Thursday, October 06, 2011
Edohotep
Writer: Ben Edlund.
Pink Floyd sang goodbye in their song, but in "Supernatural's" latest, what Sam Winchester was chiming in on is "Hello, Cruel World." His wall is showing plenty of cracks and Lucifer is on the other side waiting. If that is not enough, Castiel has gone to swim with the fishes. His body can no longer contain all the black oily creatures that managed to stick around. And when he enters a local watershed, his body explodes. All that remains is his trench coat.
The Winchesters really have no clue in what to do next, and simply wait it out. As they are waiting for news, the Leviathans are inhabiting poor innocent souls in a tri-state area which includes parts of Kansas and South Dakota. Anyone unlucky enough to be near water is going to get a sick mouthful of black goo.
This episode is more of a bridging episode that serves to establish just how powerful these Leviathans are and firmly root them to biblical tradition. Episode two simply continues the introductions. Hopefully by the next episode, there will be some fun as Dean and Sam attempt to escape their fate. They are being taken to the Leviathans' den, the Sioux Falls General Hospital. They are going to need help, or everything that is happening is all in Sam's head.
Just as one plot unravels itself, another is slowly biding its time. Lucifer has to figure into this multi-threaded storyline somehow, and the visions Sam has may very well be real. The devil is broadcasting through Sam, and when he experiences pain, the reception gets weak. Assuming the devil knows what is happening with the Leviathans, and he can get other supernatural forces to see him, there is a potential for the devil to make a deal with the water elementals and get released from his prison.
These creatures are proving to be very powerful. Silver buckshot and dropping a car on them does nothing. They appear invincible and they can very quickly change form. Either Sam and Dean will have to find a Behemoth, a land dweller, to fight them off or they have to rely on a new weapon. At some point in the series, these two story lines will have to converge.
And Michael the Archangel's role has yet to be revealed. That one line of dialogue has some significance. The fight is not just between Sam and Lucifer.
This episode's title is very telling since the brothers are finally isolated from the world. Bobby is suspiciously missing, there are not many angel survivors after Cas's rampage, and even he is presumably dead. Just like the good old days, the early seasons, the Winchesters may have to deal with this menace themselves and make new allies along the way.
That is, if they can get ouf of the mess they are in.
Overall: 8 out of 10.
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