In the 21st episode of season 11 of Supernatural, surprisingly this is not that bad. I actually enjoyed this episode. Who would have thought that.
You know what, for an episode written by the worst writers ever, this was pretty good. The pacing was okay, the characters weren't horribly out of character (though they apparently are still sticking to their belief that Dean is dumb and the straightest man in the universe), and they almost managed to not offend anyone.
So let's start with the bad. Kevin.
Look, I love Kevin and Osric Chau, and I would love for him to come back. But this? Not cool. He is only there as a tool. Chuck needs to prove to Sam and Dean that he is God, so he brings in Kevin (who is still dead and a ghost) to tell the Winchesters that Chuck is the real deal. Then, mission accomplished, and Chuck decides Kevin deserves a treat and sends him to Heaven, and we'll probably never see him again. So what happened here? They used a person of colour to further Sam and Dean's plot again. It had nothing to do with Kevin.
Another thing that bothers me about this, and this is not necessarily criticism against the writing duo, but rather the whole writing team, the dead still have no way to Heaven? This has been going on, what, three years, and the writers still haven't actually addressed this? Also, way to make Chuck look like a complete dick. He knows that everyone that dies is stuck in the Veil and he doesn't think to fix it? Just sends Kevin up as a special treat? Yeah, fuck that.
The other thing I didn't really like in this episode; Donatello, the new prophet. I have so many questions about this. What exactly was his purpose here? He didn't really do anything. Also, if the writers felt like they needed a prophet to tell the Winchesters where Amara was keeping Lucifer, why not use Kevin? It would have given Osric more screen-time and made his appearance much more justified. Then, at the end of the episode Chuck could have sent him to Heaven for a job well done and I would have been happy. There was no need to bring in a new character.
Also a new prophet was called only after Kevin's soul made it to Heaven? So if the soul never makes it to Heaven, then a new prophet is not created? This does not seem right. I figured Kevin's death didn't activate a new prophet because Metatron flicked some switch up in Heaven that prevented new prophets because he did not want anyone reading the angel tablet and possibly defeating him. Isn't that why Metatron had Kevin killed? Or is Donatello Amara's prophet? But then again that doesn't work, because Metatron says he wrote down Donatello's name as a prophet eons ago.
But Dean confronting Chuck about everything... That was amazing. One, it is totally in-character for Sam to be awed by the fact that Chuck is God, while Dean is skeptical and hurt by his absence. Two, Jensen Ackles fucking kills it in this scene. I'm not giving the credit to the writers because I heard that the script had Dean becoming angry at Chuck and that would have been a completely different scene. Jensen going for sadness and hurt works so much better and he is just awesome.
Okay, so Amara is asking Lucifer to pray to/summon Chuck so that she can confront him and has in fact been searching for God this whole season. And now Chuck is saying that he has no idea where she is, because she has warded herself against him. What? How does that make any sense?? Is Chuck lying or are these writers complete idiots?
Still not a fan of the Dean-Amara connection. I can understand that there is a part of Dean that craves for the nothingness. For his suffering on Earth to be over and to be at peace. But that fact that they have made the connection into a sexual one, and that Dean keeps insisting that he does not want it, while Amara keeps pushing... Yeah, that makes this very problematic and not something I'd want to see this show explore.
I did not see Metatron sacrificing himself to help Sam, Lucifer, and Donatello escape coming. I'm not exactly sad to see him go, but it was a surprise. Here is a character that has been a complete dick, but has really changed after becoming human. Look at that character growth! And he even warns Dean and Sam that Chuck's plan is to sacrifice himself to appease Amara. Which is not a good plan, by the way, and I'm glad Dean confronts Chuck about this too, but it's nice to see that for once this show is not purposefully hiding secrets until the last minute.
Also, that ending with Chuck and Lucifer was very abrupt. I need to know what happened, because it seemed like Lucifer was very pissed after Chuck healed him.
Next week Chuck puts Lucifer back into Mark Pellegrino and fixes Cas, right? I feel like that should happen.
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