Hellatus Baby! - SPN S6E11 Eppy Rewind
Samarra. I love this name. It conjures images of the Sahara, of windswept deserts and peaceful silence. But on to the episode!
I've been a good girl, I only watched the first promo and not the others, so I know what it roughly is about but nothing more in-depth. Gives me a bit more appreciation of the episode, as it is.
Dean resorting to induced death and making appointments with reapers and Death shows how desperate he is, doesn't it? Although there's a bit of a panic there for the moment when the good ol' doc couldn't bring him back. I thought he might have to go through the entire episode in a state of coma or something, like how he was in IMTOD. He looked quite peaceful lying there as well. But what a risk.
Death is creepy. I'll be sure to have a slight suspicion of old thin men in suits with sunken cheeks. Tessa the reaper is still the same, although this time round i think she's missing the empathy that she portrayed the first two times she met Dean. I guess third time's the charm. Or not, in this case.
And is it interesting to note that it's Dean that talks about Adam? Nobody else does. I like it.
Sam adamantly not wanting his soul back is expected. What's not expected was him summoning Balthazar to get permanent spells to dispel souls from his body, or at least make it inhabitable. So we can compare the desperation between the two brothers here. Selfish in their own ways, but somehow Sam's move makes it even more so. We can argue that Dean is doing what he does for Sam, but I think there's a part of him that wants it for himself as well.
I knew that Dean as Death would be making some hard choices. After all, death doesn't discriminate between robbers, unhealthy professionals and twelve-year-old girls But this is also the turning point where I began to get slightly annoyed with Tessa. I like her no-nonsense approach, and her forcing Dean to realise the massive consequences to his actions (or inactions i suppose) is admirable, but where's the empathy that she has displayed previously? The only time she showed shades of this was when she said she was sorry about Sam, but even then it sounded contrived.
The scene that played out in Bobby's house was freaking cool. I like the cat and mouse hunt, the hunter and the hunted, and the way Bobby still had a few tricks up his sleeve. I honestly thought it was going to be a fast capture, and Bobby would spend the rest of the time trying to convince Sam not to kill him. Or the more frightening prospect was that Bobby was going to die in this episode! *shivers* I'm glad he wasn't though. But the trust issues towards Sam are mounting aren't they? First possessed!Sam in BUABS tried to kill him but failed. Then in the finale of S4 full-of-demon-blood!Sam hit Bobby on the head to run away and start the apocalypse. And now soulless!Sam wanted to sacrifice Bobby for a spell that doesn't allow his soul to return back to his body.
Man, do they both share a bloody history. Is it any wonder Bobby likes Dean more? I know Bobby doesn't hold any grudge back at the start of S5, but now I'll be kinda surprised if there still wasn't a kernel of mistrust or at least wariness when it comes to Sam.
I adore that Dean would do anything for Sam, but him taking the ring off to save the poor husband of the nurse? THAT. Was sacrifice. Letting go of the chance to rescue Sam's soul to save a stranger's life is bravery to the highest degree. Knowing (incorrectly, but Dean didn't know it at the time did he?) that by taking it off he lost the bet and Sam's soul would still be in purgatory, and he still did it. Just. I'm not sure anyone else would do the same.
The punch that Dean gave Sam looked more "solid" and painful than all the other punches that he ever gave Sam. I think it was partly because Sam nearly killed the only father figure Dean ever had after John, and also because he was frustrated at his inability to complete the wager with Death. And maybe he also knew that the Sam in front of him wasn't his Sam, so it makes it easier to be less concerned about damaging him physically.
Death deciding to return Sam's soul was a welcome twist. I was hoping TPTB wouldn't prolong that story arc, because honestly I don't think I can see a whole season of soulless Sam and still feel any kind of love for him. I wasn't sure if it's kinder to return it to Sam though. I was kinda hoping that it was necessary to pull Sam's soul out of purgatory but not necessary to put it back into him. Does that make sense? Like maybe once Sam's soul was out of the pit there was a sudden flash and BAM! It connects with Sam and regrow a whole new soul or something.
LOL I know. Where will the angst be then? And you bet Sam would scratch that itch. Come on, a wall? That's flimsy. Plus, there's always the 25% chance that it wouldn't hold up. Sam's special after all. Special people can do special things. I wonder if Death knows that and was just "shuffling" for a better deck.
The whole "value of souls" carrot dangled in front of Dean, I suspect will have some kind of impact on the next few episodes. Money talks even in the supernatural after all, even if the currency is different.
We have to wait for one and a half months to see what becomes of Sam? Really?????? I hate that they leave us with a cliffhanger so steep I need a freaking pair of binoculars and a safety rope to try to see the bottom, if at all. Bleah.
I've been a good girl, I only watched the first promo and not the others, so I know what it roughly is about but nothing more in-depth. Gives me a bit more appreciation of the episode, as it is.
Dean resorting to induced death and making appointments with reapers and Death shows how desperate he is, doesn't it? Although there's a bit of a panic there for the moment when the good ol' doc couldn't bring him back. I thought he might have to go through the entire episode in a state of coma or something, like how he was in IMTOD. He looked quite peaceful lying there as well. But what a risk.
Death is creepy. I'll be sure to have a slight suspicion of old thin men in suits with sunken cheeks. Tessa the reaper is still the same, although this time round i think she's missing the empathy that she portrayed the first two times she met Dean. I guess third time's the charm. Or not, in this case.
And is it interesting to note that it's Dean that talks about Adam? Nobody else does. I like it.
Sam adamantly not wanting his soul back is expected. What's not expected was him summoning Balthazar to get permanent spells to dispel souls from his body, or at least make it inhabitable. So we can compare the desperation between the two brothers here. Selfish in their own ways, but somehow Sam's move makes it even more so. We can argue that Dean is doing what he does for Sam, but I think there's a part of him that wants it for himself as well.
I knew that Dean as Death would be making some hard choices. After all, death doesn't discriminate between robbers, unhealthy professionals and twelve-year-old girls But this is also the turning point where I began to get slightly annoyed with Tessa. I like her no-nonsense approach, and her forcing Dean to realise the massive consequences to his actions (or inactions i suppose) is admirable, but where's the empathy that she has displayed previously? The only time she showed shades of this was when she said she was sorry about Sam, but even then it sounded contrived.
The scene that played out in Bobby's house was freaking cool. I like the cat and mouse hunt, the hunter and the hunted, and the way Bobby still had a few tricks up his sleeve. I honestly thought it was going to be a fast capture, and Bobby would spend the rest of the time trying to convince Sam not to kill him. Or the more frightening prospect was that Bobby was going to die in this episode! *shivers* I'm glad he wasn't though. But the trust issues towards Sam are mounting aren't they? First possessed!Sam in BUABS tried to kill him but failed. Then in the finale of S4 full-of-demon-blood!Sam hit Bobby on the head to run away and start the apocalypse. And now soulless!Sam wanted to sacrifice Bobby for a spell that doesn't allow his soul to return back to his body.
Man, do they both share a bloody history. Is it any wonder Bobby likes Dean more? I know Bobby doesn't hold any grudge back at the start of S5, but now I'll be kinda surprised if there still wasn't a kernel of mistrust or at least wariness when it comes to Sam.
I adore that Dean would do anything for Sam, but him taking the ring off to save the poor husband of the nurse? THAT. Was sacrifice. Letting go of the chance to rescue Sam's soul to save a stranger's life is bravery to the highest degree. Knowing (incorrectly, but Dean didn't know it at the time did he?) that by taking it off he lost the bet and Sam's soul would still be in purgatory, and he still did it. Just. I'm not sure anyone else would do the same.
The punch that Dean gave Sam looked more "solid" and painful than all the other punches that he ever gave Sam. I think it was partly because Sam nearly killed the only father figure Dean ever had after John, and also because he was frustrated at his inability to complete the wager with Death. And maybe he also knew that the Sam in front of him wasn't his Sam, so it makes it easier to be less concerned about damaging him physically.
Death deciding to return Sam's soul was a welcome twist. I was hoping TPTB wouldn't prolong that story arc, because honestly I don't think I can see a whole season of soulless Sam and still feel any kind of love for him. I wasn't sure if it's kinder to return it to Sam though. I was kinda hoping that it was necessary to pull Sam's soul out of purgatory but not necessary to put it back into him. Does that make sense? Like maybe once Sam's soul was out of the pit there was a sudden flash and BAM! It connects with Sam and regrow a whole new soul or something.
LOL I know. Where will the angst be then? And you bet Sam would scratch that itch. Come on, a wall? That's flimsy. Plus, there's always the 25% chance that it wouldn't hold up. Sam's special after all. Special people can do special things. I wonder if Death knows that and was just "shuffling" for a better deck.
The whole "value of souls" carrot dangled in front of Dean, I suspect will have some kind of impact on the next few episodes. Money talks even in the supernatural after all, even if the currency is different.
We have to wait for one and a half months to see what becomes of Sam? Really?????? I hate that they leave us with a cliffhanger so steep I need a freaking pair of binoculars and a safety rope to try to see the bottom, if at all. Bleah.