Sobrenatural Metamorphosis (2005– ) Online

At first I considered this to be "only" a good, 7/10, episode, but on second viewing, I am elevating this to a *great*, 8/10, episode. As is often the case with less comedic, tense, edge-of-your-seat episodes like this, the less in-your-face details may be left overlooked. Especially when the writers are very in-your-face about hammering home the similarities between Sam and the case of the week.

There are great character moments between - and during! - the action, offering the actors chances to shine. And there is a *really* compelling philosophical debate going on between Sam and Dean. It also helps that the guest star of the week, Dameon Clarke, is *very* good in his role. Then again, he has a long CV - and one tends to learn a bit of acting in 20 years!

The season opener was fantastic, but the second and third episode introduced a recurring flaw: when Castiel made his appearance, he also made a huge revelation that was *great* as an episode-ending twist, but it was rather vague, wasn't it? Obviously, Castiel has his reasons not to disclose details (and at this point, he may not even know them), but it has been really frustrating to watch Dean seem *not* at all interested in posing questions about the matter to Castiel. Or to *anyone*. This is similar to what often happened in Lost - for some implausible reason no one, most of the time, asked 'What' and 'Why'. And since we can see from the opening credits that Misha Collins is AWOL from this episode, you can pretty much draw some conclusions from that. Also, the obfuscation recalls bad memories of The X Files - the difference being that in Supernatural, the writers know where the Mytharc is going whereas in The X Files they *actually* were making it up as they went on.

Bottom line: greater episodes still to come, so momentous, so astonishing that compared to them, this warrants no more than 8/10. But that is still waaay ahead of most of the crap on TV.

Dean witnesses Sam using his powers with Ruby to exorcise the demon from a man. Dean has an argument with Sam that tries to explain that he is saving lives instead of killing possessed people. When Sam receives a phone call from the hunter Travis, the Winchester brothers head to Carthage, Missouri, and Dean discloses his tragic encounter with their parents and grandparents to Sam and what Castiel had told about him. Travis asks the brothers to see if the local Jack Mongomery that lives in the suburb with his wife Michelle has any weird behavior and they find that Jack is starving and eating raw meat. Travis explains that Jack has a cursed gene and is in a metamorphosis process to transform into a flesh eater Rugaru as soon as he tastes human flesh. Sam feels sympathy for Jack and convinces Dean to have a conversation with Jack first. They tell him to control his instincts; otherwise they would have to burn him alive.

"Metamorphosis" is a good conclusion of the last episode. Sam feels in the same situation of Jack, doomed to live with a cursed blood. The poor Jack has no alternative in the end and makes his choice. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Metamorfose" ("Metamorphosis")

Carrying on with intense episodes, after "In the beginning", this episode is even more intense and heartbreaking at some points. The season goes on with putting Dean in focus in previous episodes but no, it is Sam who is the centre of attention now. The show is back with the monster of the week theme, with some gross and gory scenes which sure carries the signature of an outstanding director like the late Kim Manners, who has delivered some of the scariest and goriest episodes of the series.

The episode keeps us confused between the two compelling but opposite point of views of the brothers:

• On one hand there is Sam, who was left alone in a world that works against him after Dean died and he was supposed to keep fighting by himself, to carry on his own. Sam knows he has something evil inside which he can't fight, he is scared but wants to turn it to something good, he wants to keep saving people (and it seems that Ruby is manipulating him some how). Sam justifies lying to his brother because he doesn't like the way Dean looks at him as if he is a freak. You can sympathize with the guy but his Machiavellian view "The end justifies the means" is risky.

• On the other hand there is black and white Dean, who has recently been through the pain of failing to save his family to the yellow eyed daemon. Dean is hurt because Sam keeps lying to him, he is worried because Castiel has warned him and scared because Sam is headed to a dangerous road and might turn evil someday. (But I thought he was a bit hypocrite when he told Sam that God doesn't want him to do this as he himself was just recently struggling with his faith issues, so now he is using God as an excuse?). Dean had every right to be angry with Sam but I wish he could be more understanding of his brother.

Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki both deliver great performances as Sam and Dean, with the former finally comes clean about what he is doing and the latter is both fearful and furious at the same time.

This episode also focuses on a formerly discussed idea but with a fresh feeling on how Sam is relating to Jack and his wish to save him because it gives him hope he can be saved (much as his desire to save Madison on "Heart") and his disappointment in his failure to save the guy leading him to come to the decision to stop using his daemonic powers much to Dean's relief.

On the down side: Why are all other hunters that the guys come across are jerks? Other than Bobby they all are stupid and end up dead pretty soon (I'm surprised any of them lasted long before we saw them) look on the history of hunters on this series:Daniel Elkins, Gordon Walker, Isaac, Richie, Kubrick, Grossman and Samuel Campbell all of them made some pretty stupid moves and ended up dead, But this guy Travis he sure is the stupidest, the guy takes the most ill fated hunter award. Besides I'm a little confused to why did he call Sam, apparently the man hasn't seen the boys in years and has no idea Dean went to Hell so it would be more realistic if he called Dean since he was more involved in the job than Sam who was in school.

All in all a very important episode, you can't skip this one.

This guy is changing from a human to a flesh eating monster. A hunter says Sam and Dean have to kill him and any offspring from the monster. I believe the guy was changing into a monster. The right decision was made with the boys flaming the monster in the making. The episode is the micro of the macro. Will Sam Metamorphosis into a demonic monster? Will Dean pull the Gordon on Sam? These questions will be addressed as the season unfolds. A tease or taste of future events. A good episode 9 out of 10. The series gets stronger with each new episode. I just can not wait for next week show. The real Ruby should come out soon or later. I bet Dean will but heads with her.