Dear Supernatural,

I hate episodes where those shiny Winchester brothers are separated almost the whole time. Please cease and desist with these storylines and let those boys hunt together as intended.

Love and Kisses,

Erika

Ahem. 🙂

I am gonna breeze through the first episode after the winter break, because it was just okay, and I want to start the drool-fest over ‘Time After Time After Time’. We start off ‘Adventures in Babysitting’ with a couple weeks of the SadWinchesters mourning the loss of their surrogate dad, Bobby. It is a nice little tribute, and I have to say I will miss him myself.

Anyhoo, this eppy we get Sammy off to help the daughter of a hunter, get himself snagged by a couple of wily Vetalas, and have Dean and Chrissy (daughter of opening scene hunter) come to the rescue. Meanwhile, Dean is obsessing about those pesky numbers Bobby left them with on his deathbed, meets and hangs with Mr. Frank Devereaux, and after finally getting some much needed Zzzz’s, heads off to get Sammy out of his latest mess. Chrissy is a cute thing with hunter spunkyness, and I do find Frank amusing (although I hope he will be is short supply, as he could become quite annoying), but this episode was just… good enough for me. Not only were the boys separate for most of the time, but they weren’t even working on the same thing until the end. The scenes with Dean and Chrissy were  fun, and I wish more of the female characters on this show were like her.

Oh well, at least they didn’t kill her, like they do to all the other kick-ass ladies on this show.

Regardless of my annoyance of two episodes in a row where the Winchesters are doing things separately, this latest episode is proof that the TV Gods love me. Not only did we finally(!!) get Krycek to guest on this show, but Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring will always be Logan to me), as the Big Bad was gravy. Thank you, ye gods of the airwaves, for giving me such riches.

 The episode opens with Sam and Dean trailing a man through an alley, and when Dean runs to rescue this mystery man’s victim, he gets sucked away in a red flash of light! OMG!!

Two days earlier…

Sheriff Mills gives the boys a call about some weird deaths in Canton, Ohio. (Yay! They’re keeping Sheriff Mills in the mix.) The brothers head to a crappy abandoned house in Canton to track down the latest Big Bad. After some new tech-fu that Dean picked up from Frank – much to Sammy’s chagrin – they find the mysterious man who seems to have been making mummies of the locals for decades now. We see a repeat of the opening scene, only this time we follow the red light to 1940s Ohio, where a stunned Dean gets immediately picked up by the coppers, see.

And then, AND THEN, we meet Mr. Elliot Ness, Krycek, awesome Nick Lea, who looks smashing in his 40s garb, and Dean quickly picks up that he too is a hunter. Sweet! I loved “The Untouchables” just as much as Dean, and I think it’s just swell that they made him a hunter. Fan-freakin’-tastic!

Meanwhile, Sammy gets Sheriff Mills to help him out, and everyone in both timelines figure out they are looking for Chronos, another god for the boys to defeat. I will admit now that it took me about halfway through this thing to realize that Chronos was played by the darling Jason Dohring, and my squeals of fangirly glee must have hit a crescendo at this point.

So, Sweet Sammy and Sheriff Jodi figure out how to summon Chronos (after a nice shout-out to Rufus), while Dean and Ness figure out how to kill Chronos. But how will they get Dean back??? All right, we all knew Dean would figure out how to get a message to his brother, and it was clever enough, and after the 40s female version of Bobby gives Dean the mystical olive branch of doom and lays one big ol’ kiss on Dean – and who can blame the the old gal – Dean and Ness head off the kill the god du jour.

Of course, Chronos is doing it all for love, the ol’ softy, but Dean needs to get back to NOW. Luckily, Chronos makes time stop when he travels around, so Sammy and Jodi track down Chronos’ old lady love after reading Dean’s hilarious letter from the future, and figure out WHEN to drag the two back to 2012. Our time heroes cast the mojo exactly at the right moment, and in a blaze of red light Dean and Chronos pop back into our time, just as Chronos is choking the life out of Dean. Ness, the awesome hunter that he is, throws the branch through the portal, and Sammy proves his smarts by instinctively knowing to stab Chronos right through the heart, saving his big brother. But before the god of time dies, he does a little prognosticating, as he can of course see the future, and delivers the message of black ooze-y death. Leviathans!

Supernatural has gotten themselves a new bunch of writers, and I am really enjoying the rejuvenation of the writing. The newbies seem to be fans, or at least well versed in the shows mythology, and we have gotten smart Dean back, the loving rapport between those beautiful brothers back, and touching shout-outs to characters gone by. I am really enjoying it all.

Favorite quotes:

Dean – “It’s called anime, and it’s an art form.”

Dean – “How does paper beat a rock? Stupid.”

Sam – “You need to teach me that trick.”

Dean – “Gas costs four bucks, you can get cheese out of a spray can. The president, is a black guy. I could go on.”

Moore – “Awesome? Are you some kind of religious nut?”

Ness – “Boo-hoo, cry me a river, you Nancy. Tell me, are all hunters as soft as you in the future?”

Unfrotunately, we have to wait until February for another new episode because The CW hates us or something, but that’s okay. I am sated with this last eppy, and look forward to seeing what’s next.