So we have a reunion
with everyone and Lucifer tries to act like he’s one of the gang and everyone
loves him. Needless to say no-one buys it and Mary clocks him good.
They all also try to
keep Lucifer away from Jack - except Jack, after a due amount of moping, is
super intrigued about his dad and wants to hear more about his family and the
power he has. Lucifer does a decent act of not being entirely awful, especially
since he sells the whole “fake news” meme (are Supernatural making
comparisons between Trump and Satan? Well if they won’t I will!) quite
well, saying it’s all god’s propaganda and he was locked up so it can’t have
been his fault
Disturbingly, Jack
starts calling him dad. And mopes a lot about his mother
Dean and Sam get over
the whole I-thought-you-were-dead thing because emotion. Dean also wants
Gabriel to kill Lucifer but that’s not exactly possible: even at full grace we
know which brother is more powerful.
The first snag in the
plan is that Mary doesn’t actually want to come home because she’s leading the
rebellion and it matters and she can’t abandon her comrades in arms. Dean, of
course, loses every last bit of his ever-loving shit over this - because family
must be together forever and ever until the co-dependence becomes REALLY
unhealthy.
Sam can see her point
and manages to find a middle ground between abandoning them and staying in
apocalypse world. He thinks they should take the Apocalypse soldiers with them
so they can use the Winchester Cave with all of its Men of Letters lore to try
and figure out how their tiny, losing forces can actually defeat Michael. Sam
is actually much more diplomatic with the soldiers - led by Bobby - than Dean’s
utter lack of patience and visible scorn. Dean is a weapon, never a diplomat
But first they have
to rescue Charlie and Ketch (and I like that it’s clear Charlie is in charge,
less so that she’s being rescued) who have gone to rescue some hostages. Only it
turns out to be a trap. The angels decide to torture them for information,
calling in their specialist: Evil Castiel (who has developed a German accent
and a Nazi style uniform). While the good guys use Good Castiel to question the
mole and find out
Yes Castiel kills
himself, making it very clear he prefers humans to angels as he kills his evil
counterpart. So the rescue happens quite easily
Lucifer is awkwardly
trying to be a dad to Jack and decides to introduce him to the family,
specifically uncle Gabriel. And Gabe isn’t here for this. As far as he’s
concerned Lucifer is the worst, his lies are terrible, his corruption of
humanity was unforgiveable and an act of jealousy and, basically, he’s a
terribad awful CANCER on humanity that god was very right to lock up and it’s
only a shame he didn’t do it sooner before the damage was done. His actual
words. And this seems to hit home - there’s actual tears in Lucifer’s eyes in
the face of his brother’s rage. Gabriel is pretty savage here
Perhaps because of
this he is able to convince Jack to come with them - since Jack very much wants
to kill Michael
Everyone is convinced
to go to the new world and they all gather at the portal to go through (and see
a very surprised and exhausted Rowena who has managed to hold it open with her
magic) until Michael arrives
The archangels are
running a rear guard - and again, Supernatural, invest in some CGI! How
can you make a three way battle between the Archangels Gabriel, Michael and
Lucifer so BORING?!
Tragically, Gabriel
dies - completing his redemption arc for running away in the first place. He
stood his ground so the humans could… stand watching him. But I’m going to say
let them escape to pretend it has meaning
Lucifer doesn’t
sacrifice himself but he is injured by Michael… and rushes to Sam to go through
the portal. And Sam pushes him back. Because did Lucifer think they were going
to help him? He leaves through the portal, which closes behind them, trapping
Lucifer with Michael
Which means in the
Winchester Cave we now have a small army which is going to be interesting. What
was noteworthy about this season is how Supernatural went out its way to
pare down their characters - Castiel, Rowena, Crowley were all killed, Mary
vanished - it felt like the writers wanted to return to much narrower cast;
focusing nearly entirely on the brothers (they’ve tried this before)
Except not only did
they creep back through a series of resurrections but now we have an army. We
even have Ketch. And, of course, most eagerly we have Charlie and Bobby - one
character who was horrendously treated by this show to my infinite rage (DO
BETTER!) who I am very happy to see. Bobby… I’m not so sure. I mean, I loved
Bobby. Bobby was amazing. But Bobby was amazing because he was the dad the
Winchesters never had (don’t come at me with you John apologetics - worst dad
ever!); but now we have a Bobby who has no relationship with them? And I’m not
even sure a paternal Bobby would work any more; the brothers are pushing 40
now, the dynamic is too different. I fear nostalgia may ruin whatever Bobby
becomes
I also thinks he may
become a semi-antagonist: taking over in a way that Dean, especially, will find
more and more intolerable… though younger Dean was ALWAYS happier following the
lead of an older man he respected - I always thought that part of Dean’s
looking for John in the first seasons was less parental and more because he
didn’t want to lead. The soldier needed his general. Even now we see a Dean who
is bad at diplomacy, bad at planning and bad at communicating or expressing
himself. Dean is a weapon, but a terribly directed one without Sam’s influence
But this cast? Sam,
Dean, Castiel, Mary, Jack, Bobby, Charlie, Ketch, Rowena… that’s a lot.
Someone’s going to die. A lot of people are going to die.... Or return to the
apocalypse realm at least. They can’t all hang around
And further twist:
Lucifer is working with Michael to open a portal… but he clearly feels guilt
about it
My theory: Lucifer
sacrifices himself saving Jack/the world from Michael and then Jack goes to
Heaven to provide their angelic charge. Mary, Bobby and Charlie return to
apocalypse world to help rebuild it. Ketch probably goes with. Rowena doesn’t -
she continues to hang around doing her own thing because she’s Rowena.
