 The tale of the man who knew too much. Admittedly, every time I see this title, I always think of the comedy Bill Murray movie. Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys. Hey guys, this is my review for the final episode of Supernatural Season 6, Episode 22, The Man Who Knew Too Much. This is the finale, the accumulation of everything that has kind of mixed match, messy come together into Season 6 with Castiel finally being able to unlock the gates of Purgatory and get his souls, but he does have conflictions with Crowley. Also, he kind of breaks Sam's mind. This episode actually is a lot better than I thought it was, but thinking about it now, I do remember finding this episode quite good, and it is written by Eric Kripke. It's the last episode he ever wrote. Kind of curious as to how they got that. Kripke, at this point, was pretty much done. I think he was starting to work on Revolution. I do love the Sam element. It's probably my favorite part of this episode, considering it starts off in a very kind of strange way with Sam running from the cops and coming into a building and not remembering who he is. And every time you think you have a grasp of what's going on with the situation, it just keeps changing and evolving and further expanding. It's further inceptioning itself outward to the point where you finally find out that Castiel actually broke Sam's mind after they found the Lovecraft lady as sure she had been killed by Crowley's goons and Castiel's like, well, I really can't deal with you guys right now. So for the sake of it, I am going to blink and break Sam's mind. So Sam is starting to figure out trying to remember who he is, but through that, he's also having to come face to face with the parts of himself that he will need to face in order to fully gain control again. While this is going on, Castiel is pretty much sick and done with Crowley. So he boots Crowley out. And then the death that I actually missed the most, the one that I actually felt the worst about is Balthazar. It's difficult to understand. Well, you've always got little old me. Lies! Killjoy! Oh, he's happy, huh? He's upset! I liked Balthazar. Sure, he was kind of a sub in for Gabriel. He actually was pretty good. And I am always surprised he got killed off this early. For some reason, I thought he died in season seven, but right when he came into the room of Castiel, I was like, oh, shit. This is where it happens. The dialogue's pretty obvious with that as well. Also, side note, and I only just noticed this in the editing process. Take a look at the wall behind Balthazar here. This is the bunker set. That's the spiral staircase. It's normal that film would reuse sets, but I can't believe that we actually were introduced to this bunker set well before the mental letters were even ever introduced. There still are a couple of twists this episode does. First off, Sam fights off the soulless version of himself in a fight in the forest inside his mind that I thought was actually really well done. You think I'm bad? Wait till you meet the other one. And then it comes to the point where he has to face his self that was in hell, the part that remembers everything. And I like the conversation. I like the dialogue here because it's a big decision for Sam to make. And I like how they both say, well, you know me. I know you. You're not strong enough. You know me. I'm not leaving my brother alone out there. It's very well written, I would say. And then when Dean and Bobby get to the building that Castiel is at, which they were given that information by Balthazar before he went and got summoned by Castiel and stabbed. And then all of a sudden, these giant wave of demons comes and hits the car. And that was a pretty cool effect. I like that. Turns out Crowley is joined sides with Raphael because, well, Castiel screwed him over. Castiel boots it. And then when Raphael and Crowley do the spell, nothing happens. And when Castiel appears, he essentially pulled at Ozzy Mendeus from Watchmen and he did it 15 minutes ago. He blows up Raphael, Crowley screws off, and then it turns out that Castiel has a bit of a God complex. All the while before this has happened, Sam has killed his demon self and he's starting to have a spaz attack. And then this is the part that I always feel false short. Somehow, with a brain that should be literally broken, literally on fire filled with more PTSD than a thousand people could hold, Sam's able to drive, I would say, at least a sweet distance to this building to attempt to try and stab Castiel in the back, but that doesn't work. And in the end, the episode ends with Castiel saying, bow before me, I am your new God. And that's actually a really good freaking cliffhanger. And I gotta give this finale credit. It takes a friend. It takes a trusted friend. And it turns him into a villain from a pretty realistic perspective. I actually think that this twist is pretty solid. And it is at this point that I am remembering why. I am remembering why I continued to watch the show because stuff like this pulled me in. And now I've actually rewatched season six in its entirety. I have not done that since this all aired. I got halfway through and that's it. We're 100% gonna be moving into uncharted territory once we go into season seven for myself. But my final rating for this episode, I like Sam's story. I like the inside his own mind business that's going on. I do like the tension with Balthazar, the slowly and inevitably dipping into madness and power that Castiel goes through and how he ends with. But I do have a very large issue with Sam seemingly lacking issues with what he's done. Sure you could have that kind of be a cliffhanger into season seven, but the fact that they don't seem to touch on that at all in this finale. If Sam was in the same building as all of this would happen, if they had put him in the back of the car when all of this was going on, that would have made a little bit more sense to me. It would have put it at a near perfect level. But the fact that he is able to cross a large amount of distance with whatever the fuck is going on inside his head, it's a bit of a convenient stretch, something like that of the ending of the Frontierland episode. So in the end, I am going to give the man who knew too much a five out of seven. It is a pretty good finale. I'll give it that. It's not super stellar, but it is a very intriguing one, despite the fact that this season started off with me not giving a shit at all. So in the end guys, that's it. We've made it. We've made it to the end of season six. I didn't think I could do it. Now apparently I got one more stinker to go through. I will say I have been surprised of season six, at least the latter half of it. The first half sucked, but the second half has definitely given me a little bit of a retrospective. I already sort of did have a renowned respect for six, kind of out of necessity more so than anything else, especially with just how season 12 to 15 went, season six is leaps and bounds better than those four seasons. But because while there was some bad writing and some messy narrative going on in the season, the production value is still really good for the most part. And there is some solid love for the show here and just for some cool and nifty idea. All right, here we go. This finale was gorgeous in a bleak sort of way. The dark streets with the song playing with fire in the background, burning candles all over Baudipi's house standing in for the fires of hell, where Sam finally meets hell, Sam. It also, I also liked all the bits from the past they added to Sam's dream scape, like John's wall of weird from season one and the storage locker full of Winchester past. And the night owl hotel was in season six, episode five, live free or twi hard where Solis Sam let Dean become a vampire, reminding that Dean was a victim of Solis Sam, just like the bartender. Yeah, there's a lot of those elements that correlate into this dream scape. It was really well put together. Power. Cass wants to achieve the greatest power of all. The brothers in the Bobby are trying to prevent him. I really liked the development that the writers let Cass go through as a character in this season. From a simple unquestioning angel soldier who mostly unknowingly provided humor, rose to a much more powerful yet troubled character who suddenly holds his own destiny in his hands and ultimately everyone else's. The dialogue scenes where between Cass and every other individual character in the last three episodes are worth way more than an angel civil war with special effects. Maybe it's a good thing in a way that the show didn't have enough budget for that because in return you get what has become rare now. A great story with a trope of actors who don't need any bombastic effects or backdrops to fascinate the viewer to tell a great story. Great finale, six out of seven. I think Cliffhanger is really good. How can they possibly resolve the situation? How will the brothers and Bobby stop Cass DL? Can they even stop Cass? Or will they bow down and worship Cass? Season seven could have done a lot of things with Cass but for some reason it didn't. Season seven title monster of the year. Ah, that was a lot of good point. You bring up all of the great points that just is strange that they had this big thing for Cass DL and it just disappears over because it is a really nail-blitting, biting Cliffhanger. The man who knew too much. I like it. It's a fine episode and a decent ending for season six. I was never on board with Cass being a villain and the final shot left me in a weird place the first time I watched it. I mostly feel indifferent towards this episode as it lacks the epicness of the previous and latter seasons or finales. So I'm not gonna waste any time talking about it. I wanna sum up my thoughts for season six. I will say that it did feel awkward. It felt strange, but I think that's what made it so enjoyable is it's like, whoa, this is something out of our comfort zone. Like I didn't think we could go there, especially after season five, but it was able to take us there with that ending at the very least. This season overall was pretty shaky to say the least, although gotta say, man, they didn't, they stick the landing. Cass DL, his back against the wall after he scraped, fought, betrayed his way all through only to fail right at the finish line, only to pull a sleight of hand somehow he definitely picked up from the brother, something he definitely picked up from the brothers and gains the throne. I love the way he revealed where the souls went and the way Crowley shits his pants. Cass has won as no mercy left for this brother. Goodbye, Raphael. Even though this is technically a victory for Sam and Dean, it doesn't really feel like one as Cass proclaims to be a good God, new, the new God, bow before me. I guess since the real one is gone and deserted, Cass takes it upon himself to fill the role once again. Couldn't tensions gone wrong? What a great, what a great and tragic antagonist for the next season. No way season seven can screw this up in one episode. Not even in the, I don't know what this is, man. You gotta spell check a little better. Sam's struggle with himself, literally as he fights first to stay alive, having one final conversation with Sola Sam, then what I will name Punish Sam to stay in one piece and to make it to Dean and Bobby. I don't know how he got there either. That's something I do question considering he got just like absolutely totally destroyed. He should have been just wrecked and jelly. I didn't enjoy the man who knew too much as a finale. The stuff in Sam's head was fantastic when he sees the Sam that has no soul and the sound that remembers him of hell and he must join with them to wake up. I'm always gutted Raphael and Cassiel didn't have a fight a season building up but then he kills him with a snap of Cass' finger. The cliffhanger was very call, always gutted it. It was resolved in one, oh, very cool. It was gutted it was resolved in one episode in season seven, five out of seven. Now I really do enjoy this episode. I do like it rewatching it. I was like, wow, I am really invested in this ending and my God, it makes me care about it. I want to care about a season that I know I won't. The man I knew too much to me is the most underrated season finale in the show. It's a real treat knowing Kripke wrote it. I honestly feel the content, feel content about how it was the right amount of pacing with all the twists and turns and everyone's acting is on point. It's the born identity kind of feel as Samry gains memories of what and that we bring him in the worst mental state he's ever been in later on in season seven. I love how Cassiel kills Raphael. That obviously mirrors how Lucifer killed him and him declaring himself as God definitely really sets up the tension and created my second season, my second favorite season opener. I think that's really fascinating if you have Lucifer and Michael as the big bads in season five. So logically it makes sense that the escalated threat would be someone proclaiming Godhood after the Judeo-Christian apocalypse was prevented. Season seven is honestly one of my favorite seasons and while we have a bit to wait for those review reviews, I'm excited to discuss them with you at the right time. Ah, wow, actually I'm kind of interested, Joseph. This is the season that a lot of people don't like. It's better than the dab seasons but I am interested now that you have such a high claim for it. I guess we're, once we start season seven, it's gonna be interesting conversations. Season one through five are genuine television masterpiece. But I do objectively enjoy season six and seven. They're not perfect, but at least they feel like true supernatural and I like the storyline in season six. Do not apologize for the random comment. That is totally fine, Morbius Fandome. This is one of the weakest season finales in the series to me. I really hated how the writers literally tried to make the audience hate Cassiel. To me, it doesn't work. I'm really surprised that Cassiel deliberately breaks the wall inside Sam even though I don't like the soulless Sam storyline. It was interesting how they use it in the episode by having Sam come face to face with the versions of himself, the soulless version and the one that remembers hell. Also the woman he killed while he was soulless. I almost forgot the actress who played Duma in season 13 and 14 also played another character. I was shocked and saddened that Cassiel killed Balthazar because he was one of the best things about this season. To me, sex, he never appeared in season 13. I definitely would have loved to have seen him. Then again, Gabrielle, and then him again, then Gabrielle. And we're sad that Bobby's friend, Dr. Villescaud died. I wasn't surprised that Crowley decided to make a deal with Raphael. I really hated how the anticlimactic Raphael gets killed, but since Demon Barnes, or Demor Barnes was no longer playing the role, I really didn't care that the woman who replaced him was just so bland. To me, she didn't really pull anything off the Demordead, even though the season finale isn't great. It's not as horrible as season 12, 13, 14, 15. I actually didn't like the guy who played Raphael. I actually knew him from the unit first and foremost. He died in that show too. I can understand that conception. I didn't like it at first either, but watching how it's being put together, I do like where it's going. And I'm upset that we never got the full kind of realization of it if there was an idea for it. In Supernatural, anything terrible that can happen will happen. The role coming down in Sam's head was no surprise, but the fact that it was Cass who did it is mind-blowing. Yeah, that's perfect. That's the perfect way to describe how I enjoyed earlier Supernatural. But it was as Solas Sam, but no, but it leaves us with a really cool mystery in the first 10 minutes of what exactly was going on as Sam's trying to figure out the situation. The closer he gets to the truth, the more challenging it becomes as Solas Sam comes back around. I really like to see the two versions of Sam get a final confrontation of that. Normal Sam outsmarts his counterpart before blasting him away. The look on Jared's face during that realization he'd been tricked to when he realized he's been shot and never gets old. Then he faces hell, Sam. And I felt like every part of the story was really well done and consistent. With Sam's character from season one to this point, we also see Cass betray Crowley kill Balthazar, who loses his loss, is still felt every time. I see him die. And then confronted with Raphael, I think the episode was honestly very exciting and surprising all the way through. It at times calls back the Lucifer rising without ripping off that episode. I'd give it a five out of seven. It starts off slow, but it gets you hooked and keeps you invested. However, it's not as strong as the original, in my opinion, as earlier season's or finales, but it has enough to still be very satisfying. That was Cripke's last written episode and possibly last contribution ever overall to the show. And it was. He never wrote another episode again. I'm happy that he wrote this one because it was really good. Man who knew too much is a decent episode. I like seeing Sam go on his journey while being trapped inside his mind, trying to discover who he was due to Castile breaking the wall inside his noggin. And not only that, I also enjoyed seeing him confront soulless counterpart as well as the one who remembers hell. It was an unfortunate to discover that his soulless counterpart was actually the one who murdered the bartender, which fun fact, the actress comes back and see the 1314. Moving on, I thought throughout the episode, the Crowley was great. He was funny and had some great one liners, but there's one thing that I would like to know. How long did it exactly did it take for Crowley to convince Raphael to become his new partner? Yeah, obviously not a lot. Differing from that, we also have a few deaths in this episode starting with the doc. I still think she would have survived this season and eventually become an ally to the brothers, slipping them information about what could potentially kill the Leviathans since he was native to Purgatory. The next one is Balthazar. He was hands down the best angel of the season, and it was unfortunate to see him die. And lastly, my favorite death scene being Raphael is what a waste of a character. In the same way that Nikos couldn't buy Eve as a villain, I never bought Raphael as an archangel. To me, he was on par with Cass as an ordinary angel. In my opinion, Zachariah acted as more of an archangel than Raphael ever was. And to conclude my thoughts, I wanna say that I respect everyone's opinion, but I wouldn't take you seriously if you said that the cliffhanger for this episode was good. I'm sorry it wasn't. When I rewatched season six, the last episode I had to watch is the season seven premiere, and that episode serves as a much better finale than this one. Interesting. Very interesting. I like all your guys' takes on this. It's been a cool back and forth of some people like it, some people don't. It's really cool to see that. When Castiel absorbs the souls from Purgatory and the man who knew too much, where does his power rank? God mode or on par with Michael and Lucifer? I would maybe say, maybe above Michael, but below God, it depends, right? We never really got a lot to see from this, but he's able to destroy Raphael with a flick of his finger. And if Michael and Lucifer couldn't even flick each other's to death, you'd have to think that Castiel was more powerful than all of the archangels, possibly maybe even combined. You flipped too hard, dammit! Oh, and actually this comment came up in the community tab, and I liked it so much I wanted to read it. Can anyone tell me why Eric Crickkey came back to write the final episode when they immediately changed the pace in the narrative and created another villain in season seven? Castiel could have been a good antagonist for the brothers who could have gone through a redemption in season eight, for example. And of course, the problem with season six is that Sarah Gamble has written too many arcs for different characters that don't connect in the finale. I don't like the climax of the story because there isn't one. Yes, actually, there is a part of me that kind of wants to talk about the idea of what Castiel could have been if he had been a villain. So that might be a theory video we might do in coming, I don't know, maybe in a little while. But those are my thoughts about this season finale. Let's see what you guys have to say. All right, guys, that's it. We're done. Well, almost. Now we've got the season review to go through. So give me your guys' thoughts about the season as a whole. I'd just say one or two paragraphs. Not long ones, I don't want tones, guys. Just kind of give me your concise thoughts about what you feel the season is and I will read those off in the next review. Until then, guys, if you liked the video, leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe. But as always, I'll see you guys next week.