mickeym

I got to thinking about the whole shape-shifter thing as it was presented to us tonight: that there is an "Alpha" shifter, a king, if you will, from whence all other shifters come. (Did anyone else have flashbacks to XF's "Small Potatoes" ep?) So King Shifter goes out, impregnates women, and then presumably retrieves the baby to raise it.

Except, in two of the other three shifter eps we've had -- specifically, "Skin" and "Monster Movie" -- the shifters talked about themselves a bit to Sam and/or Dean; talked about being a freak and a monster within their family, reviled and scorned, made to feel as an outcast. I got the sense that THOSE shifters were a result of mutated DNA, born into a "normal" family.

So, are there two types of shifters, then? The kind that happen by accident and the kind that are bred on purpose (not unlike vampires, in a way)? Or did the writers screw with established canon/lore?

Thoughts? Input? Kim-needs-to-go-to-bed?