Episode 4.02 Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester

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Aah, and episode where Dean doesn’t get any pie, but instead is handed an existential crisis! After wrestling with issues about his belief in angels and then God, he comes to the conclusion that if God is real, then he has to be a jerk, because why would he let all this awful stuff happen to people? And that is a very valid question.

Cas talks him through it in a way that provides zero comfort, and pretty much only makes things worse by confirming that the devil is also real and trying to escape. Also, the angels are gonna be relatively useless to Dean in trying to stop the devil from escaping... >.>

Meanwhile, they’re confronted by literal ghosts from their past driven to torment and kill them in revenge. So, the fun never stops.

Things referenced in this week’s episode:

The Superwiki page for this episode

My tag for this episode but especially these posts:

• this one by norahastuff
• similar thoughts i had to norahastuff, and a main reason why I personally prefer to understand that Dean remembered Hell explicitly right from the start and lied about it rather than slowly recalling it all over time...
• some thoughts on Cas
• more thoughts on Dean and Cas
• Lizbob thoughts

The production draft script for this episode that Chris Gauthier (the actor who plays Ron Resnick) auctioned off to benefit the IRSSS

and a link to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society if you’d like to make a donation as well.

Along with a reminder that all the scripts and sides and other little bonus things like that are part of the collection put together by the @spnscripthunt​ group. We have pages and scripts from nearly 1/3 of the series, and always welcome donations of a PDF scan of scripts we’re still missing. Check out the scripthunt for more info!

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