As the episode opened, I once again felt as if I’d walked into a plot tangent, a throwback to the first season when we had the demon/supernatural creature of the week.
And even though it fabulously turned out to be soooooo much more than that while at the same time being exactly that.
By the “soooooo much more,” I mean we very much got a look at what the end game may be. This little boy, the Anti Christ — half human, half demon — don’t tell me he’s not going to come into play in, at the very least, the final episode, when it all comes down to God v Lucifer, Jesse is going to swoop in and be the decisive decider.
And this, being Supernatural, does not necessarily mean that the side of Good will win. If the side of Good is even truly good.
Wouldn’t it be a kick in the pants if it turned out that all this time, Sam & Dean had been fighting demons and the demons really weren’t the Bad guys?
I mean, I can’t imagine how that would be so, but this show rarely takes the easy way out, and that would certainly make things interesting.
The thing that did still confuse me about this episode was WHY Sam & Dean actually went to this godforsaken place for these stupid deaths.
ISN’T THERE A WAR FOR LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING GOING ON NOW?
I mean, no one realized the Anti Christ was there because they couldn’t. (I’ll take one of those Castiel dolls, by the way…) So … wtf?
Hee. You keep talking about the War going on, and wanting them to get to it. I know there is an apocalypse brewing on this show, and brewing awesomely, IMO, but we’ve got 22 episodes to get through! Gotta stretch out that storyline somehow… It reminds me of season three maybe, where they kept talking about the Demon war that was coming, but it didn’t really happen that way. As wars go, at least. If this was a 13 episode season i would def. be on the get On With it train, but I like how Kripke is pacing this one so far.
And yeah, me want a Cas doll too!!!!
lol.. I know. It just seems weird how casual Sam & Dean are, strolling into town to check out an unusual death when THERE’S THE APOCALYPSE COMING, but …
I know what you mean about the pacing, but you’d think the characters would feel more of a sense of urgency, you know? But in the end, the ep was 4,000 kind of awesome, so it’s all good.