‘Supernatural’ season 8, episode 22 review: The third trial, Castiel’s quest
While there have been some uneven moments if you look back at “Supernatural” season 8, we ultimately have to say that the episode airing on The CW Wednesday night really did a great job of bringing out everything great that Jeremy Carver has offered since becoming showrunner. Not only was there a great sense of action and peril, but there were times in “Clip Show” that felt like a genuine throwback and love letter to the show’s early days.
With that being said, it was not always of the positive variety. Take, for example, Taylor Cole’s return as Sarah Blake. The actress from the show’s very first season resurfaced as a part of what Crowley is considering to now be his reign of terror, as he tried to kill just about everyone that was ever close to Sam in an effort to hinder him from completing his trials. Has this deterred him? Not exactly, though devastation is never something that is particularly great to see.
While all of this was going on, Castiel and the scribe were embarking on a rather interesting quest of their own to try and re-take heaven. How bizarre are we talking about here? Let’s just say that one of the early missions was for the two of them to try and kill the child of an angel and a human. In some ways, the show does shine in having characters that you do like nonetheless do dark things.
The stage was set in the end here for a heck of a finale: It is a massive stand for the Winchesters against Crowley, and as it turns out, he also happens to be the third trial. Meanwhile, Castiel’s quest to stop Naomi and take back Heaven is now in full gear.
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Sycophant
May 9, 2013 @ 5:31 pm
Just throwing in some predictions here… Metatron is clearly manipulating Castiel, as we saw in a previous episode he was referenced to in a tablet as the “archangel” Metatron, so his repeated assurances that he is a pencil-pusher holds no water – unless it’s a continuity problem. And thus Castiel is getting manipulated again, by the same angel who is powerful enough to bypass Crowley’s wards, fry him in the process and continually insists he’s “harmless”.
Now that the Winchesters know that demons can be “cured” and since they were once human souls, my prediction is that it would not be morally justifiable for them to close the gates of Hell, since they now know they can save them all instead of shutting them in so the demons will be left to gnaw on each other and the humans in hell for all eternity.
In the same manner, Castiel sealing the gates if Heaven would grant all the angels to conduct their wars to completion without the distraction of them being responsible for the humans’ future. Thus sealing Heaven is another bad idea born of a mind that thinks locking up a bunch of people who want each other to die would get them to calm down.
DT
May 9, 2013 @ 4:49 am
IF this is truly the end of Crowley in the Season 8 finale, whether or not it shuts hell’s gates… If Dean and Sam have to contend with Abbadon taking over or trying to take over, they are in for even WORSE crap. That is for sure. Let’s hope not, unless we actually want the struggle to continue.