Dear Supernatural,

I hate episodes where those shiny Winchester brothers are separated almost the whole time. Please cease and desist with these storylines and let those boys hunt together as intended.

Love and Kisses,

Erika

Ahem.

I am gonna breeze through the first episode after the winter break, because it was just okay, and I want to start the drool-fest over ‘Time After Time After Time’. We start off ‘Adventures in Babysitting’ with a couple weeks of the SadWinchesters mourning the loss of their surrogate dad, Bobby. It is a nice little tribute, and I have to say I will miss him myself.

Anyhoo, this eppy we get Sammy off to help the daughter of a hunter, get himself snagged by a couple of wily Vetalas, and have Dean and Chrissy (daughter of opening scene hunter) come to the rescue. Meanwhile, Dean is obsessing about those pesky numbers Bobby left them with on his deathbed, meets and hangs with Mr. Frank Devereaux, and after finally getting some much needed Zzzz’s, heads off to get Sammy out of his latest mess. Chrissy is a cute thing with hunter spunkyness, and I do find Frank amusing (although I hope he will be is short supply, as he could become quite annoying), but this episode was just… good enough for me. Not only were the boys separate for most of the time, but they weren’t even working on the same thing until the end. The scenes with Dean and Chrissy were  fun, and I wish more of the female characters on this show were like her.

Oh well, at least they didn’t kill her, like they do to all the other kick-ass ladies on this show.

Regardless of my annoyance of two episodes in a row where the Winchesters are doing things separately, this latest episode is proof that the TV Gods love me. Not only did we finally(!!) get Krycek to guest on this show, but Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring will always be Logan to me), as the Big Bad was gravy. Thank you, ye gods of the airwaves, for giving me such riches.

 The episode opens with Sam and Dean trailing a man through an alley, and when Dean runs to rescue this mystery man’s victim, he gets sucked away in a red flash of light! OMG!!

Two days earlier…

Sheriff Mills gives the boys a call about some weird deaths in Canton, Ohio. (Yay! They’re keeping Sheriff Mills in the mix.) The brothers head to a crappy abandoned house in Canton to track down the latest Big Bad. After some new tech-fu that Dean picked up from Frank – much to Sammy’s chagrin – they find the mysterious man who seems to have been making mummies of the locals for decades now. We see a repeat of the opening scene, only this time we follow the red light to 1940s Ohio, where a stunned Dean gets immediately picked up by the coppers, see.

And then, AND THEN, we meet Mr. Elliot Ness, Krycek, awesome Nick Lea, who looks smashing in his 40s garb, and Dean quickly picks up that he too is a hunter. Sweet! I loved “The Untouchables” just as much as Dean, and I think it’s just swell that they made him a hunter. Fan-freakin’-tastic!

Meanwhile, Sammy gets Sheriff Mills to help him out, and everyone in both timelines figure out they are looking for Chronos, another god for the boys to defeat. I will admit now that it took me about halfway through this thing to realize that Chronos was played by the darling Jason Dohring, and my squeals of fangirly glee must have hit a crescendo at this point.

So, Sweet Sammy and Sheriff Jodi figure out how to summon Chronos (after a nice shout-out to Rufus), while Dean and Ness figure out how to kill Chronos. But how will they get Dean back??? All right, we all knew Dean would figure out how to get a message to his brother, and it was clever enough, and after the 40s female version of Bobby gives Dean the mystical olive branch of doom and lays one big ol’ kiss on Dean – and who can blame the the old gal – Dean and Ness head off the kill the god du jour.

Of course, Chronos is doing it all for love, the ol’ softy, but Dean needs to get back to NOW. Luckily, Chronos makes time stop when he travels around, so Sammy and Jodi track down Chronos’ old lady love after reading Dean’s hilarious letter from the future, and figure out WHEN to drag the two back to 2012. Our time heroes cast the mojo exactly at the right moment, and in a blaze of red light Dean and Chronos pop back into our time, just as Chronos is choking the life out of Dean. Ness, the awesome hunter that he is, throws the branch through the portal, and Sammy proves his smarts by instinctively knowing to stab Chronos right through the heart, saving his big brother. But before the god of time dies, he does a little prognosticating, as he can of course see the future, and delivers the message of black ooze-y death. Leviathans!

Supernatural has gotten themselves a new bunch of writers, and I am really enjoying the rejuvenation of the writing. The newbies seem to be fans, or at least well versed in the shows mythology, and we have gotten smart Dean back, the loving rapport between those beautiful brothers back, and touching shout-outs to characters gone by. I am really enjoying it all.

Favorite quotes:

Dean – “It’s called anime, and it’s an art form.”

Dean – “How does paper beat a rock? Stupid.”

Sam – “You need to teach me that trick.”

Dean – “Gas costs four bucks, you can get cheese out of a spray can. The president, is a black guy. I could go on.”

Moore – “Awesome? Are you some kind of religious nut?”

Ness – “Boo-hoo, cry me a river, you Nancy. Tell me, are all hunters as soft as you in the future?”

Unfrotunately, we have to wait until February for another new episode because The CW hates us or something, but that’s okay. I am sated with this last eppy, and look forward to seeing what’s next.

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NaNoWriMo and then a five-day trip to Toronto got me all backed up over here. Sometimes I don’t write when I hate an episode, but I liked both “How to Win Friends” and “Death’s Door”, so let’s get to it, shall we?

Episode 7.09 was written by my favorite Supernatural writer, Ben Edlund. I love how he veers from ridiculous to horrifying so easily, and makes me believe every second of it. So we start out with the mauling of a non-camper camper type (I believe in tents and sleeping bags on the ground when you camp, that’s how we did it when I was a kid, dammit!) which brings our beloved Winchesters and Mr. Bobby Singer to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, which always makes me think of  The Sopranos, in search of the Jersey Devil.

Needless to say, this is not the work of the mythical Jersey Devil. And I could go on and on, because this episode is pretty twisty and turny considering we start out in the Pine Barrens and end up in a shootout with leviathan Dick Roman at some distribution warehouse, and since we have already seen the episode that follows this one… well, I don’t need to spend a lot of time on this one. The gist of it all is that the leviathan have spiked Dean’s new favorite sandwich with some kind of grey, gooey revolting-ness that sedates people, making them easier to eat, I assume. Although DoctorLeviathan had a few failures, like the zombie-like guy who attacked the campers, and AngryBrendan waiting tables at Biggerson’s.

Awesome gruesome: The night our trio of heroes go a-huntin’ for whatever is eating people in the woods, they meet one crazy zombie! Which leads us to one of the best, old school autopsies ever! along with some silly, not so grumpy anymore Dean dialogue (I firmly believe that Edlund LOVES to write Dean). My favorite bit being the cat head in the zombie stomach (“You got to be damn hungry to eat a cats head”). EWWW.

So, after some sleuthing and the sobering up of Dean, Bobby gets snatched on the roof of the leviathan hideout and teased by Dick Roman. Our lovely Winchesters come to the rescue, of course, leaving Bobby a moment to rifle through Dicks’ plans, finding out what those plans really are, and melting a bunch of leviathan faces in the meantime.

A little more villian blah blah, and Bobby runs out to the awaiting getaway van, and Dean peals outta there with Dick running behind pulling off a few rounds in their direction. As they speed away, Dean and Sam giddy with their escape, they realize that Bobby, who hasn’t said a thing since they sped off, has been shot in the head.

And I yell “Noooooo!” at my TV as the executive producer title card pops up.

“Death’s Door” starts right up where we left off, with a zoom into Bobby’s hole in his head, and I have to say I was totally confused at first, with the scene in the Pine Barrens from the previous episode, even if I recognized that it was a little different than the original. It’s a pretty clever way of introducing us to Bobby’s brain, show, and we get an awesome episode traveling through Bobby’s rapidly dying brain.

The conceit, brought to us by Rufus (Hi Rufus!!), is that if Bobby can dig deep enough into his gin-soaked brain, he can find a door out and save himself from death, or at the very least, get the cryptic info he got from Dick’s desk to the brothers (and OMG, another one of my shows with cryptic numbers?). Unfortunately, Bobby has a reaper on his tail who informs Bobby that he is in a coma and dying and he might as well just come along, and we all know those guys don’t give up once they’ve got a bead on you.

Meanwhile, our sorrowful Winchesters stomp and cry in the hospital as they begin to realize that they are going to lose their second Daddy. Dean is not taking it well, as to be expected, harassing the poor organ donor guy and such, while Sammy resorts to his now fall back tic, shoving his nail into his palm to make sure that this isn’t all some horrible, horrible hallucination. It’s pretty sad. I hate to see those boys in pain, and now that they seem to have finally repaired their relationship, they have to deal with this. Why are the writers so mean to them?

Anyway, we get quite the tour of Mr. Singers head, ending with youngBobby shooting his abusive drunk of a dad dead, dead, dead right before he smacks his Mom into oblivion. Nice move, youngBobby, I approve. This is enough to get nowBobby to wake up on his deathbed just long enough to get the numbers to Sammy, and call the boys “idjits” in his fatherly way, and flat line right in front of those lovely boys eyes.

The screen goes black, exec. producer title card, aaaand… Bobby’s dead? For realsies?? Not sure. It would be very Supernatural of them to finally kill off Bobby. Amazing he’s lasted this long, actually. But then again, this is a show where dead people show up all the time, and people escape death countless times, so who knows.  We certainly won’t until January (damn you, holiday hiatuses!).

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I should be writing for NaNoWriMo, but I am procrastinating and doing this instead. Let’s begin!!

I happen to like it when Supernatural makes fun of itself and its fans, so even though this was what some would call a filler episode, I found it amusing. The THEN clued us in by reminding us of SuperFan Becky from back in the day, when we found out that Chuck had been writing a little known book series called… ‘Supernatural’. (Hee)

The episode is called “Season7, Time For A Wedding!”, and we are introduced to this wedding after Dean gets an urgent text from Sammy, asking him to wear his Fed gear. Dean shows up to a Vegas chapel, mother-of-pearl handled pistol in hand ready for a fight. Instead, he is blindsided by the announcement of Sammy’s wedding… to Becky! Cue the awesome exploding cake title card! Hee!

Those of us who have been watching figure out pretty quickly that Sammy has been victim of some kind of a love spell, but it is a fun ride watching Dean, and special guest hunter, Garth (a mostly wasted DJ Qualls), try and figure out what the heck is going on! Dean gets to be smart, and heroic and be the hilarious Dean that we all love. Poor Sammy is the victim, spending most of the time being either moony-eyed, or tied to a bed, but does get a sweet moment at the end while he gets Becky to agree to an annulment.

After the outing of Guy, the rule-breaking crossroads demon that is helping Becky, and the tricky trick to catch him by the beautiful boys and Sammy’s bride, we get a cameo from our favorite demon, Crowley! He does his sarcastic little ta-dah as usual, and then lets us in on this little nugget: He is keeping the demons at bay so the Winchesters can work their magic and defeat those horrible leviathans. Crowley particularly hates head leviathan, Dick. Like you do with anyone named Dick.

A lot of my favorite funny moments aren’t exactly funny lines, but the way they were delivered. Some of my favorite stuff:

Dean (to Sammy): “Have you forgotten the average lifespan of your hook-ups?” (thank you! (poor Sammy))

Becky doodling Sam ‘hearts’ Becky all over a notebook is creepy, Sammy’s discovery of said notebook and his “This is… beautiful” and hugging of the book is adorable.

Garth: “Now you, you’ll be living with a tri-racial, paraplegic sniper until this all blows over, okay?”

Becky (to a hogtied Sammy): “Are you thirsty? Or do you need a bottle, to you know, tinkle? It’s okay, I can help.”

Guy(crossroads demon): “You’re so pathetic it loops around back to cute.”

Becky: “I was gonna show you off, not that anyone actually knows who you are. ‘Supernatural’ is not exactly popular, but you’re tall, and nice, and they would all think I was happy.”

Sammy (gagged): “Mmmhgh, mghmm, hrhmmngh.”

The reappearance of ‘the knife’! (hooray)

Crowley: “This isn’t Wall Street, this is Hell! We have a little something called integrity.” And everything else he says, as usual.

See, nothing earth shattering or super relevant, but fun. I’m easy.

Next week: Scary-o’s in the forest!!

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I have been to Lily Dale (it was just down the road from my college, SUNY Fredonia), and that my friends, was no Lily Dale. Luckily, I know Supernatural is shot in Vancouver, and they did a fine job with this episode, so let’s get on with it!

We open with a stereotypical sham seance that turns into a real, death by ghost one, setting up our episode in the land of the psychics. Dean, after stealing a beater from some poor minor league basballer or something, shows up on his own after hearing about the suspicious deaths on the radio. He amuses his lonesome self by discovering the ‘psychics’ fakery, and decides to head on over to the local diner for some “pancakes and a side of pig”, only to run into PetulantSammy, who is none too pleased to see his big brother, because he is still very angry with Dean over stupid ol’ Amy Pond, like the little baby he is for half of this episode. Dean, doing his best to be a good and cheery big brother, along with being  a good hunter, convinces Sammy to work with him, since neither one of them are gonna leave with some evil ghostie trolling the streets and killing people. They are both in their fake FBI get-ups, which is totally cute, BTW.

We meet the beautiful granddaughter of the now dead psychic, Melanie, who admits to her own fakery in the psychic realm, but can still read people (reading quite astutely the current situation between the brothers), who leads them to the local Emporium for the Orb of Thessela (Thesselay? Buffy shout-out either way), which turns out to be not the problem as it is made in Taiwan and apparently not cursed. Next!

So it seems that the now dead psychics (the third being a Russian spoon-bender, killed by cutlery in an awesomely gory way) have all had a vision of their eminent deaths, and the granddaughters friend, a hilarious Miss Cleo rip-off, sees her tragic demise after bilking some poor woman of a days pay or something. Anyhoo, this leads the boys to embark on a good ol’ fashioned ghost hunt (YAY!) with salt circles (I think they have used more salt so far this season than all of last), and grave diggin’ and bone burnings and I am so very, very happy with you show right now

There is also an awesome moment with Dean and the curator of the local medium museum where Ellen (YAY!!!) channels herself right into the conversation and tells Dean to stop being a horses ass and freakin’ talk to his petulant little brother Right.Now. Much to Dean’s credit, he does just that. Ellen kicks ass, even from the other side.

After much ado about nothing and couple of wild goose chases (all of which was entertaining and fun), they boys salt ‘n’ burn the wrong ghost, and end up losing an innocent life in the process. As the actual, evil ghost shows up for our new psychic friend Melanie, and her and Dean do their darnedest to fight her off, Sammy tracks down the psychic holding the reins, the real baddie of the ep.

Turns out the owner of the Emporium, Jimmy, is a bitter, bitter actual psychic who is not pretty enough and not showy enough to make a living off his natural gift (wah!), and so he had lassoed a former resident of Lily Dale  to get rid of the offending fakers. This gets interesting, when Sammy not only figures out where the bones are just in the nick of time (in Jimmy’s bed! Eww.), but shoots Jimmy square in the chest. Several times!! A jarring event simply because Sammy and Dean always make such an effort to not kill humans (even though several always bite it along the way). Hmm. Sammy did seem appropriately… hesitant? by having to kill Jimmy (and I do believe he had to kill the guy), but I suspect that the demony hell he is living in in that noggin of his made this one action easier. Maybe. That hell stuff is tricky!

We end the episode with a sweet moment between those lovely Winchesters when Sammy leaves Dean and Melanie for a moment alone (aww, just like the old days!) and then. And Then! We get the second honest and open conversation between those two brothers this episode, and Sammy admits to being a bitch about Amy, and Dean admits that he was all torn up about lying to his ginormous little brother, and Sammy puts his stuff in the trunk of NotMetallicar, and OMG they are all made up and off to the next adventure!

Another awesome episode full of shout outs from the past and good ol’ fashioned huntin’ by those beautiful boys and charm and smartness and excellent gore. Everything I want from Supernatural. The writers of this episode have names that sound like some kind of joke when said together, Ben Acker & Ben Blacker, and thank god for them, and last week’s writer Robbie for being geeks and bringing some SAM & DEAN back to the Winchesters. Color me cautiously optimistic about next week’s episode, A Very Sammy Wedding!! Hee.

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The two previous episodes were so depressing and boring for the most part, that I couldn’t even be bothered. So imagine my utter delight when I hit the PLAY button on my DVR to watch this baby, and laughed and was entertained and fell right back in love with this show!! I have a feeling this season is gonna be a rollercoaster of stinkers and lovely dreams, so I will take the joy from the aptly titled “Slash Fiction” (look it up! hee) and run with it.

Sam and Dean walk into a bank… and shoot up the joint in a very non-hero like manner! It takes me a few moments to catch on that these are not our sweet and lovely Winchesters, but evil leviathan cloned Sam and Dean. Oh boy, this is gonna get confusing, but is SO AWESOME. We zoom on over to my new favorite duo, Bobby and a tied up Chet in the basement of the new Singer household. Bobby is going through his extensive list of beastie stoppers, while Chet chides him amusingly. There is plenty of blahblahblah that is entertaining, but not really important, until Chet clues in the just visiting brothers that they are, according to every single news station ever, murderous asses. This is extra inconvenient as the beautiful brothers went to great lengths to fake their deaths a few seasons back, so their evil doppelgangers showing up and wreaking havoc across the land is quite the mess.

So of course Bobby has a friend, the extremely paranoid Frank Devereaux, that nixes all the boys aliases (which while initially funny, have been feeling somewhat stale recently), smashes Sammy’s beloved laptop, and breaks Dean’s heart by making him put Metallicar in the corner (temporarily!). Which brings us to one of the most hilariously funny things I have seen on this show in a very long time, Dean enjoying a little Air Supply while driving. Much to Sammy’s confusion. It is great and awesome and thank you god for letting me have a DVR so I can rewind this little tidbit over and over (and over). That moment made me remember that some of the funniest things I have ever seen on my TV have come from this show. So even though all the highs and lows of these past couple of seasons have been rough at times, sticking in there led me to this fantastic payoff. But I digress…

Sam and Dean figure out that NotSam and NotDean are revisiting their old hunting grounds, in order of how they happened, and St. Louis is next! Cut to Sam and Dean sitting at Connor’s diner, Dean chomping into one of his favorite burgers ever. But wait! That’s not our smart and handsome boys, but NotSam and NotDean, bitching about what a mess these two guys are, and how awful it is to be trapped in the bodies of a ‘schitzo’ and ‘chuckles’, respectively. Hee! (OMG, this episode is loads of fun!) Once their bitchfest is over, they get up and spray bullets through all the unsuspecting diners, wreaking much mayhem and getting it all on video. Bringing in some for realz FBI guys who have been following the NotWinchesters all over the country.

Meanwhile! back at Bobby’s cabin in the woods, Sheriff Jodi shows up, apparently tracking him down to thank him for saving her life from the surgeon leviathan a few episodes ago, and I gotta say, I spent most of the show thinking she was totally a clone as well, so good job show! After Bobby chops off Chet’s snarky head a few times (all the head chops were so much fun), he drags over a battery and jumper cables to try out some sparky torture on Chet, and brushes arms with the guy, giving us NotBobby for a few little tidbits about Bobby’s life. Nice. And poor Bobby.

Anyway, Sheriff Jodi gets all domestic goddess and in her exuberance spills some cleaner on the floors, giving Bobby the break he needs. Borax!! Seems this lovely substance is not only good for cleaning, but also for burning up leviathans! Hooray! And just in time, as Sam and Dean stupidly show up in small town Iowa undisguised and get their pretty selves arrested by Col. Tighe, while NotSam and NotDean cruise on by in NotMetallicar. Lucky for them, Col. Tighe sees our villains eating a fellow officer and lets Dean outta the clink just in time for some borax dousing and head choppin’. But not before NotDean goes in and tortures Sammy for a bit. Letting the DeadAmy cat out of the bag (thank god! and who cares!!) and letting Jensen, once again, be totally awesome.

We end this episode with the reveal of that pesky leviathan that has been calling the shots. One of those for realz FBI guys isn’t for realz, and is instead a leviathan henchman for Mr. Roman, or Dick, if you will, and YAY! Crowley gets a little run up, and possibly hurt feelings by this alpha leviathan which means we are definitely getting more Crowley this season, and most likely he will be working with the wonderful Winchesters. Excellent news. And that is all.

Except that is NOT all, as the very end of this very nice episode almost ruins itself by Sammy getting into yet another hissy, about some stupid monster girl that none of us care about at.all. and stomps his giant feeties off in a huff, leaving Dean behind. Again. Sheesh Sammy, grow the eff up!

PS – I don’t know who this Robbie Thompson is, but he can come and write as many episodes as he wants. Thank you very much, Mr. Thompson.

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This episode was directed by the lovely and talented Jensen Ackles! Too bad the writers gave him a lame-o story that is a rehash of the Sammy’s Love Kills All trope. Sheesh, thanks a lot guys.

Remember last week when we had this exciting, tightly written story that was not only fun, but gave us some character love and ended with a harrowing ride to the hospital for our heroes? Well, all solved in mere minutes. Bobby pops up with no explanation as to why he was missing, or how he got back to he hospital; Dean gets his leg set and a full leg cast put on in record time, before the leviathan have a chance to realize he and Sammy are even in the building; Sammy, unconscious and conveniently gurney bound in the hall for a quick getaway; hell, even the potentially devastating fire at Bobby’s is hand-waved away with a lousy, “I made copies” of all the pertinent books supposedly lost. Wow. Ben Edlund gives us a tasty treat, with real potential for our beautiful boys to be in peril and be clever and smart, and we get this opening bit. I have gone from giddy fangirl to bittercakes in one, short week.

So let’s see how the rest of the episode fares, shall we? (full disclosure: I have been fighting a nasty cold this week, and may be extra cranky because of it)

Three weeks later we find our barely battered boys and Bobby holed up in Rufus’ cabin in the woods of Whitefish, Montana. I have been to Whitefish. It is lovely. Dean has been entranced by Mexican tv novellas (hee!) and Sammy has been… reading? Dean sends Sam off to the grocery for grub, with a special request for pie, a Winchester favorite. Then Sam turns into a jerk, and not only gets cake instead of pie for his hobbled brother (cake is so not the same as pie, Sam!), but after reading about a familiar to him serial killer, he takes off, leaving Dean the most vague “I’m outta here and I’m fine!!” note ever! Nice Sam. Leave your defenseless brother in the Montana woods for a few days… so of course Dean decides to saw off the cast and head out looking for MaybeCrazySammy. Also, somewhere in the past three weeks those wily leviathan have procured a list of the Winchester credit card aliases, and have a tracker working at the credit card company, making it that much easier to track those boys down. Hmm. Con-veeen-ient.

Sepia toned flashback! to twelve year-old Sammy, on his own, doing research for his Dad (terrible parenting alert!), and falling for his first lovely lady monster, setting up a pattern we all know too well. Oh Sam, such bad judgement when it comes to the ladies! By the way, the actor who has played young Sammy several times, Colin Ford, is a good little actor, and he does a great job being a nervous, lovelorn kiddo here. We learn that this particular lady monster is a ‘kitsune’, which I have never heard of, and likes the taste of human pituitary glands. Nom.

Anyway, this particular lady monster is named Amy Pond (wait *rewind* did I hear that right?), and then we find out that the grown-up version of Amy Pond(!!) is played by Jewel Staite (a fangirl squee! rings out in the room. Doctor Who and Firefly references in the same show? Hooray!). The short of all of this is that young Amy killed her brain hungry momma to save young Sammy, and so when grown Amy shows grown Sam her son, her reason for the current killing spree, he lets her go, the old softy.

Meanwhile, Dean is tracking down Sammy, amazingly mobile for a man three weeks off a compound fracture to the leg. And then, we get the best gag of the show, when Sammy shows up at his motel, he gets a well deserved punch in the face from an off-screen Dean, awesomely flailing backwards and falling to the ground. Ha! Well deserved!! After a little confessional between those pretty brothers in the motel room (I have missed those motel rooms!), we retread the Sam Is A Freak blah blah, and the Will Dean Trust Sammy thing, and blah blah, because we all know Dean can’t let that keeping a monster alive thing go, and heads off to kill Amy Pond. Of course Dean is an old softy too, and can’t bear to kill Amy’s son – ’cause he’s just a kid! who hasn’t killed anyone (yet) – and plants a nice seed of revenge for that little kitsune to water and grow for a few years until he comes looking for that extra pretty pituitary in Dean’s noodle. Well done, Dean.

The episode ends with an awesome death assisted by nacho cheese by our tracker leviathan, because as we all know, everything is better with cheese! Nice! That and the punch were the best parts of this one. Hey, I don’t mind a place holder episode, but I am kinda tired of Sammy is a Freak and Dean Doesn’t Trust His Brother. We know! I mean, they are at least talking a bit and not being totally secret keepers, but let’s get on with it, please. All in all, not a totally horrible episode, but after last week I had such high hopes.

Next week: Jo!!! (I’m not the only one who loves her, right?)

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Season Seven!!!

Welcome to season seven of Supernatural!! Our new title card is a bleak black and white that I first thought may be a comment on the blighted condition of our heroes, and then I thought perhaps it was letting us know that good and evil will be pretty cut and dry this season, but after the second episode, it may just be leviathan blood oozing into the world of Supernatural. Maybe it’s all three!!

Anyhoo, these episodes resolved some stuff, and set up what looks like is the Big Bad of the season, the Leviathan(s). They were fast paced and had some fun twists and turns.  I am so excited – and it’s been a while since this show really excited me.

Misha as Leviathan

First off, we resolved the GodCas issue much quicker than I expected. BOOM, and within an episode and an opening scene our sweet little angel did his Godly best to clean up the world, redeem himself in the eyes of Dean, and head off into the drink under the control of the Leviathans just before his vessel disintegrated into a black and red mushy mess. Misha Collins was freakin’ fantastic in this, and it makes me sad that smaller shows like this never get any Emmy love. Dean pulling the ever-present trench outta the reservoir was a sad, sad moment, and Jensen Ackles once again proves that he is the heart of this show. Poor Dean, had to say goodbye to his bestest buddy, and one of my favorite TV pairs bites the dust. Loved the dream of an all powerful god smiting the hypocritical and corrupt of the world, and the running newscasts of who and what were being destroyed was amusing. It was a good and sad end to the Castiel saga, and there is a teeny, tiny part of me that hopes he will turn up again one day… but I kinda hope not, too.

So it turns out, after the leviathans disperse into the water reservoir, and then throw themselves into some innocent bystander types a la the X-Files black oil, we find out that they seem to have a leader, have orders to follow, but certainly have got a bit of a learning curve to get through. After some stumbling about, and getting their bearings, they come up with a plan to open a buffet, of sorts, at Sioux Falls General Hospital, where Sheriff Mills just happens to be recouping from appendectomy surgery. She is recovered just enough to figure out there are shenanigans going on with her ridiculously handsome and charming doctor, and gives Bobby a heads up, alerting the Winchester crew that the leviathans are spreading. One by one, everyone heads out to the hospital… or do they???!!!!!

Lucifer as Dean

Here’s where the fun of Sam’s hallucinations takes hold in the storytelling. A nicely done trick makes us think that Dean needs Sam’s help, and we go on a twisty little trip through Sam’s pain, and being wildly entertained by Mark Pellegrino as Lucifer. I know some people hate the continuing story of poor widdle Sammy, but his journey with Lucifer taunting him wonderfully along the way has opened the brother’s relationship greatly. And we even get Dean talking to Sammy about his time in Hell! No more hiding, no more angsty stupidness. Dean gets to sympathize and console his brother, and after that awesome fight in the junk yard,we actually see concern and brotherly love! It is an aspect of the Winchester story that has been greatly lacking for many seasons, and I was thrilled to see it all through this last episode.

We end this two episode thrill ride with a crushed leviathan that seems to just be waylaid, Dean with a broken leg and Sam seizing as the ambulance careens our pretty heroes back to the Hospital of Doom, and Bobby disturbingly missing.

Oh yeah, and they BURNED DOWN BOBBY’S HOUSE!!!  Yowza, that is some good shit, writers.

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Ever notice how Supernatural has the uncanny ability to give us characters that we love, only to ruthlessly kill them? Sometimes after only one or two appearances? Yeah, thanks a lot, Kripke! Also, Metallicar gets crunched once again. Oh Noes!!!

In the first episode of the two show finale we get a wrap-up of the Lisa and Ben saga. It’s always loads of fun to see a good, kind character get infested with a demon. DemonLisa had some zingers! Once again, Dean calls on Castiel for a favor, wiping the memory of Dean from their minds. I think if Dean really wanted to put a cherry on that, he should have had Cas wipe his memory as well. I mean, what’s to stop some beastie from taking them again and flaunting them in Dean’s face? Still, I suppose it’s the thought that counts.

Meanwhile, Bobby is off tracking down a beastie that escaped from purgatory way back in the day (HP Lovecraft mythology is turned on its head here, apparently), who turns out to be Dr. Visyak, the dragon-killing sword owner and former lover of Bobby we met back in the middle of the season. She is awesome and full of info, so of course, she gets drained of her blood right quick, by angels!

We start the official finale episode with the usual season long recap accompanied by the kick-ass Styx song, “Carry On My Wayward Son”. It’s a dual story going on here, with Sam Humpty Dumpty-ing himself back together after Castiel demolishes his Soul Wall, and Dean and Bobby heading off to try and stop Castiel  from sucking up all the souls of purgatory. So we get another finale where a good chunk of it we have those beautiful boys separate from each other. Damn you, Kripke!!

Regardless of how I feel about the story structure, I really enjoyed the Sam journey. Seems as though our Sammy is stronger than maybe everyone gave him credit for, and I got to see the awesome SoullessSammy again before our sweet Sammy puts a bullet in his chest. Plus, he gets to hang out with Jo from Eureka! Vancouver actor cameos FTW.

Back at the Cas/Crowley hideout, Castiel breaks his contract with Crowley, making Cas more of a jerk than Crowley, apparently, and then sending him on his way. Only to have Crowley return with Raphael and amid many humorous he/she jokes, demands the bloody purgatory-opening concoction and sends Cas on his way! Once Crowley says the incantation, ending in a big ol’ FAIL, Castiel returns with an empty jar and a belly full of souls. That sneaky angel pulled the ol’ switcheroo on our bad guys, and as darling Dean and squeaky-kneed Bobby show up, Castiel snaps his finger and explodes Raphael in the very same fashion Cas was exploded in the season five finale. Much to our heroes horror.

Humpty Sammy somehow makes it all the way from Bobby’s place to Kansas (I’ll let it slide, Kripke), and goes all stabby in Castiel’s back, only to reveal that Cas is no longer susceptible to angel weaponry, as he is now God – or so he says. Looks of horror all around while CasGod stands reveling in his victory and new found power, and I think someone has been reading way too much Old Testament!

motivator courtesy of Vaya at TWoP

Hmmm.

At first I thought Cas was just crazy bananas, being full of what are probably less than shiny souls, but since the angel sword didn’t work on him, he obviously isn’t an angel anymore, but is he really The God? The Our Lord and Savior God? If he is, then that’s that. The last season ended with the Wonderful Winchesters mostly powerless against the angels, and this is how this season has ended as well. Honestly, how can Dean and Sammy fight God? Really?? I certainly didn’t see this coming, so I’m not gonna try and speculate what’s next, but what I hope is that the Original Recipe God shows up and knocks Cas down, so I can get my favorite TV couple back together. It was heartbreaking watching Castiel and Dean butt heads and break their bonds of love. You know I feel about those two!

Castiel needed to be reset somehow, as he was becoming a much too easy way for those beautiful boys to dispatch their enemies. All convenience and no drama, you know? But as someone over on TWoP noted, CasGod is not Castiel. Cas dies. Cas lives. Maybe this will be just a case of the ultimate possession for Cas, and somehow, someway Dean’s love (and his cunning skillz) will bring our sweet little angel back to us. Or maybe Kripke will torture us, and Sam and Dean some more, as it seems as though he doesn’t think they should get to have anyone to love them except themselves.

The more I think about it, the more I can’t help but feel the loss of that sweet little angel, Castiel. Once again, Kripke breaks my heart. But I always come back for more!

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I am generally not amused by a show suddenly adding an episode that is hampered by narration, but it’s Castiel, who is the sweetest little angel on earth, so I’ll let it slide, because that voice could melt.. well… stuff.

A good chunk of this episode is really just a narrated clip show, which is vaguely annoying, but we do get a few insights into Castiel’s side of things. This is nice, seeing as we have spent the ENTIRE season hearing about this epic, heavenly battle going on, but have seen nary a bit of it.

And what it all boils down to, really, is that Castiel made a deal with the Devil – a marvelous, as usual, Mark Sheppard – also known as Crowley. A deal that seemed like a good idea to a desperate, Raphael threatened Castiel, but as with most Devil inspired deals, has gone awry in a most unfortunate way.

The real zinger in this episode was Dean’s journey from suspecting Cas, his defending of Cas, and then the terrible realization that his New Best Friend had betrayed them. Those two in Bobby’s living room, with Dean asking him to not do it because that’s what family does for each other? Heartbreaking! I knew Dean loved Cas like family, and Cas so wanted Dean to love him that way, to see those two split like that was gutting. The thing is, Castiel is being just as stubborn as Dean can be. How many times have we seen Dean insist on doing a job his way, even when everyone else was sure it was doomed? Oh, those two crazy kids…

Favorite moments:

• Crowley was hilarious with his torturing of the poor vamp, and his utter disdain for the Winchesters (“denim-wrapped nightmares”). But, he was also incredibly irritating, so when Castiel finally grabs him and slams him so hard against the wall he puts a Crowley shaped dent into it? I totally cheered.
• Once again, Dean and Cas have amazeballs chemistry, and every scene together was riveting, heartbreaking, and made me want more more more of those two together.
• The demon version of Bobby, et.al.! I especially enjoyed the two blood phones alongside the FBI/CIA, etc. phones. A very Ben Edlund-like touch.
• Crowley’s new version of Hell was amusing, but I swear I’ve seen that done somewhere before. Can’t figure out where though.

So this week we have the two hour season finale (which is awesome, and I know it’s really two episodes tacked together because Smallville took up all the space last week, but I have been wanting a two hour finale for this show for years, so now I get what I want! YAY!). I am wondering  how they will go with Castiel. I love him, so I want him to make the right decision, but if he falls further it would set up a nice story for next season: The Redemption of Castiel!

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Dean is awesome. That is all.

Just kidding!! Honestly, I couldn’t ask for much more from this episode. Funny, sweet, gore-riffic, and a couple gut-punches. *claps* Also, one of the funniest running gags of the season, Dean naming the new hybrid monsters Jefferson Starships because “They’re horrible, and hard to kill.” My favorite bit was Sam, clearly not believing he was going along with it, but calling them Starships anyway. Hee. By the end of the episode, all of them were referring to the Starships like they had been doing it for years. Loved it.

And you know what, I am not in the right frame of mind to recap, so here are the important points from this episode.

• Castiel is awesome, and madly in love with Dean. Can you blame him? I mean not only is the man hot, but we got to see that ingenuity that hasn’t been so prevalent recently with the tricky way he delivered the Phoenix ash to Eve. Once Eve was done, Cas gets his angel mojo back and WHOOSH, takes out all the monsters with that deadly and heavenly light of his. Totally swoonworthy. Also, I think Dean has a total man crush on Cas, what with all the ribbing that went on between those two this episode. Dean and Castiel are now officially my favorite couple on TV.
• Crowley is not dead. Now, if I had been paying close attention, this shouldn’t have been such a big surprize as it was. Castiel has been dropping massive hints all along that something dodgy was going on, and quite frankly that sweet little angel does not lie well at all. I am pretty sure where they are gonna go with the Cas/Crowley partnership, because I am not totally stupid, but any chance to see more of Mark Sheppard on my TV is fine with me.
• Castiel+Bobby+Sam+Dean make a great team. More of these four working together please! I loved every combo of these guys, and it gave the show a nice close, familial vibe making me want root for them again. After a few seasons of whiny, angsty, apocalypse-ness we get to see them work together like the close family they are. Yay!!
• Sam and Dean have truly reconnected. This all felt very much like a good season two episode with all the brotherly love and trust going on. It is such a relief to have those boys back in each others good graces. Even though taking those kids back to their uncle ultimately bit them in the ass, the look they gave each other in the NotMetallicar was melty goodness. Also, the reaction to Eve turning into MommaWinchester gave me further proof that these two lovely boys are back on the same page.

This felt like an old school Supernatural. There have certainly been some missteps this season, but if this is where we end up, then that’s fine with me. There was a magnificent balance of funny digs and splendid gore. A big pit of despair mixed with cunning and a sweet victory for our boys. This week’s episode is gonna be all about Castiel, and I am excited. I have a feeling we are gonna be a wee bit disappointed in our sweet little angel. Hopefully Dean will not be too hard on his new Bestie.

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