Supernatural Season 5 Episode 1 Sympathy for the Devil
After a bitter waiting, the Winchester brothers begin a new season that has in close-up-view the Apocalypse. Although this term gets an idea for the worse, Kripke ensures us this will be the most optimistic chapter. If last season, the writers gave the best they had in the shop to take Dean and Sam apart, now they are weaving their get-together…
It will be frustrating and painful for the Winchesters, but like a dream come true for the fans who wish to see the brothers as thick as thieves, like at the beginning. However, old days seem to be so far away. First things first… Lucifer is officially in town and the atmosphere is just getting warm.
Saved by an unknown force, Sam and Dean go in quest of the strayed angel. Chuck, the hoity-toity Prophet, lets them know that Zachariah literally scattered Castiel to the four winds. In a twinkling, the Archangel and his squad step into the picture. In the meantime, Lucifer finds the perfect vessel for him… a man with a heavy heart who lost his family and tipples away his cares. However, Lucifer conforms to the angels’ unwritten rule and needs Nick’s consent to be possessed. Inspiring from “Paradise Lost” by John Milton, Kripke created a devil capable of empathy, able to manipulate the weak, one who’s more dangerous and gruesome than a devil who only tortures and kills people.
Both the angels and demons show up in this episode being more and more difficult to tell which are worse. It turns out that Dean doesn’t hold the keys of his fate… He was chosen the vessel of Archangel Michael, the angel who banished Lucifer from Heaven. However, Dean isn’t touched at all. He knows that any pact made with a supernatural entity has serious consequences.
The angels don’t take “no” for an answer and an unexpected ally comes to the brothers’ rescue. The demons strike back and Bobby is possessed and badly wounded. In the end, it becomes obvious that Dean can’t forget Meg’s words. She was right when she said that neither John nor Sam needed his help. He was the one who needed them and both abandoned him…
Angels, demons, Archangels, hunters and innocents play their part in this strangely apocalyptic season, some of them going less by justice and more by their own ambitions and goals. Enjoy the show!
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