The Amulet

[kimmer1227]

I don't get the Amulet obsession. I know I'm in the minority on this opinion. I get the sentimentality about the amulet. I do. It was a tangible symbol of brother love and all that. Dean thru it away in a moment of disappointment, frustration, and anger, and I cried over its loss and the significance of that gesture, but I was mostly okay with

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[twasadark]

Oh, that WOULD have been awesome, if Sam had given the amulet back to Dean during Swan Song. Yeah, I have no problem with it being gone either.

LOL, I didn't know that about Jensen getting stabbed in the chest by the amulet during fight scenes. Poor baby! I would offer to kiss it better, lol!!

[kimmer1227]

Yeah. Swan Song would have been the time. I would have cried buckets and buckets!

Sam: Bitch! *hands Dean the amulet*
Dean: Jerk!

*sobs*

[smilla02]

I only miss the amulet because Dean looked good with it, but now I actually don't want to see it back. Iìm with you: it would feel contrived. I wouldn't be opposed to Sam giving Dean a different gift, though. Something that symbolizes the different stage in their relationship, something given with the maturity I feel (hope) they have now.

[kimmer1227]

He did look good with it. But he looks good with everything!

Maybe Sam can give him a new weapon. An engraved machete or sword. Dean would like that. Hee.

Or socks. You always need socks.

*hugs*

[dawnintheforest]

Hhhmmm, yes the amulet. For a long time I wanted to see it back, but now I've kind of accepted its absence. Like you said, now it would just be kind of weird and after-thought'y if it returned. The only part I'm still struggling to accept is that it was just left in that motel garbage can. For me it would've been easier had it been thrown in a river, down a canyon, a gutter even. Or if it had been lost or stolen. I know motel rooms bear a lot of significance in this show/story, but having it left somewhere so easy to retrieve is hard.

I have pretty much let go of the amulet. Except for the retrievability (I realize that's not a word) issue, I can miss it and accept it at the same time. And in a way I think it's really good to have things in the show like the loss of the amulet, because it creates... a sort of "emotional drag"... made that up too, what I mean is that it's like an ember that will keep glowing. (struggling to articulate my thoughts here)

[kimmer1227]

I know motel rooms bear a lot of significance in this show/story, but having it left somewhere so easy to retrieve is hard.

You mean easy to retrieve by Sam or Dean, right? Like there's still hope that it was retrieved?

I'm fine with the retrieving if they had brought it to light before Swan Song. It feels like too much emotional distance and time has passed for it's appearance to be significant or authentic. I don't know.

[dawnintheforest]

Yes, exactly. That Dean could've doubled back or Sam could've picked it up after that scene too. OR, OR that some third party probably has it now and doesn't know its worth (and I mean that on all levels). We're just lucky it was a tool for good, and not like The Ring in LOTR!

I'm with you on that second point. Too much time has gone by now. I don't know how I'd react if they brought it back now.

[feliciakw]

Jensen said at a con last year that he thinks Sam picked it up before he left the room.

The amulet could have its own spin-off, following it from owner to owner.

[feliciakw]

I'm with ya.

When Dean first dropped the amulet in the wastebasket, it hurt. But I also saw it as symbolic of Dean coming to grips with things he thought were so, then found out weren't. Dean's was an emotional reaction, and I knew the amulet wouldn't be making another appearance after. It was given with such significance, carried and worn with such significance, but at the point where Dean parts with it, he's struggling to come to grips with who he is and what he has to do. He'd lost hope, and dropping the amulet reflects that.

I miss it, sort of, but I don't want to see its return, either. It would feel trite, forced, and very much an afterthought. Dean has moved on. It would feel like a step backwards.

Now, Jensen said, at the Rome con, I believe, that he thinks Sam retrieved it from the garbage. I'm totally willing to go along with that. Sam carried it with him secretly for the rest of the season, and it was in his pocket when he jumped into the Pit. However, since he was nekkid when he woke up in the field, I

[kimmer1227]

I agree. It would feel like a step backwards, and the boyz need forward progress. Lots of forward progress!

Nekkid Sammy. Hee.

[el1ie]

You know, I never say never.

I think I have come to accept that it's gone, I miss seeing it physically as I did the ring, or at least for a while I did, used to NOT seeing it now. I'm with you on Swan Song being THE place for it's return and when it hadn't appeared then, I'd accepted it as gone - I was fine about it, drew a line under it. To be honest the "God Detector Device" thing was, well, let's say, not their finest plot twist and distanced me from my attachment to it.

However, I never underestimate show's ability to actually break my heart, and if they did bring it back, then yeah, there's a very high probability I would find it contrived, - see "God Detector Device" above - but then again it is entirely possible that it might still make me weep buckets too...and being the sucker I am, I do like it when show can still make me cry.

[kimmer1227]

I'm definitely with you on the God Detector thing. Seriously? The amulet was quite significant without any mystical elements.

...but then again it is entirely possible that it might still make me weep buckets too...and being the sucker I am, I do like it when show can still make me cry.

Me too. On both counts. *grabs tissue*