The last two episodes of Supernatural have given us an intersting look into the psyche of the Winchester brothers.

Let’s take “After School Special” first.

Dean was, not surprisingly, quite the Lothario in high school. But he also was, surprisingly, afraid to get hurt.

I thought the whole sub storyline of Dean’s romance with the wholesome girl next door gave an interesting insight into his character. He always had to play the protective older brother, he had no time to let himself become emotionally invested in anything.

The true twist on the story, in fact, wasn’t even that the vengeful ghost wasn’t who Dean and Sam first thought it was. Nor that the vengeful ghost considered Sam a bully and was going through a particularly tough time in his life when he himself was being a bully.

The true twist was that Dean was the one with bad memories of the school and Sam was the one who had fond memories of it.

Then, last week, we saw more of the brothers’ strained relationship in “Sex and Violence,” where the siren tried to tear them apart.

The brothers have a lot of anger at each other, and that only seems to come to the fore when they’re under someone else’s influence. The need to resolve some of these issues, pronto, or else there are gonna be real problems down the road.

Such as SPOILER ALERT!!!!!! when they find out they have another brother. TVGuide.com is reporting that Jake Abel has been cast as a third Winchester brother, the product of their father’s dalliance while he was on the road fighting demons.

Abel’s a relatively new face, wrapping up work on the film version of The Lovely Bones right now. Sci-fi fans might remember him from three episodes of the (much too) short-lived 2005 series Threshold.

Upon eventually being told by a onetime paramour of Adam’s paternity, John paid the lad the occasional visit. Never, though, did John alert Sam and Dean to Adam’s existence, nor vice versa.

The question, which TVGuide raises, rightfully so, is whether he is truly what he says he is, or if it’s a demon trick.

Me, I think it’ll depend how the fanbase takes to him. If you’ve read this far – what do you think of the addition?