Tear-jerking Supernatural Parallel Will Make You Forgive The Winchesters For Everything

At this point, The Winchesters is looking more and more like Jensen Ackles ' attempt to fix the Supernatural finale... or just make the entire fandom feel worse about it.

Tuesday's new episode of The Winchesters, titled Suspicious Minds, gave Supernatural fans yet another reason to hold back their tears (and fail).

In what appears to be a grim nod to the Supernatural finale, the tenth episode reveals Mary's aspirations to go to college, with her letter immediately reminding fans of Dean Winchester's application from season 15, episode 20 of Supernatural.

While we can't be sure that Dean was actually trying to apply for a job, a document on his desk that read "minimum requirements" led many fans to believe that he was trying to live a normal life after that one last hunt that ultimately got him killed.

In The Winchesters, Mary gets into the university she applied to, but Jensen Ackles' Dean Winchester immediately makes it depressing with his narration. He reminds viewers that "hunters and happy endings don't usually mix, so when you get your chance, you gotta ask yourself: 'How far will I go to get it?'".

Fans immediately connected the dots and thought that the two letters — Dean's and his mother's — were nothing but a parallel that has the potential to become even more painful in the future.

With Dean apparently alive and well (and time traveling) in The Winchesters, the fandom believes that the prequel is basically Jensen Ackles trying to make up for the Supernatural finale, which he famously did not like very much. Many fans agree with him on this, so now the hope is that The Winchesters will try to provide some sort of closure while still being canon accurate.

The next episode of The Winchesters will air on February 21 on The CW.