmetry and is intriguing.
The episode itself is filled with a lot of deep-cut easter eggs for the hardcore fans, and practical effects and costuming that had been missing from the later seasons of supernatural.
It's corny and cheesy, the way the best things are, without taking itself too seriously despite telling a serious story, and the climax of the episode seemed to pull vibes from Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, and even the video game Until Dawn.
There are also a lot of plot points that blatantly, and intentionally, contradict the established timeline of the original serious, leading to the mystery of how we eventually get from here to there.
Altogether this was a fun romp with enough mystery and chemistry between the characters to make any casual fan want to come back for more.
Once it hits it's stride, I think it will be a wonderful addition to the Supernatural universe.