Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and this week on the Supernatural finale the mother of all
cliffhangers went down.
And as crazy as it is to think, Season 10 is going to be one of the most interesting
years they show has ever had.
Metatron even gave one of the best ideas for a new Supernatural spinoff I’ve heard in
a long time.
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Time to get Winchestered.
That’s not a sex thing by the way.
I’m going to start with my top 5 moments and then do my review.
Careful for spoilers from the episode if you haven’t seen it yet.
Here we go.
Number 5 - Metatron edges out PewdiePie as the world biggest Youtube Star
It’s actually a pretty ingenious plan.
If you wanted people to starting thinking you were god you’d have to use a social
media platform to reach as many eyeballs as quickly as possible.
And Youtube is the world’s biggest social media site.
People just forget that because it’s video.
But it’s really a social media tool at it’s core.
I always thought it was human souls that made angels more powerful, like when Castiel became
god.
He didn’t literally become god, he just became so powerful he was LIKE god.
And the same is true of Metatron.
He’s just tapping into the energy of the Angel Tablet.
That’s why he said that phrase when he was punching Dean’s lights out.
He was comparing the benefits of being powered by the word of god, the tablet, versus being
powered by the first blade.
Obviously the word of god is going to be more powerful, because it’s literally the words
of creation.
I love the idea that he was storing it inside his typewriter.
I’m guessing he was just translating it into readable words.
And that was the story he was writing, the best story ever.
He also spent a lot of time talking to Castiel this season about how the best artists steal
their material.
Which is funny, because he was essentially ripping of God, via the tablet.
To write his new story.
He’s still alive, so hopefully in season 10 we’ll learn more about what his story
was going to be.
It’s almost like George RR Martin teasing out winds of winter on his blog.
Maybe that’s what Metatron will do in season 10.
Number 4 - Castiel Uses Pop Culture To Defeat Metatron
Getting the villain to monologue while you secretly broadcast him to the whole school
is an oldie but a goodie.
When Metatron told Castiel he should have read more he was forgetting that he implanted
the sum total of all pop culture that had ever existed in his brain.
Remember, Metatron basically copy and pasted his brain into Castiel.
And Metatron had read every book that had ever been written, seen every movie that had
ever been made, et cetera.
So in a way, Metatron defeated himself.
I don’t think Castiel would have thought to do that otherwise.
And now that he’s defeated him, Castiel is the reluctant leader again.
When Hannah asked him about his Grace I actually thought he was going to ‘borrow’ Dean
to heal himself like Gadreel did at the beginning of the Season.
I’ll talk about Castiel Season 10 after my review.
One of my favorite take aways from this scene was that Castiel broke the most powerful weapon
in the universe to save one man.
Destiel shippers probably exploded in front of their tvs.
Number 3 - Crowley Is Getting Restless In Hell
This all ties into that speech in the diner where he gets all existential on Dean and
makes him wonder if there’s anything more for him beyond hunting.
Now that we’ve seen the whole episode, I kind of think he was foreshadowing Dean becoming
a Demon.
Like Crowley himself was also getting tired of his daily grind and was just waiting for
Dean to die so the mark would resurrect him as a demon and they could go on new adventures
together as a pair of demons.
Like Crowley thought he’d replace Sam in Dean’s life.
As much as Sam made fun of Dean for his bromance with Crowley, I think Crowley actually really
enjoys having Dean around.
Eternity is boring.
For any Batman fans out there, Ra’s Al Ghul actually said in the comics once, Memory is
the first casualty of Immortality, I would say excitement is the second.
Dean turning is like the best thing that could have happened to Crowley.
It creates is own set of unique problems.
But we can talk about that after my review.
Number 2 - Dean Dies
I always knew one of them would sacrifice themselves at the end of this season, and
given last year it was Sam’s turn.
It only makes sense that Dean gets his wish and dies.
Well, not exactly.
We won’t know what his reaction to being a demon is till episode 1 of season 10.
But up to that point I think Dean was just happy to be rid of his blade addiction.
He’d really strained his relationship with Sam, and you guys can let me know what you
thought of the addict storyline, but I think there’s this idea that you never really
stop being an addict.
Like the drugs never really let you go.
And thus Dean can’t die, not a true death.
and my Number 1 moment - Dean Becomes A Demon
Of all the possible resolutions to the season, this was one of the best.
I can’t wait to see Dean embrace some of his more destructive tendencies.
Being that he’s a Demon he’ll still have his old personality.
Think about Cain, he had the mark and when we first met him, he seemed pretty normal.
So I’m expecting Dean to still tell the same jokes and still go for burgers and women.
He’ll just have some Demon urges lumped on top of all his other vices.
The real question now is how can Sam and Castiel fix him, or at least bring him into heaven.
Is that even possible?
I think it is, but it’s going to be the larger Season 10 arc in addition to Castiel
fixing heaven.
That will mean fixing the tablet.
Which only a prophet can do.
I wonder if that means we’ll get to see Kevin again?
Even though he’s a ghost.
But now it’s your turn, let me know in the comments what your favorite moment was?
And do you think they’ll be able to save Dean or will he just live forever as a Demon?
Wouldn’t that be a crazy way for them to end the series.
With Sam becoming the vessel for an angel and living forever in heaven and Dean living
forever in Hell as a Demon.
I don’t actually think that’s what’s going to happen.
Here’s a few of my favorite one liners from the episode:
The best was Metatron saying winning a People’s Choice Award.
Not quite the real thing.”
It was a burn against Jensen Ackles and Jared Paladecki who have won a bunch of People’s
Choice Awards, but never an Emmy.
Although Supernatural as a series has been nominated for two emmys.
Dean saying, “Hell isn’t complicated.
Game of Thrones and Shower Sex are complicated” Everyone on staff must really like Game of
Thrones.
I’ve heard more references to it than any other tv show this season.
Crowley saying, “I guess I’ve been Winchestered”
Metatron saying “They Love me, they really love me.”
In case you didn’t know Sally Field said that line after winning back to back Oscars
for movies she had done a long long time ago.
People started making fun of her by putting it in movies and tv shows.
Jim Carrey said it in The Mask, but you hear the line all the time all over TV.
Then when Metatron says “Locked Up Abroad Heaven” Edition.
It’s a reference to the tv series An Idiot Abroad.
It’s a comedy travel show where Ricky Gervias, Stephen Merchant and Warwick Davis send a
really dumb person to travel around visiting places and being silly.
The show is a parody itself.
So Metatron is parodying a parody.
And that is why I love Supernatural.
Overall just comparing this episode to other Supernatural episodes and finales I’d say
was definitely in my top 3.
I still feel like the season 5 finale was the best.
Just because that was really meant to end the series.
They didn’t know they were picked up for season 6 until after they shot it.
So it was a real deal ending to the show.
You really have to look at Supernatural a little different than other shows because
it’s been going on for almost 10 years, which is amazing.
Especially that it’s sustained its popularity.
To that end we really have to get credit to the characters for being so strong.
This year my favorite was definitely Metatron, Curtis Armstrong did an interview with Chris
Hardwick at Nerdist where he said he still can’t get cast in a pilot to save his life.
But I feel like he’s really show how awesome he can be as the Metatron character.
He really did make for one of my favorite all time Supernatural villains.
And because the writers used the conceit of Metatron being a scribe and writing the greatest
story ever written.
It gave them the opportunity to go nuts with Pop Culture jokes.
Which also became a backdoor to change Castiel on a fundamental level.
Now Castiel gets all the jokes.
Even though he’s not a tv junkie, his brain contains all that knowledge now.
I wasn’t as happy with Sam’s arc as I was with Dean and the Mark of Cain, but he
has all of next year to sacrifice himself again to save Dean’s soul.
If that’s even possible.
As silly as it is sometimes, I totally think Supernatural earns all it’s moments.
Like the ridiculousness all comes from a very logical place inside the universe it’s created
for itself.
So there were never really any plot twists or character arcs I felt were out of place
or lame.
But here’s where we can talk a little Season 10.
Let’s stick to the big stuff.
Castiel in Heaven and Dean as a Demon.
So Castiel has to finish fixing heaven, because even though he knows where the entrance is,
there are still a bunch of wayward angels on earth.
And I think it’s going to involve repairing the tablet.
They can be repaired, but only by the prophet meant to read them.
Which means Castiel will probably need Metatron’s help.
Who is currently rotting in Heaven’s prison.
Then there’s Dean and Crowley.
Dean is a demon now, he still has the mark of cain and the first blade.
So he’ll have a little more power over his urges to kill.
But he’ll still be a threat to Crowley.
I like the idea that Dean might make a play for the Throne of Hell by using the first
blade on Crowley.
But I don’t see the series ending with Dean becoming the King of Hell.
That’s just a nice fantasy that I’ll let tumblr explore.
What I do expect is that the Brothers will be reunited in an unusual way.
Like they’ll end up together.
But I expect there to be some weird twist.
I fully expect Castiel to survive all of this intact too.
His Grace will be restored.
I don’t want to make too many predictions before they start teasing us with actual details
for season 10 episodes.
But I’ll bet they drop some bombs at Comic Con this summer.
So i’ll be sure to do another video when we get more info.
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