It seems like the show has created a (deliberate) tension between what its characters believe and how its universe works.
Oh definitely yes. We see that again and again--even at the basic level of the victims of the week not believing that ghost stories are real until the monster leaps out at them. One of my most favorite moments in the series is the end of "Houses of the Holy," when Sam reluctantly realizes there are no angels (although, of course, he's wrong *g*) and Dean struggles to explain how he thinks he saw God's will when that would-be rapist was killed. And then Sam after meeting Castiel and Uriel for the first time, crushed that his faith hasn't been validated the way he wants--I sometimes want to smack him, because hello, one of the sad lessons of life in general and SPN in particular is that belief doesn't equate with knowledge of certain facts. Castiel's discovering this, I think... I can't wait to see where he goes.
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Oh definitely yes. We see that again and again--even at the basic level of the victims of the week not believing that ghost stories are real until the monster leaps out at them. One of my most favorite moments in the series is the end of "Houses of the Holy," when Sam reluctantly realizes there are no angels (although, of course, he's wrong *g*) and Dean struggles to explain how he thinks he saw God's will when that would-be rapist was killed. And then Sam after meeting Castiel and Uriel for the first time, crushed that his faith hasn't been validated the way he wants--I sometimes want to smack him, because hello, one of the sad lessons of life in general and SPN in particular is that belief doesn't equate with knowledge of certain facts. Castiel's discovering this, I think... I can't wait to see where he goes.