Supernatural: Ruby Rocks
Demon Delight
While all the other TV blogs and websites wax prolific about last night’s Lost fourth-season premiere, let me talk a little bit about my boys (and girl) on Supernatural, the woefully underappreciated CW supernatural series that has the misfortune of airing opposite the ABC behemoth this writers strike-afflicted February sweeps.
Last night on the excellent and thrilling episode “Malleus Maleficarum” — the first new installment of the series since December 13, Winchester-starved fans duly note — demon-hunting brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) traveled to Massachusetts to see about a coven of witches causing all types of otherworldly havoc.
To say that the opening scene, in which a terrified woman slowly, graphically, and very bloodily began loosing all of her teeth while attempting to brush them, was one of the best ever on the show is just stating the obvious. What was truly surprising to Ruby (Katie Cassidy) and Bela (Lauren Cohan) haters like me was how effective this season’s first female newcomer to the show was in her role as an escaped demoness from Hell.
We not only finally learned last night who Ruby is, but also why she’s helping the Winchester boys when, by her very nature, she should be hunting them down like all of her evil counterparts. On the first count, during the age when the plague was all the rage, Ruby was once a human being foolishly fooling around with witchcraft.
That is, until she played around with the wrong demon and wound up one herself before being imprisoned in Hell. Fortunately for the Winchesters—particularly Dean, who’s butt she saved on the episode—she was one of the demons that managed to escape through the gates of the fiery below when they opened them at the end of Season Two.
On the second and most enlightening count, Ruby is helping the brothers in their battle against evil simply because, she says, unlike other demons, all of which were once human, she still remembers what it’s like to be that way. Nobody ever said you should trust wicked entities, but if Ruby’s telling the truth, the explanation sounds pretty good to me.
I’m still not too sweet on duplicitous Bela Talbot, primarily because her lying and swindling methods are quite irritating, not to mention her gloating, stuck-up personality. If she should get an episode like “Malleus Maleficarum” to help define her backstory in a similarly sympathetic manner as Ruby’s, however, the situation could possibly change.
Nice job and thank you to all who contributed to bringing the highly entertaining “Malleus Maleficarum” to the small screen.
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Supernatural currently airs Thursdays on The CW at 9pm EST
Katie Cassidy/Supernatural photo courtesy of The CW
