My Synopsis
Season 8 episode 22, “Clip Show”,
opens with Tommy, a man they rescued from a Wendigo, dying due to his head mysteriously
exploding. Meanwhile Dean as Sam are
trying to understand their next step in the trials. Castiel still struggles with Dean’s anger
while trying to reconcile with his brothers and sisters. Metatron talks Castiel
into starting trials in order to shut down heaven. Sam and Dean find a tape in the Men of
Letters bunker with a kind of exorcism they have never seen before. Crowley texts Sam and Dean the locations of
people who they have rescued only to find them dropping dead. He gives them a ultimatum, either stop the
trials and give him the demon tablet or he will kill someone they have saved
every twelve hours.
My Review
This episode of Supernatural differs greatly from the
rest. This episode focuses in on the
storytelling in an aspect we have never really seen that much. There is a core story, a side story with
Castiel, and a new problem that intersects with the main story but also draws
the focus away from the main goal at hand.
This type of story format does well due to its heavy emphasis on exploring
each character’s psyche.
When we first see Dean and Castiel
interact in this episode it is very apparent that Dean is angry and has not
forgiven Castiel for his mistake. Dean
later goes on to say that if he was not friends with Castiel he would’ve killed
him for what he did. I find this
unsettling as although Castiel did not make a good decision he still was well
intentioned. This episode does leave me
very frustrated with Dean once again as he has a zero tolerance policy when it
comes to mistakes that usually resorts to him wanting to kill whoever has
messed up. Dean relies too much on his
emotions as he is too angry to speak respectfully to Castiel but too emotionally
invested in him on a friendship level to kill him like he would any other
monster. This is a complex problem that
Dean has faced with not only Castiel but Sam and other monsters they have met
along the way as well.
Watching Sam’s interactions in this
episode is very depressing. The viewer
can tell that he is tired but not in the traditional sleep needing sense. He seems emotionally fatigued and ready for
their current mission to come to an end.
When he coughs up blood in the church we can see that trials are also
taking a physical toll on him. He is
deteriorating before our eyes yet he seems at peace. He seems as though once he can close the
gates of Hell for good everything will be alright. He also seems as though he knows it will be
the end for him if he completes the trials.
Sam has always been at peace with being the martyr. I think this is due to the stress of hunting
but also Sam thinks that if he can give himself up in order for it to be the
end-all-be-all of evil he will do it without a doubt.
This episode also does well with
its portrayal of Abaddon. She is
disclosed to be the demon in the possession tapes as well as the demon who
killed the priest from the tapes. I
think is a very shocking reveal as both times I have watched this episode I
have been surprised. When she mention
she knew Crowley I thought that was a good writing choice. It also gives us more information on Crowley
being a salesman- working himself up the ladder to be king. Though I have to admit I don’t quite
understand how Abaddon was able to manipulate to severed hand in order to
remove the bullet and escape. Since the
bullet had the devil’s trap engraved it should have stopped any demon-like
activity from occurring; such as a severed hand moving of its own volition in
an Adam’s Family like style. Perhaps
because it hand was not attached to the body the devil’s trap didn’t work? However if that’s the case then how does the devil’s
trap work exactly? Does it block
demon-like brain waves? And how did the
hand move? Is it because it had a little
piece of Abaddon in it? Maybe it’s just me but I feel like the severed hand
thing broke some rules. If I am wrong
feel free to correct or explain this to me.
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