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2.17 Heart

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As someone who’s coping mechanisms lean more toward frozen denial & extreme rationality, I’d like to see at least one episode of supernatural where a woman turns the corner to see a bloody corpse and just stands there like

🧍🏻‍♀️huh. that guy’s dead

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Fade to Black - 2.17: Heart

They leave the room, and she sinks to the floor, her shaking legs unable to hold her up any longer. She wipes at the tears streaming down her cheeks, but the effort is futile; they won’t stop coming. Then, it truly hits her, what she is asking them to do, and the tears dry up quickly as grief is replaced with pure terror.

She looks towards the front door; she might be able to make it out before they notice… but what good would it do? She is a monster now. Anyone who takes her in will be dead in a few weeks when the next full moon rolls around, and if she tries to keep to herself, complete strangers will be slaughtered instead. She already has blood on her hands: her boss, a cop, Kurt… he was a creep, but that didn’t mean that she’d wanted him dead, especially not by her hand. And there could be others, people that she hurt or killed without knowing it. Even worse—her stomach churns at the very thought—she might have unknowingly inflicted this curse on someone else. Someone that Sam and Dean would also have to kill.

No, the choice she’d made had been the right one. But it was so unfair! She would control this condition if she could. For five nights out of the month, a monster took over her body and used it to do unspeakable things, things that she couldn’t even remember. Why does that mean she has to die? Why isn’t there some cure, some other way to fix this? Why isn’t Sam doing more to save her? Why isn’t she doing more to save herself? It’s all just so damn unfair.

She’s crying again when she hears the sound of voices in the other room cease. There are footsteps, and she looks up to see Sam standing in the doorway. He’s absolutely wrecked. He has his gun raised, but his hands are shaking, and his eyes are red and swollen and full of unshed tears. It brings her some small measure of peace to see him as torn and broken by this decision as she is. It means that all of her fears and uncertainties are genuine, are human. It means that she isn’t all monster. And the fact that he’s here, despite his devastation, means that she’s made the right decision. It means that she’s doing the right thing. She will no longer have to live with the knowledge that she has killed innocent people, or the fear that she will do so again.

She manages to get to her feet as Sam crosses the room. He lowers his gun, holds out his arms, and she goes to him one last time. “I’m so sorry, Maddie,” he whispers as she buries her face in his shoulder. “I wish there was another way.”

“I know, Sam.” She holds him tight for the barest of moments, then forces herself to push him away. “This is for the best. I can’t live with myself, knowing what I did, what I could do again. Please, just… make it quick.”

He nods, tears falling from his eyes, then leans down and kisses her on the forehead. “I will never forget you, Madison.” Two steps back, and he raises the gun again. “Close your eyes.”

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2.17: Heart - My Rewatch Review

This episode breaks my heart, and, even for a show as dark as Supernatural, it has one of the darkest episode endings, especially for a monster-of-the-week episode. While there are many stand-out elements of this episode—top of my list being the introduction of ‘Rock-Paper-Scissors’ and the awesome brother moment that goes along with it—the true highlight of it for me is the way that it parallels and subverts everything from the previous episode. Like Maggie the ghost from ‘Roadkill’, Madison is completely unaware of her supernatural nature, or the fact that she has been hurting people as a result. Also like Maggie, it is Sam that steps up to befriend Madison, to try and save her, because he sees the parallels between her supernatural curse and his own demon-gifted powers. And yet, where the ultimate salvation of Maggie’s spirit in the last episode gave Sam hope, the loss of Madison in this episode causes Sam to lose a fair bit of that hope. This show is excellent at sending mixed messages when it comes to drawing parallels between Sam and the monsters he hunts. Because this season has been all about Sam fighting against the darkness inside him, and drawing parallels with monsters and spirits whose motivations are not always black-and-white, and sending the message that not all of the supernatural creatures out there are truly evil, and then it gives us a character like Madison, who is an uncontrollable dangerous monster for only a few nights out of every month and who is otherwise a normal, sweet, strong woman who would never hurt anyone, and who chooses to die in order to stop the murderous creature inside her that she cannot control. And the fact that even Dean sees the agony in the choice she has to make, and grieves not only for how losing her will hurt his little brother but how it will also further break his faith, makes this episode extremely painful to watch, despite its lighter moments and hopeful beginning.

My only real complaint about this episode has to do with the way the show chooses to overemphasize the rising of the moon each night, mostly because my scientifically-inclined brain refuses to let me ignore the fact that they get it so very, very wrong. Even taking into account the fact that Dean mentions something at the beginning of the episode about werewolves turning during the week leading up to the full moon, the amount of time that this episode expects us to believe the full moon lasts is more than a little ridiculous. Between the implied time that it would have taken for Sam and Dean to find out about this case and Madison’s assertion that she saw her ex-boyfriend ‘a few nights ago’ on the night when her boss was murdered, it can be assumed that Madison first turned into a werewolf at least two, though more likely three nights before Sam and Dean meet her. That night, Madison goes out and kills the cop near her ex’s apartment. The next night, we see a full moon, and Madison kills her ex-boyfriend. We see a full moon again the next night, when Sam locks Madison in the closet and Dean goes out and kills the werewolf who turned her. There is also a full moon shown the night after that, when Madison stays awake all night and doesn’t turn, and a full moon shown on the final night, when she turns unexpectedly. For everyone keeping track, that is now four nights of a shown-on-screen full moon, plus another three or four nights preceding the full moon. And while I do think that’s well outside of the normal timeline for werewolf transformation, I can forgive them that a little bit because they tried to establish the stretched timeline beforehand. What I cannot forgive them, though, is the use of the image of an obviously full moon for all four nights where they chose to show it, because, as any avid stargazer knows, the full moon only looks completely full during the one night of the cycle when it is actually full. For each night outside of that, it is obvious if you look closely that it is not actually full. If they had chosen to use shots of the waxing or waning moon, even if it was subtle, or had only chosen to use an establishing shot of the full moon once during the episode, I probably would have overlooked the lengthy nature of the werewolf’s lunar cycle, but there are some mistakes that I cannot just let slip by, and this happens to be one of them.

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