Totally Frakked: Supernatural -- Carry On My Wayward Son
Supernatural
Title: "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two"
First Aired: 5/17/07
After a doozy of a set-up last week, Supernatural delivered the knockout blow with style. Plenty of angst, plenty of drama, plenty of Sam's "The World Hurts Me" face, and of course, a big fat comeuppance sandwich for Ol' Yellow Eyes.
The episode starts, unsurprisingly, with Sam as dead as the proverbial doornail, and Dean left to chew the scenery all alone. Jensen Ackles does over-the-edge crazy with gusto, and it's absolutely believable when he runs off to sell his soul just to get his poor dear brother back in the living column. After betting his soul against that fiddle of gold... no, wait, different story, never mind. After making the worst possible deal with a demon -- one year of life and Sam back for his soul -- Dean is tearfully reunited with baby brother. There's a little manly arguing about how Sam needs to rest, but Dean eventually caves and the two head off to get together with Bobby.
It's about then that Ellen shows up, having cheated fate and escaped the Roadhouse fire. She brings the Winchester boys the info that Ash thought was so important: the location of a giant demon's trap in Wyoming with an old cemetery at the center of it. There's something in the cemetery that Ol' Yellow Eyes wants, and he's planning on using his new BFF Jake to get at it.
Jake's not exactly chipper about the whole thing, though. In fact, he almost turns the super-spooky demon-killing gun -- which is apparently also a key -- on the Yellow-Eyed Demon. Sadly, he doesn't have the stones to follow through. Jake -- with promises of leading his own personal demon army -- heads into the cemetery to do the demon's bidding. The Winchester boys, Ellen, and Bobby are waiting for him in the graveyard, but since they don't do the smart thing and blow him away immediately, he nearly kills Ellen with his Jedi Mind Tricks. This gives Jake just enough time to use the gun to unlock the appropriately spooky door at the center of the cemetery before Sam plugs him remorselessly.
Unfortunately, Sam's not quick enough to keep the door -- which opens onto a nice bit of vacation real estate in Hell -- from popping open and letting out a load of nasty demons. Bobby and Ellen try gamely to close the demonic portal while Mr. Yellow goes after the boys. Of course, he makes the classic villain mistake: He gets caught monologuing. He manages to sow the seeds of distrust with Dean -- maybe poor Sammy came back with a little evil in him -- but who should appear in the nick of time but the ghost of Daddy Winchester, back from hell. He distracts Ol' Yellow Eyes just long enough for Dean to fill him full of special demon-slaying lead, and then lingers just long enough for a poignant moment with his two boys.
So, in the end, good triumphed-ish. There's just enough time left in the episode for Sam to figure out the price that Dean paid to bring him back, and you can bet how upset little bro is about that. The Yellow-Eyed Demon may be dead, but he managed to release about 200 new demons before the door was closed again. Sam may be alive, but now Dean only has a year before a demonic hottie comes to collect on his soul.
As for what happens next... well, we'll have to wait for the third season. This season of Supernatural brought us angsting, whining, laughing, screaming, and plenty of development in the mythos. Even with the Yellow-Eyed Demon down, there's lots more story left in the Winchester boys. I can't wait to see what they bring us.
Previously On MeeVee:
I thought the scene with Bobby reading Dean the riot act was one of the best of the season. He's such a good father to those boys and Dean couldn't even look him in the eye.
I will miss the Yellow-Eyed Demon, though. He had some of the best evil snark since the mayor in Buffy.
Posted by: Cynthia | May 18, 2007 at 11:43 PM
I thought the scene with Bobby reading Dean the riot act was one of the best of the season. He's such a good father to those boys and Dean couldn't even look him in the eye.
+1
Posted by: tech | May 20, 2007 at 02:59 AM