speculative musings on SPN season finale
This hit me after 8.21. Spoilers through everything aired, except I haven't seen the preview for the finale - I suppose it might invalidate something here, but if I were building up to this I wouldn't put it in the trailer.
So, we have Sam feeling like he's being purified by the trials. I can't remember if we've totally sorted out Sam's "demon blood taint" and whether he's atoned or been fixed by now, or where he was during the brief time he was actually dead before Dean made his deal? Or maybe he's being purified of humanity, or the everyday dirt that sticks to us. Regardless, Sam's going through something that's changing him, and there's all the coughing up blood, and I was thinking about the characters who save the world but the cost is too high, they can't actually live in the world they've saved. The poisoned wound motif, Frodo and Ransom, and the Scythian coughing up a lung.* Also, Bobby's soul being liberated to Heaven, and complaining about how they better not give him a rocking chair or the boys are gonna have to get him back to Earth...
If I were writing this, I'd have Sam die at the end of the third trial. Price of sealing Hell.
And he ends up in Heaven (which may or may not be a surprise to him and/or anyone else involved, depending on where we left the whole cursed-from-infancy issue and all the rest of it). And then he and Bobby are up there trying to figure out how to bust out of Heaven, and meanwhile presumably getting caught in the crossfire of the angelic civil war (actually, it's hardly even a civil war at present, more a complete shambles? whatever.)
AND THEN, omg, then, it hit me that this is what Castiel's latest (oddly tacked-on, last-minute) lunacy is all about: not only is Sam in Heaven, but the gates are locked.** WIBBLE.
I just...DEAN! We've had Sam dead (soul destination: unknown) and Dean makes a deal. We've had Dean in Hell and Sam does his level best to get him out. We've had Sam in the cage and Dean does his best to get on and live a "normal life" like Sam wanted. We've had Dean in Purgatory and Sam doesn't go after him (LIKE THEY AGREED, I THOUGHT), and a season of Dean being pissed off that Sam didn't even look. And now: Sam's dead, and Dean is - well, I love Dean to smithereens, but if there's any justice, Dean will be ridiculously torn between wanting to get Sam back, knowing he should abandon the Winchester habit of self-sacrifice and trading their lives for each other (LIKE THEY AGREED, I THOUGHT, not that I wanted them to succeed of course), and also feeling pretty fucking hypocritical about maybe not going after Sam when he's just spent months resenting the fact that Sam didn't go after him.***
And Castiel! He wouldn't have known that Sam would die - I don't know if Metatron knows, but he probably wouldn't care, or realize what a BIG DEAL separating the Winchesters is, since he hasn't kept up with the news - and now he has to explain his latest error in judgment to Dean, namely that he just accidentally sealed Sam away with the rest of the heavenly host. OOPS.
So, uh. Yeah. That's what I'd do.
I kind of hope the show does it because I don't have time to write it. ;)
* Sword and Sworcery, beautiful and trippy iPad game. Ransom = CS Lewis.
** So for a while, the crime-fighting teams would be Sam & Bobby in Heaven, and Dean & Castiel on Earth. I think this would be something the writers might do, although I imagine it would upset any number of people, including some of you.
*** Dean may or may not know that Sam's in Heaven. If he doesn't, he might have even more impetus to go after him. I do hope, though, that we don't get Buffy's "you pulled me out of Heaven" storyline.
So, we have Sam feeling like he's being purified by the trials. I can't remember if we've totally sorted out Sam's "demon blood taint" and whether he's atoned or been fixed by now, or where he was during the brief time he was actually dead before Dean made his deal? Or maybe he's being purified of humanity, or the everyday dirt that sticks to us. Regardless, Sam's going through something that's changing him, and there's all the coughing up blood, and I was thinking about the characters who save the world but the cost is too high, they can't actually live in the world they've saved. The poisoned wound motif, Frodo and Ransom, and the Scythian coughing up a lung.* Also, Bobby's soul being liberated to Heaven, and complaining about how they better not give him a rocking chair or the boys are gonna have to get him back to Earth...
If I were writing this, I'd have Sam die at the end of the third trial. Price of sealing Hell.
And he ends up in Heaven (which may or may not be a surprise to him and/or anyone else involved, depending on where we left the whole cursed-from-infancy issue and all the rest of it). And then he and Bobby are up there trying to figure out how to bust out of Heaven, and meanwhile presumably getting caught in the crossfire of the angelic civil war (actually, it's hardly even a civil war at present, more a complete shambles? whatever.)
AND THEN, omg, then, it hit me that this is what Castiel's latest (oddly tacked-on, last-minute) lunacy is all about: not only is Sam in Heaven, but the gates are locked.** WIBBLE.
I just...DEAN! We've had Sam dead (soul destination: unknown) and Dean makes a deal. We've had Dean in Hell and Sam does his level best to get him out. We've had Sam in the cage and Dean does his best to get on and live a "normal life" like Sam wanted. We've had Dean in Purgatory and Sam doesn't go after him (LIKE THEY AGREED, I THOUGHT), and a season of Dean being pissed off that Sam didn't even look. And now: Sam's dead, and Dean is - well, I love Dean to smithereens, but if there's any justice, Dean will be ridiculously torn between wanting to get Sam back, knowing he should abandon the Winchester habit of self-sacrifice and trading their lives for each other (LIKE THEY AGREED, I THOUGHT, not that I wanted them to succeed of course), and also feeling pretty fucking hypocritical about maybe not going after Sam when he's just spent months resenting the fact that Sam didn't go after him.***
And Castiel! He wouldn't have known that Sam would die - I don't know if Metatron knows, but he probably wouldn't care, or realize what a BIG DEAL separating the Winchesters is, since he hasn't kept up with the news - and now he has to explain his latest error in judgment to Dean, namely that he just accidentally sealed Sam away with the rest of the heavenly host. OOPS.
So, uh. Yeah. That's what I'd do.
I kind of hope the show does it because I don't have time to write it. ;)
* Sword and Sworcery, beautiful and trippy iPad game. Ransom = CS Lewis.
** So for a while, the crime-fighting teams would be Sam & Bobby in Heaven, and Dean & Castiel on Earth. I think this would be something the writers might do, although I imagine it would upset any number of people, including some of you.
*** Dean may or may not know that Sam's in Heaven. If he doesn't, he might have even more impetus to go after him. I do hope, though, that we don't get Buffy's "you pulled me out of Heaven" storyline.