Supernatural: Point of No Return

This episode delivered on a ton of fronts! Dean found a way to get over his pain (looking at Sam's stupid face is more or less what he needed to do), Adam was reintroduced as a true Winchester (he came back from the dead), Castiel proved he was a hero (we will get to that later), and even Bobby had a great character moment (which have been few and far between as of late). All that and Zackariah was spiked through the head.

Zachariah has been a great villain for this series. He perfectly portrayed the angels as holier than thou and extremely flawed. Zach seemed to have a human moment in the bar at the beginning of this episode and then Michael delivered his new marching orders. Zachariah did not even blink when those orders obliterated the human he was drinking with thus cementing for the audience what a detestable entity he is, or was considering how this episode ended! While I did enjoy the character arch of Zachariah I was thrilled to see Dean stand up to him then kill him in such an epic fashion. No matter how many millennia Zach was around for that as got to be a painful way to go.

Speaking of pain, I am hoping that Bobby's admission of his internal struggle will allow him to power through it. As I have mentioned in the past, depressed Bobby is not fun Bobby and fun Bobby has been one of the highlights of the series as a whole. Dean did manage to cut him deeply when he told Bobby that he was not his son.

The highlight of this episode was Castiel. Castiel has given up more than anyone in heaven and earth to help Sam and Dean and his sense of betrayal when Dean decided to give up was palpable. In the eyes of heaven, Cas and Lucifer are the same and that has got to be a tremendous weight for him to carry. His brutal beating of Dean felt justified and the only reason Cas did not kill him was because it would put Dean right back into heaven's hands. The ease with which Castiel killed three angels and the fact he is in open rebellion against heaven leads me to believe that after Lucifer is killed Castiel may become the new dark lord. He is certainly smart enough to be heaven's competition. Sending four angels halfway around the world was a brilliant maneuver and one I honestly did not see coming, even after Dean zapped Cas earlier in the episode.

If Castiel was able to kill angels with the "God Spike" and Lucifer is an angel, does it not stand to reason that one of those spikes could kill the devil? When Dean dispatched of Zach it became clear that even humans could kill angels with that weapon in hand.

I am glad the creative forces behind Supernatural brought Adam back into the narrative. I felt manipulated when he was introduced as a character only to be killed off technically before we got to meet him. I wonder where in time or space Adam is existing at this moment. I have to assume he is no longer at his homecoming dance because I doubt he is dead. Michael knows how valuable Adam is and he will be smarter about using him in the future than Zachariah was in this episode.

I am glad Sam and Dean are back on track. Hopefully it is for good this time!