Dean is hunting down a genie. Well it's a thing like a genie anyway. He finds it but the genie attacks him and sends him into a dream world where his mother never died and as such Sam and he never started hunting. Meanwhile the genie is draining the life out of him.
I've always loved "what if?" type stories so this was right up my alley. Dean is a little confused at first to find himself waking up in bed with his girlfriend and then also discovering that his mother is still alive. Seeing Dean living a normal life for a change is kind of heart warming and I don't think I've seen a man look so happy to be mowing his mother's lawn. That sounds slightly dirty to me for some reason.
However it's not long before Dean starts to discover that his new world is not so perfect after all. His relationship with Sam is not great. Having never been thrown together in the quest to hunt down demons then they have lived totally different lives to each other and the differences between their personalities has not allowed them to form the close relationship that they have in the real world where they are forced to work together. You see, the demons aren't so bad after all! They've brought two brothers together!
Things start to get even worse for Dean when he realises that all the cases they have worked on have now been all undone as they were never there to fix things in this reality. There was an episode of Doctor Who that was very similar where we saw what the world would have become if the Doctor had not been around to put things right and fight off the various alien attacks.
Eventually Dean discovers the truth about this fake world he is living in and realises that if he kills himself in this reality then he will wake up in the real world. His fake family try to persuade him to stay, telling him that he could live his entire life out in this place and for a moment it looks like he might decide to remain. As I know that there are a least another 9 seasons after this one then it didn't take a genius to work out that he would most likely leave and come back to the real world. It makes me wonder what I would do though. It would be really tempting.
Overall I enjoyed this episode. It was a very Dean centred episode which isn't a bad thing. Although saying that, I have dipped my toe into the world of Supernuatural interviews and convention clips on YouTube and a particular clip has upset me slightly where it appears that Jensen Ackles comes across a bit of a homophobic prick to a young bisexual girl who is trying to ask him a question about his characters sexuality. Maybe he was just having an off day. I can't look at too many interviews in case I'm spoiled! I hope he's not an arse though!
Coming next; the two part season finale!
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