5.22 Swan Song, Part 14
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METAMORPHOSIS
What happened to the caterpillar Absalom, Dean? Read it again.
They circle each other and I start wondering who is gonna be the first to cast magic missile when it all comes to a grinding halt because the real reason we are here has already happened; the important question has already been asked:
What does it mean to "watch out for" and "take care of" each other?
You want an Apocalypse? Here it is: it's not always about a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil; sometimes it's invisible and it's as simple as finding out something that changes you ... just you ... forever.
BONUS
Conspiracy Theory Time!
As to the reason that Dean couldn't get Michael to answer him in The End? I am taking bets that it was because Michael was already dead. Zachariah saw into that future, saw that Michael in Adam's body did not have the desired effect because there was no history between Sam and Adam (Ain't it a bitch when angels have to follow the rules and be human to play their roles out?), and Zach decided that the only way to defeat Lucifer was through convincing Dean to say yes by any means necessary, including using Adam as a tactical hostage. By the time Dean got there in The End, Lucifer had already had his showdown with his brother and had moved on to his real plan to rebuild the planet, overseeing the 'ethnic cleansing' with the Croatoan virus. So this showdown is really just the same showdown that's already happened in that alternate universe...without Dean. Didn't turn out so well for us without Dean, did it?
Well, damn. What do we do now?
Dean: We improvise. *flicks lighter*
--Hell House
Oh. We know what THAT means.
Dean. Has a battle tape. Labeled *KICK IT IN THE ASS*.
With stars and everything. It gives me victory arms. \0/
You know, you know that once or twice, Dean has gotten drunk enough in a bar to sing karaoke'd Def Leppard ballards once or twice while Sam watched and laughed... or so it's been said.
Seriously, watch this one. hehehehe
IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. SERIOUSLY.
Click to view*raises one for The Godfather*
"Everything’s gonna be okay. I will be back in time. I promise."
And he is! \0/ *plays air drums*
The windmills, Sancho!!! The windmills!!!
Pardon me while I bust a lung whipping out "The Impossible Dream".
We had four horsemen... but ah, there is a fifth horse! The Dark Horse: the one nobody expected. She has come from behind (but not like that) and she's about to change everything.
A "dark horse" is also a common term for a candidate who unexpectedly takes the victory, despite presumably insurmountable odds. Like kings who assume thrones due to unforeseen circumstances or presidential candidates who surprisingly take the popular vote, like Lincoln, whom we saw in Fallen Idols, and Garfield, whose name graced the hospital in Free To Be You And Me. It can also be the term for an un-canonized saint whom people pray to for miracles... which might might be a clue as to why we saw all those names of saints on buildings this season... or I could be making all of this up, how will you know unless you Google it?
Lucifer!Bzuh is the tastiest kind of Bzuh.\0/
While Dean's baby snorts and rolls down the hill -- or saunters vaguely downwards, whichever -- let me say something else about dark horses.
Horses, and rabbits (see Dean = fluffy white bunny of bzuh since, oh, season 3.06), are traditionally used to create antivenin for people poisoned by snakes.
What am I saying with that? I'm saying that the Impala is a horse and Dean is a rabbit and Lucifer is a snake and Sam needs some of Dean's dead man's blood to poison this S.O.B. with, that's what.
What? Famine already established that Dean is dead inside and we have already established that Sam won the lottery when he got Dean his new heart when he should have been dead, not to mention that Cas is an amazing Hellraiser and so that makes Dean a walking dead man with life blood in his veins. And since it's kinda hard to kill a dead man, all we need is a little blood.
Dear Dean,
I was gonna ask you to roll up your sleeve, but I see you brought your Dad with you.
-Lid, who waves nevermind because if you ever wanted to incite some kid with a chip on his shoulder to screw you in the face, it's by walking up and saying hey, my dad loves me more than your dad loves you, good job
Anyone here ever heard of the GOLDEN MEAN?
The smaller is to the larger as the larger is to the sum of the two.
Speaking of the amulet, which I wasn't (but it's the golden mean, so there,) Dean and Sam had to give up everything -- absolutely EVERYTHING at some point on this journey, including the one thing that symbolically represented the other in his heart -- before they could let each other go, before they could really see in each other the strong men that they have become. As much as the amulet meant to each of them, it represented a time when they took care of each other in a different way, and it needed to change and mature into something greater. It hurt like hell at the time, but soon the obligatory protection that its presence had perpetuated began to melt away. The noose around Dean's neck was gone and now, things were even. At the point of no return, Sam felt free to rescue Dean simply by believing in him to do the right thing, even when Dean didn't know what the right thing was anymore. That is what liberated Dean, and now he has returned that show of faith. Even if I never see the amulet again, I feel better just knowing that LOSING it was the point of HAVING it all along.
I feel deranged math coming on.
Lucifer < Sam = THE WORLD = FAMILY = Dean > Michael < Michael's Sword < Lucifer
WHO WINS THIS FUNCTION?
*raises hand*
John 1:13 (yeah, 113 again)
"Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."
They look a mite per-tur-bed. I would be, too, if there was TWO OF ME out runnin' around, pretendin' to be me, doin' my job, soes I couldn't do my job... and doin' it better'n I could so that people don't die and the world don't asplode... but I think that was Nick Cage and John Travola in Face/Off. Oh wait, we established that. Sammy was Kotter and Dean is most definitely Johnny Blaze with his Medallion of Power and his flaming sword, I mean car... but better than Nick Cage did it, and all of this because the world is a stage, you know, and if you're gonna play a part, you gotta wear the part right, Cartwright.... *tips cowboy hat*
/ total random geekery
Michael: "Stop wearing mah face!"
Lucifer: "This isn't justice league!"
Dean: "Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And the law is man's feeble attempt to set down the principles of decency. Decency! And decency is not a deal, it isn't an angle, or a contract, or a hustle! Decency... decency is what your grandmother taught you. It's in your bones! Now you go home. Go home and be decent people. Be decent."
Okay, so that's actually Bonfire of the Vanities. Whatever, OMG, SAME.
PART 15: Faith
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