Episode 5.13 The Song Remains the Same

Heaven (and in this case, specifically Michael) has an agenda. The long-scheduled apocalypse is proceeding apace, but how does one convince one’s recalcitrant vessel to play along? Well, a nice little demonstration of power, combined with a charmingly delivered (I’m sure Michael thought he was ever so polite about it) reminder that there’s no such thing as Free Will and everything in the history of the universe had been leading them to that moment where Dean will say yes and accept his fate.

Kinda horrifying, when you think about it in those terms alongside Dean’s ultimate confrontation against this in s15. And even worse when you think about 15.20, where it finally played out that way, with the rest of the entire story rendered irrelevant in 40 minutes. Good times... >.>

But this is where Dean plants his free will flag, which will become his final major plot arc of the entire series-- wrestling with the notion that none of it may have ever been real at all. So this is a big one. Plus, John and Mary in the 70′s, which is wild now that we’re seeing The Winchesters.

LINKS!

The Superwiki page for this ep

My tag for this ep

My rewatch notes from June 2019 and April 2017 and October 2016

Molly Hatchet’s The Creeper

Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same

Filming locations map

The CW promo (what if the Winchesters were never born? interesting question!)

Extended teaser clip

SpaceTV promo (Sam Winchester has to die!)

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