Discussion of 3.07 "Fresh Blood" - Aired 11/16/07 (CW-US)

[prydain]

Summary:


Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) capture a female vampire named Lucy (guest star Mercedes McNab) who claims to have no knowledge of how she became a vampire. The guys discover Dixon (guest star Matthew Humphreys), a male vampire, is giving out human blood to unsuspecting females in bars, offering it up as the "latest drug" and turning them all into vampires.

Meanwhile, Gordon (guest star Sterling K. Brown) escapes from jail and goes after Sam. However, Dixon intercepts Gordon and turns him into a vampire, which makes Gordon more powerful than before and a much bigger threat to Sam.

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[goldenboy]

This one was just kind of nasty and depressing. You end up almost pitying Gordon, even though he was a complete a-hole—in life and in death. A misguided a-hole.

I thought Mercedes would have had more than just a glorified cameo. At least she got to act a little. Her Reaper role was next to nothingness.

[teentitan]

Question: Just how far does a career go into the crapper when you can't even make the opening credits playing a character you played on two series on the same network?
Answer: Ask Mercedes McNabb...oh and I thought it was Tori Spelling in that Reaper episode.

As for this show I agree with you GB about Gordon but then again how else could it have ended? If the guys killed Gordon it's murder in the eyes of the viewer but as a vamp it's justified. What shocked me was the look on Sam's face when he had the razor wire around Gordon's neck. It was intriguing to me because for the first time I think there is some demon in Sam and it is starting to come to the surface.
I hope that the angst between Sam and Dean about Dean's fate is now over. That was really getting on my nerves and it wasn't the sub-par acting it was just the repetitive dialogue.
Oh and props to the special effects crew for making Gordons lower lip move after his head was removed...cool.

[goldenboy]

I think McNab's an underappreciated comedic actress. She's got good timing, delivery. She plays dumb, hatable characters, so people don't really like her, seems like. She just doesn't really fit in conventional lead roles.

What shocked me was the look on Sam's face when he had the razor wire around Gordon's neck. It was intriguing to me because for the first time I think there is some demon in Sam and it is starting to come to the surface.
Yup. I was trying to imagine the physical strength needed to lop off someone's head with a wire—you'd think the demon factor's rearing its ugly head.

[teentitan]

It wasn't a wire it was razor wire. It is 1000X's sharper then barbed wire, very dangerous stuff. Just touching it without gloves/protection can cut you to the bone! So not much strength would be needed to cut off Gordon's head. What I found fascinating was the look in Sam's eyes when he gave that last pull that is what made me think he does have some demon in him. Then after the head came off there was no emotion at all from Sam. You know the guy who had a tear in his eye when he said he wanted his big brother back?

[prydain]

Well there's OBVIOUSLY something in Sam, IMO. It's been referred to in nearly every single episode this season, so unless they're planning on unveiling some huge twist, I'd be disappointed now if Sam wasn't slowly becoming the Antichrist.

Anyway, this was a pretty good episode. I'm so glad to have Gordon gone. What a freaking annoying character! I think it's both the actor and the character, I'd honestly never watch anyone that guy was the lead in. Anyhoo, glad he met a grisly death.

Mercedes was awesome in her small role.

But guys do you really think there's an actual "demon" inside Sam? To me that's pretty lame. Every human has the capacity for great good and for evil, and little choices you make usually take you towards one end of the spectrum or the other. To me, I think Sam's decisions and actions are slowly leading him towards evil and darkness, even though he thinks he has different emotions. He's killed several people now. Sure it was mostly for Dean but killing people has an effect on you no matter what, and he killed the crossroads demon and the girl inside her just because he was annoyed. I like to think that was normal Sam's choice, he's still Sam, but he's just different because he's slowly changing because of thing's he's doing, even if he doesn't realize how he's changing.

Anyway, that makes, in my opinion, a much more interesting story and an interesting insight into the human condition, and I hope that's what they're doing, rather than just saying there's a demonic entity living inside Sam that they can later exorcise to make everything suddenly better.

And if that comes to killing Sam in the finale, that would be ballsy and sort of cool.

[teentitan]

You might have something there Pry. Fresh blood was the first time I can remember that the black cloud coming out of Sam was in the opening of the show. So maybe there is a demon 'imprint' on Sam's character from when he was posessed and that is why he is impulsively killing (crossroads chick, still laugh remembering the look on her face) or watching with an inquisitive look on his face like when he lopped Morgan's head off with the razor wire. It's like he blacks out and his humanity takes the back seat and the demonic imprint takes over and controls his impulsivness to committ evil.
As for killing him at the end of the show is beyond ballsy it is a show committing hari-kari by knocking off one of the main characters. But maybe there will be an intervention by all the main characters to bring Sam back from the brink of darkness. I think Ruby spilled the beans to Bobby and that's why he never killed her when the colt was repaired. She is possibly going to be a major player in the intervention. Just a crazy thought.

[prydain]

Well even season one Sam would have killed for Dean, after that you would assume it still would have gradually changed him, so I'm not sure if him being possessed has anything to do with it, although it's an interesting thought.

[AngeliqueLaBeouf]

I liked this episode it was good, but not one of the best that I've seen. I actually fell asleep fifteen minutes before the end. I had to get my dad to tell me what happened...I'm so shitty that I missed Sam's wire killing.

I don't think Sam has an actual Demon inside of him, I just think that because of all the things that he's had done to him by the YED and everything from the first second season that has brought his little inner voice that tells him to do things. I just think that tight control he had on himself at the beginning of the first season is beginning to slip and uncoil because of everything that's been happening...his father dying, opening the hellgate, Dean dying in a year...all these things would make anyone a little demon-ey.

If Sam does get killed off...no I'm not even going there cause that would just be one stupid move by the writers.

xxAngiexx