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⌈ Secret Post #2693 ⌋

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[badass_tiger]

So ... what's been happening with the show lately? Lost track of what happened at season eight, personally.

[tabaqui]

Season eight - Dean has spent a year in Purgatory with Castiel (part of the time) and Benny, a New Orleans vampire who promises that he knows a way out of Purgatory and he'll deliver if Dean takes him with him. Opens With Dean dropping into the real world again in the wilds of Maine like some kind of crazy wilderness survival guy. He reanimates Benny, who was on bagged blood *before* Purgatory, and they go their separate ways.

We find out that Sam spent the last year shacking up with a woman named Amelia whose husband had died in Afghanistan. They met when Sam mowed down a dog and ran into her vet clinic all wild-eyed, demanding she fix him. Sam has totally left the hunting world and abandoned Kevin and everything else.

Kevin was taken by Crowley but managed to escape and hide the God tablet, and they find him and hear that there is a 'lock up hell forever' spell on the tablet which, of course, they want to do.

We also have a 'found footage' episode that ends with the lone surviving new werewolf of a group of friends going on the road, promising the hunters who will see this vid that she won't kill any humans, and the boys let her go (it was a pretty neat ep, really, i thought).

Let's see...Castiel is yanked out of Purgatory by Naomi (Amanda Tapping), with no memory of how. She's controlling him and using him to spy on the boys and to find the God tablet. Benny asks Dean to help him kill his former vamp family since they killed his one true love, and when Sam realizes that Benny is a vamp, he tells Dean to cut Benny off or they can't work together.

We meet up with Charlie Bradbury again, as the Queen of Moondoor to a lot of LARPers, see Dean in action in chain mail and leather (whoo!) and meet a real-live fairy princess (who falls for Charlie, natch.)

We meet Grandpa Winchester, who was a Men of Letters - a group of scholar-hunters. John was a 'legacy' and was supposed to come into the MoL when he was old enough, but Grandpa, running from Abaddon the demon (a very hot Alaina Huffman), and meets the boys, who know nothing of the MoL. Things happen, the boys eventually inherit a key to the MoL Bunker in Kansas and it's AWESOME. So awesome. Cue Dean in a 'dead guy's robe' and with his own room with a bed with memory foam - 'it remembers me!'

We also meet a Golem who is taking out the last of a line of magically-un-aged Nazis. The kid whose grandad made the golem finally figures out how to 'take ownership', so to speak, and decides he and the golem will go on hunting. Another very cool ep.

Kevin finds out how to close the gates of Hell - three trials! The boys start the trials, Sam is the one who ends up doing them, we meet gods and Krissy from 'Adventures in Babysitting' - she and some other teen hunters have formed their own group - things happen, the bunker is still cool, Castiel is being brainwashed but is fighting, the trials are taking a very bad toll on Sam, we find Metatron and he says he can help them and he tricks Castiel into doing a spell that actually closes the gates of Heaven and kicks all the angels out.

We also find out that ending the trials (making a demon - Crowley - human) will kill Sam and Dean stops him in time, drags him outside to go home and we end the season with angels falling like stars all over the world, their wings flaming out as they fall, thousands of them. It's an epic end-shot.

And that's season eight pared down to the bone.

[kribban]

We also have a 'found footage' episode that ends with the lone surviving new werewolf of a group of friends going on the road, promising the hunters who will see this vid that she won't kill any humans, and the boys let her go (it was a pretty neat ep, really, i thought).

+1

I think Bitten is one of my top ten favorite episodes. It's great.

[tabaqui]

Yes! I really enjoyed it, too. I'd love to see her come back as a character in another ep, or maybe hook up with Garth and his new family!
Another thing i forgot to mention!!

:)

[kribban]

Yes, I loved Sharp Teeth! Garth's commentary on the brothers are so spot on, and I'm glad his wife and father-in-law both got to live.

[tabaqui]

And now in nine......wow. Sam is dying, the trials have all but killed him, Castiel is human since Metatron stole his grace to finish his spell. Dean prays to 'any angel out there' to please help him, and Ezekiel shows up and says he can possess Sam like a vessel and heal him. Sam says in his dream-world subconscious that he wants to die, and tells Death that so long as nobody else has to hurt/suffer, he will gladly die. Ezekiel-as-Dean tells Sam he has a fix for it, just trust him, and Sam says 'yes' and Zeke possesses him and starts to heal him. Sam is non the wiser.

Dean has much guilt, of course, but doesn't care because Sam is alive and healing. They have Crowley locked in a dungeon (a hidden, demon-proof room in the bunker), and they finally find Castiel. Zeke is afraid Castiel will know what's what and tells Dean he can't stay there, so Castiel is out on his own being human, working at a Gas'n'Sip.

Metatron is trying to muster the fallen angels to his 'side', saying that if they treat him like God, then he'll let them back in to his tailor-re-made heaven.

We find out Zeke is actually Gadreel, the angel who supposedly let the snake into the garden of Eve (he says he didn't), and who fell along with the the other angels, after having been in angel prison for millennium. He falls for Metatron's line and kills Kevin and others, and takes off, and when Castiel is captured by some other angels who want revenge (they think he did the shutting-heaven-spell), Castiel manages to steal another angel's grace and become an angel again.

He, Dean and Crowley finally track down Sam/Gadreel and manage to get into Sam's head and get him to say 'no', thus kicking Gadreel out.

Sam is understandably pissed that Dean did that, Dean is pissed that Sam wanted to die, Sam says that he wouldn't do that in the same situation (basically, 'no, i wouldn't save your life), and Dean takes that badly, heh.

Metatron, God's scribe, is writing the 'story' of him winning over the angels and whatnot, and is pissed not everything goes his way. Castiel ends up running an angelic army who only want to get heaven back open, and he's actually winning against Metatron. Abbaddon is still around and being bad-ass and taking over Hell since Crowley's been gone so long, so that's going on, too, and Dean and Sam track down and find Cain, of Cain and Abel to find the first blade, the only blade that can kill a Knight of Hell. Cain was the first knight (he took on the Mark of Cain and the blade and killed his brother so he'd go to heaven, and became the first Knight). He also killed all the Knights but Abbaddon. He passes on the Mark to Dean.

It changes him.

Oh! Charlie comes back and we meet Dorothy, as in Dorthy from the Wizard of Oz, she's been locked in a spell with a witch in the bunker for decades. The end of *that* episode has Charlie and Dorothy (cutting a rather Indiana Jones figure) going off into Oz to save it from the bad witch.

Um....arrgh. I'm marathoning all the episodes with a friend later this summer and haven't watched them except the once when they aired, so i'm forgetting....

Angel wars, Dean getting more and more like Soulless Sam due to the mark and um....second to last ep he killed Abbaddon and was just - really out of it and Sam had to talk him down and then...this last ep, Gadreel is getting sick of Metatron's crap and how he's killing off angels and lying and whatnot and so goes to talk to the boys at the bunker to try and help and the final scene is Dean totally out of control attacking him and Castiel and Sam holding him back....

So that's nine except for the finale. :) I'm sure i've forgotten some stuff.

[kribban]

You forgot the return of the Ghostfacers! And Crowley becoming more and more human due to his blood addiction, but otherwise A+ for a great write-up!

Am binge-watching most of SPN in three weeks, for the second time, so high-five!

[tabaqui]

Wheee!
Thank you!

I have only seen each ep once and will marathon the whole season this summer, so my already-wonky memory didn't hold all the facts. But yes! Two important things!