Supernatural (Defending Your Life)

Four episodes into season seven, and the brothers continue to have issues. Will they ever get back to the relationship they had in the early seasons?

This guilt that Dean has over Amy is sure to come up at some point and I wish they would just get it over with so that the brothers can deal with it and move on.

Anyway, my issue is that there was a missed opportunity towards the end of this episode that could have dealt with the issue and it would have made the episode fantastic.

However, what we got was a decent episode that dealt with Dean’s guilt.

Actually, the episode was about Osiris, the Egyptian God. He showed up in a town to kill off people who have more guilt than a feather.

He would put people on trial and then judge their guilt. If they are found guilty, then someone with whom they have killed, or someone whose death they caused, will kill them.

As anyone could imagine, Dean is a major suspect of guilt. He has had a lot of guilt for years and they dealt with it in a great way.

He went on trial and Sam represented him. We have never seen him actually be a lawyer before, so it was certainly interesting.

The brothers have caused many deaths over the years, so Osiris had a huge list of witnesses to question. He chose Jo and Dean.

Yes, Jo was back and was responsible for the best moments of the episode. She was actually on Dean’s side and I was surprised about that. Normally when the supernatural is involved, the spirits would be influenced somehow.

However, she was with him the whole way. Dean took the stand next and pleaded that he did not feel guilty at all, which is a lie.

After him, Osiris gave him the option to skip the third witness, and they took it. This is what frustrated me.

They quickly flashed back to just one episode ago, when Dean killed Amy, and this meant that she would have been the third witness.

This could have caused some great drama and they could brought this issue out in the open to deal with it, but they didn’t.

Anyway, even with Dean and Jo’s convincing testimonies, Osiris convicted Dean and sentenced him to Death.

Of course this meant that Jo would be the one to kill him. He was given a little while to set his affairs in order, and while he was doing so, Sam learned that the only way to save Dean was to stab Osiris with a ram’s horn.

It wouldn’t kill him, but it would put him away for a few centuries. Jo showed up to kill Dean and they had a great conversation before she attempted to kill him.

However, Sam stabbed Osiris just before she killed Dean and the brothers got out alive.

This was a fine episode that moved things along somewhat. We dealt with Dean’s guilt, which by the end of the episode, may actually go away.

I have enjoyed Dean over the years, but there is no doubt that ever since he came back from hell, he has been a little different. I hope now he can completely go back to that fun guy we knew from the first few seasons.

Well, he may never will, but at least if he can stop feeling guilty for a lot of the deaths and events that he really couldn’t do anything about, then it would be a step in the right direction.

Anyway, not much on the leviathans this week and it was a pretty mediocre hunt. Osiris was all right and it was an interesting episode, but it wasn’t great.