We have another Hitler episode and… can we not? It’s almost
impossible to do this without it being awful, touching lots of awful and then
wallowing in that awful. If you go supernatural it tends to appropriate, if you
comedic it tends to be inappropriate, if you go serious it feels like you’re
using The Big Bad as a tool to set tone. And when you’re going to do all this in
a monster of the week episode
Of course, the
Thule have been a recurring theme – Nazi necromancers running around being
awful and difficult to kill and awful. They’re burning people so they can leave
a signature trail of bodies of people they could just as easily have stabbed
and then not have appeared on the Winchester’s radar.
The Winchesters follow the very obvious trail of
breadcrumbs to find that the Thule have stolen a Nazi watch and are hunting a
woman called Ellie who is waaaay out of her depth but quickly having to accept
the existence of the supernatural because of the people burning to death around
her
We also have Christoph, babynazi. Babynazi is the son of one
of the Thule necromancers who are doing big bad terrible things and he has a
shed load of daddy issues because his Nazi daddy isn’t a very nice man and
continually emotionally abuses his son for failing to meet his expectations.
The Winchesters are unimpressed because a) Nazi and b) The Winchesters have already
cornered the market on daddy issues.
Christoph, whether because he’s not that strong willed or
just not that invested in the cause or really doesn’t want a bullet in the head,
decides to spill all: the Thule want Ellie because she’s related to Hitler. They
want the watch because it contains Hitler’s soul. Throw in necromancer and,
yes, they want to bring Hitler back
Honestly, do they really thinking the leader of their society
needs to be someone who is 70 years out of date. And lost then as well. And in
the modern world he’s going to have difficulty gathering a fol-
I’m not even going there.
Anyway rather than let the Thule fall apart because they’re
being led by someone who wasn’t a sure bet 70 years ago let alone today, Sam
and Dean need to fight this, hoping to use Ellie as bait to get all the top
Thule in one place so they can kill them all at once. Mass killing Nazis is
something I can get behind
This is somewhat scuppered since the Thule catch up and
are pretty skilled fighting given Dean and Sam’s skill in combat. The fight
allows Ellie to escape and be duly kidnapped again. We’re going to have her do
her obligatory moment-of-agency to prove she’s not just the object to fight
over, but really, she is just an object to fight over and her managing to be a
distraction in a fight scene doesn’t change that
Luckily, Christoph’s dad aims for gold in the terrible
parent Olympics and tries to have his disappointing son killed. Said son turns
to the Winchesters for help and to lead them to Ellie
The ritual goes ahead and we get a reincarnated Hitler
who is cringeworthy because if you’re going to have Hitler they’re going to
throw in some mockery as well just to try and make the whole thing more
palatable
Anyway, Ellie provides the necessary aforementioned
distraction and the Winchesters escape and kill a lot of Nazis. And Dean kills
Hitler
This makes his day. It makes his whole year. Honestly
this episode’s only good point is Dean’s glee over killing Hitler
Ok, 2 sides of my brain
Side 1: Ok… he just shot someone in the head and is now
grinning like a fool… that’s…
Side 2: He killed Hitler
Side 1: But shot someone in the head and then be all
smiley and laughing?
Side 2: No shot HITLER in the head.
Side 1: But it’s kind of sociopathic…
Side 2: Hitler.
So Ellie gets to go back to her family, lots of Nazis are
dead and Christoph runs off hoping the remaining Nazis don’t kill but we don’t
care over much because he’s a nazi and one rescue doesn’t redeem that
And the episode closes being, at best, mildly amusing.
But I guess it could have been far more of a hot mess than it was. I'm just not sure why the writers think people would be interested in watching a cringeworthy embarrassing Hitler-wannabe
