This Year's Model of Humanity

So, I just got home from watching the premiere with a group of people. Long story short: I loved it!

Longer version:

I love the way it looks like the Darkness/Amara deal is set up. And I thought her interactions with Dean were very interesting. I really liked the actress’s delivery – actually, her attitude reminded me a little bit of Cas in 4x01. Because, in both cases, they view themselves as kinda ‘on Dean’s side’ (or Dean is supposed to be on their side) and they do not view potential threats from Dean with any kind of seriousness.

I was also pretty thrilled by Dean and Sam basically saying exactly what I’d said in my post 10x23 review – I even used a spin on the phrase ‘you break it, you bought it’ (I said that they’d broken it and now needed to pay up at the cash register) and so did Dean!

Crowley’s plotline did some solid character re-establishment, I thought. With all the content warnings needed for demons acting like demons.

And poor Cas! He kinda made the same mistake that Dean made back in the S9 premiere – he set out a general angel-ward cry for help and ended attracting angels to him that were generally displeased with him.

Lots of dead bodies this episode. I noticed Cas and Sam both lied to Dean and said they were fine so that he wouldn’t worry. And Dean lied about the Darkness. Said she wasn’t much of a talker, but she said a lot to Dean that he did not seem to pass on to Sam.