Supernatural (TV Series) The Future (2017) User Reviews

Castiel has found his wings again

[Kingslaay · 8/10 · 28 April 2017]

Once you get over the morbid and depressing start of the episode with Kelly it certainly improves from there. Castiel is finally back and with a great story.

Castiel is a great character and one of the many special aspects of Supernatural. Sadly he has not had a very good run in the last few seasons. His character had become stale and he just tagged along with the Winchesters often being of little help in their hunts. When he met with his fellow angels nothing much came of it sadly because it was usually trivial meetings with angels with no personality who often died. Finally he has regained some relevance, power and magic that he 'graced' us with some seasons ago. He is the independent angel who has a storyline crucial to the season and the Winchesters.

The episode was great to watch. It will be interesting to see what the birth of Lucifer's child will bring about in the supernatural universe. The acting was on point as usual and had some great unexpected action like Daegon showing up out of nowhere and Castiel being empowered by the devil's son and killing Daegon with ease. Wonderful to see Castiel powerful and back in action, he certainly dominated this episode and has found his wings again.

Goes a long way of giving a direction, shape to the...umm...future of the show

[CubsandCulture · 10/10 · 5 July 2021]

I re-watched this today as I make my way through the final seasons for the 2nd (or 3rd, or nth) time after seeing final season in full. The episode in itself has a couple of clunky aspects, i.e. The car keys, but the episode in the larger context of the final years is remarkably strong. The final leg of the show is primarily about whether or not Jack is going to be a force for good, evil or what not. This episode manages to set-up that central conflict with a few graceful strokes, i.e. Kline being "saved", Jack "helping" Cas, that have acknowledged ambiguity to them. Add in the Dagon and Heaven season plots are efficiently wrapped, and this episode is among the most effective mythos plotting episodes of the final few years.

The plot of S12 just sucks

[shwetafabm · 3/10 · 29 July 2020]

They are just throwing in betrayals for nothing, recycled Dean gets mad then forgives antic, angels are a joke and Cass gets hypnotized?

Promising episode, but ruined...

[andrewkiller · 3/10 · 6 May 2017]

I've been quite soft with Supernatural since... always, trying to look at the bright side of each episode, and I think we all know the last seasons have been mostly... medium. I always tried to like them, kept following them insanely, but this last episode really put me down.

Lucifer is trying but not trying to get out. The most powerful Archangel is still sitting on a chair for so many episodes, and we only see 2 moments of him trying to escape, but failing. For how much, almost a season?

OK.. then we get this quite promising episode, we finally see some of Lucifer's awesome rage, we are heading to the final "chapter" of the nephilim, but Castiel once again cannot do the right thing, has doubts, and he lets a woman with the spawn of Lucifer do whatever she wants. The badass, decisive Cass is long dead. The car keys are conveniently thrown in the "Baby" for Kelly to steal them(cause Dean would ever do such stupid thing), we finally see an old friend, Joshua, re-appear after 7 years and he ends up dead minutes after, we see the Colt's return few episodes ago after sooo long and it gets destroyed, and once again, although Castiel getting pumped by the baby, we see the angels being some weak losers once again.

Very disappointing episode, I'm a huge fan of Supernatural, will always be, but the writers need to start taking this more seriously. This isn't GoT to start killing for fun to attract interest, this is Supernatural, make it as unique as the previous writers have.

This episode hit the bottom

[Aries_Primal · 1/10 · 28 April 2017]

You just killed Supernatural, congratulations! Remember the beginning? When Sam and Dean mother was burning alive on the ceiling? That was scary! Dean in hell, Sam in hell, Cas losing his mind, yellow eyed demon... You turned this show into a soap opera, you killed it! Dean looks permanently tired like married from 30 years with 20 kids retired guy, Sam is a good boy and the thing between them - "Jerk, bitch" is gone, there is no rock'n'roll, moments to keep you on nerves... Cas turned into a coward and let some chick play him... And on the full parking of new cars Sam and Dean are fixing an old truck instead of steal one and follow unborn Lucifer's child? SERIOULSY!?

Ridiculous and dangerous

[supermaggie · 1/10 · 20 October 2017]

Now they have completely lost their minds+souls. This show has come down to being downright ridiculous at best and dangerous at worst. After saving people - people in general - they switched to saving US American people only and killing the rest (i.e. to quote the show: killing everybody with an accent is okay, because non-Americans obviously are no people to Hollywood/the show makers). They kill Austrians (Hitler, yes, he was many things, but he also was a person) and Germans (after offending them as "Krauts" - not better than the insulting N-word for African Americans - you wouldn't use that, would you? But then again, you just offend Non-Americans), even killing them from behind and while they are lying powerless on the floor (and afterwards they even disgustingly gloat about the killings), they don't care what happens to Nauhaus' son, they portray the British as lunatics whose deaths do not matter either (and ironically the British are the ones who tell it like it is: the Winchesters have become self-righteous killers, no better than the monsters they hunt), but when it comes to the American Vince Vincente, then "he is a person after all" and his life/death matters, and the truly genocidal, stubborn, stupid B... Kelly who is protecting an evil spawn that will destroy the universe - then they can't kill, what gets several angels killed and the Colt destroyed - and the viewers are supposed to swallow this dumb, hypocritical, genocidal, racist BS? This is (beside the obvious lack of better plot ideas) political propaganda at its worst. Looks like Hollywood is not content with the US starting a war with North Korea and Iran alone, they also want one with Europe and the rest of the world. Hollywood has been getting alarmingly more and more xenophobic since the 1990ies, but now it is getting unbearable, inexcusable and extremely dangerous - shame on everybody involved or approving. The makers are fully aware that the show lives from the sympathy with the brothers - well, they have lost mine.