cherry916 | Season 8: Torn and Frayed

Well, tonight was a very interesting night.

I went in with a lot of anxiety. I mean we came off a really terrible mid-season finale that made a lot of us lose a lot of faith. I wasn't even really excited for Supernatural to return, that's how low I had gotten.

I was increasingly fed up with the brothers inability to talk to one another and Carver's glee at rehashing issues Sam and Dean have already previously worked through. The tension and intense resentment felt really forced like it was coming out of nowhere. It was disconcerting and made the first half of the season really miserable.

And Amelia, ahhh Amelia. I have tried SO VERY HARD to like her. To like Sam's story line to try and understand it. But alas after this episode I still couldn't relate. Maybe I wasn't looking to deep but Amelia still seemed to be manipulating Sam and using his obvious love for her against him. That's just what I saw. The sex seemed unnecessary, to me at least, it seemed she wanted to make Sam feel guilty.

Honestly, I am just very glad that story line is done for. I still don't understand how Amelia and Jess, in Sam's mind, are being on the same pedestal.

Never the less. I was increasingly agitated with the soap opera story line and I am happy to see that dealt with.

Now onto the episode.

Dean's attitude up until the very last moment bothered me a lot honestly. He was irrationally angry and even when he said he was wrong he still had to add 'well if you didn't do this then this wouldn't have happened' I sighed. I can see Dean's character development still needs a lot of work. He still can't seem to utter the words I'm sorry sincerely but it was a step in the right direction at least.

Honestly, I felt bad for Sam. He seemed to be stuck in the middle. Stay with Amelia, someone he loves, or stay with his brother, Dean, who he fucking loves to death. But I'm sure at the moment he was thinking about how tense things were between them but I think in the end he saw Dean's olive branch for what it was. Dean's trying and if Dean can let go of Benny, Sam can let go of Amelia.

Because in the end, it's about family. No matter how angry or messed up you are. Family is all you got and they let go of their own happiness to be with one another. Something I don't think, early on in this season either of them would have done.

Basically the plot to this episode was rather boring honestly. I'm not really engaged in the tablets and Crowley and Kevin. Which is really BAD. Because that's the potatoes to the meat. But I am trying to follow along.

Samandriel, baby angel Alfie as we call him, was really sad. I hated to see him get tortured and even worse in the end lose his life.

Okay, I know Castiel wasn't under full consent when killing Alfie but OMFG CASTIEL JFC HE HAS LIKE THE WORST PENCHANT FOR KILLING GOOD ANGELS.

Castiel was well over Dean and Sam's shit as we could see. He wasn't taking any of Dean's crap or arguing and was very gentle shall I say with Sam this episode. I liked seeing that. Because at least someone was noticing Sam wasn't dealing well with this shit.

Though, Misha god love him. I found the terrified looks so unbelievable. It reminded me of Misha in the french mistake. I understand Castiel is getting tortured? But Castiel didn't even look like that when he taken Sam's hallucinations on. Was he scared? Yes. But not like that. It was too comical for me.

And let's all give a HUGE round of applause for whoever decided to bring by the dramatic zooms that are in no way dramatic!

It was also very obvious Benny is going to feed again. Sometime soon. I guess he depended on Dean for his blood supply? Which really a vampire depending on a hunter is irony right there. Now that Dean has finally cut the ties will Benny feed again? I don't think this is the last we will see of him honestly.

And I will close out this review with saying, it's a damn shame that we had to sit through 10 episodes of intense anger and resentment. Sitting uncomfortable and sad at the brother's episodes to finally get something at the end of 11. Does that mean I am not happy? No I'm happy things are looking brighter but it could have been executed ten times better so the show didn't lose people along the way. Because like it or not, that was really painful to watch and not in the good way, because a lot of people lost faith that things would even be fixed again.

At least the next episode looks lighthearted! Sam and Dean have MILES to go before they ever get better. But this is a start.

My ideal version is Sam and Dean being happy with ONE ANOTHER again. Not just staying out of principle. But because they love each other so much, and enjoy each other's company and despite what's happening to the world would still stay together until the end.

And I will also close this out with saying this: "They chose family and isn't that kind of the whole point?" -Chuck (Swan Song)