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Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
The final scene begins with a shot of one of the “no trespassing” signs we saw at the start of the teaser but now, on reflection, it seems to have acquired different connotations . . .
considering violation has been a major theme of the episode: violation of the patients’ human rights, of the victims’ minds in general, and of Sam’s mind in particular. Well, I guess you could say that Dean prosecuted the hell out of Dr. Ellicott!
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Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
Warning: image heavy post.
Now we come to the juicy filling in the pie: the big confrontation that the episode has been building to. The setup begins when the teenagers hear a noise, then we see a shadow on the wall that we recognize as Dean’s. Unfortunately, Kat doesn’t, and Dean is forced to dive for cover as she promptly takes a shot at him. We get a couple of good close ups of the wall where the rounds hit so we can see how much damage the salt gun can do. That may soon become relevant . . .
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Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
Warning: image heavy post.
Sam is presently cornered by the spirit of a woman who appears to have an exploding eyeball. A lot of these spirits seem to have issues with their eyes for some reason.
Kudos to the make-up team, though.
Dean promptly dispatches her with the salt gun, but Sam is puzzled that the spirit didn’t attack him: “if she didn’t want to hurt me, then what did she want?” he wonders.
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Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
Continued from #2
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
Continued from #2
Warning: image heavy post.
Next scene finds Sam in a patients’ waiting room and, as he’s invited into the office, the camera picks out a sign on the wall that identifies the doctor as James Ellicott, linking back to the Sanford Ellicott name plaque from the end of the last scene. On the doctor’s desk there is a photo of a man with a young boy, whom we assume to be father and son. It appears psychiatry is the family business.
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Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
Continued from #1
Warning: reference to homophobia
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
Continued from #1
Warning: reference to homophobia
Sam’s conversation with Gunderson has established that the rookie cop’s homicidal/suicidal outburst was unprecedented, so the brothers decide to visit the asylum. They have to bust in, of course, so we get an opportunity to admire the brothers’ athleticism:
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Hi everyone,
Sorry it’s been so long since I last posted one of these. I’ve been giving some thought to the way I do these recaps and I’ve come to the conclusion that the essay length segments I’ve been posting are a lot of work and take me too long to prepare, plus I think the length puts some people off reading. So, I’m going to try a new approach with this one: I plan to post in bite size chunks examining just two or three scenes at a time. I’m hoping this will make it easier for me and enable me to post more often, and hopefully it’ll make the posts easier to digest for readers too.
Please let me know what you think of this change. Here goes:
I confess this is another episode that I’m not overly fond of, and I’m not sure why; it hits all the right notes with a solid MOTW story, the guest stars are entertaining, and it’s an important episode in terms of the brothers’ relationship. I suspect my ambivalence may simply be because the make-up FX for the ghost-patients’ physical deformities really creep me out but, if that’s the case, then I’d say the show was just doing its job!
We open with a spooky shot of the asylum that will become the main focus of the action.
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Sorry it’s been so long since I last posted one of these. I’ve been giving some thought to the way I do these recaps and I’ve come to the conclusion that the essay length segments I’ve been posting are a lot of work and take me too long to prepare, plus I think the length puts some people off reading. So, I’m going to try a new approach with this one: I plan to post in bite size chunks examining just two or three scenes at a time. I’m hoping this will make it easier for me and enable me to post more often, and hopefully it’ll make the posts easier to digest for readers too.
Please let me know what you think of this change. Here goes:
Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
I confess this is another episode that I’m not overly fond of, and I’m not sure why; it hits all the right notes with a solid MOTW story, the guest stars are entertaining, and it’s an important episode in terms of the brothers’ relationship. I suspect my ambivalence may simply be because the make-up FX for the ghost-patients’ physical deformities really creep me out but, if that’s the case, then I’d say the show was just doing its job!
We open with a spooky shot of the asylum that will become the main focus of the action.
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