Watching this episode for the first time, I caught myself sitting on the edge of my seat, crossing my fingers while repeating the same mantra over and over "Please don't kill off Bobby, Please don't kill off Bobby" and reaching for my Kleenex. After watching it again tonight I found myself doing pretty much the same.
On one of the saddest episodes on Supernatural, If not the saddest ever, We say goodbye (Or at least I'm still hopping we don't) to one of the most beloved characters, Bobby Singer. Picking right at the last episode with realising he was shot in the head, Freaked out Sam and Dean rush to the emergency room trying to save him. However instead of staying in the real world watching the boys react to their surrogate father's grave injury, Supernatural decides to do things differently giving us a Bobby centric episode, peaking inside the guy's head and enjoying what might be this great man's last and most outstanding performance. Jim Beaver you were such an asset to the show and your absence will be painfully felt. Bobby goes in to a coma and realizes there is a reaper after him, so he has to team up with his life long partner to find the door to the real world to get a message to Sam and Dean. (Having Steven Williams back even for one episode was such a nice touch, I really didn't like loosing that guy in the first place) Bobby has to relive some of his worst and best memories in order to find the saddest memory ever to open the door. As a child Bobby had to deal with an alcoholic and abusive father that kept telling him "You break everything you touch", a line that haunted him down all his life along with his mother's "God will punish you", that he grew up afraid of becoming another version of his father, he refused to have kids of his own, he even had to break his wife's heart by refusing to have kids three days before she got possessed adding to his guilt for her as they never got past this night. But as fate has it, He met John who put the boys in his custody for most of their lives, so he became their real father when John was obsessed over finding his wife's killer that John forgot that the boys were kids and needed a father more than a trainer. Bobby raised the boys and was proud of what they turned into. It was so good to view this relationship from Bobby's perspective and know that his happy memories is with the boys.
Talk about Dean and Sam, The brothers are devastated over the idea of losing Bobby, each in his own way. Dean as always is in denial, refusing to accept his father's death, pointing out that they already have lost enough and lashing out his anger on the Levaithan boss as he shows up with the creepy smile on his face. Will Bobby's death get Dean back into the game? Will he deal with Bobby's death with his tail spinning as he did when John died?
While Sam trying like forever to deal with his pain and face up to the ordeal, He is clearly terrified. But will Bobby's death be the crack in his armour? Judging by the way he pressed his scar, I say Yes. I'm not sure, Was Lucifer taunting him in his head or Was he hoping that this around him wasn't real? I go for both and my heart breaks for the younger Winchester brother as he has to struggle through this alone.
This magnificent episode ends on yet another torturing cliffhanger that has been killing me all through this impossibly long winter hiatus, and with only a few hours left for the next one to air, I'm dying to know Will Bobby choose to go with the Reaper? Will the boys really be OK without him? I just have to wait and see.
On one of the saddest episodes on Supernatural, If not the saddest ever, We say goodbye (Or at least I'm still hopping we don't) to one of the most beloved characters, Bobby Singer. Picking right at the last episode with realising he was shot in the head, Freaked out Sam and Dean rush to the emergency room trying to save him. However instead of staying in the real world watching the boys react to their surrogate father's grave injury, Supernatural decides to do things differently giving us a Bobby centric episode, peaking inside the guy's head and enjoying what might be this great man's last and most outstanding performance. Jim Beaver you were such an asset to the show and your absence will be painfully felt. Bobby goes in to a coma and realizes there is a reaper after him, so he has to team up with his life long partner to find the door to the real world to get a message to Sam and Dean. (Having Steven Williams back even for one episode was such a nice touch, I really didn't like loosing that guy in the first place) Bobby has to relive some of his worst and best memories in order to find the saddest memory ever to open the door. As a child Bobby had to deal with an alcoholic and abusive father that kept telling him "You break everything you touch", a line that haunted him down all his life along with his mother's "God will punish you", that he grew up afraid of becoming another version of his father, he refused to have kids of his own, he even had to break his wife's heart by refusing to have kids three days before she got possessed adding to his guilt for her as they never got past this night. But as fate has it, He met John who put the boys in his custody for most of their lives, so he became their real father when John was obsessed over finding his wife's killer that John forgot that the boys were kids and needed a father more than a trainer. Bobby raised the boys and was proud of what they turned into. It was so good to view this relationship from Bobby's perspective and know that his happy memories is with the boys.
Talk about Dean and Sam, The brothers are devastated over the idea of losing Bobby, each in his own way. Dean as always is in denial, refusing to accept his father's death, pointing out that they already have lost enough and lashing out his anger on the Levaithan boss as he shows up with the creepy smile on his face. Will Bobby's death get Dean back into the game? Will he deal with Bobby's death with his tail spinning as he did when John died?
While Sam trying like forever to deal with his pain and face up to the ordeal, He is clearly terrified. But will Bobby's death be the crack in his armour? Judging by the way he pressed his scar, I say Yes. I'm not sure, Was Lucifer taunting him in his head or Was he hoping that this around him wasn't real? I go for both and my heart breaks for the younger Winchester brother as he has to struggle through this alone.
This magnificent episode ends on yet another torturing cliffhanger that has been killing me all through this impossibly long winter hiatus, and with only a few hours left for the next one to air, I'm dying to know Will Bobby choose to go with the Reaper? Will the boys really be OK without him? I just have to wait and see.
