11.22 We Happy Few
Title | We Happy Few |
Episode # | Season 11, Episode 22 |
First aired | May 18, 2016 |
Directed by | John Badham |
Written by | Robert Berens |
On IMDB | We Happy Few |
Outline | With the aid of Lucifer, Crowley, and Rowena, the Winchesters and Chuck pool together the resources of Heaven and Hell to take the fight to Amara. |
Monster | Amara |
Timeline | Three days since 11.21 All in the Family |
Location(s) | Lebanon, Kansas Fall River, Massachusetts Grand Isle, Louisiana Lewis, Oklahoma |
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Contents
Synopsis
THE EPISODE STARTS IN THE MEN OF LETTERS BUNKER
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Castiel
- Crowley
- Chuck Shurley / God
- Lucifer
- Rowena
- Amara
- Demon Minion
- Donatello Redfield
- Clea
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Angel Blade
- Angel Lore
- Archangel
- Book of the Damned
- Crowley's Lair
- Crucifix/Cross
- Curse
- The Darkness
- Deities
- Demonology
- Demon Smoke
- Heaven
- Mark of Cain
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Moose
- Photo Album
- Prophet
- Smiting
- Soul
- Spells
- Table of Death
- Tarot Cards
- Warding Sigils
- Witches
Music
- "Day of the Eagle" by Robin Trower
- (playing from the room Lucifer locks himself in after Chuck makes him angry)
Quotes
Chuck: But I am -- I-I'm the Lord.
Lucifer: No, you betrayed me. You gave me the Mark to lock her away, and when it changed me, when it did what the Mark inevitably does... you threw me away.
Chuck: No, son. The Mark... you always cast a jaundiced glance at humans. The Mark didn't change you. It just made you more of what you already were.
Dean: Okay. Shut up.
Chuck: Maybe it didn't work because you didn't want it to work. Maybe you didn't want to kill her.
Sam: You want God to kill Amara because you don't want Amara to be killed?
Dean: Yeah, maybe there's a part of me that just can't hurt her. But if she's already dead...
Rowena: Sorry about, well, everything I've ever done in my life. Really, y-you can't have been a fan.
Chuck: Oh yeah. I've been quietly rooting against you both for some time now. Although, I can't deny you're one of my guilty pleasures.
Rowena: Oh, God.
Crowley: Oh, God.
Dean: So, what am I supposed to do, just sit by and watch?
Sam: No. We're both in this fight. You're leading this army.
Amara: An apology at last. What's sorry to me? I spent millions of years crammed in that cage... alone... and afraid, wishing -- begging for death, because of you! And what was my crime, brother?!
Chuck: The world needed to be born! And you wouldn't let me! Amara, you give me no choice.
Amara: That's your story. Not mine. The real reason you banished me, why I couldn't be allowed to exist... you couldn't stand it. No, we were equals. We weren't great or powerful, because we stood only in relation to each other. You think you made the archangels to bring light? No. You made them to create lesser beings, to make you large, to make you Lord. It was ego! You wanted to be big!
Chuck: That's true. But it isn't the whole truth. There's a value, a glory in creation... that's greater and truer than my pride or my ego. Call it grace, call it being! Whatever it is, it didn't come from my hands. It was there... waiting to be born. It just is, as you and I just were. Since you've been freed, I know that you've seen it. Felt it.
Sam: He's dead. God's dead.
Trivia & References
- "But we in it shall be remembered-
- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
- For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
- Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,"
- "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is an ancient proverb that dates back to the 4th century BC.
Dean: This is like the worst episode of "Full House" ever.
- Full House is an American sitcom from the late '80s and early '90s that revolved around a widowed father raising his three daughters with the help of his brother-in-law and his best friend. The show featured many heartfelt talks about minor family conflicts.
- "Make America Great Again" is a campaign slogan used by American politicians, most recently Donald Trump.
- 'I feel' statements, or I-messages, are a communication tool used with the intent to be assertive without putting the listener on the defensive. Dr. Phil is an American TV personality who presents himself as something of a relationships advice guru.
Lucifer: Do you have any idea what it's like to argue with your father when your Father is God? Everything is a tautology. Everything is 'because I told you so.' Everything's 'it had to be done.'
Dean: Pretty sure that's all fathers.
- Tautology is a form of rhetoric, where the same thing is said twice in different ways.
- The peanut gallery was a vaudeville term for the cheapest seats at a show, from which the audience would typically heckle the performers.
- Pinocchio is a wooden puppet, and his maker Geppetto wishes that he could be a real boy. A blue fairy grants the wish, on the grounds that Pinocchio prove that he can act like a human boy. Since Pinocchio has no conscience, a cricket called Jiminy agrees to act as his conscience.
- Game of Thrones is a TV series based on the the epic fantasy book series titled A Song of Ice and Fire by author George R.R. Martin. A major theme is characters battling to win power - a game of thrones. Musical chairs, also known as Going to Jerusalem, is a game where players march to music around a row of chairs numbering one less than the number of players, and scramble for seats when the music stops.
- Shock and awe is a military tactic employs a massive display of force to both practically and psychologically overwhelm the enemy.