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Post by thesnowleopard on May 19, 2018 23:10:35 GMT -5
Yeah, yeah. I skipped ahead. Don't worry; I'll do the others. It's just that this one is a-buzzin' and I want to watch/live recap it all the way through.
<em>Laissez les bons temps rouler.</em>
Recap of the season so far with, of course, "Carry On, Wayward Son," which begins with a quick voiceover by Dean (and segues into a quick request from Rowena for music). 'Cause that's never ominous in a season finale, or anything. The recap ends with alt-Michael and Lucifer being left in the alt-SPNverse.
Cut to Now, with Sam in the Bunker explaining to the alt-SPNverse refugees how our world sucks so much more normally than theirs. There's a joke about Trump and alt-Bobby gets to deliver it.
Sam gets a call from Dean, who is with Castiel and Jack near a harbor. It seems to they are celebrating getting everyone (they care about) back from the alt-SPNverse by Hunting some dockside werewolves because ... reasons. As you do. Just roll with it, I guess.
Castiel starts off the carnage by stabbing one werewolf who's outside on a smoking break. The Brothers and Jack then bust into the shack, where two other werewolves are discussing the Kardashians. Jack freezes the werewolves, while Dean and Sam fill them full of silver.
Meanwhile, alt-Bobby (now dressed just like "our" Bobby) is taking a nice walk in the rain with Mary. They infodump that Ketch has taken off, while Rowena and alt-Charlie are on a road trip (as long as anything involving Charlie stays off my screen, I'm good, but I sure hope this doesn't mean the writers are now going to ruin Rowena to make alt-Charlie Sue look fabulous). Anyhoo, alt-Bobby admits that while they can't go back home without an archangel, he's not sure he even wants to. It's nice here (he says as he makes cow eyes at Mary, who looks flattered).
Sadly, this is Supernatural, so the mood is immediately shattered by their discovering Maggie (remember her? The refugee the Brothers helped through a tunnel a few episodes back?) in the path with her head smashed on a rock.
Cue title cards.
Cut to the sneak peek where the Brothers talking about retiring. Sam is surprised that Dean would want to retire. Dean says that if he knew people were safe from monsters, he'd do it, happily, then go live on a beach with Sam and Castiel, and some umbrella drinks. Yeah, that sort of conversation never ends well.
After Sam goes off to do whatever, Dean hears Jack in his room, having a nightmare. Apparently, this is one of the rare times when Jack sleeps. It turns out Jack has nightmares about people he couldn't save in the alt-SPNverse. Dean wakes him up (Jack wakes up in a less scary mood than Dean does) and reassures him that he has those dreams, too. Jack said he promised to save those people, but wasn't "strong enough." Dean tells him it's not about being strong. If Jack weren't strong, he wouldn't have made it back. You just have to keep going and understand you'll make mistakes some times. But Jack's family and that's all that matters.
Hmm. This is getting a bit worrisome. These are the kinds of conversations main characters have right before they get written off.
Sam comes in with a phone call. It's about Maggie, whose dead body we see next, still on the ground in the rain. Jack is upset, saying he couldn't protect her. Everyone tries to figure out what's going on, since all the usual suspects are back in alt-SPNverse. They interview her friend who came over with her from the alt-SPNverse. The friend is shocked to hear she's dead, saying she expected they would be safe here. She says Maggie had snuck out the night before to see a boy at a local quickie mart she was sweet on (so, I guess a fair bit of time has passed, then). As soon as Jack hears this, he flies off to the quickie mart. Uh-oh.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 19, 2018 23:51:02 GMT -5
At the quickie mart, the kid in question is just putting stuff away, minding his own business, when Jack comes in and slams him into one of the freezer shelves. He starts choking the kid, demanding to know why he killed Maggie. The kid has no idea what he's talking about. Castiel shows up and tries to stop him, but Jack slams him into some shelves. Sam and Dean come in, and an exasperated Dean shoots Jack to snap him out of it. They quickly show him that the kid didn't kill Maggie, especially when he looks devastated at finding out she's dead.
Jack runs back out into the woods and starts hitting himself, crying and wondering why he always hurts people. Then he hears angel wings and Lucifer appears behind him. Jack asks if he's real and Lucifer hedges about how he got there. Lucifer claims that Sam left him behind and lied when he said alt-Michael killed him. Lucifer is all sweetness and light to Jack, but Jack cuts to the chase and asks how Lucifer got through the closed rift. Lucifer dances around this, too, and tries to tell Jack he's not really human, that they have a lot in common. Ewww. Jack, I know you're a baby, but jeez. It's sad when Lucifer is so obvious that he can only fool an infant.
Lucifer suggests they go to some other planet. Jack compares it to Star Wars, but isn't so sure about leaving Sam, Dean and Castiel behind.
Back in the quickie mart, the Brothers and Castiel try to cover up what happened with the kid by calling the incident "a training exercise" and saying they're FBI. This is working pretty well until they hear the whine of an angel. A very, very powerful angel. An archangel, in fact. They tell the kid to run (hate to break this to you, kid, but I think your job's about to go belly up) and he does.
The whining increases and then they see the impossible. Dean tells them to run outside, just as the windows on the quickie mart blow out. Alt-Michael stalks after them, smug as ever. Dean is already pulling some holy oil out of the trunk, lighting it, and tossing out at Michael's feet. This makes Castiel's incipient suicide run at alt-Michael unnecessary, since it temporarily stops the archangel, and they flee in the Impala.
Mary and alt-Bobby are discussing who could have killed Maggie when Jack walks in with Lucifer. It's not a happy reunion, to put it mildly. Lucifer calls alt-Bobby "Longmire." Lucifer tries to shmooze everyone by healing Maggie and bringing her back from the dead (while continuing to insult Sam to Jack and in front of Mary), his eyes glowing. Jack is impressed by this, enough to leave with Lucifer. Meanwhile, Mary has sent alt-Bobby to call the Brothers. How does alt-Bobby know how to use a cell phone if he's been living in an Apocalypse World most of his life?
The Brothers come in, but Jack and Lucifer are already gone. Dean goes to call Jody and the other Hunters (alt-Bobby is impressed that Dean has an entire network of Hunters on speed-dial), while Castiel goes to see if there's any angel chatter, even though they're almost all locked up in Heaven now. Castiel later reports that it's all silent on that front, which is unnerving.
Sam talks to Maggie, who is reluctant to talk at first. Then she says she didn't see her killer's face, only his eyes. Cut rather obviously to Lucifer and Jack, ostensibly getting ready to leave on their cosmic voyage.
In the Bunker, things go rapidly downhill as someone "knocks" on the door with an enormous boom. Dean insists Mary and alt-Bobby take Maggie and escape through the garage (overriding Mary's protests), then he and Sam pull out their guns, as they and Castiel turn to confront alt-Michael busting the door down (dammit, gonna have to fix that door again).
Bullets and attempted angel-blade stabbings have no effect. Alt-Michael tosses Sam and Castiel aside, and focuses on Dean, saying that Dean will be the first soul he purges in his great crusade (this seems like rather a large plothole, considering "our" Michael was well aware of who Dean would be as his chosen vessel long before Dean was born). Dean insults him back, even as alt-Michael chokes him slowly, enjoying it. In the process, alt-Michael admits he made a deal (in flashback, we see it's with Lucifer) to come through the doorway.
On the floor, Sam desperately prays to Jack, hoping Jack can hear him. Jack is temporarily distracted by Lucifer's star-trekkin' BS, though a sour note creeps in when Lucifer slips up and mentions wanting to make some "improvements." But then Jack hears Sam's prayer and comes back, just in time to stop alt-Michael from fully choking Dean to death.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 20, 2018 0:24:00 GMT -5
Jack slams alt-Michael into a post. Lucifer flies in after him, as Jack starts doing Very Bad Things to alt-Michael, making him bleed from his eyes and ears. But Lucifer gets outed as the villain he is by alt-Michael, who screams, "Lucifer, we had a deal!"
Awkward.
Even Jack can see this red flag. As everyone compares notes, Sam tells Jack that Maggie saw the "red, glowing eyes" of her killer. Yep, it was Lucifer. Jack forces Lucifer to tell the truth. Lucifer killed her because she saw him "scouting out the Bunker." He "crushed her skull" and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Disillusioned, Jack says, "You're not my father. You're a monster." Lucifer is too weak to do much besides roar impotently and whine (alt-Michael is still hurting too much to do more than let his head loll). At least, until Jack lets him get too close. Then Lucifer springs on him, cuts his throat (not fatally) with his archangel blade, and drains his considerable grace (which takes remarkably little time). I'm honestly not sure from the dialogue, but considering his track record, I'm guessing this was Lucifer's Plan A all along.
Lucifer then heals up the wound (there's still some grace there, but Jack looks semi-conscious, at best) and disappears with him in a flash of light. As they do, Sam and Castiel both rush forward to grab them. Castiel is tossed back, but Sam disappears with them. To where, no one knows.
Lucifer lands them in a church, where he beats up first Sam (talking about how they're going to "break up" permanently now) and then Jack, when Jack tries to stagger to Sam's aid. Lucifer informs Sam (as if Sam didn't know) that Jack has killed quite a few people. Sam says it doesn't matter. As Dean said before, Sam says that Jack is "family."
Lucifer, always disloyal to his own kin, is unimpressed. He tells Sam that "family blows." To prove it, he drops his archangel blade in front of them and tells them that one of them can walk out, but not without killing the other (it's doubtful he intends either of them to survive, but first things first). Lucifer also Evil Overlord monologues about how, if one of them lives, in the seven-to-ten days it would take him to "unravel the universe," the survivor might figure out how to stop him. Or not. Lucifer fully intends to destroy everything and recreate it in his image.
Sam picks up the archangel blade and hands it to Jack, telling Jack to kill him. Instead, Jack starts to stab himself, telling Sam "I love you. I love all of you."
Meanwhile, Michael is informing Dean that Lucifer is "juiced up" on Jack's grace and now powerful enough to destroy the universe. All of the universe ("And you thought I was bad?"). He's actually all for going to kill Lucifer, but his meatsuit is incapacitated and Lucifer is now much more powerful than before.
Dean has an idea, a horrible, no-good idea that alt-Michael may (or may not, considering he was fully willing to kill Dean before) have already been angling for. What if Michael had his Ultimate Weapon, the Michael Sword? Alt-Michael admits he knows who Dean is (which is a bit puzzling, considering he was just trying to kill Dean and was fully intent on killing Dean first, implying he saw Dean as the greatest threat in this new universe) and further admits that yes, it might be possible, the two of them together, to kill Lucifer.
Castiel starts to protest, but Dean says, "Lucifer has Sam. He has Jack. Cas, <em>I don't have a choice</em>!"
Ah, but it's Dean, so Dean has conditions. And before we protest that alt-Michael doesn't have to honor these conditions, remember Death's ongoing grumpiness about broken deals. Deals for a major supernaturally powerful being are a big deal in the SPNverse and breaking them has major consequences. So, when Dean calls it "a one-time deal" and flat-out says he will be in charge, with alt-Michael having no say and only providing the power, somewhere, someone with more power than alt-Michael is taking notes.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 20, 2018 0:43:41 GMT -5
Just as Jack is slowly, agonizingly stabbing himself to death, a bright light appears behind him. It is DeanMichael (Hunterwings, maybe?), his own archangel sword in hand, just landed and unfolding his wings.
I gotta say, this is a pretty damned awesome image that will surely be copied over and over again this summer. Too bad about the way-over-the-top <em>Ten Commandments</em> music that accompanies it.
Anyhoo, Sam calls Dean's name and Dean responds in kind, cueing us that this is Dean and not alt-Michael in charge.
Lucifer says, "You let my brother in."
Dean acknowledges this, saying they had a common goal - "we both want to gut your ass."
Lucifer charges like a bull and Dean starts off well by kicking him across the room. Unfortunately, the rest of the fight goes less well for Dean, especially once they start flying at each other, though he does quite a bit better than Sam and Jack.
Dean drops his sword and Lucifer starts beating on him in mid-air. Then he decides that stabbing's too good for Dean (Michael doesn't even get a mention; Lucifer clearly sees his true nemesis as Dean Winchester) and starts to smite him.
Sam then decides to grab the sword and toss it to Dean in one of the cheesier (and more literal) "wind beneath my wings" moments the show's produced. Dean grabs it and stabs Lucifer, then falls back to earth as Lucifer blasts light out every orifice, then literally crashes and burns.
Afterward, Lucifer lies amidst the charred and glowing remnants of his wings. Sam and Dean and Jack share a bring "It's Miller Time!" moment, made temporarily sweeter by Dean correcting Sam's "You did it!" to "We did it!"
But this is the season finale and we've got a few minutes of airtime left, so of course this does not end well.
Dean suddenly doubles over in pain and screams, "We had a deal!" (Remember when alt-Michael screamed that at Lucifer and how that worked out for Lucifer? Just saying.) Then, he straightens up, only what straightens up is no longer Dean.
Sam rather unnecessarily supplies who this new/old being is: "Michael."
Alt-Michael glances around appraisingly (some really nice acting from Ackles here), then, looking straight ahead, says in a cold and taunting tone to his vessel, "Thanks for the suit." He flies off, leaving a horrified Sam and Jack.
In the Bunker, Mary and alt-Bobby rush in to find a devastated Castiel.
Later, on a rainy street corner, we see a man walking down the street in 1920s gangster garb (as much as I didn't care for the <em>Ten Commandments</em> musical cue in the previous scene, I love the hell out of the <em>Untouchables</em> musical cue in this one), looking around him in wonder. He looks like Dean, but ... isn't. Right before the credits roll, the camera freezes on his sinister smile and glowing blue eyes. Michael.
Credits
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Post by thesnowleopard on Jun 12, 2018 22:38:56 GMT -5
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