Supernatural Season 7 is a Gooey but Good Mess

Dean, Castiel and Sam in Survival of the Fittest.

 With Supernatural 7th season all wrapped up and finished, its time to look at the season overall. By far Supernatural season 7 can be argued as not one of Supernatural's greatest seasons but it did have its moments. In season 7, Supernatural writers needed to find a new big bad as well as a new situation for Sam and Dean. This answer to this question posed was the Leviathans and the need for Sam and Dean to hide. Well not hide, but not been in the view of the Leviathans and the feds.

Season 7 kicked off with Meet The New Boss and Hello Cruel World, and introduced the audience to the Leviathans. In addition to the Sam's hell storyline and the feeling of absolute helplessness that gave you chills watching. Supernatural started off with a nice chilling start which was soon sidetracked to fit in the returning factor of monster of the week like in the early days of Supernatural.

Dean singing to Air Supply.

The first half of season 7 was not Supernatural at its finest with the exception of guest stars and some episodes. And I'm talking episodes like Slash Fiction and The Mentalists. It seemed like Sam and Dean were running around like headless chickens without purpose. Even with the Dean's "I-killed-amy-so-I'm-going-to-drink" story felt  it was simply put there simple to create conflict and storyline. Then Death's Door aired and Bobby's fate was on the line. Despite what the critics said about it, Death's Door was one of the most emotional episodes of Supernatural, and an excellent send off to Bobby. Fans soon found themselves screaming at their tvs and at Sera Gamble when Bobby died and the pure horror on the boys' faces.

Supernatural finally found its grove in the second half of the season despite its multiple hiatuses. The second half started off with Adventures in Babysitting, which was a great episode with great scenes between Dean and Frank. Supernatural continued on, and kept hitting the ball out of the park with episodes like Time After Time After Time, The Slice Girls and Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie. Supernatural showed us again that it was still the show we all love and obsess about. In addition to the teasing that Bobby might be still around.

Lucifer annoying Sam.

I can't stress how much I think that the Sam hell storyline was a great area to explore, and in Repo Man they finally explored it. In Repo Man, Supernatural showed us what Sam was seeing everyday with Lucifer. It was great to see Mark Pellegrino again as Lucifer and he made sure we knew how great he was as Lucifer. In fact his appearance in Meet The New Boss was a complete surprise to me. Things took a turn the worst when Sam let Lucifer into his defenses and things went down hill for Sam. You could see how to affected Sam since Lucifer wouldn't let Sam go to sleep. This eventually lands Sam in the mental ward of a hospital. It is truly heartbreaking to see Sam so defeated and Dean's expression when he sees his brother in this state. It must have been said so many time before, but I'll say it again, these boys are great actors and have such great chemistry. Which is why this works so well. Sam eventually gets to the point where his mind is completely gone. Sam's problem is soon transferred to Castiel, which soon became a point in Supernatural history where fans wonder how does it exactly work? In addition to thinking, wasn't that too easy?

Despite taking everything away from Sam and Dean, it is slowly returned in the final episodes of Supernatural. Castiel returned in The Born-Again Identity in time to help a broken Sam, and soon became insane himself. It was revealed in Party On, Garth that Bobby was still around, but sadly the boys couldn't see him. When the boys do get to see Bobby in the end, they begin to worry that he might become a vengeful spirit. At one point I believed that Bobby would become the next big bad despite the part that didn't want Bobby to. Last but not least, the Impala made a grand entrance in Survival of the Fittest.

Castiel touching Kevin's nose.

Season 7 also brought us some new characters we quickly learned to love. In Slash Fiction, we meet Frank Devereaux (portrayed by Kevin R. McNally) a hacker friend of Bobby Singer who helps Sam and Dean. Frank is a conspiracy theorist, but can help Sam and Dean stay off the Leviathan radar. In Season 7, Time For A Wedding, we met Garth Fitzgerald (portrayed by DJ Qualls), a hunter Dean was paired with when Becky brain washed Sam into marrying her. It is truly amazing how long Garth has survived, but Garth is really funny when he comes on screen with all his "swag". My absolute favorite is Kevin Tran who was introduced in Reading Is Fundamental. Kevin is thrown in the world of the supernatural absolutely freaks out about it.

The Leviathans were meant to be this secret force that was everywhere and no one knew where they were hiding. They were meant to be something to give you chills and to scream at your tv for Sam and Dean to run. It had the opposite affect when fans began to complain how lame the Leviathans were. I gave this new big bad the benefit of the doubt for a couple of episodes, but I eventually lost interest. It felt like the Leviathans needed more depth, and a better mission than eat all humans. It almost felt even more sillier when they could be hurt by cleaning products. Although you have to admit, its a bit ironic when a common product was their one weakness. At least Dick Roman did an excellent job as the evil bad guy.

In short, season 7 of Supernatural was good, but it does have its faults. Fans can all look forward to this coming fall with the arrival of season 8. Supernatural is moving Wednesdays at the same time and will premiere some time in October. In addition to Jeremy Carver taking over as showrunner of Supernatural.

For now, I leave with a video showing all of Kevin Trans highlights in Supernatural.

This is also the end of Supernatural Wednesdays. They will turn in October when season 8 airs. I will post any Supernatural spoilers about Season 8 though. Now I'm going to watch the bees, then the flowers. :D