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It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester

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This episodes finds the Winchester brothers battling to keep another one of those pesky keys from opening and moving the world that much closer to becoming hell-on-earth.

It's a good episode, but not as good as the first three of the season. Still, Castiel is back (yay), and we get some more references to what Dean went through during those 4-months-that-seemed-like-40-years in Hell. I'm hoping that gets developed a little more quickly, as it's a good source of tension and suspense.

In this one, the tension rests there as well as with Castiel (this time accompanied by Uriel, a snarky and maybe-a-wee-bit-prejudiced angel that Castiel calls a "specialist," which you should maybe read as "homicidal maniac") and his own doubts over the course of events. And let us not forget the tension between Dean and Sam when it comes to Sam using his "talents."

Good job with this one.

Now, word to Mr. Kripke--Ackles and Padalecki have definitely hit their stride as actors, and now's the time to really blow the audience away with some heavy-duty plot and character development.

I'm going to start with a caveat videor ("viewer beware", in my horrendous Latin. To quote Harry Dresden: "Darn correspondence course."): the story deals with the somewhat gruesome origins of Hallowe'en, at least according to the Romans' account of Samhain (which may be biased or exaggerated to make the ancient Celts seem more brute-like), and the Big Bad of the week is a powerful demon named Samhain (pronounced "Sam-hain", not "sow-WHEN" like the Pagan/Celtic festival).

Aside from that, another top-drawer episode in a season that has been taking this series to greater heights. A new angel has joined Castiel, one Uriel, who gives me a definite "bad cop" vibe to Castiel's "good cop". The atmosphere is terrific, and the conversation between Castiel and Dean gives us an insight into both characters as they continue to evolve, as well as how angels work in this universe. It's nice to see angels cast in a very different light than what we're used to. These are not Martha Williamson's kinder, gentler angels, these guys are closer to what angels are really like: powerful beings in the middle of a war with the powers of darkness.