THE BOYS ARE BACK!!! (SPN 6.03)
YES!!! Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' bout! WHEW! This time I knew exactly what Show I was watching! That's my Supernatural!!! MA HA HA!!! Ahhh... I feel like I can breathe again.
LOVED EVERY SECOND! AHHH! SOOOOO HAPPY!
Ok, let me at least try to be a little coherent. First up, the beginning gore? Gore....geous!!! How's that for a facial peel? Whoops! Make that a full body peel! Glorious Gore! Tom Savini would be proud. Guts and GLORY! Cringe inducing and suitably awful to what was going on. That was refreshing!
Now. I knew going in to this episode that no matter how bad it was I was assured two things at least: 1) Castiel. 2) Nekkid!Sam (half nekkid at least). But what is this I see after appropriate and refreshing gore and the shiny new shattered mirror opening? You... you mean we get Nekkid!Dean too?!?!?!?!
Show... I Dub thee COMPLETELY Forgiven!!
Nekkid!Dean rolling with Nighty!Lisa and see, now I'm getting a little spark. I was still not fully feeling the Lisa thing. Mainly because they haven't really told us much about her. She's good for Dean, they've told us that- but they haven't told us much more and they haven't shown much chemistry between the two. This, I still don't know a damn thing about Lisa... but at least I can see there's some heat between them going on. And I'm greatly appreciating the Nekkid!Dean bits. AND!!! The waking up in Impala! Ahhhh.... on the road again! Show, you're making me so happy, really!
And happy as I am... YOU STILL GIVE ME NEKKID!SAM! Lots and Lots and Lots of Nekkid!Sweaty!Sam! Push Ups!Sammy, AbCrunch!Sammy, ChinUps!Sammy! Show, you've out done yourself! I salute you... here's the keys to my car, here's the deed to my house, if I had a first born son, he would be yours. I don't... so here's my first born cat. You rock THAT hard, Show!
Now Sammy, graciously staying Nekkid throughout this scene seems to have a girlfriend... oh no wait... she seems to be more of a slam piece. Wait... there's money involved. Now show of hands, who thought at first SHE was going to pay HIM? Uh huh. Now woman, what kind of Karma were you working in a previously life that you got to have a night with Nekkid!Sweaty!Sammy AND get paid for it? My hat's off to you random hooker lady... though you realize I must officially hate you on principle. Nothing personal. Just you should not have that much good fortune befall you without a bit of stink eye coming your way. Checks and balances, dear!
All that said, what's wrong with Sammy? This time I ask that question without squinting painfully at the TV screen wondering who the heck it is I'm watching who calls himself Sam Winchester and looks like Sam Winchester but is NOT Sam Winchester. This guy? I know he's Sam Winchester, but he just ain't right. Something's wrong but I'm ok with it. Because the Show is acknowledging the wrong rather than sweeping the wrongness under the rug. More on that later. Because now Dean calling and he and Sam are chatting. And they seem like BROTHERS again. They have a connection that was not there in the previous two episodes and was making my heart hurt. Now, they are not the schmoopy whoopy brothers of old. In fact, they are being bitey fighty brothers. BUT still BROTHERS! And the role reversal is also being acknowledged as Dean grunts "Who died and made you Boss?" Hee... and Sammy has graciously remained Nekkid through this scene. I'm terribly pleased with all of this... and we haven't even gotten to Castiel!
They have a case and a good one. More Gore! Nice pus filled gore! They have a case and here we go we have a brotherly show of dominance! With Impala! Dean must get there first and beat Sam's ass back into place. More importantly, put his douchey non-Impala car into place. But they still did a Double Mint Twins as they stepped out of their cars. Ahhh, really Show - Where WERE you for the past two weeks?!?!? Brotherly show of dominance and cracks on milage. The banter is more scathing... but it's there! These are not two brothers with a completely healthy relationship, no. But we can at least see that they are BROTHERS and not total strangers with no chemistry or history or algebra. This behavior they're exhibiting. This at least ADDS up!
I'm skipping ahead a bit because although the BRAIN!LOCUSTS was another lovely bit of gore... ya know what I love more than gore?... Yep, that's right... I WANT MAH CASTIEL!!!!
Ahhh Cas! Beautiful Cas! His fine feathered ass back down to Earth! Dean's prayer was adorably snarky, as was Sam's utter indignance that Cas had never answered his prayers. "Do you like Dean better?" Ahh, boys! Jealous petty boys! Of course! Dean always got the extra cookie, Sam AND the angel pal. And here I love that it's spoken aloud that yes, Castiel has a special bond with Dean. But also, that Dean sticks up for his bro and reminds Cas that Sam took one for the Team last Season. And Thank You Show. I was waiting for that acknowledgement too. Sam may have come back from the Cage wrong, but thank you for not making me feel I was crazy in thinking that he at least went in right. Now what happened in the in between, I'm looking forward to finding out. But it's there, said aloud and noted for posterity. So thank you!
Castiel is being difficult but his people skills are rusty and he's got pressing matters at hand. The Weapons of Heaven have been stolen and the Angels are on the brink of Civil War. However, even with all the Egyptian Plagues on our hands, we can rule Moses out as a suspect... Castiel, how I've missed you!!!
Cut to the true culprit... Aaron! TEE HEE! That's funny. Like Moses' brother! A kid. Aww, a misguided kid... who's SOLD HIS SOUL! Uh oh. Briefly, very briefly I thought: "You mean I get Nekkid!Sam, Nekkid!Dean, Castiel, Glorious Gore... and CROWLEY TOO! Show I'm not Worthy! I'm not Worthy!" And apparently I'm not because this kid sold his soul to... and Angel?!?!?!? Gulp! Buh Zuh? Oh my. What's this all about?
Well, apparently, it's about an Angel named Balthezar who... I'm not 100% sure I like him just yet. Well, ok let me rephrase. He's obviously a baddie, but... I've loved PLENTY of baddies. This guy... he's snarky and quick witted and yet... He feels like he's incroaching on Gabriel territory with the whole swinging Bachelor Pad vibe he's got going on. That...? I don't like too much. Because I'd rather have Gabe back. Plus the buying up of Souls? That's Crowley's turf. So, I don't think I like Balthezar. He's too much like two other characters that I love and I'm not into cheap imitations. This has not dampened my feelings towards the Show a bit mind you. But next time Balthezar is on the call sheet I doubt I'll be squeeing. Gimme some Gabe or gimme some Crowley instead please, Show.
Skipping ahead a bit more to yet another squee for me... Raphael! There were plenty of things that burned my biscuits about last season and one of them was that they NEVER said what happened to Raphael. He came in so dynamically (Lightning Wings! YO!) helped introduce the concept of Holy Oil... threatened Castiel with extreme bodily harm... and then was never mentioned again. It wasn't one of my main complaints (*cough cough* amulet *cough cough* army man*cough cough*) but it was a source of annoyance. So yay! We now have our Teenage Mutant Ninja Angel back! Never mentioned how he got out of the Holy Oil- but I can over look that. And he brings that bodily harm he promised Cas so many moons ago. Now- not that I'm into Cas!Whumpage (what's that? What about all the Cas!Whumpage in my fic? Oh... uhhh... gee whiz! How did that get in there! *blinks innocently*) but it's good when they actually call back to what was set up before. Cas and Raph have issues. Brother issues... oh my! Here we go again! Is there a theme? Mayhaps, mayhaps!
Now Balthezar saves mah Cassy Baby and... no, I still don't like him. He's like a cheap knock off of Gabriel and Crowley with a hint of Bela to boot. He's not going to grow on me I can tell. But the Cas save was nice and the pillar of Salt was lovely! Wonderful effect! I'm a teeney weeney bit disappointed though. I liked Raphael (see, I can dig a baddie) or... I liked his vessel. I liked the actor who played him.(Demore Barnes) So... if Raph comes back I guess he's not coming back as the same actor. Now. Castiel was blown to smitheens on more than one occasion and came back in the same vessel. Same with Anna (not that I'm expecting her back again) But they made specific mention that Raphael would need a new vessel. Bummer! I really liked that actor. He's the main reason I got all giddy about Raphael in the first place and why I made such a stink that they never tied up that loose end. So, me? Slightly bummed. However, if they screw up the continuity as they often do and bring back this actor I will NOT call B.S. on them. I'll gladly look the other way at their inconsistency. Really. I will.
I'm already over looking the fact that the boil riddled cop body they pulled out at the morgue looked nothing like the actor they had shown and ooops... there I said it. But t'was minor. T'was minor.
Because this episode ROCKED! And Rocked HARD!!! Other highlights? Cas squishing Sam's Douche Mobile! HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Oh Show! I've REALLY missed you! And it gave us the lovely bit at the end where Sam is trying to cram all his stuff into the Impala's trunk. They're brothers again. They're still at odds. But they're back in each others' space! I love it!
Now, again... Sam ain't right! And at LAST we have Dean acknowledge that. Because THIS is what was bothering me the most about the previous shows. It was obvious that something was up with Sam. But Dean didn't seem sufficiently troubled by that. He seemed to let Sam's wrongness roll off his back and that was bugging. Because for one it made it seem like Sam had always been that way- which was not true. Yes, Sam could be self-righteous, selfish, stubborn, overly tactical, revenge driven, and take Dean and their family for granted. But he was never cold and unfeeling. He and Dean had been a odds, but they had spent much of last season working towards repairing that damage. They ended Season Five with each others' backs and as brothers. Sam's bond and memories of his lifetime with Dean are what helped him defeat Lucifer. He dove head first into the Pit because he cared enough about the World and his brother to give up his life. The way he came back- it was almost as if the Show was tossing all they had built into his character and into the overall story out the window in order to start fresh and it was breaking my heart. To have Sam come back acting cold towards Dean and Dean just sighing and suspicious made it feel like they were back to Square One as they were at the beginning of Season Five.
But tonight, Dean laid the cards out on the table. He asked Sam point blank what was up with him. Sam's not answering in the right way... because he's NOT right. Something happened in that cage and he's good and screwed up. Now, what and why and how screwed up, we will hopefully come to find out. But it's there, out in the open. I'm not feeling like I'm crazy for thinking "That Boy Ain't Right!" I now have the knowledge that it's an issue that will be addressed on the Show. Because before, it was like they'd lost the blue prints on Sam and had to start fresh with a whole new model hoping we wouldn't notice. You'd have to have been alive in the 80's to remember this, but it was like they'd filled the soda shelves with New Coke and destroyed the recipe for Classic Coke (The 80's were a sad time) Have they tossed out the recipe for Classic!Sam? I hope not! But at least they're admitting- we know New!Sam is leaving a bad taste in the viewers' mouths. This is a mistake? Can it be fixed? Stay tuned!
Though... when they said coming soon in the previews.... uhh.... is it a hiatus already? Bummer! Oh well. Off to download the Nekkid!Sam and Dean and Whumped!On!Castiel Show... YAY!
Oh p.s.... was that RUFUS? I saw in those previews??? Show, now you're just making me blush! Yes... I WILL Marry you!!!
Oh, and p.p.s.! One more thing! The Lovely SPN Music is back! YAY!! SOOOOOO HAPPY!!!