Originally posted by MindsetSupernatural was good in the beginning and for some of the Lucifer season but no characters save Crowley are cool. Cas is just a sensitive bum and the shitty budget drives me nuts.
You shouldn't have, that was the worst season.It's pretty much back to where it was in quality as the older seasons.
True Blood is horrible.
The brothers also get on my nerves.
No character on this show touches Russell Edgington or Godric.
I just finished the second season of Supernatural as part of my marathon run of the series. I have a question; how was the yellow-eyed demon able to possess that grim reaper Tessa? Don't their possession powers usually work on humans only or is this demon a special type of demon that can take over other non-corporeal beings?
The yellow-eyed demon is MUCH more powerful than your regular run-of-the-mill demon. Just from "In My Time of Dying," which is the episode you mention, [s2 e2] we see that's he's not a regular deal-making demon... and that he has the power to overcome both humans [from the last episodes of season 1] and spirits.
As season 2 progresses, you'll be finding more and more examples of how powerful the yellow-eyed demon is. [and at some point, you'll even get his name]. In season 1, we also hear that he has plans for Sam and "the children like him." This becomes a major plot and we do eventually find out what his game plan is.
Myself, I only have the first five seasons, because I didn't want to pay real money for the seasons that happened after Eric Kripke left... well, stayed on to be a producer. I found that after he left, the plot became much more bad Sy-Fy channel movie + really cliched soap opera. Not that it wasn't a little bit this way before.
I saw a meme on facebook that was three memes piled on top of each other - the first was Harry Potter saying, "I came back from the dead!" The second was Buffy the Vampire Slayer saying "Try doing it twice," and then the Winchesters saying, "B*tch, please." So far in my re-viewing of the series, Dean has been dead twice [has to be a "natural event," like the injuries from the car crash.]
ETA. And, oh yes, Dean is SO MUCH BETTER.
Okay, but how does possession work on non-corporeal beings like reapers anyways? And demons, like the crossroads demon(yeah, I've seen that ep) can bring back souls via the power of faustian contracts, so why did the demon have to possess Tessa in order to bring Dean back? Didn't he have enough demon mojo to do it on his own, especially since John had already milked their deal? Why would he require a reaper's resurrection powers in this instance?
In my opinion, crossroad demons are lower on the food chain than yellow-eyes. So they can make the the deals, but they have to be a part of the deals [their kiss seals the deal.] My view is that yellow-eyes is so powerful, John COULD make a deal with him directly, through a complicated summoning ritual. He's so powerful that he can use anything as a "meat suit." After all, reapers DO have a body - they look like white wraiths.
I think that if you put demons on a scale [at least the ones we know about right now] it would be crossroad - lowest. Demons like Meg, who can stay in a person's body even after that person would not be able to live [i.e. falling off a four-story building...] and also have the power to try and resist the Devil's Triangle... that's pretty powerful. And then there's yellow-eyes, at the top of the demon food chain. Holy water does nothing to him, he can inhabit things that humans can't see [the reaper], he can arrange big time deals that are not only spiritual, but physical [like getting the Colt]. As I say, the more you get to know about him, the more powerful you realize he is.
Re: the deal and possessing Tessa, my thought was, sure he could do it if he wanted to, but how much more badass is it to see him possess a friking reaper?
Originally posted by siriuswriter
In my opinion, crossroad demons are lower on the food chain than yellow-eyes. So they can make the the deals, but they have to be a part of the deals [their kiss seals the deal.] My view is that yellow-eyes is so powerful, John COULD make a deal with him directly, through a complicated summoning ritual. He's so powerful that he can use anything as a "meat suit." After all, reapers DO have a body - they look like white wraiths.I think that if you put demons on a scale [at least the ones we know about right now] it would be crossroad - lowest. Demons like Meg, who can stay in a person's body even after that person would not be able to live [i.e. falling off a four-story building...] and also have the power to try and resist the Devil's Triangle... that's pretty powerful. And then there's yellow-eyes, at the top of the demon food chain. Holy water does nothing to him, he can inhabit things that humans can't see [the reaper], he can arrange big time deals that are not only spiritual, but physical [like getting the Colt]. As I say, the more you get to know about him, the more powerful you realize he is.
Re: the deal and possessing Tessa, my thought was, sure he could do it if he wanted to, but how much more badass is it to see him possess a friking reaper?
No, he made it clear that he couldn't heal Dean, but someone else(Tess) could. Which is why he possessed her to begin with. Do you get my confusion now?