Episode 4.17 It's a Terrible Life

SPN Georg

Gosh I love this episode. It throws the viewer off balance wondering what the heck is actually going on, right up to the end when Zachariah boops Dean and all the rest of us back to “reality” and washes the bright colors away again. The real hunt/case of this episode isn’t the ghost Sam and Dean learn to deal with, it’s whatever the heck Zachariah’s actually up to with the entire charade. And what that boils down to is the concentrated essence of manipulation by cosmic forces that is s4. And all that ONE EPISODE BEFORE we meet Chuck for the first time... but we’ll save that rant for next week.

There’s some pretty detailed meta on this week’s episode, though, and I’ll again encourage everyone to at least give a skim to those links... all the links of interest can be found right here:

The Superwiki page for the episode

My tag for the episode, it’s only four pages and about half gifsets, but all the meta posts are worth it

The blue revisions script with a special extra: the director’s hand written notes

The full Ghostfacers instructional video on youtube

The CW promo video for the episode

An interview with AJ Buckley (aka Ed Zeddmore) from around the time this episode aired

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