I was interested to see how the conversation between Dick and Crowley would go, but it wasn't all that exciting. Naturally, Crowley accepted Dick's deal and betrayed Sam and Dean, but the scenes in which Dick and Crowley go over their contract were tedious and unfunny.
A reluctant and deadpan humorous Castiel got boring the instant it started last episode, and when always accompanied with the whining droll that is Meg... well, the pair of them are just plain annoying.
Some of the most entertaining parts of the season were the revelations of Dick's plans, and the one discovered in this episode was one of the best. The idea to use an additive to breed out undesired characteristics in humans was a good one, and one that further upped the stakes for Sam and Dean to save the world. Kevin's importance in the grand scheme of things as a Prophet is also interesting, especially since both Crowley and Dick wanted him for themselves, so that should be interesting to develop next season.
I enjoyed see Bobby as a vengeful spirit, but was disappointed that we didn't get to see more of it. The development of his change of character only really occurred in the last couple of episodes, and it was nothing all that exciting, just broken glass and such. I wish the writers would have pushed the boundaries further with him going dark, possessing more people, perhaps getting them killed, hurting Sam and Dean etc. that would have been really interesting, and we got a little bit of an insight into that in this episode, but it's looks like that's as far as it will go. That being said, I hope the writers don't bring Bobby back. Characters on shows like Supernatural constantly defy death by some magical means or loophole, but that significantly diminishes the impact the death of a character can have on audiences when one occurs. They already killed Bobby and brought him back as a ghost, to do it again would further discredit the finality of death. Plus it would make all those, Sam and Dean mourn Bobby episodes of this season completely unnecessary and irrelevant.
The episode seemed somewhat subdued and anti-climatic. Sam and Dean's retrieval of the items necessary to kill Dick, the blessed bone and Crowley's blood, was surprisingly easy, and while Dick through a spanner in the works my using the original Dick Romans arm to create two more Dick doppelgangers, Castiel would conveniently see through this disguise, not only allowing Sam and Dean's job easier, but forcing him into the action. Nonetheless, the scenes in which Sam, Dean, Meg and Castiel storm Sucrocorp were enthralling, especially the return of the Impala, and the amazing distraction it was used for. Dick was very easy to find and kill though, and Sam found Kevin easy, and no one really got hurt. As Crowley noted, which highlights why the episode could be deemed as a letdown, Dick may be dead, but now the leviathans are just another monster without their leader. The leviathan threat is still present, and at full capacity. Not only that, but with Castiel and Dean separated from Sam, and Meg and Kevin in Crowley's possession, they've been set back a long way in defeating them.
The cliffhanger ending, Dean and Castiel being transported to purgatory, was a surprising albeit slightly used one. The Winchesters have already been to heaven and hell many times, so why not purgatory too right?
It's always interesting to see a major dynamic change within a series, and this season ensured us that at the beginning of the next one, that would have well and truly occurred. But Supernatural has done this bother, and it doesn't often take long for episodes to fall back into the bland standard monster-of-week formula, so it will be interesting to see how long things will remained changed for. Plus, with the leviathans still at full force, Crowley making moves, and the Alpha Vampire still hanging around somewhere it will be interesting to see how all these villains are handled, whether there are too many or if they're possibly getting to worn for writers to handle, or whether will be getting some entirely new evil next season.
Rating 3/5
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