And finally Supernatural has made it to its 5th season... and with no less than Lucifer himself rising from Hell and walking on Earth.
The addendum of the catholic mythology to the show made it a lot deeper and broader than ever before, mainly because of the way both sides, good and evil, are pictured. Good is not so good or even not good at all, with angels and archangels torturing people, killing each other, and willing to wipe a whole town to avoid the breaking of a seal. And evil is not so evil after all, if the Dark Lord asks for permission to inhabit a human being...
"Sympathy for the Devil" begins exactly where season 4 ended, and after a couple mysterious jumps from one place to another, the brothers are back on the road, alive, but not all is as good as it seems: they're listening to the radio and they hear about disasters and plagues; then they find out that Castiel, who could be their only hope, has been killed, and now Zacharias is back on their asses (well, most precisely on Dean's ass, but we'll get back to that later).
And then there's Bobby... his angry rebuke to Sam was serious. Like, Sammy goes and sets Lucifer free starting the damn Apocalypse, and the typical "it's OK, kid, we'll deal with it as usual" is not what you want to see and hear; so I really enjoyed the this cannot be forgiven and I don't want to see you again thing. Too bad it wasn't Bobby, but a demon inside him. Curse you, Eric Kripke.
Now we're back on Dean's ass... er, sorry, we're back on Zachariah. According to the mythology, Archangel Michael defeats the Antichrist. Turns out that Dean Winchester is that sword. Holy swords, Dean!
While Zachariah is having a great time torturing the Winchesters and everything seems to be lost, the saviour arrives. No, not The Saviour; it's just Castiel who's back and takes care of the situation. Zachariah leaves and Cass places a protection (an Enochian Sigil) on both Sam and Dean to guard them against heavenly creatures.
Near the end of the episode, Lucifer finally approaches this guy Nick and asks him to be his vessel. Nick is played by Mark Pellegrino, who already plays another almighty being on Lost's season 5 final episode; although his brief role here on Supernatural as Nick didn't do him any justice as an actor, he seems to be made to play another kind of characters. I think some of us will love his Lucifer.
And in the end scene, Dean finally spits it out on Sam: everything is not allright, and it will never be, from the moment Sam decided to chose a demon over his own brother. I'm hoping to see this situation well developed by Supernatural's writers, I don't want to see that kind of dramatic element go to waste.
On a side note, starting on this episode, Misha Collins is listed in the credits as on of the show's stars; a well deserved award for his work on season 4 (or, most precisely, for Castiel's work on the past season's story) and a promise of more to come from him.
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