Optimism

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Optimism is the 6th episode of Season 14. It aired on November 15, 2018.

SummaryEdit

There was something about being there... It felt pure.

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Sam and Charlie (guest star Felicia Day) team up to get to the bottom of a string of random disappearances. Meanwhile, Jack believes that he has found a case and convinces Dean to partner-up with him on the hunt.

PlotEdit

TBA.

CharactersEdit

Main CastEdit

Recurring CastEdit

Guest StarsEdit

Felicia Day as Alternate Charlie Bradbury

Co-StarsEdit

Maddie Phillips as Harper Sayles
Sam Robert Muik as Vance
David Quinlan as Diner Man

Featured Supernatural BeingsEdit

Archangels (Alternate Michael, Alternate Lucifer and Gabriel, mentioned only)
Demons (referenced only)
Ghosts (mentioned only)
Musca (Rogue Musca)
Nephilim (Jack Kline)
Seraphim (Castiel, mentioned only)
Witch (Rowena MacLeod, mentioned only)
Necromancer (Harper Sayles)
Zombie (Vance)

ContinuityEdit

Jack Kline previously appeared in The Scar.
Alternate Charlie Bradbury previously appeared in Exodus.
Jack Kline mentions Mary and Bobby Singer who are still on the sabbatical they took in Nightmare Logic.
Jack Kline still has the strange cough he developed in The Scar.
Jack Kline mentions Rowena and Gabriel's sexual encounter from Beat the Devil.
Dean mentions Jack Kline's fascination with zombies which was seen in Tombstone.
Sam mentions the Main Universe Charlie Bradbury who died in Dark Dynasty.
Jack Kline uses "Christo" to test if Harper Sayles is a demon. This previously appeared for the first and only time in Phantom Traveler.
A zombie previously appeared in Various & Sundry Villains.

TriviaEdit

The episode was watched by 1.48 million viewers and got a 0.4 rating.
There is a week break after this episode.
The episode was originally titled Curious Cravings but was later changed for unknown reasons.
This is the seventh episode of the series that Richard Speight Jr. directed with Just My Imagination (Season 11), Stuck in the Middle (With You) and Twigs and Twine and Tasha Banes (Season 12), War of the Worlds and Unfinished Business (Season 13) and Gods and Monsters being the first six.
In the back of the library is a sign stating "Reading is Fundamental." This is the name of a Season 7 episode.
Alternate Charlie reveals some more details about the history of the Apocalypse in her world. She also reveals that like the Main Universe Charlie Bradbury, she was a computer programmer and worked at Richard Roman Enterprises. Unlike the Main Universe Charlie, she met the love of her life and lost her during the Apocalypse.
On a rare occasion, Dean gets to eat some pie while at a diner with Jack.
This is the first time that "Christo" was used to attempt make a demon reveal itself since Phantom Traveler in Season 1.
In a deleted scene, it is implied that Alternate Charlie and Rowena had sex while they were on the road trip.

MusicEdit

The Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive

GalleryEdit

Behind the ScenesEdit

Promotional PicturesEdit

VideosEdit

Supernatural 14x06 Promo "Optimism" (HD) Season 14 Episode 6 Promo

Supernatural 14x06 Sneak Peek "Optimism" (HD) Season 14 Episode 6 Sneak Peek

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Episodes

Season 1

Pilot • Wendigo • Dead In The Water • Phantom Traveler • Bloody Mary • Skin • Hook Man • Bugs • Home • Asylum • Scarecrow • Faith • Route 666 • Nightmare • The Benders • Shadow • Hell House • Something Wicked • Provenance • Dead Man's Blood • Salvation • Devil's Trap

Season 2

In My Time of Dying • Everybody Loves a Clown • Bloodlust • Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things • Simon Said • No Exit • The Usual Suspects • Crossroad Blues • Croatoan • Hunted • Playthings • Nightshifter • Houses of the Holy • Born Under A Bad Sign • Tall Tales • Roadkill • Heart • Hollywood Babylon • Folsom Prison Blues • What Is And What Should Never Be • All Hell Breaks Loose - Part 1 • All Hell Breaks Loose - Part 2

Season 3

The Magnificent Seven • The Kids Are Alright • Bad Day at Black Rock • Sin City • Bedtime Stories • Red Sky at Morning • Fresh Blood • A Very Supernatural Christmas • Malleus Maleficarum • Dream a Little Dream of Me • Mystery Spot • Jus In Bello • Ghostfacers • Long-Distance Call • Time Is On My Side • No Rest for the Wicked

Season 4

Lazarus Rising • Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester • In The Beginning • Metamorphosis • Monster Movie • Yellow Fever • It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester • Wishful Thinking • I Know What You Did Last Summer • Heaven and Hell • Family Remains • Criss Angel Is A Douchebag • After School Special • Sex & Violence • Death Takes A Holiday • On The Head Of A Pin • It's A Terrible Life • The Monster at the End of This Book • Jump the Shark • The Rapture • When the Levee Breaks • Lucifer Rising

Season 5

Sympathy for the Devil • Good God, Y'all • Free To Be You and Me • The End • Fallen Idol • I Believe the Children Are Our Future • The Curious Case of Dean Winchester • Changing Channels • The Real Ghostbusters • Abandon All Hope • Sam, Interrupted • Swap Meat • The Song Remains the Same • My Bloody Valentine • Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid • Dark Side of the Moon • 99 Problems • Point of No Return • Hammer of the Gods • The Devil You Know • Two Minutes to Midnight • Swan Song

Season 6

Exile on Main Street • Two and a Half Men • The Third Man • Weekend at Bobby's • Live Free or Twihard • You Can't Handle The Truth • Family Matters • All Dogs Go To Heaven • Clap Your Hands If You Believe • Caged Heat • Appointment In Samarra • Like A Virgin • Unforgiven • Mannequin 3: The Reckoning • The French Mistake • ...And Then There Were None • My Heart Will Go On • Frontierland • Mommy Dearest • The Man Who Would Be King • Let It Bleed • The Man Who Knew Too Much •

Season 7

Meet the New Boss • Hello, Cruel World • The Girl Next Door • Defending Your Life • Shut Up, Dr. Phil • Slash Fiction • The Mentalists • Season Seven, Time for a Wedding! • How To Win Friends And Influence Monsters • Death's Door • Adventures in Babysitting • Time After Time • The Slice Girls • Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie • Repo Man • Out With The Old • The Born-Again Identity • Party On, Garth • Of Grave Importance • The Girl With The Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo • Reading Is Fundamental • There Will Be Blood • Survival of the Fittest

Season 8

We Need To Talk About Kevin • What's Up, Tiger Mommy? • Heartache • Bitten • Blood Brother • Southern Comfort • A Little Slice of Kevin • Hunteri Heroici • Citizen Fang • Torn and Frayed • LARP and the Real Girl • As Time Goes By • Everybody Hates Hitler • Trial and Error • Man's Best Friend With Benefits • Remember the Titans • Goodbye Stranger • Freaks and Geeks • Taxi Driver • Pac-Man Fever • The Great Escapist • Clip Show • Sacrifice

Season 9

I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here • Devil May Care • I'm No Angel • Slumber Party • Dog Dean Afternoon • Heaven Can't Wait • Bad Boys • Rock and a Hard Place • Holy Terror • Road Trip • First Born • Sharp Teeth • The Purge • Captives • Thinman • Blade Runners • Mother's Little Helper • Meta Fiction • Alex Annie Alexis Ann • Bloodlines • King of the Damned • Stairway to Heaven • Do You Believe In Miracles?

Season 10

Black • Reichenbach • Soul Survivor • Paper Moon • Fan Fiction • Ask Jeeves • Girls, Girls, Girls • Hibbing 911 • The Things We Left Behind • The Hunter Games • There's No Place Like Home • About a Boy • Halt & Catch Fire • The Executioner's Song • The Things They Carried • Paint it Black • Inside Man • Book of the Damned • The Werther Project • Angel Heart • Dark Dynasty • The Prisoner • Brother's Keeper

Season 11

Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire • Form and Void • The Bad Seed • Baby • Thin Lizzie • Our Little World • Plush • Just My Imagination • O Brother, Where Art Thou? • The Devil in the Details • Into the Mystic • Don't You Forget About Me • Love Hurts • The Vessel • Beyond the Mat • Safe House • Red Meat • Hell's Angel • The Chitters • Don't Call Me Shurley • All in the Family • We Happy Few • Alpha and Omega

Season 12

Keep Calm and Carry On • Mamma Mia • The Foundry • American Nightmare • The One You've Been Waiting For • Celebrating The Life Of Asa Fox • Rock Never Dies • LOTUS • First Blood • Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets • Regarding Dean • Stuck in the Middle (With You) • Family Feud • The Raid • Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell • Ladies Drink Free • The British Invasion • The Memory Remains • The Future • Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes • There's Something About Mary • Who We Are • All Along the Watchtower

Season 13

Lost & Found • The Rising Son • Patience • The Big Empty • Advanced Thanatology • Tombstone • War of the Worlds • The Scorpion and The Frog • The Bad Place • Wayward Sisters • Breakdown • Various & Sundry Villains • Devil's Bargain • Good Intentions • A Most Holy Man • Scoobynatural • The Thing • Bring 'em Back Alive • Funeralia • Unfinished Business • Beat the Devil • Exodus • Let the Good Times Roll

Season 14

Stranger in a Strange Land • Gods and Monsters • The Scar • Mint Condition • Nightmare Logic • Optimism • Unhuman Nature • Byzantium • The Spear • Nihilism • Damaged Goods • Prophet and Loss • Lebanon • Ouroboros • Peace of Mind • Don't Go In The Woods • Game Night• Absence • Jack in the Box • Moriah

Season 15

Back and to the Future • Raising Hell • The Rupture • Atomic Monsters • Proverbs 17:3 • Golden Time • Last Call • Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven • The Trap • The Heroes' Journey • The Gamblers • Galaxy Brain • Destiny's Child • Last Holiday • Gimme Shelter • Drag Me Away (From You) • Unity • The Truth • Inherit the Earth • Carry On

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