#spn s10

I’m starting season 10 of Supernatural. Season 9 was good, I liked the storyline, even if Metatron seems a bit too much but whatever. The Mark of Cain thing and Dean turning to a demon is good. Nice change from Sam being a demon I guess.

But… I was under the impression that the show wants Dean to be this heterosexual macho man. For me, his whole bond with Castiel take him very far away from that “hetero man” but it’s not just that !

He and Crowley totally fucked right ? And then, it was 100% a break-up scene. I mean, Crowley daydreaming about Dean during work ? Looking at their pictures on his phone ?? Replaying in his head the moment he found Dean naked in his bed ??? Am I supposed to look at this and think “yeah cool bros” ?

I mean he basically asked Dean to be his consort in hell… He saved the true love of his boyfriend, he saved his rival Castiel to help Dean. He got it bad. Sadly, he was on the “fuck buddy” side of Dean Winchester.

I can’t wait to see Dean and Castiel being together again. For quite some time they pushed the Sam/Castiel relationship and pulled Dean aside on his own journey with Crowley. I think it was good to give some time to Sam and Castiel friendship, it’s making my family found trope bell tinkle. Also, it shows more surely how Dean and Castiel relationship is very different and not at all a “bro buddy pal” one.

Well, back on my first time watching train.

NB : Every character on this show has now an angel blade to use, you know, the very rare and powerfull weapon. So funny.

1x12: Faith
Rating: ★★★☆☆

Lookhere for my explanations of these reviews.

Written by: Sera Gamble & Raelle Tucker

Directed by: Allan Kroeker

First angel of the series, lads. I was pleasantly surprised by this episode because I hadn’t noticed before that it starts hinting at Dean’s role in the apocalypse. There’s other interesting Dean stuff in here as well, but let’s talk about other stuff first.

What I liked: Mostly what I liked came in the form Dean’s development, though the actual plot was fairly interesting. I think it came across so unique to me because Reapers, from this point onward, read more as angels rather than creatures (which may seem obvious because they areangels, but remember, Tessa comes in in 2x01, when the audience doesn’t know yet that angels exist, and she still reads as an angel to me); in this one, it felt like the opposite.

What I didn’t like: I don’t think there was anything that I didn’t like necessarily, but the tone of this episode was sort of weird. I don’t want it to sound like it was bad necessarily, but it wasn’t my favorite thing in the world.

Character work: One of my favorite topics to discuss: Dean. Like I said, this episode hints at his role in the upcoming apocalypse, and that’s so cool to realize in a rewatch. Not only does Roy say that Dean has a job and a great purpose to fulfill, but Mrs. Rourke asked Dean why he deserved to live more than her daughter. It’s not as though the Reaper healed Dean because he was set to be Michael’s vessel, but when you listen to the scene again, that fact does get brought to mind. 

Another interesting thing that happened in this episode was Dean suggesting that he and Sam kill Roy since Dean thinks Roy traded somebody else’s life for his. Since Cas’s dialogue in 10x22 is burned into my brain, we know that Dean wouldn’t normally kill a human being, at least by the later seasons. I mean, he has suggested it since this episode, but he seemed really clear-headed about killing Roy here. It’s interesting that he suggests it, and I think it has to do with him exhibiting a characteristic in this episode that will become very fundamental to his character as the seasons go on: the belief that his life isn’t worth that much. So, yeah, lots of great Dean stuff in this episode. Plus, of course, we see the first threads of the unhealthy habit Sam and Dean have with trying to save each other as Sam strives to save Dean.

Favorite scene: This is kind of difficult because “scene” means… a whole scene, and there aren’t a lot of entire scenes in this episode that stand out—it’s mostly dialogue that stands out. The scene at the end where Dean is talking to Layla is probably what I’d choose because she talks about faith, which is a theme Dean will be confronted with a lot throughout the series, and you can see a bit of how he struggles with it during this scene.

Favorite moment: There’s a bit at the beginning of the episode where Dean comes back to the motel room because he doesn’t want to stay at a hospital where “the nurses aren’t even hot,” and Sam smiles when he opens the door and finds him, despite having just been distraught on the phone with John. It’s a nice little moment because you can see that, even though Sam is scared to lose his brother, he’s still happy to be with him.

Iconic quote: “I guess if you’re gonna have faith… you can’t just have it when the miracles happen. You have to have it when they don’t.”

I’d also like to point out that Dean says you can’t kill Death in this episode, which is obviously not true, and very funny in its irony. I don’t know that I’d rewatch this one without doing a full rewatch, but it’s still a fairly solid episode.