Earlier this week, Alice discussed a very interesting connect the dots scenario surrounding both Seasons 6 and 7 on Supernatural. Is there an underlying arc of which has been driving all the plot lines since the beginning of Season 6? I would like to discuss one which upon some investigation of my own, I think is more plausible than Sam still being in Hell. It’s this:
It's time to take a look at all the episode twelves from the first six seasons of Supernatural.
This Week in Supernatural History…Episode Twelve
2006:
“God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work.”
2007:
“Ex-marine, raised his kids on the road, cheap motels, backwood cabins, real paramilitary survivalist type. I just can't get a handle on what type of wacko he was. White supremacist, Timothy McVeigh? Tomato, tomahto.”
2008:
“Honestly, I think the world's going to end bloody. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't fight. We do have choices. I choose to go down swingin'.”
2009:
“Oh, you ain't been had till you been had by The Chief. Oh, and before we get started, what's your safe word?”
2010:
“Crystal, I would love to have the sex with you.”
2011:
“Um, look, I would hug you, but-” “That would be awkward.”
Recently I had started an article looking for clues in “Time After Time” to support a couple of theories started by Bookdal and Pragmatic Dreamer that all these time references and other clues throughout season seven were leading to an “everything is not what it seems” situation.
Something weird happened during that exercise. My silly mind (which loves doing this in times of Hellatus) took the clues amassed and started playing connect the dots. The idea was to connect the dots all the way through the starting point of these theories, which was last season’s finale, “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” The trouble is, the line kept going. And going. Suddenly I’m all the way back to “Exile On Main Street.”
There’s something I can’t buy about Sam being in a coma since “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” There’s little payoff to that story line. What happens when Sam wakes up? He and Dean leave the panic room, they’re thrilled Bobby is alive and his house is okay, and they ride off into the sunset in the Impala. That’s a lot of strife for nothing. There has to be more.
I hear the groans out there. I agree, our tin foils hats these days are tearing a bit in certain places. For pure entertainment and speculation purposes though, hear me out. What else do you have to do until the next new episode?
The Week in Supernatural History…Episode Eleven
Well, episode eleven of season seven was kind of a letdown, let’s see how it measures up against previous episode elevens:
2006:
Pretty blondes who are overly friendly…just say no.
Warning!!! If you haven't watched tonight's episode or seen the preview for next week's episode, read no further! There will be discussion of plot and other such things you may not want to read. You have been warned! (Here there be dragons.)
Here we go, part two, aka what little bit happened in each episode of season seven that got me smiling? There are ten of them, one to go with each episode.
For those that missed part one, aka the last half of season six, that can be found here:
www.thewinchesterfamilybusiness.com/article-list/episode-related/16696-supernatural-moments-in-2011-that-make-me-smile.html
As a reminder, these are little quick moments that weren't the most memorable, funniest, or saddest scenes. Just a little something that makes me smile and reminds me why "Supernatural" is such an awesome show.
It’s that time of year again! It’s late December, I’m woefully out of ideas for articles, so I look at what I did this time in previous years and make a past idea an annual tradition.
In both 2009 and 2010, I went through all the episodes that aired the current year and picked from each episode the moments that made me smile. These weren’t necessarily the howingly funniest bits, the most heart wrenching, or the most action packed. They were just quick little bits thrown into the ep that innocently triggered those facial muscles of mine and lifted my heart, offering a subtle reminder as to why I love this show so much.
Like last year, I’ve broken these moments that make me smile into two parts. Part one is the last half of season six and part two is the first half of season seven. Here’s part one!
I thought "Death's Door" was a magnificent piece of work, and ranks right up there with "Abandon All Hope" as one of the best mid-season finales of the series. And while I grieve profoundly for Bobby's death, the story around it was solid and very fitting, and did him proud. Special kudos to Jim Beaver for an award-worthy, totally honest performance, and to the entire company for supporting him in it.
Although I do believe Bobby is well and truly dead, this is Supernatural, after all, and I strongly suspect we haven't seen the last of him. Sam and Dean have died more than once, but are still walking, and even Bobby came back from the dead before, raised by Castiel after Lucifer killed him in "Swan Song." Castiel himself was brought back, evidently by God, at least twice after having been destroyed by more powerful archangels, as described or seen in "Sympathy For the Devil" and "Swan Song" – and where there's room for one wayward angel, I'm certain there's room for one almost-father and heavenly hero. I think there are some excellent story opportunities that could involve Bobby's eventual return, and I thought I'd explore one here. Welcome to a speculative fiction, cosmology, and mythology class at my little Supernatural University, in which I look to the show's established ghost and spirit lore to ask questions about where the writers could possibly take Bobby's story in the future, based on elements from the past!
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