Story Time: Supernatural S0302: The Kids are Alright

The season finale for season two left Supernatural in a good place, with two overarching plot points that seemingly had to immediately be dealt with: Dean’s deal with a demon (alliteration!) and the opening of the Demon Gate. Both of these were obviously pretty big deals, and I expected much more this episode to draw from them.

But it wasn’t to be, the writers seemed to have shied away from at least initially dealing with the backlash of the opening on the gate, instead giving us a run of the mill story in The Kids are Alright.

I mean, is there that much to say? Changelings end up making mothers do what Lucille Bluth wanted to, and people continue to demonstrate their endless stupidity (Hmm that power saw came on without notice again? Let me go down unescorted and look.)

This episode in particular demonstrated the resignation of Dean towards his inevitable death, wanting to do nothing but tie up loose ends and women (sorry… straight pitch down the middle and all) and hunt the occasional supernatural being. Is anyone not betting in this resignation coming back to be a major plot point in a later episode?

As is often the case, I find myself enjoying the overall episode but being in two minds concerning whatever ultimate plot points were thrown into the last couple of minutes. Ruby being a demon was an interesting touch, and certainly gives a good opportunity for Dean to get out of his death sentence.

I’m still not convinced with the whole Antichrist/Messiah spiel that that has unfurled around Sam. Personally I enjoyed it when it was straight demon hunting, with the main characters developing in more emotional ways (The almost depression like self questioning has been of the series most interesting ways of developing the characters, and this looks set to continue)

One of the major problems (or perhaps quirks?) or Supernatural has the seeming reluctance to associate what was happening on screen with the ultimate plot points. In the first seasons we generally see 20 or so ‘villain of the week’ type episodes with the first and final two episodes having some resolution to the ultimate plot. This is a fine way of doing things, and his been the case for similar shows before, but as the series continues it might to difficult to fashion 500 words of drivel each week, but we shall see where the road takes us.

So yeah, there’s something to be thankful for.

Tomorrow: Heroes (really late!) or Gossip Girl. It depends.