“What Is and What Should Never Be” is the twentieth episode of the paranormal drama television series Supernatural’s second season. It was first broadcast on May 3, 2007 on The CW. The episode was written by Raelle Tucker, and marked the directorial debut of series creator Eric Kripke.
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“What Is and What Should Never Be” is the twentieth episode of the paranormal drama television series Supernatural’s second season. It was first broadcast on May 3, 2007 on The CW. The episode was written by Raelle Tucker, and marked the directorial debut of series creator Eric Kripke. Despite obtaining low ratings, the episode acquired positive critical reviews that both praised Ackles’ performance and welcomed the return of Smith and Palicki to the series. It featured the return characters Mary Winchester and Jessica Moore, who were only briefly depicted in earlier episodes. Dean Winchester finds himself in an alternate reality after a confrontation with a djinn. The creature appears to have fulfilled Dean’s greatest wish: that his mother had not been killed when he was a child. Dean is happy in the new world until it becomes apparent that his previous work as a hunter of supernatural creatures has been undone. At this point, he rejects the alternate reality, and attempts to find a method to bring himself back. Dean awakens in the real world after stabbing himself, and awakens to find that the young woman he has been having visions of is a victim of the djinn, but she is alive but in a hallucinatory state. He realizes that all the people that he and Sam had saved as hunters are now dead, and he is confronted by an image of corpses in his closet. After visiting the grave of his father John, who died the previous year of a stroke, Dean decides that he must give up his new-found happiness to save them. In need of something silver, Dean breaks into his mother’s house to steal a sterling silver knife.
However, he is caught by Sam, who thinks he’s stealing from their mother. While Dean at first pretends that he needs the knife to repay a gambling debt, he eventually reveals the truth. Dean and Sam are no longer close, as Dean is irresponsible, disloyal, and drinks too much in this alternate reality; when a confused Dean calls him for help, Sam thinks that he is drunk. In the new reality, Dean is dating the beautiful Carmen, and Sam is at law school and engaged to Jessica —another victim of Azazel. The brothers would not be close if they had not become hunters, though the cost of their relationship in the false reality in the show would not have been as high as they would have been in real life. This moment was the definitive moment of the show that the staff’s opinion was that the brothers had not had to become hunters. This would be the moment that Dean allows Sam and Dean to live normal lives, and Dean allows them to livenormal lives, even though the change in reality allows them and Sam to live a normal life… Series creator EricKripke was excited by the concept of rebooting Supernatural and placing all of these characters in a completely different world. I’m a fan of Buffy and one of the episodes I really remember was the one where she woke up in mental institution and you don’t know quite what was reality and what was her old life andwhat was her new life. I thought that was really interesting, the idea of reboots Supernatural.
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