Supernatural season 15 episode 2 reaction and spoilers
I still think the most viable Jack the Ripper theory I heard was local coroner
”Doors have locks. Locks have keys.” My brain: [Sam voice] If there's a key, then there has to be a lock.
Castiel: Even if we didn’t know that all the challenges we faced were born of Chuck’s machination, how would we describe it all? We’d call it “life,” because that’s precisely what life is. It’s an obstacle course and maybe Chuck designed the obstacles, but we ran our own race. We made our own moves, and mostly we did well with that.
Dean: Did we? I’ll tell you what we know. Nothing about our lives is real. Everything that we lost, everything that we are, is because of Chuck. So, maybe you can stick your head back in the sand – maybe you can pretend we actually had a choice – I can’t.
Castiel: Dean – you asked, “What about all of this is real?” – We are.
I really liked the above exchange. It shows how far Castiel has come since season four and also shows Dean still struggling with one of his core issues: his struggle with people and/or beings trying to control him. If you think about it, Dean didn’t leave when Sam did, he remained under their dad’s influence. That’s why he shows up in episode one all “Dad hasn’t been home in a few days.” Once Dean’s released from John’s control, he has barely any time to breathe before he’s sending himself to Hell for Sam’s sake. In Hell, Dean is first controlled and then in a way loses control of himself as he becomes like the demons. Once he’s back topside, the whole Chuck thing starts up and Dean finds out that he’s been dealing with Chuck trying to control him and his life since before he was even born. It makes sense that Dean is struggling with this because it’s frustration, anger, and resentment that he’s felt time and time again and he probably can’t completely be sure that another something or other, if not Chuck himself, might appear and try to exert control.
Kevin, I missed you. A shame they’re under-utilizing Osric Chau though, but that’s not too surprising. So far season 15 has been suffering from consistent flaws in the series as a whole.