Supernatural: The Dark Side of the Moon

I loved this episode of Supernatural. Heaven was explained by Ash in a way that made perfect sense. Zachariah outed himself as heaven's pettiest angel. Sam and Dean got a glimpse of what made the other one tick.

I, like Sam and Dean, trust Joshua. He has no reason to lie because he does not have an agenda. Which brings us to God. God told our heroes to "Back Off!" Why? What is God planning? Joshua mentioned that God is on Earth, but to what end? Does God want to watch the battle between the forces of Michael and the forces of Lucifer? Is he having second thought about throwing Lucifer out of the garden?

If God really does want to be left alone, why did he zap the boys out of harms way and onto that plane? Why would he bring Cas back from the dead? Does someone have God cornered? Is anyone else reminded of the movie Dogma?

Heaven as a personal place of perfection was very cool. In the afterlife you get what you want. If you have a soul mate you get them too but heaven is for the most part single serving. If you put too many independent thinkers in the same space it does not remain heaven. Ash, due to the fact that he was a genius, who also happened to be a hunter, figured out how to move between heaven dimensions but he is the exception that proves the rule.

I find it interesting that Ellen, Jo, Mary, and John Winchester were all missing in heaven. If we go by Christian beliefs Ellen and Jo would not make it to heaven because they performed a suicide mission. John may not have made it to heaven because he chose to end his life to save Dean's. Mary might not have made it to heaven because she effectively lied to her spouse about her identity during their entire marriage. Maybe the people most important to our heroes are in some kind of post life penalty box, held as pawns to be played as needed by the powers of good and evil.

Unless the place that the boys went to was not heaven. Pamela was strongly making the case to Dean that he needed to give into Michael, which I found extremely odd. Ash seemed to be himself but even he should have had a harder time finding his way into other peoples personal heavens. Plus if he truly had a tap on the Angel's "police scanner" you would think one of them would have turned it off by now.