SUPERNATURAL - Season 5 - Page 4

Random thoughts...

It looked like you'd catch tetanus just touching that sickle.  
Crowley is becoming one of my favorite characters on the show.
"Who thought you'd use so much tongue."
Great sequence with Death and Dean in the pizzeria.

I wonder how Dean is going to be able to weasel out of his promise.

- Walter.

I don't know if Dean does wriggle out of that promise.  I think Sam may have the right idea, and Dean ends up going along.

Wow..That was some finale.  I assumed once we saw who bought it...That we wouldn't know their fate(s) until next season.  But, with regards to the last scene...

 

 

 

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Enjoyed the finale quite a bit.  I guess I'll spoilerize this...

 

 

 

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- Walter.

Really enjoyed the finale a great deal.

The big scuttlebut on the Supernatural forums is that in (at least this episode) Chuck....

 

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I think Sam is just going to turn around and leave.  He sees Dean is finally happy and he returns to hunting on his own.  But of course, some how Dean is drawn back into that world some how.  Just a thought.

Interesting to hear there's going to be a season 6. I recall reading in an interview/article least year that the leads were feeling burned out and didn't really want to go past season 5.

 

I'm certainly not going to complain about the renewal. But I also can't help but think if there hadn't been anybody standing under that street lamp in the last scene, it would have been a damn-fine ending to the series.

I'm sure some people enjoyed this episode but I'm not so sure whether the long standing fans felt the same. Basically, in a nutshell, Season 5 made Season 4 completely and utterly redundant. It made it pointless.

 

Dean, 'The One', the true vessel, the 'Michael Sword' ended up being nothing more than cannon fodder and his dead younger brother stole the limelight from him. Castiel saving Dean from hell, all those lessons the angels threw Deans way ? It all meant nothing. All the trouble saving Dean from Hell ? Nope, didn't mean a damn thing.

 

However, there were a few things I liked about the episode. The rock music. The montage at the end. The journey with the Impala...

When Castiel stood over Dean at the end I really thought he was God. Blown to bits, reappearing twice. But it's the way the scene played out, his expressions, heck, even the music swelled when Dean asked the all important question. Castiel never once mocked God's creations and showed nothing but love for them, way back in Season 4 when he sat with Uriel on the bench.

 

Chuck as God ? Not buying that. So did God decide to use Chuck's vessel or was Chuck really God the entire time ? Who knows. The amulet never 'burned hot' in season 4 when they met up with him. Oh well, never mind that one. That's another thing, Chuck likes his call girls....what kind of impression does that leave if he is God ? We know, he is a sleaze bag, they hammered that home too.

 

So we also learn that Michael isn't really that powerful after all. For someone who is apparently the 2nd most powerful being in the universe he can't prevent Sam from falling into the pit without being pulled into the pit ? Serves him right. I didn't like the younger brother anyway.

 

One thing I enjoyed about the episode was the montage at the end. But come on, the entire time the show had us pumped up to see this huge fight between Lucifier and Michael. The angels hammered this into our heads very early on in the season. The entire season was building to that fight. Dean was supposed to be THE vessel, not A vessel..or A substitute vessel...but THE vessel. He was the Michael sword. Nope.

 

So after all that build up, all that crap, we got no fight at all ? Not even a light scuffle between the two heavy weights ? Nope. Dean was brushed aside, heck, he wasn't even the one to use the rings to send his brother away. He was just there. And Castiel exploding, Bobby's neck snapped....for what ? Nothing. They're just fine. Zero tension.

 

All in all, I was very disappointed with this episode. So Sam is 'out of the cage' at the very end, or is 'Sam' really Lucifier, or is Sam now an angel or a ghost ? He might even be dreaming for all we know. Where is Michael ? Stuck in the pit ? Serves him right. Sam isn't trapped anymore so all the tension goes out the window. Just like that.

 

Supernatural has been my favorite show from the beginning. But man, that was bad. I'll try to put Season 4 and 5 behind me and concentrate on Season 6 and hopefully they can save this mess.

Edited by Vaughan Odendaal - 5/16/10 at 3:14am

Oops, dp.

 

 

I'm not sure I  understand why you think this.  How did it "not mean a damn thing"  ?  As far as anyone knew up until Adam was found, Dean was the choice.  And Adam was not really the right choice, and no one was sure it would even work.  Saving Dean was important, because Dean was the one who finished the final battle; the prediction was correct, just not in the way that they had originally imagined.  So, I'm not sure how any of this undid anything about Season 4.

 

 

Chuck wasn't God.  He was a prophet.  Once the work of the prophet was done, he was called up to heaven, something that the angels had said before.. while he was doing the work of the prophet, he was protected and couldn't be touched.  The moment his work was done, he was immediately taken.  No where was it ever inferred that Chuck was God.  He wasn't God.  He was a prophet who finished his calling.

 

 

 

We were repeatedly told that if there was a fight, the initial battle would lay down a virtual apocolypse for humanity, the fight would decimate humankind.  I thought it had built all year that the most important thing was that they had to stop the fight at all cost.  Dean knew that and so he and the others (Cas, Bobby) were willing to sacrifice their lives by driving right into it if there was even the remotest shot they could prevent the battle from starting.  I thought that was the whole point to the season, what can they do to stop the fight.  And Sam found the way to stop the fight.

 

I'm not sure how they could have done this any other way... they had to make sure that fight didn't happen, or else all of the lore of the show which pressed how bad that initial fight would be would be undone if they didn't have them living in a post-apocolyptic world next year.  They all did pretty much exactly as I expected.

The CW should just call it the Farewell Friday season tour (for Smallville and Supernatural).

I am just glad we are getting a season 6 and now I have something besides Smallville to watch on Friday