Dean lives! Well, what did you expect? Did you really think Eric Kripke and the WB were going to kill off Dean Winchester in Season 4 of their TV show? Oh come on. Without Dean, there would be no Supernatural. As good as Sam is, Dean makes the show in my book. So in the sci-fi edition of an upcoming TV Guide issue, Supernatural creator Eric Kripke reveals how the Season 4 premiere episode will open: with Dean having escaped Hell, it’s now 4 months later, and Dean has no memories at all of the previous 4 months, or his time in Hell. Good news for him, since, well, we all saw what happened to him at the end of last season, right?

More from the TV Guide issue (via):

Supernatural- (Returns Thursday Sept. 19, 9/8pm Central) “The season opens with some bombshells” teases creator Eric Kripke, who already jolted viewers when he sent Dean Winchester ( Jensen Ackles) to Hell in May’s season finale. Season 4 opens 4 months later, when Dean wakes up with no memory of his torment. “What happened to Dean in Hell, and to [younger brother] Sam ( Jared Padalecki) when he had to be a hunter by himself will slowly come to light,” Kripke says. “It gives us a nice opportunity for an internal struggle for Dean and for the brothers to surprise each other.” Katie Cassidy (Ruby) and Lauren Cohen (Bela) are both gone, but Jim Beaver and Steven Williams are back as geezer demon fighters Bobby and Rufus. Get set for a revealing flashback to the Winchester parent’s teen years, an homage to 1930s monster flicks and a bloody Halloween show.

Can’t wait for the Halloween episode. Supernatural always does some great ones. Remember last year’s pagan Gods episode? Fantastic stuff from the Supernatural boys.