Supernatural I hate to admit it, season 14 has really hit a low point for me. Particularly this episode. For what used to be a great show, shining scripts and comedic in every sense of the word, emotional and tear jerking, has all gone (in some eps). Evaporated like a last drop of blood from a vampire's fang! In my opinion, it rally needs to get back to doing what it did best, the stand alone eps: fighting evil: the family business! This angels, angel lore stuff has got to end! They've had their fill of it season after season and really the stories don't get any better with it. So Lucifer was Sam (Jared Padalecki) and vice versa, now Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Michael: they quickly need to move on from this now. Restore some sort of order in heaven and move on. Let's stop repeating the endless" God's on a permanent vacation: gone fishing..." etc. It's too old to be constantly dragged out!
The dynamic needs desperately to return and having the bothers apart is really not something on the cards for the longterm, it's been tried and tested before but doesn't work and especially now in season 14 when we've come so far and vested much in the show. What was the entire purpose of Michael going round asking what they want and then killing them off. Why go after Jo (Danneel Ackles) what did he get from that (and couldn't they come up with a name other than another Jo again?)
If the season opener was bad, ep 2 didn't improve at all! Jack (Alex Calvert) finally seeing his grandparents, wanting to tell them who he really was and then throwing a bombshell for Cas (Misha Collins) by saying they need to kill Dean or put him in the cage or whatever and not even bother trying to get Michael out of him, was all all time low. In the sense that he was meant to be more sympathetic to his plight, be a different person than being the Devil's spawn! Almost a reversal of what Dean said about Jack last season and how they should've just dealt with him. Particularly in the opening eps. That shocked Cas since he thought he'd had an impact on him about how t, well, be human, but seemed it failed. And more so since he doesn't have his powers which Jack saw as a be all and end all to helping. He looks like fast becoming his father's son. Though I'll hold judgement on that for now, but it would add some spice to the show if he lost himself a little int he scheme of things.
As for Nick (Mark Pellegreno) and no longer being meatsuit for Lucifer, he still seems to have remnants of him too and for a second there when he reacted to Cas in the way Lucifer would, it did appear Lucifer hasn't gone. Yet those final moments when he killed the man who murdered his wife and son just confirmed there's more to Nick than we know. Let's hope he and Jack don't get together cos the havoc they could reek is unthinkable - then again, let's do go there.
Same question with Dean and Michael: is Michael out of his body and gone. Again it all appears too simple and too easily 'resolved' to be actuality and a conclusion. Not after that mirror scene and how he enjoyed slapping Dean when he told him to get out! Dean in a tux it was Red Sky At Morning all over again! Should we heed the warning?
As for the vampire, didn't they think she was in danger. They got the info they wanted from her and didn't make her leave town then and there. That was really callous and a turn around for Sam, recalling how dead set he was against killing anything, any creature that didn't do any harm to others. Such as Lenore and even me harp-y-ing back to Madison too in season 2's Heart.
Oh and Sam really needs to ditch the beard!
Though episode 3 was a marked improvement on last week's ep, I was still pondering how such a weapon would really have made Michael shake in his boots (Dean's skin) and exit him in such a hurry. Though of course he's undoing everything that Sam and Dean as hunters have done and re-writing the rule book when it comes to weapons that can kill their prey. Though I would really like an insight into Dad's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) journal right about now! I know they don't really use it anymore or refer to it, except when they showed it to Mary (Samantha Smith) a while back, but it'd make a terrific homage to Dad and to bring him up right about now. They need some Winchester inspiration and clout and maybe somewhere in that journal, there might be some little entry as to what they're actually dealing with in the greater scheme of things! This would in some ways, go back a little into bringing up the old myths and legends and a harkback to earlier seasons. This is what I think the show needs a little of right about now. Cos admittedly I've just about had my fill of angels right here and now. Demons are all good and fine in their place and are the baddies of the show, but the angels have run their course I believe!
Agree or not, it's time Supernatural returned to its roots and explored other aspects of legends and what lurks out there instead of getting too spiritual and preachy in tone still. As I tweeted, shove Michael into Nick and send him back to the cage, cos Nick's still reeling from Lucifer's fallout and again is he really out of him. The same question we ponder about Dean. That just made it seem so easy, too easy for my liking.
Also Jack now getting sick, will this mean he'll need some sort of transplant/transfusion and thus having to confront his grandparents, as his only living relatives, about who he really is. Or is it something more sinister embedded in his genealogy?
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