Thread:TheAtomicLight/@comment-850810-20180916223852/@comment-850810-20180916233202

I think so anyway. The whole thing is a laugh. Castiel is much less competent as a monster hunter, its actually the episode he first asks to be trained in. They never really complete his training which results in funny jokes thrown in across the series as he tries to emulate their methods. However, his powers prove to be of great help at several points: when they find the bad guy's accomplice shot, Castiel is able to heal him which is actually the first time a glow is seen with that power. He is also able to help Sam get into Fred Jones' mind to communicate which proves crucial in stopping the problem. In that case, Fred was a powerful psychic, so powerful he could warp reality around him. He'd retreated into his mind where he lived in a sort of dreamworld based on his favorite cartoons which caused a cartoonish effect in a certain big radius around him. Bad guy discovered that and used it to rob banks and stuff by painting a hole on the side of the building, bringing Fred nearby and just walking in. He also dropped a 1-ton anvil on a security guard which is where we got to see a test of Castiel's Super Strength: he effortlessly lifted the damn thing up. After Castiel and Sam got Fred to wake up, the effects stopped and Fred telekinetically forced the bad guy to shoot himself in the head. Castiel then removed Fred's powers at his request, but it left him in a mentally damaged state which Castiel warned was a possibility.

The main ways its similar besides the ones I mentioned in the first messages are some of the gags like the talking cat. That was a scene specifically between Castiel and the cat after a senile old woman said the cat had been complaining about something so Castiel went to interrogate the cat. Didn't work though the cat called him a dumbass when he left.