“Unhuman
Nature”
First of all, I want to
congratulate the showrunner and co for pissing off 99% of the viewership, who absolutely
don’t want to see Lucifer back in any way, shape or form. I remember how they
told us before the start of the season that Lucifer was 100% dead. However, it later
turned out that his vessel wasn’t. Here’s a loophole none of us foresaw! And do
you know why? Because it doesn’t make any sense! I still can’t figure out how
Nick managed to be alive after being shot in the head – and that’s among other awful
things that his body and mind had undergone throughout his possession. I’m
assuming that when Crowley found Lucifer’s vessel it was damaged beyond repair.
However, enterprising as he was, he somehow managed to patch it up with the
help of his expert demons at Demon Science Department (that obviously must
exist in Hell) in order to put Lucifer back inside and under his control. But I’m
pretty sure that the actual vessel – the dead body that was apparently reanimated
and brought back to life – was no longer meant to be able to survive without the
archangel inhabiting and sustaining it through his grace/power. I seriously doubt
that Crowley or his demons cared for the well-being or – well – being – of the human
this body once belonged to.
By all accounts, Nick should
have died when Dean and Michael killed Lucifer, putting an end to this long-winding
storyline once and for all – instead of basically nullifying Dean’s sacrifice and
spitting in all our faces by keeping him alive and open to the possibility of
another – bigger – greater – possession. I must confess that unlike a lot of
people in this fandom I was never a fan of Lucifer. I always found him supremely
boring and I think he has long overstayed his welcome on the show. I’m angry,
outraged, disappointed and discouraged that he is once again in the picture and
that he is getting a major villain story arc again – a story arc that by all
rights should be Michael’s – a story arc that we were promised before this
trainwreck of the season began. Andrew Dabb’s unaccountable fascination with
Lucifer/Nick character and storyline, that he continually forces upon us, is
criminal, unforgiving and simply disrespectful to Jensen Ackles, for one, whose
Michael!Dean should be the major Big Bad of the season as was originally
implied.
I knew as soon as I saw the
clips before the start of the episode that it would be another episode of “Jack
and Nick” rather than “Supernatural”. I almost turned it off – that’s how much
I didn’t care about it. Nick was on a killing spree. Jack was growing worse by
the second. It all looked remarkably like a soap-opera to me (again!). Especially
the scene at the hospital. Such drama! Dean, Sam and Castiel appeared to be nothing
more than extras on their own show – just a bit of a background noise and a
pretty picture to go with it. As I watched Nick track down people connected with
his wife and child’s murder and slowly but surely descending into madness and
blood fever, I was literally bored out of my mind and thought that the episode
couldn’t come to an end soon enough. I will say this: the scenes where he
showed his complete mental breakdown manifested by his craving to commit murder
and wash himself in blood without impunity were chilling and gut-wrenching and
scary and I would have been touched and impressed if I cared for Nick or
Lucifer at this point. But this particular storyline is way past its shelf life
and I wish that people who write the show were brave enough to face the truth
and finally acknowledge that the time has come to let it go and move on and,
hopefully, come up with something new – or else look for a new job – not connected
with writing. Unsurprisingly, when at the end of the episode that black gooey substance
shaped itself into a black skeletal body with unmistakable Lucifer-red eyes (in
answer to Nick’s teary prayers to come and deliver him from pain and remorse
and grant him sweet oblivion as he murders instead), I was royally pissed and I
know that I wasn’t the only one. I do not want Lucifer back.
I enjoyed Dean and Jack’s
short but fun time together. I thought that maybe Dean wasn’t the only one who
was atoning (not that I think that he should) for being rough on Jack in the
beginning. I mean, according to Sam that was why Jack’s swiftly deteriorating
condition hit him particularly hard. I was somewhat skeptical of Sam’s
reasoning at first but, remembering Dean’s extreme tendency to blame himself
for pretty much everything, decided that it was not so unlikely after all. But
maybe Jack, in his turn, was also atoning for saying that Dean didn’t matter by
spending this time with him and telling him all those nice things? I wonder if
I can go so far as to chalk up Jack’s infamous outburst to youthful exuberance
and extreme guilt at having failed to kill Michael when he had the chance. I’m
still on the fence about that. I see logic behind Jack’s deteriorating condition
and if the writers of the show thought things through and followed their own
logic they would see that this is exactly what would be happening to Nick right
now without Lucifer possessing him and keeping his body together with his supernatural
support. My main complaint in this instance is that we spend way too much time
on Jack and his drama, while reducing the main characters to second fiddles or –
as the gushiest part of the fandom likes to call them – his three dads.
Michael is presumably still
out there – but there have been no mention of him or his activity lately – no more
victims of his traps among hunters that are supposed to have been set all over
the place – nothing apocalyptic or even pre-apocalyptic. So how are we supposed
to take him seriously as a threat to this world – as an archangel who reduced
his own world to dust – if there are no further instances of his power or malicious
intent? Of course, there’s the fact that Dean (finally!) experienced some funny
stuff a few times during the episode. I wish it had been another flashback,
though. But! I guess that must be somehow connected with Michael, right? So! Is
he still possessing Dean but lying low and biding his time before something mega
huge happens? I mean, sure, Andrew Dabb said in one of the interviews that Michael
was definitely out of Dean. But then again, that’s the same person who said that
Lucifer was 100% dead and not coming back. Or – wait – could it be that we all
just assumed that Lucifer wasn’t coming back, because a) we wanted him to be
gone for good and b) because we were told that he was dead – when, in fact,
Dabb didn’t actually mean to imply that Lucifer wasn’t coming back just because
he was dead? Let’s face it, what are the chances of what is dead (especially if
it has wings) to stay dead on this show?
Lastly, I probably don’t
have to tell anyone that you just don’t trust a Russian shaman. Period.
However, his wording at the end of the episode, when Castiel called him after Jack got worse, caught my attention. He mentioned “trial
and error” and “victory through experimentation” that sounded extremely familiar.
In fact, wasn’t it Michael’s philosophy while he was experimenting with monsters
before he finally had a breakthrough? I actually half expected to find Sergei sitting
there with him. Or could he be possessed by him at that moment? His smug reply
that Castiel could try [but fail] to find him also gave me pause. Was he more
than just a human, albeit a shaman, and as such impossible to find? So what if the spell and the grace that he gave
Castiel for Jack will work and will work well, but not in the way they expect?
What if Michael is somehow behind it? After all, we know that he experimented
with his grace while enhancing the monsters’ abilities. So what if he wants to
turn Jack into another one of his monsters?
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