Castiels Cat

I don't know how to reply individually to people lol. I think the mid level angel reworked Crowley's ruins which were to keep him weakened and trapped in the Nick meatsuit. He is no longer weakened so he probably is no longer trapped. I also believe the meatsuit was engineered to withstand Lucifer who typically runs through meatsuits quickly. Personally I would have preferred Rick Springfield. Per season 9 we know that some meatsuits are more powerful than others. Presumably archangel meatsuits are the most powerful. Gadreel could not heal himself in his Tahmoh meatsuit. He could heal himself quickly in Sam. Lucifer will need Sam once AU Michael gets here. Sucking his army dry won't cut it. I actually chose the name Castiel's Cat before the Edlund episode aired. I decided Castiel needed a cat based on Data and Spot. That was another SQUEE moment though... lol. I am a Dean girl, a glass half full Dean girl. I am known for my Dean goggles. So when I started talking Dean!Michael last season before the Michael name dropping and before the rift showed us the It's a Wonderful Life Apocalypse people rightfully rolled eyes. I knew we were heading to an Apocalypse with Winchesters but different. To my mind the only reason go do tbis was to finally give us Dean! Michael. There is no other reason to rehash old territory. So I SQUEEd in the Ramiel episode despite it being a bad Tarantino wannabe and I SQUEEd in the finale despite my reservations regarding a powerful child. Since Billie's tete a tete with Dean I am doubling down. We are getting Dean!Michael. They actually built an episode that referenced Dean's special blood and his role as the righteous man. Billie was obliquely stating the obvious. There's a rift thst opens onto an Apocalypse world and Dean can't die because he has work to do!!!! Why put those two things in the sane dialogue unless Dean has to be alive to stop AU Michael... Not because he has always thought he was responsible for the fate of the world or because God made him responsible for the fate of the world. Both true but responsibility is one thing and being able to do it is something else. This has to be a reference go Dean's role as Michael's sword, ie. Michael's s true vessel and the form in which Micharl, the most powerful archangel, is most powerful. The fact that Micharl is bonkers is just icing on the cake. Lucifer knows he cannot defeat AU Michael at full power in Nick. And Lucifer knows Michael is older and stronger because Michael put Lucifer in the cage in the first place. He will want his OTV and he will want his big brother too. And now we know Sam saying yes will be the most heroic thing he has ever done and the most selfless. It is a bit weird that the brothers ate spectators tbis season. I chalk that up to Singer and Dabb the dudes that gave us Bloodlines. Or maybe it's intentional so we are surprised by the reveal. It is hard to say. I an pretty sure they are working from an outline left by Carver which detailed the big pitstops on the road to the Apocalyose and the Winchestsr Family Psych show, both of which they muddled through pretty well; with all other attempts at story arcs falling flat or failing because of LOL plotting and LOL world building. Amara was not evil. She was a powerful goddess who was locked up for expressing herself and a cover story steeped in misogyny was conceived by her male oppressors. She enjoyed cat videos for goodness sake. The Mark didn't make people evil. Dean never became evil. He just enjoyed the hunting and killing a lot more. It was diety level steroids. Lucifer appears to be a spoiled egotist and jealous teenager who acts out without any real longtime plan. He hasn't been scary simce his introduction except for the Rick Springfield episodes. If Gabriel isn't AU then he was awoken in the empty and Oily Goo God sewed his mouth shut because he is annoying. AU Gabriel seems more likely to me because he looked to be tortured cor a long time. Crowley should not have cared about Gabriel enough to lock him up, should not have the power to lock him up and most certainly would have offered him up to fight Amara if he had him. If Gabriel faked his death in season 5 he would be in hiding and would have been the most powerful piece on the board. No one would be able to capture and torture him. The addition of Gabriel perplexes me because he was previously comic relief, passive aggressive antics, a critical source of important arcane knowledge via a porn video and was easily defeated by Lucifer. He at first tried to show Sam that his revenge quest after Dean's death was a bad road and when that failed he tried to force the Winchesters into accepting their Apocalyptic roles. Pretty major flip flop. I don't know what he will add besides fan service, especially in a season with too many balls in the air. Probably more important arcane knowledge and insight into AU Michael. I guess i am wary because I am catching a whiff of retcon and lol canon.

Hey y'all! I have been lurking on and off since imbd went silent. Finally decided to speak. I have not been surprised very much since Singer/Dabb took over. The writing went downhill. Many episodes feel meh. Loads of LOL plotting and LOL canon. However I have been pleasantly surprised by the things that they have done very well. I tend to see things big picture. I tend to be like the proverbial Cassandra in that I sometimes see things very early on. For instance I wrote a review of the season 11 premiere which predicted that Amara was not a typical big bad, rather she was misunderstood, justifiably angry and needed God to acknowledge her anger and apologize. It was obvious to me that she would rage, God would finally apologize in too little too late fashion, more rage then Dean would give a pretty speech to Amara that would do the trick, probably in a garden. Maybe I am a little bit psychic but i tend to think that the show excels at subtext and foreshadowing in a way that allows me to identify some key things. After the seadon 12 premiere I most likely drove folks nuts with my talk of Apocalypse. It was obvious to me that we on the road to another Apocalypse like that which drove the first 5 years... a different Apocalypse. The hints were in the bones of the season and the rebooted characterizations and tropes. Instead of John we had Mary. Dean was back to being edgy and rough around the edges. Sam was back to being sensitive. Cas was badass. Mary shifted a bit info Sam's former character tropes. She was the one that ran away. She was the one working with the enemy. She was the one corrupted by the enemy. She was the one that pushed Lucifer into the rift after being brought back by Dean. And she was the one that Dean worried about and was so desperate to save that he risked himself repeatedly. Storylines and character arcs were repeated and often subverted. Cas betrays Dean choosing first heaven then Jack. Crowley has Dean's back and Dean trusts him. There is a powerful child who is part angel rather than part demon. A powerful weapon actually works on Lucifer. There are many shout outs. The Colt! The Michael painting! The Cage! Gabriel! Lots of demon shenanigans and mean angels. I don't see see these thimgs as poor wfitimv because they have run out of ideas. I see them as deliberate choices hinting to us that we are heading to the Apocalypse again but it will be different. Having an episide in which Dean's blood is important highlights both his role as the righteous man and Michael's sword. Having Dean carefully pick up the broken pieces of Michael's lance reminds me that Dean is Michael 's true vessel in the Superverse and only Michael can fix it. Resurrecting Rowena means that our Michael can be released. Frankly that is the only logical reason for her to be brought into the story now. Sam finally verbally admitting his fear of Lucifer has to happen before Sam might be forced to say yes to help save our universe. And yes the face talk is stolen from NBC's Lucifer however Sam needed to talk about his fear in order for us to appreciate his heroic sacrifice when the time comes. Yeah. I totally think we are finally getting Dean!Michael. It made perfect sense for Dean to say no in season 5. He did not want to kill Sam. He did not want people to die. He wanted to control his own destiny. Times have changed. He would be fighting AU!Michael who tortured his mother and trying to being the Apocalypse here. His desperation to save Mary, very apparent last season, flamed out this season in a big way. Dean's reckless acts to save others typically only involve himself. He never knowingly risks others. This time Dean held a gun to an innocent's head and forced her to do something that put the entire world at risk. It might have been Sam's idea and Jack's quest and power that lead the way, however Dean's manic desperation to save his mother and Dean's brute force were the literal triggers. Dean will have fix it because he owns it. I am pretty sure Bilie' s cryptic comments to Dean referenced the fact that Dean was needed to save our world from the AU APOCALYPSE because he was Michael's sword and only Michael and his repaired lance can defeat the psychotic militaristic AU Michael. I had been talking Dean!Michael since early last season for reasons... however Billie's little speech made me SQUEE. And Sam/Lucifer will be fighting by his side. The last few episodes have convinced me of this. And Lucifer will heal faster inside Sam. When AU Michael comes a knocking Lucifer will seek out Sam. A part of me thinks AU Michael will sneak in inside Mary. Jack seems unable to see angels and demons the way an angel can. It is a maximum angst situation and they did drop all of those hints last season that suggested something bad would end up inside Mary. Also this season has been rife with hidden identities, either using masks or wearing another's appearance, and there have been several episodes in which male supernatural characters fool or use women. Yeah... I know Cas and the oily goo god... Cas seems off... Shrugs. I don't know what to do with that. OGG seems like another convenient way for somebody to possibly come back....someday...maybe. I found that all to be really weird. My guess is that Gabriel is AU Gabriel. He looks like he was tortured and that smacks of AU Michael. Maybe the rift reopened temporarily from that world. That is the simplest explanation. I see him as nothing more than a harbinger of the pending Apocalypse at this point. There is no way Lucifer won't be fighting AU!Michael here especially now that he has an army of his own. If Lucifer dies he will die fighting AU!Michael. Colonel Foghorn Leghorn Sanders is a change of pace... He feels like needless busy work in an already crowded season. Rowena removed warding, she cut her throat releasing her witch essence she said yes repeatedly after which we cut go a close-up of her lit face and blue eyes. It sure looked to me like she is now a vessel and she needed go remove the warding and her magic essence to allow the angel access to her now human form. If she was sincere in her fear of Lucifer and the trauma of dying by him she may have gone all in. Previously birth order seemed to connote relative strength in absence of upgrades. Ergo Michael was stronger than Lucifer who was stronger than Gabriel. My best guess is that she now houses Michael temporarily. He is the only archangel that is stronger than Lucifer. This is probably a temporary situation. Her only objective is to kill Lucifer. It is the only way for her to be safe. She may even know that Dean is his endgame. Per season 11 Rowena could transfer Michael out of the cage to a holding cell however he needed a vessel to exit the holding cell. She is the vessel. She probably was also the holding cell and she needed to remove both the warding and her magic for him to be able to manifest. At some point Michael and Lucifer will make nice to fight AU Michael. At least that is where things seem to be heading. Both will want their true vessels for the fight. They will defeat the AU Apocalypse. If Michael has become unstable and/or if Asmodeus achieves his lifelong goal of releasing those evil guys,with the bad manicures we go from one true Apocalypse to the next. I miss Crowley.. I miss Carver. I really miss Kim Manners.