***SPOILERS BELOW THIS LINE THAT WARNS ABOUT SPOILERS!***
When we return, Sam, Dean and Bobby are all, "okay, you're God now, that's cool, please don't kill us" and Cas is all "You guys weren't supportive of my totally well-conceived plan to team up with a demon and absorb human souls, and now we are no longer besties! I'm updating my Facebook status to 'God--and NOT in a relationship.'" So then he starts exacting holy vengeance on churches who have, in his mind, "gone astray"--basically taking out anyone the executive producers wanted to make not-so-subtle comments about. He starts with the anti-gay dudes and then breaks up the KKK. He's not just smiting the right-wing, though; he also hits a transcendental new age-y place and brings his wrath upon the greatest sinners of them all: MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS! In my opinion, it's about time they got what was coming to them. Have you seen Tony Robbins's teeth? That's not natural.
Where was I? Oh yeah, power-mad angel. Meanwhile, Sam is dealing with the busted wall in his head--busted by Cas, of course. Memories of Hell are leaking into his real life and it becomes harder to differentiate between what's real and what isn't. I just realized that re-capping is very tedious work. Cas makes Crowley his Satan (makes sense, when you change administration, the new guy brings in his own cabinet) and then Crowley is promptly summoned by the boys to help with taking Cas down. Crowley does that gravelly British thing and Dean does his gravelly American thing--amazingly, the word "gank" never comes up. [Side note: wouldn't Mark Sheppard make an awesome younger version of Malcolm McDowell on Franklin and Bash in a flashback sequence or something?]
Dean: "You gots a spell what can bind Death!" Crowley: "Blah blah tea and crumpets, blah blah you can't handle it." Crowley doesn't give it up, but the awesome analog Googling skills of one Robert Fisher eventually yield the spell and they summon ONE OF THE COOLEST CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW EVER sorry about that shameless fanboy outburst. All scenes with Death are funny and interesting, and this one is no exception. Dean: "Here's some junk food, DO OUR BIDDING!" Further banter ensues--Dean and Bobby find out about Sam's hallucinations--until Cas appears and releases Death. Death does the usual fist-shaking expected of upper-level supernatural beings and vanishes. ["One wall per customer?" As if he just goes around blocking everyone's infernal memories. These guys never like to seem like they're too available, which makes storytelling sense. Problems can't be too easily solved. But STILL...GRR!] He does tell them how to beat Cas, however: they've got to get him to fart out the Old Ones (shout out to H.P.) and send them back to Purgatory. Later, they do all that. And then...
Lucifer: What's up, Sam? You're still in the cage! You've been MINDFREAKED! Are you ready?
Sam: No. It's not true. It's IMPOSSIBLE!
Lucifer: Search your feelings, you know it to be true!
Sam: DO NOT WANT!
Meanwhile...
Cas: Wow, that was crazy, wasn't it? Remember when I killed all those innocent people? Man, that was out of control. But I'm cool--ah. Wait...no, no I'm not. RUN!
Dean: Let me walk closer to you so I can hear that warning again. What's this about running?
The indestructible bodies of Dean and Bobby get thrown into various parts of the room.
Cas: There is no Castiel, only Zuul!
Black out.
I hope they spend as little time as possible on Sam not being able to tell the difference between hallucination and reality. Or if they do, at least give it some kind of interesting twist. If you haven't noticed, every single sci-fi/fantasy show has an episode where the heroes wake up in some mental institution and they discover that the whole show up until this point has been a delusion. Of course, the mental institution is revealed to be an illusion created by some creature and they return to business as usual. Those plots are so tedious to me because you already know they aren't actually going to write off the entire show as a deranged fantasy. There's no suspense, it's just prolonged resolution. Supernatural had an episode like that, and now they're breaking down the walls between reality and illusion in another way. Sam obviously isn't still in the cage if he's not in every scene. How can he hallucinate stuff he can't see? You can't do a Sixth Sense review of every episode since Sam came back and make it all fit. So, I think the next episode is going to resolve that whole thing--or else it'll be about the other characters trying to restore Sam's sanity, without any Blade Runner-esque questions about what's real and what isn't.
Where was I? Oh yeah, power-mad angel. Meanwhile, Sam is dealing with the busted wall in his head--busted by Cas, of course. Memories of Hell are leaking into his real life and it becomes harder to differentiate between what's real and what isn't. I just realized that re-capping is very tedious work. Cas makes Crowley his Satan (makes sense, when you change administration, the new guy brings in his own cabinet) and then Crowley is promptly summoned by the boys to help with taking Cas down. Crowley does that gravelly British thing and Dean does his gravelly American thing--amazingly, the word "gank" never comes up. [Side note: wouldn't Mark Sheppard make an awesome younger version of Malcolm McDowell on Franklin and Bash in a flashback sequence or something?]
Dean: "You gots a spell what can bind Death!" Crowley: "Blah blah tea and crumpets, blah blah you can't handle it." Crowley doesn't give it up, but the awesome analog Googling skills of one Robert Fisher eventually yield the spell and they summon ONE OF THE COOLEST CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW EVER sorry about that shameless fanboy outburst. All scenes with Death are funny and interesting, and this one is no exception. Dean: "Here's some junk food, DO OUR BIDDING!" Further banter ensues--Dean and Bobby find out about Sam's hallucinations--until Cas appears and releases Death. Death does the usual fist-shaking expected of upper-level supernatural beings and vanishes. ["One wall per customer?" As if he just goes around blocking everyone's infernal memories. These guys never like to seem like they're too available, which makes storytelling sense. Problems can't be too easily solved. But STILL...GRR!] He does tell them how to beat Cas, however: they've got to get him to fart out the Old Ones (shout out to H.P.) and send them back to Purgatory. Later, they do all that. And then...
Lucifer: What's up, Sam? You're still in the cage! You've been MINDFREAKED! Are you ready?
Sam: No. It's not true. It's IMPOSSIBLE!
Lucifer: Search your feelings, you know it to be true!
Sam: DO NOT WANT!
Meanwhile...
Cas: Wow, that was crazy, wasn't it? Remember when I killed all those innocent people? Man, that was out of control. But I'm cool--ah. Wait...no, no I'm not. RUN!
Dean: Let me walk closer to you so I can hear that warning again. What's this about running?
The indestructible bodies of Dean and Bobby get thrown into various parts of the room.
Cas: There is no Castiel, only Zuul!
Black out.
I hope they spend as little time as possible on Sam not being able to tell the difference between hallucination and reality. Or if they do, at least give it some kind of interesting twist. If you haven't noticed, every single sci-fi/fantasy show has an episode where the heroes wake up in some mental institution and they discover that the whole show up until this point has been a delusion. Of course, the mental institution is revealed to be an illusion created by some creature and they return to business as usual. Those plots are so tedious to me because you already know they aren't actually going to write off the entire show as a deranged fantasy. There's no suspense, it's just prolonged resolution. Supernatural had an episode like that, and now they're breaking down the walls between reality and illusion in another way. Sam obviously isn't still in the cage if he's not in every scene. How can he hallucinate stuff he can't see? You can't do a Sixth Sense review of every episode since Sam came back and make it all fit. So, I think the next episode is going to resolve that whole thing--or else it'll be about the other characters trying to restore Sam's sanity, without any Blade Runner-esque questions about what's real and what isn't.
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