"Supernatural"
The Kids Are Alright (2007)

Director:

Philip Sgriccia

Writers:

Eric Kripke (creator) and
Sera Gamble (writer)

TV Series:

"Supernatural" (2005)

Original Air Date:

11 October 2007 (Season 3, Episode 2)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A strange death reported in the newspaper prompts Dean and Sam to find Lisa Braeden, a woman Dean had a weekend fling with about 8.75 years ago...

Plot Keywords:

Evil Child | Filicide | Changeling | Bully Comeuppance | Attempted Filicide

Cast

Jared Padalecki	...	Sam Winchester
Jensen Ackles	...	Dean Winchester
Katie Cassidy	...	Ruby
Kathleen Munroe	...	Katie's Mom
Cindy Sampson	...	Lisa Braeden
Margot Berner	...	Katie
Nicholas Elia	...	Ben Braeden
Todd Thomson
Susie Wickstead	...	Realtor
Desiree Zurowski	...	Annette Doolittle
Stacy Fair
Alberto Ghisi	...	Bully
Megan Bowes	...	Neighbor Girl #2
Mitchell Duffield
Daniel Brodsky	...	Changling #1

Country:

USA

Color:

Color

Trivia:

When Sam is trying to find out about Mary's friends, he asks about a Robert Kamble who died on the 19th of July 2001. July 19th is Jared Padalecki's birthday.

Quotes:

Sam Winchester: [hangs up the phone] I was just ordering pizza.
Dean Winchester: You do know you're in a restaurant?
Sam Winchester: I just felt like pizza.
Dean Winchester: Ok, Weirdy McWeirderson.

Movie Connections:

References The Kids Are Alright (1979)

Soundtrack:

40,000 Miles

Trite

I know I'm pretty much alone with my opinion on this, but I find the Dean-Kid-Scenario extremely trite.

It's not the idea in itself I have a problem with, but the way it's been transformed. It's just too much, the similarities between Dean and the kid seem so forced, that it makes me feel as if the creators don't have that high an opinion of the audience so that they try to make their point so obvious that even the dumbest viewer gets the idea. The 'bond' between them was so exaggerated that I didn't feel anything between them at all.

I would have appreciated if they had handled that matter in a much more subtle way. I liked how Dean connected with the boy in 'Dead in the Water'. That touched my heart.

The two points I give this episode are for the changelings. They did scare me a little bit..