In the penultimate episode of season 11 of Supernatural Sam, Dean, Lucifer, and God come up with a plan to fight Amara.
How the hell are they going to resolve this?? It seemed so clear where this season was going, but instead the prize fight happened in this episode and ended in a disaster. I have no clue where the writers are taking this. But this is actually exciting. It is refreshing to see Supernatural do something new and different and not recycle the old story-lines over and over again.
Now, the best part of the episode is obviously the Winchesters trying to reconcile Lucifer and Chuck through a family therapy session. It is hilarious to watch two people as dysfunctional as the Winchester try to solve someone else's family issues. And then it is suddenly not so funny because, Sam is right, Lucifer has a point and the issues he's bringing up are valid (though God wasn't entirely wrong either). This is why I love Supernatural. It keeps bringing these monsters and mythological beings into a human level. You know, Lucifer is not just the devil, and the issues he has are real and something we can relate to. The Winchesters certainly can.
This show has already explored Lucifer's daddy issues in season 5, but it is actually emotional to hear his version of the events now. Lucifer loved God more than anything and feels betrayed because in his view Chuck gave him the Mark and essentially set him up to fail and then punished him when he really did fail. And Misha Collins is great in this scene, portraying Lucifer's pain. Also, it was nice that Chuck finally apologised to Lucifer, since he hasn't really taken responsibility for anything since he came back.
So Chuck says that even he doesn't have enough power to bring back Gabriel or Raphael, at least not with the time frame they have. Well, that's crap. It would have been amazing to have at least Gabriel back. Instead they ask Rowena and Crowley to fight with them to make up for the lack of Archangels.
I really like Rowena's "friend" Clea. She was awesome and it is a shame we didn't get more of her. I'd rather see this show bring her back than Rowena. Or maybe Rowena and Clea working together with Clea sassing Rowena at every turn.
Well, now the creation of the new prophet seems even more pointless than it did before. Donatello has no agenda, he's just there so Amara can get the location of the bunker and kill him. And even Amara finding the bunker doesn't further the plot in any way! She's just creeping around until Rowena calls to her.
I have to say, I'm actually glad their plan did not work, because if the writers end game had been giving Sam the Mark... That would have been the worst idea ever. We did this story-line with Dean already, we know how it ends. Also, I think it is really hypocritical of Sam to tell Dean to just lock him up somewhere when he can no longer control the Mark, considering that Sam would not do that to Dean when he had the Mark.
So on that regard I'm glad the plan did not work, but what can they do now? Because Amara is stronger than anyone of them (or all of them put together) and way more pissed off than Chuck expected (though Dean did warn him about that). And now Chuck is not quite dead yet, but he is dying. Can he do anything to help anymore? Seriously, how are they going to win without God? Also what happened to Lucifer? Is he dead? Or back in the Cage? What about Cas? I need answers to these questions! The finale next week is going to be intense, isn't it?
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