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**HERE BE SPOILERS** One of my favourite tv shows returned with a new season and also with quite a bang. After a season of hit and miss episodes, the show came back bigger and better than before. I admit I was having very low expectations and I have successfully managed to avoid all form of spoilers and trailers until the episode aired last night so I was quite blown away by how the story unfolded. We had the chance to ease ourselves back into the lives of the Winchester duo and their faithful sidekick Bobby (yeah, I know, he’s not a sidekick) with a slow start. Let’s just say it all went kaboom after a few minutes of relative peace and quiet. What with Sam having intermitent hallucinations of Hell, Castiel going on a righteous fight against those he deemed unworthy of God(or of himself in this instance) and Crowley (Mark Sheppard) being reinstated as King of Hell, it was bound to be exciting and it sure was. The acting was superb – Jared Padalecki was amazing as a haunted by his time in the cage Sam, Jensen Ackles shined as a disappointed friend who was humiliated and mocked and as [...]

The two part finale of Supernatural came and went but it left destruction in its wake. I am not joking, fans were devastated, Twitter was like a pillaged village after the barbarians invaded, the fangirls cries were heard worldwide…Yeah, all in all it was something you could not ignore. In order to keep the spoilers to a minimum(a task at which I fail constantly) I’ll refrain from leaking to much information. Let’s see what happened though. As we know Castiel has been on the fence between good and evil for quite a while, his dealings with Crowley had most fans screaming in dismay, but his actions were justified by the – he is cute so he must be good logic – and people moved on. Alas, things were not so rosy after the finale. In the first part of the night – Let it Bleed, Castiel was more than unhelpful when Lisa and Ben (yes, they brought them back yet again) were kidnapped by Crowley’s goons. Remember last time when Cas threatened Crowley and ordered him to leave the boys alone? Yeah, he didn’t include other loved ones so Crowley took the family unit Dean worked hard to build and [...]

I usually do the whole recap/review thing for every episode, but I skipped a couple – the wild west one and the one where Eve dies somewhat anticlimactically after being a rather preeminent villain for the course of the season. They were both great episode in my opinion (except for the whole Eve thing – she died a bit like Crowley…oh, wait!) building up to the season finale. Not having watched any spoilers I don’t really have any expectations one way or another about the episodes that will end the season, however I had huge expectations about the latest Supernatural installment. We were to find out the story of Castiel(Misha Collins), solve the mystery of Crowley’s(Mark Sheppard) survival and all that and yet I wasn’t satisfied with what I got. First of all, lately Supernatural seems to have turned into a fanfiction of sorts. Each episode makes one part of the fandom or another happy. We get hints of slash between Dean and Castiel, hints of whatever pairing the fans are shipping at the moment, the story alters based on fans desires, which isn’t always a bad thing, but it’s not a good thing either. I feel proud, I have [...]

After an incredibly long Hiatus, though it might have seemed longer considering just how much I wanted to see the next episode, Supernatural is back with My Heart Will Go On. This episode can be considered one of the “light hearted ones” and really, we all know they never predict anything good for our favourite boys. Like all episodes of this nature it was rather bittersweet with secrets being revealed to us, but not to the characters, secrets that I am hoping will set the wheels in motion for another season. (Though secretly I hope they resolve everything in this season and bring something fresh to the table for the next one.) Let’s see what happened, shall we? *SPOILERS AHEAD, ADVANCE AT YOUR OWN RISK*   The episode started in a fashion reminiscent of Final Destination – we are slowly shown items that can be potentially dangerous to a man in his garage, he narrowly avoids death a few times and then he meets a rather unpleasant demise at the “hands” of a garage door. I have to say, this episode really made me consider all the ways I could die by simply crossing the street. The boys are off [...]

** Spoilers ahead** After a wait, that was longer than necessary, the boys are finally back and this time not just in the physical sense – Sam(Jared Padalecki ) get his soul back and the team is complete once more…or is it? We all waited breathlessly to see what will happen now that Death decided to show kindness – a kindness that our resident angel Castiel(Misha Collins) was against from the very start – and they kept us guessing for a few minutes. Not all is great since the very start when we are faced with the uncertainty of Sam’s future. We know his soul is back intact, but it’s as intact as a body with a seeping raw wound. Ok, I ad libed a bit on what Cas said, cause what we imagine is always worse than the reality, not sure it applies in this case though, somehow imagining what it must be like to spend a year in a cage with Lucifer and his angry brother doesn’t seem to be enough. But I digress – this is what happens, the cliff note version. Sam and Dean(Jensen Ackles) hug – my heart really melted on that scene, cause let’s [...]

After a two week long wait, finally Supernatural rolled around with a brand new episode. This episode had all the markings of a great one – Castiel was back, Meg was back and so was Crowley. All we needed was Chuck and all things would’ve been right with the world. But even so, this episode just didn’t feel whole to me. Like there was a big part of it missing, and no, it wasn’t Sam’s soul. We start off with Crowley and his attempts to discover purgatory via torture. He does have Sam and Dean on a short leash and so an endless supplies of demons high on the food chain coming quite often. But it seemed so wrong to have Crowley, who acts like such a bad ass (and who is the self-entitled King of Hell) be the guy that tortures the alpha. Killing him in a very anticlimactic way was I suppose a preface to his own equally anticlimactic demise. I already said it felt like this episode was lacking something, but alas it had some things that really felt like they were dropped in there for the sake of humour but fell flat. Like Castiel watching porn [...]