Supernatural Thoughts and Quotes or How big of an asshole God really is

9x18 Meta Fiction

Metatron to Gadreel: "My job is to set up interesting characters and see where they lead me. The byproduct of having well drawn characters is they may surprise you. But I know something they don't know: the ending. How I get there doesn't matter as long as everybody plays their part."

In this episode Metatron portraits the role of the writer of this story, but we know that it's actually God that's behind all of this. So what I think is that God uses Metatron to break the fourth wall on his behalf.

For the first time in many seasons fate, purpose and duty are being discussed. As God did many times before he uses tricks to make his characters do whatever it is he intended for them to do once again. This time around though it's not any Djinn or ordinary angel or even Gabriel who makes them understand the need to obey. Instead he uses a trick from a trickster who is actually a trick from another trickster who then is the tool for God himself to dive into action. What I mean is, that for instance Gabriel tries to convince Cas to lead the angels against Metatron, but Gabriel's whole ordeal is a scheme from Metatron and in turn Metatron is a product to convey God's intentions.

This whole episode is full of hints to this theory: Metatron explains the motives and methods of a malicious, omnipotent writer just perfectly and they are identical to God's which leads me to the conclusion that God put Metatron there simply with this intend. Another point is that God knows the ending but not the exact road towards it's accomplishment as mentioned above. This is being backed up by the fact that God initially intended Swan Song to be his ending but as he explains through Metatron well written characters can and will surprise you. 

This happens again in season fourteen when God doesn't take into account that Dean won't follow his plan and he seems to improvise with the whole rising hell and brining ghost apocalypse this. This fact always bothered me, because I couldn't think of any way in which God wouldn't have whole control over his story, but this explains it. He crafted the characters and made them follow his storylines and overcome his obstacles but the way in which they did as though they were supposed to, was (to some extend) up to them.

Metatron may be speaking God's lines, but he is a character in the story as well. He is just a tool, a cool and interesting instrument to spice up the story and to give the message God wanted to give us, the readers, but most importantly the Winchesters a little personality. Someone who just repeats words one to one, an empty vessel of sorts is boring and we can't have that now, can we?

Otherwise it wouldn't explain why God was allowing Metatron to criticize him and his work. A guy with that big of an ego as God now has, isn't able to just let that slip if he wasn't using Metatron as a character himself.

Maybe this entire episode was just an author's note from God who wanted to join in on the story for once, which the title of the episode also suggests.

In the prospect of the show's ending and with it God's storyline the visions Sam is seeing at the beginning of season fifteen support Metatron's statement of how the way till the end isn't what matters as long as everybody plays along, because the way one brother kills the other vary from version to version, but it always ends up with one brother dead at the hand of the other and they always play their designated parts.

Is this though what's going to happen in the end?

Can Team Free Will really only surprise God and go astray his intended way of telling his story, because he allows his characters some sort of freedom in their decision making but only if they still end up exactly where he wanted them?

Were they, are they, and will they ever be truly and completely free of God and his grasp on reality?

This is the question that's(hopefully) answered on May 19th 2020.