“Keep Calm and Carry On” is a relatively quiet episode, in much the same way I thought the season 11 premiere was. This more intimate start to season 12 lowers the cosmic stakes, but highly ups the emotional ones in a way that we haven’t seen before, and so far, I’m liking what I’m seeing. But ever since angels were introduced in season 4, the overarching conflicts have always involved Heaven and Hell in some way, with Dean and Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) not sidelined, but often dealing with things way over their head, even if the world said they had major parts to play. You can’t have your two main characters constantly saving each other from death and say that’s not personal. Not that the show hasn’t been personal in the past. And suddenly, in the wake of the apocalyptic stakes of season 11, Supernatural takes a turn for the personal. Mary Winchester’s (Samantha Smith) resurrection is Amara’s gift to Dean for helping her reconcile with her brother.
Dean (Jensen Ackles) is stumbling through the woods, looking for a cell phone signal, when he comes across his mother, who has been dead for the past 33 years.
At the start of Supernatural‘s 12th season, it’s mere moments after the world was saved from certain destruction in the season 11 finale when Amara and God put their differences aside and made peace with each other.
