March 2012

It’s official, they’re getting the band back together

When I saw that this week’s episode was about ghost you could only see when you were drunk, I wasn’t too impressed. The folks at Supernatural have had a good run of episodes lately and I thought it was going to end with this episode.

I was right and I was wrong. The episode itself was subpar, but the revolution at the end was enough get me excited about next week. Bobby Singer has been dead for a while now, but we had some clues that the hunter had stayed around as a ghost.

It was small. A drank beer here, a helpful fall of a book there, but nothing concrete…until now. At the end of the episode, we got to see that familiar face and popular catch phrase “idjits.” It’s going to be three weeks before a new episode, but it promises to be a good one when the Winchesters find out about Bobby.

CASTIEL IS BACK!!!!!!

It’s been foretold for weeks and finally the wait was over. Mischa Collins returned for Supernatural Castiel the angel…sort of. The devil had turned Sam’s mind into much and kept him up for days, making him on the brink of madness.

He ends up inside a mental hospital as the doctor’s try to help him, but I he goes too much longer without sleep, his body is going to shut down. Dean starts calling around to see if there is any shaman or faith healer that might be able help his brother, but comes up with nothing.

Leviathans Aren’t Too Loyal After All

After several weeks hiatus, Supernatural returned with a new episode and got back on track with the Leviathan storyline. Sam and Dean visit a picturesque little town were real estate agency is buying everything in town.

The brothers are there to find items that a near-do-well son sold without knowing they were cursed. It turns out the Leviathans are behind the real estate buyout and the manager is a raging pain and the assistant isn’t too fond of her.

This is the first time we see the Leviathans at odds with each other. We get the feeling that they are becoming fond of living in the modern world preferring their high priced coffees and food. We get thrown for a loop when the assistant helps the brothers cut the head off the real estate manager and we find out the company was going to buy all the property to build a research station to cure cancer.

Leviathans and the Demons

It's no secret that the Leviathans hate the demons and see them little more than disgusting bugs that exist. Crowley was put down hardcore by the Leviathan leader and has been more than willing to stay out of the Winchester's way as they try to destroy them.

 

Crowley isn't stupid and he knows that if the Leviathans win that the soul smorgasbord that he enjoys is going to go away. The season is drawing to a close and the Winchesters are no closer to figuring out the Leviathans than when the season started. They can hurt them, but there is no real way to kill or detect them.

Tired of the Reruns

This past Friday, I sat at my television at 8 p.m. anxiously awaiting a new episode of Supernatural. What I got was another rerun. I understand that television networks have various patterns and ideas on when to run new episodes of a television show, but giving us a rerun just a few episodes after another long stretch of reruns is just insulting.

The past several episodes have been really good and reminded me of the old days before Leviathan. There was a momentum building, and when I saw that Castiel was coming back in some form I was excited. Yes! We’re back to the good old days.

What happened? We got reruns. The momentum that had been building for the past several episodes is gone and instead we were left with a preview cliffhanger. Am I anxious to watch Supernatural again? Yes, but not nearly as much as I was.