If you just turned off the TV after seeing Supernatural, and stood up from your couch yarning, would you look in the mirror and laugh at your own over-weighted self. That's what I did in my most cynical and entertaining style, and don't get me wrong but all the smart political comments accumulated in this season is being paid off in satisfying fashions.
On the surface, this episode is just standard fan service, with Crawley returning with his hellish sense of humor, and a run-of-the-mill fetch task to work out for the main characters. I felt like I could almost picture how the season finale is going to be, with ghost Bobby and all the other peripheral characters fitting into the "Independence Day against Leviathans" kind of story. However things quickly got interesting. When Dick Roman got interviewed, he has reached his all-time-high arrogance and like anyone(or should I say "anything" instead in the Supernatural universe) with a big ego he slipped out a keyword for his master plan--"make the human species as tasteful and healthy as ever", while looking into the camera with a big smile to you and me--the fattened, chip-swallowing geeks in front of TVs. Yeah, nice touch. With a downward-going economy in the real world(and lots and lots of social problems including tainted baby milk powder among other unheard-of woeful stuff in another hemisphere), this is some serious irony regardless of race and nationality. This episode basically maintains this wicked-fun vibe that also infected the Winchesters, whose adventure went on with some unexpected frustrations like Dean cannot devour his favorite garbage foods. There were also some twisted humors that kept knocking down the 4th wall here and there, including having the Alpha vampire saying "see you next season". However, there are also some narrations that sadly phase you out of the immersion like Dean and Sam's self-righteousness to insist rescue the little boy.
As a typical piece of post-modern art, Supernatural has always been about telling a over-serious mythological story with funny and cynical undertones, especially to its dedicated audiences, the equally-broken-as-the-Winchesters young adults whose everyday resentfulness, bitterness and pressure cannot be let out in public ways (No offense but I am often like that). Seeing another "you" who's on the brink of being zombiefied after swallowing so much delicately processed food might just be a smart metaphor for our worship of nihilism and cynicism when we laugh through a whole season of bad TV brainlessly. I surely hope that, just like Sam and Dean's "residual" sense of self-righteousness, "Supernatural" would use its self-awareness for good just like this episode "There Will Be Blood", which inspired some self-reflection and responsibility for me. As usual, I would like to end up my review with a salute and good luck for Supernatural.
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