After ten seasons of killing monsters, becoming demons, and fighting angels, who in their right mind says, “Hey, let’s make a musical”. Monsters do not make a good musical, demons do not make a good musical, and not even angels make a good musical. If you want a good musical, you do it with cats or maybe Dorothy and her little dog too, but Supernatural things do not make a good musical. And if that were not bad enough they actually invoke the name Barbara Streisand. Ugh, ugh, and ugh.
This show has been many things for many years and how many times have we seen idiosyncrasies of ourselves come out in the characters. At any given moment we could feel empathy with one or more of them and we have almost fallen in love with their lives. They eat, drink, hustle, fornicate and generally kick ass all the time (Okay, mostly Dean). No one takes advantage of them, no one gets the better of them, and they almost always come out on top. Face it, who else can kill a god with a tree limb?
This show has also shown us that, if monsters really do exist, maybe they’re not all bad. Sam was once in love with a werewolf and didn’t we once see a vampire that was sympathetic to humans. It has never been afraid to turn ordinary lore on its head, we have seen demons that do nice things and we have even seen angels that were total dicks, but not once in all the years that it has been running have we ever seen anyone sing anything about the magnificence of it all.
Or maybe it was just time to try something different, but a musical, really. Well, at least there aren’t any pajama boys dancing around in tights. A group of well mannered, clean cut school girls actually do a good job on a school play. The director, also the potential victim of the story, is very dedicated. Even when she realizes end production could mean the end of her, she continues. She even gets further involved by taking an acting part. Giving new meaning to the phrase ‘The show must go on’.
Actually, the monster of the story fits right in line with the theme, Calliope, a muse that can manifest creatures from a story that she is tuned into. She calls forth the scarecrow to do her dirty work and protect the author until the story has been realized, and then she can feast, on the author. And she is not your average everyday monster, she is a god. Of course it’s not the first time Sam and Dean have had to tangle with a god, and they certainly aren’t going to take any kind of pity on this one. Although, her cleavage would give Dean pause, so it’s probably a good thing that Sam does the killing.
The author of the play is inspired by the books written by Carver Edland, a.k.a. Chuck Shirley, who is a profit of the word of God and wrote the “Supernatural” series that will someday be known as the Winchester gospel, and who is supposed to be dead. A profit of the word of God is the only person that can read and/or write the word of God and there is only supposed to be one at any given time. Do you remember Kevin, the Asian college student that had his life go straight to hell (literally) when he was tapped to read the tablets, one tablet that told about the angels and how to close the gates of heaven and one tablet that told about the demons and how to close the gates of hell. Kevin should never have been tapped if Chuck was still alive. Well, Chuck shows up at the end with a one liner, “Not bad”, and gives rise to the question of what happened to him if not death. Maybe he was put into hiding by someone high up or maybe he did die and was brought back to life or maybe…… Who knows, maybe it’s just some foreshadowing for a future storyline.
All in all you could say that this story wasn’t a total bust. Our heroes did inevitably kill the monster of the story and save the day. And their identities are secure because no one believed that they are the real Sam and Dean, mainly because they look too old. Also the singing was done very tastefully especially the closer, “Carry on My Wayward Son”. If it could be summed up in one word that word would probably be ‘Charming’. Although, that is the absolute best that this reviewer can muster because the best line in the whole story was expressed by Dean Winchester himself when he said, “There is no singing in Supernatural".
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