{"id":75959,"date":"2015-06-08T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=75959"},"modified":"2015-05-22T10:02:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T09:02:23","slug":"supernatural-season-9-dvd-review-dean-and-sam-wage-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/supernatural-season-9-dvd-review-dean-and-sam-wage-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Supernatural Season 9 DVD review: Dean and Sam wage war"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s difficult to be unbiased about the ninth season of a show you have loved for years, but here it goes: Supernatural<\/strong><\/em> Season 9 isn\u2019t excellent. It\u2019s all right. It\u2019s not as good as Seasons One to Three, but probably better than Season 8.<\/p>\n

However, the cast, characters and setup continue to be excellent, if that\u2019s what you\u2019re into. When you\u2019ve been following the Winchesters for eight seasons, and Castiel and Crowley for four, there is very little they can do to stop you liking them. It\u2019s a long-running curse.
\nThe ongoing storyline involves the Winchesters trying to stop Metatron from declaring himself God.<\/p>\n

It can be quite intense and heart-wrenching at times, but it doesn\u2019t hit the same buttons as Dean\u2019s demon deal in Season 3 or Sam\u2019s apocalypse in Season 5. A lot of the tropes have been used before: Dean\u2019s search for Cain\u2019s mighty knife is too much like the brothers\u2019 quest for the Colt in Season 2, and the whole possession thing \u2013 angel possession, demon possession, take your pick \u2013 never ends. But the pay-off in the finale, though not as shocking as some seasons, is still pretty great.<\/p>\n

The goofy filler episodes are top-notch as always. In particular, \u2018Dog Dean Afternoon\u2019 is easily on par with \u2018Yellow Fever\u2019 and \u2018Changing Channels\u2019 of earlier seasons, and \u2018Slumber Party\u2019, which guest-stars Felicia Day as the brilliant Charlie Bradbury and Kaniehtiio Horn\u00a0as Dorothy of Oz, has so much spin-off potential.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, loving Supernatural<\/strong><\/em> this late in the game is like loving an old dog: you were excited when you got it and have loads of fun memories from its early years, but now it\u2019s old, slow and tired. You let it sit on you and eat your shoes because you love it so much, but you\u2019re still left rubbing its back and mopping up sick when it throws up everywhere.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t give up on it though. You know you\u2019re going to stay with it until the end.<\/p>\n