Dean Winchester as "The Deanmon"

Unlike last week’s, this week’s episode of Supernatural, titled Reichenbach was action-packed, engaging, and completely did not disappoint! You can’t know how relieved I am that this season seems to have a nice plot as well as a great character arc for Dean. I felt like season nine was all over the place in terms of characterizations, as well as staying consistently with one plot. Luckily, the writers seem to have remedied this in season ten. Then again, it’s only the second season, so while I have high hopes, they could be crushed later on. We’ll just have to see.

                My favorite part of the latest installment was Dean! Finally, we get to see the true effects of what the Mark of Cain has inflicted on Dean. He’s completely changed, and not for the better, although I do enjoy this darker, more ruthless side of him because it’s interesting. Throughout all of the seasons that we’ve followed the Winchester’s story, Dean’s always took all of the responsibility, blame, and guilt upon himself for the job that they do. But now, he doesn’t have a care in the world, and it gives off this sense of wrong throughout the episode because it’s different than what we’re used to seeing from him. He’s no longer the bleeding heart; he’s dangerously out of touch with his humanity.

                When he grins, it’s honestly chilling. There’s a sort of mirth in his eyes as he looks at his next victim, smiling cruelly and genuinely enjoying the feel of death beneath his fingertips. Granted, this has been seen before, as he takes out a particularly troublesome monster or supernatural being, but these are regular human beings that Dean’s tormenting, and he likes it. It’s disturbing and wrong, and exactly what I had been hoping for this season. There’s more depth to the character when he has a personal hell to crawl out of. The backlash of Dean’s transformation will certainly be heartbreaking and hard to watch, as his conscious and his morality come trickling back in and he realizes all of the horrible things he’s done.

                The best scene of the whole episode is the fight between Dean and Cole. Cole, who is avenging his father’s death, believes himself ready to kill his father’s murderer. He finds out just how wrong he is, and you can see Dean’s happiness when he deliberately embarrasses and taunts Cole about his skills. The sassy, snarky, sarcastic comments are scathingly funny, and I smirked despite knowing how cruel they were meant to be.

                Next episode hints of a vicious brotherly faceoff, as well as the cure to Dean’s disease. Hopefully, it won’t disappoint, and to be honest, I wouldn’t mind a little more of the “Deanmon” throughout the rest of the season.