This is Castiel the angel.
I think last week's episode was one of my favourites in season 4 so far. The prophet idea was really cool as they crank up the religious 'mythology' if you want to call it that as the weeks go by.
Ofcourse Lillith would not be pacified by Sam giving her one and she lives another day to break more seals.
I loved Castiel again, almost being the third big brother to Sam and Dean, watching out for them. And at the very end when the old guy angel, I've forgotten his name, prevents the prophet killing himself, was a cool touch as he is forced to live in his own living hell.
We've got no Supernatural next week for some reason but they're back in a fortnight. Can't wait!
OMG! How hot was this episode - a continuation of the anna the angel stuff. I was hooked and then Dean took his shirt off - I couldn't take my eyes of that hunky torso. Anna - what a waste and how unrealistic - I thought Dean would have some discrimination but I guess it would spoil the cute parallel of having Sammy dating a demon and Dean dating an angel. I also loved the brilliant character of Alistair. Hope he comes back. And I like Pamela the medium being the new Ellen figure.
I prefer these dark, delving episodes rather than the seemy standalones. what do you think?
can't wait till next week!! xx
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Misha Collins!
Misha is most recently known as Castiel, the angel who saved Dean from Hell in Supernatural. He has also appeared in shows such as 24, ER, Charmed, Without A Trace and CSI:NY.
Misha will be appearing both days of the Convention and attending the cocktail party.
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OMG I was tucked inside my fluffy white robe watching the third ep of the fourth season in freezing London. Totally absorbed by the revelations, man!
As you Yanks'll know this is the ep the boys' past is revealed when dishy Dean goes back to '73.
I loved the actor who played the lads' grandad/demon with the yellow eyes - he played it so well. Ofcourse there was no way Dean'd be able to change the course of events.
I also find the angel somewhat irritating now...
THIS is cyberpob's Room 207 blog. Recognise it? It's the motel room that finally reunites Sam and Dean after three months apart and also begins Season 4 in earnest.
We've only just started the fourth series in the UK so are way behind with it than you guys over the pond - but what an exciting start to the new season! Padalecki and Ackles are pumped and looking fitter than ever and how about that angel of the Lord? I'd better say three hail Marys.
But ofcourse Supernatural is so much more than fit guys. It reveals Sam has honed some of his power to vanquish lower level demons, as we see in the diner and we have a new female body being taken over by Ruby.
Hot stuff in the first two eps: Sam and Dean, spotless Impala, Sam and Dean... and Sam and Dean.
Cold stuff in the first two eps: Sam's 'refurb' on the Impala's sound system, the loss of blonde Ruby (great actress with a demonic intensity) to a brunette bimbo (poor acting, better not be a Sam love interest).
Disagree? Tell me.....
ok...... thought about alot last night in bed after the 10/09 episode . Pretty sure Jack killed himself by attacking Sam . He knew his life was over and the only way to end it and all the pain he would inflict on others was to make Sam kill him . Sam has chosen not use his powers anymore even though it makes him feel better about who he is , Dean has chosen to believe that Castiel is really an angel and there is a God . Lots of choices being made .
Also thought alot about why the hell I am so addicted to this show . I am a professional working mom of two young kids , just turned 40 and should be watching DH or ER or CSI or something , right? Why do I have a schoolgirl crush on Jensen? God , feel like I am in high school again ! Still , hot babes aside , a well written show with humour - sweet.
SUPERNATURAL
Episode 4.01
Lazarus Rising
Written by: Eric Kripke
Directed by: Kim Manners
Guest Starring: Genevieve Cortese, Misha Collins, Traci Dinwiddie
Plot Summary: Dean has fought his way out of the grave, but he looks awfully good for a man four months' dead. The question of who sprung him out of hell is just the beginning.
Review:
Supernatural, Season Four is here! But know this: when Kripke gives us something we want, he's as apt to give us something we don't.
First, though, Kripke's mad genius rocked the early minutes while barely making a sound. We get flashes of darkness and bloody light, rolling eyeballs and fragments of screams - until the click of a lighter reveals Dean, alive but trapped in claustrophobic gloom. His rasping screech for help is scarcely a voice, and there's only one way out. Dean finally claws his way up to daylight and a scorching blue sky, and oh yes, the lighting is harsh and vibrant, full of delicious contrast, the shadows stark and the colors snapping. I like, Eric, I like, I do!
Once aboveground, Jensen's performance shines as a man unfamiliar with a world he used to know. He peers warily about the gravesite, trees now blasted flat as Tunguska, before bowlegging his way down an empty, shimmering road, like a lone gunfighter appearing from a mirage. At isolated convenience store, he breaks in and helps himself to supplies: water, candy bars, and a skin magazine, proof positive that this is truly Dean. A newspaper tells the date: September 18th. We are watching his resurrection in "real time."
Now, I had wondered if Dean would bear hellhound scars, and he obliges us by consulting a mirror. There are none, just his anti-possession tattoo - yay, continuity! - but I was startled as Dean by the bright, angry burn scar on his left shoulder, shaped like a fiery hand. His silent explorations end with the buzzing of the TV and radio, and Dean remembers the signs.
Weaponless, he grabs salt and starts shaking out defensive lines, but an ear-splintering whine blows all the windows in. It bounces him off the walls in a hurricane of broken glass, before silence falls again. Alone is not something Dean does well, and his homing instincts are true. But Sam's number is disconnected, while Bobby hangs up with a death threat, so Dean hotwires a beat-up old 1962 Mercury Monterey and heads out.
The scene at Bobby's door is priceless: Dean standing there with a hopeful little smile, looking about ten years old, until a horrified Bobby attacks with a silver knife. But a little wrasslin', a little dodging around the furniture, and some holy water to the face leads to a rib-cracking, sniffle-inducing hug. Bobby's had it hard these four months past, as evidenced by the small army of liquor bottles populating his library.
Sam, however, is off the grid. He's presumed alive, but he went quiet, says Bobby, real quiet, and disappeared after burying Dean. Buried, rather than salted and burned, because Sam had said Dean would "need a body when he got you back home somehow." It's clear now that Sam has done something calamitously stupid. But how do you find a hunter who doesn't want to be found? Dean just smirks, "What don't I know about that kid?" Remember that question, folks.
In moments, Dean pinpoints Sam through the GPS on his cell phone in Pontiac Illinois, just miles from where Dean popped back to life. He and Bobby hit the road, but we get our first clue how different things are, when a scantily clad Random Girl opens Sam's hotel room door. She's looking for pizza delivery, but Sam, (freshly damp from the shower and awesomely buff) looks like he's seeing a ghost - or worse. His reaction turns explosive and blessed be Bobby's hunter's skills, that he ears Sam down before Dean ends up right back dead.
But finally, finally, fans are treated to the full-body, grappling hug of which we've so long dreamed, the brothers clinging tight as if absorbing the reality through their bones. There's a grin or two, as well, when Sam stammers around Random Girl's inquiry whether Dean and Sam are, you know, "together," and he forgets her name when she volunteers to leave.
However ... something is missing. Sam's simply too quiet, too contained, the only crack in his façade when Dean accuses him of making a demon's deal. For a moment, we glimpse the bone-deep anguish Sam has borne, for it wasn't Sam who freed Dean from Hell. But it wasn't for lack of trying, even to attempting the Devil's Gate, and Sam is sorry, so sorry.
There's hope for the old brotherly rapport when Sam returns a special talisman: Dean's amulet, which Sam has worn since his brother's death. Hope again, in the comedic moment when Sam hands over the keys to the Impala and Dean discovers Sam installed an iPod jack. But when Dean asks how Sam survived Lilith's attack, Sam says he was somehow immune. (Shades of his resistance to the demonic virus in "Croatoan.") Sam swears he's done nothing else, however, and Dean slams the door on Sam's freaky powers, saying grimly, "Let's keep it that way."
Pamela Barnes is, IMHO, one of the most refreshing female characters SPN has introduced in a while. An old friend of Bobby's, she is a gutsy, gorgeous, plainspoken psychic - and an outrageous flirt. Pamela's task is a séance designed to reveal what pulled Dean out of Hell, for which she needs to touch something Dean's monster touched. Sam is visibly freaked at the sight of Dean's livid scar, and it's a sweet, subtle thing how he tightens his clasp on his brother's hand.
Pamela meanwhile proceeds with the séance, commanding the creature to show itself to her. Castiel is the name she hears whispered, and she forges on despite its warnings, demanding its compliance. Instead, the candles whoosh into flame, Pamela's eyes blaze white, and she screams as blood pours down her face. She collapses, and while Sam scrambles to dial 911, she opens the blackened pits that used to be her eyes, now burned out and rendering her blind.
Later in a diner, the boys order pie and discuss their next move. Dean wants to try again while Sam adamantly refuses, saying he followed some demons here, so they should find and interrogate them, instead. Before they can agree on a course of action, though, the waitress sits at their table and reveals demon-black eyes. Two other men in the place are also demons.
The demonic waitress talks a good talk, threatening Dean while Sam restrains himself from diving over the table at her. But the demons don't know any more than Sam or Dean, and Dean realizes they are terrified of whatever broke him out. We see a brittle, seething temper in him when she threatens him again, and he slaps her twice before he and Sam walk out, unhindered.
Outside, Dean heaves a sigh of relief, but Sam almost jitters with anxiety over leaving three demons there, declaring that he's been killing a lot more demons than that, lately. "Not any more," Dean quips, "the smarter brother is back," and they'll handle just one job at a time. But Sam's look of simmering impatience says he's been alone too long to start taking orders, now.
Later that night, Dean conks out on the hotel sofa bed amidst a tumble of books, evidence of their search for answers, while Sam sneaks out and drives off in the Impala. He doesn't hear me shriek, "Nooo, you know what happens when you split up!" Sure enough, Dean awakens to supernatural static on the TV and clock radio. He rolls out of bed with shotgun in hand, (ooh, let me replay that again) but another explosion of glass and a piercing whine crushes him to the floor. He screams, clutching his ears, until Bobby bursts in and there the screen goes dark.
The boys' separation is far more than physical, when Dean calls to locate Sam. Sam says he couldn't sleep and has just gone for a burger, while Dean replies he and Bobby have gone for a beer. It's a total disconnect between the boys that sits in my guts like a bowling ball, and only the fact Sam and Dean are both hip deep in subterfuge allows such blithely absurd lies to work.
Granted, it's a tossup whose plan is worse. Dean wants to summon the thing that pulled him from Hell and burned out Pamela's eyes, and he doesn't want Sam to interfere. Sam wants to take on a diner full of demons alone. It's big-brother instinct compelling Dean to keep Sam away from the Power he intends to face, but Sam? Well, Sam evidently regard demons anywhere in the same zip code as Dean as a clear and present danger.
Sam picks the lock on the darkened diner only to find the cook dead, his eyes burned out. Something leaps from the darkness and he's on the short end of an ass kicking until he shoves his assailant off and it's the demon waitress - alive, but with her eyes also gone. Sam demands to know what she saw, but she only sobs that, "We're dead. We're all dead." She refuses to give any further answers, snarling, "Go to Hell," and oops, was that a mistake.
Sam raises one hand, closes his eyes, and holy freaking cats! It *looked* a bit corny, but Sam's powers are back, boy howdy! Black stuff pours from the waitress' mouth as if she were vomiting smoke, boiling and roiling until she collapses and falls. He stands an instant, dark and grim, but a flicker of the old Sam remains in his muted "damn it" when he finds the girl is dead.
My mouth is still open when a voice speaks from the shadows, and voila! The Random Girl at the hotel was not so random. It's Ruby, which begs an interesting question. Did Ruby find her own way back from wherever Lilith sent her, or did Sam summon her for his own ends? Whatever the case, it's evident they have an established association and Ruby can't ID the power that burned out these people's eyes and pulled Dean out of Hell.
"No demon can swing that," she says. "Not Lilith, not anybody."
Their conversation concludes with a double dose of creepy. The first is when Ruby says she doesn't want to come between Sam and his brother. (Since when?) Second is when Sam reflects on his actions, and in almost one breath swings from, "I don't know if what I'm doing is right," to "I'm saving people ... and that feels good. I want to keep going." It's a weird sort of eagerness that makes my neck hairs prickle, because just what *has* Sam been doing?
Meanwhile, Dean and Bobby have created a tagger's wet dream by spray-painting sigils and symbols from a hundred religions all over the inside of an old barn. Now, they literally swing their heels waiting to see if Bobby's ritual will summon anything. When the roof starts rattling and the door bursts in, I do not expect this: a mild-faced man in a tie and overcoat who walks amidst exploding light bulbs, and continues forward through a hail of ineffective gunfire.
"Who are you?" Dean demands, now clutching the demon-killing knife.
The stranger coolly replies, "I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition."
He is Castiel, he who burned the eyes out of Pamela Barnes and flattened Dean's gravesite like a bomb. Dean stabs him with the magick knife, Bobby attacks from behind, but Castiel shrugs them off, and puts Bobby down with a mere touch between the eyes.
Seconds later, Castiel answers Dean's question, and Kripke did promise this episode would blow the fandom wide open: "I am an angel of the Lord," Castiel says, and God commanded Dean's resurrection. The reason, he says, "Because we have work for you."
And there it is. All Kripke's declarations that we would never see angels, that humans were the power of Good, and here is a walking, talking, glass-shattering seraph, complete with shadowy wings. Now Sam has a self-appointed mission to snuff demons, using powers some fear are Evil. Dean is being handed a job whose nature we do not yet know, by forces we are taught are Good. We can guess that Sam will justify his means by the end that he pursues: hunting evil. We can expect Dean to rage and shout, and point up the fact that Sam's advisor is a demon. Their fears for each other, instead of bringing them together, are already driving them apart.
Yet I don't think the struggle will be between evil!Sam and good!Dean. Nor am I convinced that Dean was brought back to stop Sam. Sam's far more into killing demons than leading them, so what, exactly, would God want to stop him doing? It may be that Kripke's idea of Angels is anything but heavenly choirs and beams of light. Clearly, Castiel does not comprehend Dean, neither his lack of faith nor his basic humanity. He seems genuinely bewildered that Dean could not perceive Castiel's true visage or bear his real voice. The angel has a mission, and the mission might be all he knows.
The question may actually be, given our suspicions of Ruby's intentions for Sam ... how can we trust Castiel's intentions for Dean? The conflict may be the boys fighting for the same goal by conflicting means, while un-human Powers push and pull them towards ends that serve the Winchesters' best interests not at all. I think the boys will find their way back to each other, sometime, somewhere, but it's going to be a long and rocky road.
As for the Angel thing? Relax, fellow fans. Kripke has never gone Southern Baptist on us yet. I sincerely doubt he's about to start now. :-)
