The diagnosis? Fairy tales, read to a comatose girl poisoned by her stepmother. Sam convinces her father, a friendly and helpful doctor, to “let her go” while Dean saves Little Red Riding hood from the wolf. Successful, they give us ominous foreshadowing when the doctor says, “it’s really over” with fifteen minutes left. Also Sam swallows a lot and then leaves Dean sleeping in a motel bed. I’m getting tired of the writers beating simple things into our heads instead of giving us a little more dimension. The old adage of “show us, don’t tell us” obviously hasn’t been heard by the writing crew. They’re just lucky that it all comes out visually attractive and with good one-liners, even if it’s sometimes plot-stupid.
