Walking off the chessboard: part 4

[amonitrate]

This is the longest part! Bear with me, it's also probably the most complicated and delicate part to explain. Hopefully I did it justice.

Walking off the chessboard: Sam and Lucifer and the role of the Scapegoat in SPN

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Part 4

Perpetuating the role of Scapegoat

One of the catch-22’s that the Scapegoat faces is that rebelling against the

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[amonitrate]

I might be in the minority but I don't find it admirable. Complicated, yeah. I think the right choice, the more difficult choice in that moment, would have been to live with Sam dead. I totally get why for Dean at that time it was practically an impossibility to expect him to do so, with the way he was raised, his conditioning, etc, but one of the themes I appreciate in the show is that this kind of sacrifice is not actually the right thing to do. It does nothing but harm everyone -- the sacrificer and the one sacrificed for, you know? The chain of deals started by Mary led to the apocalypse.

I think Dean might make a different choice now, after hell, after seeing what his choice did to Sam and himself, after his greater understanding of his upbringing and what John's choice did to Dean. But I'm not 100% sure.

I think there was a difference between choosing to condemn his soul to hell for Sam in season 2 and choosing to be with Sam no matter what, even if it lead to Dean's own death, in season 5, and as depressing as the latter choice is, it's... more mature.