I don't know what to think about this one. On one hand, it is a great episode with a lot of good moments, but on the other hand, I am so extremely disappointed in the fact that Dean is now cured. Yeah, he still has the Mark of Cain, but I want more Demon Dean! There is so much they could have done with it. Annoying Crowley and tearing his regime apart, scaring the shit out of me with his chilling comments, some Cas and Demon Dean interactions, maybe a new showdown with Cole, Dean wrecking havok on his own... Yeah, I'm a bit bitter about this...
The episode itself is great, it is so intense, made me cry and, as always, Jensen Ackles does a fantastic job directing. I can only hope there is an interesting arc planned for the rest of the season since Dean being a demon is really not a problem anymore and I hope that the writers don't start using the old tropes they appeared to throw out of the window in the season 9 finale. Because I have to say, I agree with Crowley, it had started to become predictable and Demon Dean was a chance to try something new and now that Dean is back to normal, I'm a bit worried that the writers are going to lapse back to the old routines.
Right, I'm not going to rant about this anymore (depending on next week, I might start again after the next episode), so lets talk about the rest of the episode.
This time Sam is not using his own blood, but goes to a hospital to get it while Dean waits in the bunker's dungeon. Dean is still insisting that he does not want to be cured and promises to leave Sam alone if he lets Dean go. He also promises that he won't go down easy, like Crowley did. This is going to be intense.
The growls and roars that come out of Dean when Sam injects the blood are hilarious. Like where did they come from?? No demon has ever sounded like that, so what gives?
Hannah is still traveling with Cas. She is obviously concerned about him, though the show is trying to suggest a deeper connection between her and Cas. I'm not really buying it, I didn't even think about it until Cas told her it ain't gonna happen, so at least Cas is not buying it either. His only concern is to get to Sam, because he knows how hard this must be for him and knows Sam will need support if the cure does not work and they are left with no other alternative than killing Dean.
While debating good and evil, Dean reveals that he knows what Sam has done to find him and Crowley. And turns out Sam knew Lester the Loser as well. I was confused at first why he was back on my screen because after his moronic speech last episode I was ready to punch the guy as well and didn't really need to see him again. But turns out Sam was using the dude for his own purposes and convinced him to sell his soul. Sam, what the hell are you doing? I know you were desperate to find your brother, but you are going to far. Even if the person was someone like Lester. I wonder if this was the second thing Crowley wanted to discuss with Dean in the last episode. He said there was two things they needed to talk about and we only saw the discussion on Dean killing Lester's wife. So was the second thing that Sam was the cause of all this, or were they planning something else?
And then Dean asks the one question Sam has been dreading. If the cure does not work, he would have to kill Dean, but can he? And I think it has been clear from day 1 that he cannot. That's the one thing he cannot do, hell, that's what this whole thing is about! Tracking Dean, trapping him, trying a cure he does not know if it will work, all of it, so that he (or someone else) does not have to kill Dean.
You know, I never thought we'd see Crowley's court. His chair is awesome, btw. Crowley is executing demons that were loyal to Abaddon and he looks bored as hell. I think, in the end, he does miss Dean, still wants Dean to rule with him.
Sam is worried about the cure and the effects it is having on Dean, and he even calls Cas for advise. Cas is taking a lot more logical point of view on this: if the cure does not work, then Dean is dead anyway, so why not take a chance. But as seen earlier, Sam cannot bear the thought of killing his brother, so he is still hesitant to continue. Then he finds Dean unconscious and when he manages to wake him up, Dean answers to him in a way that really reminds me of the old, sarcastic, human Dean. And maybe Sam recognises this as well since he says that he cannot stop the cure. Maybe he saw that it had changed Dean a bit and it gives him strength to carry on. Though the demon is very quick to say that the human part of Dean is completely gone and has been for quite some time.
And then Dean starts taunting Sam. And it breaks my heart. Three episodes. It took Supernatural three episodes to break my heart, and it won't be the last time. While some of the things Dean says are actually true (without Sam he probably would have had a normal life), which is why it is so sad, I don't think Dean ever resented the fact he had to look out for Sammy. Maybe few times as a kid when Sam was too young to understand the sacrifices Dean made for him time and time again, but as an adult, I think Dean has made peace with that. I think the only thing that ever rubbed Dean the wrong way was that Sam did not always seem to be willing to go to same lenghts for Dean.
Crowley's court is back in session and one demon has had enough. This demon sprinkles, I think, holy oil on himself and lights it on fire. I did not know holy oil worked on demons, I thought it was only angels. So either something weird is going on in Crowley's Hell, or I have missed something, or this is new info.
Adina is back to extract her vengeance for Daniel's death and things are looking bad for Cas and Hannah.
Back in the bunker Sam visits Dean's room. It's amazing how something so small as a half eaten piece of pie can tell so much and be so painful. Dean really was not doing good even before he turned into a demon. And then the show has to stab our feelings again by showing that Dean has pictures in his room. It hurts to see the happy faces of John and Mary and Bobby. Or younger Sam and Dean (about season 1/2) laughing. Now I'm sad again.
And then Crowley comes to Cas' rescue and gives him Adina's Grace. I don't really understand his motives here. He says Cas is no use to him like this, but what does he need Cas for?? To take care of Dean? Something else? I know he says that it is to take care of Dean, but this is Crowley we're talking about, so is there something else to this?
And Sam notices that Dean is gone from his chair. This is one of the things I knew before the season started, that Sam and Dean would have this kind of cat and mouse thing in the bunker, so I knew this was coming. While I hate being spoiled, this was still amazing. It is really well shot (kudos to Jensen for directing this so well), it is really tense and, as someone who is a fan of Demon Dean, fun to watch. It is almost disappointing to see Cas interupt this and restrain Dean.
Dean tells Sam that once he was out of the cuffs, he just walked out. So did the devil's trap stop working as well since he was more human than demon? Maybe it's just me, but the way he says it, it sounds like the trap was never an issue. Though that makes no sense and I'm probably making this up.
Sam and Cas finish the cure and Dean seems to be back to normal. Well, almost. He seems a bit disorientated, like he's not sure what happened and all that he had done. Castiel has an interesting theory about why Dean wanted to stay as a demon: he would not have to feel. Which to me sounds like there was still some humanity left in Dean when he became a demon and he realised that it was easier to live like that. Dean has been drowning his sorrows and numbing his pain for years with alcohol and who knows with what else, so this is just a new way of pushing it all down.
Dean and Cas finally have a chance to talk (shame it's not Demon Dean), though it is nice to see these two get along again. Dean is worried about Cas and Sam's reactions to his actions. It's great that Dean cares again and to see his friendship with Cas be okay, but either I got really used to Demon Dean, or Dean feels a bit off in this scene. Or he's just back to being crumbled by the weight of the world on his shoulders.
There seems to be a new big bad in town, who at the moment feels like a replica of Abaddon (seemingly bad-ass female villain with red hair). But it is nice to have some female energy back in the show. Guess we'll learn who the hell she is soon.
I'm still hoping that the Demon Dean storyline is not completely over. Of course the characters will have to deal with the ramifications of it, but I mean that I want there to be more to come. Dean has the Mark, so that might be an issue, what Crowley did with the Blade, maybe Dean being in danger of becoming a demon again, maybe something else. We'll see. Part of me is hoping that Dean was not actually cured but somehow faked it. I know chances of that are like less than one percent, but that would be fun.
I already miss Demon Dean.
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