Episode 4.16 On the Head of a Pin
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This... is a big one. This is the episode where I first sat up and realized why Cas stuck around, why he became such an important and beloved character (s7 was airing at the time of my first watch, if you needed context for that). His entire character arc for the rest of the series pretty much takes off right here. But the seeds of his entire relationship with Dean are also planted here. This was the first episode of Supernatural that I watched, got to the end of, and then immediately went back and watched it again. It’s that important.
Also, the episode where we first see an Angel Blade, aka the “Sword of Lucifer” that was supposed to be a one-off, or at least a Unique Special Weapon, that Kripke was like... nah that’s too good, and just handed them out like tic tacs at the beginning of s5, completely retconning all of s4. Wild stuff.
That said, I’ll just jump right to giving y’all links, because there’s a lot...
The Superwiki page for this episode
My tag for this episode (all 12 pages of it lol... it’s A Lot of meta)
Especially these posts that I usually link individually, but heck, so many I grouped them by topic:
Retcons, Angel Blades, and the Writing Room: 1, 2, 3
Castiel and his Character Arc: 1, 2, 3,
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