They just need to keep Dean away from Sam in the meantime. Sam is struggling with ultimate right and wrong as well, which plays out in the decision to drink the nurse or not. Gone is the apology, replaced with a vicious threat denouncing sam as a monster beyond redemption.
Sam decides to drink the nurse and save the world. Castiel has come to a decision too, breaking Dean free and taking him to the prophet to find out where the final seal is. Castiel promises to hold off the archangels and sends Dean to the convent.
Dean reaches the convent just in time to see Sam pinning Lilith in place with his mojo and for Ruby to flash him a smile as she closes the doors.
He bangs on the doors, yelling for his brother and for a moment it almost seems like he will get through. Until Lilith taunts him about turning himself into a monster and not having the will to bite.
His eyes go pitch black and with a few explosions of light, the first demon is no more. As her blood begins to run in a circle, Ruby reveals to him that he just broke the last seal. She tells him that he will be richly rewarded as Dean finally breaks into the room.
In the last few weeks, many of us predicted the finale would come down to a conflict between the brothers. Were you surprised not to see that happen, but to have the real conflict be in how heaven and hell used them as pawns? Were you glad to see Ruby get killed? Will Sam be able to handle the guilt of having brought about the apocalypse? Will Dean be able to beat Lucifer? Is Castiel now banished from heaven for going against upper management? And where in the world is God in all this?
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You are commenting using your Facebook account. It turns out that it was his mother that was a hunter originally, not his father and her father as well. It is a time of omens, omens that Dean recognises as belonging to the yellow-eyed demon and so he sets out to prevent the killing of his entire family.
Along the way, he learns the truth of how Sam was chosen as one of the demon's psychic children. Season 4 hits three great episodes in a row as the mythology of the show continues to be built. Here we find out the truth behind how the yellow-eyed demon came to give Sam his special powers. It's a story with surprises along the way and neatly ties in with what we know of the background story to date.
The yellow-eyed demon may be dead, but his plan goes on and that is what's worrying the angels because they don't know what it is. Jensen Ackles seems to get all the best episodes to himself and here's another one where Sam is effectively absent.
He makes the most of it and gets to play confused, angry, amused and heartbroken all in one story. Dean's character continues to grow and with it so does the show. He also gets some wonderful lines as well in a sharp script that is funny when it wants to be and dramatic when it chooses. This is possibly the best run of episodes that the show has come up with to date and it could be that the 'monster of the week' origins have been left far behind.
After learning that Sam is using his demon-bestowed powers to fight the forces of evil, Dean is somewhat upset, but a call from an old friend takes them on the case of a man who is about to turn into a monster whether he wishes to or not.
Sam, however, believes the man has a choice and if they can confront him with what they know they will be able to save him.
Back to the monster of the week format, but at least it bears some point in terms of the ongoing story arc insofar as it allows Sam to articulate what the powers mean to him and how he is suffering from something done to him in which he had no choice. It's not very subtle, but then subtlety never was a cornerstone of this particular show. It is, however, nicely acted with some tense moments and some seriously yucky ones, mainly due to the main villain's eating manners.
A step down from what the series has offered up this season and missing the trademark humour that has enlivened it at times, it's still a solid episode. A small town's Oktoberfest is interrupted when Dracula kills a local.
No, Sam and Dean don't believe it either, but then a werewolf kills a teen on lover's lane and a museum security guard is taken out by what appears to be a mummy. Either a legion of classic movie monsters has invaded the town or it's a shapeshifter acting out his greatest horror movie moments. This is a gag episode, but what a gag episode. Shot it black and white well, shot in colour and then digitally black and whited later anyway and with a lush classical score and new credits it is clear that everyone got into the spirit of this nonsense.
The script is as witty as the show has produced and the cast play it totally straight, thus making it work all the better. The sole exception is Todd Stashwick whose hammy Dracula impersonation is pitch perfect, well over the top but exactly what the material needs. Also needed was a light hand on the direction and that's exactly what it gets. Apart from the black and white there is a gothic mansion inside an humble apartment, all created from special effects props and leading to some funny moments as papier mache doors collapse.
In fact, Monster Movie stands up with any of those and that is high praise indeed. Oh, and if you've fantasised about Jensen Ackles in Lederhausen then this is the episode for you. Sam and Dean investigate a series of deaths by heart attack in healthy victims.
It turns out to be a ghost sickness that makes its victims scared of everything until they literally die of fright and Dean has caught it. The plot here is perfunctory, but then the plot is not what it is about. This is about Jensen Ackles acting scared in various degrees. It's a gag, but it's one that works so well, running against the characters normal behaviour, that it doesn't really matter.
Ackles plays it up for all that it's worth and Jared Padalecki also sells it well with his repertoire of exasperated expressions. What little plot there is behind the gag is taken from Of Mice and Men almost and is resolved in a manner that is particularly cruel though not gory for once even for this show. Two unusual deaths on the two days leading up to Halloween cause Sam and Dean to suspect that a powerful witch is trying to raise the spirit of Samhain, a powerful demon who is the very essence and origin on Halloween.
They have to locate and stop the witch before Dean's angels decide to smite the whole town out of existence. The main plot here is your standard 'something's wrong, something hidden is doing it, who is it, oh it's them let's get 'em' sort of plot that the show has done far too often for its own good. There is blood involved some very nasty moments involving razor blades in sweets and bobbing for apples in boiling water and the action is fine, but it's all a bit 'been there, done that'.
What is interesting here are the angels. There are hints about other agendas and plans and that's what is really holding this season of the show together, giving it a focus. If it weren't for that, then this would be a very average episode.
Women are being stalked in their showers by what appears to be a ghost and there's a bigfoot roaming the woods. Something is wrong and it all appears to be connected with the wishing well in a chinese restaurant. The thing about wishes is that they don't always turn out the way you expect and chaos will reign if Sam and Dean can't find a way to put it right. Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it.
That's the moral underpinning the story, but once again the story is really just an opportunity for Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki to show off their surprisingly successful double act. Here they get an absolutely priceless scene where they have to confront a giant, porn-addicted teddy bear. If that doesn't make you laugh then perhaps you ought to get down the well and wish for a sense of humour.
Sam and Dean learn of a woman who is being hunted by some very powerful demons. As the information comes from Ruby, herself a powerful demon, Dean is far from convinced, but when the demons attack and Ruby makes off with the girl, Sam is forced to tell Dean why he trusts her so much. This episode fills in the hole that was the six months that Dean spent in Hell and what Sam was doing all that time. It's action packed, though a little less dramatic than perhaps we might have wished for, but the main story makes up for that, introducing a girl who can listen in on angels and who is therefore a critical asset in the war between Heaven and Hell as well as a demon whom even the knife that kills everything can't kill.
The Sam and Dean double act continues to be the backbone of the show, this time giving some fine moments such as when Sam's recollections get at bit too personal for Dean and when Dean has to apologise to Ruby.
It is the relationship between these two that really makes the show and some of the looks that pass between them are worth a dozen pages of script.
It's also not a standalone episode, finishing as it does on an unusual thing for this show, a midseason cliffhanger. It's a good enough cliffhanger, though, to make sure that we have to be there next time around to find out what happens. The angels have come for Anna, who realises that the reason that she can hear angels is because she used to be one.
The team attempt to track down her grace or angelic energy , but the most powerful beings on either side of the war are massing to take her, one side to kill and the other to torture. This is the finest of this season's episodes providing tension, action and drama in equal measures with a bucket of blood thrown in for good measure. It's not so much the plot that interests here as much as the theology going on behind it. When Dean first called, Sam missed it because he was headed off to capture Lilith's chef, who is stealing babies from the hospital.
Sam and Ruby catch up to her and with his powers back to fully charged, they snag her and find out where Lilith will be. When Sam does finally get to his voicemail, he only hears a voicemail saying Dean wants to hunt him down because he's a monster.
I'm not sure it that was an old message, or a trick. I'm getting suspicious here gang. Ruby and Sam head to the convent and confront Lilith. Lilith is amused and lets Sam take the first shot. That shot puts her down hard. Dean comes around the corner in the convent to see Sam in the process of destroying Lilith and Ruby see's Dean and slams the doors on him so he can't get in.
Sam almost vanquishes Lilith and he stops for a second, distracted by hearing Dean yelling from the other side of the door. Ruby gets all impatient and rage filled and tells Sam to finish her. You see, Lilith IS the final seal. Ruby has played us all along. Dean was right about never trusting demons. What was I thinking. Ruby has been working undercover for the downstairs bossman all along, to the point of getting Sam here to break this final seal.
The final seal breaks as Lilith's blood forms the key. Sam yells over the noise to Dean that he's coming. I hear for the first time, in Sam's voice - fear. Supernatural is so well written that it's a shame it's on the CW.
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