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Just another random thought on SPN's 5.04
Dean's description of Lucifer.
I know what you are… You’re the same thing, only bigger. The same brand of cockroach I would squash in my own life. An ugly, evil belly-to-the-ground supernatural piece of crap. The only difference between them and you is the size of your ego.
The Serpent from the Garden of Eden aspect of the "belly-to-the-ground" part of the descriptor is obvious.
But it struck me that isn't there an additional level of wordplay possible?
How are cowards usually described? Yellowed bellied, yes? Also various incarnations of this, belly crawling, etc.
Did Dean just call out Lucifer for being a COWARD?!?!
Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now for further comparison of this whole Dean calling out a monster on their ego and So Mizundastood!!! crap we can go back to Monster Movie.
Shifter: Everywhere I ran, everywhere I tried to hide, people found me, dragged me out, attacked me. Called me "freak," called me "monster." Then I found... them. The great monsters. In their movies, they were strong, they were feared. They were beautiful. And now I am like them. Commanding. Terrifying.
Kinda like Lucifer's "boo-hoo, I'm being called a monster" spiel.
Dean: You do realize what happens at the end of every monster movie?
Shifter: Ah. But this movie is mine. And in it, the monster wins.
So confident that he's got control over the outcome. Ego and pride on full display.
And yet we all know how that ended. No wonder Dean says that Lucifer's just the same thing, different day. And while the shifter was too yellow-bellied to put himself out there as an adult and find someone to alleviate his loneliness through legitimate means, at least he had the guts to name himself for the monster that he acted as.
Lucifer is too cowardly to look in the mirror and see his own true reflection, too caught up in the blinding self-service of his own perceptions. Doesn't have the guts to look at his own actions and consequences and think that maybe, maybe he's wrong to do what he's doing.
I dunno. But I know that it tickles me to think that Dean sees him as a cowardly monster bent on damning the human race because of his own screwed up perceptions. Now I hope Dean or Sam gets a chance to call him a coward to his face in THIS timeline. It just seems like an amusingly arbitrary reaction the usual pain, despair and temptation he usually presents to his victims.
Dean's description of Lucifer.
I know what you are… You’re the same thing, only bigger. The same brand of cockroach I would squash in my own life. An ugly, evil belly-to-the-ground supernatural piece of crap. The only difference between them and you is the size of your ego.
The Serpent from the Garden of Eden aspect of the "belly-to-the-ground" part of the descriptor is obvious.
But it struck me that isn't there an additional level of wordplay possible?
How are cowards usually described? Yellowed bellied, yes? Also various incarnations of this, belly crawling, etc.
Did Dean just call out Lucifer for being a COWARD?!?!
Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now for further comparison of this whole Dean calling out a monster on their ego and So Mizundastood!!! crap we can go back to Monster Movie.
Shifter: Everywhere I ran, everywhere I tried to hide, people found me, dragged me out, attacked me. Called me "freak," called me "monster." Then I found... them. The great monsters. In their movies, they were strong, they were feared. They were beautiful. And now I am like them. Commanding. Terrifying.
Kinda like Lucifer's "boo-hoo, I'm being called a monster" spiel.
Dean: You do realize what happens at the end of every monster movie?
Shifter: Ah. But this movie is mine. And in it, the monster wins.
So confident that he's got control over the outcome. Ego and pride on full display.
And yet we all know how that ended. No wonder Dean says that Lucifer's just the same thing, different day. And while the shifter was too yellow-bellied to put himself out there as an adult and find someone to alleviate his loneliness through legitimate means, at least he had the guts to name himself for the monster that he acted as.
Lucifer is too cowardly to look in the mirror and see his own true reflection, too caught up in the blinding self-service of his own perceptions. Doesn't have the guts to look at his own actions and consequences and think that maybe, maybe he's wrong to do what he's doing.
I dunno. But I know that it tickles me to think that Dean sees him as a cowardly monster bent on damning the human race because of his own screwed up perceptions. Now I hope Dean or Sam gets a chance to call him a coward to his face in THIS timeline. It just seems like an amusingly arbitrary reaction the usual pain, despair and temptation he usually presents to his victims.