"Supernatural Recap: "Safe House"

​Written by Shae

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This show continues to hurt my feels in ways I didn’t know I could be hurt. This last episode had me trying my best not to cry. Though, to John’s credit, he put up with my whiny texts through the whole episode. This was a kind of a flash back episode meets modern day in the weirdest of ways. It was set up as one story, but not. Bobby and Rufus working on a case that mirrors Sam and Dean’s current case. The whole thing takes place in the same exact house, just several years apart.
 
Seeing Bobby and Rufus working together on a case was bittersweet. I will forever love them, but knowing they’re dead….hurts. Let’s just take a moment for that one. Bobby died how many seasons ago? Same with Rufus, but the two seem to appear from time to time in flashbacks. We know Bobby is in Heaven, and we assume Rufus is too. Still, they’re not along to help the boys out, and that just straight up sucks. This episode, while attacking your fond memory feels, also was a mix between the lighter side and darker side of the show. Previous seasons handled the darker themes with the carefree brothers, with a lighter humored tone that masked the serious dark themes we dealt with.
 
This episode kind of did the same thing, it was just a bit more twisted. Sam and Dean figured out the case as quickly as Bobby and Rufus had. Only the brothers have determined that the creature was a Souleater…apparently those are real. They suck your soul into their nest and feed on you until there’s nothing left. Which means their nest exists outside of time and space…so, at the end of it all, seeing Bobby and Dean see each other literally snapped my fragile heart in two.
 
I did find it funny, morbidly so, that Dean’s comfort was seeing Sam lying dead in front of him. How that is remotely comforting is beyond me. At least the boys are actually communicating about, well, everything. The openness between them is new, and that’s weird. I was also genuinely shocked that nobody died this episode. I half expected the mom of the girl to be killed, but she didn’t…which threw me for a loop. Either way, after what felt like forever, our beloved show has returned…and this next episode is looking like I’m really going to need some chocolate and tissues.

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