Episode Review: SUPERNATURAL (“When the Levee Breaks”)
Season 4, Episode 21 (81)
Date of airing: May 7, 2009 (TheCW)
Watched for review: 2011
Number of review in January/2012: 103/113
I never liked intervention episodes much. I always believe the writers try to push the limits of character drama to the extreme without being too over the top with the topic. But most of the time the writers don’t even realize they are going overboard with their story. This episode could have been so much more. After all, it is the penultimate episode. It should have prepared the season finale, instead it just brought the brothers apart. As long as this isn’t a bigger plot for the fifth season, then this episode was literally a waste of time for me.
Now I finally know that I didn’t like the demon blood drug thing in this show. It’s just not SUPERNATURAL, and it doesn’t really fit with the characters. Even Bobby (Jim Beaver), who is only standing on the sidelines, basically doing nothing, because he doesn’t have the balls to do anything. And he said to Sam (Jared Padalecki) that he was like his son. If this would be the case, Bobby would do anything to help him, and not just hold a shotgun under his nose. That didn’t help at all. Also not helping were the hallucinations. They were typical for a show like this. Have Sam talking to himself in a younger version (Colin Ford); have Mary (Samantha Smith) understand him, have Dean (Jensen Ackles) fight him. And done is the new Sam, who doesn’t even care about anything in the world anymore, except killing Lilith. Sorry, but that’s a problem for me, because it pushes the character drama way too hard. It pushes the story, as if the writers wanted to have an emotional storyline completely outside of all kinds of supernatural and paranormal. But it feels so goddamn forced.
And similar to the last episode, it focused way too much on Sam and his “drug” problems. No time was given for Castiel (Misha Collins) to explain himself, and what was up with Anna (Julie McNiven); no time was given for me to think about if he’s acting against God with freeing Sam, or if there is a larger plan behind all of this, when it comes to fighting Lilith. Even the information of Lilith breaking the last seals was just a side note – because a couple of seconds later Sam and Dean were fisting in each other’s faces. By the way: It’s the first fight of the brothers, which was not cast by a spell, by shapeshifters or other demons. The first real fight between brothers. After four seasons. Respect for that. It could have been a longer fight though, after all, it was a “first”.
Another by the way: I totally hate Ruby (Genevieve Padalecki) now. I want her dead, because she has nothing to do in the story anymore. She’s just giving her blood. She doesn’t help the brothers anymore, she doesn’t even do bad things. She’s just there for her blood. Better kill her off then, because it is getting annoying. No wonder why her character was hated in this season, when she became so damn useless. 4.5/10
Momma Winchester is bloody around her stomach
A little bit of sucking going on. Even more, when there would be more light
