The Winchesters
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Confession: I didnt like the first season ofSupernatural.
The two leads inThe Winchestersdont have that same spark, or much of a spark at all.
Teach Your Children Well is a fairly standardSupernatural-esque monster-of-the-week one-off with a dash of metaplot sprinkled in.
John and Mary do the classic Winchester going-undercover-while-harassing-grieving-people act, complete with rockstar aliases and superthin backstories.
A simple time-out should have sufficed, but who am I to tell someone else how to parent?
Why do they talk about Henry going missing as if it happened three months ago instead of in 1958?
Didnt Henry tell the boys he was from Normal, Illinois?
Are we just retconning everybody now?
Explain yourself, Robbie Thompson!
), and hands her the address of the Scooby gangs motel in Topeka.
On to the next episode!
Teach Your Children Well isnt necessarilybad, andThe Winchestersdoes carry over some of its promise from the pilot.
(Meg Donnelly continues to put in the weakest performance of the main cast, which is disappointing.)
Im not sureThe Winchestersis doing that just yet.
We can give it a minute.
You gotta use the good stuff sparingly!
Nothing on Marys missing cousin and very little on Johns war trauma this week.
The voice-over at the start of the episode only vaguely sounds like him.
These purple flowers, Ive never seen anything like them before.
Ill have to check the lore on this.
Latika is clearly taking on Sam Winchesters role as resident research nerd.
(Never forget the dragon from season six that was just some dude.)
Seems likeThe Winchestersis going to try more CGI monster stuff, which could go one way or the other.
Not sure John would have even heard of Mick Fleetwood in 1972.
