Spoilers for oddly enough His Dark Materials (the Phillip Pullman series) start in paragraph four.
Why aren’t you watching this show? Supernatural is without question in the middle of one of the boldest story arches in television history. The angels and demons are quite literally at war and the viewer can’t cheer for the angels because they are the reason the fight is on in the first place.
Raphael (not a mutant turtle in this series) the Arch Angel wants the war to happen so existence itself will end. He’s trying to end the world because he believes God is dead. Cas believes God is alive because he was raised from the dead and warped Sam and Dean away from Lucifer. Raphael tells him that Lucifer must have brought Cas back and “saved” the brothers.
Sam defiantly telling Lucifer that he would rather die than become the unholy vessel was brave, believable, and a moment of triumph for the character. Lucifer retorting that he would bring Sam back from the dead every time he killed himself was chilling.
Does anyone else seek the similarities to the Phillip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” (The Golden Compass) series? As a fan of both I can’t help but point out a few ways I think the Supernatural crew is paying a bit of homage to this excellent trilogy.
In the Pullman series, God’s hammer Metatron is waging war on the non-obedient and positioning to become God himself. Meanwhile the actual “God” is not really a creator, just the first angel anyone knows of and about to poof out of existence. In the Supernatural universe, the angels believe God is dead and the most powerful among them Michael has set up an all out war with Lucifer to end existence.
In “The Golden Compass” Lyra and Will are small and simple humans who can change the tide of the battle depending on which side they back. On the Supernatural side of things Sam and Dead have become so integral to the battle that they are the road by which it will actually play out. I feel like there is a lot more here but it’s been a few years since I’ve read “His Dark Materials”.
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