I really loved this episode too--I mean WOW, what an episode! My only complaint/disappointment was that (since they seem to be making room in the budget to put old songs in other episodes again this season) they didn't play The Door's "The End" (famously played at the beginning of "Apocalypse Now": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b26BD5KjH0 ), it would have been so fitting! ;)
I have always loved episodes/storylines like this in a TV/book series, and this was so well done and filmed (I was also amazed by the sets, though now I guess it makes sense if they were made for a movie!)....I thought it was very convincing as an apocalypse, and the Lucifer!Sam scene was just breathtaking. I remember seeing someone mention Sam being sexy as Lucifer's vessel, and thought that they were referring possibly to something happening in the end of season 4 (luckily it turned out I was not spoiled on that count!), I was glad to see this is all they were referring to. Jared did do an awesome job imitating Lucifer, and it was just so chilling to watch him.
This scene reminded me of "Animorphs" (a sci-fi book series involving a group of teens fighting guerrilla warfare against a secret invasion by parasitic aliens trying to take over Earth--it's better than it sounds, lol), in that the elder brother of Jake, the group's leader, is controlled by one of these alien parasites from book 1, and during the final arc of the series Jake ends up confronting his "brother" (who's really not his brother, of course, since it's the parasite talking) several times, one of which in a similar conversation scene....like 2014!Dean, in the final battle Jake makes the hard decision to take out his brother--and the dangerous alien inside--for the good/safety of the universe (in the end like 2014!Dean Jake also began making decisions that kill his friends for the greater good, he sends his cousin on the suicide mission to assasinate his brother and she dies, and he also sends out a group of allies to fight and die as a diversion, similar to what Dean proposed here), but he actually succeeds, and in doing so destroys himself and is haunted by what he did forever. *ahem* Okay, I'll stop my nerdiness now! :p
But yeah, this whole episode was epic, and you make a very good point about the episode finally explaining why the Croatoan test was needed for Sam back in season 2, I didn't even think of that! And Castiel being stoned and having orgies and being so cynical was rather disorienting/disturbing to watch, and really did highlight the wrongness of it all.
I also loved the D/C scenes at the beginning, Castiel talking to Dean on a cell phone (esp. "It's not funny Dean, the Voice is telling me that I am almost out of minutes"!), and waiting there--and then rescuing him from Zachariah just in time....
Finally, it was good to see Sam and Dean start on the road to reconciliation....
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Date: 2010-01-02 07:52 am (UTC)I have always loved episodes/storylines like this in a TV/book series, and this was so well done and filmed (I was also amazed by the sets, though now I guess it makes sense if they were made for a movie!)....I thought it was very convincing as an apocalypse, and the Lucifer!Sam scene was just breathtaking. I remember seeing someone mention Sam being sexy as Lucifer's vessel, and thought that they were referring possibly to something happening in the end of season 4 (luckily it turned out I was not spoiled on that count!), I was glad to see this is all they were referring to. Jared did do an awesome job imitating Lucifer, and it was just so chilling to watch him.
This scene reminded me of "Animorphs" (a sci-fi book series involving a group of teens fighting guerrilla warfare against a secret invasion by parasitic aliens trying to take over Earth--it's better than it sounds, lol), in that the elder brother of Jake, the group's leader, is controlled by one of these alien parasites from book 1, and during the final arc of the series Jake ends up confronting his "brother" (who's really not his brother, of course, since it's the parasite talking) several times, one of which in a similar conversation scene....like 2014!Dean, in the final battle Jake makes the hard decision to take out his brother--and the dangerous alien inside--for the good/safety of the universe (in the end like 2014!Dean Jake also began making decisions that kill his friends for the greater good, he sends his cousin on the suicide mission to assasinate his brother and she dies, and he also sends out a group of allies to fight and die as a diversion, similar to what Dean proposed here), but he actually succeeds, and in doing so destroys himself and is haunted by what he did forever. *ahem* Okay, I'll stop my nerdiness now! :p
But yeah, this whole episode was epic, and you make a very good point about the episode finally explaining why the Croatoan test was needed for Sam back in season 2, I didn't even think of that! And Castiel being stoned and having orgies and being so cynical was rather disorienting/disturbing to watch, and really did highlight the wrongness of it all.
I also loved the D/C scenes at the beginning, Castiel talking to Dean on a cell phone (esp. "It's not funny Dean, the Voice is telling me that I am almost out of minutes"!), and waiting there--and then rescuing him from Zachariah just in time....
Finally, it was good to see Sam and Dean start on the road to reconciliation....