YED vs. Winchesters

In this episode we learn that this conflict is actually the Winchester family versus the YED’s family. How does this increase the scope and depth of the conflict? What other ways does a family conflict alter our feelings about this situation?

Before we found out that the Yellow Eyed Demon was involved with Meg or any of this story, it was just the Winchesters verses another monster. It was something they have done their whole life and have done throughout the course of the first series, not really making Meg ‘special’ apart from in the fact that she keeps coming back to kill them.

But as soon as they find out that she is the Yellow Eyed Demon’s daughter, things become a lot more personal. The Yellow Eyed Demon is the thing that started it all by killing Mary, which persuaded John to start hunting and to raise Sam and Dean in the way he did. This is the monster that they have been hunting for the past twenty-two years. In short, it makes the Winchesters want to find out information from her and then kill her even more.

Throughout this series, we as the viewers have been on an adventure with Sam in Dean in every episode, and we have gotten to know them as well as their situation quite well. We have come to like them and their quirky personalities, and even accept their faults. We have become more and more interested in why the Yellow Eyed Demon killed Mary and what he was doing in Sam’s room that night.

Since the Winchesters are the ‘good guys’ in this situation and we since we have gotten to know them and their tragic story, we have taken their side. This pits us against the Yellow Eyed Demon and his family, the ‘bad guys’.