Rate 12.20 - Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes

I liked it, which is very rare for me lately. I like Yockey he can stay.

The good: For some reason Yockey's episode titles amuse the hell out of me. By some miracle a Dean hero moment made it past Dabb and Singer. I was surprised by which twin bought it and even more surprised with her return. Yockey is on a streak with his characters. He has three really original Supernatural hunters with Lily Sunder and the twins. He creates a few more and he could have his own Monster Squad spin off.

The bad: Please fix the colt Sammy. Everything with Mary and Ketch.

So overall a 7. I liked the witch story and his original spin on it. Had to subtract a few points for the BoL mess they had to shoehorn in.

It was ok I guess. If Mary was written better from the start of the season her message to Dean would have actually meant something , but at this point ?. I still like the twins and I wonder where there story line is headed(please no spin-off ).

Goddammit! I wrote a review and it got lost. Xfinity wifi keeps trying to muscle in on my router.

Likes
The twins. I was pissed when Alicia got gutted. I'm not sure how I feel about Max resurrecting her. Will she really be herself? And does this mean Max sold his soul?
I begrudgingly liked Mary in this episode. But did she really think that after confessing to Ketch about finding Mick, being found in the Hunter hit room, and calling him a psycho, that he was just going to let her go?? BTW, I'm going to have to rewatch and pause on the Hunter screens. I love that detailed shit.
Dean got to shoot that arrogant witch.

Dislikes
Toni and her fucking notebook. (Actually HATE, not just dislike)
Another Winchester torture scene? Really?!?
Tasha getting killed. Good Witch/Hunter. Poor Max.

ETA- 8/10

Honestly, the best part was the way Dean gripped that wine glass. It was so.... Dean. And the red murder shirt is back. 😝

7.5/10

Dean is trying to convince himself and Sam that Cas didn't choose to do what he did at the end of the last episode, i.e. the baby made Cas do it. Sam doesn't seem to think so, but he doesn't want to say that. The closest he comes is saying that to find Cas they need to think like Cas, as in it's still Cas, and Dean asks how, because he's convinced Cas isn't in the driver's seat. Sam decides to drop it and focuses on the Colt. The Colt is Dean's. He said it in the last episode, and it's always been a weapon associated with Dean. It's broken. If we take it at face value, Dean should be the one to fix it, but he asks Sam if he can. As a symbol, does that mean Sam's unsure if he can fix the latest betrayal Dean has suffered?

Not really sure what one of Mary's phones is doing in the bunker. She hasn't really been there enough to leave one behind.

I'm getting really tired of people quoting or misquoting Dean's most notable lines back at him. Stop trying to tell me that this is the same show with all these throw backs to the early years. I can see through them, and Dean said them way better the first time around.

I really liked Dean's message to Mary. I've been saying that he's been more and more isolated from his family this season even though he's standing right next to them, and here he is alone, saying that what's going on with Cas has got him spun out, and he's looking for a life line. It's one, I think he's been looking for all season.

So, uh, shifters changing without shedding their skin is back. I thought Ask Jeeves fixed that after Bloodlines screwed it up.

Sam still thinks of himself as the outsider in his family? I thought we were past this. This scene is strange for a couple of reasons. One, based on the phone call, I thought they were setting up Alicia as Dean's mirror and Max as Sam's, because Max thought Tasha was fine, but Alicia wants to check it out just in case. That's the way it was in the pilot. In person, we get the reverse, that Alicia is Sam's mirror and Max is Dean's. Two, why is brought up at all? I think it's here to reinforce that by going along with the BMoL, Sam is done hunting the way Dean and John did. I think it was also brought up in The Memory Remains when the brother working with Moloch said that he was done following his brother's plan.

I have no idea why it took this long for Mary to figure out what was really going on with Mick being dead and the BMoL in general, but she finally did . . . I guess she couldn't exactly deny seeing the hunter recon room when she was caught standing in it, and even though I was thinking, 'Shut up,' when Mary asked about Mick's body, I did think the exchange between Ketch and Mary about the werewolf attack was kind of funny.

Then I went straight back to thinking, 'Shut up, and play nice until you can get out of there,' when Ketch gave her a choice. Why didn't she make sure he was knocked out before she left? Or search his pockets while she had the chance to search for key cards or find a way to take his prints for the scanners? Or weapons? If she had, it would've helped her find the taser and a means out of there through doors that could potentially lock her inside the base. Stupid for plot reasons. I don't think I've liked Ketch more than I did in this episode. He was funny, and he literally beat Mary with one arm essentially tied behind his back after she broke it. I also liked Mary for a change during their fight scene.

Another person that suffered for stupid plot reasons was Alicia. You're told that's not your mother. You see her convulsing, turn your back, and all of a sudden she's standing there behind you, and you say, "Mom!" happily, like you're glad she's okay, and instead of backing away from her, go towards her? Poor Max.

Since I didn't mention it yet, I find Mary saying she misses Sam and Dean annoying. What does she miss exactly? It's not like she knows them. Just leave it at, 'I'm sorry I haven't been in there for you the way I should have been, but I need to finish this,' and leave out the rest.

Not really sure why Sam wouldn't wake up. Is it something or nothing? I saw Sam being an active part of the promo for next week, so I'm guessing that Toni hasn't put some kind of a whammy on him from long distance, but maybe she did.