Supermeta!

"For fans, they sure complain alot."-Dean Winchester

It's a day later and I'm still cracking up about the hints and surreal dialouge of last night's episode of Supernatural. I'm glad "The Monster at  the End of  This Book" was a serious episode although it was humorous at some level for the fans. Dean's line: "For fans, they sure complain alot" was probably one of the funniest lines the show ever had.

For those who didn't get to see last nights episode, they entire premise spoke for itself. This week, Sam and
Dean came across a collection of novels which detail and follow thoe events of their lives from the beggining of the series to the unread-but-hinted finale of the current fourth season.

In television terms or of any fictional universe, when characters become aware of any type of fiction which they, themselves, are actually apart of but don't realize is called "Meta".

Unlike "Hollywood Babylon," an episode of an earlier season that was meant to be pretty much funny overall, last night's episode was another addition to the serious myth-arc portion of the series.

Anyway, the funniest thing about the episode last night was the fact that it was written to be more ironic and subconcious than anything else. For me, the most striking part of the story was that the writers and cast got to kinda fight back against the fans' complaints and all, which is natural anyway.

So, the scene that was most "meta" in my opinion was in fact the early scene where Sam and Dean were researching  the books that were written about their hunts and lives respectivley.

From Sam reading about the fan-fiction, Dean taking note of the fans' never-ending complaints and Castiel declaring the stories featured in the show "future biblical gospels," I was once again impressed by the advanced and excellent writing, acting and directing. It's a truly unique combination that you don't get on television these days.

Anyway, Supernatural continues to show no sign of slowing down in terms of excellence anytime soon!