Supernatural (TV Series) The Slice Girls (2012) User Reviews

Way too dark

[zombiehigh18 · 7/10 · 6 February 2012]

After last episode aired I was this happy fan that thought herself lucky to get some of her favourite moments. I ended up wishing Dean would listen to Ness's advice, But I know it's not sunshine and rainbows and I can't expect Dean to be that carefree happy person we knew long ago, Yet at least I didn't expect this level of regression. I'm still confused about "The slice girls" it might not be the best episode but not bad either and I will certainly watch it again. And though it is very dark (but for some enjoyable brotherly teasing) it opened so many threads for discussion among the fans in the last couple of days.

1- Is Bobby a ghost? I think the show is headed in that direction but I hope he is not. I love Bobby and I want him back so badly but this magnificent character got a perfect very well deserved farewell episode that I hope they won't ruin it by getting him back as a ghost.

2- Is Sam a hero or a bad guy for killing Emma? And did Emma deserve to die? Yes she did, from the moment that girl was born we all knew she won't last long and it was no surprise she died as she would for sure have killed her daddy if "Uncle Sam" didn't save the day. (And I say would have killed Dean because for me, Dean felt like the guilt burdened Dean from "Defending your life" who didn't lift a finger to save his life and even though he was holding a gun this time, I still doubt he would have shot her, anyway I will get to that point later). As for Sam he is neither a hero nor a bad guy, He was just doing his job and please give me a moment to explain. Sam is on the verge of insanity, He is clearly keeping his focus on work and worrying about Dean (his only stable rock) because like Dean he has lost everything and all he got now is his older brother who has in turn lost interest in everything and is crumbling down. So Sam needs to focus to weigh things on the scale of black and white, no time for shades of gray, He had to intervene quickly to save his brother referring his act to what Dean had told him about Amy a few months earlier. It was not an act of revenge for killing his friend but a pure act of loyalty towards his big brother, carrying out his burden for him, doing what seemed to be too difficult for Dean to carry out. Sam is hanging by a thread and all is keeping him together is Dean, he is angry because Dean is not caring about survival any more, So he goes as far as begging his older brother not to get killed and my heart breaks for the guy.

3- I always liked the Greek mythology and I was very glad they brought the Amazonians on the show, yet I was left disappointed for not giving us a chance to further explore this episode's MOTW, However I find it smart that the writers chose to kill them with plain guns which is not usual on the show. On the other hand I find the Amazonians very stupid to try to take out two hunters with no plan or back up and I think they might be back some time soon on the show again.

4- I have to mention that I really hated the camera close ups on the faces and the eyes and I found them totally distracting and pointless. As for Alexia Fast, she was OK in her role, she might not be the best guest star on the show but she was not bad. But I have to ask what does the girl have against Dean, it's the second time we see her holding a knife on the guy?

5- Finally I get back to Dean. Watching this episode, I caught my self recalling the first season's episode "Faith" when he asked Rev. Roy Le Grange why he chose to save him, Roy answered "I looked into your heart and you just stood out from all the rest........A young man with an important purpose. A job to do. And it isn't finished." and I wondered what would Roy see in Dean's heart if he looked at it right now? would he see that sense of purpose any more? Looking at Dean on earlier seasons, He was that care free reckless overprotective young man with the "I don't give a damn attitude", Dean then valued his family, his Impala, his necklace, his leather jacket, his cheese burger sandwiches and his one night stands. Season seven Dean has lost everything and except for Sam, he has nothing left. The last time we saw him enjoying a meal he ended up stoned and Bobby shot in the head and now even his one night stands ended up with a disaster. And I just want to scream at the show runners and ask them "Stop torturing the guy". Is Dean suicidal? I think he is, since Bobby died we haven't seen him shoot any thing and not even trying to protect his life any more. He may not jump from a bridge but he is more than OK with dying. And even his sense of revenge is not enough to keep him going, His only reason to keep doing the job is not wanting to bail out on Sam, and that too seems to be not enough for him.

All in all, Not a bad episode. I'm waiting on a lighter one next week with clowns unicorns and midgets.

A Reasonable Episode

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 18 February 2013]

Dean and Sam travel to Seattle to investigate four cases where the victims were well-succeeded handsome men that had hands and feet severed and a symbol carved on their chests. The coroner tells that the DNA of the killer is not human.

Dean and Sam also miss the support of Bobby and Sam goes to the local university to seek out Professor Morrison to help him to find the meaning of the symbol. Meanwhile, Dean goes the local bar, The Cobalt Room, where he meets the sexy and independent Lydia and they have one night stand in her house.

On the next morning, Dean goes to Lydia's place to get Bobby's flask that he forgot there and he witnesses Lydia talking to her baby daughter Emma. Dean decides to keep them under surveillance. Meanwhile Sam discovers that the symbol is relative to Amazon warriors and they can reproduce in 36 hours. Soon Dean receives Emma in his room and learns that she is his daughter while Sam finds that all the victims were killed by their own daughters.

"The Slice Girls" is a reasonable episode where Dean has an Amazonian daughter after one night stand with an Amazon. The story is not bad but does not keep the high level of the previous episode. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "The Slice Girls"

A good episode

[mm-39 · 9/10 · 8 February 2012]

A good episode. Dean fathers a kid who is a member of this monster cult. Dean misses Bobby's help and the Winchesters have trouble trying to figure out the mystery. Eventually Sam has to kill Dean's monster daughter, because Dean is losing his hard edge as a hunter. One sees the split between the brothers. This time Sam being more hard like Dean was and Dean drifted into doubts. One experiences Dean's feelings about the loss of Bobby. Bobby was the elder who guided and did the research for the brothers. The viewer notices that Dean is burnt out from the life and has no support system because Bobby is gone. One sees the building of the show's drama with the new dynamics. Maybe the brothers will team up with the new guy. I will wait and see! I give "The slice Girls" a nine out of ten.

Dean, where's the condom dude?

[amybourque · 8/10 · 12 January 2021]

I think my worse disappointment in this episode is that the sex scene between Dean and Lydia does not even hint at the wearing of a condom. I could have understood if he would have attempted to wear one, maybe taken it out and Lydia could have taken it away. Something.

A pretty solid one though a bit slow paced

[shwetafabm · 7/10 · 23 June 2020]

The monster dilemma, Dean not caring, the fun professor and a bit of brotherly drama. It's a fine episode that could have been way creepier tho.

Good Concept, Poor Execution

[Zetal · 5/10 · 26 February 2014]

I usually quite enjoy a good exploration of Greek mythology. They had some fascinating guest stars and the plot should have been interesting.

Dean's spiral into depression is really taking its toll. As Sam points out, he was going wobbly with the loss of Cass, and has full out lost his ability to give a crap about anything after Bobby's death. As someone who suffers from depression, I like that all the well-meant advice isn't doing anything to solve Dean's problem - faking it, burying it, "just get over it already", none of that actually helps. What helps? Time, talking it out, medication, and dealing with the underlying issues. Dean's lost everything except Sam - and while it's been said before that all they have is each other, it's now almost literally true. Dean's lost his father-hero (John), he's lost his dad and mentor (Bobby), he's lost Ellen and Jo who played family roles in his life, he's lost his best friend (Cass), he's lost his wife and kid (Lisa and Ben), he's lost his Baby, he's lost his rock shoutout fake IDs, and in this episode we've seen that he's even lost his interest in one-night stands. It's going to be a rough road for Dean getting out of the hole he's in, and the one support he's got left is hanging by a thread.

So with this look into Dean's psyche, why does the episode suck? Mostly, because the plot is boring and the characters are one-note. From the second Lydia hit the screen until they discovered the abandoned warehouse, I could not care about the Amazons. There was no "there" there. They're evil man-hunting women who raise their daughters quickly and make them kill their fathers? Congratulations. We got to see several times how conflicted Emma was, but in the end it didn't matter. She was evil and had to be killed before she killed Dean. Why? Just so we could have the parallel with Amy? There had to be a million other ways to do it, better ways.

This just doesn't work

[CubsandCulture · 5/10 · 23 April 2020]

This has all the elements of good episode. The professor is a fun guest character. The amazons are good spin on mythology for a monster of the week. The Winchesters have two ongoing melodrama furthered. It has some classic Dean moments. But it just doesn't come together. I think the problem is Sam killing the monster here is meant to parallel Dean killing Amy but the emotional connection isn't there because of the very nature of this being a one off show. The basic plot develop is both too slight and too much to buy into.

Stop pretending that morally grey monsters are just pure evil

[saphira-28454 · 5/10 · 12 June 2022]

The plot of this episode is... fine, but only if you don't think about it at all. At the end of the day the Amazons are indoctrinating 2-3 days old girls into their creepy society and our takeaway is supposed to be that they are just evil and deserve to all die? What? Even worse is that they waste our time with showing Emma and Lydia being unhappy about this lifestyle just to do nothing with it, except maybe tricking us for a second that Emma isn't trying to kill Dean.

The narrative that Amazons should all die seemed to be pushed just to say "Dean was right to kill Amy since Sam also kills Emma and they are now on the same page that it was the right thing to do" but that's obviously such a flawed idea. Emma as a character is even more grey than Amy and deserved even less to die. No matter how hard they try to make her eager to kill, she is just a child with 0 life experience that was taught 0 morals in her short life. Sam killing her despite being the one who asks first and shoots later (plus knowing the pain of Dean killing Amy) doesn't work. The boys barely tried to convince Emma to abandon the weird Amazon society despite the fact she is just a very impressionable child. How was killing her instead of incapacitating her the right choice?

Dean's nonchalant reaction to Emma's death doesn't help either and it feels unnatural. "Monster" or not, she was still his daughter and he was shown before yearning for that connection with a child. They really missed the opportunity to give Dean an estranged and independent Amazon daughter that he wouldn't have to worry much about, but whom he could help every now and then to pass on his teachings.

Even outside of that, the episode is not great. The Amazon leader running away with most Amazons was deeply unsatisfying and weird for a clan of powerful, proud, fearless warriors. My best guess is that they want to avoid more hunters, but that feels off considering they weren't worried about Sam and Dean at all. Why do Amazons hook up with rich guys if they are not going to profit of it at all, since they kill the fathers? Why mark each other in such an obvious spot if they are trying to keep a low profile? We are not talking about some instinct driven monster that can do whatever the plot demands, this is a society of basically smart and powerful superhumans who have a leader, so what they do needs to have some logic to it.

I liked the brutal deaths and most scenes with only Sam and Dean, but that's not enough to save an episode with such a terrible and inconsistent message (at least throughout the whole series).