The Man Who Would Be King

This episode is a billion different genres all packed into one 40 minute episode. It's an especially existential episode of Sex & the City, an intense dramatic and rampantly homoerotic hayes code era film, a student film loosely interpreting the Euridyce and Orpheus myth, an episode of a tween soap drama where the main character and the popular mean girl who both have crushes on the designated love interest have to be lab partners, and i guess also a cw show about guys bein dudes. Anyway, 10/10, i feel crazy but i'm free!

Incredible cinematography from my best friend Castiel. I love it and I love them. I love hearing from his point of view. This is one of the best episodes of all time.

Castiel recalls that he would never defeat the powerful Raphael and why he has associated to Crowley to get more power. Meanwhile, Sam and Bobby suspect of Castiel, but Dean refuses to believe that his friend might have betrayed them.

"The Man Who Would Be King" is a boring and overrated episode, certainly the worst so far in this Sixth Season, with existentialist crisis of Castiel and an excessive melodrama of Dean. In the end, Castiel has become a Machiavellian politician, selling his soul to the demon to make arrangements and get more power exactly like in real life. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "O Homem Que Queria Ser Rei" ("The Man Who Wanted to Be King")

I just found Supernatural, thanks to my granddaughter. We've spent the last week catching up on the first 6 seasons. I cried at this episode. Misha Collins' performance was simply amazing and heart breaking. I won't say anymore about the plot, but this episode does give some answers as to the actions in previous episodes. I loved it and highly recommend it. All of the actors in this show are truly amazing and the show has become my new favorite. I am constantly amazed at the imagination the writers show in coming up with new ways to tell the stories of the Winchester "boys" as they are called-and I find myself loving the chemistry between Jensen, Jared, Jim Beaver and Misha Collins. I think all of us wish we had someone who loved us as much as Dean loves Sam. Can't wait to see what we have in store in season 8.

This largely exists to reshape the heaven storyline in the season to have it make sense. It largely tracks with prior episodes and it does a great job of giving the need weight to the heaven side of the season. Unfortunately, the prior material is so misshapen that there was only so much that can be done with an episode. It is never made clear why Raphael wants to open the cage and that idea is really central to much of what happens in the season. This episode only fills in so many holes.

On its own through it is meditative and thoughtful episode. The show likes to play around with fatalism vs free will and this is a built around exploring what choice means. It is a surprisingly classy and thoughtful episode in that regard. I also think Crowley's reworking of hell is quite on point.