Episode 4.07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester

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What I consider to be the beginning of Castiel’s arc toward truly understanding Free Will and eventually accepting it for himself, this episode is packed with things that will become central tenets of the show for the rest of the series. Considering this is Julie Siege’s first episode, and she only wrote a total of six episodes over two seasons, her impact on the core of the narrative of the entire series can’t really be overstated.

Sam battles with his own power, his addiction to it, and can’t even see just how much it’s already begun to burn him. He also gets to meet angels for the first time, and it really blows the shine off the whole heaven, god, and prayer thing he’d always believed so strongly in before. And that revelation-- that angels are dicks-- doesn’t really help Sam with his own internal struggle this season. Poor Sam. Maybe he’s just not “sincere” enough in his belief in that Great Pumpkin...

Things referenced in this episode:

The Superwiki page for this episode

My tag for this episode

But especially these posts:

• a conversation with lizbob from January 2017 (accidental meta)
• rewatch notes from April 2017
• rambling about Cas and what his confession means to him here
• a simple observation on a single screencap from my March 2019 rewatch
• rewatch notes from June 2019
• rewatch notes from January 2020
• thoughts on Cas’s character arc, specifically in relation to Anna’s character arc
• from Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series (there will be a lot of these for the next 4~ seasons!)

Casting sides for Tracy, Don, and Uriel (the ones for Uriel are worth the click alone)

The extended scene of Uriel and Cas talking about their orders (less than 2 minutes, on youtube)

the CW promo for this episode (30 seconds, on youtube)

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