What If... the Trickster never reset the Timeline? (Part 1)

So, back in the Mystery Spot review, I had proposed the theory of what might have happened if the Trickster hadn't reset the timeline at the end of the episode, forcing Sam to live in a world without Dean and with seemingly no way to bring him back. Then, I'd said that it was a question for another day.

A little over a month later, we have now finally reached that day... for the first part of the tale, anyway.

So buckle in... and ponder the question... what if?

By the way, major spoilers for later in the show follow on from this. So, if you haven't watched further in the show than my reviews have gone, turn back now.

Got it? Okay... what if? Let's do this.

From MadCap's Couch - Supernatural: "No Rest for the Wicked"

"CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SOOOOOOON!"

Okay, so... first off... 150th From MadCap's Couch! Party hard! Second, weird choice for a Valentine's Day episode, but here we are.

Hopefully, it's not a bloody one.

Huh, Jensen?

Huh?

You get it?

Do you get it?

DO YOU GE-

From MadCap's Couch - Supernatural: "Time Is on My Side"

Look what I've become
The nightmare that she should fear
Is the father you left alone

Here we are, the penultimate episode of Season 3.

Recap time!

From MadCap's Couch - Supernatural: "Long-Distance Call"

I fear how many slash fics have been written about this screenshot alone...

I like how this episode isn't a gigantic and terrible Ghost Hunters-knockoff and we're back to true form.

...I might still be a bit salty from last week.

From MadCap's Couch - Supernatural: "Ghostfacers"

Leave it to Dean to effectively communicate my reaction to the episode.

Okay, so we're here... let's get this over with.

MadCap's Reel Thoughts - "Star Trek" (2009)

So, for seven years after we said goodbye to the crew of The Next Generation, the Star Trek franchise languished... in the movies, at least. On television, Star Trek: Enterprise was still going... or Enterprise as it was called, then. Rather than being in the same time period with its contemporaries like Deep Space Nine or Voyager, Executive Producer Rick Berman decided in his infinite Jeri Ryan-strangling wisdom to set a new series in the past rather than the present.

Yep! It was prequel time! Because that worked so well for George Lucas.

Enterprise is a discussion for another day. Needless to say, with the cancellation of that show, the Star Trek franchise had nothing new. No new movies, no new series. Nothing. This doesn't seem so strange until you realize that The Next Generation debuted in 1987, meaning that Star Trek had been on television in one form or another for eighteen years! If you go with the movies, even longer than that, given that something involving Star Trek had been in production or released fairly consistently since 1979, and now there was... nothing. Paramount decided to fix that problem and tasked Berman with getting the job done. After a great deal of issues between CBS and Paramount that I don't have the time, patience, or inclination to get into here, they got a hold of Alex Kurtzman, Robert Orci, and JJ Abrams.

This has made a lot of people very angry and has widely regarded as a bad move.

What If... the Doctor remained Time Lord Victorious? (Part 11)

Last time, we left a gaggle of Doctors (and one reformed Master) and companions trapped in three conjoined TARDISes, a (more) sinister version of the Seventh Doctor and Missy attempting to break the safeguards put on the Key to Reality by Susan's Doctor (resembling the First Doctor of the main timeline), The Doctor from the Empire of the Wolf universe learned what had happened to the Adam Mitchell from the War Master's universe, and - to top it all off - the Black Guardian and the Chronarch went to war against each other for all the marbles.

Bad news, right? Let's continue the story!