SUPERNATURAL ‘THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN’ Recap
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SUPERNATURAL Season 3 Premiere
“The Magnificent Seven”
The Winchesters are back and we’re all doing cartwheels with happiness but let me tell you, there are a bunch of demon hunters that are doing anything but. They’re cursing our boys because all the demons that Sam and Dean released into the world are roaming around doing a huge dance number from Buffy’s “Once More With Feeling”! Things are not right in the world… well except for us because our boys are back!
Folks, if I’m taking out the trash one night and a huge swirling black cloud of devil dust is taking over the horizon, I can guarantee you that I’m not going to investigate the rumblings coming from my trash cans. Not like I’d be running either because seriously when it came down to it, you know I’d be the older sister in Poltergeist standing in the front yard screaming “WHAT’S HAPPENING?” as that demon cloud flies into my mouth.
On the night The Winchesters opened the gate to hell, 17 cities reported seeing a strange dark cloud in the sky. Ya think? One unlucky schlump from just outside Chicago happened to be the recipient of a demon dust cocktail and before you know it he’s all devil black eyes.
Cut to Sammy sitting in the Metallicar looking at books trying to find a way to release Dean from his Devil’s deal while the ever concerned Dean is in a Motel room getting his freak on with two thumbs up! Bobby calls Sam and asks where his brother is, Sam’s response: “Pulling the electric.” LOL
After sampling the Doublemint Twins, Dean’s in the car and they’re on their way to Nebraska where they meet up with Bobby at a farm house where 3 dead and shriveled bodies await them. As they’re trying to figure out what the hell caused their death they hear noises outside. Guns drawn, they wait as a man and a woman walk in. After a moment of chaos, Bobby recognizes the couple as Isaac and Tamara, fellow hunters. I recognize Tamara (played by Caroline Chikezie) as a Cyberwoman from Torchwood! I love when geeky sci-fi meshes together.
While Bobby, I & T might be friendly, the two new hunters are not pleased to see Sam and Dean who they basically hold responsible for bringing the demon pain like never before. After a playful: “The family that slays together” Isaac quickly changes his tune and informs Sam that “This ain’t Scoobie-Doo” before officially ripping into the Winchesters with “We’re not teaming with the damn fools who let the Devil’s gate get opened in the first place.” Damn, if this is a sign of things to come there are a lot of pissed off people with scary weapons just waiting to meet Sam and Dean…
One of those people may have just found them because 12 minutes 50 seconds in we get our first glimpse of newbie Katie Cassidy … who’s smokin’ hot!
Creepy death #2 comes as Trash Can Trouble walks into a consignment shop touches some Big Faced Blonde girl, making her walk over to another woman who’s looking at a green pair of shoes (get it green… envy). She tells her she likes the shoes but the woman kindly informs her that they’re the last pair and purchases them. Outside, big faced blonde stops the woman, tells her once again that she wants those shoes and proceeds to slam shoe buyers face into the drivers side window of a car leaving her a limp bloody mess as Big Faced Blonde skips off with her newest acquisition.
Sam, Dean, and a suited up Bobby arrive on the scene. Bobby in a suit is a shocking site. It was probably as jarring to us as it was for Sam to see Dean’s plums and banana in the beginning of the episode. *dreams of fruit baskets – sigh*
Sam accuses Dean of just hitting on girls and after playing on Sam’s guilt, Dean starts coughing and giving him some not much time left speech. When Sammy backs off, Dean calls him out and then points to the video camera. He’s a multi-tasker, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
The video shows Trash Can Trouble touching Big Faced Blonde and instantly the boys have their target.
Sam’s outside, walking down the street when at 16 minutes 08 seconds, Katie Cassidy reappears, having spotted Sam and tailing him. Girl’s fierce, mysterious and sexy… she makes the perfect entrance and exit! She’s smooth too; she ducked out before Sam knew what was stalking him.
Did anyone catch the CSI reference as Sam’s loooking at the carnage outside the consignment shop? Very faintly you hear someone say: “Better call Grissom…” - stuff like that makes me laugh my ass off. Please tell me someone else caught that!
Another thing, right after this scene, the boys are in the car with Bobby and Sam’s talking from the backseat. His Texas accent flairs up for a brief second, it was pretty hot!
Cut to Isaac and Tamara in an old rustic bar that not only looks like hell, it kind of is. “The Magnificent Seven” are hanging out in there – Sloth, Envy, Pride, Greed, Gluttony, Lust and Wrath in the flesh and waiting to do bad things to good people. As Isaac tries to follow a sin out the door, with every intention of holy watering him – he’s stopped by the rest of the brood. After grabbing Tamara and quick scuffle, Gluttony convinces Isaac to down a whole bottle of drain cleaner which was bloddy awesome to watch. So gross…
Sam, Dean and Bobby crash through the bar, free Tamara and throw Trash Can Trouble into the protected trunk of the car, binding him.
At their safe house, Bobby informs the gang that they’re up against the Seven Deadly Sins. Dean, being unable to resist being a smart ass breaks into his best Se7en impersonation: “What’s in the box?” *silence* “Brad Pitt, Se7en, no?” Sometimes I just want to kiss this man for his cultural references.
After quite the angry history lesson informing the smartasses and the distraught Tamara that they’re facing demons like they’ve never seen before (Medieval/Dark Ages) they confront the bound baddy.
Big Bad’s got some learning for them as well. He thanks the boys for releasing hell on earth. When asked what he’s doing here, he just replies with a simple… “Just happy to be free!” He points out Dean’s gluttony and lust then calls Tamara out for being the embodiment of Wrath because of something that happened years prior.
Tamara’s spunky and I appreciate that. Sure, hell hath no fury and all that junk but I’m loving her and her committment to killing the baddies. They allow her to exorcise the demon from Trash Can Trouble and she could care less if the vessel survived. Go girl with your bad self.
It’s stake out time! Nothing says “This is gonna go well” like your Draino Dead Husband calling out to you while you’re holed up in a creepy ass old rickety house. Bobby tries to calm Tamara down and convince her that what’s outside is not her husband but after a minute or two she could care less and storms out of the house to finish the job!
That’s when the rest of the baddies waltz on in. Game on! First up, a fatty comes for Bobby but gets trapped in the binding symbol on the ceiling. Loved Bobby’s response: “Fat, Drunk, and Stupid is no way to go through life son!” They’ve really stepped Bobby up and I’m loving it!
Dean meets a pretty young blonde named Lust… Shocker! He makes out with her as well (shocker) before grabbing her by the hair and drowing her crazy ass in a bathtub full of holy water!
Sam meets Pride and her’s where things get interesting…
Pride let’s Sam know he knows of him, then calls him the Prodigy and The Boy King. There’s this whole speech about Pride and how he won’t bow down to Sam, The Boy King and it seems to me like there’s more to it than “look at you, the idiot that released hell on earth, son of John Winchester”… what did you guys make of it?
A fight ensues between Sam, Pride, and two other sins… 32 minutes 50 seconds in, Ruby makes her entrance armed with nothing but a scowl and some nasty ass knife!
She slays the two nameless sins and then works with Sam to take out Pride’s crazy ass. It’s a killer action sequence and honestly, a glorious introduction of Ruby (and girls everywhere who needed a new tough bad ass to look up to rejoiced)! She’s so frakkin’ cool!
Sam: “Who the hell are you?”
Ruby: “I’m the girl that just saved your ass!”
Sam: “Well I just saved yours too” (nice one Sam)
Ruby: “See you around Sam…”
WHAT!!!! She knows who he is! Sam looks blown away by what just happened and he needs to be. Some girl with a knife that can instantly vanquish medieval baddies not only has been stalking you, but knows your name and your game. Watch out boys, there’s a new hunter in town!
Obviously Sam told Bobby and Dean what happened because as they’re burying the dead (Bobby exorcised them all but only 2 vessels survived) Dean can’t help mocking Sam. “How come a girl can fight better than you?” Deserved… well deserved.
Tamara burns Isaac and calls it a day. Bobby warns her that the nastiest evil is now out there, she heeds the warning then takes off. See you soon Tamara!
The ending got pretty tense as Sam and Dean have it out. Sam wants to head down to Louisiana because he heard of some woman that might be able to work her mojo on Dean and reverse the deal he made with the Devil. Dean’s not having it and when Sam keeps pushing him, he reveals the truth. If they try to go back on the deal, Sam dies! Sam calls Dean a hypocrite and selfish. Dean tells him he can live with that because he’s got a year left and he just wants to live it up.
Dean: “I got a year to live Sam; so why I’d like to make the most of it. So what do you say we kill some evil spirits, raise a little hell, and make the most of it?”
Raise that hell Dean, just do it with your shirt off!
So what did you all think of the premiere? What about Katie Cassidy’s Ruby? What about Pride’s speech about Sammy? Is he a big baddie himself now? Talk to me!
Also, don’t forget to leave me questions for the other newbie at Supernatural, Bela played by Lauren Cohan who I’ll be talking to early next week! I want your questions for her.
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October 5th, 2007 at 9:07 am
No moans or groans from me- I frakkin’ loved this episode! I’m so excited that we’ll be seeing more of Bobby this season, cause he’s a great character- how cute did he look all cleaned up and everything in that suit’n tie?! Loved it!
I’m totally digging Katie Cassidy’s Ruby- girl take care of her own, and I got a kick outta her saving Sam’s cute little butt. She’s smokin’ hot and a badass to boot- I’m fully into it!
And that speech from Pride was BRUTAL. I can’t wait to see where all this hoopla takes our boys this season!
October 5th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Excellent recap! (I will have to go bak and listen for the Grissom comment) I wondered too about Pride’s comments to Sam and how that will continue to unfold this season. I bet this will be good! I liked that we have a hint at what Bella will be about with Ruby having this new magic knife. And if the girls kick major ass? I am all for that!
I will say the teaser for next week’s episode didn’t catch me. Knowing what I know, they just made it look like Children of the Corn or something weird like that without even hinting at the other interesting stuff that will fill that episode! Is it better to make it look like a monster of the week episode?
October 5th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Not just because it’s the season premiere and I’ve missed Dean and Bobby (not Sam so much), this episode was hands down the best in a long time. And because I love a good horror film, I love how much violence and gore they got away with! The steady cam on that woman’s head being bashed in was gruesome.
Pride’s speech. I’m glad you recapped this scene for us because last night I was a little distracted by how insanely creepy that character was. I was a little disappointed he didn’t survive because I would have liked to see him smack Sam around a little more. But thinking back on the monologue now, calling Sam the boy king, Sam’s powers, the relationship between Sam and Dean’s mom and the YED that we’ll learn more about later in the season…I’m starting to wonder if there’s a reason her name is Mary. I’m not usually the type to interpret my pop culture biblically, but you can’t ignore the allusions.
I also have to agree with everyone that Ruby kicks major ass! It’s a shame that there has been so much negativity about the two new female characters because, as we saw last night, they are only part of this larger world of hunters that the writers are revealing to us. I love it, give us more!
October 5th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Their backkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All is right in the world. Well, except there are demons running around in 17 cities, but we all know the Winchesters can take care of that in due time.
Can I just say: “Candy Gram!!”
This episode cracked me up. Dean was in rare form.
Sam was sort of weak to me in the episode though. I am thinking that was on purpose.
My theory is they will build him and his abilities up as the season progresses.
Bring on the baddie girls, bring on more Bobby. Hell – bring on Grissom.
And if next week is at all like last season’s doll episode, it is going to be scary as hell.
October 5th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I got a kick out of the episode. I’m looking forward to seeing what’s up with Ruby, and I just loved the gooooooore. Can’t wait until the tension between Dean and Sam blows up. Dean’s not in a good way. Damn, Jared’s gotten excellent as an actor.
October 5th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I didn’t think it was very good at all.
October 5th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I hated this episode, epecially Barbie’s introduction and the crappy fake looking slow motion fight sequence. I’m sorry that was just bad. I also didn’t like how they hyped up the demons and yet killed them all in less than 39 minutes. What a joke.
Overall, this episode was worse than Route 666 and No Exit.
October 5th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Not a bad episode – could have been longer. 2 hours would have been perfect.
The whole Dean’s gonna die in a year started to grate but what the hell…
Ruby – needs to stop pretending and take her squinty eyed petulant behind back to high school.
October 5th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Wow KT, really with the stab at Ruby? Girl held her own and kicked some serious ass… I think that gives her a place at the hunters table.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
I hated this episode, epecially Barbie’s introduction and the crappy fake looking slow motion fight sequence. I’m sorry that was just bad. I also didn’t like how they hyped up the demons and yet killed them all in less than 39 minutes. What a joke.
Overall, this episode was worse than Route 666 and No Exit.
Ok but seriously,all three episodes have chicks in it that the fans did not dig at all! As a female fan,I was not happy about the new bimbos either…however,this Ruby chick was pretty cool! She seems to be a loner and well she did kick ass!
Give it a chance, the new girls can’t be any worse then Jo!
October 5th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
No words, this review rocked and im so freaking excited about this season! Loved EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING!
Pride!guy….wow….the casting, writing and acting for and by this man (Ben Cotton) were just AMAZING!
‘Blond Chick’ as people online refer to Ruby, since her name wasn’t mentioned yet, rocked and Im very very curious to see where they take her storyline this season! I’ve got some awesome theories!
Man, is it next week already?!
Thanx for this Ducky!
October 5th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
I really liked the episode. As a ‘premiere’, it really set up the year in terms of telling us these are demons and spirits that haven’t been seen since the Dark Ages or Medieval times, which gives them lots more ‘myth ghoul’ scope to play with. Let us know the other hunters have it in for Sam and Dean. Liked Ruby’s introduction and the mystery around her — the way she faded in from the dark and ‘disappears’ hints that she may not be human. Reminded us that Dean has a year to live and gave the facts to Sammy about that; showed us Dean plans to live it up but didn’t over-do it … amusing but not annoying. Let us know that Sammy’s situation is far from resolved and there’s still ‘mystery’ around that. Really like Bobby’s character. I thought the acting was fantastic all ’round. Don’t have any questions for or about ‘Bela’ … content to see where Kriptke wants to take us. Should be a great ride!
October 5th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
I was torn by this episode: loved seeing Bobby, (wondering where Ellen was though), and the boys. Wasn’t too thrilled by a number of things others have mentioned already though. Dean’s character: hopefully he will be easing off the whole ‘I’m a jerk because I’m dying’ thing and soon. I like him as a smart mouth just fine, but I found the characterization flat and missing his usual charm in this. I was hoping Sam was going to smack him upside the head for a bit!
Really enjoyed Sam in this,and the fact that they actually had him lit so that you can see his eyes for once: they usually only do that for Dean, and it’s very frustrating. Loved Tamara and if she had been one of the new female characters I would have thoroughly enjoyed it: a non white, blonde long haired barbie, )as other have called her), and she was pretty believable. Ruby, can you say “Mary-Sue”? She was as awful as I feared she might be: not believable, and I’m sorry, but she can physically outfight three people that Sam can’t? I like strong female characters, believe me, but they have to be more subtlely introduced and believable: Tamara was, Ellen always has been, this chick – sorry, but I just groaned whenever she made an appearance.
Overall, the demons weren’t in the least scary, with possible exception of Pride and so wondering what his revelations will do throughout the season. Also, can we please NOT strangle Sam in every single fight he gets into – please?!! So, bring Ellen back, show us more of Bobby, give Dean his charm back and toughen Sam up some, and leave the Mary-Sue character way in the background and I’m loving the show!
October 6th, 2007 at 2:37 am
So I didn’t read your post (because I am not up to date with the show) and you’re going to be mad at me because I am only on DVD #2 of the first season. I don’t know what happened, I got side tracked and now with all the shows on TV I’m thinking it might be a while until I catch up. But I am still committed. I will watch Supernatural, dammit! If only to get as excited as all of you about the new girls and whatever else is going on.
It’s so frustrating because when I see you write something about “Supernatural”, I am always tempted to read it.
October 6th, 2007 at 8:55 am
“Girl held her own and kicked some serious ass”
Sorry man, but I didn’t see serious ass kicking. I saw crappy slow-mo that tried to make it look like she was good at fighting but only made it look like they were trying too hard with it. The only thing cool was the knife itself, the girl using it not so much. She even came complete with an incredibly lame line.
October 7th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
I’m a little a late on this so no one will probably see it. But I knew the first time I read your review “pulling the electric” didn’t sound right, because I laughted at that line but that’s not what I was laughing at. After rewatching the episode I remembered that Sam said “polling the electorate.” Just wanted to clarify that.
October 8th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
“Wow KT, really with the stab at Ruby? Girl held her own and kicked some serious ass… I think that gives her a place at the hunters table.”
No, she held her own and kicked some serious ass because of those awful corny choppy slow motion effects.
Also, because she had to for the plot. She was a total deux ex machina, coming in an mysteriously saving Sam. Because now Dean can’t even do that job anymore. They are too busy turning him into a caricature of every minor quirky trait he ever had before and losing all his depth and complexity. I wish they turn their “hunters” table back into a table for two instead of a bloody buffet. I don’t care about them. The show is supposed to be about Dean and Sam Winchester, kicking ass and taking names. Not being shown up on their own show and made out to be caricatures. The “Boy King” thing is so out of left field it’s worthy of some of the screwball turns Highlander and Sliders took when they were desperately trying to stay on the air. The desperation shows and that is never a good thing.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
The episode was cool! Wasn’t what I expected though. I thought it could have set up what the season is going to be about like the previous ones did. Jim Beaver as Bobby is always welcomed in my world! He’s sooooo cool! Dug Issac but like Tamara more! Hope we run into her again. Now…Ruby?? What can I say? She wasn’t on screen that long to give her a thumbs up or down. She did seem a bit over-acted with her “mean look”. Trying way too hard. I thought that was funny. I just didn’t buy her as being this big “badass” as she’s supposed to be. I thought I was watching a shampoo commercial during her fight scene with her perfect croft hair and the slow motion! And those lines between her & Sam..CHEESY!!!! Cheese balls…cheese wiz…whatever! Bad lines. It would’ve been better if she just said “See ya around Sam!” And Ducky, by the way, the only reason you seem to like Ruby is because she’s HOT! Typical and not a good reason. This is why the fans get upset. Not because females were cast but they were going to be nothing but eye candy which is exactly what she was in this episode. Hopefully Bela fares better.
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