Spoilers!

At a birthday party I recently went to, I went outside with the smokers, though I don’t smoke, and let the conversation wash over me. Suddenly a word caught my ear. Supernatural. I perk up and listen to the conversation and I hear something that I did not even think about and even now, months after the show’s finale, I still do not know if I can get behind the thought.

Chuck was God.

I did wonder why, at the end, Chuck in his formal tuxedo shirt gloating over his ending would suddenly disappear into thin air. It never occurred to me that he was EFFING GOD!

Recap:

After getting all of the rings and finally convincing Dean to agree, Sam & Dean, with the very human Castiel and Bobby in tow, head to Detroit to give Sam’s body to Satan so that Sam can force him to go back to his cage. Things, however, don’t go as planned as Satan takes an early lead on controlling the body.

Dean decided he’s going to be with Sammy, whether Sam can succeed in jumping into the pit or whether Michael rips him to shreds. He would rather be there in the end rather than give up and see how the world fares later.

All the while, there is a rolling commentary about the Impala, the one character that we’ve seen get it as bad as the brothers and still keep on trucking. Dean places a call to Chuck and finds out where the final fight is going down. Pulling up on the two angel brothers in the two Winchester brothers bodies about to go to fisticuffs over the fate of the world, he cause Satan to get angry. Castiel molotov’s Michael with Holy Fire and Satan pops him like a water balloon. When he starts to beat on Dean, Bobby shoots him. Satan snaps Bobby’s neck with the twist of his hand, then proceeds to beat the shit out of Dean. Suddenly, the glint of light from the Impala catches in Sam’s eye and every moment of the two in that car and other moments of their lives (from the past 5 seasons of the show) plays in rapid succession. When it is over, Sam has control of his own body.

Sam takes out the rings and tosses them on the ground, saying the magic words. Just as he’s about to jump in Adam/Angel Michael  shows up to stop him. They both fall in together. Castiel returns, fixing the beating Satan gave Dean and bringing Bobby back to life. Alas, he is not God and has to step in to slow the chaos that is heaven since Michael won’t be there. Dean goes back to Lisa, Chuck “ends” his book and disappears and we see Dean domesticated, but the final image of the episode is Sam under a flickered out street light, watching the house.

Thoughts:

What the hell is gonna happen next???

To those who follow television news, many of us were sure that Supernatural would end with Season 5. Kripke had written the show to go five seasons total, hoping the viewers would keep this baby going.

Surprise, surprise, we want a 6th season. Or do we?

I loved this season of Supernatural because it was going towards a conclusion. It knew where it wanted to go and how it was going to get there. If you compare it to a show like Lost, you can see how the Supernatural writers were really able to focus all of its legend and everything into the end game. Lost shows poorly against a show like Supernatural in that respect. Anticipating the end of the Winchester Brothers, you can see how the show would have ended if there wasn’t another season.

My speculation is that the brothers are going to go in search of their humanity. I certainly hope we continue to see Mischa Collins as Castiel, although I’m certain Castiel showing up will be a bad thing. I’m excited about a 6th season, but I hope this extra season doesn’t cause Supernatural to turn into another Lost.

Now, on this business about Chuck the prophet/writer being God. What the hell, man? If Kripke wanted us to really think he was God, and to take that assumption all the way back to the beginning, then I’m going to have to agree with Dean and Satan. God is an asshole. Now it’s possible that the Chuck character was God and didn’t know it, but if he disappears like that and there was never a Chuck, that means God very much knew what he was doing and all the things he caused to happen was caused by God and is on God. I think the negative ramifications of all of that, especially considering the concept of family that the show has wanted to follow, would be detrimental to the show as a whole. No, Kripke, show me a better explanation for where Chuck went and I will show you a show well done.

Also, when is Papa Winchester coming back??? This is a show about the supernatural. I wanna see some Jeffrey Dean Morgan!!!

What do you think? Am I wrong about the negative ramifications for the show if Chuck is God? Do you believe Chuck was God? If not, what or who was he? Did you love this show as much as I did? Let me know in the comments!

Just so you know what you’re missing…

This is a really good, really chilling synopsis in video and words of this past season of Supernatural. God, I love this show. (thanks @SupportSPN for the link!)

Also, if you want a sneak peak at tonight’s Supernatural, here we have it. Crowley (played with panache by his supreme bad-guy-ness Mark Sheppard) is a demon who has a bone to pick with Papa Satan. Dang, all kinds of folks got daddy issues.

There have been some good episodes these last few weeks. As we get closer to the end of Season 5, here’s a fond look back at scenes that stick out in our minds.

Zechariah was an asshole.

Turn the volume up when Sammie is leaving a message for Castiel.

I wish they got to the part where he cried. That was really funny.

These are some good moments packaged for your convenience.

Mainly because I love Dean and Cas.

There are so many moments from this year’s Supernatural that stand out. What are your favourite Supernatural moments? How do you think the end of this season is going to go down? How do you think next season will play out? Let me know in the comments.

I think it’s about time to start watching Supernatural in the daytime again.

Last Thursday’s episode of Supernatural, “Sympathy for the Devil”, was nothing short of fantastic. Kudos to the writers, directors, editors and actors who put this together. I am still in awe and as such, should warn you that spoilers are imminent. Do not continue reading if you have not watched the episode, but if you’ve seen it, please leave comments. I love going on and on about tv shows.

The first episode of Supernatural finds us right back in that room where the power of Satan has compelled the door to close, locking the Winchester siblings in. Suddenly, in a flash of light, Sam and Dean are out of the room and on a plane that is about to crash. One more time for the home team and the brothers fair find themselves standing on solid earth with the true knowledge that Armageddon is at their door.

Now, I always thought that when Satan escaped and Armageddon started that the whole world would be bathed fire as punishment for his confinement. Not so. It’s still an ordinary day and apparently, Satan is way more patient than the angels, who are really beginning to get on my nerves. Cass is dead, head dick of an Angel is requiring Dean’s service and the brothers are trying to figure out how they’re going to stave off both the bothersome angels and the coming horde of demons whose daddy has just come back into town. I wonder what kind of presents he got them…

After routing the angels back to heaven with the blood on the wall spell that Cass did last season to help Dean out of doorless Angel heaven, Dean and Sam travel to see if they can find out what’s going on. There direction changes when they get a message from Chuck, the prophet, via Becky (aka SamLicker81 from morethanbrothers.com) that tells them to find the Sword of Michael which will help them defeat Satan. They go to Bobby for help. Bobby tells Sam that when they are done defeating Satan, forget his number. Sam, in a pretty boy huff, leaves to see what he can find. Dean remembers something from his dad’s book (which we haven’t seen in some time) and gets the information to where the sword rests. It turns out that “Bobby” has really been a demon possessed Bobby the whole time and starts to beat the crap out of Dean before Meg comes to kill him. Sam returns and takes his share of ass kicking until Bobby somehow awakens and stabs himself, evacuating the demon. Dean goes after the others, though Meg escapes. The brothers fair rush Bobby to the hospital then set out to find the sword of Michael at their dad’s storage unit.

And there the angels wait because the sword of Michael isn’t an object, it’s a person, the person the Angel Michael is to possess. And apparently, that body belongs to Dean Winchester. There is no way Dean is going to become the meat suit to anybody so the angels make it rough. Stomach cancer for Dean, no lungs for Sam, Bobby will never walk again… unless you capitulate. Suddenly, in a flash of light is Cass, who everyone thought was dead. But he isn’t. (And I certainly am glad to see Cass again) Cass says something along the line of “How do you think these boys escaped and I’m still alive? That’s something Zachariah doesn’t want to consider. Cass makes the son of a bitch fix the guys then banishes him to heaven (after stabbing a couple of them with the angel banishing knife, which is apparently the brother of the demon banishing knife). Cass carves something into the brothers’ ribs to keep the angels and demons from finding them and vanishes before we can get any answers.

Meanwhile, Lucifer has been circling this poor sap named Nick who lost his wife and little baby to a home invasion murder. With angry thoughts toward God and Lucifer taking the form of his lost wife, convinces Nick to be the receptacle for Satan.

And this was the ingenious part of the episode. I know that the writers get a lot of flack for being women bashers (literally), and I couldn’t see how the Satan we have come to know and fear would convince the human to let himself be possessed. Taking the thought that first leads people away from God, that he doesn’t care about us because if he did, we wouldn’t suffer the way we do, this Lucifer cunningly convinces Nick that although he wouldn’t get his wife and child back, he would get something almost as good. Revenge against God. This episode has raised the bar of excellence and my own expectations for returning shows.

And in the end, when Dean tells Sam that he doesn’t trust him, isn’t sure he’ll ever trust him again, you know that it will be a long, long road for the Brothers Winchester.

Supernatural is depressing the hell out of me.

It is. I’m sorry. It is.

Last week’s death of the blind prophet was a fitting tribute to Kim Manners as the show mourned the loss of a truly unique character. Life is effed up and she took the brunt of that. I mean, really, angels burning your eyes out of your skull and then demons trying to kill Grim Reapers stab you in the stomach. Her life was effed up and there’s no one that can say differently.

So, back to depressing episode. We get to see Dean be a badass, torturing Alistair, but at what cost to his soul? In an earlier episode, we learned that Dean resisted for many hell years before finally giving in and torturing someone. We now find that this first bit of torture is what opened the first seal, a righteous man shedding blood in hell. Of course, you want to believe Alistair is just trying to get his goat, but we all know it’s true.

Let me break story and talk about those frakkin’ angels for a bit. Castiel is the angel that brought Dean out of hell. He’s the one that’s trying to get the brothers to save the world from the Apocalypse, which sounds *slightly* different from the one I read about in Revelations. Yes, it’s much more interesting.

At some point in the timeline, Castiel introduces another angel called Uriel. It is insinuated that he was the happy hand behind Sodom and Gomorrah’s total annihilation. Uriel also hates Sam and Dean Winchester. He wants to kill Sam for having demon blood in him, but come to find out in this episode, he really wants to follow his brother Lucifer. Yuh-huh… what’s that? That doesn’t make sense? Gotcha!

Supernatural always finds some kind of way to freak me out, but this time, Uriel helping Alistair almost kill Dean and then Dean breaking down like that probably freaked me out more than anything. I mean, you never think about how strong you want your characters to be but when they reach their breaking point, it’s a wake-up call. I like what they’re taking Dean and Sam through, although Sam is also beginning to creep me out. I’m assuming that everything he’s doing to stop the Apocalypse including drinking demon’s blood (gack!) is going to come back and bite him on the ass next season, since the writers like to tag team who is the most pitiful. Also, when the hell is Jeffery Dean Morgan coming back? You know you can’t have a show where people come back from the dead willy-nilly and not bring back that gorgeous hunk of man. You know that, right?

But beyond depressing, the show is veering into the supremely serious, which makes me wonder where the show can go from here. I also think that, despite how much I love the boys (and I do love the boys), they should be looking at an endgame of their own. Because there are only so many times we will tolerate them coming back from the dead.