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"The Song Remains the Same"

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Episode Synopsis:  The angels go back in time to kill John and Mary Winchester before they can conceive Sam...

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Supernatural 5x13 HIGHLIGHTS

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Matthew Cronin

Uriel took a different body. They don’t keep the same vessel forever

Janet Shearer

I’m sorry you seemed so hung up on Anna. This epi was so full of really good content, but that she acted like a regular angel grabbed so much of your attention. She was taken back to heaven and reprogrammed. Angels are soldiers who execute orders. Anna’s “humanity” was gone. Sorry if this post sounds cranky. I’m on my phone and don’t want to rewrite. I adore you guys. Anyhoo, this is one of my favorite episodes. Sam meeting his mom. Michael getting John to allow him in. Everything Michael told Dean. The boys’ fate. Matt Cohen was great as Michael.

Rue

They can/could conceivably keep them indefinitely, but they'd have to be careful with them.

LC

As far as we've seen in the show at this point, all the angels follow the same bloodline rules. It's how Cas briefly possessed Claire when Jimmy got kidnapped. So theoretically Uriel could be in the same body but younger or just someone in the same family.

marc leech

I know what you mean about Anna, I didn't like how she became evil, but it is a part of being an angel, the 100% obedience (hence why Lucifer was treated the way he was). It kind of reminds me of programming, angels seem to be best when they don't feel, Castiel got feelings and he went against heavens plan, maybe this is why Anna fell from heaven in the first place

Toasted Toad

What a shame you spent such a large part of your review of this excellent episode focussing on the point you disliked. I also thought it a shame we didn’t get more Anna, but remember when Castiel was ‘reprogrammed’ by Heaven at the end of Season 4? He turned his back on the boys then too. Uriel would do what he was damned well told by Michael. Michael is an archangel and would pulverise him if he didn’t fall in line. He’s not about to go off and kill either Sam or Dean. But who knows - maybe that’s what set him on track to try to get Lucifer back? And he doesn’t know that Anna lied to him and that it was she who killed him in the future. He doesn’t see the danger coming. Oh, and this is the birth of “Team Free Will”, as Dean names it (or TFW). A name/catchphrase taken up by the fandom. And if you’re finding it so difficult to avoid the recap section, you might as well just go ahead and watch it.

CC

Great reaction & review! Apologies in advance for the essay😂 "Just kill them if you're gonna kill them!" - that was also my thought when watching it the first time! I think the idea is that Anna's still kinda broken from the time travel, which is why she recruits Uriel. I...don't know why Uriel doesn't just kill them.... And yeah, that's a different vessel Uriel is in. I know angels don't switch vessels as often as demons tend to - needing consent from the human would make that tricky I guess. But they do still, for the most part, just kinda take them as needed, and they really only need them on earth. My understanding is that the bloodline compatibility thing does apply to some degree to all angels (I guess especially to archangels, which is why Nick is "wearing a bit thin"). Though I'm not sure if that's ever spelled out specifically beyond this conversation with Michael, or if it's just my headcanon based on that! Pretty sure that is Michael from Sam & Dean's time. Uriel is the only angel from the past we see, I think. Michael's still got the full force of heavenly power behind him, so doesn't suffer the same nasty effects that Cas & Anna do, I guess. And I've always assumed Michael had Uriel's memory "fixed" too, to make sure things play out the way they're "supposed" to. Oh, and wanted to note - it wasn't Cas who killed Uriel, Anna killed him herself. (to save Cas, but still!) Definitely agree on wishing there was more for Anna's character here. I get why she feels like she has to do this. And why she's so cold - seeing what a few days being "reprogrammed" in heaven's justice system did to Cas last year, it makes sense that being there this long would have even more of an impact on her. But it's all just sort of implied - you could replace her with angel-of-the-week, and except for the initial scene with Dean it would be more or less the same episode. It could have done with being a two-parter, maybe. I did think Julie McNiven did a good job with the time she had though. I sort of feel the same way with Anna that I do with Bela - SO MUCH POTENTIAL, but didn't really get the chance to fulfil it. Also with you on all of the scenes with the Winchesters, they are so so good. Those conversations with John & Mary really get me in the feels. And we don't really get time to dwell on it, but Mary discovering that her children would choose to never be born rather than live the life they're in - as a result of a choice she made years ago - that's a heartbreaking moment too. (And yeah, that was Mary's deal with Azazel, to save John. She had to agree to give him permission to come into her house to do something, uninterrupted, in a few years time. THAT WENT WELL. 🙃) I love the Michael stuff, I think Matt Cohen does a fantastic job. And he's right, it's way overdue! Sam & Lucifer have had a couple of chats now, we needed a face to face with Michael and Dean. And I think you're right about the effect it seems to have on Dean in the moment. Making it more real maybe, actually meeting Michael? And not only is he actually meeting him, but Michael's wearing his dad. John Winchester - John freakin Winchester - said yes. All of the things Michael is saying to him, that all of this was planned, that free will is an illusion, the complete confidence that Dean will give in to him, is coming out of his father's mouth. It always feels sort of simultaneously perfect and horrifying to me. And gives the Team Free Will speech extra heft too.

Eric Horstman

My take...All this dick talk ...I’m just horny af ...analysis complete lol

theGeekOutGirl

Aw the ending made me sad, but I guess it's nice that she gets to enjoy having a "normal" life for a little longer.

Amber Dustman

The vessel issue is bugging me about this guys. Angels are only able to be housed by specific human who can handle their grace. Team Free Will went back 30 years. The Uriel "vessel" looks younger (disregarding actor) because the "vessel" is younger. Michael has always known about the boys and their destinies. It was the Michael from the 70's because he had sensed that HIS True Vessel (Michael Sword) had been conceived so no doubt he had been paying close attention to the family. Uriel in turn was terrified that Michael had found him there, inevitably there were consequences. Which I think tie back to Anna being changed for the worse at the beginning of the ep. Heaven seems to reprogram angels when they fall out of line. Even Cas in the previous season.