I want to talk about Mary today because I’m absolutely fascinated by this woman who has had the least amount of screen time than any other woman on SPN. No, I’m not counting WISAWSNB because that wasn’t Mary it was Dean’s interpretation of Mary. She has undeniably influenced the lives of the 3 remaining Winchesters more than any other figure, barring the YED.

Mary was the reason John became a hunter, she was the reason Sam could taken down 2 SWAT guys without a sweat, and Dean can shoot threats down without a flinch. Yet, all we have of this woman is her 5 minutes appearance in the pilot, her ghost appearance and the revisited pilot scene. From these scenes the audience was presented with a younger mother who loved her son enough to die for him. This is the woman who stayed behind as a ghost to saver her youngest – what cemented Mary’s character for me was her short scenes in Home when she told the malicious spirits to “Get out of my house.”

I don’t know why, but there was this strength, this unyielding steel with the way she intoned those words. And I think it was at that moment that Mary Winchester became more than a Symbol of the Winchester mantle for me. She became real; she became someone who I kept on hoping would become an important focal point of the storyline, more than just an icon, but someone who might have had a past before John. I blabbed in details about why I think Mary was a psychic kid at one point. But alas there were no signs of Mary ever being ‘special’, none of the other psychic kids had mothers that exhibited anything special. Then AHBL happened, and we got the scene of Mary recognizing the YED. I was over the moon.

The Kids Are Alright has revealed that all of Mary’s friends had died. What’s more strange – it appears that they all died around the same time – June 2006. What is so significant about the time? It was post Sam teaming up with Dean again, and it was before John died, there’s nothing special about the date as far as I can tell. Also, I can understand Mary’s family being killed, and to a small extent even the deaths of some of her close friends can be accepted; perhaps psychic kids themselves. However, why kill her doctor? Did the doctor have something to do with why Sam is ‘special’ now? Is there some anomaly with Mary’s physiology?

The episode left me excited and with way more questions than I know what to do with. Is it significant that in an episode where children are replaced with changelings that the viewer finds out Mary’s doctor is dead, that something had been done to Sam because it was always about Sam?

Beyond the implication that Sam was tempered with well before he was born, I keep on thinking about the way cuckoo laid their eggs in the nests of other birds. Female cuckoos can lay eggs that closely resemble those of their chosen victim. Cuckoo chicks grow up faster than the rest of the chosen nest at the mother will believe that it is her own. So, what if Sam is not a Winchester? What then? Honestly speaking this doesn’t sit well with me because I’m all about Sam and Dean being blood relatives, but it is an interesting concept.

It is really good to have my show back again. Now I go back to work.