Point of view: For the most part CW’s Supernatural is third person limited. There are certain times in the episode were we get to see others points of view, but we don’t know what is going on. The show follows Dean and Sam Winchester’s perspective which means we only know what they know. The first episode focuses on the brothers trying to find their father. It is unknown to the viewers where John is or why he disappeared. Perhaps if the show was in a different point of view the audience would know. However because it is not we only know the story as Sam and Dean do. Characters: Sam and Dean are the two most important characters of the show. They are brothers Dean being the older. Dean is at first glance a hard headed misfit. He is clearly …show more content…
The show begins in Lawrence, Kansas in the the Winchester household with Mary checking on her infant son, Sam. Her husband John is then awoken by her screams and rushing into the nursery. He finds her pinned to the ceiling with a cut across her stomach. She then bursts into flames and John grabs Sam and gives him to his slightly older brother Dean telling him “Take your brother outside run as fast as you can”. John tries to go back into the room to save Mary but due to the flames he can not. Flash forward twenty-two years Sam is celebrating his high LSAT score with his girlfriend Jessica Moore. That night Dean breaks into Sam’s house and tells him that their dad was on a hunting trip and hasn’t been home in a few days. Sam agrees to go and help look for their dad on the condition that is he is back first thing Monday for a law-school interview. The brothers head to John’s last location Jericho, California where he had been investigating the disappearances of young men along a single stretch of road. While investigating they discover a local legend of a murdered girl who returned as ghost that hitchhikes and whoever picks her up is never seen again. Research points to Constance Welch, a woman who killed herself by jumping off a bridge after drowning her children. That night they stake out the bridge, they also have a …show more content…
The main difference between our America and Supernatural’s America is monsters are real. Ghosts, demons, vampires, witches, angels, Pagan gods, and every other supernatural creature exists. These monsters for the most part are malicious and try to hurt, if not kill, people; and even though they do exist, for the most part the average joe is not aware they are really. There are some that do know they exist and they try to find and stop these monsters. They are known as hunters and often in order to get details about whatever case they are working they must pose as authority figures (including but not limited to FBI, priests, Homeland security, and police detectives). Symbols: A big symbol throughout the fists episode is John’s journal. The journal is an invaluable source of information about supernatural creatures and the lore, but it goes deeper than that. The journal itself represents knowledge and a guide. Sam and Dean use to to research the woman in white and they later find coordinates to Lost Creek, sending them there to look for their dad. Another symbol would be the dark. Whenever the woman in white strikes it is at night and when Mary and Jess were killed it was a night. The dark represents evil, the unknown, and in most cases death.