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There's nothing bad with "Drag Me Away". It just doesn't do anything. Maybe it was filming with the pandemic underway: the episode screams to be more than just the "bottle show" that we get. Maybe it's just a "been there done that" feel to the episode. We've seen the young Winchester brothers on a case in flashbacks before. There's nothing new this time around. Instead we get introduced to an "old friend" that we've never met before. This is "wrapping things up"?

The episode doesn't have anything to do with the current storyline of God destroying the multiverse and heading for Earth. Yes, there's a conversation or two about it. Those are conversations that could have been inserted anywhere. It's not like the case had anything to do with the ongoing shenanigans. Yes, Dean keeps a secret from Sam in their youth, and in the public he eventually tells Sam the truth about Jack. And it doesn't go well.

But in the past, Sam never reacts to learning that Dean lied to him. In that case, Sam forgives his brother for lying about not saying anything about the bodies of the missing kids. In the present, Sam goes from forgiving Dean, or at least understanding why he kept a secret, to getting all angry that Dean didn't tell him about Jack's imminent self-destruction.

It also seems like one of those secrets that eventually Sam would have learned anyway. It's not like Castiel, the soul of tact, wouldn't have blurted it out to Sam eventually. You kinda wonder why he didn't in the first place. But that's a pretty standard TV trope anyway: someone keeping a secret that they should know the person they're lying to will eventually find out. And then the person being lied to finding out anyway.

So while a one-and-done-episode of Supernstural typically does a good job of interacting the current storyline and the brothers' personal issues into it, "Drag Me Away" was not that episode.

Baba Yaga didn't make much sense. As noted in Trivia, in the past Yaga killed kids when they were naughty. But there's no indication that adult Travis, or Dean, or Caitlin were doing anything naughty when Yaga came after them. And Caitlin is put to sleep rather than killed because... reasons. It was nice of Yaga to drag her to room 214 and put her in the bed so Caitlin could have a nap.

A few minutes later, Yaga tells Dean that she's "starving" But she didn't eat Caitlin, but just tucked her into bed. Is that what a starving person does? they don't eat that bag of Cheetos, but just tuck them neatly away in a closet? I don't think so.

And Yaga seems to be driving Dean to suicide in the hallway confrontation. So did she drive Travis to suicide, or kill him with the broken bottle? And then she attacks Dean physically in a weird hallucination that alternates between Dean thinking he's in the basement, to Sam finding Dean fighting with Yaga in the hotel room. Why did Yaga have to create a hallucination of the basement, to kill Dean?

So cool concept for a monster, but the actual storytelling was all over the place. She drives her victims to suicide (after Travis' nebulous death), but then kills them herself but then puts them to sleep and puts them to bed... or does she? Who knows? Yaga is just a disposable monster to be killed while the story deals with whatever Winchester angst is on deck this week. But... it doesn't.

And her vulnerability doesn't make much sense. So Travis had to find the ring, so that Yaga could put her heart in it. Where was her heart before he found it when he was a kid?

And why does everyone in the hotel just disappear? That's what I mean about a bottle show. The front desk clerk, Gwen, is sitting in the back office smoking from a bong and spilling absurd amounts of water from it? Huh? There's no "feel" for the setting. It's just a hotel, but it has a restaurant and a dining room (according to a sign on the wall). But it has no security? I work in a hotel as a night clerk: what happens here bears no resemblance to a real hotel.

So interesting concept, but ten seasons too late and nothing new. The episode seemed like it was trying to get in on the "Stranger Things"/"It" craze (if you'd call it that) a few years too late, of having young kids fight monsters. As most network shows do when trying to cash in on something popular that didn't originate on the networks.

But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?

Loved the emotions of this episode, the soundtrack from Swan Song was a good choice, I hope they play it in the series finale. A bit disappointed that one of the last five episodes ever is a filler. Why do we even have filler episodes in the final season? That proves that the writers are lazy. Next week's episode looks interesting, well not interesting but it's plot, I hope we get just that.

1. When Caitlin rushed out of the room, Sam should have followed right after her and stayed close to her. Instead, Sam was too engrossed in what was on the computer screen AND with listening to the sound of his own voice. It was IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS to me that he should have gone after her instead of just sitting on his butt. I have no idea how he couldn't have seen her leave in his peripheral vision. Doofus!

2. Sam highly overreacts, in way overblown melodrama, when Dean tells him that Jack is going to die when they attempt to kill Chuck, and that Dean held that back from Sam since before they left on this trip, sitting on it for a couple days. First, Sam is angry and then he pouts. This is one thing that I'm not going to miss about Supernatural, the over the top melodrama between Sam and/or Dean and/or Castiel. Man, I thought Sam was suffering from PMS. I could almost hear "Feelings, whoa whoa whoa feelings...." playing in the background.

The boys work on a case from the past . The child actors do an ok job as far as the acting but its just another filler episode but one with more meaning because it involves a personal case .The brothers once again bump heads because they keep secrets from each other which leads to an argument. Im excited to see what comes next only 4 to go! Chuck is on the move for earth now that he has destroyed all the worlds!

Hey, I'm being honest here, this episode s too good & better than the previous one..the people who rated 2,3,1 ,they are just frustrated bcoz, they r the hardcore fans of this show & they know this is ending..so they dont expect a filler.. That's why everyone keep critizing this epsd.overall this episode is truely a goodone & a classic supernatural thing & i liked it... And a happy news for us - this was the last filler & the last flashback epsd of the 15 yr long era...so get ready for the last 4 STRAIGHTT THROUGH PLOT episodes.. adios!

(nb : the teen dean is not much gud, that's a negative)

We learned, from Billie, that Chuck has eliminated all the other dimensions/worlds and Sam & Deans world is next. This episode had a little of everything that makes Supernatural, Supernatural with: the brothers save the girl from a new type of monster that's found researching lore. Friction between the brothers intensifies as a kept secret is revealed once they've had time to realize there's nothing they can do to remedy the problem without joining forces. I'm perfectly fine with a "filler episode" of Supernatural, all because I'm a diehard fan, however we are getting very close to the grand finale and all we know is Jack is working on becoming a suicide bomber just as Chuck has the Winchester brothers world in his crosshairs as Billie uses her Ring Peephole Camera in anticipation. I haven't rated a episode with a 7 in a very long time but a filler episode this late in the game kinda felt like a slap in the face with my favorite series ending soon. This undoubtedly means there's going to be an explosion of great stuff coming soon.

After a long history of each of the brothers never letting the other in on key information, it is addressed.

When Dean tells Sam the truth about Jack having to die which he learned from Cass who just learned from Jack (okay lots of not telling going on), he says "I thought we were passed this?" as in keeping stuff from each other.

All through the run, depending on scenario, Dean has kept things from Sam. In turn, Sam has kept things from Dean. Both do this in the assumption it is either for the others own good or that the other will not accept the information\take it well. Every time it has blown up on the secret keepers face.

Honestly by season 10 or so I was getting very frustrated at their inability to learn from this mistake. Literally one season had Dean doing the secret keeping from Sam and then the next Sam keeping something vital from Dean! I was like, "Oh c'mon! You just saw how this does not work!"

Now the "cards" are on everyone's table and God is on his way (as a Christian I tolerate all the shows God messing; but in truth I have wondered if this world is the only one He's done the Damnation\Salvation show on. The bible does not say we are the only world. The end of Revelations, the more I read it, sounds like a Reset Button rather than a New Heaven and New Earth. This new world will have people. People who need Kings to manage them. Big difference is God will reside in this new world. Still, people are people and even with God right there and no evil externally to tempt them... people will have free will. Our innate flaw. Otherwise, there would not be a need for Kings). How will this play out? Can God, THE God be killed? His flip side sister? Will this how "find another way" as it has so many times before??

Then what. Lets say God and Amara die. There is no more light and dark. No more good and bad. What then?? What if instead of freedom from manipulation, everything simply stops?? World goes dark. Time ends.

I don't know if it is because of this episode being one of Supernatural's last episodes ever or because we had to wait for these episodes an additional 5-6 months that my expectations were very high. We already know that Supernatural has its ups and downs, its legendary episodes and the ones that are not so great. This was the case with this episode where only the last 3 minutes had me excited. When they were about to do a flashback to their childhood I was happy because those episodes have the good old brotherhood feels. But as many child actors, the choices for Sam and Dean weren't good. The story wasn't good and the whole episode felt like the writers were just filling the excess screen time they had. I would've preferred a shorter season without all these unnecessary episodes. Despite all this, it was hinted that the next episodes won't be fillers. I'm hoping that the last 4 episodes will make us forget about these ones.

This is the first episode I've been disappointed in all season. Yes, it is not the only filler episode we've had, but I least felt like most of the others were wrapping up storylines or moving the plot along a least a tiny bit. This one just felt a little pointless, we already knew about Billie's plans for Jack, and Dean not telling Sam the whole truth is pretty old hat, the only new information we get is that Chuck has finally completed his destruction of the other worlds. This really felt like a wasted episode. I don't mean to be negative, I have been actually enjoying most of the season so far, but I really thought we'd be ramping up for the finale by now.