 Ah, found footage. Yeah, gotta love to hate them. Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys! Hey guys, this is my review for episode 4 of Supernatural Season 8, Bitten. I forgot about this one. Not to say that I forgot that there was a found footage episode, but I forgot who is in it. And after re-watching it, I'm not entirely surprised because the acting all around is kind of trash, but I always for some reason thought that this was the episode that brought back the ghost facers, but then after looking at the IMDb, they will not come back until season 9. There are elements to like, though. There are some decent character developments, rather tragic, but actually still kind of almost relatable, particularly with the Brian character, who is definitely channeling his best dainty hand from Chronicle, which makes sense because Chronicle came out about seven months prior to this episode's airing. It's not an uncommon thing that Supernatural would borrow traits or storylines or elements of visual storytelling from different episodes, or just kind of popular things. Found footage has always been a thing, and it was really picking up steam in the early 2010s, even more so than usual, to the point where there was so much garbage out there that it was almost impossible to avoid a found footage movie, especially with the paranormal activity movie, so eventually Supernatural would obviously take on this medium. And this medium is a little bit of a sour subject with me because I have an insane guilty pleasure for found footage movies. I know that so many of them are bad, but for every five awful ones, you get one maybe decent one, of which I've talked about on my channel in previous years. So this one kind of came as a mixture because, like I said, the acting's pretty crap. The story with Brian is understandably relatable, and actually probably one of the better parts than the love story between the girl and Michael is so... we love each other. You obviously are trying to condense a lot into a 42-minute episode. It is somewhat interesting to see Dean and Sam from an outside perspective, especially seeing how much Dean chisels his chin from the side. Or the fact that they drove up onto a crime scene with the Impala. I don't know if this was meant to make the show look a little bit silly, but it did definitely with those BTS sort of shots. The horror of this episode is too full. There are some cool jump scares. I do like some of the edits in it, but this also does suffer from what a lot of other found footage movies suffered at the time being there's apparently 17 cameras in every room. Even though we've only established that there's like one or two. So it does rely off of that a lot more than it should. I do like the story of the werewolf that starts at all. Basically someone who tried to go human, or non-human, actually that would probably be the best way to describe it, but eventually fell off the wagon and then he's trying to pin it on Michael. He tries to make Michael a werewolf so he can get away with it. And I like that. I even like what he says thank you at the end when he dies. Thank you. However, it really is hard to like this episode because at the very end we get the song and dance story at the end after the brutal murder of Michael and Brian being somewhat corny, cornball. Dean is rather okay with letting her go. The reason why I say that is considering what happened with Jules State. Maybe this is Carver trying to erase those errors, erase those traits about the character. Kind of hard to like this episode even though there are some decent elements because the story's kind of the acting's abysmal from the leaves. There's a reason why a lot of people don't like this episode is because it's very hard to watch the Brian character especially. But then there's parts about it that I like. I like Brian's storyline, albeit not really well acted. I like what happens with Kate at the end with her walking down the tracks. I even like how they show the credits at the end of the episode. It kind of gives you like a, oh yeah, we were watching this the whole time. Bidden is still kind of eh, it's not the worst one of the season but it's definitely a kind of macabre one and considering Supernatural would never really try this again as far as I know I guess they did it and they walked away from it. So in the end I'm going to be kind of a little harsh on this episode and I'm going to give Bidden a 2 out of 7. It's eh. Again, I like what it tried but it didn't do it well. It didn't do a lot of its aspects well. But I will give credit where your credit is due to try a few different things. But those are my thoughts about this episode. Let's see what you guys have to say. I know this is an unpopular opinion but I always like the episode Bidden. Not only do we get a point of view of Sam and Dean through the eyes of three young friends which was interesting to see but we also get to see how their friendship gets fractured beyond repair when one of them has been by a werewolf. This episode made me feel bad for Michael and Kate who were basically made into werewolves against their will and losing their friend Brian to jealousy and craving power slash strength and wanting to be Bidden. This episode also makes you think that not all monsters deserve to go to Percatory. Also I like how it's Dean that decides to let Kate go knowing that she was made against her will kind of adopting Sam's thinking for now because of him. Benny and Cass experience Percatory. All in all a good but tragic episode. Like I said, I see where you're coming from and I do like some aspects of it. It's just like the acting's really poor. And also it very much harkened a lot to Chronicle with a positive twist at the end. Bidden honestly had a lot of good character moments to me. It's an interesting contrast to found footage cinematography compared to the one in Ghost Facers episode. Yes, very much so. Somehow it edited like an amateur student film till the end. The usage of special effects in Gore were a highlight for me in the episode. Like I said, I found it kind of funny that they evenly came to the end and she edited it all together. I always find that bit funny because who did you make it for? Just to clarify, I love the season. With that said, this is the second worst episode in the entire series and I'm not exaggerating. This episode was made in a time when found footage films were at the peak of the popularity and Supernatural decided to capitalize on it. The footage is not artistic or quality filmmaking. In fact, it is the laziest, messiest, shaky $5 camera filmmaking that there is out there. I will counter on you. There can be some that are made very well. There can be. But yes, there is a lot of trash out there. It was done only because it was cheap and nothing else. I will agree on that too. I despise this style. I mean seriously guys, we're watching our heroes literally watching the episode with none of the production value that the show is known for. Aside from the abysmal direction, all annoying characters and a terribly cheesy as hell song. I always skip this abomination, frankly, so should everyone else. It seems a lot of people really underestimate the quality of the bitten episode. A simple story doesn't mean it's terrible. What matters is that the script is great and Robbie Thomas did a great job with that. For the most, some of it, yeah. For Supernatural, the directing in this episode was out of the box. Yes, you can certainly say that because it was directed by Phyllis Garry in season three, completely different terms of storytelling. Thomas Wright is one of the best directors in the Carva era and you really see his style and the dynamic. The episode was solid, decent dynamic and with good everyone can get a second chance story. On paper, yes. Is it as executed as well as it could have been? I feel that there are some faults. This episode was interesting in a way, but in a decent way. It's not a great episode, but I sort of feel like I totally forgot about this episode when I re-watched season eight. The story, to me, was kind of sad to turn into a werewolf. His life is unfortunately turned upside down by Brian and Kate, his girlfriend. I remember the actor who played Michael in the original Pretty Little Liars. I'm glad that Sam indeed had made a choice to let Kate go. I do like that aspect of it, too. I will agree with you on that. Well, for the Ben episode, I completely forgot it was in this season. I thought it was in season seven. You're not the only one. But for the episode itself, I don't care about the characters of the plot, the jealousy, the one dude that has for the werewolf dude, and how he loved his girlfriend and even herself in that one gay joke on Sam and Dean that's kind of reflective of the fandom Shippers was about. It isn't forgettable like heartache, but it isn't really great. I'm going to repeat myself many times, but I don't have much to say about the first half of the season eight. It even isn't that long when I saw it half a year back, but there really isn't anything remarkable about most of the episodes in the first half or just wheel spinning for the first 40 minutes. All right, guys, now we're moving on to episode five, Blood Brother, and not to be a little bit of a negative Nancy, but we're four episodes in now and it's been kind of for me for season eight and I am now seeing what a lot of you said in the comments about how season eight is kind of for the first half. I've been bored. I know I said after the second episode that I was like, oh yeah, I'm actually kind of liking what things were happening. That died after episode four. So I'm hoping that the next one looks like a story episode. Maybe I can get intrigued to it into again, but yeah, season eight is, I understand why I forgot it. Anyways, guys, I hope you enjoyed the review. If you did, leave a like and if you're interested in more, subscribe. Until then, I'll see you guys on the next one.