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Supernatural: The End
Spoilers, obviously.
Top 10 Things I loved:
10. I just have to say it: you know it's the apocalypse when Sarah Palin is president.
9. Future Chuck seeming sober and helpful and generally useful-guy-to-have-in-apocalypse. Way to turn yourself around, Chuck!
8. Future!Castiel is so damn hilarious! Though I have to say, I actually liked best the juxtaposition between orgy!Cas and right-hand man!Cas, the gun-carrying backup man. If he had only been the stoner orgy guy, that just would have been a kind of weak stereotype, but I kind of like the way this Cas really is modelling his humanity on Dean, both the good points (defense of humanity) and the bad points (why not bang a few gongs before the lights go out--especially since it seems like Dean is banging multiple gongs in the camp himself).
7. Future!Dean as the leader of the community, the one everyone defers to, making the tough decisions. Damn, he was HOT. And I was simultaneously very proud of him, and very very sad that the future had made him into the guy who could make those decisions like killing a friend with no warning and sending other friends in as distracting canon fodder and killing whatever might be left of his brother in order to kill Lucifer. (Actually, I have a hard time believing Dean ever really could make that decision--maybe that's how Lucifer got the drop on him?)
6. Speaking of which, I loved the conversation between FutureDean and PresentDean about Sam's "death," because you could see how completely shocked PresentDean was that FutureDean hadn't been there when Sam died, or talked to him for 5 years, even though he had just had the conversation in which he told Sam they were each other's weakness and should probably move to separate hemispheres. Clearly Dean doesn't really believe his own advice; when push comes to shove he wants to be with Sam if Sam's in danger. (More on that below)
5. If I might continue in the FutureDean/PresentDean vein for a bit (and that slash is deliberate--I hope someone is already writing them together as I am writing this review!), I love how well Dean knows himself--apologizing for undercutting FutureDean's authority, knowing when he wasn't telling the truth, all of that stuff. Umm. Not to mention it's now canon that Dean likes wearing women's panties.
4. Lucifer!Sam was hot, persuasive, and rocking the whole "I'm really a good guy, you should trust me" vibe. Damn, JP, the way your acting has grown since season 1 continues to impress me. Though I also have to say I was impressed with Dean completely not buying his line of bullshit, saying he was the same kind of cockroach Dean always hunted except with a bigger ego.
3. Holy suspense, batman! Very rarely am I actually scared for Sam or Dean when it's not actually a season finale, because I watch episodic TV and know the leads are not going to get killed off or have really bad things happen unless it's the end-of-season cliffhanger--but in this episode there were 2 moments when I was really scared for Dean: when he first woke up in the future and the "Croats" were all chasing him (nice action adventure, there, SPN!) and then we he returned and there was a minute there when I really thought he was going to say yes to Michael, because it looked like the only possible option.
2. Present!Dean, holding onto hope and faith in Sammy even though the future looks hopeless--because that's the right decision, I have to believe that. I refuse to believe that Lucifer is right and all roads lead to him standing over Dean's dead body, because despair is the ultimate sin, dammit.
1. That conversation between Sam and Dean at the end. I know a lot of people were upset at the idea that Dean might only get back together with Sam because he was afraid otherwise Sam would give in to Lucifer, but I think that speech made it clear that Dean is doing this for both of their sakes: because there's only hope for remaking the future if they're together. And "we keep each other human" is telling. I think Dean was really shaken by his future self, not just the future world--that he had gone back to torturing, for example, or that he would turn his friends into canon fodder, and even more than that, that things without Sam had gotten so bad his future self would be begging him to turn into an angel condom. I really believe that together they can avert the apocalypse. (*Claps hands and hopes this means Castiel gets his wings back. Or something.*)
0. Can I do a number zero? I just remembered one more thing: I loved that it was Sam that first made the overture about coming back, and I really liked the fact that he framed his quest to kill Lucifer not as revenge but as redemption.
Oh, and I'm not going to spoil the teaser for next week, but I will say it made me laugh and laugh.
Top 10 Things I loved:
10. I just have to say it: you know it's the apocalypse when Sarah Palin is president.
9. Future Chuck seeming sober and helpful and generally useful-guy-to-have-in-apocalypse. Way to turn yourself around, Chuck!
8. Future!Castiel is so damn hilarious! Though I have to say, I actually liked best the juxtaposition between orgy!Cas and right-hand man!Cas, the gun-carrying backup man. If he had only been the stoner orgy guy, that just would have been a kind of weak stereotype, but I kind of like the way this Cas really is modelling his humanity on Dean, both the good points (defense of humanity) and the bad points (why not bang a few gongs before the lights go out--especially since it seems like Dean is banging multiple gongs in the camp himself).
7. Future!Dean as the leader of the community, the one everyone defers to, making the tough decisions. Damn, he was HOT. And I was simultaneously very proud of him, and very very sad that the future had made him into the guy who could make those decisions like killing a friend with no warning and sending other friends in as distracting canon fodder and killing whatever might be left of his brother in order to kill Lucifer. (Actually, I have a hard time believing Dean ever really could make that decision--maybe that's how Lucifer got the drop on him?)
6. Speaking of which, I loved the conversation between FutureDean and PresentDean about Sam's "death," because you could see how completely shocked PresentDean was that FutureDean hadn't been there when Sam died, or talked to him for 5 years, even though he had just had the conversation in which he told Sam they were each other's weakness and should probably move to separate hemispheres. Clearly Dean doesn't really believe his own advice; when push comes to shove he wants to be with Sam if Sam's in danger. (More on that below)
5. If I might continue in the FutureDean/PresentDean vein for a bit (and that slash is deliberate--I hope someone is already writing them together as I am writing this review!), I love how well Dean knows himself--apologizing for undercutting FutureDean's authority, knowing when he wasn't telling the truth, all of that stuff. Umm. Not to mention it's now canon that Dean likes wearing women's panties.
4. Lucifer!Sam was hot, persuasive, and rocking the whole "I'm really a good guy, you should trust me" vibe. Damn, JP, the way your acting has grown since season 1 continues to impress me. Though I also have to say I was impressed with Dean completely not buying his line of bullshit, saying he was the same kind of cockroach Dean always hunted except with a bigger ego.
3. Holy suspense, batman! Very rarely am I actually scared for Sam or Dean when it's not actually a season finale, because I watch episodic TV and know the leads are not going to get killed off or have really bad things happen unless it's the end-of-season cliffhanger--but in this episode there were 2 moments when I was really scared for Dean: when he first woke up in the future and the "Croats" were all chasing him (nice action adventure, there, SPN!) and then we he returned and there was a minute there when I really thought he was going to say yes to Michael, because it looked like the only possible option.
2. Present!Dean, holding onto hope and faith in Sammy even though the future looks hopeless--because that's the right decision, I have to believe that. I refuse to believe that Lucifer is right and all roads lead to him standing over Dean's dead body, because despair is the ultimate sin, dammit.
1. That conversation between Sam and Dean at the end. I know a lot of people were upset at the idea that Dean might only get back together with Sam because he was afraid otherwise Sam would give in to Lucifer, but I think that speech made it clear that Dean is doing this for both of their sakes: because there's only hope for remaking the future if they're together. And "we keep each other human" is telling. I think Dean was really shaken by his future self, not just the future world--that he had gone back to torturing, for example, or that he would turn his friends into canon fodder, and even more than that, that things without Sam had gotten so bad his future self would be begging him to turn into an angel condom. I really believe that together they can avert the apocalypse. (*Claps hands and hopes this means Castiel gets his wings back. Or something.*)
0. Can I do a number zero? I just remembered one more thing: I loved that it was Sam that first made the overture about coming back, and I really liked the fact that he framed his quest to kill Lucifer not as revenge but as redemption.
Oh, and I'm not going to spoil the teaser for next week, but I will say it made me laugh and laugh.
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8. And in both those soldierly and slackerly ways, Cas took Dean's traits and turned them up to eleven--which fits, 'cause once he decided to rebel against Heaven, he (as has been said a lot this season) *full-on* rebelled. It's telling that his work ethic survives his becoming human.
6. During his phone conversation with Sam, I may have kept telling Dean what a masssive, lying liar he was. I *may* have. You can't prove I did!
4. The consistency of performance Lucifer has had thus far has been *phenomenal*. We've seen four actors play him now, and each one has put across the same general *personality*: quiet, almost beatific, but yeah, with an ego the size of the universe. Padalecki did a *great* job with that.
1. "We keep each other human" makes me grin like a dork every time I think about it. Because, YES. :D :D :D
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8. He *definitely* turned them up to 11. Though I have to wonder about what made all the angels vanish and prompted him to fall--is this linked to Lucifer assuming Sam's body, somehow? Because it's quite curious that Dean can't get himself possessed, after a certain point; that, more than anything else, made me wonder if the whole vision was just perfectly contrived by Zachariah to get Dean to let Michael possess him.
6. Hee! Somebody wrote a really great coda to last week's episode talking about when Sam first went to Stanford, and how Dean's lies to himself then paralleled his lies to himself last week, and, I would say, his lies to Sam on the phone.
4. ITA about the Lucifer portrayal--it's great how consistent they're keeping it.
1. Oh BOYS. *Squishes them*
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On the other hand, Michael didn’t off Lucifer in the first place, only trapped him. Lucifer in his backup vessel would have been very do-able. However, a point was made in last season’s finale that Sam didn’t need the demon blood to attain his powers, he had them all along. So, Lucifer in Sam = holy **** we are all doomed.
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And the GLOW in this episode, the white suit and the bright flowers and everything, it was gorgeous.
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Yes! *That.* He's entertaining me greatly with his sad-eyed "Have compassion for meeeee!" manipulations. *g*
The contrast of the suit in that garden--and the way that scene was lit--that worked *well*.