1x06
And if I had told her, I could have saved her.
1x06
SPN 1x06: Skin
This ep really has all the nasties... I think its really good though. I love the beginning where they show Dean doing bad things, and I like the premise of the shapeshifter. We get to see gross shapeshifter skin shedding, and a really bad scene where shifter!Dean assaults Becky and is also makes her sexually uncomfortable. I thought the shifter’s background was quite interesting, about just wanting to not be alone, and it was interesting when it got compared to Dean’s loneliness (although it was really awkward because he was just begging for attention and Becky was not having it LOL). We all know Dean would never do that shit even if he is lonely though lol. And the law thinks he’s dead lmao!
Episode Type and Location: Case; St. Louis, MO (MY HOMETOWN!!)
Contribution to Show Arcs: Loneliness. But at least they have each other.
Sam: Sam thinks its reasonable to keep in touch with his friends from Stanford, and uses his bitch face for one of the first times to get Dean to drive them back to St. Louis. He genuinely cares for his friend and tells a lot of lies and puts in a lot of effort to help her out. Unfortunately that backfires when Becky actually looks into the lies and tells Sam to fuck off. However it was saved when Becky was told the truth. Becky asks if Jess knew and we can see Sam’s inner guilt about all of that get brushed off a bit.
Dean: Dean passive aggressively tells Sam that having friends isn’t really a thing in the hunting life, and Sam calls him antisocial. He flirts with Sam’s friend Becky of course. While the shifter is using Dean’s face, we see that Dean’s very protective of his car and takes it quite personally that the shifter is doing bad things on his behalf. The shifter also reveals a lot of stuff about Dean that may or may not be true, but the most believable thing Dean gets described as is lonely, since both Sam and his dad left him. He ends up getting all the murders blamed on him and also he’s technically dead in the eyes of the law. Quite convenient for them!
The Bro Relationship: We don’t know if any of it is true but the shifter talks about how Dean is jealous of how Sam went to college and got to follow his dreams for at least a little bit. Dean feels left behind and like a freak. And apparently, the shifter thinks Sam doesn’t appreciate Dean enough. Also we get a real close up glance at the Samulet in this ep!
Good Writin’: I loved how they played us by showing Dean cutting up Becky in the beginning, then going through the entire plot for us to find out that it wasn’t really Dean.
Death Count: 1
Relation to Future Events:
I can’t wait for Henriksen to come in and debunk Dean’s death in this episode lol.