Optimism

Season	Episode	Overall
14	6	293

Series

Supernatural

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November 15, 2018

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

Summary[]

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.

Plot[]

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Characters[]

Main Cast[]

Recurring Cast[]

Guest Stars[]

Felicia Day as Alternate Charlie Bradbury

Co-Stars[]

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

Featured Supernatural Beings[]

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)

Continuity[]

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.

Trivia[]

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.

Music[]

The Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive

International Titles[]

Hungarian: Csak pozitívan! (Just Positively)

Gallery[]

Behind the Scenes[]

Promotional Pictures[]

Videos[]

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 • Despair • Inherit the Earth • Carry On

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