The 200th Supernatural

TV shows' casts and crews legitimately get excited when they reach their 200th episode.


It's rare and a worth celebrating. That's around ten years worth of shows, and most shows commemorate the occasion with a Very Special Episode. In many cases they introduce a major twist to the plot that changes the show forever, or they do a parody episode of their own show, or, in a couple of cases, they have an episode that, in the end, turns out to never have actually happened.


I've yet to see one of these that didn't turn out to be disappointing. They may have been fun but, in the end, they really didn't do all that much in service to the show. They turn out to be wastes of time.


However, I really liked Supernatural--the Musical, which was Supernatural's 200th.


I realize I'm probably in the minority here. There are many episodes of this show that I haven't seen yet, so I'm hardly a scholar. I know many people were disappointed that there was no Misha Collins or Mark Sheppard or any of the other regulars besides Sam and Dean.


To me, though, that was what made this episode so charming. It was a basic Supernatural episode--they discover a case, go to the area, get involved and eventually destroy the monster/demon/god/whatever. That the case involved a group of kids performing a musical based on the Supernatural books was the meta touch this episode needed.


I think, in the end, this is what made this episode work. Instead of going all fireworks, bells-and-whistles, major plot twists, etc., etc., they returned to their bread-and-butter, the basis for the show--Sam and Dean battling monsters. It would have been fun to see the other regulars, too, but they would really have cluttered everything up. It struck the right notes--true to the story and the characters but a little bit more fun with winks and nods towards the fans along the way.


So, I dug it. Just FYI.