Well show, if you want to give me a handjob, I guess I'll take it.

5.18 "Point of No Return"

100th episode 5 things:

1. The Fanservice:

• "Blow me, Cas.",
  
• "Cas, not for nothing, but the last person who looked at me like that, I got laid.",
  
• "... Sam and Dean Winchester are psychotically, irrationally, erotically codependent...".

Damn, show. I know you love us fans, and I know you've accepted that we're all a bunch of crazy slash obsessed freaks and that you don't hold it against us, and I love me some meta even more than the next crazy girl, but this was a little bit nuts. I mean, the Wincest remark was at least made by the most lying, manipulative, untrustworthy character on the show so it can be dismissed with a little handwavium. But you practically made Dean/Cas canon! (And with a strong D/s subtext, too!)

2. The Rehashing:

• Sam ran away and Dean is still bitter about it.
• Dean's tired and hates his life and is willing to sacrifice himself at the drop of a hat.
  
• Family is all that counts for anything.
• Sam and Dean get everyone killed.
• Dean doesn't trust Sam.
• Cas gave up everything for Dean and Dean isn't properly appreciative.

All themes that have been covered multiple times in the show and all came up in this episode. The family thing is a given, I guess. It's pretty much the theme of the show and they bring it up like every other episode. But the rest was like piling all of their issues on top of each other just to make sure we know how much they hate each other and themselves and life in general. Maybe the idea was to bring them all up so they could all be hashed out and dealt with. Like intensive psychotherapy in 42 minutes. Unfortunately it all felt a little tired. I love angst, so I can't believe I'm going to say this, but it might be time for some of their issues to get resolved.

That being said, there were a few things that were also rehashes, but in a good way. Like an homage to the 99 episodes that have come before. "'...no shot in hell, Hail Mary kind of thing.' 'So the usual.'" for one. Also, Dean being "the only game in town", the fact that the "beautiful room" is in an abandoned muffler factory in Van Nuys (although hardly Middle America, but maybe that's the point), and that Sam dropped the weapon at the first opportunity. All pretty much "classic" Supernatural.

3. The Game Changers:

I posted before about what I saw to be the state of things so far. And this definitely screwed with that a bit.

• Adam: I did not see that coming. I figured he was dead when we met him and he was going to stay dead because he wasn't supposed to be real. I am actually kind of impressed that they dragged their shark out of the grave to be significant. I also love the fact that stubborn and belligerent appear to be the dominant Winchester traits.
• Zachariah: I expected him to be in this to the end. I really thought he was the face of the Big Bad for the season. As it turns out, he's more like The Beast, and we just haven't met Jasmine yet (I'm feeling weird about the fact that season 4 of Angel is the best analogy I can come up with for this). That gives these last few episodes a whole new level of intrigue...but possibly a lot less douchebaggery now that Zachariah's dead.

And I don't quite even understand the Michael situation as it stands now so I'm not going to comment.

4. The Reunion:

Dean: "Hell, if you're grown up enough to find faith in me, least I can do is return the favor."

Is that it? Are they good now? Back to normal, two against the world, die for each other, Bitch. Jerk. good now? Because on one hand that seems too easy. And on the other it seems underplayed enough to be real. Despite the fact that they haven't adhered to it for years now, "No chick flick moments" is their mantra.

5. The John Winchester bashing:

Seriously? They were crazy with the insults. Crazy. There is no way John Winchester isn't coming back at the end of this season. No way.

P.S. I was going to list The Buffy Move as number 5. As in at the end of this episode Dean had this little speech: "So screw destiny. Right in the face. I say we take the fight to them, do it our way." Basically what Buffy said towards the end of every season, or at least the end of season 7. But the newest episode kind of canceled that out now that the boys have a different and more specific plan of attack.

P.P.S. Other random things about this episode:

• Dean decided he needed to look hot to say Yes to Michael. I'm all for that.
  
• For some reason Dean and Adam seemed to be wearing the same outfit.
• Bobby is, as usual, awesome.
• Bobby's panic room is also awesome.
• Sam is retarded and it is beyond me that a George and Lenny joke hasn't come up in this show yet.