Supernatural Season 5 Review

Supernatural on The CW had a good run. We've seen them battle countless forces of evil, seen lead characters die and brought back to life, and then die again. We've had supernatural baddies ranging from the demonic legions to magic wishing wells that bring to life manic depressive giant stuffed animals. We've seen fun story lines involving the old tales of crossroad demons, vampires and double crossing angels. The show even used to be good at poking fun at itself, with some of the tongue-in-cheek references to the horror genre, and my favorite group of paranormal researchers the "GhostFacers."

One of my favorite episodes was "Hollywood Babylon" in which many of the issues fans have with the show were kiddingly addressed. One of the characters, playing a character playing a character in a horror film, questioned why spirits would be afraid of salt as opposed to other condiments.

Regardless of the fun times we've had with you two evil-killing brothers, I must bid you adieu. I miss the monster of the week episodes. I haven't been able to get into the angel storyline and two episodes into season 5, I have to say, I'm calling it quits. Just like Sam (Jared Padalecki) had to quit drinking demon's blood, (why? He was awesome when he was like that) I have to quite watching you two look soulfully at one another and blast bad guys.In the second episode of season two, "Good God Ya'll", the show officially jumped the shark in my opinion. Honestly, having one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, "War", riding in a red mustang to simulate the fiery red horse foretold in the book of Revelations? Really? And that his powers were so finite that he had to have a ring to brainwash a town into killing each other? Silly. I'd have given it another chance, but when angel gone rogue, Castiel (Misha Collins), has to take the Eskimo amulet that Dean's (Jensen Ackles) been wearing the entire series to help "find God" well, that's it fella's.

Apparently next in the storyline is the group searching for God to convince him to help out with the whole Lucifer rising thing. There's a no-name character who is supposed to be a soldier who fought in Fallujah, and I find myself twice (or maybe it's more) hating a character that's supposed to have been a Marine or a Soldier. Being a soldier, I always get weird on how they are portrayed on the show. When the episode ended this Thursday with a "cliffhanger" that I am sure was intended to leave me slack-jawed and begging for resolution, I found myself instead saying, "Meh. I wonder what's on Fox." At least this will give me time to watch Fringe.