Kripke Knows Something We Don't?
Seriously, I'm really starting to believe that Kripke knows something we don't, with all the nutty nature shakes that's been happening around the globe: typhoons, floods, tsunamis, quakes. Like fallen_titaness said to me on Twitter, she's like Becky waiting for Kripke to tell her: "IT'S ALL REAL!!!" coz it's really starting to feel like the end of times :O
It took me THIS LONG to collect my thoughts about this particular episode, mostly because this is the first real separation episode between Dean & Sam (and partly coz I'm lazy---still on holiday mode) Like I previously said before, despite how much fun the prospect of Dean & Cas pairing is, we all know that Supernatural just isn't Supernatural without the brotherhood of Dean & Sam.
Michael & Lucifer
Kripke, you SOB! (...whom I worship and adore, obviously!) I can't believe you tricked me! I think we all knew it all along that Sam IS Lucifer but somehow the casting of Mark Pellegrino as Lucifer had me thinking, oh, I guess Sam ISN'T Lucifer and we all thought wrong!
In a way, Dean being Michael's vessel and Sam being Lucifer's true vessel has been like, my worst fear, ever. But don't get me wrong, I don't hate it! In fact, I love just how TRAGIC this whole situation is! I think this is an incredibly good thing for Sam as a character! All throughout Season 4 we've all been so focused on Dean. Dean the chosen one, Dean walked out of hell, Dean will kill Lucifer, Dean, Dean, Dean, DEAN, IT'S ALL ABOUT DEAN! Yes, I LOVE IT because I'm a true blue Dean Girl from Day 1, but you can feel the balance tipping between the brother's characters, and I keep thinking, how are they gonna redeem Sam's character? He can't be a sidedish like this? But now that we know WHAT Sam really is, that puts him back on the same level as Dean. This is a good thing, but it might not end very well. But you know what, I'm a sucker for tragic endings, I don't know why. I say I hate tragedies, but they move me in a way that's way more profound than happy endings. Does tragic endings affect everyone like that or is it just me and my masochistic self?
It makes me wonder though, why Lucifer is SO confident that Sam will say yes? I feel really sorry for Sam now. It's a very sad thing when bad things happen to good people, and this is probably like, THE WORST THING that could happen to a person like our little Winchester brother Sammy, who's been fighting evil all his life, who just wants to be NORMAL. How do you handle such a horrible newsflash like "Oh hey btw, you're the vessel of SATAN and you will destroy the world"?
Speaking of Lucifer: Oh Miss Adrianne Palicki, it's so good to see you again! She is such a great actress, I just simply adore her! I didn't think she was all that great when she started out in Smallville and Supernatural (and that botched Aquaman pilot), but I think Friday Night Lights did wonders on her acting chops. And stupid, dense me didn't even REALIZE that Jessica is Lucifer in disguise! I shit you not! The whole time before she MELTED into the form of Mark Pellegrino, I keep trying to figure out if that's the real ghost of Jessica, or was Sam dreaming, I definitely knew SOMETHING WAS OFF with Jessica from the way she talks that there's no hope and all that negativity, but it just didn't occur to me that Jessica = Lucifer! It didn't even hit me that Lucifer had came to Nick in the EXACT SAME FORM = dead woman in white!!! So you can imagine how freaked out I was when she melted into Mark Pellegrino and it hit me that Sam KISSED LUCIFER! Oh freak, NO!
And I'm also a little confused as to WHAT exactly it was, that face to face encounter between Sam & Lucifer, because clearly, Lucifer is STILL looking for Sam. He says so, he will find Sam. That means he hasn't found Sam yet. So what was that? An apparition? A dream? How could that whole thing happen if he didn't know where Sam was, physically? Or Lucifer WAS there, but since Sam hasn't given him consent, means there will be a next encounter and no matter how far Sam runs or tries to hide, Lucifer WILL find him? And Sam WILL say YES? I hope this gets explained more later.
Dean & Cas
Am I allowed to scream now? Dean & Cas are so incredibly ADORABLE together! It's like watching two of the most unlikely (but entertaining) odd couple ever! Dean reminding Cas about the concept of personal space (and the fact that they've TALKED ABOUT IT BEFORE is plain hilarious!) Come on Dean, Cas can't help it if he wants to be close to you! ...and if he doesn't want to give your necklace back, YET.
And who knew angelporting could have a side effect? CONSTIPATION?????
WHAT THE HELL, KRIPKE??? ARE YOU NUTS??? Every single episode you unleash an even bigger MADNESS in the Dean/Cas camp. You realize you're creating a monster, don't you? I'm not even a Dean/Cas slash and my mind immediately went to "WHERE EXACTLY DID CAS TOUCH DEAN WHEN THEY ANGELPORTED?" xDDDD Oh Supernatural writers, you naughty naughty people you!
Seeing the exploration to this new side of Cas is insanely entertaining. It does make sense that the way Cas behaves is due to him being an angel who are unaccustomed to how humans do things. Personal space. Lying. Boozing. Women. I swear, Dean is like BABYSITTING here: Buttoning up and fixing Cas' tie; covering up for Cas' unfiltered honesty (I don't think angels have a problem with lying since asshat doesn't seem to have a problem doing so---IT'S JUST OUR LOVABLE NAIVE CASTIEL!); shoving a freaked out Cas straight into the deepest pit of iniquity. OHMYGOD. So entertaining. My wall of fame Cas moments in this episode: Cas pulling out an upside down FBI badge, and Cas' freaked out face when he realizes Dean had brought him to a whorehouse! OH CAS! You're so adorably wholesome even I wanna corrupt you! I swear, Dean must be having so much fun with this.
AND I CAN'T BELIEVE CAS CALLED RAPHAEL "MY LITTLE BITCH"!!! WHOA WHOA WHOA, where did THAT come from??? Did Dean teach you those bad words, Castiel? Bad, bad Dean!
God or Lucifer?
Raphael was amazing though. He's scary, yeah, Teenage Mutant Ninja Angel SCARES ME. He did bring up a valid point though. What if it wasn't God who raised Castiel or put the boys on the plane? It's TOTALLY POSSIBLE. So now we're back to square one to not knowing who exactly did it. And I guess they explained too about where the archangels all fit in the whole funpocalypse. So, God is missing, and the angels are tired of all this shit and taking matters into their own hands to achieve... paradise? They're not really working with the demons, are they? They're just LETTING the seals be broken, let Lucifer rise, and have a full on armageddon war where everything is destroyed (the world is just collateral damage) and back to square one? Reset button?
Speaking of God, I really like Castiel's blind faith and how it relates to Dean's blind faith over John. I absolutely LOVED that scene where Dean gives Cas that pep talk about missing fathers and believing what your heart tells you. That was truly a bonding moment. You can tell
their relationship has definitely developed beyond whatever it is they had going in Season 4. When you've gone for beers and to whorehouses together, that puts you on the same level of bro-ness as Barney Stinson & Marshall Eriksen!
So what do you think? Was it God or Lucifer who brought Cas back? I'm probably more like Cas, I'd like to think that it's God.
It took me THIS LONG to collect my thoughts about this particular episode, mostly because this is the first real separation episode between Dean & Sam (and partly coz I'm lazy---still on holiday mode) Like I previously said before, despite how much fun the prospect of Dean & Cas pairing is, we all know that Supernatural just isn't Supernatural without the brotherhood of Dean & Sam.
Michael & Lucifer
Kripke, you SOB! (...whom I worship and adore, obviously!) I can't believe you tricked me! I think we all knew it all along that Sam IS Lucifer but somehow the casting of Mark Pellegrino as Lucifer had me thinking, oh, I guess Sam ISN'T Lucifer and we all thought wrong!
In a way, Dean being Michael's vessel and Sam being Lucifer's true vessel has been like, my worst fear, ever. But don't get me wrong, I don't hate it! In fact, I love just how TRAGIC this whole situation is! I think this is an incredibly good thing for Sam as a character! All throughout Season 4 we've all been so focused on Dean. Dean the chosen one, Dean walked out of hell, Dean will kill Lucifer, Dean, Dean, Dean, DEAN, IT'S ALL ABOUT DEAN! Yes, I LOVE IT because I'm a true blue Dean Girl from Day 1, but you can feel the balance tipping between the brother's characters, and I keep thinking, how are they gonna redeem Sam's character? He can't be a sidedish like this? But now that we know WHAT Sam really is, that puts him back on the same level as Dean. This is a good thing, but it might not end very well. But you know what, I'm a sucker for tragic endings, I don't know why. I say I hate tragedies, but they move me in a way that's way more profound than happy endings. Does tragic endings affect everyone like that or is it just me and my masochistic self?
It makes me wonder though, why Lucifer is SO confident that Sam will say yes? I feel really sorry for Sam now. It's a very sad thing when bad things happen to good people, and this is probably like, THE WORST THING that could happen to a person like our little Winchester brother Sammy, who's been fighting evil all his life, who just wants to be NORMAL. How do you handle such a horrible newsflash like "Oh hey btw, you're the vessel of SATAN and you will destroy the world"?
Speaking of Lucifer: Oh Miss Adrianne Palicki, it's so good to see you again! She is such a great actress, I just simply adore her! I didn't think she was all that great when she started out in Smallville and Supernatural (and that botched Aquaman pilot), but I think Friday Night Lights did wonders on her acting chops. And stupid, dense me didn't even REALIZE that Jessica is Lucifer in disguise! I shit you not! The whole time before she MELTED into the form of Mark Pellegrino, I keep trying to figure out if that's the real ghost of Jessica, or was Sam dreaming, I definitely knew SOMETHING WAS OFF with Jessica from the way she talks that there's no hope and all that negativity, but it just didn't occur to me that Jessica = Lucifer! It didn't even hit me that Lucifer had came to Nick in the EXACT SAME FORM = dead woman in white!!! So you can imagine how freaked out I was when she melted into Mark Pellegrino and it hit me that Sam KISSED LUCIFER! Oh freak, NO!
And I'm also a little confused as to WHAT exactly it was, that face to face encounter between Sam & Lucifer, because clearly, Lucifer is STILL looking for Sam. He says so, he will find Sam. That means he hasn't found Sam yet. So what was that? An apparition? A dream? How could that whole thing happen if he didn't know where Sam was, physically? Or Lucifer WAS there, but since Sam hasn't given him consent, means there will be a next encounter and no matter how far Sam runs or tries to hide, Lucifer WILL find him? And Sam WILL say YES? I hope this gets explained more later.
Dean & Cas
Am I allowed to scream now? Dean & Cas are so incredibly ADORABLE together! It's like watching two of the most unlikely (but entertaining) odd couple ever! Dean reminding Cas about the concept of personal space (and the fact that they've TALKED ABOUT IT BEFORE is plain hilarious!) Come on Dean, Cas can't help it if he wants to be close to you! ...and if he doesn't want to give your necklace back, YET.
And who knew angelporting could have a side effect? CONSTIPATION?????
WHAT THE HELL, KRIPKE??? ARE YOU NUTS??? Every single episode you unleash an even bigger MADNESS in the Dean/Cas camp. You realize you're creating a monster, don't you? I'm not even a Dean/Cas slash and my mind immediately went to "WHERE EXACTLY DID CAS TOUCH DEAN WHEN THEY ANGELPORTED?" xDDDD Oh Supernatural writers, you naughty naughty people you!
Seeing the exploration to this new side of Cas is insanely entertaining. It does make sense that the way Cas behaves is due to him being an angel who are unaccustomed to how humans do things. Personal space. Lying. Boozing. Women. I swear, Dean is like BABYSITTING here: Buttoning up and fixing Cas' tie; covering up for Cas' unfiltered honesty (I don't think angels have a problem with lying since asshat doesn't seem to have a problem doing so---IT'S JUST OUR LOVABLE NAIVE CASTIEL!); shoving a freaked out Cas straight into the deepest pit of iniquity. OHMYGOD. So entertaining. My wall of fame Cas moments in this episode: Cas pulling out an upside down FBI badge, and Cas' freaked out face when he realizes Dean had brought him to a whorehouse! OH CAS! You're so adorably wholesome even I wanna corrupt you! I swear, Dean must be having so much fun with this.
AND I CAN'T BELIEVE CAS CALLED RAPHAEL "MY LITTLE BITCH"!!! WHOA WHOA WHOA, where did THAT come from??? Did Dean teach you those bad words, Castiel? Bad, bad Dean!
God or Lucifer?
Raphael was amazing though. He's scary, yeah, Teenage Mutant Ninja Angel SCARES ME. He did bring up a valid point though. What if it wasn't God who raised Castiel or put the boys on the plane? It's TOTALLY POSSIBLE. So now we're back to square one to not knowing who exactly did it. And I guess they explained too about where the archangels all fit in the whole funpocalypse. So, God is missing, and the angels are tired of all this shit and taking matters into their own hands to achieve... paradise? They're not really working with the demons, are they? They're just LETTING the seals be broken, let Lucifer rise, and have a full on armageddon war where everything is destroyed (the world is just collateral damage) and back to square one? Reset button?
Speaking of God, I really like Castiel's blind faith and how it relates to Dean's blind faith over John. I absolutely LOVED that scene where Dean gives Cas that pep talk about missing fathers and believing what your heart tells you. That was truly a bonding moment. You can tell
their relationship has definitely developed beyond whatever it is they had going in Season 4. When you've gone for beers and to whorehouses together, that puts you on the same level of bro-ness as Barney Stinson & Marshall Eriksen!
So what do you think? Was it God or Lucifer who brought Cas back? I'm probably more like Cas, I'd like to think that it's God.