Stay Tuned #10: Five Supernatural Season 14 Theories I Came Up With (Spoilers)
SPOILERS AHEAD!
Now, after losing their resurrected mother to an alternate apocalypse dimension and watching Crowley and Castiel die, the brothers Winchester have teamed with the son of Lucifer (a perfectly cast Alexander Calvert, whose appearance and mannerisms are so reminiscent of Misha Collins' Castiel that they almost make Calvert's Jack into an ironic middle finger to daddy Lucifer). The bulk of their character dynamic here comes from Jack's birth being the cause of the interdimensional rift that trapped Mary Winchester in the angel-dominated Apocalypse World with Lucifer to begin with, Jack being the son of their greatest enemy (and a callback to the Antichrist subplot from the fifth season), and whether they are really helping him become a better person or just using him to get their mother back. Enter Asmodeus, the last remaining Knight of Hell (that we know of) and the worst KFC mascot since Reba McEntire. He wants Jack to release his Shedim army from Hell. In the alternate world, an evil version of the archangel Michael wants to open a rift to the main universe so he can turn Sam and Dean's world into another wasteland. British Man of Letters Arthur Ketch is back (fuck this guy!) and working with Asmodeus (no, seriously, fuck this guy so much!), who later gets demoted to simply being a hindrance to the season's requisite spell-collection subplot. Other subplots involve demons and angels feeding off of angel grace, the impending power failure of heaven, the existence of at least two other worlds (an angel graveyard dimension and a prehistoric monster-run world), the natural order of death being thrown out of balance, and Mark Pellegrino's Lucifer being reduced to a political commentary on Donald Trump as he is given his own Melania in a business-savvy fallen angel named Anael (insert childish "Lucifer loves anal" joke of your choosing here), makes false promises in an effort to take over God's vacant throne, and then lets Heaven fall further into ruin in the name of his own selfish interests. Several previously dead characters make return appearances, including Crowley's mother, Rowena, the presumed dead archangel Gabriel (who was also the Norse god Loki in previous seasons), and Apocalypse World versions of Bobby Singer, season seven bright spot Charlie Bradbury, and prophet Kevin Tran. Perhaps this is the year of needing redemption, because villains from several of the CW's shows make sudden heroic turns, including Damien Dhark, Black Siren, and Anatoly Knyazev from the Arrowverse, and Rowena and Ketch in this series, all of whom realize that the men/demons they are working for are "too evil" and become antiheroes in times of crisis (especially when said bosses threaten their families). Perhaps more subtle jabs at Trump's style of presidency? Another theme the CW seems to have latched onto this year is nostalgia. Legends of Tomorrow ends with the Legends using magical elemental jewelry to summon a champion (Captain Planet and the Planeteers) who manifests as Beebo (an in-universe Furby knockoff) because it was the cutest, most innocent-looking thing anyone could think of (a reference to Zuul manifesting as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in Ghostbusters). The thirteenth season of Supernatural, in keeping with this nostalgia trend, sees the brothers sucked into a Scooby Doo episode, and in its finale, makes reference to its own fifth season (the Apocalypse/Michael Sword season), ending with Dean walking down the streets of London, possessed by Apocalypse Michael. With Dean's glowing eyes and the episode's final freeze-frame, this scene seems to be a reference to the ending of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video.
So, with the season thirteen recap and analysis done, let's get to those promised theories I have about the fourteenthcoming season.
1: Gabriel is actually Loki. My reasoning--the two characters are identical, and we know that one of them killed (or "killed") the other. After the incident, Gabriel says he feels like "a different person" and gives the camera a suspicious glance. Before extracting his grace for the rift spell, he asks to do it in private. He spends the rest of the series unable to perform any kinds of angelic feats, claiming that he doesn't have enough grace to do anything. Also, if Gabriel is actually Loki, that means he's fucking Loki! And whether you're talking about Marvel Comics, The Mask, or Supernatural, Loki can do whatever he wants. He can cast illusions, locally bend the laws of reality to cartoon levels of insanity, and has literally turned an archangel into himself. Who's to say the outcome of their fight wasn't an illusion? Maybe Loki is keeping Gabriel prisoner somewhere and that's how he got that vial of "his" grace for the spell. And who's to say that Loki doesn't have the power to turn himself into an archangel, since it was so easy for him to do the opposite in a previous season?
2: Loki will end up in charge of Heaven. My reasoning--assuming that Loki is posing as Gabriel, and with Lucifer (Christianity's answer to the rejected child/Trickster god archetype) appearing to have died, it's entirely possible that the false Gabriel could secretly be plotting to take Heaven's throne for himself. Of course, that hinges entirely on Gabriel not only being Loki in disguise, but also on Loki somehow having become an actual archangel, but if the writers can find a way to write it plausibly, it could work well as a second-half subplot for the season.
3: The evil dreamwalker will join forces with Michael. My reasoning--Michael may have claimed his perfect vessel (Dean Winchester), but a super-powered archangel who can kill anything does not an Apocalypse World make; as powerful as Michael is said to be, he still needs an army. And we haven't seen Monster World Kaia Nieves since she killed her main reality counterpart in episode 13.10. If the evil Kaia is a dreamwalker also, she might find cause to team up with Michael and help him open a rift to bring his angel army over to the main world. Or something could happen that results in Michael ending up in Monster World.
4: Season 14's McGuffin hunt will be for some way to exorcise Michael from Dean's body. My reasoning--This is just how the show works. Generally, Sam and/or Dean are single-mindedly focused on reversing whatever they considered to be their biggest loss in the previous season's finale, assuming something doesn't magically undo it at the beginning of the premiere episode, that is. The hunt may or may not last the entire season, but it is certain to have repercussions that lead to some other major loss that the brothers will try to reverse the following season.
4: Lucifer will come back. My reasoning--This theory hinges entirely on speculation as to how ingesting Nephelem grace works, but we know Jack (at his most powerful, anyway) was immune to angel blades at one point. In season thirteen, we were also introduced to the Void, a sentient nothingness that serves as the final (and literal) resting place of all angels, and that Jack was powerfuk enough to will Castiel out of eternal slumber. Put that together with Lucifer having stolen Jack's grace, and it's possible Lucifer could will himself out of the Void (also, he's so annoying that the Void might just force him to leave). Having Lucifer back on the board also opens up another common season-to-season mechanic. Dean dies one season, Sam dies in another. Dean goes to Hell one season, Sam goes to Hell another. Repeat with Purgatory. So how about Theory #4, but the angel exorcism doesn't work and Sam has to accept Lucifer into himself to stop Michael.
5: Easter egg finale. My reasoning--this is more like four theories in one, but it all boils down to this (boiled egg pun not intended): We know that Sam is supposed to be the one to perma-kill Rowena. We also know that upsetting Death's natural order will be bad news for the world. We know that Heaven runs on angels, the lights are flickering, and if enough angels die, all of the saved souls will fall to Earth when Heaven breaks. Most of all, we know that the writers of Supernatural like to have their seasons end with at least three of the worst possible things that could happen taking a giant Murphy's Law shit on our collective faces. So, whether Loki takes over Heaven and murders all the angels in revenge for Gabriel killing his sons, a possessed Sam and Dean prematurely kill a bunch of bystanders in their fight to the death, and/or Sam (possessed by Lucifer) gets his hands on Rowena, you can be certain that by the end of the fourteenth season of Supernatural, Rowena will die, Heaven will break, and the malfunctioning gearworks in Death's cosmic machine will begin to tear reality apart, all at the same time.
I'd also like to see a live-action Scoobynatural reunion, and a resolution or continuation for the Wayward Sisters storyline, perhaps involving a revisitation of the Tasha Banes episode from season 12 or a run-in with Charlie and Rowena.
This has been a look at "Five Supernatural Season 14 Theories I Came Up With." I hope you enjoyed reading this post and invite you to Stay Tuned as I issue some TicketVerse Trades on my way back to the Grimm Fairy Tales Retrospective.
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