 That's a hell of a Valentine That's a hot mug guys. Hey guys, this is my review for episode 14 of supernatural season 5 my bloody Valentine it is To me one of my all-time favorite episodes of this show. I love Everything about this episode. I love the fantastic combination of humor horror Suspense and action. I love the lore building. I love the turn on the idea of the Famine horseman. I love what happens to all the characters in it I love the insinuations that are kind of given in this episode even if season 6 would kind of directly Contradict what is said in this episode, which I will get to in a minute I like how this episode proceeds right from the beginning all the way to the end And that's mainly because you've got a fantastic script written by Ben Endland If I were to say if all of the scripts that he ever wrote, this is one of the best ones the whole episode is just freakin perfect almost in terms of Not being one of the season finale episodes Not being a season beginner episode But being just one of these episodes in the middle of the season that's just really fucking good That is what my bloody Valentine is. This episode is also directed by Michael Rawl Who actually did direct a lot of really good episodes of this show And this is the best one he ever directed in my opinion And I find it very funny that he would go from directing episodes like this of this show To being a regular director of When Calls the Heart Hallmark's pinnacle show. Such a divide. But this episode starts off with a complete banger You see these two couples come together. They say goodbye But then they start to kiss and it gets a little bit more frisky And you're kind of like, okay Where's the ghost and then they start to take bites out of each other and then they proceed to each other to death And you're already going what the fuck is going on and that is how You start an episode off right dig your little claws your teeth into the audience With your opener and their hook for the rest of the episode the brothers come to this town They find that the people are killing themselves are dying in apps of excessive wants lost Whether it's eating themselves to death drinking themselves to death are eating others to death There is this Incessual lust for cravings Loss desires in this town and it starts with a few but eventually grows to more and more and it's all linking to famine which Leads me to one of my favorite little turns on the whole biblical lore of the poor horsemen Everyone else is kind of dead on to what you expect But famine is the one that they got to be a little bit creative with instead of famine being literally people starving to death They are starving for what they desire so they will kill themselves eating what are Taking and consuming That which what they are starving for I love that little turn on it's really Creative twist and a creative angle from Ben I gotta give him credit for that because it works towards everyone's desire the main characters in this show We see Sam get completely hungry for even blood. We have Castiel go on a complete bender because his Vessel Jimmy has a fascination with red meat And so he's eating burgers by the truckload apparently gets into the low hundreds point in the episode and we see this effect Other people not just the main characters, but different people and they go for some pretty decent special effects There's that guy who eats so many Twinkies at his stomach burst and you just see this giant bowl in his stomach And we see the doctor drink himself to death There is that guy who sticks his hands in the deep fryer and pulls them out and starts to eat the fries And if you pause and you look Melting flesh on his hands is really well done Like I gotta give the special effects guys and the special effects makeup artist credit because it looks really good And it's like a terrifying scene. You're just like And that's how a lot of the elements in this episode are but you also have to remember There's a fucking Cupid in this episode I always forget the Cupid's here and I think I think I'm correct The whole Cupid angle does come back later on in the show not this season But like way down the road this Cupid guy is one of the funny bits of this episode Because like I said Castiel's hunger is in this and it's actually really really funny There are a few other jokes talking about the whole Want desire being funny, but then it gets really serious and it does a very very Good dip into serious once famine arises this frail looking old man who is just Riddle but literally Surviving by consuming everything that's around him and watching other people consume around him I think it's a great representation of the character and I love his comeuppance I love that he's literally defeated by the very thing that he wants his own Consumption is what defeats him because Sam is able to use the beam inside him to pull the pieces However, there is one little bit in this episode that has always kind of been a bit of contention with me It is mainly for people who are all about the whole soulless Sam thing from season 6 there's a conversation between famine and Dean that is reflecting on the fact that Dean hasn't shown any signs of Craving or anything throughout this whole episode. He just seems to be normal and it's when famine touches him He says you've got a bagel nothing in there. You're broken. You have nothing You just have no hope. You have no desire. You have nothing and from my interpretation rewatching and maybe it's a Little bit vaguer now Really listening to the dialogue But what I've always gotten from that conversation is that Dean doesn't have a soul or he has a soul That is so utterly broken But I always got the idea that he didn't have one and so that's why he's seeing Sam Without the soul in the next season kind of always threw me off because I was like well What was this conversation here with them and then why is it that? A broken soul is apparently a means of not being able to be affected by it I always just got the opinion that Dean didn't have a soul and that was why he wasn't affected. Middly now watching the dialogue again It's more kind of leaning towards a broken soul But I'm kind of interested tell me what you guys think about that in the comments about this episode if you guys Thought we saw that you had a broken soul or he was soulless. What was your first interpretation from it? So, yeah, really great pieces of dialogue here and there a fantastic comeuppance for famine and in the episode ends with the brothers Back at Bobby's house with Sam getting gold old gold turkey in the The bomb room so I love it I love this episode right from beginning right to end it was actually with Dean just looking up at the sky and just Being completely hopeless considering you would think he'd be celebrating the fact that they just took down another horseman But he's still hopeless because back on like what four episodes ago We saw him shoot the devil in the face and I didn't do shit I like how this episode really reflects on the characters and their emotions their cravings But also just the personalities in general and I love how they take down Famine and I just love the interpretation of famine the horror the humor the action the the suspense is all top Frickin notch in this episode is one of my favorites that the show ever created and that is why I am going to give my bloody Valentine a 7 out of 7 it's a Freakin near on flawless episode. It is really really damn good I was very happy to watch this episode again And I'm hoping that you guys share if not at least understand where I'm coming from in terms of thinking how great this episode is Without further ado, let's see what you guys have to say about this episode my bloody Valentine That was grim who are we when we are starving lusting and never satisfied? Well, we are monsters of course My only problem of this episode would be the absolute contradiction to free will and uniting John and Mary via Cupid If they actually couldn't stand each other and in this episode I am reminded that supernatural could often be unnecessarily cruel If there was no reason to portray the obvious love between John and Mary as a completely forced and and therefore false Cupid's arrow could have been characterized as an eye-opener that simply reveals the heart rather than what overrides it This aspect of the episode undermines John's grief and his entire backstory if his love for Mary was nothing more than heaven's Contrivance did dad write that part of the episode funny. Actually, I never thought about that I Figure that it was mainly them getting together and staying together during her hunter days because she was caught She wanted to go back to being a hunter But that actually is a decent point actually. Yeah, no, I don't really have a counter for that Shannon You actually bring up a very good point about this episode Supernatural my bloody Valentine is my second favorite episode up for the season It is without a doubt the darkest episode ever shown from the show throughout 15 years call me biased I feel like nothing can really top how dark this episode was once again a town is dealing with a sociological issue from a horseman Except this was done fundamentally better in terms of how everyone's individual famine is their own destruction I really love the editing and the cinematography and the music and the special effects The dialogue is perfect when balancing out the humor and the dark tone overall and it sets up Why Sam is the only perfect vessel to contain Lucifer by taking in a ridiculous amount of demon blood in his system Which is an interesting thing that Lucifer has to do to maintain Sam to be his vessel The end where Sam has to go through the detox all over again and Dean begging God for help without an answer made this season Utterly hopeless and heartbreaking but in the best way possible 100% Joe you you nail everything that I love about this episode as well This is easily one of my favorite episodes of season 5 and supernatural in general this episode packs a lot of things into 40 minutes You have a big revelation about John and Mary's love for each other was all well orchestrated by heaven the whole time The four horsemen of the apocalypse story line the Sam Remaining addicted to demon blood and Dean being dead inside each of the various plot beams seems like they should be in separate episodes But the director and the writer of my bloody Valentine managed to blend each so that it all fits and it works The fact that Michael Raphael and other angels are essentially breeding the bloodlines that they'd want to see continue because they wanted the Apocalypse to happen pretty much confirms the fact that angels are no better than as Raelle and the other demons The biggest highlight for me is without a doubt the horseman famine what an amazing performance by James Otis He was so damn creepy and frightening such a cool concept with the introduction of all kind of the induction of all things hunger He is my second favorite horseman my favorite crope from him is don't take much hardly a push Oh America all you can eat all the time consume consume a swarm of locusts and stretch pants And yet you're all still starving because hunger doesn't come from the body. It comes from the soul Yes, I that is a very great part of that episode This episode gave a slightly different spin on Dean and Sam's relationship the episode the show has placed Played up the tension between the two for a while with Dean not trusting Sam and Sam being pissed at being treated like a child But when Dean has a very little emotional break as his own little emotional breakdown and out of desperation praise to God at the end This episode it wasn't him being disappointed in his brother It was him having absolutely no hope left and anything because of the way his brother was being used such a sad sad scene Very good acting from Jensen Akles all-in-all perfect episode for me seven out of seven But I'd be agree on that and yes James Otis does a fantastic job in this he's Fantastic character in this like for a one-off episode if I were ever to make a list of one-off characters Like characters and only ever appeared in one episode as famines probably in the top three Let alone the top five my bloody Valentine is one of my favorites of the season I love Sam and Dean finding out their parents originally hated each other and the angels made them fall in love with each other because They needed to be born the whole thing with Dean being empty inside There's nothing that the horseman can use was so well done Sam's appetite for the demon blood coming back was brilliant And one of the darkest episodes ever done and yeah, no a hundred percent I'm liking how you guys all agree with the darkness of this episode. They pushed it They very much push the the ratings that they could get for this episode Amazed they didn't get it. He must have gotten in trouble for some of the stuff that happened in this episode My bloody Valentine one in contrast to what Michael referred to as God's plan on folding We find out the angels prioritizing putting John and Mary together manipulating their lives in a lot of ways Michael is very similar character to Lucifer both characters have manipulated the the brothers lives both played the sympathy card and Divert blame away from themselves and ultimately do so do much harm Well while coming across as gentle to we will never see a nude cupid again after this episode I'm sure Dean's fine with that. Oh, okay, so maybe I am wrong. I swear. I thought the cupid character came back That no he does, but just not nude maybe Three or two yep three three. Okay, so three part one this episode was friggin brutal Especially that opening scene with a couple eating themselves. This is probably the most hardcore horror scene of the season That's something I missed about this show in the final years Memorable opening scenes and a willingness to shock and horrify the audience the last few seasons It was very tame by comparison 100% they Really they were more so going for like an event back Comedy adventures show rather than a horror show like the show didn't scare me at all towards the end This is a very strong story episode well written and executed But I didn't like how Steen's brokenness is convenient to him To keep him from being affected by famine which shouldn't be possible But this is never addressed again in the series. It feels odd in my opinion Yeah, and that kind of ties into my whole calm comment about was What was the difference between Dean's brokenness and Sam having no soul? I thought that Dean's soul was so corrupted or gone from being tortured in hell That that's why he was the way he was but I don't know Too badass Sam moments wait your turn to the demon He's going to feed on and then later when he stops famine Despite having being everything stacked against him Sam manages to take back control and say no to famine This was a sign of hope that he could possibly change his future The actors for all the horsemen were fire in their roles despite being a decrepit old man with nasty teeth Literally bound to a wheelchair famine has so much presence. He reminds me the emperor from Star Wars He seems old and helpless, but it's actually extremely powerful and dangerous the mystery of what the horsemen are Actually is still unanswered and that makes these men all the more fascinating six out of seven for me Yeah, that's what I kind of like I don't know whether they were demons whether they were reapers whether like whatever they were It's kind of cool that we never really a hundred percent find out what exactly they are when I saw this episode I immediately thought to myself. Oh boy Valentine's Day episode to the CW get ready for cringe It kind of starts like that and then it becomes one of the most gruesome episodes in the series I mean Jesus fucking Christ. This is insanity. They actually made an episode about the dumbest American holiday Actually entertaining famine is introduced and he is appropriately creepy as hell villain that the director takes full advantage of and Uses every opportunity he has to make him look and behave even more unsettling That scene where he reveals to Dean that he is so broken He's basically dead inside is just breathtaking bonus points also first demon blood Sam But the thing that we should appreciate about most about the bloody Valentine is that it exists You know why I love Supernatural and especially for these earlier seasons because they were made in an era where they didn't care about the SJW woke political propaganda that has infested entertainment today, and we could have fun with all the way through if this episode Would air politically correct and woke for 2021 the censors in there So Joe's would have cut and butchered it and make you all the more stupid for a political agenda The line famine says don't touch a hair on that sweet boy I'm 90% sure would have been twisted into some reference about Trump It's episodes like these remind me of the good old days and this stuff like that Like admittedly. Yeah, there are some shows that are quite heavily affected by that the back woman show I've worked with a few guys who have worked on that show and a lot of people say that they gag off to the side When they're reading the scripts, I do enjoy that There are certain shows that continue to kind of put press against stuff like essentially I like a watch a lot of HBO Shows for that like for instance the Watchmen one. I found that a lot of people got upset by that for Supposed like propaganda stuff in it, but I thought it actually worked pretty well They exactly worked into what the element of the show was but no I can see where you're coming from there There are certain shows that have been affected particularly movies I definitely found the Star Wars series got affected by that my bloody Valentine is great episode But also the most bloody to me I laughed when Castile thought that Cupid was gone had gone rogue and it was interesting seeing him having a craving for hamburgers And it was so funny seeing Dean punch that angel when he finds out that angels had a big part in his parents ending up together But also a sad as seeing Sam giving into his bloodlust for the demon blood and seeing damn confront Dean confront famine in the restaurant and famine telling Dean that the reason why he isn't being affected is because Dean is already broken inside and he was right unfortunately I was sad seeing Dean at the end of the episode begging for God to help him Yeah, no, it's All-in-all 100% fantastic episode humor wise gore wise horror wise and emotionally Story driven wise all right guys. 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