It is an episode that truly contains multitudes. Sam: So why this story, huh? It’s epic! Dante? Kevin tells Sam and Dean that after being kidnapped, Crowley took him to a warehouse where he had another Word of God tablet. Dean acts pissed that Sam had a dog in the Impala, but when Sam changes the subject and asks about Purgatory, he answers him. For them to have to take this 250th milestone episode to rescue themselves from the human soldiers holding them without resorting to murder required, then, a kind of raw ingenuity not seen since the series’ earliest seasons. Chuck’s a bit busy in another universe, after all; why not take a page out of Lucifer/Michael’s book and try to step into his shoes? Because our lives, they’re ours. No one. He tried to call and left him messages, but Sam was unreachable. All set to music you can tap your toe to. (Photo: Ed Araquel/The CW), Milestone: 200th episodeSupernatural Rating: Worth breaking the fourth wall, every time. Given how many other series that balance humor and heart and scary, high-stakes action and feature magnetically telegenic leads make it to air and still don’t last long enough to reach even a single milestone (RIP forever, Sweet/Vicious), there has to be more to Supernatural’s long-lived success than a killer formula and the combined electromagnetism of Ackles and Padalecki. In the background is a bus depot announcement for Centreville, Michigan. Of course, the irony is that not even Supernatural, the series to which “Swan Song” belongs, got to go out on the terms this wonder of series finales set out. We start off in Maine in the forest where a bright flash of white light appears from behind a tent of campers, awakening the woman first. To quote a meme Cass wouldn’t recognize in a million years: First of all, HOW DARE YOU. “Swan Song” is a television marvel. That said, while the whole #SPNFamily is still gathered together to celebrate this newest of the series’ many milestones, we here at Paste can at least do our part to add to future academic research by rounding up ten of the show’s biggest milestones—including, of course, “Lebanon,” the episode that launched tens of thousands of #SPN300 tweets—and digging into just what makes a Supernatural milestone a Supernatural milestone. Crowley is in the mix by this point, but the degree to which he is willing to lie down, as it were, with Sam and Dean is unclear for anyone who hasn’t recently watched more than the “Previously on…” montage.

Sam: I'm still the same guy. If it’s been years since you’ve watched it, you’ll be shocked at how many of the musical stings, facial expressions and moments of gruff brotherly chemistry that are so familiar to fans now were present even then. Dean Winchester: After reuniting with Sam, they find out that Kevin escaped Crowley with another Word … If all series could go out so completely on their own terms, with so many threads from so many seasons tied off so neatly, television would be a lot more satisfying, to a lot more people. He also intuits that a woman was involved, but Sam doesn't say anything except that there was a woman, and now there's not. “I wasn’t there from the beginning, but Supernatural changed my life,” one fan tweeted. Somewhere in Maine's 100-Mile Wilderness, there is a flash of light and Dean emerges, covered in grime with a crude weapon in hand. Dean: ...Come again? No, we always told each other not to look for each other. Why would I tell myself something I know was impossible? He demanded that Kevin translate the tablet, and Kevin told Crowley that it contained a spell to open the gates of Hell. He remembers being frantic until the doctor, a young woman, arrived and made him leave the exam room. What about you? He hid it before going into hiding himself. Nobody answers when they knock so they go inside, where Kevin immediately sprays them with cleaning solution from a large water gun. And just in case we have to go even further to convince you of Cass’ importance (we do not, but we will), the sight in “Lebanon” of Castiel returned to the side of Heaven’s cruelest angels, his friendship with Dean and Sam lost to time, ends up being the one altered detail gut-level wrong enough to convince Dean that the magic they used to change the past had to be undone. You wouldn't believe me if I told you. 8 Oct. 2020. It was just renewed for its fifteenth season.

However, it was a trick and the spell Kevin cast killed the two demons guarding him so that he could escape. After he was left alone, he fixed the Impala and drifted. The episode title is a reference to the book, The scene in which Dean stands transfixed in front of a vending machine, and two boys run past pretending to shoot each other, is a reference to the final scenes in the movie, This is the first episode to be written by, A Winchester demonstrating that he is not supernatural using, This is the sixth time we have seen the Winchesters hug. For a continuing tally see, The first Dean/Benny fic appeared within hours of the episode airing. Amelia: He's not anybody's. His messages span six months, and in the last one he tells Sam that he assumes he's dead and won't call again. Sam Winchester: From left, in the 300th episode of 'Supernatural': Jensen Ackles as Dean, Jared Padalecki as Sam and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as John Winchester. But not this time, right Sammy? I doubt it is intentional but once again a Sam romantic, erotic relationship is juxtaposed with a textual platonic Dean-other male friendship and it is really hard to avoid that subtext.   |  Directed by Philip Sgriccia. It includes this powerful exchange between Castiel and Dean (“The only thing you’ll see out there is Michael killing your brother.” “Then I ain’t gonna let him die alone.”) and also Castiel throwing a Molotov cocktail of Holy Fire at Lucifer while screaming “HEY ASS-BUTT!” And then Sam sacrifices himself (and Adam), and Chuck disappears into thin air. © 2020 Paste Media Group. Milestone: 150th episodeSupernatural Rating: Um… kinda racist?

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(Maybe not critics, but I think we’d cope.) Kevin: Banish all demons off the face of the Earth. Plus, jokes. He's... not mine. As they're talking, Benny calls Dean, but he pretends it's a wrong number and hangs up. With its premise—a girls’ high school theater program staging a musical adaptation of Chuck Shurley’s Supernatural series—it even, like the series’ best episodes, works as a standalone for people who’ve never previously watched a single minute. Sam was able to hack his username and get his IP address, which leads to a coffee shop in Fairfield, Iowa. Sam and Dean investigate a haunting at a theatre. This is the hundredth episode of Supernatural. Cas was gone, Bobby was dead. But as Chuck so cannily notes before evanescing, “Then again, nothing really ever ends, does it?” If that’s not Supernatural in a prophet-y nutshell, nothing is.

Kate is a werewolf and former college student whose boyfriend Michael Wheeler was bitten by a werewolf and turned. 1 Background 1.1 History 1.2 Season 8 1.3 Season 10 2 Powers and Abilities 3 Weakness 4 Appearances 5 Trivia 6 References 7 See also Kate met Michael Wheelerwhile he and Brian Wilcox were filming. Furthermore, it’s a kind of sentiment that doesn’t exist on just one side of the screen: I told myself I wouldn’t cry. First appearance of Benny. No offense to “Lebanon,” which will get its due in a moment, but as far as this fan is concerned, “Fan Fiction” is the milestone episode to end all milestone episodes. For me, this show is home.

It also required them to engage in more explicitly moral decision-making than had been seen in awhile at that point—a morality whose importance is underscored by Cass who, in declaiming the fandom’s thesis near the end of the episode, tells Sam, Dean and Mary (Samantha Smith) that “This world, this sad doomed little world, it needs you; it needs every last Winchester it can get.” (Photo: Dean Buscher/The CW), Milestone: 300th episode (#SPN300)Supernatural Rating: 3 out of 4 Winchesters ain’t great, but it also ain’t bad. But, above all, family. Amelia: Roberta, could you hand this man his trophy on his way out, please? I mean, what the hell happened? On it he finds a number of messages from Kevin Tran, the prophet Crowley kidnapped a year ago. “Why stop there? Why not send him further back, and let some other poor sons of bitches save the world? How about you? Sam and Dean’s relationship is in one of its troughs as this season opens, which is contextualized by their opening conversations but is still a bummer to watch in a vacuum. Sam asks how he escaped and what happened to Castiel, but Dean is evasive. Once they're gone, Channing's eyes turn black and she cuts her roommate's throat. Like most of the “fun” episodes, it completely works as a standalone episode outside of its seasonal context.

Kate also has a sister named Tasha. View production, box office, & company info, Starts off the season right but introduces an ill-considered plot construction.

Other meta episodes might give “The Monster at the End of This Book” a run for its funny money, but for how high it raised the bar on so many fronts, this is the meta episode to beat. They start arguing and Dean asks Sam how he rationalized his year off. Jim Beaver’s debut as the Winchester boys’ surrogate father figure, Bobby, in “Devil’s Trap (1.22) nearly got included in this list as the first of these secondary cast additions, but considering where the series has ended up, Misha Collins’ psychic-blinding debut as Castiel, the humor-allergic, future-renegade angel who rescues Dean from Hell, felt, as far as milestones go, like the more obvious choice. Kermit, Texas His left arm is glowing red and bulging strangely, and he cuts across the bulge. Although it was bloody and terrible, Dean says that there was something about being there: it felt pure. This was the 150th episode of Supernatural to air. Fairfield, Iowa. A woman and dog lay asleep on a bed nearby, and he pats the dog once before leaving quietly. That's smart, good for you. The man answers in the affirmative and reveals vampiric fangs for a moment before asking Dean what they should do next. Fandom have dubbed the pairing, 8.01 We Need to Talk About Kevin (transcript), Filming at University of British Columbia (UBC), Winchester Radio's podcast with Exec Producer Jim Michaels, http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=8.01_We_Need_to_Talk_About_Kevin&oldid=182688. However this is entirely unnecessary because they cut themselves with a silver blade to prove they aren't a shapeshifter, and this would also prove they aren't a leviathan since they bleed black goo. Meet the Winchesters. Sam: I don't know whether to give you a hug or take a shower.

The tablet story and the brothers being in much different places are introduced with flair. The vampire doesn't know, and Dean cuts off his head. I had no one.

Kevin then reveals what was really on the tablet: information about demons, including how to kill them and how to close the gates of Hell forever. And while no one but Chuck/God can ever truly judge the Winchesters’ worth, we’ll put in our two pool-hustled cents on each milestone all the same. Life, death, resurrection, redemption. He's jarred out of his memories when Dean arrives, telling him that he didn't find anything on campus. Dean: What? It is what it is—imperfect, and true to the series’ least commendable elements.

Compared to the 100th episode, “We Need to Talk About Kevin” is easier to jump into without watching the episodes leading up to it, but only just, and any increase in legibility is offset entirely by the discomfort of much of the episode’s humor. Much of the minutiae of “Point of No Return” is incomprehensible when watched without the context of the rest of the pre-Apocalyptic season, but the muscle Kripke and his team put into outdoing themselves for this first big milestone is more than obvious, and a testament to what heights the show could (and can still) reach, even in the middle of the biggest story it had taken on yet.