Saturday, January 14, 2012

CW's "Supernatural" and It's "Time" for Another Time Travel Story: A Television Review

Director: Phil Sgriccia.

Writer: Robbie Thompson.

Ever since CW’s "Supernatural" decided to toss time-travel into its formula, the episodes have generally been very good. And Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) is often beside himself with glee. He gets to visit eras that he’s very fond of. Last year, the episode “Frontierland” took him to the Wild West and this year it’s “Time After Time After Time” where he ends up in the mid 40’s.

Despite all the time-travelling episodes he’s been in, Dean has yet to learn that everything he sees at the movies is not 100% true. That makes for some great hilarious moments because everyone from the past thinks he has gone bonkers. Nobody talks like that (much) or behaves like how Dean thinks they should.

Not even Eliott Ness (Nicholas Lea, "X-Files") thinks Dean is in the right. But at least they are fellow Hunters. Both of them are chasing after Chronos, the God of Time (Jason Dohring, "Veronica Mars"). It seems he is smitten with a dame from 1944, but in order to walk through time and space, he needs some very powerful batteries, souls, to fuel his time-jumps.

In the present, that has drawn the attention of Sheriff Jodie Mills (Kim Rhodes, "Suite Life of Zack and Cody"). The shriveled up corpses left behind always appears in threes—perhaps a hint with the three sisters of fate coming back. And since the sheriff does not know what is going on, she calls up the boys.

But in trying to catch this time-traveller, Dean made the mistake of leaping into the thick of things and gets swooped back in time.

Mills and Sam Winchester do their best to figure out the date that Dean and Chronos ended up in, and how to bring them back to the future. In the past, Dean gets a new mentor who shares some advice. Ness simply says to Dean that he better enjoy the life he has now because one day, his number will be up. That’s almost suggestive of telling Dean to get out of the Hunting game and resume some normalcy that he once had before season six started. He had a great life with Lisa and Ben Braeden.

Now if that means those two will show up again, that is most likely not going to happen. Both Lisa and Ben had their memories wiped by Castiel, and unless some other godly force appears to restore them, Dean will have to find someone new to fall in love with.

This episode seems very self-contained with Dean getting most of the screen time. Both Ackles and Lea look like they were enjoying themselves on the set originally built for the movie Watchmen. For any red-blooded genre junkie, to go Gangbusters is living a dream come true, especially when audiences see the two behind the wheels of a vintage automobile.
But before the Greek God of Time gets dispatched, he reveals one tiny detail to the story-arc involving the Leviathans. He sees a very dark future for the Winchester brothers. “It's covered in thick black ooze. It's everywhere. They're everywhere. Enjoy oblivion."

By that indication, the brothers are not going to be tossed into the deep blue sea anytime soon. At the rate they are going with dealing with deities who are associated with time, destiny and fate, they might become the news masters of time instead. They will have to if they are to avoid their ordained doom!

Overall: 7 out of 10.

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