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Saturday, October 15, 2016

Supernatural, Season 12, Episode 1: Keep Calm and Carry On



It’s the show that never ends, it goes on and on my friends.

How long will this show last? Until Jensen Ackles is no longer hot. We have many seasons left

Oooh new opening music. Is it just my love of classic rock or does Supernatural have the most awesome soundtrack?

So last season Amarra brought back Mary Winchester, Dean and Sam’s mother. On the one ide this show could use some more front and centre female characters. On the other hand this is Supernatural, the master of the very stocked fridge – and Mary has been defrosted and put back in waay too often already. I’m not eager for another fridging

The reunion between her and Dean is very touching, contains lots of emotional moments, lots of awkward moments (her seeing the Impala is both). She has a lot culture shock dealing with 30 years of being dead and how far technology has come. As well as Dean trying to explain so much that has happened in h last 11 seasons. They’re joined by Castiel who, along with the blood trail, tells them that Sam is in trouble.

It also introduces Mary to angels and the fact that Castiel’s solution to every problem at the moment appears to be to beat witnesses until they talk which seems very unangelic to her

This is all very nice and emotional et al but it all feels a little… slow? I mean, Sam is missing and there doesn’t appear to be a whole lot of emotion there or even a great sense of urgency


Meanwhile Sam has been taken by Lady Antonia Bevell of the British Men of Letters and after having a vet remove a bullet from his leg she decides to question him

Ok, she SAYS she wants to know anything about American Hunters and their hierarchy (which I don’t think they have) so she can help. See, in Britain there are no monsters because the British Men of Letters have warded ever possible point of entry and the minute a monster shows up they go find it and kill it. Britain is monster free (this could be an interesting debate considering the number of “monsters” who are neutral or struggling against their nature we’ve seen). And they want to help the Americans make America monster free as well – and to do that they want to torture Sam lots and lots to make him co-operate

So, I’m going to say now I don’t believe her because obvious sinister character is obvious. More she even made a good point last season that Sam & Dean may have stopped the world ending several times but they’d also kind of caused all those apocalypses in the first place. Stopping Sam and Dean loose cannons would make more sense

Because this plan? Doesn’t. First of all going to the US doesn’t make huge sense because the US is so huge and relatively sparsely populated – maybe you could start in a region and spread out, but there’s a reason why most of Sam and Dean’s escapades don’t take place in Los Angeles, New York or Chicago-  they’re all in Middle-of-Nowhere Ohio or Look-At-All-the-Corn Kansas collective population your average shopping mall. Warding and rapid response seems like a big if in those conditions. If you’re going to do it why not start in another country where it could work: smaller, more densely populated: you could work your way through Europe and then have a larger stack of hunters to help with the wide open spaces of the US.