Supernatural...

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Watched Supernatural 5x06 "I Believe the Children Are Our Future". It reminded me of the other episodes based on children's stories - "Bloody Mary", "Playthings", and "Bedtime Stories". Not their most successful plots, on the whole, though I liked "Bloody Mary", and I liked the way this segued from comedy to the Apocalypse arc.

1. Once again, I failed to understand the title. It sounds like a quote. It it another song? Why is it "children" in the plural, when we were only dealing with one child?
   
2. Castiel as an action figure! Complete with knife. Cool. I want one.
   
3. Castiel was sadly incidental.
   
4. My favourite bit: Dean's hairy palms. I liked the flirtation with the nurse, too.
   
5. I liked the theme of being honest with children - or not.
   
6. I liked the story of Jesse's real mother - having a demon's vessel telling her story. We don't usually get it that way round. It was a bit of a jump, though, from the discovery of the kid to the interview with his mother. Shouldn't there have been a little more of a transition there?
   
7. Seemed to me that Sam had a 180^o turn-around in temperament and personality compared to last episode. He was intelligent, personable, reasonable, showing neither anger nor self pity. Sam at his best. Dean was the butt of a lot of the humour, but he wasn't crabby. I'd like this to be the status quo.
   
8. The demon child, Jesse, was cute and oddly personable. I would have thought demonspawn would have a taste for nastiness, but apparently Jesse was a clean slate, morally, with free will. Or so the episode seemed to be saying. But demons are bad. And humans... well, okay, ignore the concept of Original Sin: humans have free will, and are corruptible. Moreover, the child is very powerful, and power corrupts. So does the kid really have an even chance?
   
9. If he went to Australia, it makes me think of Neil Gaiman's Lucifer, who retired to an Australian beach to watch the sunsets, God's best work.
   
10. Who was his demon father? Obviously most demons don't father children on mortals. So why him, why then, and will this have repercussions in future?
    
11. Scary, scary tooth fairy.
    
12. Only Dean Winchester would use a whoopee cushion on an angel.
    
13. Only Castiel would let him.