The show has placed the brothers back on a parallel again and even though poor Lester got caught up in the crossfire, the narrative is elegantly done, drawing the two of them back together through their respective differences. Dean’s addictions, first alcoholic, now demonic, exist precisely because he wants it all to go away, just as Sam was quite happy to die in the previous season and lose all of the anguish that went with living. The show doesn’t make the links back to his drinking explicitly, but the suggestion is there. As Cas points out towards the end of the episode, Dean feels no pain in this form he’s freed from the burdens that have weighed on him considerably more than anyone else. There’s also an underlying tragedy in Dean’s pleading to remain a demon. Other than that brief giggle, it’s heavy stuff and both Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles are excellent in these scenes, using the brothers’ respective histories and similarities to produce one of the more emotional Winchester talks. This scene also happens to contain two of the best visual jokes so far in the season it wouldn’t be Dean’s room without Busty Asian Beauties and leftover pie. Sam’s visit to Dean’s room affirms this as he finds various pictures of the Winchester family. It dredges up just about everything, including how Sam’s existence led to the death of their mother, Mary. Put simply, not well.Ĭlashes between the Winchester brothers are always emotional and this one was no different as Dean brought up seemingly every ounce of resentment against Sam in a bid to get his brother to let him go. We’ve seen it work on Crowley, the effects of which are still being felt, and now we see how Dean reacts to it.
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Here, it’s the Ritual of Sanctified Blood, designed by the Men of Letters to cure demons and bring them back to humanity. The Winchester conflicts always seem to come back to blood, whether it’s hammering home that they’re the only family they’ve got or using blood as some sort of cure or drug to get what they want. The Crowley and Castiel pairing though is merely a sideshow to the main event that finds Sam and Dean back together once more. Given that Crowley has become an increasingly big part of the Winchester team and finds himself saving Castiel here, it’s the most linked the three worlds have been since the show began and I sense an alliance is perhaps in the offing moving forward. Heaven and Hell have always had their role to play here, but they’re fairly mutually exclusive unless there’s a major clash of interest on the cards.
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Sheppard is now a regular and therefore requires more screentime, but it also means that the show’s internal dynamics are on the move too. Crowley’s storyline is the most noticeable shift in the show’s usual pace, no doubt because Mark A.