![]() Castiel's very Smallville arrival was in front of a billboard for Mystery Spot. Have they used "Bad Boys" before? I don't recall. ![]() (Here's a link to the wonderful wiki page that has all of the Supernatural title cards.) Big hint about what this season will be about. This season's logo is a burning Men of Letters symbol. It's detail like this that makes Supernatural such an enjoyable and layered show. Not much there yet, but I loved the two minions and the bit about possessing a fourteen-year-old girl. Was Toni slowly gaining some respect for Sam in the end? Will she eventually become a Winchester ally?Īnd then there was Crowley, who is following a trail of Lucifer's burned out vessels in order to take him out and regain Hell. She asked him if he thought he was the hero of this story, and of course, he is. Even in a state of utter despair, hallucinating visions of his mother's and Jessica's deaths, Sam still resisted Toni and fought to survive. Cattle prod, freezing water, burned foot, drugs, and all the while Sam still believed that Dean had died saving God and the universe. Even though we know they're not.īut Toni's unnamed minion was actually enjoying torturing Sam. So what if they were able to lock down their part of the world? How dare she criticize? Okay, I totally get that from the outside, the Winchester brothers look incredibly reckless and dangerous and very much like they're causing apocalypses left and right. Moving on to the Sam portion of the episode, does anyone else hate the English British Men of Letters as much as I do? I find Toni's point of view so confusing. When Mary tentatively hugged Dean and his face reflected his confusion, I was genuinely moved. ![]() It enabled us, the viewers, to dismiss the details and immediately go for the emotion in that reunion scene. That opening conversation where Dean told Mary about her own history, how she met and married John Winchester, and what happened with the time travel and ghost incidents, worked beautifully as both a re-introduction to Mary as a character and a way of addressing Dean's previous interactions with her during the entire course of the series. I have to give Andrew Dabb, our new showrunner, a lot of credit for skillful writing. They did such a good job with that scene in the bunker, because I kept seeing Castiel not as we know him and love him, but as Mary would see him. Of course, when has anything turned out well on Supernatural?Įven Castiel, this frighteningly powerful angel who hangs out with her sons, would seem alien to Mary. After Mary killed Toni's minion to save Dean, she stared down at her own hands as if she could still see the blood on them. She's also homeless the bunker, while cool, is not a home. Let's also not forget that from Mary's perspective, she just lost her husband, a man she loved deeply, and she will never get to see her sons grow up. Yes, it would be wonderful to see what an exceptional man her little boy had become, but this was not a happy reunion, and Mary was not happy to be back on earth. Mary looked around at the computers and cell phones and at Dean, a grown man full of sadness and trouble, and it was so hard for her to handle. All Mary had ever wanted was for her boys to have normal lives, and of course, it's too late for Dean and Sam to change that now. I was so touched that I almost started to cry.īut as the episode progressed, I could feel the melancholy overtaking this situation. ![]() Jensen Ackles and Samantha Smith completely sold that scene with their expressions. I loved how Dean looked at her face and at the car and totally got it, and how uncomfortable he looked. After greeting it with "Hello, sweetheart," Mary looked at the back seat of the Impala and her face reflected her memories, including what must have been some hot ones. ![]() And how lovely was her reunion with the Impala? That was my favorite scene in the episode because it was almost entirely without words. After (symbolism alert) discarding the nightgown she died in and dressing in clothes that were exactly like what her sons wear, she slipped back into the life of a hunter with remarkable ease. I was surprised at how perfectly Mary fit in. This episode began with Dean's subdued but deeply emotional reaction to the resurrection of his mother, explored Mary's difficulty in adjusting to her new life-after-death situation, and gave us Sam still fighting to survive while in a state of utter despair. For the serious fans of this show, it's all about the Winchesters and their tragic lives. ![]()
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