Supernatural: Malleus Maleficarum
By fred | February 1, 2008
(S03E09) How great was it to have the Winchester brothers back with us ? I did missed them a lot, and I’m sure you did too as well. This little show might not get all the promotion it deserves, but we, fans, know that it is a great show, that never fails to deliver a fun hour week after week. Well, that is when it’s on week after week.
It’s been way more than a week since the last time we saw them, but now they’re back, and with another really good episode at that ! I’m not sure there could have been a better that this one for a comeback, really.
Not that its story was particularly great or scary, cause it was not. In fact, it was a pretty common thing, the girls of the neighborhood creating their own little “book club” so that they can play witch and improve their lives. No, this was nothing new, and I wouldn’t even be surprised to hear that we already went through such stories on Supernatural (though I don’t have any memory of such thing).
It was not really new, but it didn’t matter because what made this episode interesting wasn’t the what, but the who. It was the demon that was invoked by our witches that made the whole thing interesting, it was her interest in Sam and her connection with Ruby that got things to the next level. This episode wasn’t so much about action as it was about answers. Believe it or not I still haven’t seen Lost, I can’t wait and that’s coming real soon, but for now I haven’t, so I don’t know if there was answers or not in the season premiere, but here on Supernatural we had quite a few answers, and to questions that actually did matter to us.
Now I said this was about answers, and that I liked that we got all those answers, but that doesn’t mean I enjoyed the way we were told all of those. That ending was really crappy in the way things wet down, I mean really. So we have this very bad demon who’s of course over-confident with herself and all that, fine. But how old and boring is it to have the big villain, should it be a serial killer or a demon, facing his victim of choice, and while his only goal was to kill the poor guy, but first he wants to chat a little.
To explain to everyone, including the viewers, his master plan of evil. Explaining how he did what he did, why he did it, how he’s planning to escape with it, all so that either we can know about it, and/or so that the hero could kill the bad guy in the end. This is really lame if you ask me, and it kept happening here. First she had to tell Sam why she wanted (to kill) him, why he was important and to whom he was important, giving him and us a little update about the whole situation of things on the other side of this war.
Then, when Ruby showed up, she had to go over their history and reveal a few things about Ruby, who she was and how she became who she is now. Again, not that I didn’t want to learn all that, I liked to learn all that, I glad we found out a little more about Ruby, but I kinda wish it had been done in a different way.
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Shows: Supernatural
