I have spent most of this season enjoying the honesty and straight forwardness of SoullessSammy, even if he was kinda mean. Some really great scenes resulted from that empty vessel, in my opinion. But you know what? The second our darling Sammy showed up on screen, I felt my heart grow three sizes larger. Seems as though I missed the guy and his sweet earnestness greatly.
The show started with the now familiar angst of Dean and Bobby, and I was dreading what was next. Then suddenly, Sammy, our darling, sweet little Sammy shows up and brightens my whole freakin’ day! And miracle of miracles, our two lovely brothers of the House of Winchester, give each other the sweetest, most awesome hug ever given by two brothers. Dean loves his little brother so damn much!
There was a terrible moment during this episode when I was sure that we were setting up another angst-palooza of Dean hiding things from Sammy, and fighting with Bobby over it, but lo and behold, not only is our darling Sammy re-ensouled, he is a smarty. He knows something is up, so he tricks that pretty little angel Castiel into telling him what’s what. Right after Castiel engages in the most awkward attempted hug ever seen by an angel. Hee!
Meanwhile, we seem to have some virgin needing dragons on our hands, which leads Dean to an old flame of Bobby’s, and a very funny scene where Dean attempts to remove a sword from a stone, Excalibur style. Attempts, over and over, until the rock that ‘thinks it’s so smart’ finally caves to Dean and his C4.
The dragons kinda suck, and turn out to be just another demon-y incarnation in my opinion, but it served nicely as the backdrop to having Sam and Dean work together, mostly drama free, and for a moment there if felt just like old times. There is nothing more satisfying for most of us than to see those beautiful boys working together, fighting those nasties that go bump in the night.
Thank you show for not dragging out the whole will Sammy find out or not drama and dispatching with it in one episode. It takes Bobby and Dean off the hook, and gives us a good firm spot to jump off of. The final scene of Sam and Dean actually talking about it was so refreshing after episode after episode of those boys having yet another ‘talk’.
So now, those dragons brought the latest Big Bad up out of Purgatory, a virgin encased ‘Mother’, who I am guessing is the origin of All Things Evil, or something like that. Whatever. Although, it does help tie in the war up in Heaven to something, a plot line that seemed to be dangling around simply to keep Castiel in play. I think it is all starting to make sense. Sorta. You know, in that Supernatural kinda way.
