This Was The Moment Where My Ears Really Pricked Up As A First Time Watcher Of Supernatural. I Loved

This was the moment where my ears really pricked up as a first time watcher of Supernatural. I loved this whole episode, but this reveal from Cas twigged me to the whole concept that the characters were living a written narrative in-universe rather than, for want of a better phrase, a normal life. I went from enjoying the characters and watching along gamely to being fully invested in the overall story arc in the few seconds filled by this exchange of dialogue.

Watching the show with my mum, she kept complaining during the early seasons that the boys shook off too many serious injuries, too many no-win scenarios, too many fights where they were outgunned, not to mention death itself. And I was like... "I think that's maybe the whole point...maybe?" I was confident by the end of season 2 that there was a concrete reason for Sam and Dean's ever-escalating battle, a purpose to the impossible odds and narrow scrapes that went beyond the bog-standard, handwaved Plot Armour of the average TV protagonists. Castiel showing up at the start of S4 to reveal that God wanted Dean saved from Hell seemed to answer the question - then quickly didn't, as it became apparent that the angels are not only dicks to each other and humanity, but don't really know what's what either - they just believe they do.

Supernatural ended up taking this storyline - the meta story about stories, cycles, free will, and the monster at the end of this book - so much further than I could've hoped, and I loved every second of it.

"He's a mouthpiece, a conduit for the inspired word." ↳ 4.18 - THE MONSTER AT THE END OF THIS BOOK

Dean & Castiel being married af in season 15 (lowkey crack)

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