I watched the featurettes and the gag reel. I couldn't not.
Supernatural 1: Saving People, Hunting Things - the Family Business
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S3 has a handful of really good episodes that I will, of course, rewatch. I love Dream a Little Dream, Mystery Spot, and A Very Supernatural Christmas as much as anything. I have a more mixed affection for JIB, and a sheepish adoration for Ghostfacers.
I'm watching Faith (it's on the same disc as Home--already in the player), and when Jensen is playing Dean as ill, his voice is higher, softer, his body language is looser, his facial expressions are not as scowly. He wasn't really far from CJ and Alec in S1.
I had most of the good ones still on the dvr, so I didn't watch them on dvd. But I will, at least the five you mention.
My rewatch: [link]
Fuck a duck! I forgot about Fresh Blood!
Hey! What do you know? That's more than a few! Worth the bucks!
For completists like me, it's not even a question. And honestly, I will happily rewatch most of S3.
Don't hate me.
The Christmas episode is right up there on my list of favorites, but I would give up the rest of the season. I guess I do love the boys doing comedy in the rabbit foot episode. Sam in the motel room...hahaha. My least favorite episode ever is also during S3, Bedtime Stories. Unless I do a rewatch with you guys here, I may never see most of S3 again. I never felt that let down though. I always assumed the strike forced them into putting what little they had out too quickly. Or something. And everything is better now.
Julie Benz has so much chemisty with JA in Faith. Oh I wish she could have joined the show. ::sigh::
Wow. Faith has some pretty important character study aspects considering where we are now. It's fun seeing the boys and their views. The years are really showing on the characters and that is satisfying to me.
eta: Oh, and I watched the deleted scenes from Home and that first one was pretty important. John's former partner at the garage called SRS about the boys. And John sold his half of the garage to buy guns before he disappeared. There is so much story in those early years right after Mary's death.
Someone, in ...some...article or other, which I can't find to cite, sorry, said that Kripke had managed to let his characters grow, develop, and age, while remaining true to their core personalities.
I think that's pretty high praise, considering the usual tv norm of cast-in-concrete characters, most of whom start out as caricatures anyway, and then, if the show runs long enough, take on aspects of their actors. But something resembling lifelike growth is fairly rare.