Writer: Eric Kripke
Grade: A
This was quite a solid finale—most of the major storylines had a good payoff here. The ending, though… that was definitely an “Oh, come on!” moment, especially after having seen the Lost finale the night before.
Minor nitpick: It’s very convenient that the gate to Lucifer’s “prison cell” just happens to be in America, as opposed to, say, somewhere in the Middle East, or Rome, or some other more mythologically apt location. I guess it could make some sense in that history indicates that human life was pretty sparse on this continent until fairly recently, which might make it a logical choice to put something you don’t want found. I still question the location, though.
And go me, I called Sam being Lucifer’s vessel, and Ruby being in on it, way back at the beginning of the season (episode four, to be exact).
As for Bobby calling Dean a “whiny bitch,” he has been, hasn’t he? Mopey, defeatist, not even remotely fun. And with Lucifer coming to send his brother into timeout, I doubt he’s going to lighten up any time soon.
I’m happy to say that Cortese actually did well with her crazy demonic jubilation at the end. The performance still didn’t feel like original Ruby, but it was nonetheless a good performance. As for the character herself, did she really expect that Sam was going to be grateful to her for releasing Lucifer? That Lucifer was going to take over Sam’s body and they were going to have awesome angel/demon sex and create more human/demon hybrid babies? Because she definitely seemed to be living in fantasy land.
And while it was fairly obvious from the start that the writers would take the story in this direction, it’s significant that the angels aren’t “good guys.” We’ve got two warring factions, one distinctly evil and one that’s far from pure and good. I’d guess this means that if Dean has any say, this war will end up with a third, human faction in the mix (with Castiel as an added bonus?).
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