Supernatural Book Report

If I were to write a book report on Supernatural I would treat each season as its own book.

In season one, we meet Sam Winchester, a young, handsome, academically gifted college student at Stanford. On Halloween, his older brother shows up and gives him the news that their father is missing. This worries Sam, despite his long estrangment from his family and the world they inhabit. It's a secret world he has never shared with his girlfriend Jessica. For Sam Winchester and his family are all hunters. They hunt the supernatural: witches, ghosts, demons, etc.... and Sam wants nothing to do with that life, he just wants to be normal. Sam is worried about his father and agrees to accompany Dean to Jerihco, CA to look for him. There they investigate a woman in white apparition and put her to rest. They do not find Dad and on Sam's insistance they return to Stanford because Sam has an interview for law school on that Monday.

Sam says his goodbys and returns to the apartment and his normal life. As he settles down on the bed, his face is serene, he has reconciled with Dean, fought off a ghost, and returned in time to see his swetheart. Something wet hits his face...and in an instant Sam Winchester is transformed from normal guy into vengeful hunter. Jessica is dead, burned in the same senseless killing that took his mother 22 years before. Sam knows now, he can't return to normal, can't go to the interview...for now, he needs to find Jessica's killer. He needs his revenge!

The season continues with Sam and Dean fighting a variety of evil from vengeful spirits, demons on airplanes, wendigos, and even bugs. In between we learn, along with the brothers, all about these legends. We learn who the boys are and how they relate to each other.

Sam longs to return to his life at Stanford, but not until he finds his father, for in finding his father he might find what killed Jessica and his mother. By the eighth show we realize John Winchester will not be easy to find. But by then there is a new complication. Sam has psychic dreams, and sometimes they come true. He dreams of their home in Lawrence, Kansas and of the peril the current owner might experience. So the brothers travel there and learn about their past while helping the woman who now inhabits their old home.In the end, Mary Winchester's spirit appears to her sons and extinguishes the poltergeist that has attacked the home and Sam.

And Mary says, "I'm sorry." to her son Sam. We will ponder the meaning of this until season four.

Next up is "Scarecrow." Sam wants to head to California to meet his father and Dean wants to hunt. Sam leaves and during his journey meets up with Meg who encourages his independence. Eventually, Sam learnes Dean is in peril and returns to save him from a pagan god. The two relieze they need each other. This becomes increasingly apparent in the next episode, "Faith" when Dean is electrocuted and fated to die. Sam will do anything to save him, including taking him to a faith healer who miraculously repairs Dean's heart at the cost of another's life. Here, the viewerr learns that Sam will do anything to save his brother and that God has a purpose for Dean.

The rest of the season helps the viewer understand the dynamics and complexity of the relationships between the Winchester men. By the conclusion of "Salvation" and "Devil's Trap" we know how the brothers relte and we know what these hunters must do.

The end with the Impala being crashed into was the most surprising and graphic endings/cliffhangers ever. Was it all for nought? Did finding Dad really yield the YED?

What comes next? Who is the YED? What does he plan on for Sam and the other psychic children? Will he destroy the Winchesters?


These were the unresolved questions of Season 2.