Supernatural S01E01 Pilot

I forgot how generally creepy this was. You can see me jump when that bird flew out of NO WHERE at the house.

I vividly remember the first half of the episode. And can I just say OMFG LOOK HOW YOUNG AND SMALL AND CUTE THEY ARE HERE. I mean I haven't actually seen any the later episodes in season 6 or 7 but I've seen gifs and images on Tumblr. And they're baaaaaaabieeeeeeeessssssssssssss  heeeeeeeeeeereeeeeeee.

So the whole purpose of this episode was to set up the premise of the show, the main conflict for this season and as a device to get the brothers to once again go hunting together. IN THE MOST TRAGIC WAY POSSIBLE.

Obviously the beginning is to show how Dean, Sam and their father got into the "business" of hunting demons: to find the one that murdered their mother. But when we fast forward we see that Sam has left that life behind in order to pursue a "safer" and more normal life. Going to law school, a stable relationship and scoring amazingly high on his SATs. The score is high right? I don't know, I'm Australian, I don't know how these scores work. So it's understandable why he's reluctant to go with Dean when he shows up in the middle of the night all cute and sarcastic and big brotherly.

Their whole process on how they investigate and destroy the demons is set out really nicely in here. They look for patterns in mysterious deaths/happenings, research folks and legends that would fit the criteria, pretend (and fail) to be fake cops to investigate the most recent occurrence of supernaturality (supernaturalness? supernaturalnesseanwovnjnvfvf) and kill whatever it is.

We also see Dean confront Sam about who Sam is. Does he really HAVE to be a demon hunter though? Why CAN'T he have a normal life? Just because he was raised to do something, doesn't mean he really has to go forward with it if he doesn't see a good future or happiness in it. But then his expression shifted when Dean mentions how many lives they saved and I think that's what hits home for Sam. Lawyer's save lives....sort of? Right?

Anyways the Woman in White wasn't creepy as much as annoying. You know what was creepy? HER KIDS ON THE STAIRS. I seem to have issues with scary horror kids. I don't know why.

And then we reach the end. Sam comes home ready to finally really start on his new, normal life only to find his girlfriend murdered on the ceiling in the same fashion as his mother. Of course he doesn't remember his mother's death but he got something from it. He understood. The reason why he left the hunting life was because he couldn't understand his father's obsession with finding the demon that killed Mary and felt that it was selfish of him to let it take over his life. When he realises it was the same thing that killed his mother, he understood what it felt like and what it meant to his father to find this thing: justice and revenge.

Any adventure or mission that is motivated only by those will never ever end well. Anyways, excited to rewatch more!