Thread:Anythingspossibleforapossible/@comment-850810-20180331094420/@comment-850810-20180331103515

Yeah, there was a couple deaths. One of the cousins (instead of being kidnapped which they expected) and Cosgood. It was how the Winchesters realized that there was something wrong in the first place when the cousin died instead of getting kidnapped. The true villain was the real estate developer Jay. The ghost, while generally acting as the villain of the episode, was as much of a victim as the people who died. He was a young boy who died of unknown causes, was found by a greedy real estate developer and was used to scare off people so that he could buy their properties up cheap. He was possessing various objects (the episode starts with the Winchesters fighting one such object, a giant stuffed dinosaur) and the developer sicked him on the Winchesters by throwing the knife he was attached to into their TV because he overheard them talking about investigating the situation further. When Dean turned on the TV, he and Sam got sucked into Scooby-Doo which is what I think was on TV at the time when it was turned on. Interesting note is that when Castiel arrived, they appeared to have really been sucked into the episode itself as Cas saw them on TV as the Mystery Machine and Baby prepared to race.

The kid was a Vengeful Spirit, his anger over his situation caused him to lose control and go on a rampage. Sadly that happens sometimes and its not always the ghost's fault. In Supernatural their friend Bobby Singer became like that for a couple episodes and his anger caused him to nearly kill Sam when Sam tried to stop him. He managed to regain control of himself when he realized what he was doing in the middle of strangling Sam, but the incident caused him to ask them to put him to rest rather than continuing to be a ghost as he had wanted. Bobby stated going Vengeful as being like "an itch you can't scratch out" and even after you regain control, you continue to want to scratch the itch and its "bad." Some ghosts are evil people in life and continue that in death, some become Vengeful Spirits because of their situation and its not their fault. Usually it happens when someone dies an unjust death and they want revenge. An example is a teacher who was a good man in life but died in a car accident due to the negligence of four teenagers. He came back to get revenge upon them, but his wife talked him into moving on and leaving the last teenager alone. Afterwards, that girl, who had always felt remorse for what had happened unlike the others, went to finally tell his wife the truth about the night he died. In this case, it looked like the kid went Vengeful because of what Jay did to him and wasn't like that before. There was no indications he died a violent death, just that he became a ghost after death and was found and used by Jay.

Basically, ghosts on Supernatural are just complicated. During the episode, the Winchesters showed the gang the arsenal in their trunk and Sam offered Velma a shotgun, but Dean refused to arm them calling that "a Scooby-Don't." Instead they used the traps from the episode to catch the ghost instead of weapons. They threw a lot of jokes about Scooby-Doo in there such as Fred and Daphne's obvious interest in each other (Daphne basically told Dean at one point she was attracted to Fred in fact), the fact that Fred's plans never work, even the whole thing with the camera closing in on Scooby going "Scooby Dooby Doo." That quote on the page of Dean doing that??? The scene had the camera closing on him like that as he said that and he explained he was trying to emulate Scooby by doing it. When they caught the bad guy, Dean actually put on an ascot to emulate Fred which was noted by several characters despite the fact that he and Fred didn't get along for most of the episode.

In Supernatural, ghosts are vulnerable to iron and salt, which are both used in the episode. Iron candlesticks are used to dissipate the ghost at one point and a salt circle is used to trap it. In the show, they usually load their shotguns with rock salt which dissipates the ghosts for awhile when they are shot by it. How long the ghost is gone for depends on their personal strength level. How ghosts are gotten rid of tends to depend on the ghost as well. Generally they have to find their bones, salt and burn them but as in Scoobynatural, not always. Sometimes (usually if they have been cremated), ghosts are attached to an object instead. The ghost kid was attached to his pocketknife and melting that with a blowtorch was enough to get his ghost to move on when they returned to the real world. On a few occasions, ghosts have been attached to an object while their bones still existed and BOTH had to be destroyed. That's rare though. Last season they had a Vengeful Spirit that was tragic like this kid. She was a young woman who stowed away on her fiancé's ship in 1723, was abused by the crew and died when the ship sank off the coast of the US. She targeted teachers because her teacher (who was on the ship) encouraged the abuse. Her fiancé was not there to stop it as he was displaced to 2014 by the demon Abaddon. After they discovered the truth, the guy agreed to return to 1723 (he was destined to die in that shipwreck so his dad, the King of Hell, had prevented them from sending him back after Abaddon's death) where he could protect his fiancé. When they checked on the victims, they were all alive again and the woman never became a Vengeful Spirit because she had no reason to.

As for Castiel, he's an Angel. Yes to the wings (well... formerly) but no to the halo. He's an immensely powerful being as a result. The powers listed on his page are the bare bones of what he's capable of. Super strength and invulnerability are two of his most basic and innate powers. All angels have that no matter their power level. Depending on their power level, their levels of strength and invulnerability are different though. The form he has in the episode isn't even his true form: that's the body of a guy he's possessing. Well... sort of. The guy whose body that is is long-since dead but angels require a vessel in order to safely manifest on Earth (otherwise they are dangerous to interact with) and that person's permission. That guy gave it twice but when Castiel died for the first time (he has currently died and came back five different times), he was not resurrected along with Castiel who continues to use his body while the guy's soul exists in Heaven.