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Soooo yeah I suck.  Sorry for the delay.  I know I promised this yesterday, but due to my own creative endeavors and this Shakespearean thing called school, I couldn’t deliver the goods.  But here it is!

REVIEW FOR

SUPERNATURAL
Season Four
“Lazarus Rising”
Written by Eric Kripke

After the crazy, emotional, bloody, houndy, hellish finale last season, Supernatural returns with a big duh.  The resurrection of Dean.  It kind of had to happen.  Just to cover my naked ers, that is not a spoiler.  Not only is the episode called Lazarus rising, not only was it revealled that Dean would be resurrected in the description of the episode… but it’s a friggin episode of Supernatural.  You can’t have Buffy without Buffy, you can’t have 24 without Jack, and you can’t have Supernatural without BOTH Dean and Sam.  So yeah, Dean’s back.  We all knew it.  It’s how we get there and what happens after that counts, right?

And oh is it going to be a crazy ride.  The episode is emotional, dark, and hilarious–true to everything Supernatural has become over the past three years.  Each season premiere has been so different.  From the terrifying pilot, to the somber and downplayed second season premiere, to the flashy third season premiere, Kripke and co. have always mixed it up for us, and this is no different.  It’s brimming with emotion and, more than any premiere before it, it sets up a lot of stuff that will surely make up the larger arc of the season.  Sam has been up to some stuff Dean would not like while he was gone, and both of them are going to have to deal with that.  Ruby is back in new duds, which I’ll get to.  And the most intriguing bit behind all of this is Dean’s resurrection… and it’s certainly an unexpected twist.  I can safely say I have no idea how it is going to play out, and I’m thrilled.

On the acting side of things, Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) are fantastic as always.  On the not so fantastic side of things, we’ve got our old demon friend Ruby.  Her body was taken over by Lilith last season, so she is no longer being played by the wonderful, quick-tongued Katie Cassidy.  Nope, she’s been replaced by Genevieve Cortese who gives an overwhelmingly dull, tired, blegh performance.  I was very much looking forward to see a different actress’s take on Ruby, and I couldn’t have been more disappointed in that aspect.  It’s not really as important as the rest of the show, which is nearly perfect, from the effects, to the writing, to the direction, to the acting, but it is sort of a letdown to know that Ruby won’t have that stage-stealing force-of-nature quality any more.

 Overall, great episode.  Probably the best Supernatural premiere yet.  It’s tied with the Heroes episode for best premiere of the year so far.

9/10

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