So, Supernatural is back and um….yeah. Hours later and I still can’t decide exactly what I want to say about it. This will be one of my shorter Supernatural blogs, hopefully, because I’m hoping to have a lot more to say when we’re not subjected to Daddy Dean the whole time.
Sounds funny to say that, since I’ve wanted Dean to have the family he always dreamed of, but it doesn’t fit him, at all. That wasn’t MY Dean in this episode and I don’t think he’s happy. He’s just settled. It’s not like he was loudly proclaiming his love for Lisa when he was freaking out about her safety and that of her kid. He was being “responsible” and “taking care of them” just like he did his real family all those years. And he doesn’t want to leave them because he’s left them open to possible attack, not because he can’t live without them. It just didn’t speak of the right world for Dean to me at all.
And we saw that when he heard the scream and immediately had to go check it out. Hunting is who he is. I often wish it wasn’t, but you can’t just thrust aside 30 years of living and training. He is a hunter. His family is not Lisa and Ben. It’s Sam, Bobby and Cas. I’ll get into the rest of those yahoos in a minute. Dean made his family and his choice long ago.
Words cannot express how pissed off I was to find that Sam had been alive for a year and didn’t contact Dean. I get it, I do. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t piss me off and Dean shoulda/coulda been more pissed about it. And BOBBY. That killed me. Again, I get it. They wanted him to have a normal life but he can’t. They of all people should know that. Sam tried. Bobby was married and his wife was killed. So, their reasoning rang true but false at the same time. I really don’t think the writing of this episode was up to par with what I’ve come to expect from this show. Maybe that’s the problem.
Anyway, turns out that Dean was poisoned by a Jin and Sam knew he was going to come after Dean (how? why?) and came and gave him some shot that Samuel made (again how? why?) and revealed himself. Oh, but not before the lights did their magical demon zappy thing while Dean thought he was seeing YED. I’ll admit, seeing Azazel again had me saying WTF? but being kind of excited at the same time. He was pretty awesome, as demons go.
Then Sam “proved” he was not a demon or shapeshifter by cutting himself with silver and drinking saltwater. Well, that’s all fine and good, but that shit didn’t work on Lucifer either did it? I really don’t think Sammy is Sammy. And he was acting weird. Harder, less caring, darker I guess. Which, maybe Sam can attribute to his time in hell that he didn’t want to talk about, but I’m very, very suspicious.
And then he takes Dean to meet the Campbells, 3 cousins that they never knew about plus a somehow magically risen Samuel. Look, I was all for seeing Grandpa again. He was really awesome before Azazel took him over and killed him and stuff. Now I’m not so thrilled. Because I trust him even less than I do Sam. I don’t remember the new characters names and I hope I don’t have to learn them.
Dean’s all WTF just like the entire audience was and he expressed the same disbelief I felt, only he went along with it while I was skeptical the whole time. I guess cause he had to protect his new “family”. Blah. He did this by taking them to Bobby and finding out Bobby knew about Sam all along and again, not enough Dean anger for my liking. I would have liked to see him throw a punch at one of them. He’s been neutered. I do not approve.
They return to the cousins and one of the cousins questions Dean’s expertise, but Dean points out that the Jin are not going to attack when outnumbered and they agree so they leave. Dean sees the neighbors getting attacked and runs to help and gets Jinned again, falling into a pretty cool hallucination about YED killing Lisa and having Ben drink his blood. I say it was cool because I really was hoping it happened so they would be gone. No such luck, sadly.
Sam, meanwhile, battled the Jin using golf clubs and lamps and the like…so maybe he’s not superpowered. I don’t know. Grandpa came in and helped and sent Sammy off to give Dean a shot (why wasn’t Dean killed right away like his neighbor was? Is he just made of stronger stuff? Or is the writing really that fucking sloppy?). And here was an eyebrow raiser. Instead of killing the female Jin, they captured her and threw her in the van and took off without letting Sam and Dean know. The purpose of this was not revealed, but it’s highly suspicious, just like all of the rest of it.
Sam assumed Dean would come with him now, but Dean decided to stay and be Mr. Mom in suburbia. Old Sam would have been thrilled by this but New Sam tried to talk him into coming with him. This was again, disturbing and un-Samlike.
It’s funny because I remember season 5 and having a lot of dislike for it, but rewatching the marathon yesterday, I liked it a bit better than I had originally. And I bawled my eyes out during the finale again, even knowing how it ended. So I was really looking forward to the new season and to say I was let down would be an understatement. Maybe, as time goes and we start to find out what’s going on with Sammy and Samuel, I’ll find it a lot better. But this was a shitty start to the final season and made me almost wish it’d just ended the way it did at the end of last year. I’m going to keep an open mind though.
I’m hoping that Cas will be coming into the picture soon and maybe be able to shed light on this situation with Sam and Samuel. He’s a high powered angel again, even higher than before I believe. And I’d like to know what the hell happened with Adam/Michael as well. Maybe the whole demonverse was thrown out of whack with the Lucifer/Michael thing and it will all make sense. I don’t know. Right now, not thrilled. But damn it was good to see Dean again and it was uberhot.
Oh, and Dean? She didn’t just want you because you were taken. She wanted you because you were you. Women did that before you had a stupid, irritating, pointless girlfriend, and they’ll want you after you get rid of her. Trust.