Awesome effect!! Plus thinky thoughts on season 5 ending...
Gonna put this behind a cut, because, HELLO! major spoilers for 5.18, but dudes!! Did you noticed this:
Now... it's easier to see if you click on the cap for full size... but man! That is one cool effect shot, with Zach's glowing face reflected in Dean's eyes. How cool is that?
This whole episode threw off the loop. For ages now (ever since posting '66 seals of doom') I've been crossing all fingers for Dean and Michael have some sort of connection. When the show finally went there, and made Dean Michael's vessel, I was ecstatic. Now... now, this episode has given me hope that the show might go (like a 30% chance) all the way and really give me all that I was hoping for, which is to give Dean more than just being Michael’s nicest suit.
What am I talking about here? Well... unlike a big part of fandom, I actually want those guys to be more than human (because, seriously, they left ‘being regular humans’ waaaay back in season 1), and, honestly, it would seem highly pathetic for Lucifer to be defeated by two, too fragile human beings that he can, literally, blink out of existence.
I mean, Sam, besides the fact that he is from a special blood-line, had Azazel spicing up his baby-self with demon blood. Which gave him special powers, right?
So, why does Dean, who’s supposed to be his equal (what other way can the final apocalypse fight be fair if they’re not equals) have nothing more going for him than being the gran-gran-gran-gran-gran... (oh! You get the point!) of Cain and Abel?
Do you see where I’m going here?
Let’s look at what we have so far:
1. Michael has been suspiciously absent. Well sure, we hear a lot OF him, how he’s the greatest fish in the tank, and how he’s gonna defeat Lucifer again... but when it comes to actually showing up and wooing his vessel, making sure that he HAS a vessel to show up for the final battle... Michael sends in a middle-manager?
2. Michael does show up. When Dean’s nothing more than a nugget in Mary’s womb and touches her. Sure, he tells Dean that they’ll end up as one, because that’s the way God told it would happen and because that’s the plan since the beginning of times. Unlike Lucifer, though, he doesn’t say when, or how. So, if all it took was Azazel’s (Lucifer’s proxy) dropping a few blood drops in baby Sam’s mouth for him to be all that he is, what would being touched by actual Michael do to a baby Dean?
And then, there’s the fact that we never see Michael again, except for that one time in the past, BEFORE DEAN WAS BORN. And yes, some might argument that he was there in this last episode, because Zachariah called him in. But it’s not the first time we’ve seen angels be fooled. Castiel went a whole season believing that he was getting his orders from Heaven itself, when it was just the group of ‘big brothers’ making a mess upstairs. Zachariah doesn’t strike me as being that much smarter than Castiel.
3. Dean iced Zachariah. And here many arguments can be made. The fact that Castiel said earlier in the season that only an angel could kill another angel COULD be referring to the shiny swords that only angels seem to have access to. Or not. We’ve seen both Mary and Sam grabbing one of those swords with the intent of killing an angel, but actually sending one off into to be big unknown? Just Dean.
4. The eyes. As in... Dean still has them. He was staring right into Zachariah’s true form when he killed him and Dean didn’t even flinch. Same thing going for the sound of the archangel’s true voice, as he was descending. If you notice, Sam and Adam are both reacting to the high pitch sound, but Dean isn’t.
5. The Whore. Which Dean also iced in 5.17. When Castiel said that only a true servant of Heaven could. Again, some might argument that, like Sam thought, that meant that Dean had, somehow, already made up his mind about saying ‘yes’. BUT... why, and more importantly, WHO is up there deciding that Dean making up his mind is enough for him to get his honorary Heaven’s badge? Because in the end, Dean said no to Michael... does that mean that the Whore is back to life?
All I’m saying here is that... what if Heaven had a back up plan? What if, Mary’s deal, made out of pain and loss and not really knowing what was at stake, change the balance of things far enough that a secondary plan had to be put into place? Like say... make Dean and Michael the one and the same entity?
I know that the show will never go there, but... how cool would that be?
Ok... I’ve ranted enough. Now I can slip back into imaginary land, where all I want to happen, DOES happen, and finish the 5.18 coda I’ve been working on. See ya!
Now... it's easier to see if you click on the cap for full size... but man! That is one cool effect shot, with Zach's glowing face reflected in Dean's eyes. How cool is that?
This whole episode threw off the loop. For ages now (ever since posting '66 seals of doom') I've been crossing all fingers for Dean and Michael have some sort of connection. When the show finally went there, and made Dean Michael's vessel, I was ecstatic. Now... now, this episode has given me hope that the show might go (like a 30% chance) all the way and really give me all that I was hoping for, which is to give Dean more than just being Michael’s nicest suit.
What am I talking about here? Well... unlike a big part of fandom, I actually want those guys to be more than human (because, seriously, they left ‘being regular humans’ waaaay back in season 1), and, honestly, it would seem highly pathetic for Lucifer to be defeated by two, too fragile human beings that he can, literally, blink out of existence.
I mean, Sam, besides the fact that he is from a special blood-line, had Azazel spicing up his baby-self with demon blood. Which gave him special powers, right?
So, why does Dean, who’s supposed to be his equal (what other way can the final apocalypse fight be fair if they’re not equals) have nothing more going for him than being the gran-gran-gran-gran-gran... (oh! You get the point!) of Cain and Abel?
Do you see where I’m going here?
Let’s look at what we have so far:
1. Michael has been suspiciously absent. Well sure, we hear a lot OF him, how he’s the greatest fish in the tank, and how he’s gonna defeat Lucifer again... but when it comes to actually showing up and wooing his vessel, making sure that he HAS a vessel to show up for the final battle... Michael sends in a middle-manager?
2. Michael does show up. When Dean’s nothing more than a nugget in Mary’s womb and touches her. Sure, he tells Dean that they’ll end up as one, because that’s the way God told it would happen and because that’s the plan since the beginning of times. Unlike Lucifer, though, he doesn’t say when, or how. So, if all it took was Azazel’s (Lucifer’s proxy) dropping a few blood drops in baby Sam’s mouth for him to be all that he is, what would being touched by actual Michael do to a baby Dean?
And then, there’s the fact that we never see Michael again, except for that one time in the past, BEFORE DEAN WAS BORN. And yes, some might argument that he was there in this last episode, because Zachariah called him in. But it’s not the first time we’ve seen angels be fooled. Castiel went a whole season believing that he was getting his orders from Heaven itself, when it was just the group of ‘big brothers’ making a mess upstairs. Zachariah doesn’t strike me as being that much smarter than Castiel.
3. Dean iced Zachariah. And here many arguments can be made. The fact that Castiel said earlier in the season that only an angel could kill another angel COULD be referring to the shiny swords that only angels seem to have access to. Or not. We’ve seen both Mary and Sam grabbing one of those swords with the intent of killing an angel, but actually sending one off into to be big unknown? Just Dean.
4. The eyes. As in... Dean still has them. He was staring right into Zachariah’s true form when he killed him and Dean didn’t even flinch. Same thing going for the sound of the archangel’s true voice, as he was descending. If you notice, Sam and Adam are both reacting to the high pitch sound, but Dean isn’t.
5. The Whore. Which Dean also iced in 5.17. When Castiel said that only a true servant of Heaven could. Again, some might argument that, like Sam thought, that meant that Dean had, somehow, already made up his mind about saying ‘yes’. BUT... why, and more importantly, WHO is up there deciding that Dean making up his mind is enough for him to get his honorary Heaven’s badge? Because in the end, Dean said no to Michael... does that mean that the Whore is back to life?
All I’m saying here is that... what if Heaven had a back up plan? What if, Mary’s deal, made out of pain and loss and not really knowing what was at stake, change the balance of things far enough that a secondary plan had to be put into place? Like say... make Dean and Michael the one and the same entity?
I know that the show will never go there, but... how cool would that be?
Ok... I’ve ranted enough. Now I can slip back into imaginary land, where all I want to happen, DOES happen, and finish the 5.18 coda I’ve been working on. See ya!