This episode was perhaps the scariest all season just solely because of the monster of the week, so to speak. I find voodoo fascinating; so often we think of magic as this lofty thing, untouchable by mere mortals, only by men with rare and terrible gifts. Voodoo is a very homey brand of occult. Anyone can learn vévés; anyone can grow herbs or find graveyard dust. Don't get me wrong, here; it's still occult. It's still something I'm not sure anyone should be messing with. But still. Voodoo is fascinating if only because of its 'homegrown' and holy nature. Voodoo is not seen as devil worship or anything like that - it's actually calling on gods.

Anyway. Kind of a tangent there. But I loved the ties to the 'real world' in this episode - Robert Johnson is real. His music exists. (And how hot is Dean listening to blues. Oh my god guh.) Mississippi blues music is rife with occult
references. I swear, this entire season is going to be Dean-centric, at
least until the very end. Not that that's a bad thing - Jensen is doing a breathtaking job fleshing him out, giving him a soul. Still, I do think that by now we're harping on the same issues. Dean angst. We need a HELL HOUSE type episode to break it up, not that I think we'll get one anytime soon. This episode, oh. He broke me. I don't like the pattern that something happens, Dean starts to edge out of control, then Sammy calls him on it - it's becoming annoyingly uniform - but at least that does show us how tight their relationship still is. Toward the end, when Dean told Sam to protect Evan. You could see the panic in Sam. He lives in fear, I'm sure especially in the more recent episodes,
of losing Dean. Because it's so close. I think that was the point of
this episode - to show that the line between good and evil is so thin,
even in people who are supposed to be immune. Look at Evan - making a
selfish deal for the noblest of reasons. (Tell me Dean didn't rip into
Evan solely because he'd have done the exact same thing).

There were some funny moments - I loved the Myspace bit. ROFL "Her name is
Carly, she likes kayaking, and yes, they're real." BWAH. And it fits that Dean wouldn't know what Myspace was; he never went to college. Sam looking at him and laughing was priceless.

But the entire scene with the demon. OH MY GOD. Jensen sold it as beautifully as anyone ever could. The first devil's trap under the Impala. (Though I knew when he stepped under the water tower that he'd drawn a devil's trap on its bottom. It's so Dean. XD) Dean is so human, so wonderfully Everyman; I'd draw a comparison to Jesus being tempted if I thought that Dean = Jesus in any way, shape or form. ROFL But I knew there was a possibility that Dean would fall. Even before Sam asked, I knew what the answer was going to be. I think that's what scared me so much about this eppy - the humanness of voodoo and wanting to be great, and the simplicity and natural feeling of Dean missing his father, of knowing someone made the ultimate sacrifice for him and feeling completely unworthy. If anyone goes evil in the upcoming weeks, I don't think it'll be Sam. I think it's going to be Dean. And it's going to break me a lot more than I ever anticipated it would. And the next new episode is 12/7. GAH.