I believe you're right about the gravestone being in ep 20 instead, based on a comment that jdsampson made over on supernatural_tv. She read a longer synopsis of What is and What Should Never Be, and it states that John is indeed dead. Which confuses me greatly, since we know that JDM is in this episode! How are they going to pull that off, I wonder?
Ahh, really? I really didn't want to be right about him being dead! So if that is the case, I wonder how? As the gravestone says 2006, it would have been fairly recent, which would mean that John would be in his early 50's (do I recall correctly that he was born in 1954 just like Mary - and me! - which would make him 52 in 2006). What do we know about John - that he was in the Marines, co-owned an automobile repair shop, and was married to Mary and they had two children. One would assume from the way things appeared to be in the pilot ep that he and Mary would still be happy together and I suppose he would still be in the automobile repair business (but I suppose both of those things could easily not be true -- though I would hate to think that Mary lived and yet she and John got divorced!). So maybe he died of some sorta normal thing, like cancer or something? Or got hit by a car, or had an accident at work? Or could he have been in the military reserves and got shipped to Iraq? All speculation, of course. I tend to go with the disease/accident thing, something to show Dean that even though his Dad never got into hunting, he still died, and didn't die while saving someone.
So maybe he appears in a flashback? Maybe he appears to Dean to tell him that he needs to snap out of this dream reality and get back to protecting Sammy? Who knows - but I want to see this episode so bad!
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Ahh, really? I really didn't want to be right about him being dead! So if that is the case, I wonder how? As the gravestone says 2006, it would have been fairly recent, which would mean that John would be in his early 50's (do I recall correctly that he was born in 1954 just like Mary - and me! - which would make him 52 in 2006). What do we know about John - that he was in the Marines, co-owned an automobile repair shop, and was married to Mary and they had two children. One would assume from the way things appeared to be in the pilot ep that he and Mary would still be happy together and I suppose he would still be in the automobile repair business (but I suppose both of those things could easily not be true -- though I would hate to think that Mary lived and yet she and John got divorced!). So maybe he died of some sorta normal thing, like cancer or something? Or got hit by a car, or had an accident at work? Or could he have been in the military reserves and got shipped to Iraq? All speculation, of course. I tend to go with the disease/accident thing, something to show Dean that even though his Dad never got into hunting, he still died, and didn't die while saving someone.
So maybe he appears in a flashback? Maybe he appears to Dean to tell him that he needs to snap out of this dream reality and get back to protecting Sammy? Who knows - but I want to see this episode so bad!