The most self-indulgent episode to date embodies what Chuck says in the end of the episode: “ it’s not really jumping the shark if you never come back down.” So I guess we’ll just have to keep the faith that Kripe will get us back to the apocalypse soon.
The show begins with Sam and Dean rushing off to battle a new monster of the week due to a text from Chuck. They pull sharply into a parking lot next to several other black impalas, which they greet with a slight shrug as they continue to rush to the scene. Breathless they find Chuck nervously talking to himself. But it turns out it wasn’t him that made the call, it was the fan girl Becky. The scene they are rushing to is the first annual Supernatural convention.
Becky convinces Sam and Dean to come in and look around. The place is full of people pretending to be the ghost busting duo and reenacting all their messed up brother issues. The pair is mad that everyone seems to think their lives are so great.
Turns out that the convention is being held in an old haunted schoolhouse. The people at the convention start to see dead little boys complaining that Mrs. Gore doesn’t let them have any fun. Dean and Sam go with another Dean and Sam from the convention to burn the schoolmarm’s bones. They think that it is part of the conventions LARPing, or role playing.
After they burn the bones the brothers prepare to leave but they have been locked in. Turns out it wasn’t the woman after all but the boys who were the real evil ghosts. Without Mrs. Gore they are free to scalp the people at the convention.
Chuck gathers everyone in the conference room to talk about the new adventures of Sam and Dean. The fake pair of brothers that helped the duo burn the bones help them to burn the kids bones because its “what Sam and Dean would do”.
The episode is a lot of fun poking at the series and its fan base so I wont give away all of the jokes AND it offers us hope. In the end of the episode the fake Dean leads Dean to see that his life isn’t all horrible. He gets to save the world and he has a brother who would die for him, who doesn’t want that? The uber fan Becky, who by the way falls for Chuck over the course of the episode letting Sam “down easy”, tells the boys where to find the colt.
S the show may have “jumped the shark” and it may “never be coming back down” BUT ladies and gentleman I think we have ourselves a transitional episode. I for one am looking forward to getting back to the apocalypse next week.
