Supernatural - Changing Channels, S05E08

I can't believe it took me so long to start watching Supernatural again. I was laughing so hard that I was crying before the opening credits ran. Oh, yes, that's right. There were opening credits, depicting Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) as if they were part of a family sitcom.

There would be no point in me repeating to you the delights of watching Sam and Dean suddenly become characters on shows based on Grey's Anatomy (seriously?), CSI: Miami, or Nightrider; I'd say they are pretty self-explanatory, plus you want to enjoy them for yourselves.

I do, however, now want to go back and rewatch the previous Trickster episodes and try to figure out how exactly it works that he is Gabriel, the Archangel. I mean, I love it! I love the idea that an Angel has been messing with their lives since back in Season 2, that before we even knew that Angels were real in the realm of Supernatural, there was one poking about. But what does that mean - how was an angel allowed to get away with that kind of nonsense for thousands of years? When did God last do anything?

By the end of the episode, which was so very much fun, we still found ourselves confronted with the questions of family and destiny. Gabriel took a hike from heaven because he could not stand the bickering of his family. He considers the relationship between Dean and Sam the same as the one between Michael and Lucifer: the big brother, always doing what Daddy says, the little brother wanting to go his own way. It makes a degree of sense, and destiny is always involved in the fates of men when it comes to huge events, like, let's say, just as an example, Armageddon. But God did give us free will, and Dean and Sam had better not forget that and keep using it as long as they can, otherwise I have no idea how they are going to have a 6th season.