The Man Who Would Be King
- Episode aired May 6, 2011
- TV-14
- 1h
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8.9/10
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Castiel tells his story in his own words and confesses to some interesting choices.Castiel tells his story in his own words and confesses to some interesting choices.Castiel tells his story in his own words and confesses to some interesting choices.
Mark Sheppard
- Crowley
- (as Mark A. Sheppard)
Peter Brown
- Dead Man
- (uncredited)
Kurt Fuller
- Zachariah
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Cindy Sampson
- Lisa Braeden
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Dispatcher, who is Bobby Singer's demon counterpart, is named Ellsworth. Ellsworth was also the name of Jim Beaver's (Bobby) character in the TV Series Deadwood (2004). A nice bit of symmetry.
- GoofsOnce again everyone seems to conveniently forget that Castiel did not need to go to the trouble of finding and burning Crowley's bones in order to kill him. While it is the only way for any normal human (who doesn't have an angel blade, the demon blade or the Colt) to kill a demon, angels can kill a demon using their blade, or by smiting them if they are a Cherub with access to the power of heaven or are a powerful Seraph like Castiel is. It did not make any sense for Castiel to need to burn Crowley's bones to kill him, he could have either stabbed him with his blade or smite him. The fact that he went to the trouble of putting on such an elaborate and unnecessary display should have made them suspicious from the start.
- ConnectionsEdited from Intolerance (1916)
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when will this ep be added to the criterion collection?
This episode is a billion different genres all packed into one 40 minute episode. It's an especially existential episode of Sex & the City, an intense dramatic and rampantly homoerotic hayes code era film, a student film loosely interpreting the Euridyce and Orpheus myth, an episode of a tween soap drama where the main character and the popular mean girl who both have crushes on the designated love interest have to be lab partners, and i guess also a cw show about guys bein dudes. Anyway, 10/10, i feel crazy but i'm free!
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