Jeremy Carver didn't get the respect he deserves in that pollsnatural writers poll. I need to remind y'all who was doing a lot of the heavy lifting when it came to early destiel. Jeremy Carver wrote (or, was credited as the writer) for the following:
3x11 "Mystery Spot" - not a destiel ep, just a banger 👍
4x03 "In the Beginning" - aka the first hint of Cas being sympathetic to Dean. 3 episodes into Cas's existence Jeremy Carver was asking the big questions, like what would it look like if Dean and Cas stared all soulfully into one another's eyes??? I MEAN,
4x20 "The Rapture" - the Jimmy Novak episode. Gave us Dean's tranquil fishing dream, Cas's note-passing interruption. Gave us all the conflict of Dean witnessing Jimmy Novak in place of Cas. Gave us that mic drop "I learned my lesson while I was away, Dean. I serve Heaven, I don't serve man. And I certainly don't serve you" hell of a walk-off line.
5x03 "Free to Be You and Me" - do I even need to expand on this one??? "I need your help because you are the ONLY one who will help me," Thelma and Louise quote, Bert and Ernie quote, "you are not gonna die a virgin," the Raphael confrontation, etc etc Dean tells Cas it's the happiest he's been in years!!!
5x08 "Changing Channels" - another classic episode that's great even without the undercurrent of destiel. But undercurrent there is. One of the recurring themes of the episode is Dean being worried about what Gabriel's doing to Cas. Plus, helloooo, "pretty boy angel" Jeremy Carver's horniness for Misha CAME THROUGH.
5x18 "Point of No Return" - do you all not remember "last person who looked at me like that, I got laid" do you all not remember "I gave EVERYTHING for you, and this is what you give to me????" do you all not remember "what the hell happened to him? / "me"???? And a sidenote: do you all not remember Cas carving a banishing sigil into HIS OWN CHEST?????? Again I say, Jeremy Carver's crush on Misha CAME THROUGH.
8x01 "We Need To Talk About Kevin" - I'm pretty sure at this point JC became showrunner, so there was a ~shift in the blatancy of destiel in his writing, but still. This ep is the start of the Purgatory flashbacks, the first peek at Dean's guilt over Cas not making it out with him.
8x23 "Sacrifice" - the 'ET goes home" bar scene, the dozens and dozens of pages worth of meta about cupid and the arrows and the two dudes falling in love in front of Dean and Cas.
9x01 "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here" - Dean's "please, man, I need you here" prayer to Cas, which miiiight be the first time he prays to Cas seriously. Their v. soft phone call sometime after where Dean is just as worried for Cas as Cas is for him. Plus, hey-o, would it be a Carver episode without objectifying Misha in some way? This is the ep with the infamous laundry scene, of Cas shucking off his clothes in a very poignant loss-of-identity horny way.
9x23 "Do You Believe in Miracles?" - uh, ever heard of "to save Dean Winchester. That was your goal, right? I mean, you draped yourself in the flag of heaven but ultimately it was all about saving one man" which is pretty much a Castiel thesis statement dropped casually as dialogue.
10x01 "Black" - okay, picture this, Cas is depressed and lying wantonly atop a bed, clad only in a robe that's open juuuust wide enough his chest peeks through. To Sam, he wistfully admits "I miss him" as they tiptoe around the subject of Dean. Fanfic, you say? No, Jeremy Carver.
10x23 "Brother's Keeper" - there's a deleted scene of Cas showing up in Dean's dream, bloody and beat up, introduced by the bartender as Dean's "admirer." Not to mention! Winchester Derangement Syndrome. Not to further mention!! Shattered at the altar of Winchester.
11x01 "Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire" - gonna let this gif speak for itself:
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justice for sam
If the spnepisodebracket craze has shown us anything, it's that the supernatural fanbase is extremely divided, with the lowly sam stan seemingly at the bottom of the pile. sam is always last in polls, so this is a bracket for the 10% or so who always votes for him. because yeah, there's 327 episodes of Supernatural, but how many are popular because of a dean or destiel moment? how many good episodes are drowned out because they focus on sam?
i've chosen, with some crowdsourced peer review (special thanks to @spneveryseason, @suncaptor, and @ambersock!) 125 episodes that are Sam Relevant. Some are extremely sam-centric, some just have a shot where sam looks like he's being crucified that gives me brain worms -- i tried to be generous about it to keep a relatively even seasons distribution! matchups will be random and polls will last 24 hours each. in the tradition of @spnepisodebracket (who this is obviously inspired by and would not be possible without!) i'll try to rb a gifset for every episode in the poll!
a final note: no this is not that serious but the criteria for voting here should be how good the episode is as a SAM episode, not as anything else, so please vote accordingly! i am making this for people who actually enjoy sam and if that is not you, then this is not the poll for you!
with that out of the way, here is the compiled list of episodes! voting starts this sammy sunday, 3/26!
Season 1
Pilot (1x01)
Bloody Mary (1x05)
Home (1x09)
Asylum (1x10)
Scarecrow (1x11)
Nightmare (1x14)
Shadow (1x16)
Provenance (1x19)
Salvation (1x21)
Devil's Trap (1x22)
Season 2
Simon Said (2x05)
Croatoan (2x09)
Hunted (2x10)
Playthings (2x11)
Houses of the Holy (2x13)
Born Under a Bad Sign (2x14)
Heart (2x17)
All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1 (2x21)
All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2 (2x22)
Season 3
Bad Day at Black Rock (3x03)
A Very Supernatural Christmas (3x08)
Mystery Spot (3x11)
Jus In Bello (3x12)
Time is On My Side (3x15)
Season 4
Metamorphosis (4x04)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester (4x07)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (4x09)
After School Special (4x13)
On the Head of a Pin (4x16)
It's a Terrible Life (4x17)
Jump the Shark (4x19)
When the Levee Breaks (4x21)
Lucifer Rising (4x22)
Season 5
Good God, Y'all! (5x02)
Free to be You and Me (5x03)
Changing Channels (5x08)
Sam, Interrupted (5x11)
Swap Meat (5x12)
The Song Remains the Same (5x13)
My Bloody Valentine (5x14)
Dark Side of the Moon (5x16)
99 Problems (5x17)
Two Minutes to Midnight (5x21)
Swan Song (5x22)
Season 6
Exile on Main St. (6x01)
You Can't Handle the Truth (6x06)
Family Matters (6x07)
Clap Your Hands if You Believe (6x09)
Caged Heat (6x10)
Appointment in Samarra (6x11)
Like a Virgin (6x12)
Unforgiven (6x13)
The French Mistake (6x15)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (6x22)
Season 7
Meet the New Boss (7x01)
Hello, Cruel World (7x02)
The Girl Next Door (7x03)
Season 7, Time for a Wedding! (7x08)
Plucky Pennywhistle's Magic Menagerie (7x14)
Repo Man (7x15)
Out with the Old (7x16)
The Born-Again Identity (7x17)
Season 8
We Need to Talk About Kevin (8x01)
Hunteri Heroici (8x08)
Trial and Error (8x14)
Taxi Driver (8x19)
Pac-Man Fever (8x20)
The Great Escapist (8x21)
Clip Show (8x21)
Sacrifice (8x23)
Season 9
Holy Terror (9x09)
Road Trip (9x10)
First Born (9x11)
The Purge (9x13)
Meta Fiction (9x18)
Season 10
Black (10x01)
Soul Survivor (10x03)
Fan Fiction (10x05)
Inside Man (10x17)
Book of the Damned (10x18)
The Werther Project (10x19)
The Prisoner (10x22)
Brother's Keeper (10x23)
Season 11
Form and Void (11x02)
Baby (11x04)
Just My Imagination (11x08)
Oh Brother Where Art Thou (11x09)
The Devil in the Details (11x10)
Into the Mystic (11x11)
Ouroborus (11x14)
Red Meat (11x17)
Don't Call Me Shurley (11x20)
Season 12
Keep Calm and Carry On (12x01)
Mamma Mia (12x02)
American Nightmare (12x04)
Rock Never Dies (12x07)
The Raid (12x14)
Who We Are (12x22)
Season 13
Lost and Found (13x01)
Patience (13x03)
The Big Empty (13x04)
Various & Sundry Villains (13x12)
A Most Holy Man (13x15)
Funeralia (13x19)
Beat the Devil (13x21)
Exodus (13x22)
Let the Good Times Roll (13x23)
Season 14
Stranger in a Strange Land (14x01)
Mint Condition (14x04)
Nightmare Logic (14x05)
Byzantium (14x08)
Prophet and Loss (14x12)
Lebanon (14x13)
Peace of Mind (14x15)
Game Night (14x17)
Moriah (14x20)
Season 15
Back and to the Future (15x01)
Atomic Monsters (15x04)
The Rupture (15x03)
Golden Time (15x06)
The Gamblers (15x11)
Unity (15x17)
Inherit the Earth (15x19)
Finale: Carry On (15x20)
Edits: Bugs (1x08) will be added, polls will not be completely random bc im not doing this for science im doing this to see a good episode win and my randomizer pit when the levee breaks against swan song in round 1
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