The Positively Positive

My favorite part of this episode was hands-down the performance given by Mark A Sheppard as Crowley. He plays such a great snippety Brit and I think it works so well for that character. Especially now that Crowley has been knocked down a few notches after helping the boys try and kill Lucifer. Every demon is after him and he’s had to move from his swank digs to a run-down hole in the wall. He finds Sam and Dean to help them get to Pestilence so that they can go ahead with the plan to trap Lucifer back in his cage.

I like that the boys are getting help from a lot of interesting sources now that we’re nearing the end of the season (and getting closer and closer to the Apocalypse). Last week they got a bit of assistance from the archangel Gabriel and now they got some from a demon. Makes me wonder who else is going to come out of the woodwork.

Highlights….

Dean thinking that he looked like ‘The King of Pop’ in his mask.

Crowley asking the boys if they’d “Fancy a fag and a chat?” (a fag is a cigarette, by the way). I just love how he said it, so casual considering he’d just popped up in the back seat of the Impala and Sam had tried to kill him.

Crowley being completely inconsolable because the demons after him not only destroyed his house but also ate his tailor. LOL!

Finding out that Crowley has been tracking Sam and Dean ever since they met him. Hmm…interesting.

Crowley referring to Pestilence as ‘Sneezy’. LOL!

Finding out that Pestilence is only releasing something as simple as swine flu so that he can release his ‘vaccine’, which is really the Croatoan virus. Scary to see how close we’re getting to the possible future we saw in the episode ‘The End’.

The flies coming out of the bowl of blood. Ick.

Sam considering saying yes to Lucifer so that he can take his body back long enough to trap him. Oh man, it’s scary because it could actually work.

Dean’s countless cries of “Oh crap!” when he realized that Crowley’s ‘plan’ was to kill of the humans between them and Brady.

Knowing as soon as Brady started kicking Dean’s ass that it was all part of Crowley’s plan, even if Dean didn’t.

The extra long preview for the final two eps of Supernatural they showed during one of the commercial breaks. The new version of the song ‘Oh Death’ was perfect, so very creepy and cool. Now I think I’m going to have to download that one, too.

Crowley beating the living snot out of Brady with a crowbar. Ouch, but also, kinda awesome.

Crowley telling Sam that Dean “replied with a colorful rejoinder about my cornshoot” when he begged Dean not to come back. Absolutely hysterical to take what was probably a really disgusting retort and make it sound almost polite.

Finding out that Brady was a friend of Sam’s from college. Whoa! I totally did not see that one coming.

Crowley’s explanation for why he believes that Lucifer will destroy the demons if he gains power. I’m glad they had him explain it because I have to admit that I was wondering why he was worried about it. Very good point about the fact that Lucifer is an angel and not a demon. It does make sense that he would get rid of them, especially seeing as how he’s treated them in the past.

Sam locking Dean in the bathroom. Those boys are getting really good at trapping each other, aren’t they?

Finding out that Brady set up Sam with Jessica just so he could kill her (under the YED’s orders), effectively destroying his life and sending him on the path he’s taken for the last four years.

Crowley coming back from taking on a bunch of demons and (oopsie) letting one of them get away…. with the idea that he and Brady are lovers against Satan. Okay, THAT is freaking brilliant. Have I mentioned how much I love this guy??

Dean’s “well good for you!” when Sam pulled the old “I told you so” after Crowley took off and left them to deal with the Hellhound on their own. Poor Dean, it can’t be fun facing down something that literally killed him a couple years ago.

Crowley coming back with his own ‘pup’ and telling it to ‘Sic’em boy!” OMG, so freaking awesome! The invisible dog fight was the best bit of action I’ve seen in a while. The fact that we couldn’t actually see the hounds made it so much better than if they’d dumped a bunch of money on special effects and CGI.

Dean trapping Brady in the alley so that Sam could take him out.

Crowley showing up at Bobby’s place and telling him that he could give them Death’s location, but there’s a technicality – Bobby would have to give up his soul. He also claimed that it would only be temporary and I know I’m probably biased because I dig Crowley so much, but I gotta say that I believe him. It wouldn’t surprise me that he would need something that powerful to work his little spell and considering that every other Winchester has either sold their soul or tried, I can’t imagine that Bobby would end up fully going down that road.

Overall an interesting episode featuring what I think had become one of my favorite demons on this series.

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More Supernatural…..
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 1 “Sympathy For The Devil”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 2 “Good God, Y’All”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 3 “Free To Be You and Me”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 4 “The End”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 5 “Fallen Idols”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 6 “I Believe the Children Are Our Future”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 8 “Changing Channels”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 9 “The Real Ghostbusters”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 10 “Abandon All Hope”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 11 “Sam, Interrupted”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 12 “Swap Meat”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 13 “The Song Remains The Same”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 14 “My Bloody Valentine”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 16 “Dark Side of the Moon”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 17 “99 Problems”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 18 “Point of No Return”
Supernatural, Season 5, episode 19 “Hammer of the Gods”

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