So, we jump right back where we were, except Ruby and Dean both get smacked around and Sammy gets the blessed fingers of sleep – something else him and Bobby now have in common. Anna manages to save the day with a spell which sends the pretty far, far away, only she has no idea how.
So we visit the magical safe room in Bobby’s again with a nonsensical moment of Ruby guarding Anna (I still find all this trust way too fishy, but Dean’s now on board with Ruby which…meh) and they bring the blind psychic back from the first episode, who still rocks, and she hypnotises Anna, apparently being a woman of many talents. And I still cry in my sleep over how they manage to bring Pamela back (even if she is awesome) and forget all about the awesome Missouri way back in Kansas. I want more Missouri. And more Ellen. On my show.
And we discover Anna is an angel. Yeah. I don’t know. She apparently fell to earth years ago (so we’re keeping this part of the lore? Does this mean in the future we’ll see Castiel fall for Dean? And yes, I do mean that in both senses!) although first she cut out her grace. Which…….just sounds awkward. Couldn’t she just…I don’t know, cut off her wings or something? Because a sticking point is the aspect of how she now wants to become an angel again, or doesn’t or something. I don’t know. I liked Anna in the first-parter, but here she just confuses me. She wanted to be human, and yet now she wants to be an angel again.; Although this may have something to do with how all the other angels and demons want to kill her. Ok, maybe getting powers back would be a good idea.
And now comes the yummy bit – where Dean gets his kit off in the backseat of the car and does the sexy with Anna. I love how the anvils drop like crazy. So Sam gets it on with a demon and Dean with an angel. Heh. It does make me giggle, but it also me makes me groan. Hello? Can we drop any more anvils about which side the boys are playing on and how they oppose each other? Still – any episode where Dean has no shirt on is going to have a very high rating from me, so good on you, show, for ensuring my superficiality remains intact.
While sleeping off the post-coital glow, Uriel visits Dean to remind him how he has him by the balls, in pretty much the same way the crossroads demon (and Lilith) had him before he died. Dean’s weak spot is Sammy, and if he doesn’t give them what they want, they’ll take Sammy instead. Ooh. Bribery. Me likey the bad demons. So Dean makes a deal to give them Anna in exchange for elaving Sam alone.
In the meantime, Ruby wanders off to find Alistair and make him a deal, at which point everyone had a eureka moment of finally! She reveals her true colours. She’s in for the demons, all along. Except of course, she wants to exchange Anna for sparing her and the boys. Which, fine. But maybe she is evil all along?
Of course this was all a trap to bring Alistair and Uriel (and the pretty, pretty Castiel) altogether in the one room and have a big hoedown- err showdown. I don’t remember much, except that Castiel goes to defend his beloved’s honour and then very nearly dies when Dean comes in to save him and they share the most awkward/sexy look with full on eye-fuckage. Gah. These two are so wanting each other. AND BAD.
In the meantime, Anna grabs her grace from Uriel, smashes it and kills all the demons. Except for Ruby, which was protected by something. Which, damn. Perfect opportunity to get rid of her! And then our angels go, with one last longing look from Castiel to Dean. I may have imagined that. No, it REALLY happened.
And then – to start the next round of ending Dean scenes (well, pick up where we left off really), where they stop by some pretty scenery and Dean admits he remembers everything from hell. He lasted for 30 years of being pulled apart, limb by limb, until finally he couldn’t do it anymore, got off the rack…and started torturing others. Because that’s the only way to stop the hell for yourself, by giving hell to others. So, for the remaining 10 years, Dean tortured other souls, and was good at it. They both have a cry, because really, there is absolutely nothing Sam can say to that. Nothing.
Damn. No wonder his all broken (again). Poor boy really can’t get a break, can he? Just when he started recovering last year, they break him up again into little pieces. (Luckily he has a sexy holy tax accountant to take care of him). That last scene was absolutely brilliant, one of the best of the show and damn heartbreaking. I cried. But overall, this episodes was a little hit and miss for me. I’m still struggling with all the godly anvils hanging around and there was too much Ruby for my liking. But now we know what hell was like…and we now know Dean likes his angels and Sam likes his demons in dead bodies. Ick.
