For just a minute, yeah, this episode feels hopeful. Despite ~everything still hanging over them~ they got a MASSIVE win. Like, win of a lifetime, quite literally. Sure they still have problems going into s3-- Dean’s deal and his one year left to live, the worry over whether Sam “came back right” (spoiler alert, he did, this is all just mind games being put in place to manipulate them), and oopsie all those freshly escaped demons wreaking havoc... but heck this one does end on a good note otherwise.
Yes, that sounds ridiculous, but it’s true! You’re watching Supernatural! This is just how it is :’D
Things reference in this episode:
The Superwiki page for this episode
My tag for this episode (chronological order, so you can get progressively more hopeful about the series, and then just stop reading when it gets to the series finale era posts lol)
The dvd/blu ray featurette about the making of this episode
Plus I engaged in a few fun little what-if games throughout this episode, and I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on what might’ve been different had a few tiny little things happened differently in this episode. Not because it would’ve logically made sense to make those changes, but the show itself has given us an opportunity to wonder about them with the introduction of “the author” to the story, and the concept of alternate universes where things happened differently. :D
