5 Things: About SPN 4x21

[miconic]

1. This ep cements the belief that both demons and angels are douches. SPN is a godless universe and as with all balances in the world, it's well not balancing. Quit it; we have enough problems with humans and monsters.
   
   Glad to see Anna gone (one down, Castiel to go). Perhaps it's to show that Castiel finally grabbed some balls in his time-out upstairs but I think Julie McNiven's contract is finally up. Seriously, Lauren Cohan had more use in her contracted time than Julie McNiven. I hiss at you, writers; she was pointless.
   
   
2. Oh, Sam. How far have you fallen. I'm surprised that Demon Detox takes just a few days or hours but I do not find it surprising to see his justifying his actions through the people he knew best; validation from the mother who mattered, condemnation from the ones that would/do.
   
   I'm not spoiled for the season finale but I think it's a given that Sam will turn dark. If the season does not end with 'hunting Sam, saving Sam,' I'll be very, very surprised.
   
   
3. The bit where the Sam we know is gone and no longer in control? When he deliberately choked Dean and released only when Dean nearly passed out. Sam has been changing since the series began and he has been building up to this; his demon blood and how much it is or could be part of him.
   
   That said, not bad acting chops, JP. I cringed at a few bits of the over-acting but overall not bad.
   
   
4. I don't think Sam and Dean will ever have a civil conversation, at least not now and not in the near future. They're talking at each other and yet no one's listening. They're telling, not sharing, yelling when we can barely hear what they're saying.
   
   
5. I would expect that with 65 of the seals broken, the world will be in chaos more than before. Where are the demons dancing on the graves? Where are the angels getting shot left, right and center--oh yeah, they were killed by their own!
   
   The angels are useless, the demons seems to have a better plan. So, the angels are pointless, right? I don't see them furthering the plot/season other than being cryptic and annoyingly good at doing the finger waving thing. Oh yeah, and for pulling Dean out of purgatory--which in the end just wants Dean to be their bitch.
   
   Oh boys, how easily are you the tools of others.

I was looking at the list of eps for Season 4 and personally, most of them are unmemorable to me. I remember 'Yellow Fever' for Dean's fear, the 'Monster Movie' for its Black and White, 'In The Beginning' for hunter-Mary and her acts that led to the dysfunctional Winchesters. Other than that, the rest are meh.

This ep will probably be one of the latter.