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spitefulsatanfics · 2 months ago

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° Sanctified Era °

a Supernatural novella

by Little Devil ♥

Chapter two: THE RELIC AND THE LIE

“He’s not your brother anymore, Dean. You have to know that.”

Pairing: Sam Winchester x Female Reader (She/Her)

Tone: Suspicion laced with longing. Burnt bridges. A haunted kind of hope.

Word Count: ~8,200

Rating: T (language, occult themes, emotional trauma, one knife-through-the-heart coffee memory redux)

Set During: Supernatural Season 4 (Post-4x10, Pre-4x20)

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✶ Votum Ignis ✶

(A prayer in flame)

The scent struck her first—sulfur, soot, and the ghost of feathers. An aftertaste of something divine, murdered.

Y/N stepped into the charred husk of what used to be an antique shop. Her boots made no sound, muffled by layers of ash, soot, time. The air tasted like a scream that had burned itself to smoke.

Dean muttered, nose wrinkled. “Real fixer-upper. Think Lucifer gives you reward points for every place like this you torch?”

Sam said nothing.

He moved like a man chasing ghosts, or like one being hunted by them. His eyes tracked something invisible. Not spirit, not shade. A pull. A pulse. A memory he couldn’t name but felt all the same.

Y/N followed his gaze.

The bones of the building gave way to a back room. What remained of the structure creaked as they crossed the threshold—as though the walls were breathing, bracing.

At the center, scorched into the floorboards, was a summoning circle. Ancient. Intentional. Not demonic, not celestial. Somewhere in between. Its lines curled like grief. The symbols inside were not from any ritual book she'd ever read—and she'd read more than most.

Black feathers clung to the edges of the room, melted to ash. Whatever had happened here hadn’t just burned—it had unraveled.

She knelt at the edge of the circle, fingers hovering above the remains. The ash pulsed faintly.

“Not divine,” she whispered.

Sam stood beside her now, silent. Watching.

Dean lingered by the doorframe. “So... cult cosplay? Or are we talking full-blown demon PTA meeting?”

“It’s more than that,” Y/N said, voice low. “This was for anchoring. Someone tried to bind a Key. A relic.”

That word hit Sam like a slap.

She noticed. She always did.

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✶ Vestigium Occultum ✶

(A hidden trace)

They split up briefly—Dean disappearing into a side room filled with scorched taxidermy and cracked mirrors. Y/N took the ruined bookshelves.

Sam lingered at a desk half-eaten by flame.

The wood had buckled, drawers fused or broken. He forced one open. It splintered like old bone. Inside, half-buried in debris and soot, something pulsed faintly. Red-gold. Alive.

He reached for it.

The shard sang when he touched it.

It wasn’t a sound—not in the air. It moved through his blood. An ancient hum of language too old for words. It recognized him. Not just as Sam Winchester.

As something more.

Power prickled under his skin. He yanked his hand back, eyes wide.

Footsteps. A voice.

“Anything useful?” Y/N called from the hallway.

His heart slammed against his ribs. He grabbed the shard, tucked it into his coat pocket. Buried it like guilt.

“Just junk,” he called.

The lie left his mouth smooth, well-practiced. And poisonous.

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✶ Speculum Fractum ✶

(A broken mirror)

Rain stitched a slow lullaby across the Impala’s roof.

Y/N sat in the backseat, arms wrapped around herself like armor. Dean drove, muttering about motel food and the lack of decent wi-fi in this ghost town of a state.

Sam didn’t say a word. His eyes were elsewhere. On roads he hadn’t driven. On choices he hadn’t made. Or had.

In the rearview mirror, she caught his reflection.

His gaze met hers for a heartbeat. Then another.

There was no heat. No hate.

Just something fractured. Familiar. The ache of a name spoken in dreams. And forgotten on waking.

Then he blinked, and the moment dissolved.

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✶ Memoria Dulcis ✶

(A sweet memory)

The library wore its dust like a funeral veil. Silence clung to every corner.

Dean tapped out after twenty minutes, muttering, “I’ll let you two lovebirds figure out the end of days,” before vanishing into the night.

She stayed. Sam stayed.

Books spread across the table in fragile piles. She scribbled notes. He translated dead languages like they were prayers.

The quiet stretched long, thin. Then—

She returned from the vending machine balancing two cups. Cheap, hot, imperfect.

She slid one in front of him.

Sam blinked. Then stared.

The name written in permanent marker across the lid stopped him cold.

His name. Sam. In her handwriting. Slightly crooked.

He let out a short laugh—quiet, but real.

“I can’t believe you remembered that,” he said, eyes soft with something that hadn’t surfaced in years.

“I never forgot,” she replied, a small smile tugging at her mouth. “I thought it was sweet. The way you left it behind, like a little kindness in the wreckage.”

He looked at her like he hadn’t been allowed to in a long time.

His hands curled around the cup like it was something sacred.

“I thought about you,” he said, voice low. “More than I should’ve.”

She didn’t answer.

Didn’t need to.

The coffee cooled between them.

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✶ Fides Rupta ✶

(Broken trust)

Research resumed. But the air was heavier now. The kind of quiet you find after something breaks.

Y/N pulled a leather-bound codex from a forgotten shelf. Set it down. Opened it.

Sam had left his coat slung over a chair. Careless.

Something inside the lining glinted.

Her eyes narrowed.

She reached forward.

A relic shard. Red-gold. Whispering.

The second she touched it, it burned. Not flame. Not heat.

Betrayal.

She recoiled.

Sam looked up. Met her eyes. Knew.

And didn’t speak.

“You found it at the shop,” she said. “And you lied.”

“I didn’t know what it was,” he offered, but his voice was too calm. Too late.

She rose to her feet.

“You never do,” she whispered. “Not until it’s already too late.”

He didn’t stop her when she walked away.

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✶ Clavis Doloris ✶

(The Key of Grief)

By midnight, they had answers.

The Grief Key. A relic shattered during the Fall, when angels turned on Heaven and Heaven turned on them.

Its pieces carried sorrow like a stain. Each shard an echo. A hook. A trap.

They bound pain to power. Grief to will. Love to ruin.

The kind of thing demons lusted for.

The kind of thing angels feared.

Sam had one. Y/N had touched it.

Now it belonged to both of them.

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✶ Somnium Incendia ✶

(Dream of fire)

That night, Y/N dreamed.

Sam stood in fire.

His eyes glowed gold. His mouth moved, but the words weren’t his. The Key pulsed in his hands. Each beat echoed like a scream she couldn’t silence.

She reached for him.

He burned her.

She woke with a gasp, blood on her pillow from a nosebleed that hadn’t stopped. The room was too dark. Too loud.

In the next room, Sam held the shard to his chest. Like it was the only thing that still made sense.

The voice returned, colder now.

She remembers. And soon—so will you.

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✶ Finis Mendacium ✶

(The lie festers)

> The memory cuts. The Key calls. The lie festers.

To be continued.

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Author’s Note:

Yeah... I lied. About the relic.. About how much I still care.

Somewhere between the Latin, the lore, and the late-night library light—she remembered me.

And I remembered how good that felt.

— S.W.

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shinelikethunder · 2 years ago

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kripke: show creator; seasons 1-5 showrunner; wrote or co-wrote 1x01 pilot, 1x02 wendigo, 1x09 home, 1x16 shadow, 1x22 devil’s trap, 2x01 in my time of dying, 2x22 all hell breaks loose part two, 3x01 the magnificent seven, 3x16 no rest for the wicked, 4x01 lazarus rising, 4x07 it's the great pumpkin, sam winchester, 4x10 heaven and hell (story), 4x22 lucifer rising, 5x01 sympathy for the devil, 5x09 the real ghostbusters, 5x22 swan song, 6x22 the man who knew too much; directed 2x20 what is and what should never be, 4x22 lucifer rising

gamble: seasons 6-7 showrunner; wrote or co-wrote 1x03 dead in the water, 1x12 faith, 1x14 nightmare, 1x21 salvation, 2x03 bloodlust, 2x08 crossroad blues, 2x13 houses of the holy, 2x17 heart, 2x21 all hell breaks loose part one, 3x02 the kids are alright, 3x07 fresh blood, 3x10 dream a little dream of me, 3x12 jus in bello, 3x15 time is on my side, 4x02 are you there god? it’s me, dean winchester, 4x09 i know what you did last summer, 4x17 it’s a terrible life, 4x21 when the levee breaks, 5x02 good god, y'all, 5x07 the curious case of dean winchester, 5x13 the song remains the same, 5x21 two minutes to midnight, 6x01 exile on main st, 6x11 appointment in samarra, 6x21 let it bleed, 7x01 meet the new boss, 7x10 death's door, 7x17 the born-again identity, 7x23 survival of the fittest

edlund: wrote 2x05 simon said, 2x12 nightshifter, 2x18 hollywood babylon, 3x03 bad day at black rock, 3x09 malleus maleficarum, 3x13 ghostfacers, 4x05 monster movie, 4x08 wishful thinking, 4x16 on the head of a pin, 5x04 the end, 5x10 abandon all hope, 5x14 my bloody valentine, 5x20 the devil you know, 6x03 the third man, 6x09 clap your hands if you believe, 6x15 the french mistake, 6x20 the man who would be king, 7x02 hello cruel world, 7x09 how to win friends and influence monsters, 7x15 repo man, 7x21 reading is fundamental, 8x05 blood brother, 8x13 everybody hates hitler, 8x21 the great escapist; directed 6x20 the man who would be king, 7x21 reading is fundamental

#supernatural #eric kripke #sera gamble #ben edlund

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thegracefallen · 3 months ago

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Chronology

Mostly events involving or relevant to Cas. Note that the SPN creators decided to ignore the s6 and s8 timeskips in their chronology so the dates featured on the show after those are 1-2 years off. This timeline corrects that. Based on hells-half-acre's amazing timeline with a few guesstimates of my own.

"Several billion years" ago

Beginning of Creation

God creates the archangels

War against the Darkness

God creates the leviathan and Purgatory

Origin of Eve?

God creates the angels

~357 million years ago

Castiel watches the first fish crawl out of the ocean

~300 000 years ago

Events likely take place over hundreds or thousands of years

Birth of humanity

Gadreel lets Lucifer into the Garden

Lilith corrupted into the first demon

Cain kills Abel and is given the Mark

Corruption of Alastair?

Corruption of the Princes of Hell

Lucifer imprisoned in Hell?

~10 000 years ago

Eve escapes and spawns the alpha monsters

~3300 years ago

Castiel rebels during the killing of the first born in Egypt and has his memories of the event erased by Naomi

~2000 years ago

Allegedly the last time angels walk openly amongst humans before the Apocalypse

Anna's garrison stationed on Earth to watch over humanity

1300s

Sister Agnes writes the Book of the Damned

~1347-1353 - Ruby sells her soul, dies and becomes a demon

1600s

1661 - Birth of Crowley/Fergus MacLeod

~1669 - Rowena abandons her son and flees Scotland

1700s

1713 - Fergus sells his soul

1723 - Fergus is killed and dragged to hell where he becomes the demon Crowley

1800s

1835 - Creation of the Colt

1861, March 4–5 - Sam and Dean hunt the phoenix (6x18)

1863 - Abaddon tricks Cain into killing Colette

1900s

1901 - Ishim's flight confronts Akobel and Lily Sunder (12x10 flashbacks)

1950, August 12 - Birth of Bobby Singer

1954,

- Birth of John Winchester

- December 5 - Birth of Mary Campbell

1958, August 12 - Abaddon massacres the American Men of Letters (8x12)

1967, April 24 - Baby rolls off the assembly line

1972, October - Azazel communicates with Lucifer (5x22)

1973,

- April 30-May 2 - Cas brings Dean back in time to witness Mary make her deal with Azazel (4x03)

- July 10 - Birth of Jimmy Novak

1978, early summer - Anna travels back in time to kill John and Mary. Cas takes Sam and Dean back to stop her (5x13)

1979, January 24 - Birth of Dean Winchester

1983,

- May 2 - Birth of Sam Winchester

- November 2 - Azazel feeds Sam his blood and kills Mary (1x01)

1985 - Anna cuts her grace out and falls. Castiel becomes the new commander of the garrison.

1990, September 29 - Birth of Adam Milligan

1991, December 25 - Sam gives Dean the amulet

1999 - Birth of Claire Novak

Early 2000s

2002 - Sam leaves for Stanford

2005, October 31-November 2 - Dean seeks Sam out at Stanford, Jess is killed and the boys start looking for John (1x01)

2006,

- May - The boys reunite with John (1x16)

- July(-August?) - The Winchesters obtain the Colt. John is kidnapped and possessed by Azazel (1x20-1x22)

- July 19 or August 6 - John dies (2x01)

- August - The boys visit the Roadhouse for the first time (2x02)

2007,

- April 29-30 - Special Child battle royale (2x21)

- May 2 - Dean sells his soul to save Sam. The Devil's Gate is opened, Dean kills Azazel (2x22)

- December 24-25 - Castiel speaks with Jimmy for the first time (4x20 flashback)

2008

March - Castiel tests Jimmy's faith (4x20 flashback)

May 2 - Dean is killed and dragged to Hell (3x16)

May–September - Castiel's garrison fights their way through Hell to retrieve Dean's soul

September 18 - Castiel resurrects Dean and tries to communicate with him (4x01)

September 20 - Castiel after failing again to communicate with Dean takes Jimmy as a vessel and meets him in a barn in Illinois (4x01)

September 22-23 - Raising of the Witnesses (4x02)

~October - Cas sends Dean back to 1973 (4x03)

October 29-November 1 - Raising of Samhain (4x07)

Mid November - The Winchesters meet Anna and help her regain her grace (4x09 & 4x10)

December 19-22 (alt. January 2009) - Sam and Dean stop Alastair from breaking a seal (4x15)

End of December (or January) - The angels recruit Dean to torture Alastair (4x16)

2009

~April - The Winchesters learn about the Supernatural books and meet Chuck (4x18)

~Early May - Castiel learns the truth about the Apocalypse and is dragged back to Heaven when he tries to warn the Winchesters. The Winchesters meet Jimmy (4x20)

~May - Castiel has Dean swear allegiance to Heaven, betrays Anna and releases Sam from Bobby's panic room (4x21)

May 13-14 - Dean is trapped in the Beautiful Room and convinces Castiel to rebel against Heaven. Castiel is killed by Raphael (4x22)

~May 14-18 - The Winchesters travel to Chuck's house and learn about Cas' death. Cas is resurrected by God and saves the Winchesters from Zachariah (5x01)

Late May - Cas visits the Winchesters in Bobby's hospital room and borrows Dean's amulet to look for God (5x02)

June/August - Cas seeks Dean out to help him trap and interrogate Raphael. Zachariah sends Dean to the apocalyptic future (5x03 & 5x04)

~August or October - Cas, Sam and Dean encounter Jesse (5x06)

~November - Cas tries to rescue the Winchesters when they're trapped by the Trickster (5x08)

~November - Castiel helps the Winchesters track down Crowley and joins them in hunting Lucifer in Carthage (5x10)

2010

~Early February - Anna "escapes" and tries to kill Sam (5x13)

February 14-17 - Cas helps Sam and Dean with Famine (5x14)

~March - Cas seeks Sam and Dean's help after they're killed and brought to Heaven (5x16)

~March/early April - Cas helps Sam and Dean with the Whore of Babylon, helps Sam catch Dean when he leaves to say yes to Michael and sacrifices himself so the Winchesters can rescue Adam (5x17-5x18)

~Early May - Cas reunites with the Winchesters and helps them defeat Pestilence (5x21)

May - Cas helps the Winchesters return Lucifer to the Cage and is killed and resurrected a second time. Sam ends up in Hell (5x22)

Summer-Fall - Cas rescues Sam from Hell, faces Raphael, makes a deal with Crowley and starts hunting for Purgatory (6x20 flashbacks)

2011

~October - Cas reunites with the Winchesters when they encounter the Staff of Moses and helps them track it to Balthazar (6x03)

Late October - Cas helps Dean check for Gabriel's Horn of Truth and figure out that Sam's soul is absent (6x06-6x07)

~December - Cas helps the Winchesters hunt down and "kill" Crowley with Meg (6x10)

2012

~January/early February - Cas confirms that Sam's soul is returned and accidentally reveals to him that he was soulless (6x12)

~February - Cas and Balthazar retrieve Balthazar's stolen weapons after Balthazar sends the Winchesters to an alternate reality to distract Raphael (6x15)

~March/April - Cas sends Balthazar to unsink the Titanic (6x17)

~March/April - Cas sends the Winchesters back to 1861 to obtain phoenix ashes (6x18)

~April - Cas helps the Winchesters and Bobby track down and kill Eve (6x19)

~May - The Winchesters and Bobby learn about the deal with Crowley and Purgatory (6x20)

~Late May - Crowley kidnaps Ben and Lisa (6x21)

June 3-4 - Castiel breaks Sam's wall, absorbs the Purgatory souls, kills Raphael and declares himself the new god (6x22)

~June-October - Godstiel (7x01)

October 11-12 - The Winchesters try to get Death to kill Cas and the Leviathan use Cas to massacre the campaign staff (7x01)

October 13-14 - Sam prays to Cas, the Purgatory souls are returned and the Leviathan take control of Cas' vessel (7x01)

2013

~Late March/early April - "Emmanuel" is found by Dean, regains his memories and takes on Sam's hallucinations (7x17)

May 5-7 - Cas reunites with the Winchesters after they crack open the Word of God (7x21)

~May 11-15 - Cas returns with Meg to Rufus' cabin and assists Dean in killing Dick Roman (7x23)

2014

~Summer - Dean finds Cas' in Purgatory (8x02 flashback)

~Fall - Dean escapes from Purgatory (8x01/8x07 flashback)

~December 3-5 - Cas is rescued from Purgatory, reunites with the Winchesters and helps them rescue Kevin (8x07)

~Early December - Cas tries to be a hunter (8x08)

2015

~January - Cas recruits Dean and Sam to help rescue Samandriel (8x10)

~March - Cas reunites with the Winchesters and Meg while looking for the angel tablet (8x17)

~Early May - Cas is caught by Naomi and Crowley and reunites with the Winchesters (8x21)

~Late May - Cas helps Metatron with the "angel trials" and has his grace removed. The angels are cast out of Heaven (8x22-9x01)

~Late May-early June (alt. late October ) - Cas is hunted and killed by a reaper and resurrected by Gadreel. Dean kicks Cas out of the Bunker (9x03)

~Mid November (alt. late June) - Cas is reunited with Dean after calling him about the Rit Zien (9x06)

~Late November - Cas runs into the Winchesters while investigating angel killings, is captured and tortured by Malachi and steals Theo's grace. Cas, Dean and Crowley track down Gadreel (9x09-9x10)

Early December - Cas and Sam try to extract Gadreel's grace (9x11)

2016

January - Cas is captured by and kills Bartholomew (9x14)

~April/May - Cas is abducted by Metatron and put through a dream with "Gabriel". Cas starts leading the angels against Metatron (9x18)

~Early June - Sam and Dean visit Cas at the rebel headquarters and Cas meets up with Gadreel (9x21)

June 12-15 - Metatron brainwashes members of Cas' faction into becoming suicide bombers (9x22)

~June 15-16 - Cas and Sam join forces with Gadreel to take down Metatron. Metatron kills Dean (9x23)

~Late June - Sam's shoulder is injured by a demon while he and Cas are trying to find Dean

~End of July - Cas joins Hannah in tracking down angels remaining on Earth (10x01)

~Early August - Cas crashes his car while trying to reach Sam. Cas and Hannah are ambushed and saved by Crowley with Cas reaching the bunker in time to subdue Dean (10x02-10x03)

~November - Hannah leaves her vessel and returns to Heaven. Cas starts looking for the Novaks (10x07)

~December - Cas finds Claire and retrieves Metatron from Heaven for the Winchesters (10x09 & 10x10)

2017

Late March/early April - Cas helps the Winchesters stop Cain (10x14)

~April - Cas and Sam break Metatron out of Heaven with Bobby's help. Cas regains his grace (10x17 & 10x18)

~May - Cas reunites with Claire and helps her rescue Amelia (10x20)

~Late May/early June - Cas is brought in by Sam to supervise Charlie and Rowena, Charlie dies, Dean beats Cas, the Darkness is unleashed, Rowena curses Cas (10x21-10x23)

~Early June - Cas is caught and tortured by the angels (11x01-11x02)

~Early-mid June - Cas reunites with the Winchesters who get Rowena to remove the curse (11x03)

~July - Cas helps the Winchesters with a nachzehrer while recovering (11x04)

August - Cas locates Metatron and questions him about the Darkness (11x06)

~Fall - Cas says yes to Lucifer (11x10)

2018

~Late February - The Winchesters learn about Lucifer (11x14)

~Late March - The Winchesters try to get Cas the expel Lucifer (11x18)

~Spring/early summer - Chuck reveals himself, the Winchesters and allies try to trap Amara, Lucifer is expelled, Dean goes to sacrifice himself, Cas is banished (11x20-11x23)

~Early summer - Cas reunites with Dean and Mary and helps them rescue Sam (12x01-12x02)

~Summer - Cas teams up with Crowley to hunt Lucifer (12x03)

~Summer/Fall - Lucifer resurfaces. Cas, Crowley and the Winchesters try to capture him (12x07)

~Fall - Lucifer jumps between vessels before possessing the president (12x08)

Early December - Jack is conceived, Lucifer is excorcised, the Winchesters are arrested (12x08)

2019

~Late January - Sam and Dean make a deal with Billie to escape. Cas kills Billie (12x09)

~February - Cas reunites with his old flight and learns the truth about Lily Sunder (12x10)

~Late February/early March - Cas is stabbed with the Lance of Michael (12x12)

~Late March/early April - Cas learns that Dagon has Kelly (12x15)

~April - Cas reunites with the Winchesters, steals the Colt and rescues Kelly. Jack convinces Cas to spare him and helps him kill Dagon (12x19)

~May 18 - Jack is born, Lucifer kills Cas (12x23)

~Late May - Jack wakes Cas up in the Empty (13x03)

~Late May/early June - Cas is resurrected by the Empty and reunited with the Winchesters and Jack (13x04-13x05)

~Early June - Cas, Jack and the Winchesters investigate a case in Dodge City. Jack runs away (13x06)

~June - Cas reunites with Lucifer and gets captured by Asmodeus (13x07)

~Late summer/fall - Cas and Lucifer escape. Cas reunites with the Winchesters and faces off against Lucifer and Anael (13x12-13x13)

Mid October - Donatello is corrupted. Cas tears the knowledge of the portal spell from his mind leaving him braindead (13x14)

2020

~March - Cas travels to Syria to retrieve fruit from the Tree of Life and is pulled into the world of Scooby-Doo with the Winchesters upon returning (13x15-13x16)

~April/May - Cas helps care for a recently rescued Gabriel (13x18)

May 24 - Cas seeks aid from Heaven to find Gabriel and is reunited with Naomi (13x19)

~Summer - Cas, the Winchesters and Gabriel head to the Apocalypse World to rescue Jack and Mary (13x21-13x22)

~September - Michael and Lucifer escape from the Apocalypse World, Lucifer steals Jack's grace, Dean says yes to Michael (13x23)

~Early-mid October - Cas is captured by demons while looking for Dean (14x01)

~Mid-late October - Cas stays at the bunker with Jack and Nick while Sam, Mary and Bobby track down Michael. Cas is reunited with Dean and helps Jules save Lora (14x02-14x03)

~November/December - Jack's condition worsens and he dies. Cas retrieves his soul from Heaven and makes his deal with the Empty (14x07-14x08)

December 23-24 - Cas, Jack and the Winchesters obtain the necessary tools and confront Michael who repossesses Dean (14x09)

December 25 - Cas and Sam capture Michael and enter his mind to help Dean regain control (14x10)

2021

January 16-18 - Donatello recovers (14x12)

February 7 - Dean accidentally summons John from 2003 and encounters an alternate Castiel who never rebelled (14x13)

~Late winter/early spring - Dean is injured, Michael escapes. Jack kills Michael and absorbs his grace (14x14)

~Early Spring - Cas and Sam investigate the mind-controlled town (14x15)

~Spring - Jack kills Nick and Mary. The Winchesters trap Jack in the Ma'lak box. Chuck returns, kills Jack and unleashes the Hell souls (14x17-14x20)

~Spring - Cas, the Winchesters and allies deal with the Hell ghosts. Rowena sacrifices herself. Cas leaves the Bunker (15x01-15x03)

~Summer/Fall - Cas kills a djinn (15x06)

~Fall - Cas, Sam and Eileen try to use Sam's wound to track Chuck (15x07)

~Fall/Winter - Cas and the Winchesters locate Michael to learn how to trap Chuck. Cas and Dean go to Purgatory again (15x08-15x09)

2022

~Winter/early spring - Cas is reunited with Jack (15x11)

~Spring - Cas and Jack help the Winchesters and Jody rescue Kaia (15x12)

~Spring - Cas, Jack and the Winchesters search for the Occultum (15x13)

~Summer - Cas and Jack investigate a case while Sam and Dean seek out Amara (15x15)

~Summer/Fall - Chuck returns. Jack absorbs the power in Adam's rib. Cas and Sam learn the truth about Billie's plan (15x17)

~Summer/Fall - Cas and Dean go after Billie. Cas sacrifices himself by confessing his love to Dean (15x18)

~Summer/Fall - Jack and the Winchesters defeat Chuck (15x19)

2023

~Spring - Dean dies (15x20)

#too much heart was always castiel's problem (headcanon)#the headache #many of the episodes have no clear dates #half of those that do make no sense

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hellerfanboy91 · 11 months ago

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Edvard's Supernatural Guide 4x21 When the Levee Breaks

Spoilers for the end of Game of Thrones and Supernatural up to 15x09 The Trap

With the end of series four fast approaching, it feels as though most of the plot of this series has happened in the background. Almost all of the necessary seals have been broken by Lilith et al, but neither the characters nor the audience has been privy to this because it has all happened off-screen. Angels and demons have apparently been skirmishing all over the globe, and we know this because of one line of dialogue from Cas somewhere earlier in this series. Given the importance of all these events, it would have shown prudence for The Show to actually show us some of this conflict between the angels and demons as well as between Dean, Sam, and Lilith. Instead, it presented the viewer with a handful of salient episodes accompanied by a lot of filler. Ignoring character moments such as Dean's hell-trauma in 4x10 Heaven and Hell, how have the plots of episodes such as 4x12 Chris Angel is a Douchebag, 4x08 Wishful Thinking, or 4x13 After School Special advanced either the story or the plot? Not every episode of a show like this can be plot-heavy, and in Supernatural's defence its plot is spread slightly less thin than that of The X-Files, but even in Buffy and Angel which had a lot of filler episodes, something in each episode usually bore some relevance to either the plot (the sequence of events that takes the characters from the beginning to the end of the story) or the story (how the characters change from the beginning to the end). Most episodes moved the story and/or plot forwards in some way, and I never thought either Buffy or Angel wasted many episodes. This unfortunately leaves me with the conviction that Supernatural could have been a lot more than it is. In the case of series four, this would not have required a drastic change. Instead of the monsters of the week being random, they could each have been a different seal the brothers had to prevent Lilith and her gang breaking. The episodes could still have been largely the same, but with more direction in a focussed narrative as opposed to the important parts being dotted here and there before a final rush to the end in the final few episodes.

That is not to say that nothing which has happened in series four is relevant to the ending. Sam drinking demon blood was of course a major subplot throughout leading on from his working with Ruby in series three. The demon blood itself is not a vital aspect of the actual Apocalypse, as the beginning of series five makes it abundantly clear that Sam is Lucifer's vessel: the demon blood is secondary, its significance mostly ending with the death of Lilith. Even then, was it necessary that Sam kill Ruby using his psychic powers? Was there no other way? All remnant of psychic powers and addiction blood are removed from Sam in 5x01 Lucifer Rising as clearly Kripke had got bored of them, but taking a step back reminds me that all of this is God writing a story to work through his own issues.

Dean and Sam are characters in God's books doomed to repeat the story of Cain and Abel (Dean is Abel, whatever The Show says). Cain and Abel are themselves a mirror of God and his betrayal of Amara/The Darkness, his sister whom he turned on and imprisoned. Lucifer turning to the dark side in the Superverse is a result of him bearing the lock to Amara's prison, i.e. the Mark of Cain, so named because Lucifer passed it onto Cain before Cain murdered his brother. In short, God is driving Dean and Sam apart in order to manufacture a situation where one has to kill the other. To that end, even if the demon blood were not a vital part of ushering in the end-times, it functions to cause a schism between Dean and Sam, i.e. it might simply be there for the drama.

This being the case, neither Dean nor Sam is ultimately responsible for their actions, in the same way one could argue that Helen and Paris were not responsible for causing the Trojan War: everything that happened happened because of the gods and fate; humans were just pawns.

This episode begins with Sam in Bobby's panic room where Dean and Bobby trapped him at the end of the previous episode. It is not mentioned how much time has passed, but be it five minutes or five hours, Sam is not happy. Understandably so. I am sure he feels betrayed, and probably that Dean and Bobby are preventing him do what is necessary to stop the Apocalypse. He also refuses to acknowledge the possibility he might actually be doing something deserving of being locked in the panic room, at least at first. Later some of his doubts and insecurities begin to surface, only to be submerged beneath his addiction.

Sam is lit in red in the cold open, a clear indicator of danger and a colour associated with Ruby beginning with 4x01 Lazarus Rising, whereas Dean is in darkness. It is a shame it took so long for this to happen, but Dean finally gets to call Sam out for lying to him, as well as calling him weak, desperate, and pathetic.

Sam of course rejects all accountability because he is an addict who at the moment is incapable of properly acknowledging his addiction, much less the damage it is doing to himself and others. Having personal experience of somebody like this, I can recognise it immediately, as well as his turning the tables on Dean to try to make him out to be the problem in this situation. Dean's 'self-righteousness' is seriously not the issue, Sam, but this is a nice attempt at deflection. Anything to avoid taking criticism on board. An intervention would never work with somebody in Sam's position.

Dean soon gives up on trying to get through to Sam and shuts the view port, completely ignoring Sam's increasingly angry and distressed calls to let him out. It is not until Dean is at the top of the stairs that he stops with a pensive look on his face. But more on Dean later: do let us return downstairs to the panic room where Sam is being visited by the ghost of Christmas Past in the form of Alice Tear. These apparitions are not actually the people they appear to be, but aspects of Sam's subconscious manifesting themselves as people from his life in order to chide or encourage him. Quite why Alice Tear appears to Sam is not explained, nor why he should be the first visitation, but before Sam knows it he is strapped to a torture table like Ruby was in 4x10 Heaven and Hell. Alice Tear tortures Sam a little but it is soon revealed to be a hallucination and Sam is physically fine.

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Sam also appears as if strapped to a crucifix, similar to the end of 4x19 Jump the Shark. Some have jumped on this to claim that Sam is a Jesus figure, but I think it takes more than a little bit of imagery to be a Jesus figure. In what ways do Sam's personality or story arc mirror Jesus? A man taking on a burden he never wanted, perhaps, but Sam's motives are self-centred whereas Jesus's were other-centred, or selfless. Dean's sacrifice of himself for Sam, his descent to Hell, and his rebirth mirror Jesus more, but I cannot see anything in Sam which really warrants a comparison with the Riz.

Whatever the case, the torture was imagined as Sam is revealed to be quite whole. His hallucinations and visitations continue. 'Mary' tells Sam exactly what Sam would want to hear in that situation, i.e. that Sam is on the right path, and that Sam is strong while Dean is weak. What precisely is meant by 'Dean is weak' is uncertain: unless Sam is high on demon blood, dean can best him in a fight, and Dean is a far more accomplished and proficient hunter. Is the weakness therefore a weakness of character, i.e. that Dean is not willing to drink blood from Ruby's dead vessel to 'save the world'?

Contrary to the part of Sam's subconscious masquerading as Mary, the part masquerading as Dean calls Sam a monster and says that he always was one. Not that he is becoming a monster, but that Sam has been a monster ever since Azazel bled into his mouth. This reflects perhaps what Sam believes Dean thinks of him, or what Sam thinks of himself. He has made several references to thinking of himself as a freak throughout the show, and that he could never fit in because he was a freak. His behaviour has rarely reflected this in my opinion, meaning this is more 'tell' than 'show'. One of the reasons his angry outburst at Dean in 4x04 Metamorphosis was that Sam did not like Dean looking at him as if he were a freak etc... but this was a red herring.

In his brief conversation with poco!Sam, Sam expresses a defeatist, attitude in response to his younger self's chastisement of him for drinking demon blood and becoming what he has become. After picking myself up off the floor after Sam's 'Life doesn't turn out the way you thought it would when you're fourteen years old' line, I noticed his 'we were never going to be normal, we were never going to get away' line. On the one hand this is true, but on the other hand it sounds like a post-hoc justification. He does not want to stop drinking demon blood, but also does not believe (or want to believe) he can. Therefore he makes himself a victim of circumstance and surrenders his agency.

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In her review, Paula discussed the idea that Sam used to be an important cosmic figure with a special destiny and special powers. He can also perhaps be seen as something of a false prophet, since his visions etc came from Azazel whereas real prophets' visions come from God. For Sam to then be stripped of that after Azazel's death, and for Dean to later be raised to a position of even greater cosmic importance must have stung pretty badly. While it would be disingenuous to claim his addiction is entirely rooted in wanting to be important, a good case can be made for it being an considerable factor in all this. 'Dean' even says as much during one of Sam's hallucinations: Dean was supposed to stop the apocalypse, not Sam: Sam wanted to steal Dean's thunder. This is as good as confirmed in Dean and Sam's argument before their fight at the end of the episode, which is discussed near the end of this analysis.

Just before Dean and Sam's fight later in the episode, Sam says things to the effect of wanting Dean to believe in him and trust him. Sam wants to feel important and special. Getting this validation from Dean is especially important to him as Dean has been the only constant in his life.

In spite of that, poco!Sam claims that if Sam had not gone off with Dean, Jess might still be alive, at which point I get the song Put the Blame on Mame stuck in my head. That song should be Dean's theme tune in this show, because apparently he is also to blame for Jess's death.

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Perhaps more understandably, Sam also tries to use Jess's death as a justification for what he is doing now, but more understandable thought it may be, it is another post-hoc justification. It is also irrelevant: Azazel's death was vengeance for Jess, as well as for Mary and John. Lilith had nothing to do with any of that.

While all this is happening in the panic room, Dean and Bobby are upstairs discussing Sam. This seems to be an unpopular opinion, but Bobby's grouchiness grates on me very quickly. In small doses it can be amusing, but mostly it comes across as him acting like a cunny-hole because he likes making other people feel stupid. Knowing what is coming next episode as well as 5x18 Point of No Return has perhaps soured my perception of him, but even my flatmate who was a big fan of Bobby early got tired of him before this point. He just acts bitchy for no reason, as if the writers could not think of another personality trait for him. It also seems rather inappropriate and unnatural in the situation: Dean is worried about Sam and wonders how long it might take for Sam to detox, to which Bobby's response is a pissy 'Oh, let me just check. Wait, I can't, because nobody's ever done this before'. This was funny in A Bug's Life, but here a simple 'I dunno, nobody's ever done this before' would have sufficed.

On the other hand, the grouchiness and bitchiness here is likely an expression of his own anxiety, but still. Calm your tits, Robert. That said, Bobby and Rufus's dynamic does amuse me greatly and it is a shame so little of it is on the show. Two ageing men snapping at each other like an old married couple sounds delightful, a bit like Bobby and old!Dean in 5x07 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester.

The most important parts of Bobby and Dean's conversations is their disagreement on what to do with Sam. Dean wants Sam to remain in the panic room until he recovers, whereas Bobby believes Sam could be a useful weapon in stopping the Apocalypse. Dean is dead set against this, preferring that Sam die as a human than survive as a monster (a decision Dean also made for himself in 3x15 Time is on My Side).

At first, it might seem like a good idea to use Sam as a weapon. After all, when he is at full power, he is currently the most powerful of the three, and perhaps rivals Cas in certain aspects. However, a second's thought reveals that this is actually very far from an idea of the good variety: Sam is being manipulated by a demon, and could just as easily turn his powers on the good guys. Besides, what would they believe would happen if Sam were to kill Lilith and stop the Apocalypse? Sam would still be at large and addicted to demon blood, having become the thing Azazel sought to make him. It would be like the ending of Game of Thrones: the Night King's dead, but now you have to deal with Dany.

Hindsight is 20-20, or so goes the saying, but surely an experienced hunter like Bobby should be more than hesitant to set a loose cannon like Sam free. Hindsight proves Dean to be right, as the first thing Sam did after Cas opened the door to the panic room was knock Bobby out with the butt of the rifle.

And what have I said many times in these analyses? A blow to the head strong enough to cause unconsciousness is strong enough to kill or cause serious brain damage. In the real world, Sam could have killed Bobby in this episode, proving him wrong and Dean right. I am starting to wonder whether Cassandra was a little relieved when Clytemnestra killed her.

This of course happens roughly halfway through the episode. Before that, Bobby somehow seems to switch from not having any idea about demonic detox to being sure it will kill Sam. How this happened is beyond me, but Bobby conveniently thinks what the plot wants him to think in this episode. I understand that Sam screaming and being tossed around the room is frightening and highly-concerning, but how did Bobby conclude that it would kill him? Part of the reason 'going cold turkey' is so difficult is because of the serious withdrawal symptoms: the body is used to functioning with a certain chemical present, and the sudden absence of that chemical causes serious disarray including physical and mental distress and illness. Withdrawal from certain drugs and medicines can be deadly, but how did Bobby come to the conclusion that 'cold turkey' (I am so sick of that phrase) was not working? What was his basis for that conclusion? Nobody has done demon detox before, how does he know?! And even if it were killing him, at least he would die human...

A sudden lull in the screaming and shouting panics Bobby and Dean, whereupon they run downstairs to find Sam getting tossed about like a ragdoll. Bobby and Dean have to restrain him and fasten him to the bed, and Paula commented on the unlikelihood of two men being enough to restrain a big man like Sam who was flailing around that much, especially when one of the men is around sixty years of age.

Bobby and Dean cannot agree on what to do with Sam. Perhaps it is partly for this reason that Dean tries to call Cas for help, though Cas left Dean shouting for him for two hours.

In the scene outside in Bobby's scrapyard, Cas is still acting the same as at the end of 4x20 The Rapture, the result of being sent to Heaven's Gulag for reëducation. In this scene, there is little left of the friendship which was developing between Dean and Cas, and Cas's behaviour is very different from that of the angel who defied orders and helped Dean defeat Lilith in 4x18 The Monster at the End of This Book. Instead, Cas uses the scene as an opportunity to essentially groom Dean into being Michael's vessel by getting him to swear allegiance and obedience to Heaven.

This is also the scene where Dean and Cas stare at each other for a very long time while the crane shot tracks up. There is no need for the two of them to stare at each other, yet they do anyway. A few weeks before writing this analysis, I watched this episode with a friend who is not especially a fan of the show. When watching this scene, she said apropos of nothing 'Oh, just kiss.'

Cas is obedient to Heaven in this episode, including later when he betrays Anna, yet his facial expression when Anna is taken away indicates he is not mindlessly obeying: he is obeying against his wishes, or because he has to. He perhaps knows that what he is doing is bad, but has to do it anyway.

That said, the fact it was him who freed Sam from the panic room and thereby almost got Bobby and Dean killed by proxy in this episode is never brought up and Cas is never held accountable for his actions. This is one of the reasons I can never quite actively like Cas: he does bad things but is often not held accountable. He rarely learns from his mistakes but often repeats pretty much the same mistake, i.e. working with dubious individuals behind Dean and Sam's backs and getting people hurt or killed. He also shifts the blame for his own behaviour onto others, mostly Dean (see 15x03 Rupture, for example). In this regard he resembles Sam, but the difference between Cas and Sam is that Cas does not act out of hostility. Rather Cas is absolutely clueless about how responsibility and accountability are supposed to work. The problem is that the show never makes Cas grow out of this. His and Dean's 'divorce' in series fifteen was the perfect time for Cas to begin understanding his own culpability and agency, and that Dean is not responsible for the choices Cas makes.

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The writers, however, did not force Cas down this path, but kept him as poor innocent wide-eyed Cas bullied and mistreated by anger-issues Dean. All the responsibility for the divorce arc was laid at Dean's feet: Dean, as always, ended up blaming himself, but Cas let him. This did Cas a huge disservice as a character and kept him stuck as an adolescent. Whether Cas actively intended to make Dean believe he was entirely to blame for their fall-out is debatable, but he certainly did nothing to shoulder his hefty portion of the blame. Dean was allowed to think he and his justified anger at Cas's years of stupidity were the problems, not Cas's secrets, lies, and rash behaviour which ended up with dead friends and relatives. This is mistreatment, though it stops short of active gaslighting.

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I have much more time for Cas than Sam due to the fact Cas's bad behaviour is not acrimonious. It is mostly simple stupidity, naïvité, and ignorance. It should also come as no surprise to readers that I ship Dean and Cas, but I do not see them as a perfect couple. They are both severely damaged and Cas especially would need to work on himself a lot in order to avoid 'Destiel' becoming a reflection of Dean and Sam's relationship. I ship them because I see that Cas is in love with Dean from at least series six and Dean felt similarly shortly thereafter (keeping his coat in the boot, anyone? Purgatory? 13x05 Advanced Thanatology? The market research?) but they are not teenagers in a John Green novel. They are adult men with adult men problems which they need to work on as adult men. Maybe one day they could be a healthy, functioning couple, but the fact they love and eventually are in love with each other is not enough.

Long story short: Cas was not held accountable for his actions, and this prevented his growth.

Dean on the other hand is blamed for everything. He does bad things (usually with the best intentions, e.g. Ezekiel/Gadriel), but both he and the show hold him accountable. He and the show linger on his mistakes, which means the audience remembers his mistakes more readily than Sam's or Cas's.

Moving on, after Cas secretly lets Sam out, Sam rushes off to a honeymoon suite in a hotel, and soon thereafter Ruby the Bitch-Skank arrives and ruins the entire next fifteen minutes. The sequence which follows Ruby's arrival up until the end of the episode is the reason why Paula's review begins with this being where Sam jumped the shark. 'Jump the shark' means that something utterly stupid happens in a show which marks the event horizon in a decline in quality which the show never recovers from. Applied to Sam, this would mean that his actions in this sequence destroyed any likeability or relatability he might have had, and hereafter he was irredeemable.

Paula wrote her review around the time series eight was airing, and as yet Sam had made no attempt to truly apologise or show contrition for almost murdering his brother in cold blood. The final episode of series eight has Sam try to sacrifice himself to close Heaven and Hell, and includes an apology to Dean for lying to him and betraying him with Ruby. Had this signalled a fundamental change in Sam after which he showed he had learnt from his mistakes and became a better person, I would have to disagree with Paula's assertion than Sam jumped the shark here. But the how has now ended, and barring possible continuations in the future, Sam has never recovered from this.

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Ruby appears in the hotel room with a made-up story about how she had been deep undercover looking for Lilith for the last three weeks and was not checking her messages. Anybody with a pulse should have been able to see that for the lying lie it was, and Ruby's absence was part of a ploy to show Sam how much he needs her. Sam soon drinks some of Ruby's blood and then they presumably have coitus. Afterwards, Ruby talks about how only a tiny number of seals remain unbroken (while also talking about recently broken seals which remind me of the film Cabin in the Woods). She also gives Lilith's origin story, she being the first demon Lucifer made because Lucifer in the Superverse is a petty bish.

Apropos Lilith, it is a shame the show gave Lilith a Judaeo-Christian origin rather than having her be an entity from an older mythology. I am really no fan of the show trying to make everything work in a Judaeo-Christian framework, including pre-Abrahamic gods of Europe, Africa, and Asia. And why do they all eat people? More on this nonsense in 5x19 Hammer of the Gods.

After finding Sam has escaped and almost killed Bobby, Dean finds out where Sam is. He enters the hotel room when Sam is absent and finds Ruby. He almost gets the drop on her, but then a fight breaks out between the two of them which is broken up when Sam returns. Sam, of course, takes Ruby's side again (betraying one's family is one of the gravest sins in all faiths and mythologies, Sam, just sayin). Sam tells Ruby to go which leaves him and Dean alone together.

What follows next is Dean's attempts to get Sam to see reason, to ditch the bitch and the demon blood and to go after Lilith with Dean. Sam, on the other hand, laments the fact that Dean does not trust him and hopes they can make things right. Pfft. The subtext of all this is Sam has absolutely no interest whatsoever in working with Dean or doing anything the way Dean thinks they should do things because Sam puts no values whatever on Dean's plans or thoughts. Dean is beneath him and should do what Sam says and wants.

At the same time, however, Sam claims that Dean is always pushing him around and telling him what to do. Sam wants at once to be seen as powerful and competent, but at the same times wants sympathy and understanding for having supposedly been a helpless victim whose agency and choices were stripped from him. Now that Sam has power, he is able to make the choices he was supposedly never allowed to make, and because he is so intelligent and strong, the choices he makes are the correct ones. If only Dean would see how marvellous Sam was, and if only Dean could join Sam in his delusions of grandeur.

Dean's distrust and refusal to coöperate infuriates Sam because it wears away the flimsy illusion of righteousness he has woven about himself. The Sam who Sam has become does not want Dean's trust because he values his brother and the relationship they had, but because it would be confirmation that Sam is on the right path. It would be an ego boost, too. Without that, Sam feels untrustworthy and perhaps generally unworthy.

If the show had leant into the curve and actually allowed Sam to be seen as the villain, none of this would be an issue. Cersei in Game of Thrones is a villain and the show never pretends otherwise. Sam is going to bleed a woman dry in the next episode, drink her blood, then start the Apocalypse, but none of it is really his fault. He was manipulated and he wanted to save his brother and Dean was overbearing and he had the best intentions and I just sicked a bit in my mouth.

Lots of people watching House of the Dragon have complained that bad things Rhaenyra does are either justified or explained away as not her fault or the fault of the men around her. She is not really to blame, the show supposedly wants us to think. I do not fully agree, but she is definitely presented as far more sympathetic than her counterpart in Fire & Blood. In the book, her stupidity (and Viserys's weakness) was one of the triggers of a civil war and the near extinction of the dragons, yet I still like the role her character plays in the book. She is not a 'villain' any more than Alicent et al, but she is hardly a hero.

In the show, she still does a lot of stupid stuff, but the audience is invited to like her and support her claim over Aegon's. In a mirror situation to Sam in this show, she is supposed to be a 'villain' yet she is presented as likeable and a victim of the men around her. The amelioration of her character has been to her detriment. I do like Rhaenyra in the show, but through no fault of the actor's, she has been made less vivid and visceral. I thoroughly hope the writers really are going to give her the same kind of villain arc Game of Thrones tried and failed to give Danaerys, but I worry they are too dead-set on presenting the women as ultimately good and the men as bed.

By the way, the House of the Dragon fandom reminds me a lot of the Supernatural fandom. I have no especial preference for either faction in House of the Dragon and generally like all of those horrible, horrible people (although Viserys did choose Rhaenyra to succeed him). Watching Team Green and Team Black tear into each other and the characters, however, is a lot like how it must have been for fans watching Deangirls and Samgirls go at each other in the early years of the show. The visceral hatred some people have of either Rhaenyra, Alicent, or Criston makes my distaste for Sam feel validated.

As for Sam, this episode should be the culmination of his villain arc, but the show refuses to represent it as such. Sam could have been a villain and Supernatural could have been great. Sam can scheme, connive, fall victim to a demon's feminine wiles (whatever one of those is) and be an irredeemable douche to his brother. If we were not invited to see him as a helpless victim nor to see Dean as the real baddie, this would be fine. Sam could even have been personally likeable and fallen to the 'dark side', and that would still have been a good story. Sam's story has unfortunately not been either of these things for me. I do not find him personally likeable like Dean, nor do I find enjoy his role in the story like Cersei's.

Having read this far, it should be obvious to you, Dear Reader, that I hold Sam mostly to blame for this situation. Well, Ruby really, but Sam needs to take his lumps. But might Dean have helped the situation a little if his communication tactics had been slightly different? His arguments have always been factually correct, i.e. that Ruby is a demon, that demons lie, that Sam's powers (coming from Azazel originally) might lead him to a bad place etc. Objectively this is all true, but Sam is subjective to the situation and does not seem to care much about facts at the moment. Might it have helped if Dean had talked a little more about his time in Hell and the fact that he was becoming a demon? Might this have changed Sam's perception of what was happening to him if Dean had discussed the fact Dean had been on a similar path in Hell and recognised some of the signs?

Even if the writers had remembered that Dean had been to Hell, and why he had been to Hell, this probably would not have helped. By the time Dean found out Ruby already had her claws deep in Sam and he was addicted to demon blood. Whatever the case, Sam was in no mood to negotiate on anything in the final scene, but rather wants Dean to believe in him because 'I'm the only one who can do this'. When Dean refuses to and says Sam is not the one who is going to stop Lilith, Sam's façade collapses and the jealousy referred to earlier is instantly apparent: 'Oh right, the angels think it's you.' Resentment and a bit of mockery are apparent in Sam, especially when he follows this up with calling Dean 'weak'. Dean picks up on this as a dig at his Hell trauma, and his own self-restraint begins failing.

Dean starts trying to boss Sam around (the first time I remember him doing so), and this causes Sam to snap. 'Stop bossing me around, Dean' he moans, sounding exactly like a stroppy teenager. At this point, Sam is 26, had been independent at university for a few years, and has been shown to not let himself be bossed around by anybody in this show.

Loads of episodes in series one and two happened because Sam wanted to go and investigate those things. Dean did not want to go to the house Mary died in, but they still went there in 1x09 Home because Sam wanted to. Dean did not want to go to a faith healer in 1x12 Faith, but Sam did, so off to the faith healer they went. Dean wanted to investigate the deaths in 1x11 Scarecrow but Sam did not, so Sam ran off and met Meg.

Lie after lie comes out of Sam's mouth in this scene: Dean does not 'call the shots', nor does Sam let him 'take the wheel'. Or perhaps Sam does let Dean 'take the wheel', but this is because Sam does not want the accountability. He has shown on numerous occasions that he can 'take the wheel' if he wants to. He just chooses not to. Sam also most assuredly does not trust Dean, meaning that all of this is an attempt at emotional manipulation.

This is not the last time Sam will attempt to manipulate Dean like this, with the next occasion being in 5x05 Fallen Idols where Sam seriously gaslights Dean about the events of the past two years or more and makes it all out to be Dean's fault anyway. ...For reason he brings up in this argument.

Dean is not buying the manipulation and things quickly degenerate. Dean calls Sam a monster, which to be fair is not far from the mark. The fact that this plays into Sam's insecurities does not detract from that, and one is reminded of self-fulfilling prophecies. Sam is not inherently a monster, but he has indeed become one. This is not something Sam is able to hear, though (see above RE: refusal to acknowledge criticism), and Dean calling him a monster begins the fight which ends the episode.

If perhaps my discussion of the subtext in their conversation seems a bit OTT, have a quick watch of this video on the subject of subtext and what viewers can actually read into what characters say:

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I have little to say on the fight itself, except that it is surprising nobody came in to see what all the noise was about. In a fair fight, I expect Dean would probably win, like in 4x14 Sex and Violence, but Sam is superpowered in this scene and bests Dean easily enough. It almost reminds me of when Buffy fought Ted, that is how overpowered Dean seems. Had the fight ended when Dean was on the floor, things would have been bad enough, but perhaps not irretrievably broken.

Things had got out of hand, tension were high, etc etc etc. Even if Sam had killed Dean in that fight, it would have been more akin to manslaughter than murder. ...although it would have still been murder, especially since Sam started the fight. But Sam waited until he had won the fight and Dean was defenceless on the floor. Rather than shooting him or something, Sam made the cold-blooded choice to commit to the considerably lengthier process of strangling him to death. Sam really wanted Dean dead.

Some people have asked me why I hate Sam so much. This right here is one of the reasons. Moreover, as Paula's commenter Arafel wrote, Sam essentially had to make a choice between his crack dealer and his brother, and chose his crack dealer after almost murdering his brother. Another reason is that he is never held properly accountable for it. Some might say Dean forgave him after the events of 5x22 Swan Song, but that really is a cop-out. Bobby essentially calls Dean a pussy for this in the next episode, and then it is never brought up again. Because of this, the show missed out on a lot and alienated some viewers from one of the protagonists.

Having said this, bad relationships really can be like this. Years of arguments, resentment, co-dependence etc can come to a head in a violent crisis where it seems the relationship has to come to an end. Except it continues exactly as before until the next violent crisis. It would be acceptable if the show somehow acknowledged the poisonous nature of Dean and Sam's relationship, but instead it tries to make us think they actually love each other really and do not mean to hurt each other so everything is okay in the end.

Sam wanted Dean dead, and this is glossed over for the sake of keeping the brothers together. As a result, a few episodes' time will see Dean sitting across the table from the man who tried to kill him in cold blood and ...nothing. Why does this go nowhere? I am hardly being a pussy for expecting such a life-changing moment to have some actual impact on the narrative and the characters. After all, Bad Wolves has a song named Remember When about the time the singer's twin brother killed him (he was resuscitated in hospital).

I see Dean and Sam's brother bond as a fabrication and a marketing tool. There is too much acrimony and mistreatment for me to ever be able to see it as a positive thing, whatever the show tries to tell me.

Dean telling Sam to never come back after Sam tried to kill him has been likened to John telling Sam to never come back when he went to university. Dean has also apparently tried bossing Sam around, thereby driving Sam away, just like John. I have no tolerance for bullies and abusers acting like victims, so I merely raised that comment in order to guffaw at its ridiculousness.

After a bumper-size analysis this week, it is finally time to draw things to a well-deserved close. It is a shame the show did not truly have the gonadal fortitude to carry through with Sam becoming a monster: after all, that was the point of episode like 4x04 Metamorphosis, was it not? Its hesitance to make Sam anything other than a victim hamstrung it. The lack of consequences, guilt, and regret for Sam almost killing his brother was the event horizon for many viewers (myself included).

Other than that, I remember still being excited about the next episode when I first got this far in the show. The stakes are high and the conflict between the brothers might lead to them failing to stop the Apocalypse (although as we learn later, this was out of their hands).

Here endeth the analysis. You can read more of my analyses here:

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

Series 4

Sundry

You can read Paula’s review here and Demian’s here.

P.S JUST KISS!!

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terapsina · 1 year ago

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Vote for the GREATEST MOST EFFECTIVE USE OF A SONG IN A TV SERIES THAT INSPIRED...

✨ E M O T I O N S ! ✨

Scenes in question: Angel 5x15, Warehouse 13 3x11, 12 Monkeys 4x11, Bones 3x14, Glee 3x06, Buffy 6x08, Lucifer 4x09, Shadowhunters 1x12, The Tomorrow People 1x12, The Magicians 3x09, The Magicians 4x10, The Magicians 4x13.

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sloppyneedybmxboy · 1 year ago

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fav supernatural episodes

3x03 rabbits foot bella episode 3x08 supernatural christmas super wincest so sweet so sad 3x10 dream a little dream of me, bobby i just love you 3x11 mystery spot, like groundhog day with dean dying a lot SO ANGST between sam and dean 3x12 jus in bello, super tense dude they're in a demon siege goood ep 3x13 ghostfacers, so so funny so spoofy

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4x01 dean comes back from hell whole thing shot like gay porn i love it 4x03 and 02 not my fav episodes ever but incredibly gay destiel scenes at night 4x06 anxious dean 4x07 awesome ep. castiel meets sammie. DESTIEL scenes like the bench scene ZOMG 4x09 just a great ep loads of drama. anna !

4x10 good for drama. anna kisses dean and cas is like :o 4x15 uhh the reapers have been kindapped. castiel and also alistair and pamela. its a fun time (sort of ) 4x16 ON THE HEAD OF A PIN. my favest episode so far, so much drama. dean angst! torturing alistair! bloody cas. cas at deans bedside . i was getting too close to the humans in my charge etc etc 4x18 chuck, good ep ft dean praying to cas for first time

4x20 tense. not the best ep ever but ft jimmy novak aka cas' vessel and funny just for the complete lack of sexual tension between dean and jimmy without cas inside him and dean's confusion

4x21 oop. sam getting demon blood detoxed. angst and greatly enjoyable

4x22 best epppp so good so good. so fun always good to rewatch. much destiel

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5x02 "i rebelled i did it all for you" destiel speech um also awesome ep war comes to small town etc rufus ellen involved very ethel cain 5x03 dean and cas go on a case together for the first time! very gay¬! 5x04 endverse cas and dean, apocalypse, gayness 5x06 good ep with the kid antichrsit it just pisses me offf 5x07 old dean, so funny, bobby angst, loves it 5x08 changing channels! it truly has it all. gabriel, cas, funny sam dean stuff, dr sexy …. 5x10 cas and jo and ellen and dean and bobby and stuff aaaa my heart. they tracked lucifer down. sexy cas scenes 5x11 a true fever dream of an episode … the boys admit themselves to a mental asylum … I don't know if this deserves to be on this list but it was kinda funny idk. minus points for no cas. 5x13 worth it only for the cas!whump scenes hurtcas ! he sends them back in time to fix things with john and mary 5x14 MY BLOODY VALENTINE! consumehimnatural destiel my beloved 5x16 worth it for the cas losing his faith in his father/god plotline. angst cas 5x17 DRUNK BITCH CAS ep.! always good fun to watch him be mean to sam. dean's like WHAAAA? one of my fav eps 5x18 "last time someone looked at my like that, I got laid" DESTIEL ALLEYWAY FIGHT SCENE, angst!dean, so many good scenes !!! one of my fav eps 5x20 wonderful crowley ep, really funny antagonistic & good gay times 5x21 cas in hospital! cas saves the day! not the best plot wise but plenty of fun and crowley involved too so all the boys :D

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6x01 NOT the best episode at ALL but really fun to watch in terms of dean gender studies. dean living normcore life with ben and lisa 6x03 CAS IS ON ONE! "we do have a more profound bond" very funny iconic destiel lines, balthazar included

6x04 BOBBY POV EP! YAY! supa funny silly lighthearted I loves it 6x05 Twilight/vampire. I am hesitant to put this one on the list but it is homoerotic vampires dean gender studies moments so I think it has to be here. minus points for soulless sam and samuel cos they sukk 6x06 ICONIC destiel whiskey pouring scene.Rest of the ep is fairly skippable. I sometimes slow this scene down to x0.25 and watch it because there's so much being said nonverbally thru their body language and eyes so watch careffffully. much to unpack, ripe for analysis. sad!Cas

6x09 dean fight the fairies episode. so much fun 6x10 meg! crowley! cas! the boys! they're all fighting. supa funny cas/crowley bits and cas sexual awakening 6x15 HOLA MISHAMIGOS! meta ep. so funny so silly so light

6x18 this ep truly has it all ONE OF MY FAV OF ALL TIME dean gender silly dress up cowboy, b plot is gay cas and bobby getting angel fisted umm 6x19-22 obvs THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING ARC !!!

7x01 GODSTIEL ARC 7x02 godstiel arc continued. for first 10 mins or something 7x06 -7x12 ok so these are by far not my fav episodes but. there's something to say for them. I thought season 7 was gonna be balls without cas but there's something quite Classic Supernatural going on in these eps which is comforting and/or dean gender studies and/or dean pining for cas which makes them good actually. ft frank & some garth . ALSO bobby being a dad and bobby death sequence eps 9/10 7x17 CAS RETURNS! Emmanual!Cas awesome destiel scenes like the trenchcoat bit ….. 7x18 party on garth. truly an incredible episode. garth-centric 7x20 CHARLIE CHARLIE CHARLIE! 1st charlie ep leviathian heist style plot quite fun and silly 7x21 crazy cas! off his rocker cas! cas and dean play a boardgame! cas is so charmingly aloof and offhand! "when castiel first laid hands on you in hell he was LOST!!!" ft. kevin tran 7x23 weird boy bestfriends behaviour … also "i'd rather have you, cursed or not" destiel scenes ft. the Iconic castiel crowley meg dean love triangle

8x01 unbelievably gay purgatory flashback episode. deranged dean. big gay benny! very queer coded. really fun !!! one of my favs ft kevin 8x02 "too much heart was always castiel's problem" OK? ft kevin tran and his MUM. also pining recently returned from purgatory dean. overall fun ep 8x05 dean x benny ep so Very gay ….. some purg flashback and destiel parallels …. 8x06 garth therapises the Boys! it's always a good time when it's a garth ep ok

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silver-stake-through-the-heart · 4 months ago

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Anna (4x10): Perfect… Like a marble statue. Cold… no choice… only obedience. Dean (7x17): It's bloody, it's corrupt. It's not pleasant.

Anna having a false idea of angels stuck in her mind...

And Dean depicting angels accurately after four seasons of knowing them…

The difference is even more interesting when you remember Cas describing angels at the very beginning of the season 4.

Cas (4x02): Angels are warriors of God. I'm a soldier.

It's shown before and after Anna's appearance that angels are not what she describes. They are flawed, they can be wrong and get hurt. The Apocalypse happens because Lucifer rebelled against God and Uriel (4x16) and Cas (4x22) rebel against Heaven.

Anna's own arc is contradicting her words. She decided to fall. She wanted things for herself.

#spn angels #anna milton #my post

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forbescaroline · 9 months ago

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235 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME (ranked by my followers) 16. lucifer morningstar and chloe decker - lucifer

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shallowseeker · 2 years ago

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Cas, the Angel Tablet, and learning to know and trust his own heart, part 1

His weakness is revealed! The angel tablet as a symbol of Cas's understanding of his own heart.

Part 1 (You are here)

Part 2

Part 3

== What is the angel tablet? ==

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The angel tablet is one of Heaven's most powerful weapons, and sometimes its physicality serves as just that: a weapon.

Other times, it's a curious motif of the secrets of angels, and their angelic romantic love. As one of three known Words of God, it:

"pertains to the nature of Angels as well as granting unimaginable power to Angels who have a connection with it."

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== Angels + Love + Disconnection ==

Throughout the series, angels regularly showcase volatile (and sometimes petty) emotions. They grieve each other; they Fall. They shriek. They tremble. We see this in Anna, Uriel, Hester, Lucifer, Anael and many others.

But due to years of brutal beatdown and brainwashing, they're disconnected from their own hearts. They cannot recognize their own feelings. Even when they are displaying Big Emotions or even longing, they repeat the company line:

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DEAN: You're some heartless sons of bitches, you know that? CASTIEL: As a matter of fact, we are. And? 4x10: Heaven and Hell

ANNA: Perfect... Like a marble statue. Cold... no choice... only obedience. 4x10: Heaven and Hell

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== The illegal union with humanity ==

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In SPN, angels often connect to their own hearts through their (illegal) living among their human-blended families. In 12x10: Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets, we see that angel-human progeny are outlawed by the oldest laws in Heaven.

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In season 8, this illegality surrounds Dean and Cas, and this idea of human-angel unity is littered with motifs such as Cupid bows, and Nephilim hearts. It hammers home the image of forbidden romantic love between angels and humans.

Ther clinging to one another is what allowed Dean and Cas to break Chuck's story: "You're not supposed to be here." This union is what allowed them to see and kill the Leviathan, a feat that is supposed to be the domain of God only.

Free will--rebellion--is a team effort. Sam and Dean could not have done it without Cas, and he could not have done it without them. They learned courage from each other, and they borrowed courage from each other, too.

These elements of rebellion swirl in season 8 and have tragic counterparts in season 15.

Jane the Nephilim (Jack), a love-mark "Cupid's bow" on Cupid's palm (Dean & handprint, symbolic of human love & families), and Castiel's Fallen Angel grace (Cas & The Empty). All elements of angelic-human forbidden love are sacrificed in season 8...as they are in season 15.

A stereotypical arrangement of human-angel motifs goes something like this: The hybrids are killed in front of their parents, to punish them, by witnessing the death of their beloved ones. The fallen angels are then judged by God and cast into dark places. The human lovers linger, as demons to be executed and silenced. It's eerily reminiscent of season 15.

Some believe the fallen angels who sired the Nephilim were cast into Tartarus (2 Peter 2:4, Jude 1:6) (Greek Enoch 20:2), a place of "total darkness."

Floods are the preferred method of torture for the blended, "Nephilim" families: Jack was born on Washaway beach, his birth cabin littered with paintings of the violent sea, and his mother Kelly seemed to recede into the ocean.

As the series progresses, Cas and Dean move from being killed via explosions, Hell hounds, purifying fires, and purifying Purgatory elements...to being overtaken by turbulent waters and summarily executed, as traitors are, with stabs to the back.

Castiel was overtaken by a cosmic sea of black, and Dean was drowned relentlessly by Michael. There is certainly a Flood motif for them in a way there is not for Sam.

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God wants them to keep to their domains; Heaven and Earth are not to merge.

He tells the angels to keep their Dominion over the humans, as shepherds tend to their sheep. He tells the humans, "submit and obey," and then, if you do, maybe someday, I'll elevate you above the angels. You can be equal to me, if only you grovel and take a knee, of course.

(I promise, I promise.)

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== Crime and punishment ==

It's interesting then, that the "Angel Tablet"/Metatron spell was punitive towards angels, causing them to Fall and be cast out. As above, it included sacrificing a Nephilim, stealing a Cupid's love bow (the symbolic taking of a human lover), and sacrificing the grace of a fallen angel.

If Castiel's heart is a blended family, Metatron, like God, cruelly works behind the scenes to clock and punish it. This resulting spell that Metatron devised burns up the wings of the Primary Angels in Heaven, killing many in the process.

Although Metatron aimed his Revenge at the Primary Angels, there's a good chance that this punishment originally existed to be aimed at the human-angel blended families. It seems to predate Lucifer's casting out. Indeed, Apocryphal texts like Enoch 10 shows a sadistic delight in the punitive action of having the Sinful parents watch the deaths of their children:

and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgment and of their consummation, till the judgment that is forever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss

(One thing's for sure, it's certainly Metatron's Revenge of the Nerd.)

If indeed the spell can be assembled from the tablet (it's unclear if if was even in there), that Lucifer hid it inside a crypt suggests he couldn't read it, was protecting someone, or may have been on the side of the Nephilim and their Fathers. All are fascinating possibilities.

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== Is the tablet Castiel's heart? ==

In part. It's other things, too.

Like all motifs in SPN, it morphs in and out of being a stand-in for many different things. In episode 8x17 Goodbye Stranger, it stands in for Castiel's career loyalty...and his heart. At flashpoints, it's Dean's heart, too, because their hearts say the same thing.

Samandriel says of Castiel, "Too much heat was always his problem," so I think much of Castiel's dangerous / insurrectionist power lies in his angelic courage to keep trying to Love, even when Heaven tries to wash it clean.

This disrupts Chuck's Story.

Sure, it makes Cas weaker in some ways, and he'll struggle with that, but it makes him so much stronger, too. More tenacious, more resilient.

I like to think that Chuck slowly starts to become more in competition with Cas, especially as Dean falls more and more in love with him.

"Too stubborn!" Chuck shrieks in 15x17 Unity.

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== Location, location, location ==

Where do we find Castiel's heart in 8x17 Goodbye Stranger? Meg reveals its location, (just as she knows where Castiel's affections truly lie).

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A CRYPT, A BASEMENT, A WAREHOUSE, AN ORCHARD, A FLOOD

It's in a crypt (typically a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or mausoleum). It's located beneath an orchard that was washed away by a hundred-year flood, a call forward to the looming unity of Dean and Cas. Again, we see echoes of Nephilim themes, like the cleansing Flood. Like the orchard, Cas's heart went missing.

WENDY RICE: Well, she-- she didn't, but she did mention an -- an old orchard that had gone missing... This -- this town was wiped from the earth by one of the river's 100-year floods. ... I've been working to re-create a map for years as part of my research, and this -- this is the old Jakubiak orchard there. [she points to a section of the map.] I found out yesterday it's where Downey meets Bond Street. 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

The orchard was washed clean, just as Castiel is brainwashed over and over again, losing sight of his own heart. The old site is now covered by a warehouse. There's an intersection of roads: Downey and Bond, like a profound bond. Cas doesn't so much Learn Humanity as he Revives his Own Dean Heart, one that he had all along.

Remember, it is a warehouse where 8x17 cold-opens, where Naomi forces Cas to act out killing Dean. (And ultimately, Dean will die in a warehouse via Metatron's Heavenly war, in season 9.)

INT. WAREHOUSE - NIGHT DEAN comes around the corner in a darkened warehouse, gun drawn. He brings his gun up but it's struck down. He is struck down. CASTIEL appears over him. DEAN: No, Cas. No! [DEAN raises his hand towards CASTIEL, but CASTIEL breaks his wrist, we hear the bone snap. DEAN groans in pain.] ... NAOMI: No hesitation. Quick. Brutal. [NAOMI and CASTIEL stare down at DEAN.] Everything's back in order. [NAOMI smiles at CASTIEL.] Finally. [We see a close-up of CASTIEL, his face expressionless.] You're ready. 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

This warehouse is like Dean himself, and how his love currently manifests, overflowing with a surplus of affection...for Cas. Later, they come to a warehouse to retrieve the tablet.

EXT. ABANDONED WAREHOUSE, ALLEY - NIGHT MEG: So, this is it. Basement? DEAN: All right, Cas and I will head in and get our Indiana Jones on. Sam, you stay outside with Meg. 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

Once inside, they reach a wall, and Castiel cracks it, letting Dean inside where his heart resides.

CASTIEL: I don't know. Wait. [They're walking through a darkened corridor when CASTIEL stops, feels the cement wall.] There's a draft. There's something behind there. Stand back. [Hand against the wall, energy flows through his hand, the wall cracks.] 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

8x17: GOODBYE STRANGER

So, we have old orchard motif (Cas's love without Heaven's interference; Dean is himself a new "valley")

Flood (Divine punishment)

A broken wrist (Punishment, for continuing to reach for each other despite all the barriers keeping them apart)

Warehouse (Dean loves Cas; it's where the love is stored, like the kitchen; Heaven wants to keep it impersonal and distant)

then a journey DOWN a basement

through a wall, and into a crypt, where Cas's stone-cold, dead heart awaits.

There's also a nod to Indiana Jones, which brings to mind 4x22: Lucifer Rising, a cherished callback to one of the first moments that Cas captivated Dean, and one of the first times they messed up Chuck's story. "We're making it up as we go."

Here in the crypt is where Dean will share his secret truth and shatter the stone barricade around Cas's heart, setting it free.

(It flies away.)

15x18: DESPAIR

This is a mate scene to 15x18: Despair, which features a library motif (Cas breaks the narrative, just as his grace was hidden in a book and blew out the pages of the story)

Death (Mortalpunishment)

A heart attack (punishment for Dean's love)

Bunker (Cas protects Dean, his love is stored in his tenacious, sometimes misguided protection)

then a journey DOWN to the archive room

where Cas erects a "barricade" to protect Dean, with warding

but they are pushed back into a dungeon, where Dean's heart is entrapped (Devil's trap)

The shackles are a nod to Dean's time in Hell, one of the first moments that Dean met Cas.

Here in the dungeon, Cas will share his secret truth and throw Dean out of the entrapment. Cas sets it free.

Dean wears his heart on his sleeve.

(It's bleeding.)

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== Castiel's unknowable heart ==

When they find the tablet, Naomi tells Cas to leave and to tell the Winchester that the crypt is Empty, just like Heaven tells its angels that they're heartless.

Naomi doesn't want Dean to touch it. Cas rationalizes that Dean can and should open it, and it's a logical move, too, since it's warded against angels. Angels, after all, are cursed by God not to connect to their own hearts.

In the crypt, everything is covered with dust, spider webs. Close-up of CASTIEL's face. CASTIEL (breathes): I found it. ... CASTIEL: Dean... [POV switches back to the crypt. CASTIEL points towards an item on a shelf against the wall.] That's it. [DEAN shines his flashlight on a carved, wooden chest.] DEAN: How do you know? CASTIEL: It's the only thing in here warded against angels. [DEAN picks up the heavy object and places it on the table in front of CASTIEL. DEAN picks up a small dagger, and pries open the lid. He reaches in and lifts out a rather large block of stone.] DEAN: Winner, winner, chicken dinner. CASTIEL: Good. Hand it to me, and I'll take it to heaven. DEAN: No, we will take it to Kevin so he can translate. [DEAN holds the block of stone using both hands.] 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

Cas wants to hand his stone-cold heart to Heaven to use as a weapon. Heaven doesn't want angel hearts to belong to angels. They must belong to heaven. But Dean wants to understand it, like he wants to understand and translate Cas.

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== Castiel will hurt Dean ==

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Cas angels up. Thunder and lightning. A storm.

CASTIEL: I won't hurt Dean. NAOMI: Yes. You will. You are. 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

It's a tragic callback to Castiel's season 7 PTSD!ridden lamentation, that he (or Heaven) is going to hurt Dean and he doesn't want to:

CASTIEL: I can't help. You understand? I can't. I destroyed... everything, and I will destroy everything again. Can we please just leave it at that? 7x23: Survival of the Fittest

Castiel's heart is brutal, angelic, and pragmatic. Angels are destroyers. Angels hurt humans, and humans hurt angels. Castiel's heart will hurt Dean. If they give their hearts to each other, if they ally with one another, it's as he said in 4x22: "We'll all be hunted down and killed."

And he's not human. In season 6, Cas started his drawn-out repetition of this: "I'm not human." And he keeps right on emphasizing this, despairing, in season 8, "I don't think it will work for me. I'm not human."

I'm not like you. I'll hurt you. (I'll destroy everything.)

If Dean thinks he's poison, a blunt instrument, then Cas is war personified, a sharpened blade. He'll break what he touches, and even when he breaks, he'll be sharp like glass. Certainly not something you can hold onto.

("War is what Michael does." It's what angels do.)

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== Be honest with me (I love you) ==

Dean pleads with a suddenly dangerous-looking Cas:

INT. BASEMENT, CRYPT - NIGHT DEAN: Just tell me how you got out of Purgatory. Be honest with me -- for the first time since you've been back -- [DEAN nods towards the stone he's still holding] and this is yours. [CASTIEL's blade drops into his hand.]" 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

Be honest with me and this is yours.

Now the tablet is symbolic of Dean's love, too, taunting the possibility that, "Be honest with me, and (my heart) is yours."

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This is the crux of what Dean has been dealing with since season 6. He finally understands his own oversized reactions and defensive barbs. Season 7 brought a crash of unrelenting grief, followed by a slow understanding.

The Turducken revealed that a large part of Dean's issues in that season were about "Cas and the black goo." It hit Dean so hard. It caused Dean to "go through the motions," to "not be the same Dean," to be like "one of the dead hunters walking." Feeling for Cas is different for Dean, and Dean's trying to figure out why:

DEAN: Honestly, I-I-I don't know if he is dead. I just know that this... whole thing couldn't be messier. You know, I used to be able to just shake this stuff off. You know, whatever it was. It might take me some time, but... I always could. What Cas did... I just can't – I don't know why. EMMANUEL/CASTIEL: Well, it doesn't matter why. DEAN: Of course it matters. 7x17: The Born-Again Identity

Of course it matters. it's Dean's feelings! It's Dean trying to sort out why everything with Cas feels so Big. Why Cas matters so much. Why Dean kept the coat. Why he missed him so much. Dean was puzzling it over and trying to figure it out all this time.

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== The coat + Take it. Please. ==

Dean's deeper feelings start to become apparent in the coat scene. Dean tenderly folds the coat, cradles it to his chest, and drags it from car to car. He mouths along the words to "All Out of Love (I'm so lost without you)."

Then, he meets Cas again, and he returns it, a symbol of their longing and their mutual caring (they care about the same things):

DEAN: Wait. DEAN opens the trunk of the car and takes out CASTIEL’s trenchcoat. Somber, he holds it out to CASTIEL. 7x17: The Born-Again Identity

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The meaning is even more potent in the scripted version of the scene:

He goes to the car trunk. Digs... Comes up with Cas's folded, stained COAT. DEAN: Dumb to keep. I know. I saw you-- dissolve or whatever. But, just in case. 'Cause I never stopped wanting to fix it either. So we got something in common. (re: the coat) Just-- take it. Please. 7x17: The Born-Again Identity

This "just take it, please," line is just so desperate. It sounds dangerously close to "giving away your heart." Please.

Take it. Please. Be honest with me and this is yours.

It's freely given. It's not Destiny or Fate. It's the Rebellion of Free Will.

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== Dean defends himself against the onslaught ==

Though Castiel's "heart" is encased in stone, it is this stone that is protecting Dean from Cas-as-Heaven's war hammer. (This tablet was not present to protect Naomi's Dean-doppelgangers.)

Dean is protecting himself from the blows, and yet...he keeps trying to reach for Cas.

He puts a (reciprocal) hand on Cas's shoulder, a callback to Castiel's handprint/influence/connection to Dean. It is simply a bond. The love isn't cosmic Fate. It's simply two people, reaching for each other. Their hands often reach for the left shoulder, for the direct line to the other's heart.

CASTIEL attacks, DEAN blocks the blow with the stone.] Cas! [Flashes of light, thunder rumbles.] ... [CASTIEL strikes again, DEAN again uses the stone to block the blow. Thunder rumbles.] ... DEAN: Cas! [DEAN puts his hand on CASTIEL's shoulder. CASTIEL backhands DEAN who is thrown into a wall and falls to the floor.] 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

The storm is the sound of Castiel's heart, rebelling. Thunderous. It's not dead. It's not dead. (It's not as Dean thought in 4x22: "You soulless son of a bitch. You're already dead. We're done." Cas's heart is alive.)

CASTIEL is attacking DEAN. DEAN throws a punch, CASTIEL grabs his forearm and breaks it. We hear the bone snap, DEAN drops the stone, it shatters, revealing the tablet that was encased within. Lightning flashes. 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

Cas hurts Dean, and as Dean is forced to let go, the stone casing protecting the Angel Tablet (Castiel's heart) shatters.

CASTIEL is beating DEAN. DEAN's face is bruised and bloodied. DEAN: You want it? [CASTIEL looks dispassionately at the now exposed tablet.] Take it! But you're gonna have to kill me first. Come on, you coward. Do it. Do it! [CASTIEL continues to beat DEAN.] 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

Dean is talking to Heaven here, to Naomi. He's saying to her, you have to kill ME in order to kill this connection between me and Cas as we are right now. After all, Dean wouldn't leave him in Purgatory. He's goading Heaven that he won't let go. Dean knows his own heart now.

He keeps reaching for Cas, even though Cas let go of his hand and has in fact broke the wrist of the very hand that had clung to him so tightly in Purgatory.

DEAN: Ohh! [DEAN, seriously beaten and bloody, now has one eye swollen shut.] Cas. Cas. [Weakly, reaching towards CASTIEL.] I know you're in there. [CASTIEL raises his angel blade, ready to strike.] I know you can hear me. Cas... [DEAN's voice breaks, pleading.] It's me. [CASTIEL stands there, blade at the ready, light glints off the blade.] We're family. We need you. I need you. 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

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The script emphasizes Dean, barely hanging on:

From above: CRYPT - NIGHT. Dean is barely hanging on now. Beaten. Swollen. Bloody. DEAN: I know you're in there. I know you are. I forgive, you Cas... (then) ....I love you. Cas looks at Dean. As if hearing him for the first time. 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

This situation is no longer as simple as pleading for honesty and equal partnership:

Be honest with me, and this is yours.

It has become more desperate, unconditional, raw:

I forgive you. I love you regardless. (I need you anyway. Even if you're broken. We're family. We'll be broken together. "Do I look like good luck to you?" I'm broken, too.)

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== The connection to Heaven breaks! ==

Cas rears back, stunned. In the script, it's written, "as if hearing him for the first time." He drops the blade. After all he's been through, the arrogance of being a petty God, the disparaging of human family as ants and pets, the partial penance of Purgatory, and now the unholy analgesic of Heaven's mission, Cas's heart is finally open.

Cas feels...something. It's loud. Thunder and lightning. It's alive.

He lets go of Dean, reaches down to grasp the tablet, and it flashes a bright light that blinds Naomi and hides him from her gaze. I think of how Cas's out-of-bounds nature hides him from demigods, like Noah the gorgon (season 14), and how Chuck cannot seem to predict him.

Castiel's love is a Wild Card.

CASTIEL is holding the angel tablet, standing over DEAN. DEAN: Cas? [Breathing heavily, he's horribly beaten. ] Cas? [CASTIEL reaches his hand towards DEAN. He wails, in a panic, thinking Cas is about to smite him:] No. Cas. Cas! [CASTIEL places his hand on the side of DEAN's head, DEAN gasps, and is suddenly healed.] CAS: I'm so sorry, Dean. 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

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== What broke the connection? (I love you) ==

DEAN (wonderingly): Well, w-what broke the connection? CASTIEL: I don't know. DEAN looks HORRIFIED:

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Dean's not stupid.

He knows what he just said to Cas, and he knows what he himself meant. Dean's figured himself out. In asking, "What broke the connection," he's fishing. It's as good as asking, "What about your feelings." He's been wanting to know Castiel's unknowable heart, and Cas hits him with this light rejection. Is Cas lying to him again, or does he really not- ? Dean thinks he must've misunderstood. Badly.

But the thing is, Cas isn't playing. The tablet, like his heart, is free, but like the tablet, but Castiel can't fully "read" it yet. He's got too much heart, and plenty of emotions, but after billions of years of military servitude, he can't recognize his own feelings or parse them.

(Of course, Dean doesn't know that.)

CAS: I just know that I have to protect this tablet now. DEAN: From Naomi? CASTIEL: Yes. And from you. DEAN: From me? What are you talking about? [CASTIEL and the tablet are suddenly gone, the sound rumbles through the crypt.] Cas? Cas! Damn it. 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

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== Cas flees ==

Fresh off yet another bout of Heavenly brainwashing and torture, Cas needs to flee and figure out how to handle his own heart.

It's no wonder he's spun out. The last few years:

In season 4, he was murdered by Raphael after billions of years of military servitude.

This Raphael-wound led to bitterness and shame, and Cas shouldered a war all by himself in season 6.

(He didn't even trust his comrades to know his Purgatory-eating plans, and he didn't trust them enough to share the burden of that power, either).

In season 7, he became a megalomaniac and family annihilator.

In season 8, he turned to self-punishment/penance/suicide.

He pledged to suffer as penance, and he did not reach for Dean any sort of happiness.

He did not allow himself to go home.

But even so, Heaven still wouldn't let him rest, and they retrieved him for more work.

After all that, he's been hit with this barrage of emotion, and he doesn't understand it or how he feels about it. So, he protects. Withdraws. Flees.

He needs more time to sort himself out.

///

==Dean is hurt in that prickly, embarrassed sort of way==

Dean is mega-hurt.

Because on his part, it was, in essence, a love confession. Naomi's later dialogue is written with this "love confession" in mind:

NAOMI: "I only wish he felt the same way."

And in 8x18 Freaks and Geeks, when Sam asks if Dean is okay, it's Dean who brings up his feelings. "Cas dinged you up pretty good. Are you okay?" Dean bristles -> "What, like my feelings?"

So, not only does Cas not love him, but he doesn't even trust him. Dean clung to him so hard, and Cas let him go again. (The timing is so tragically wrong, as usual.)

SAM: So... what happened? I mean, Cas touched the tablet, and it reset him to his factory settings or something? DEAN: I don't know. And I don't care. All I know is that he is off the reservation with a-a heavenly WMD. Listen, man, I can't take any more lies -- from anyone. 8x17: Goodbye Stranger

The song is revealing, really:

♪ tried to see your point of view ♪ ♪ hope your dreams will all come true ♪

♪ will we ever meet again? ♪ ♪ Feel no sorrow, feel no shame ♪ ♪ come tomorrow, feel no pain ♪ ♪ sweet devotion ♪ it's not for me ♪ ♪ just give me motion ♪ ♪ and set me free ♪

I flash-forward to Hannah in season 10, to that instinctive recoil from human emotions:

HANNAH: But t-those are human things. (10x01 Black) ... HANNAH: These f-feelings, they aren't for me, for us. (10x07 Girls, Girls, Girls)

I wonder.

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4x10, Heaven and Hell

[mid-season finale]

Critical theory: Doubt, disobedience. Fathers. Secrets and confessions pt. 2 [Dean]. The handprint <3 Perfectly normal reactions.

Discussion point/question(s): What do we think about the heaven/hell positioning of Sam and Dean?

Key quotes: Dean, “How I feel… This… inside me… I wish I couldn’t feel anything, Sammy. I wish I couldn’t feel a damn thing.”

Further reading:

Perfectly normal reaction to seeing your buddy kiss a girl (@bloodydeanwinchester)

Discussion:

[I love the one perfect tear as much as the next man, but. Damn I love to see Dean sobbing.]

John is God confirmed.

Dean wants to be an angel—Anna says angels can’t feel anything. She wants to be human, to feel. He wishes he couldn’t feel anything.

Dean/Anna, the handprint, destiel. Iga, “This is just a loaf of bread.” Me, “Buddy, this is nothing. We’re just preheating the oven.”*

[I looked up when Cas was supposed to leave.] [They gave a lot of Anna’s stuff to Cas. Dean and Anna just fucked on screen. So.] So obviously Dean and Anna would’ve had significant romance. And they took her out of the show and replaced her with Cas. And then… Well. [I think certain plotlines, ie. the finale, would’ve been less impactful if it had been Anna. We’ll discuss.] Did Jensen have a say in this character switch, was it partially because of their chemistry?

[We’ve discussed that demons are camp. I mentioned in the episode that angels are homophobic.] It’s giving disney villain. Was flamboyant demons an acting or writing choice? Was homophobic angels a response to this? Iga, always imagined demons as very emotional, very chaotic (Vampire Diaries vampires, bpd), and angels as stoic, not giving a shit about humans etc. And this… is kinda that? [I’m talking about Paradise Lost, of course. Lucifer is emotional, emotionally driven, persuasive etc. He convinced a whole chunk of the host of heaven to fall.] They have to be like that for it to make sense!

We’re seeing how humans become demons. They get tortured until they break and start to torture, and we can assume that leads them to becoming demons… so what happened with Lucifer? Did he fall, become human, and then go through this process? Or did he go straight to hell, and go insane because he was alone? [I just read them Paradise Lost Book 1 242-263 aka my favourite bit.]

Ruby is a real one. She literally put herself through torture for that plan. They love the alliance, the relationship between her and Dean. A lot of feelings

Ruby understands Dean in a way that Sam doesn't. They exchange looks that Sam doesn’t get. He doesn’t feel the need to put up the protective wall, to protect her. He doesn’t need to parent her. And she sees him. And maybe Dean sees her in a way Sam doesn’t, they’ve both had the hell experience, and maybe he respects the fact that she would’ve been in hell much longer than he was. Iga, “Sam doesn’t see Dean and never will, because Dean is his mummy.” And this isn’t an attack on Sam, he’s religious and has a lot of guilt about himself and him and Ruby, and now he knows the angels kinda sucks maybe he’s looking for something to fight for. He sees demons as evil—he trusts her and doesn’t consciously see her as evil—but he does see demons this way, so he has a lot of shame.

Re: the sex scene. Dean is intimate and soft and… always on the bottom.

Julio, maybe I’m jumping to conclusions, but if Sam is the antichrist, Dean is the new Jesus. He’s destined to go to heaven. He masks it in his dedication to his job, but he is sad at the state of the world, and mourns what is going on. Ying to Sam’s yang, which makes him the new Jesus, which is why he has to be kept alive, because that is his purpose. Kai’s addition, Jesus doesn’t have a good time on earth. He suffers. He dies on a cross because God told him to. Deancore. Julio again, Dean has all the elements to be Jesus.

Anna, even as a two-year old human, was terrified of God. She was convinced he would kill her—and eventually the angel’s orders were to kill her. The demons love Lucifer, they’re excited for him to rise, they worship him in a “chill Christian kinda way.” That’s embarrassing for the angels actually. How is God the good guy? He’s not. He’s a dick. Even outside of the ~they just obey, they follow orders, kill humans, kill their own kind. This child was so scared of her father. [I would like to add, though. A lot of demons didn’t believe Lucifer really existed, he was ~just a story told in demon Sunday school. Whereas the angels truly believe all their orders are coming from God. Does that change things? Is it not easier to love something whose presence you don’t feel as much?] If you know someone better, you see their flaws more. If Lucifer is just an ideal in their minds, they can project on him. However, it seems like Lilith knows Lucifer in some way? And she’s terrifying. So. Not a good reflection on Lucifer.

Re: heaven/hell positioning. Kind of on the nose. Can’t infer much from it literally, Sam having demon blood, Dean saved from hell, Dena is Sam’s guardian, he fucked an angel. Julio, “angels have an affinity for Dean.” Demons have plans for Sam, angels have plans for Dean. But, before the angels and demons got this involved, Sam was the pious one, Dean was the ‘sinful’ one. So a nice reverse.

[Cas is autistic. He just stands there like (does the Kubrick stare)] Julio, I feel like he’s not really looking in the eyes though. [The thing is, often when he’s talking to people he’s like. Looking around. But with Dean it’s. Full on intense eye contact. Obsessed.]

Mid-season finale—finale predictions. Iga, Angels will be in the finale. Something about Dean’s time in hell, losing touch with his humanity, he doesn’t want to feel anything, he was transitioning into a demon. Kai, Big clash between heaven and hell. Lucifer is gonna get out, and now God is back too. Lucifer and God have some kind of face off. Julio, Sam and Dean need some time apart, they’re going in different directions. Kai, ohh, maybe Sam and Dean fight each other. Iga, Sam, or someone, comes up with a plan to make both sides fight each other again. Maybe Dean has to choose between his brother and someone else to save. Kai, Dean 1v1 Lucifer. Iga, Ruby gets in a predicament, and they have to sacrifice something to save her. Kai, maybe Dean has to die again… following the Jesus route. Iga, no, it’s Sam’s turn, he’s demon Jesus, and he gets reborn slightly more demon. But we’ve already done ‘came back wrong’.

Star student: Julio, antichrist/Jesus analysis. Also commented mid-episode that maybe Sam’s powers come from drinking Ruby’s blood. This was ignored by everyone. Good job king. [Iga is annoyed by this because apaprently she knew but didn't say it because it felt too obvious.]

Notes: Visiting student Julio.

*the trail of breadcrumbs is just entire loaves of bread / "the bread we made on supernatural" post (@tiktaalic), which I reference almost daily with lines such as "there's no such thing as bread" and "wouldn't it be crazy if bread was real" etc. etc. a very common tag on my main

#supernatural #4x10 #spn 4x10 #heaven and hell #class notes

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Supernatural Season Masterlist

Below are Supernatural Episodes

Season 1

1x1 - Pilot

1x2 - Wendigo

1x3 - Dead in the Water

1x4 - Phantom Traveler

1x5 - Bloody Mary

1x6 - Skin

1x7 - Hook Man

1x8 - Bugs

1x9 - Home

1x10 - Asylum

1x11 - Scarecrow

1x12 - Faith

1x13 - Route 666

1x14 - Nightmare

1x15 - The Benders

1x16 - Shadow

1x17 - Hell House

1x18 - Something Wicked

1x19 - Provenance

1x20 - Dead Man's Blood

1x21 - Salvation

1x22 - Devil's Trap

Season 2

2x1 - In My Time of Dying

2x2 - Everybody Loves a Clown

2x3 - Bloodlust

2x4 - Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

2x5 - Simon Said

2x6 - No Exit

2x7 - The Usual Suspects

2x8 - Crossroad Blues

2x9 - Croatoan

2x10 - Hunted

2x11 - Playthings

2x12 - Nightshifter

2x13 - Houses of the Holy

2x14 - Born Under a Bad Sign

2x15 - Tall Tales

2x16 - Roadkill

2x17 - Heart

2x18 - Hollywood Babylon

2x19 - Folsom Prison Blues

2x20 - What Is and What Should Never Be

2x21 - All Hell Breaks Loose (Part 1)

2x22 - All Hell Breaks Loose (Part 2)

Season 3

3x1 - The Magnificent Seven

3x2 - The Kids Are Alright

3x3 - Bad Day at Black Rock

3x4 - Sin City

3x5 - Bedtime Stories

3x6 - Red Sky at Morning

3x7 - Fresh Blood

3x8 - A Very Supernatural Christmas

3x9 - Malleus Maleficarum

3x10 - Dream a Little Dream of Me

3x11 - Mystery Spot

3x12 - Jus in Bello

3x13 - Ghostfacers!

3x14 - Long-Distance Call

3x15 - Time Is On My Side

3x16 - No Rest for the Wicked

Season 4

4x1 - Lazarus Rising

4x2 - Are You There God? It's Me, Dean Winchester

4x3 - In the Beginning

4x4 - Metamorphosis

4x5 - Monster Movie

4x6 - Yellow Fever

4x7 - It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester

4x8 - Wishful Thinking

4x9 - I Know What You Did Last Summer

4x10 - Heaven and Hell

4x11 - Family Remains

4x12 - Criss Angel Is a Douche Bag

4x13 - After School Special

4x14 - Sex and Violence

4x15 - Death Takes a Holiday

4x16 - On the Head of a Pin

4x17 - It's a Terrible Life

4x18 - The Monster at the End of This Book

4x19 - Jump the Shark

4x20 - The Rapture

4x21 - When the Levee Breaks

4x22 - Lucifer Rising

Season 5

5x1 - Sympathy for the Devil

5x2 - Good God, Y'All!

5x3 - Free To Be You and Me

5x4 - The End

5x5 - Fallen Idols

5x6 - I Believe the Children Are Our Future

5x7 - The Curious Case of Dean Winchester

5x8 - Changing Channels

5x9 - The Real Ghostbusters

5x10 - Abandon All Hope

5x11 - Sam, Interrupted

5x12 - Swap Meat

5x13 - The Song Remains the Same

5x14 - My Bloody Valentine

5x15 - Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

5x16 - Dark Side of the Moon

5x17 - 99 Problems

5x18 - Point of No Return

5x19 - Hammer of the Gods

5x20 - The Devil You Know

5x21 - Two Minutes to Midnight

5x22 - Swan Song

Season 6

6x1 - Exile on Main St.

6x2 - Two and a Half Men

6x3 - The Third Man

6x4 - Weekend at Bobby's

6x5 - Live Free or Twihard

6x6 - You Can't Handle the Truth

6x7 - Family Matters

6x8 - All Dogs Go to Heaven

6x9 - Clap Your Hands If You Believe…

6x10 - Caged Heat

6x11 - Appointment in Samarra

6x12 - Like a Virgin

6x13 - Unforgiven

6x14 - Mannequin 3: The Reckoning

6x15 - The French Mistake

6x16 - And Then There Were None

6x17 - My Heart Will Go On

6x18 - Frontierland

6x19 - Mommy Dearest

6x20 - The Man Who Would Be King

6x21 - Let It Bleed

6x22 - The Man Who Knew Too Much

Season 7

7x1 - Meet the New Boss

7x2 - Hello, Cruel World

7x3 - The Girl Next Door

7x4 - Defending Your Life

7x5 - Shut Up, Dr. Phil

7x6 - Slash Fiction

7x7 - The Mentalists

7x8 - Season 7, Time for a Wedding!

7x9 - How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters

7x10 - Death's Door

7x11 - Adventures in Babysitting

7x12 - Time After Time

7x13 - The Slice Girls

7x14 - Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie

7x15 - Repo Man

7x16 - Out With the Old

7x17 - The Born-Again Identity

7x18 - Party On, Garth

7x19 - Of Grave Importance

7x20 - The Girl With the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo

7x21 - Reading Is Fundamental

7x22 - There Will Be Blood

7x23 - Survival of the Fittest

Season 8

8x1 - We Need to Talk About Kevin

8x2 - What's Up, Tiger Mommy?

8x3 - Heartache

8x4 - Bitten

8x5 - Blood Brother

8x6 - Southern Comfort

8x7 - A Little Slice of Kevin

8x8 - Hunteri Heroici

8x9 - Citizen Fang

8x10 - Torn and Frayed

8x11 - LARP and the Real Girl

8x12 - As Time Goes By

8x13 - Everybody Hates Hitler

8x14 - Trial and Error

8x15 - Man's Best Friend with Benefits

8x16 - Remember the Titans

8x17 - Goodbye Stranger

8x18 - Freaks and Geeks

8x19 - Taxi Driver

8x20 - Pac-Man Fever

8x21 - The Great Escapist

8x22 - Clip Show

8x23 - Sacrifice

Season 9

9x1 - I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here

9x2 - Devil May Care

9x3 - I'm No Angel

9x4 - Slumber Party

9x5 - Dog Dean Afternoon

9x6 - Heaven Can't Wait

9x7 - Bad Boys

9x8 - Rock and a Hard Place

9x9 - Holy Terror

9x10 - Road Trip

9x11 - First Born

9x12 - Sharp Teeth

9x13 - The Purge

9x14 - Captives

9x15 - #THINMAN

9x16 - Blade Runners

9x17 - Mother's Little Helper

9x18 - Meta Fiction

9x19 - Alex Annie Alexis Ann

9x20 - Bloodlines

9x21 - King of the Damned

9x22 - Stairway to Heaven

9x23 - Do You Believe in Miracles?

Season 10

10x1 - Black

10x2 - Reichenbach

10x3 - Soul Survivor

10x4 - Paper Moon

10x5 - Fan Fiction

10x6 - Ask Jeeves

10x7 - Girls, Girls, Girls

10x8 - Hibbing 911

10x9 - The Things We Left Behind

10x10 - The Hunter Games

10x11 - There's No Place Like Home

10x12 - About a Boy

10x13 - Halt & Catch Fire

10x14 - The Executioner's Song

10x15 - The Things They Carried

10x16 - Paint It Black

10x17 - Inside Man

10x18 - Book of the Damned

10x19 - The Werther Project

10x20 - Angel Heart

10x21 - Dark Dynasty

10x22 - The Prisoner

10x23 - Brother's Keeper

Season 11

11x1 - Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire

11x2 - Form and Void

11x3 - The Bad Seed

11x4 - Baby

11x5 - Thin Lizzie

11x6 - Our Little World

11x7 - Plush

11x8 - Just My Imagination

11x9 - O Brother Where Art Thou?

11x10 - The Devil in the Details

11x11 - Into the Mystic

11x12 - Don't You Forget About Me

11x13 - Love Hurts

11x14 - The Vessel

11x15 - Beyond the Mat

11x16 - Safe House

11x17 - Red Meat

11x18 - Hell's Angel

11x19 - The Chitters

11x20 - Don't Call Me Shurley

11x21 - "All in the Family

11x22 - We Happy Few

11x23 - Alpha and Omega

Season 12

12x1 - Keep Calm and Carry On

12x2 - Mamma Mia

12x3 - The Foundry

12x4 - American Nightmare

12x5 - The One You've Been Waiting For

12x6 - Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox

12x7 - Rock Never Dies

12x8 - LOTUS

12x9 - First Blood

12x10 - Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets

12x11 - Regarding Dean

12x12 - Stuck in the Middle (With You)

12x13 - Family Feud

12x14 - The Raid

12x15 - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell

12x16 - Ladies Drink Free

12x17 - The British Invasion

12x18 - The Memory Remains

12x19 - The Future

12x20 - Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes

12x21 - There's Something About Mary

12x22 - Who We Are

12x23 - All Along the Watchtower

Season 13

13x1 - Lost and Found

13x2 - The Rising Son

13x3 - Patience

13x4 - The Big Empty

13x5 - Advanced Thanatology

13x6 - Tombstone

13x7 - War of the Worlds

13x8 - The Scorpion and the Frog

13x9 - The Bad Place

13x10 - Wayward Sisters

13x11 - Breakdown

13x12 - Various & Sundry Villains

13x13 - Devil's Bargain

13x14 - Good Intentions

13x15 - A Most Holy Man

13x16 - Scoobynatural

13x17 - The Thing

13x18 - Bring 'em Back Alive

13x19 - Funeralia

13x20 - Unfinished Business

13x21 - Beat the Devil

13x22 - Exodus

13x23 - Let the Good Times Roll

Season 14

14x1 - Stranger in a Strange Land

14x2 - Gods and Monsters

14x3 - The Scar

14x4 - Mint Condition

14x5 - Nightmare Logic

14x6 - Optimism

14x7 - Unhuman Nature

14x8 - Byzantium

14x9 - The Spear

14x10 - Nihilism

14x11 - Damaged Goods

14x12 - Prophet and Loss

14x13 - Lebanon

14x14 - Ouroboros

14x15 - Peace of Mind

14x16 - Don't Go in the Woods

14x17 - Game Night

14x18 - Absence

14x19 - Jack in the Box

14x20 - Moriah

Season 15

15x1 - Back and to the Future

15x2 - Raising Hell

15x3 - The Rupture

15x4 - Atomic Monsters

15x5 - Proverbs 17:3

15x6 - Golden Time

15x7 - Last Call

15x8 - Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven

15x9 - The Trap

15x10 - The Heroes' Journey

15x11 - The Gamblers

15x12 - Galaxy Brain

15x13 - Destiny's Child

15x14 - Last Holiday

15x15 - Gimme Shelter

15x16 - Drag Me Away (From You)

15x17 - Unity

15x18 - Despair

15x19 - Inherit the Earth

15x20 - Carry On

#gifs #supernatural #supernatural gifs #season masterlist

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gift-to-literature · 2 years ago

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1. Pilot : 1x1

2. Wendigo : 1x2

3. Dead in the Water : 1x3

4. Phantom Traveler : 1x4

5. Bloody Mary : 1x5

6. Skin : 1x6

7. Hook Man : 1x7

8. Bugs : 1x8

9. Home : 1x9

10. Asylum : 1x10

11. Scarecrow : 1x11

12. Faith : 1x12

13. Route 666 : 1x13

14. Nightmare : 1x14

15. The Benders : 1x15

16. Shadow : 1x16

17. Hell House : 1x17

18. Something Wicked : 1x18

19. Provenance : 1x19

20. Dead Man's Blood : 1x20

21. Salvation : 1x21

22. Devil's Trap : 1x22

23. In My Time of Dying : 2x1

24. Everybody Loves a Clown : 2x2

25. Bloodlust : 2x3

26. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things : 2x4

27. Simon Said : 2x5

28. No Exit : 2x6

29. The Usual Suspects : 2x7

30. Crossroad Blues : 2x8

31. Croatoan : 2x9

32. Hunted : 2x10

33. Playthings : 2x11

34. Nightshifter : 2x12

35. Houses of the Holy : 2x13

36. Born Under a Bad Sign : 2x14

37. Tall Tales : 2x15

38. Roadkill : 2x16

39. Heart : 2x17

40. Hollywood Babylon : 2x18

41. Folsom Prison Blues : 2x19

42. What Is and What Should Never Be : 2x20

43. All Hell Breaks Loose: Part 1 : 2x21

44. All Hell Breaks Loose: Part 2 : 2x22

45. The Magnificent Seven : 3x1

46. The Kids Are Alright : 3x2

47. Bad Day at Black Rock : 3x3

48. Sin City : 3x4

49. Bedtime Stories : 3x5

50. Red Sky at Morning : 3x6

51. Fresh Blood : 3x7

52. A Very Supernatural Christmas : 3x8

53. Malleus Maleficarum : 3x9

54. Dream a Little Dream of Me : 3x10

55. Mystery Spot : 3x11

56. Jus in Bello : 3x12

57. Ghostfacers! : 3x13

58. Long Distance Call : 3x14

59. Time Is on My Side : 3x15

60. No Rest for the Wicked : 3x16

61. Lazarus Rising : 4x1

62. Are You There, God? It's Me Dean Winchester : 4x2

63. In the Beginning : 4x3

64. Metamorphosis : 4x4

65. Monster Movie : 4x5

66. Yellow Fever : 4x6

67. It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester : 4x7

68. Whisful Thinking : 4x8

69. I Know What You Did Last Summer : 4x9

70. Heaven and Hell : 4x10

71. Family Remains : 4x11

72. Criss Angel Is a Douch Bag : 4x12

73. After School Special : 4x13

74. Sex and Violence : 4x14

75. Death Takes a Holiday : 4x15

76. On the Head of a Pin : 4x16

77. It's a Terrible Life : 4x17

78. The Monster at the End of This Book : 4x18

79. Jump the Shark : 4x19

80. The Rapture : 4x20

81. When the Levee Breaks : 4x21

82. Lucifer Rising : 4x22

83. Sympathy for the Devil : 5x1

84. Good God, Y'All : 5x2

85. Free to Be You and Me : 5x3

86. The End : 5x4

87. Fallen Idols : 5x5

88. I Believe the Children Are Our Future : 5x6

89. The Curious Case of Dean Winchester : 5x7

90. Changing Channels : 5x8

91. The Real Ghostbusters : 5x9

92. Abandon All Hope : 5x10

93. Sam, Interrupted : 5x11

94. Swap Meat : 5x12

95. The Song Remains the Same : 5x13

96. My Bloody Valentine : 5x14

97. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid : 5x15

98. Dark Side of the Moon : 5x16

99. 99 Problems : 5x17

100. Point of No Return : 5x18

101. Hammer of the Gods : 5x19

102. The Devil You Know : 5x20

103. Two Minutes to Midnight : 5x21

104. Swan Song : 5x22

105. Exile on Main St. : 6x1

106. Two and a Half Man : 6x2

107. The Third Man : 6x3

108. Weekend at Bobby's : 6x4

109. Live Free or Twi-hard : 6x5

110. You Can't Handle the Truth : 6x6

111. Family Matters : 6x7

112. All Dogs Go to Heaven : 6x8

113. Clap Your Hands If You Believe : 6x9

114. Caged Heat : 6x10

115. Appointment in Samarra : 6x11

116. Like a Virgin : 6x12

117. Unforgiven : 6x13

118. Mannequin 3: The Reckoning : 6x14

119. The French Mistake : 6x15

120. ... And Then There Were None : 6x16

121. My Heart Will Go On : 6x17

122. Frontierland : 6x18

123. Mommy Dearest : 6x19

124. The Man Who Whould Be King : 6x20

125. Let It Bleed : 6x21

126. The Man Who Knew Too Much : 6x22

127. Meet the New Boss : 6x23

128. Hello, Cruel World : 7x1

129. The Girl Next Door : 7x2

130. Defending Your Life : 7x3

131. Shut Up, Dr. Phil : 7x4

132. Slash Fiction : 7x5

133. The Mentalists : 7x6

134. Season Seven, Time for a Wedding! : 7x7

135. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel : 7x8

136. How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters : 7x9

137. Death's Door : 7x10

138. Adventures in Babysitting : 7x11

139. Time After Time : 7x12

140. The Slice Girls : 7x13

141. Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie : 7x14

142. Repo Man : 7x15

143. Out with the Old : 7x16

144. The Born-Again Identity : 7x17

145. Party On, Garth : 7x18

146. Of Grave Importance : 7x19

147. The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo : 7x20

148. Reading Is Fundamental : 7x21

149. There Will Be Blood : 7x22

150. Survival of the Fittest : 7x23

151. We Need to Talk About Kevin : 8x1

152. What's Up, Tiger Mommy? : 8x2

153. Heartache : 8x3

154. Bitten : 8x4

155. Blood Brother : 8x5

156. Southern Comfort : 8x6

157. A Little Slice of Kevin : 8x7

158. Hunteri Heroici : 8x8

159. Citizen Fang : 8x9

160. Torn and Frayed : 8x10

161. LARP and the Real Girl : 8x11

162. As Time Goes By : 8x12

163. Everybody Hates Hitler : 8x13

164. Trial and Error : 8x14

165. Man's Best Friend with Benefits : 8x15

166. Remember the Titans : 8x16

167. Goodbye Stranger : 8x17

168. Freaks and Geeks : 8x18

169. Taxi Driver : 8x19

170. Pac-Man Fever : 8x20

171. The Great Escapist : 8x21

172. Clip Show : 8x22

173. Sacrifice : 8x23

174. I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here : 9x1

175. Devil May Care : 9x2

176. I'm No Angel : 9x3

177. Slumber Party : 9x4

178. Dog Dean Afternoon : 9x5

179. Heaven Can't Wait : 9x6

180. Bad Boys : 9x7

181. Rock and a Hard Place : 9x8

182. Holy Terror : 9x9

183. Road Trip : 9x10

184. First Born : 9x11

185. Sharp Teeth : 9x12

186. The Purge : 9x13

187. Captives : 9x14

188. #thinman : 9x15

189. Blade Runners : 9x16

190. Mother's Little Helper : 9x17

191. Meta Fiction : 9x18

192. Alex Annie Alexis Ann : 9x19

193. Bloodlines : 9x20

194. King of the Damned : 9x21

195. Stairway to Heaven : 9x22

196. Do You Believe in Miracles : 9x23

197. Black : 10x1

198. Reichenbach : 10x2

199. Soul Survivor : 10x3

200. Fan Fiction : 10x4

201. Paper Moon : 10x5

202. Ask Jeeves : 10x6

203. Girls, Girls, Girls : 10x7

204. Hibbing 911 : 10x8

205. The Things We Left Behind : 10x9

206. The Hunter Games : 10x10

207. There's No Place Like Home : 10x11

208. About a Boy : 10x12

209. Halt & Catch Fire : 10x13

210. The Executioner's Song : 10x14

211. The Thing They Carried : 10x15

212. Paint It Black : 10x16

213. Inside Man : 10x17

214. Book of the Damned : 10x18

215. The Werther Project : 10x19

216. Angel Heart : 10x20

217. Dark Dynasty : 10x21

218. The Prisoner : 10x22

219. Brother's Keeper : 10x23

220. Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire : 11x1

221. Form and Void : 11x2

222. The Bad Seed : 11x3

223. Baby : 11x4

224. Thin Lizzie : 11x5

225. Our Little World : 11x6

226. Plush : 11x7

227. Just My Imagination : 11x8

228. O Brother, Where Art Thou? : 11x9

229. The Devil in the Details : 11x10

230. Into the Mystic : 11x11

231. Don't You Forget About Me : 11x12

232. Love Hurts : 11x13

233. The Vessel : 11x14

234. Beyond the Mat : 11x15

235. Safe House : 11x16

236. Red Meat : 11x17

237. Hell's Angel : 11x18

238. The Chitters : 11x19

239. Don't Call Me Shurley : 11x20

240. All in the Family : 11x21

241. We Happy Few : 11x22

242. Alpha and Omega : 11x23

243. Keep Calm and Carry On : 12x1

244. Mamma Mia : 12x2

245. The Foundry : 12x3

246. American Nightmare : 12x4

247. The One You've Been Waiting For : 12x5

248. Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox : 12x6

249. Rock Never Dies : 12x7

250. LOTUS : 12x8

251. First Blood : 12x9

252. Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets : 12x10

253. Regarding Dean : 12x11

254. Stuck in the Middle (With You) : 12x12

255. Family Feud : 12x13

256. The Raid : 12x14

257. Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell : 12x15

258. Ladies Drink Free : 12x16

259. The British Invasion : 12x17

260. The Memory Remains : 12x18

261. The Future : 12x19

262. Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes : 12x20

263. There's Something About Mary : 12x21

264. Who We Are : 12x22

265. All Along the Watchtower : 12x23

266. Lost and Found : 13x1

267. The Rising Son : 13x2

268. Patience : 13x3

269. The Big Empty : 13x4

270. Advanced Thanatology : 13x5

271. Tombstone : 13x6

272. War of the Worlds : 13x7

273. The Scorpion and the Frog : 13x8

274. The Bad Place : 13x9

275. Wayward Sisters : 13x10

276. Breakdown : 13x11

277. Various & Sundry Villains : 13x12

278. Devil's Bargain : 13x13

279. Good Intentions : 13x14

280. A Most Holy Man : 13x15

281. ScoobyNatural : 13x16

282. The Thing : 13x17

283. Bring 'em Back Alive : 13x18

284. Funeralia : 13x19

285. Unfinished Business : 13x20

286. Beat the Devil : 13x21

287. Exodus : 13x22

288. Let the Good Times Roll : 13x23

289. Stranger in a Strange Land : 14x1

290. Gods and Monsters : 14x2

291. The Scar : 14x3

292. Nightmare Logic : 14x4

293. Optimism : 14x5

294. Unhuman Nature : 14x6

295. Byzantium : 14x7

296. The Spear : 14x8

297. Nihilism : 14x9

298. Damaged Goods : 14x10

299. Prophet and Loss : 14x11

300. Lebanon : 14x12

301. Mint Condition : 14x13

302. Ouroboros : 14x14

303. Peace of Mind : 14x15

304. Don't Go in the Woods : 14x16

305. Game Night : 14x17

306. Absence : 14x18

307. Jack in the Box : 14x19

308. Moriah : 14x20

309. Back and to the Future : 15x1

310. Raising Hell : 15x2

311. The Rupture : 15x3

312. Atomic Monsters : 15x4

313. Proverbs 17:3 : 15x5

314. Golden Time : 15x6

315. Last Call : 15x7

316. Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven : 15x8

317. The Trap : 15x9

318. The Heroes' Journey : 15x10

319. The Gamblers : 15x11

320. Galaxy Brain : 15x12

321. Destiny's Child : 15x13

322. Last Holiday : 15x14

323. Gimme Shelter : 15x15

324. Drag Me Away (From You) : 15x16

325. Unity : 15x17

326. Despair : 15x18

327. Inherit the Earth : 15x19

328. Carry On : 15x20

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