5. Lebanon, Kansas, or Sioux Falls, South Dakota?
As much as I’d love to say Lebanon, I wish the bunker had been in Sioux Falls. It would have been way too much of a coincidence, sure, but the boys would be closer to ‘family’ and they wouldn’t have to travel from Kansas to South Dakota just to get some of Jody’s good home-cookin’. lol. But generally, I like Kansas, and I like that the show stuck to that state as far as it being the boys home state, and where they ended up so far.
Season 4. This will always be my favorite season, and even if it does have something to do with my favorite character of all time, I just truly enjoyed the dynamic portrayed between the boys and OTHER CHARACTERS outside of just them. There was really great action, a mind-boggling plot, plot twists out the ass, a pretty worthy villain, manipulation, coercion, headbutting and in the very end, the best villain speech of the entire series.
It’s going to take me a while to put this to words, because my opinion of John conflicts itself at many points. Do I think John was a good father? Yes and no. Do I think John did the right thing by dragging his sons into a life of hunting to avenge his wife’s death? Yes and no. If John hadn’t made the decisions he made, Sam and Dean wouldn’t have been able to save the world. If he hadn’t brought them up teaching them about hunting, teaching them things he learned in the Marines that kept him alive, training them, guiding them, etc, they wouldn’t have been ready for what destiny had in store for them. But I don’t think that’s the way to raise your children. I don’t think deaths have to be avenged. If you lose your spouse, in whatever way it happens, you don’t suddenly become some vigilante and drag your children across the country trying to find the thing that killed your beloved. But that’s the way John’s story was written for him, and (considering Cupid had a hand in getting he and Mary together in the first place) there wasn’t a whole lot of fighting fate going on where John Winchester was concerned. No, I don’t think he beat his sons. No, I don’t think he used the best coping mechanisms to deal with losing Mary. But at the end of the day, I think both Sam and Dean respect their father and love him for teaching them the things they know now so they can be a part of a greater good and help the world in a way most people don’t even believe in. John Winchester made a name for himself in a community that he had nothing to do with for the first half of his life. He didn’t grow up knowing monsters existed. He didn’t grow up as a Man of Letters like his own father. But he overcame and adapted, just like any good Marine would do, and he did the best he could on the path he chose.
