It’s the show that never ends, it goes on and on my
friends.
How long will this show last? Until Jensen Ackles is no longer hot. We have many seasons left
Oooh new opening music. Is it just my love of classic
rock or does Supernatural have the
most awesome soundtrack?
So last season Amarra brought back Mary Winchester, Dean
and Sam’s mother. On the one ide this show could use some more front and centre
female characters. On the other hand this is Supernatural, the master of the very stocked fridge
– and Mary has been defrosted and put back in waay too often already. I’m not
eager for another fridging
The reunion between her and Dean is very touching,
contains lots of emotional moments, lots of awkward moments (her seeing the
Impala is both). She has a lot culture shock dealing with 30 years of being
dead and how far technology has come. As well as Dean trying to explain so much
that has happened in h last 11 seasons. They’re joined by Castiel who, along
with the blood trail, tells them that Sam is in trouble.
It also introduces Mary to angels and the fact that
Castiel’s solution to every problem at the moment appears to be to beat
witnesses until they talk which seems very unangelic to her
This is all very nice and emotional et al but it all
feels a little… slow? I mean, Sam is missing and there doesn’t appear to be a
whole lot of emotion there or even a great sense of urgency
Meanwhile Sam has been taken by Lady Antonia Bevell of
the British Men of Letters and after having a vet remove a bullet from his leg
she decides to question him
Ok, she SAYS she wants to know anything about American
Hunters and their hierarchy (which I don’t think they have) so she can help.
See, in Britain there are no monsters because the British Men of Letters have
warded ever possible point of entry and the minute a monster shows up they go
find it and kill it. Britain is monster free (this could be an interesting
debate considering the number of “monsters” who are neutral or struggling
against their nature we’ve seen). And they want to help the Americans make
America monster free as well – and to do that they want to torture Sam lots and
lots to make him co-operate
So, I’m going to say now I don’t believe her because
obvious sinister character is obvious. More she even made a good point last
season that Sam & Dean may have stopped the world ending several times but
they’d also kind of caused all those apocalypses in the first place. Stopping
Sam and Dean loose cannons would make more sense
Because this plan? Doesn’t. First of all going to the US
doesn’t make huge sense because the US is so huge and relatively sparsely
populated – maybe you could start in a region and spread out, but there’s a
reason why most of Sam and Dean’s escapades don’t take place in Los Angeles,
New York or Chicago- they’re all in
Middle-of-Nowhere Ohio or Look-At-All-the-Corn Kansas collective population
your average shopping mall. Warding and rapid response seems like a big if in
those conditions. If you’re going to do it why not start in another country
where it could work: smaller, more densely populated: you could work your way
through Europe and then have a larger stack of hunters to help with the wide
open spaces of the US.
Secondly – “we want to help you we will not torture you
until you let us help and oh we introduced ourselves by shooting you in the leg”
is nonsensical. This is not how you get opeople to co-operate
Especially Sam who, as he points out, has been tortured
by Lucifer himself. Sam is not someone you can break, not any more. Not with
water or a blow torch or drugs and Lady Antonia nearly gets herself strangled
trying.
But for some bizarre reason Lady Antonia decided to leave
her phone number with the vet, this allows Dean to call and leave threats and
menacing. Antonia continues her odd decisions by then dispatching her minion to
hunt down Dean thereby giving him a way to find them because otherwise Dean has
“America somewhere, presumably” as a starting point
Minion does have some shiny magical knuckle dusters. I
don’t know if it’s them or skill that lets her easily beat both Cas and Dean (I
suspect both – she’s just that good but also has mojo to help her with the
admittedly randomly-powered Castiel). Neither stops Mary Winchester from
stabbing her in the back
Remember, Mary was a hunter, from a family of hunters.
She does have some angst though – but I don’t think it’s entirely “zomg I
killed someone” angst but more confronting the confirmation that Sam and Dean
are hunters. That was the life she left to marry John, she never wanted this
for them and here she finds that they’re pretty much the epitome of hunters
now. Except for the whole regularly ending the world thing. It’s a nice moment.
So now been handed an address Dean can make a plan to run
to the rescue which we’re sure to pick up next week.
Meanwhile Crowley is still around following demons who
are apparently following Lucifer (and still in touch with him). Lucifer is
leaving a trail of bodies because Archangels can’t just possess anyone (as we
saw with Archangel Michael way back when) and without an appropriate host they
just burn people up. Lucifer may have survived his little event with Amarra but
he’s weaker – and Crowley intends to take him down to reclaim the throne of
hell. The demons find this amusing and unlikely so he kills them
Personally I just find it a little tiresome. Don’t get me
wrong, I like Crowley, I like him a lot. But the whole storyline with Rowena
and his utter ineptitude and disinterest when it came to actually being the
King of Hell has damaged him a lot.
Ok, new season... so far I am curious but not enthused. Mary has the potential for new storylines but also a whole lot of angst and the plot has relied a little on Dubious Decision Making
