This is all: it's going to be a long summer.
Here are my incoherent thoughts on the season finale: Holy fucking shit! They went there! *flails wildly*
This episode had so much win, and was so much better then last season's finale. Here are some bullets of awesomeness.
- I love Bobby. "Family doesn't end with blood." Awww. "You're almost hell's bitch, so you can see hell's other bitches." Hee! Way to break it down, Bobby!
- I love Bon Jovi and the boys singing with abandon. Also, I love how once Dean got Sam to belt it out, he retreated into his tortured thoughts, like he tricked Sam into forgetting just for a second, but he couldn't. Aw, Dean!
- I loved evil little girl Lillith. Damn. "Yay, it's my birthday every day!" *shudder* What was the episode where the little kids were kidnapped and replaced by evil copies? Or something like that? And there was the mini-Dean and we were supposed to wonder if he was Dean's kid (but totally didn't)? Yeah, this creepy little girl was better then the creepy changeling kids in that episode.
- What is it with this show and tortured birthday parties? Why wasn't "It's My Party and I'll Cry if I Want To" playing in the background? Where were the party hats?
- Holy water sprinklers. Word.
- I knew Lillth had replaced Ruby when they barricaded themselves in that room and Ruby tells Sam to give her the knife and she'd try to take down the hellhound. Yeah, Ruby . . . the real you would never do that. Sam . . . you are a moron.
- I couldn't watch Dean getting shredded. Too gross and terrible, The screaming was enough. But . . . in the episode "Crossroad Blues", didn't the hellhounds and their shredd-y wounds appear only to the person being attacked? Didn't they just appear to have keeled over to those who found them later? Damn, now I will have to watch that episode again. I only watched it once -- it wasn't one of my favorites.
- "Take care of my wheels.' That made me cry.
- So, Sam is now invincible? That was . . . anticlimactic. But it holds promise for the next season, when we'll perhaps see Sam explore his newfound powers of . . . whatever they are. . . demon-negating mojo . . . yeah. To me, that was the weakest point of this episode. I can understand that Sam can find newfound strength/powers when the reality of Dean's death hits him, but I dunno. This just felt too convenient to me -- I wanted a little more foreshadowing.
- Hell was stupid. Why did they have to show that? Why not just end on Dean's beautiful, dead face? With the chains and the hooks, it was a bad Hellraiser ripoff, and not nearly as scary. My imagination is way scarier and more vivid than that. At least it wasn't all red and flame-y, because that would really be a cliche. Having said that, hearing Dean's long drawn out "Saaaaaaaam!" fading away into the black was a nice touch.
I wonder how long it will take Dean to return from Hell in Season 4. I don't think it should be the first episode. I think his death is only meaningful if there's at least a one episode buffer while Sam and Bobby try to either move on or bring Dean back. You know, kind of like Buffy. Buffy didn't come back in the first five minutes -- it took the whole first episode of the next season and, let's be real, the second episode too. Now that was some real raising of the dead!