Supernatural 4.02 "Are You There God? It's Me, Dean Winchester"

[delphinapterus]

Supernatural 4.02 "Are You There God? It's Me, Dean Winchester"

This episode really got me wondering about some stuff which I think is a good thing.

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[chasingtides]

This brings me to another point that I’ve been wondering about for awhile. Bobby says he has information on angels written in cuneiform. How does Bobby know how to read cuneiform? For that matter it’s been implied that Bobby has other books written in languages besides English and Latin. Where did Bobby learn these languages? It isn’t like the local community college is going to offer a course in Akkadian or Egyptian for Beginners.

I have a pet theory where Bobby was either a medieval, classics, or linguistics professor before he became a junkyard-owning, panic room-building, shotgun-toting, plaid-wearing hunter. Someday I'm actually going to write the fic where he was excited to be accepted onto the tenure track at the local university and Mrs. Bobby got a job doing whatever Mrs. Bobby did and then it all went to hell when she got possessed and Bobby started stabbing her with kitchen knives.

[delphinapterus]

I really love this theory. It makes so much sense. We don't know what Bobby did before he became a hunter but a classical/linguistics prof makes sense. He has to have gotten that specialized education from somewhere and it's not like he's online checking translateancientakkadian.com all the time.

Plus the other thing is that books like that don't come cheap so I figure that Bobby must have a fair amount of cash tucked away. Given the implied size of his library he'd have needed to be collecting for a long time. Rare volumes in dead languages don't just come up for sale everyday after all. If you ever write the fic I'd love to read.

[akire_yta]

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You read my mind on a lot of these - salt+iron=rust (though the concept itself is very cool) and I too was wondering why they didn't just build a fire right there.

And as I was drooling over Bobby's library, I was wondering how he got them. Is there a Hunter who collects books instead of cases? Because that is one serious collection (and no library stickers to be seen! Bobby doesn't strike me as the library-card type anyway)

But this pet theory gets two thumbs up. If it was borne out of a home office of a professor, it makes much more sense.

But as for Sam sleeping on the floor, I was wondering if it was because the library was the most fortified place (in terms of ghosts, etc) in the house - because those windows were blown in, it must have been cold and uncomfortable down there!

[delphinapterus]

Is there a Hunter who collects books instead of cases? He could be the Book Hunter *g*

I hadn't thought of the library as fortified but now that you point it out it does seem a little obvious. That's the only room with the devils' traps and stuff painted in it I think.

[akire_yta]

They call him...the Librarian! *cue theme music*

It strikes me that, like with the panic room, Bobby must have spent a lot of time on his house. Unlike the boys, who drive everywhere and thus focus on offense maneuvers, Bobby stays put, and therefore by necessity must need a stronger defense....

and i've obviously thought way too much about this :)

[gigglingkat]

*butts in*

Heh. I've actually always thought that Mrs Bobby was the linguist/anthropologist and have this whole little 'verse stuck in my head how they fell in love and Bobby put up with all her books and listened to her talk for hours. Then one day, she found the wrong book, read the wrong passage and became possessed.

Bobby found that he remembered more than he thought and killed the demon. And now he keeps up on the dead languages, because in his head, they're all spoken in his wife's voice.

[delphinapterus]

Wonderful and hauntingly sad idea. It really fits with Bobby being haunted by his dead wife in the previous episode.