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« on: September 19, 2009, 09:35:35 AM » |
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As promised OBS member Firebrand has brought us the weekly R&R of ‘Supernatural’
Supernatural Update
Okay, so the last thing we saw was Dean telling Sam that due to everything Sam had done, regardless of the fact it was manipulation, Dean no longer feels like he can trust his little brother. Despite appearances, this is a good thing. Sam pretty much ran unchecked last season, with Dean constantly defending him. This led to Sam turning to the dark side and bringing forth the apocalypse. Sometimes, blind faith is not necessarily a good thing.
This Week
In the last episode, we saw the Winchester's surrogate father, Bobby Singer, get injured (technically it was at his own hands while he was possessed by a demon) and that's where this episode picks up from. Bobby is now wheelchair bound and as breifly mentioned last episode, it appears he may not ever regain the ability to walk.
We also have moment where Dean shows Sam an x-ray of his chest, illuminating the symbols Castiel carved into their bones to keep them hidden from the Angels that hunt them. There is a funny moment when Castiel calls Sam on his mobile. Why would Castiel have to do that Dean asks? Logically, if the Winchesters are invisible to all there would be no other way to find them. Castiel has come to them to try and help them in their quest to destroy Lucifer. Dean's plan, which we don't exactly know, has been deemed idiotic. Castiel has been ex-communicated from Heaven and he is now being chased down as a traitor. He's being forced to kill his own kind. He also has emotions. The Castiel of season 4 was cold and mechanical. The Castiel of season 5, though we haven't seen him much yet, is much more human. He's come for the charm Dean wears, a medallion given to Dean from Sam on Christmas (Season 3, Episode 8) With this charm, Castiel can hunt down the one creature who can handle Lucifer, since Dean has refused his potential role. The medallion will grow hot once Castiel gets close. Close to God.
Bobby receives a call from a hunter names Rufus. We met Rufus back in season 3 briefly, and in this episode, he initiates the whole thing. He's in a small town in Colorado where Demons have over-run, killing innocent people. Sam and Dean head to town to help, finding a ghost town. As they canvas the town, looking for signs of life, they are found by Ellen Harvelle. The whole town is possessed by demons, Rufus and Ellen's daughter Jo have disappeared and of the 20 innocents that Ellen was trying to save, 9 remain. We see Ellen play a little bit of a motherly aspect to the brothers, by slapping Dean because he never called her to let him know he was still alive (or more accurately, came back). Sam and Dean head out to get supplies (rock salt and guns) but not before a minor confrontation about Sam's former addiction and Dean's inability to trust him.
It would apprear that Dean's untrustful stance isn't unfounded either. When Sam is ambushed by 2 demons. He dispatches them easily but there is a breif moment in time where, as the demon blood drips off the knife, that Sam is tempted. He misses the power and the security that the psychic powers he once possessed afforded him. Without them he feels just a b it like maybe he's lost a step or that he's a different person. In the end, the addict in him resists temptation and he's merely standing in an aisle, surrounded by the bodies of 2 dead teenagers, when Dean arrives. The look on Dean's face is enough. He's in obvious conflict. Dean's made it known he can't rely on Sam like he once did but I think he does have some hope that Sam will end up okay.
Next scene has the Winchester boys and Ellen trying to prepare the remaining townsfolk for the escape out of town. Dean and one of the men have an amusing exchange. A former soldier, the man had fought 2 tours of duty in Fallujah, and could disassemble a rifle quickly and safely. Dean recognizes his skill, asks him where he served and the man replies with the same question. Where did Dean serve? "Hell" Dean responds. The man smiles a small smile "No really?" Dean looks at him, "No really. Hell." Dean seems to be completely over the shame he felt after his return from the pit. Sam and Ellen decide after this that they will head out into town to find Rufus and Jo. More hunters are just what they need to survive this mess. Ellen and Sam find what they think is the Demon's hideout but before they can regroup and get Dean, demons jump them. There are words exchanged, sentances that lay clues to what is really happening here. The main comment would be Jo calling Ellen a "black eyed bitch".... Ellen escapes back to the safety of their shelter and Sam is taken hostage. Dean is about to head off after Sam (half cocked as ususal) but something about the situations stills him. He decides to hang back and come up with a plan before attempting to save Sam. After some research, in the Bible no less, Dean somes to realize that the omens they know and the situation they are in are word for word out of Revelations and in the readings... There is mention of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. What are they dealing with?
In the meantime, Rufus and Jo have been attempting to exocise Sam. Yep, you heard it right. They are trying to remove the demon from Sam's body. It becomes obvious to us as viewers that somethign has happened to our boys that is unusual. There doesn't seem to be any demons. They just seem to be tricked into believing everyone is possessed. Sam is trying to figure this out and he sees a man, someone he'd seen before in Ellen's shelter, and after they discuss what's been happening, the man reveals to Sam that he is indeed War. As in The Horseman of War. His power is derived from a ring he wears and we see him play with it several times. It would appear that he can make things happen at will, which he does, when he makes it appear that Sam has attacked him.
Back at Ellen's shelter, the basement of the local church, everyone is trying to cope with the fact it is actually coming to the End of Days. While they are discussing what to do, the man who is actually the Horseman, comes in and manages to stir up trouble for Dean and Ellen. He works his mojo and the townspeople turn on them. Ellen and Dean make an escape, heading to the house where Sam and Ellen were ambushed. Once they get there they enter the house, bypassing the security steps Rufus set up and try to get through to Rufus and Jo about what they are experiencing. Ellen takes on Jo and Dean takes on Rufus and with some physical persuasion, the hunters finally all get on the same page. The remaining towsfolk are laying seige to the house and the only way Dean and Sam, who at this point has been released, decide that to survive they must take on the Horseman of War. How does somebody kill a Horseman of the Apocalypse? The answer is that you don't. Dean and Sam join forces to take him on, confining him and cutting off his ring finger. In doing this, the ring that is the source of his powers. Suddenly the hold he had over the townspeople dissipates and he disappears, not dead but definitely out of the scene... at least for now.
The episode ends with Sam and Dean, each of them wrestling with their own issues, finally getting to hash out their issues. Sam tells Dean that his fears are in fact founded and that he is having an incredibly hard time not reverting to the Sam of the past and that he feel that because of this... he's not fit to hunt and he's going to take himself out of the game. Dean, for his part, actually agrees with Sam. He tells Sam that for all the time he spends looking after Sam, he just doesn't have the time to care anymore. And the last thing we see is Sam leaving, hitching a ride with someone from the truck stop.
So what now? Sam and Dean do not seem able to co-exist and short of a cataclysmic event I cannot forsee what it will take to get them back together. Sometimes, it's just so hard to see what's right in front of you. Maybe the fact that the characters themselves haved almost switched places, Sam used to be the responsible one while Dean was the cowboy, has put them in a place where they don't know how to cope. With the Fifth season rumored to be the last, and with 2 of the 22 episodes down, how can the producers bring our brothers back together? And reforge the bond that was such an important part of the previous seasons?
Characters we met again today:
Ellen, and her daughter Jo, have been seen several times in the series. Ellen and her husband were very close with John Winchester, year before. But accidents happen and Ellen's husband died, driving a wedge between The Harvelles and Winchesters. Jo once owned the Roadhouse Bar, where hunters used to hang out. Jo was the waitress there and together they kept a pulse on the hunting community. Dean has always had an attraction for Jo but has never acted on it, despite there being a fire burning on Jo's side. The Roadhouse burned to the ground in Season 2, Episode 21 and we didn't see Ellen again. It's rare we see one and not the other but in Season 2, Episode 14 (Born Under A Bad Sign) we see Jo, though only for the last quarter of the show when Sam arrives at the bar she's working for, looking to kill her. Sam has been possessed so it's not him but it does sour the relationship between Jo and the brothers.
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