Spoilers forward for Episode 10 of The Winchesters Season 1, referred to as “Suspicious Minds.”
The Winchesters is just some episodes away from its first season finale with no present assure of a second season, so it is lucky for Supernatural followers tuning in that the prequel has been packing in some nods to the unique collection, not the least of which is Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester himself. Dean did not get greater than a photograph cameo in “Suspicious Minds,” however there was a callback – or call-forward? – to SPN through a scene between John and Mary, and it simply made me unhappy for his or her future sons. They might have had regular childhoods, if their dad had simply caught to what he advised Mary on this episode!
Sam and Dean after all spent fifteen seasons fairly actually going to Hell and again, with loads of deaths and resurrections between them, and a complete lot of heartache earlier than a divisive finale that was form of a downer. Supernatural even pressured them to face that not solely was John a reasonably dangerous father to them, however the marriage between John and Mary was removed from excellent.
In that sense, seeing John and Mary develop nearer and nearer in The Winchesters (together with their first kiss within the fall finale) has been bittersweet, though I will not even attempt to make full sense of this present’s timeline in relation to Supernatural‘s personal considerably tousled timeline. The callback in “Suspicious Minds” was far more bitter than candy to me, because it featured John and Mary agreeing that they need to by no means lose their humanity even when the opposite dies, after watching any individual just do that in attempting to deliver his spouse again.
It is a beautiful sentiment and made for a pleasant scene between the longer term spouses, however as anyone who has seen even simply the primary season of Supernatural is aware of, John positively did not settle for his grief with grace and go on to lift his sons as usually as potential. Dean did extra to lift Sam than John did, and the older Winchester brother had numerous habits ingrained in him from following in his dad’s footsteps. He had revenge on his thoughts above all for many of his episodes earlier than he was killed off SPN.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan was nice and his return was a becoming method for the present to rejoice 300 episodes, however he simply wasn’t dad. He gave up his humanity in pursuit of revenge in opposition to the Yellow-Eyed Demon. In fact, Supernatural‘s Mary was no saint, and viewers noticed some questionable choices from her each in her sons’ journeys to the previous and after her resurrection. Nonetheless, she was the one in “Suspicious Minds” to insist that giving up humanity to save lots of any individual is not love, however egocentric.
And if John had realized that after Mary’s loss of life within the authentic Supernatural timeline, then Sam and Dean may have had about as regular of childhoods as potential for 2 children whose mother died in a fireplace. Granted, John and Mary might by no means have had this dialog within the authentic timeline, so it won’t be a case of John going again on his phrase to Mary for the sake of revenge.
Once more, I actually do not know what to make of what The Winchesters means for the Supernatural timeline (or vice versa), so this little change may probably not matter as something apart from a callback within the grand scheme of issues. Whether or not or not it is undone or by no means formally occurred or John simply forgot his quiet second with Mary because it was instantly adopted by him being framed for homicide, it had me flashing again to Supernatural and simply feeling dangerous for these Winchester boys.
As for whether or not both of these Winchester boys seem in The Winchesters‘ remaining episodes, solely time will inform. Three episodes are left, and showrunner Robbie Thompson did promise some payoff to all the Dean Easter eggs, however followers will simply need to maintain tuning in. Thompson additionally shared again within the fall that the present would mess with Supernatural followers’ expectations!
The following new episode will not air for a few weeks, nonetheless, with The Winchesters returning to The CW with Episode 11 of Season 1 on Tuesday, February 21 at 8 p.m. ET. Within the meantime, you may all the time revisit the adventures of Sam and Dean (with John and Mary performed primarily by Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Samantha Smith) with all fifteen seasons of Supernatural out there streaming with a Netflix subscription.
