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Supernatural: In The Beginning

By fred | October 3, 2008

(S04E03) I’ve always know it, it’s not a secret, Supernatural is the best thing on The CW. As much as I may love Reaper or even Gossip Girl, there’s no question that this show, is just the best. But what this episode proved today, is that Supernatural isn’t just the best show on The CW, but one of the best show on TV, plain& simple. Seriously, this episode right there is the reason I’m a TVoholic, it’s just so freaking good, there’s no choice!

Definitely the best episode of the season so far and one of the best episodes of the series, I think this new season couldn’t have started any better than the way it did, and even better is how week after week things just keeps getting better and better. This episode had it all, actions, humor, great guest stars, Castiel, lots of Dean, and of course…

…time travel. Now that was really really good, not only because of what happened, but also the way it was done. First of all I have to mention Back To The Future, because this movie – the complete trilogy actually – used to be ma favorite movie(s) back when I was a kid, I used to watch them over & over again. So as you can imagine, the scene in the restaurant, when the guy coming in shooting “Hey McFly Winchester!” and both of them turn around, that just made me laugh. I also really like how they acknowledged it even more when Dean asked Castiel if he had a Dolorean or something.

But time travel, especially trips to the past, are a bitch. It’s a very difficult thing to pull because you risk to enter endless loops of non-sense, inconsistencies and other paradoxes. Just look at Lost, they went here, it’s been awesome so far, but there’s already so much paradoxes and oddities that you have to wonder how they’ll be able to pull it off.

The great thing here was that, unlike what happened to Marty, Dean couldn’t change anything. Sure, it sounds like a whole lot of nothing then, but it wasn’t. Dean wasn’t just a passive witness, and he could change things, sure, but only details, because what had happened did happened, and so it would always happen no matter what, you cannot change destiny. His father died on that day, and his mother, Mary, made a deal with Azazel and brought him back to life. That’s how things went down, and no matter how hard Dean wanted to change that and tried to stop it from happening, there was simply nothing he could do.

The reason he was sent back there wasn’t to stop that from happening, but something else. If Castiel sent Dean back it was to show him the truth, because there was just no way he could have simply told him about it, Dean wouldn’t have believed it anyway, but now he’s more invested than he ever was before. What was so great about this trip to the past, besides the obvious excellence in acting from absolutely everyone involved, was how it did allow to fill in some blanks in the whole mythology and history of the Winchester family, and best of all it all seemed natural.

When we were told about that day in 83, Mary knew Azazel somehow. We didn’t know how, we didn’t know why she did recognized him, but she did. And now we know. It really felt as if there’s always been this major thing at play, with Azazel and his special kids he’s been collecting, it’s always been there from the very beginning of the show, and the writers always knew about it, only we did not. It all fell in place so naturally, nothing forced and contrived, like it was part of the plan from day one, and I gotta say this is the best feeling ever.

Castiel had to show Dean, because Dean will now have to face his brother and maybe to fight him. When the episode started and we saw Sam sneaking out, I was saying to myself how it’s funny that, ever since Dean came back from Hell, he and Sam have never been fully honest with one another. Dean hasn’t been talking about everything Castiel shared, and Sam is hiding the fact that Ruby isn’t dead, and he’s working with her developing his abilities.

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Shows: Supernatural