Supernatural: Jefferson Starships

May 5th, 2011 | by | supernatural, the cw, tv shows

May
05

 

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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Supernatural: Kiss and Man Up

April 19th, 2010 | by | supernatural, tv shows

Apr
19

I would like to admit up front that I have always felt that Supernatural is really Dean’s story. Don’t get me wrong, Sam is vital, but I feel like the whole story of the Winchester’s is all about Dean’s journey more than anything.

So this week, we had to put up with sad, vaguely annoying Dean for half of the episode, as he whined about how useless it all was, and how he was just gonna let Michael have his way with him. Quite frankly, feeling-sorry-for-himself Dean is no fun. Imagine my happiness when Castiel showed up and kicked Dean’s ass all over that dark alley!

I like the addition of making BabyWinchester Adam part of the mix. Once he was dead, it never occurred to me that he might be brought back, but that Zachariah is a wily one! I thought it was pretty clever, because Dean just can not resist the family thing, especially someone he sees as an innocent.

So, we end up in Van Nuys, of all places, in the Angel room. After Castiel once again shows us his mad Angel skillz, Dean and Sam crash in on Adam and Zach, and all kinds of gory business takes place, resulting in the spectacular ganking of Zachariah, and the mildly unexpected taking of BabyAdam by Michael (who is a big, loud Angel, it seems!).

The best part of this episode, is that Dean finally stops feeling sorry for himself, and it looks like he is ready to embrace Sam again. Hooray! Hopefully, this is gonna be a race to the finish line of this apocalypse, our brothers fighting shoulder to shoulder.

I know that Lucifer is busy being Jacob over on Lost, but I sure hope we get to see him again soon.

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Looking forward to Supernatural’s fifth (and maybe last) season?

August 19th, 2009 | by | supernatural, tv shows

Aug
19

Supernatural‘s fifth, and perhaps last, season premieres soon. Very soon. Sept. 10 soon, in fact.

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There’s been lots of news tidbits here and there over the summer, but the most exciting of all, IMHO, came out of Comic-Con. Warning, there are some spoilers, but nothing that should spoil your viewing enjoyment, I think. Even so, be forewarned.

Sci-fi uber-site io9 talked to producer Sera Gamble and showrunner Eric Kripke at Comic-Con last month, and they confirmed that Season 5 is a big ol’ stew of apocalypse. We ended last season with Satan himself escaping from Hell, thanks to a completely duped Sam Winchester.

I would imagine, however, that the Devil is not quite as we might expect, given the twists SPN writers have given us on the angels and demons to this point. Though, to give Dean credit, Ruby was pretty much a horrible, evil demon who was using Sam. There is that.

Anyway, Gamble said Lucifer would be “very nice and likable.” Which actually makes sense. Because how else do you think he could get people to follow him? Through fear? It has seemed to this point that the God in the world of Supernatural is the one who rules through fear.

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