I’ve been traveling nonstop for the past month, flying across the country and back for both family visits and Supernatural conventions – but no matter where I was, I made sure to take the time to grab an hour to watch Fire Country when it aired. The last two episodes both featured Jared Padalecki as Camden Casey, so I wasn’t about to miss it!
I love the show even without one of my favorite actors guest starring, but – as I told Jared at the Nashville con – I’m now completely fascinated by Camden and REALLY want to know more. There’s been some buzz about a possible spinoff, and now that I’ve had three episodes to get know him a little, I would definitely watch that. If you would too, let the network know!
The sixth episode of season 3 was called (oddly) ‘Not Without My Birds’, which turned out to be literally what it was about. I kinda liked the way a fandom developed around the hatching of a baby eagle, with all the obsession and fanfare of any fandom. Also like any fandom, the shared passion draws the community together, everyone sitting together to watch and wait with anticipation. Except Camden, who instead points out that eaglets are ugly when they hatch – and gets even more on the wrong side of Sharon by eating her yogurt from the station fridge. Oops. She’s convinced he’s a sociopath.
Camden: Edgewater loves the eagles, got it…
Half our own fandom heard “Sam and Dean Park” in the next moment – it was really San Medina Park, I think, but honestly I did a double take too.
Casey is a hardass, but damned if he doesn’t look GOOD being a hardass. It’s so nice to see Jared’s hair no longer gelled down, which drove me nuts in Walker. Camden is hot hot hot, and I don’t mean because he’s a firefighter.
As someone who would 100% have been rooting for saving the eagles, I can’t say that Camden is at all sympathetic in this episode, but Padalecki does a great job showing us his stubborn and unflinching conviction (even when I don’t agree with it).
Another bonus in this episode is getting to have Katie Findlay on my screen again too – I loved her in Walker Independence and she plays a great character in this episode too, Eve’s ex-girlfriend who is determined to protect the eagle’s nest no matter what. She even gets to tease Camden about his “floppy hair”.
Apparently Camden wants to save animals too, or so he says, but he has a hard time listening to anyone else’s input. He’s stubborn, and closed off, and in this episode, we don’t know why. Yet.
Casey puts Bode in a tough position, having to choose between following his captain’s orders or his dad’s – and his sense of morality in saving the eagles despite those orders. Padalecki and Thieriot did a great job with those complicated interactions, drawing on their considerable acting skills, and on their real life friendship no doubt too.
