Episode 5.11 Sam, Interrupted

It hits me once in a while how many monsters almost managed to take out Sam and Dean, and the wraith in this episode is an especially good example-- she of the “okie dokie” and the absolute confidence in her own understanding of the situation to control it all, to manipulate the story to her own advantage with a smile on her face and a spring in her step. She really thought she was invincible, right up to the moment she wasn’t.

Is that just “plot armor” for Sam and Dean? Eh, I don’t think so. I mean, the angels weren’t really worried for the vessels of Michael and Lucifer, you know? *Zachariah voice* we’d just bring you back. This really is Sam and Dean just being better than the monsters, back in the day when they weren’t Sam and Dean Winchester the legendary hunters monsters tell scary stories about in the dark.

File all that under: Why I have zero problems with later canon that outs Chuck as God controlling the story all along. This is why Sam and Dean are his favorite characters.

Okay, since all of that has nothing to do with what I actually talk about in this week’s episode, let’s just get on with it...

LINKS!

The Superwiki page for this episode

My tag for this episode

Scripts (production draft, blue revisions, one line schedule, Director’s notes on blue revision draft)

The Dr. Babar clip from the movie Fletch (13 seconds)

Filming locations map

Casting call for Martin and Erica (and her original surname was Fletcher, edited to Cartwright for production… still a “job” name but a very different job)

My rewatch notes from June 2019

My rewatch notes from April 2017

CW Promo for the episode that aired immediately after 5.10, leaving viewers on a pretty dark note about what this episode would be like in the wake of watching Jo and Ellen die

A later promo clip that let the audience know it’s not all darkness, it’s also uncomfortably silly

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