The “Supernatural” season 11 premiere aired on October 7, 2015, and it has a completely new, different and darker feel than the past seasons. The premiere allowed a lot of new events to unfold. During the season 10 finale, Sam and Dean Winchester, the main characters of the show, get rid of the Mark of Cain, releasing an ancient force called The Darkness into the world. In this first episode, The Darkness infects people and turns them into “zombies” with black veins. The zombies try to destroy anything and infect anyone in their way.
New characters are introduced in this episode as well. When driving into a devastated town, the brothers run into Jenna, an injured police deputy. After showing her that they were not infected, they took her to a nearby hospital to help her. Sam wanders through the hospital and notices a zombie trying to get into a locked closet. After the monster suddenly dies (apparently the infection kills quickly), Sam meets two more people, Mike, an infected man, and his newborn daughter.
After meeting up again, Dean suggests to kill the man and save his daughter, but Sam, as always, disagrees. Sam begins his speech about the old family motto: “Saving people, hunting things, the family business.” Sam reveals a major plot hole in the show, the ever-repeating struggle that the boys go through: always hiding secrets from each other and constantly sacrificing everything to help each other. Sam says to Dean, “This isn’t on you. It is on us. We have to change.”
However, neither of the boys changes at all in the episode. Dean does not tell Sam that he had talked to The Darkness herself– yes, The Darkness is a “her.” The Darkness told Dean that they were connected and showed him that she has the Mark of Cain as well. She told him that no matter what, they would help each other. How can he help her, and how can she help him?
Sam is also keeping secrets from Dean. Dean, Jenna and the baby, named Amara by her father (who decided to stay in the hospital to keep her safe), escape the hospital while Sam distracts the zombies that are there. Sam hides in a closet from the creatures, only to find one right behind him. Sam kills the zombie, but in the process he gets her blood in his mouth. (Why is it always blood?) In the end of the episode, Sam looks into the mirror and sees black veins crawling up his neck. Surprize, surprize, something is wrong with Sam (again) and he has not told Dean (again).
Enough with the Winchesters for now. Back in season 10, the finale left us waiting to see the fight between Crowley, the demon king of Hell, and Castiel (Cas), an angel who was put under an attack-dog spell by the evil witch Rowena. In the premiere, Crowley escapes Cas until it is safe again. Meanwhile, Cas is captured by other angels and taken to a secret place to be tortured for breaking Metatron, another bad angel, out of Heaven’s prison. Junior Marisa Patten shows her worry for her favorite character. “Castiel has been abducted by angels, so I suppose there will be a lot of torturing … along with the spell that Rowena placed on him.”
When Crowley returns to safety, his demons tell him that The Darkness was released and it is not a fairytale as he thought. The demons mentioned that there was a commotion from the Cage, the Hell-prison that contains the archangels Lucifer and Michael that has not been mentioned much since the season five finale. Since the two archangels were trying to warn the demons about The Darkness, this force is definitely a big deal. Also, it could mean the return of the two angels (and the Apocalypse?).
Speaking of The Darkness, she shares a similar feature with someone. The baby Amara is shown with the Mark of Cain exactly where the Darkness has it. What does this mean? Does this mean that the baby is The Darkness herself, or is she just a baby destined to do evil? What will the boys do when they discover this?
Many new events, plots and characters have come into play for the season 11 premiere, and there are high hopes for the upcoming episodes.
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