NaNoWriMo ate my soul this weekend, so I am taking a well deserved break and writing about Supernatural and the Winchesters and Castiel and y’all know I am an easy audience for a Castiel episode. Because I love Dean and Cas together like I love cream in my coffee. Also, more Crowley is never bad.
So it seems that Momma Tran is fine, and her and ProphetKev are hiding out in various unsavory places, while doing their best to dodge Crowley. Momma Tran discovers the Casual Encounters page on Craigslist (HA!) and lures a witch named Delta to come and help them build Demon Bombs. Did you hear me? DEMON BOMBS! Of course, Crowley has gotten to Delta first, and he shows up long enough to throw out a CrowleyQuip and steal away with ProhpetKev. Seems as though prophets are like Buffy! When one dies, another arises. (RIP Chuck) And after an episode of Crowley torturing people left and right, and topping it off by chopping off ProphetKev’s baby finger, he finally gets the reading of the Word of God he’s been waiting for. Only there is some bad news there. Other than the instructions on how to close the gates of Hell, there is a post script left by Metatron the inscriber, letting us know that this Word is just part of a compendium of Words, and I suddenly see the rest of the season laid out in front on me…
Meanwhile, Dean is seeing a bearded Castiel pop up here and there, giving our hero a major case of the Purgatory guilts. Through a series of flashbacks, we find out what really happened on Dean’s exit from Purgatory, and that giant burden that Dean has been carrying around? It is completely unfounded, as Castiel stayed behind on purpose. And I’m not sure if Dean is relieved or angry learning this new info. He does like being the BigDamnHero, and he loves beating himself up when he fails. Dean is understandably dubious about Cas’ sudden return, but Sammy is stoked! (A clean shaven Castiel still has a five o’clock shadow, BTW.)
So after some blah, blah, and our fill of flashbacks (Hi Benny!), we get the real story of Dean escaping Purgatory while Sammy, Dean and Cas head to rescue ProphetKev from the evil clutches of Crowley. We get a nice stand off between Crowley and Castiel and their shiny Angel swords (dirty!), and then Cas shows off his new and improved angel power, glowing ice blue eyes of doom! Instead of the yellow smite-y eyes, the ice blue eyes of doom seem to… send Crowley away? Okay, not so Doom-like, but we all know Crowley’s not dead, so yeah, not sure what that new power does exactly, but it lets our heroes rescue ProphetKev.
And THEN!, Cas gets pulled out of his loving conversation with Dean by Naomi, one of the Angels? that rescued him. She wants to chitty-chat and hear about our lovely Winchesters. Naomi, it seems, is the new Boss, whether Cas likes it or not. That was cool how they did that, and oooooh, I don’t trust her at all!
And hey! No brotherly angst this time! Hooray.
After a few episodes off from the Prophet/Word of God story, this was a nice return to the main season storyline, and I really like how they brought Castiel back. It’s a nice little twist with the forced visit to Heaven, and Cas not wanting to help, but being powerless. Should be an interesting story. And have you noticed, there is no Big bad this season? At least not yet. So, we have an Angel who has gotten used to free will being put back into service, more Words of God to be tracked down, and the ultimate goal of the lovely Winchesters, shutting the gates of Hell for realsies. This should be fun, let’s hope it actually is.
Favorite Quotes:
Sam: “I’d say you look like you’ve seen a ghost, but you’d probably be stoked.”
Castiel: “I’m dirty.” (Just me? Okay.)
Benny: “Aren’t you guys all about faith?” Castiel: “Not particularly.”
Castiel: “I get the feeling somethings going on.” (<– Thanks, Cas)
Momma Tran: “I hired a witch and she ratted us out.” *shrugs*
Crowley: “Blah, blah, blah. Does anyone ever edit this stuff? So far as a writer God’s a snooze. No fun at parties, I hear.”
Castiel: “You can’t save everyone my friend, though you try.” (and then I weep because Dean and Cas love each other so much I can barely take it. I swear, I am thisclose to writing slash fiction about these two!)