"Bad Boys"

Let's begin with this: Last night's episode of Supernatural pleased me immensely. That's episode 7 of season 9, "Bad Boys," we're talking about here, by the way.

In this episode, we were able to blissfully ignore all of the problems our boys are facing at the moment. No thinking about Crowley injecting himself with human blood, barely mention of Ezekiel's possession of Sam (and how he is PROBABLY Lucifer), and we didn't have to face the issue of Castiel's vulnerability and sadness as a human. Castiel just breaks my heart these days, so the holiday from that sore subject was nice. (All I want is for Team Free Will to be reunited with the addition of Kevin.)

"Bad Boys" brought back the Supernatural we all fell in love with. Ghost hunting and solving other people's problems. It also touched on the subject of John Winchester's shitty parenting, so that's a plus. Honestly, John was a horrible father. Selfish and obsessive. And I would not be beyond saying abusive, too. It is never blatantly stated, but this episode only reinforced my theory. But we also got to see how much Dean cares for Sam, and how he always has. Not that we don't know that, but it's nice to be reminded that he can be selfless.

Okay, I will admit it. I have been a bit upset with Dean this season. Lying and hiding truths from everyone won't solve any problems. It will just create them. You would think he would have grasped that by now, but nope! And let's not forget the selfishness of Dean actions this season: tricking Sam into having an angel possess him, then  not telling him about it is low enough. Sure, it was to save Sam's life, but Sam wanted to die. To be clear, I didn't want him to die. Obviously, Dean can't live without his brother (unhealthy codependency...), but I only see this creating massive problems later on.

Of course, it wouldn't be the Supernatural we all know and love without these massive problems.

This episode reminded me that Dean is a selfless character. He gave up his chance at happiness and a normal life for Sam. That's huge. And having a rare window into Dean's past is nice.

And it was great to see the Winchesters salting and burning corpses once again. They really returned to their roots this episode. What's not to love about that?