Who Will Save Your Soul If You Won't Save Your Own? SPN 6.10
You know, I really enjoyed last night’s episode, but…
I’m pretty sure the whole Season’s Myth Arc just collapsed in on itself.
Well, let me first get into the enjoyable parts. Through the whole episode I was on the edge of my seat, laughing out loud in parts, squeeing in others and holding my breath in others still. So it had me completely engaged and interested in other words.
Right at the beginning I was doing the Tom Cruise couch jump at the sight of TWO Mark Sheppards! For one, well at first I thought Crowley had an evil twin (or a less evil twin) and since I used to love Crowley I thought maybe this would bring back the incarnation of the character he was before he turned into the mean little turd he’s become. But then I quickly realized that this was the Alpha Shifter who always takes on the form of whomever he’s confronting. I still squeed because this falls in nicely with the whole Mirror theme I’ve been harping on about amongst my friends. But also… TWO Mark Sheppards! SQUEEEE!
Crowley’s still not having any luck getting the monsters to talk or finding purgatory and so he “loses his head” Heh! There’s mah old Crowley!
Now we get to the boys and they’re rounding up Rugaroos. And sadly getting verbally bitchslapped by Crowley’s demons. And Dean’s panties are put in such a wad by this whole interation. He again questions how motivated Sam is to getting his soul back- and this whole conversation reminded me so much of the arguments these two had in Season 3 when Dean wasn’t as on the ball about breaking his deal as Sam was (That whole brothers reversing roles and mirroring one another’s past behavior I was yammering about before)
But Dean’s had enough of working for Crowley and he wants out! Sam… promptly gets taken out… by MEG!!! YAY Meg! I love her! I loved her better when she was portrayed by Nicki Aycox but Rachel Minor’s growing on me. And yeah, Meg was responsible for the death of two other beloved characters Ellen and Jo… but dang I can’t help it! Meg just ROCKS!
And once again she has the boys bound and at her mercy (See how admirable she is!) Though this time she straddles Dean while Sam looks on. More mirroring/ role reversing… um hmm! This time though Sammy calls her bluff. Without a Soul he doesn’t have his fear for Dean getting in the way of his logic or reading of Meg’s body language. He can deduce that she can’t kill them. She needs them to help her defeat Crowley.
And so they must team up with a Demon again. Dean is mortified for that Demon is Meg (I, however am delighted for exactly the same reason.( *crosses Crowley’s name off Mah Favorite Demons List and moves Meg back up to the top spot*)
But they can’t just be working with Demons. No no no. Gotta even the playing field with an Angel! And of course they pick the one who’s never shifted from the top of Mah Favorite Angels List- CASTIEL! WOOO! Poor couch! I must jump on you some more!
Now, how Sam tricks Castiel down from Heaven… heh. That’s totally a Dean move by the way, using the plot of Raiders. (More of Sam mirroring his Big Bro) But I can’t believe Castiel fell for it. It took him a fraction of a second to realize Gabriel’s Horn of Truth wasn’t in play. You think he’d notice if the Ark of the Covenant had been used. I’m also surprised he’s putting up with Sam’s threats. Old Castiel would have had that gargantuan soulless abomination on the floor rather than listen to such sass talk. But still SQUEE CASTIEL!!!
They can’t find Crowley the old fashioned Angel way and so fall back on the old fashioned Winchester way and break into Grandpa’s office. (Really Grandpa! The security at Campbell Compound is deplorable!) Gramps is being a butthead because he wants his daughter back… which, a lot of folks suspected… but Really Grandpa? No I mean it, really Grandpa! I thought maybe Crowley had somehow managed to get a hold of Mary’s soul and was holding that over Gramps… but no. He just wants her brought back to life and…. Ok, I just can’t get into the wrongness of that right now.
Because now… Castiel has discovered PORN! Show… Stop reading Fic! (Although… Pizza Man… hee!) But Grandpa thankfully interrupts Castiel’s directly lifted from Fic moment to give his Grandsons a helping hand. Except… he won’t join them on their mission…. Hmmmm…
Now the merry band of Hunters, Demons and Porn watching Angel stumble way too easily into the Crowley Compound. And therein be Hell Hounds! Hell Hounds are fun at times. Meg, being WAY too cool offers to distract the pooches while the boys go on. And then… plants a wet one on Castiel. Show, really… Stop reading Fic! And then Castiel kisses her back… Damn it Show! What did I just say! Knock it off!
Ok, I LOVE Meg (have you noticed?) and I LOVE Castiel. But I never shipped them. I’m sure after Abandoned All Hope plenty of folks did ship them. But to me that almost kiss they shared then was way hotter than any real kiss would have been because Castiel so bad-assly denied Little Miss Sulfur any Angel Food Cake and instead used her as a bridge to cross the ring of fire! But I’m sure many folks thought they’d make a hot pair. So what just happened in this episode? Total Fan Pandering. Which, I wouldn’t mind so much if it fit into the plot. Here… completely out of place and out of character… BRING ON THE HELL HOUNDS!!!
Though, I can’t help it… I’m on the edge of the couch again going: Please don’t kill Meg! Please don’t kill Meg! Don’t ship her with Cas, but don’t kill her either! (Yeah, my Meg love is pretty sad!)
So the boys wander through the menagerie of captured creatures. And I swear! I’ve read a fic exactly like this! This scene doesn’t appear until chapter five but still… STOP READING FIC, SHOW!
And back to Miss Meg… WOO HOO! GO GIRL! YAY! Whoops… Christian! Christian who holds a high spot on Mah LEAST Favorite Demons List. And also WHOOPS! Grandpa… betraying them… oh yawn! Was it just me, or did that Angel Banishment Sigil look wonky and wrong? It looked off to me. But it apparently did the trick because Castiel goes bye bye and the boys are once again in the meaty clutches of the baddies.
Dean is standing in pee… Poor Dean. And now here’s where Grandpa just goes off the deep end. He wants his daughter back so desperately… that he’s willing to sacrifice his GRANDSONS. That’s not only buckets of evil and crazy… it’s DUMB! Even if Grandpa is a completely immoral character, even an immoral character would have to see the extreme flaw in this. He’d be bringing his daughter back to life only to have her hate him forever, probably want to kill him and then herself- because he killed her SONS! I’m sorry…. Maybe Show you SHOULD read more Fic…. Because that’s just DUMB. Dumb, bad character motivation. But sadly we’ll have to just go with it for the time being.
So the boys are trapped and Meg is…. Nekkid on the torture slab. Oh, come on! Ok, I’m very annoyed by this. How come every time a female is tortured she’s nude? Alistair got to keep his clothes on. So did Sam in his fever dream sequence. So did Dean as far as we could tell from the little flashes of Hell they showed us. But Ruby and Meg nekkid… and strapped down in a way that clearly smushes the actresses boobs! Show… you are so wrong. So very very WRONG!... Now bring me more Nekkid!Sam!
Well, there’s Sam… with his clothes on…Biting his own wrist??!? Owwie! And… what gives? Ohh…. Ink for Demon Trap. Very clever, Sammy! (And I loved his little bloody grin. T’was delightfully creepy and gory!)
Speaking of gore. Poor Dean’s been lead down into some sort of abattoir. (Vocabulary word, y’all!) Two men approach him and he panics… because he knows just how much Fic the Show reads… But as it turns out, his virtue is safe in this case. His yummy smelling flesh and innards… not so much.
Meanwhile Sammy’s desperately lookin g for his bro and… well it’s almost as if he CARES! Awwww! Dean’s doing ok though for the most part at keeping himself from becoming a happy meal for the critters. Still, at the last moment- it’s Little Bro to the rescue… Awwww again!
Meanwhile still, Show is continuing to get my card carrying Feminist panties in a wad with the torture of Nekkid!Meg and constant mention of her meatsuit’s unmentionables and what’s currently happening to them and what may have happened to them. Sighs…. Sera… you disappoint me… Even with all the Nekkid!Sam you disappoint. Dean… does not disappoint and he promptly ganks Christian… allowing me to cross this tedious character off both my least favorite Demons and least favorite Campbells list. YAY!
And now before the girl!Djinn can get hers (for surely her torture would have involved more Nekkidness) Crowley gets his. Demon Trapped and forced to admit that Sammy’s soul is just not gettable. (Which again, many suspected) His Soul's currently being used in a taffy pull between Michael and Lucifer (Hey Show, stop looking at Fan Art!) and Sam wouldn’t want it anyway. Dean begs to differ. Sam… not so much. But luckily, Castiel learned something else from the Pizza Man… how to bake… and Crowley’s bones are TOAST! Buh Bye Mr. Crowley! I deeply loved you last season, but this season you were such a turd! Mark Sheppard can go be awesome elsewhere!
Meg… she fights and runs away and lives to fight another day… and will hopefully get to keep her clothes on next time. And Castiel has the caged critters spayed or neutered or otherwise put down and so, that’s all there is to say about that.
Except all these angels and demons have convinced Sam that Soul is a yukky thing to have and he wants none of it. He ditches Dean… again. But this time does not do so in a furious little Emo Boy snit. Apparently you have to have a Soul to be Emo…. *sniff*
So, I did LIKE this episode. But now? Well, there’s no Crowley. So… no purgatory plot, no Alpha gathering plot, no Grandpa getting Mary back plot… what are these crazy kids going to do for fun? See what I mean about the Myth Arc collapsing in on itself?
Hmmm. I guess now we shift towards Castiel’s side of the story and the Angel Civil War. Balthezar may come back. As may Raphael… though they trashed his vessel so he probably won’t come back as Demore Barnes and I’m bummed about that! (But if he does come back, I promise not to call Ret-Con!) And of course the getting back of Sam’s soul… I suppose that’s still an issue. Though exactly how they’re gonna get it back into someone who doesn’t want it beats me.
But next week… Dean swaps places with Death (Oh Show! Are you ever going to Stop Reading FIC!!!) Still… YAY Death! (Mah Favorite Horseman!)
In completely unrelated news... I saw a few snowflakes in the sky this morning... I am thus legally obligated as a Southerner to bum rush the grocery store and gather up every available loaf of bread and carton of milk. Later y'all!