Supernatural 4/8 - Open Spoilers

Okay, I don’t see a supernatural thread and I think there needs to be one. What did people think of last night, and where is this going?
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My thoughts:
Castiel was awesome. “I found a liquor store. And I drank it.”
Also:
Castiel: The Whore can only be killed by a true servant of Heaven.
Dean: Servant like…?
Castiel: Not you, or me. Sam of course is an abomination. We’ll have to find someone else.

It looks like Dean is getting into a serious “say yes” mindset. To judge by the next episode’s trailer:

it might be that he’s going to try and hit…unexpected angelic complications. Unfortunately this is starting to get into heavy theological territory, which means things are going to be really really weird and unpredictable.

Cas was the only reason I liked this episode. “I-I don’t understand, why do you want me to say my name?” I support the continued gag of Cas vs. his cell phone.

Other than that, I was mostly bored. The rise and slaughter of the whore of babylon could have been way more fun, but she was too bland for me to care. Certainly, she didn’t seem charasmatic enought to lead a town of well meaning drunks away from the bottle and on the path to mass slayings.

Lisa felt tacked on. If some guy I’d had a weekend with 10 years before, and knew for a day or two otherwise showed up on my door, I wouldn’t offer him a beer and beg him to stay. (this, of course, does not factor in the fact that my ex’s don’t look like Jensen Ackles).

I’m a bit surprised that Dean went to Lisa (not surprised in the sense that I didn’t see it coming, as you can always tell from the “THEN” preamble what elements are going to be referred to in the episode) but then again the last time he saw her he thought Ben was his kid and he seemed ready to accept it with gratitude; a life with Lisa and Ben might be as close to Dean’s fantasy of a normal life as he could find.

I’m thinking that Dean is buying into the sales pitch about how the survivors of the apocalypse will be in paradise on earth, or that the ones who die will be happy in heaven, like Ash and Pamela. By the way, although it was great to see those characters again, I wonder if they were actually part of another angel deception. Certainly when Dean was sent into the future and got the “say yes” speech from FutureDean it sounded a bit too much like Angel Propaganda to me.

I’m wondering how Lucifer is going to convince Sam to say ‘yes’ now. Maybe Michael/Dean will threaten to just kill everyone immediately unless Sam says ‘yes’?

The previous episode, they showed Dean tossing the God-sensing-amulet into the trash; I’m guessing/hoping that Sam grabbed it out of the trash on the way out, though they didn’t show it happening.

I mostly enjoyed it until the end, which I HATED HATED HATED HATED HATED. What the fucking fuck was that? What a shitty retcon. I just spent the last ten minutes gaping at the TV wondering what the hell the writers are on. Was there no better way of indicating that Dean is truly at the end of his rope?

One of my least favorite episodes of this show ever. Not the worst ever because there are some episodes that are crappy through and through and this one was at least entertaining until it went completely off the rails in the last ten minutes.

I’m rolling my eyes and moving on.

Actually my thoughts were more like, “Finally!” Dean has been moping and praying and saying how he can’t do this and how he’s tired and all that for a while now. He’s been fighting to exert his free will against the destiny that has been crafted for him, though, and I can’t help but think he’s got a plan, like when he tricked the crossroads demon and Bella and numerous others; he’s a wiley sunovabitch, and I’d be willing to bet that he’ll make suckers out of the angels yet.

So wait, you think this is all an elaborate act to fool everyone? Including Sam, Castiel, and Bobby?

Not buying it.

Castiel as a baby name? Wow, that’s weird.

Well not so much that he’s trying to fool everyone as much as he may have some sort of potential trump card to play, even if it’s a long shot.

Ultimately though, I think Gabriel is gonna be the one to really put one over on Mikey and Lucifer somehow.

Cass is pretty close to pure entertainment sometimes and I’m thankful for the character.

"You breed with the mouth of a goat.

It’s funnier in Enochian."
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I didn’t find the whole Lisa thing that unbelievable, actually. I’ve had the sense for the entire season that Dean wishes he could have a “normal” life, and with Jo dead Lisa is probably the next best pick. It wouldn’t have struck me as unbelievable at all had the girl been Jo. I liked her, which I realize puts me in the minority of female fans (her lack of popularity is probably why she’s dead. sigh.)

If my soon to be sister-in-law can be talked into it, my brother wants to name their kids Fox and Uriel. I don’t know where he came up with Fox since he’s only seen the X-Files episodes I’ve made him, but Uriel is because of Supernatural. I’d rather have a nephew Uri than Cas, frankly because I’ve know too many Cassandras to find Cas maculine.

What, no love for Alistair?

Heaven forbid they just name the kid Sam or Dean! :stuck_out_tongue:

I feel like it would be sad if there was a Sam without a Dean, and vice versa. I’ve thought that if I got two dogs or cats, I would name them Sam and Dean, heh.

I love Cas. He’s funny without realizing it. Of course, that’s how they wrote him.

Still. Drinking a liquor store? I think I’d like to meet an angel one day.

Atreyu? *ATREYU *is one of the hottest rising baby names!? Dear God…welcome to parenthood, white-trash children of the 80s. I mean, Jesus!

Yeah…as post-hardcore bands go they’re not too bad, especially the song “Right Side Of The Bed,” but I wouldn’t name a baby after them. And only partly because I’m not sure how to pronounce Atreyu. Could be worse though, little Pantera, for example.

I don’t think they’re naming the babies after a band, I think they’re naming the babies after the character in The Neverending Story. (Presumably the band is named after the character as well.)

It’s stupid either way.

This is what I thought too. And, so help me, if I ever become that much of a hardcore fan of anything, remind me to get a tattoo and avoid hefting that kind of shit on my child.

And, elfkin, it’s pronounced ah-TRAY-you.

{Sob}I have to wait almost a week to catch up with you guys since “Supernatural” has disappeared from our cable line-up (I catch it the next week on Wednesdays on Space Channel), and the snowstorm last week knocked our power out and I lost my programming for the VCR downstairs (and I forgot to go re-program it). I think I’ve actually managed to watch about three shows this season. {More sobbing.}