Friday, February 11, 2011
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Despite a last minute announcement by CW that Supernatural's mid-season premiere was being pushed back a week, the question of how will Sam live with himself is what most fans are looking forward to the most. It's arrived with some trepidation.
There's some awkwardness after speaking to Dean about what happened. One would think that Sam will want to spend more time doing some soul searching of his own. He'd wander around the States for a bit trying to make sense of it all instead of just moving on to the next case.
In the opening act of the episode, "Like a Virgin," there's no surprise that Sam is sleeping his encounter with Death off. But when he wakes up, everything seems hunky-dory. Of course, he awakens with a suppositional question of where am I, what am I, and how long was I out?
Everything is back to normal for the most part. But Sam knows there's something Dean and Bobby are holding back on. It's not until he's alone when he calls upon the angel Castiel to tell all.
This episode's homage to Dungeons and Dragons and King Arthur may be amusing, but it felt like one of the weaker episodes. The problem lays in not giving enough time for Sam or Bobby to assist with Sam's recovery, and in incorporating a very Biblical take of what dragons are into the mythos of the show. While their introduction is handled nicely, by allowing them to be shape-changers to have both a human and draconian form—these gentle giants don't really fit in.
The "Mother of All" certainly does and there's no definitive description of who or what she is. Classical sources reveal that there is a being from the Greek tradition; her name is Echidna. She is half a nymph and half a snake, and she's mothered many a legendary creature like Cerebus, the three headed dog. She has also sired the Chimera, a creature with the features of a lion, goat and snake. Although her name in the series is uncertain, this introduction of a new master villain sets up the premise of for the last half of season six of Supernatural.
But as the boys now have to face off against a greater threat, the nagging question of what Sam will do, now that he knows what's happened from the the first half of season six, will be put into question.
Given the series love with popular culture in music, one has to wonder if what Sam will eventually face be anything like Pink Floyd's The Wall? The theme of isolation is obvious and one has to wonder if what Sam may face is despair. Long time viewers of this show will know that parts of him, the memories of being in Hell, are bricked up. To allow those things to resurface will destroy him. And if the soul is everything that defines a person, namely Sam, is incomplete.
The philosophical questions have to be answered, and if Plato emerges from the pits of Hell to provide answers, that would be something to tune into.
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