A lot of things have changed in fourteen seasons, but the sweet torture – I mean, anticipation – of having to wait for the next episode weeks or months later to finally find out what happens has stayed the same. Supernatural signed off on 2018 with a sort of Christmas themed episode in mid December, with a title that was anything but sweetly holiday themed, ‘The Spear’. Ouch.
This year’s holiday episode wasn’t the true Christmas classic that ‘A Very Supernatural Christmas’ was when it aired in Season 3. That episode really did revolve around Christmas, as only Sam and Dean Winchester would celebrate it (meaning there was plenty of gore and sweet-on-the-surface-super-creepy-underneath demigods and oh yes, actual torture). There were also, however, some very emotional moments in that episode. There was the iconic flashback to one of the most significant moments on the show, that Christmas when Sam gave Dean the amulet that was originally meant for absent father John. I remember gasping aloud when that happened, stunned that we were finally finding out the origin story of the “Samulet”.