Hm, you bring up a lot of connections here I hadn't thought of.
"Bobby's my uncle -- my father -- my uncle AND my father!!!" LMAO, I was way too amused by that.
There's definitely a big presence of the corruption theme with what's going on with the angels. There's no authority on what is right and wrong anymore. Balthazar figures the world's screwed and he doesn't care, he might as well start making a profit with holy weapons and just enjoy a hedonistic lifestyle. Things like souls and Purgatory are being pursued as business opportunities with no sense of responsibility. Castiel is one of the lone idealist angels still around, but if the way that usually works out in noir is any indication, that may only be because he clearly doesn't know all that's going on.
We've already seen that Dean has been being played big time from just about all angles from the start of this season. I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone in Sam's group if not Sam himself somehow led the Jinn right to Dean's home to be a catalyst that would make it easier to draw him back into the hunting world. I'm not sure if I'd expect more of the same duplicity and deceit from a lot of characters for the rest of the season, or if Sam getting his soul back will be the beginning of the phase of them actually figuring everything out and getting on the right track.
The whole idea of the wall in Sam's mind seems to me like a perfect literal representation of the kind of devastating consequences it brings when some horrible truth is uncovered by the detective that he ends up regretting he ever found out. I can't help wondering if one of the big twists I'm sure is coming eventually will be that scratching the wall is exactly what Sam needs to do because his memories of the cage actually hold some important answers.
Balthazar does seem like a heavily Noir figure, or neo-Noir .... the faded Knight, addicted to and weakened by pleasure...
Castiel's idealism is beautiful -- but doomed? Even if he wins, his hands are covered in blood.
I agree with you that the Wall itself is the most Noir aspect we've seen so far. The way it divides self from self from self in Sam's mind is just boggling. I love that idea that whatever secret lies behind it might hold important answers -- though poor Samgirls if he has to throw himself into Mount Doom yet again!!
Yeah, as a Sam girl and also a fan of film noir who's kind of reveling in this direction the show is taking, I'm very conflicted about where this could go! LOL. But I think it's possible we've been mislead in some way about what exactly it would mean for the wall to break. (Who knows, maybe Death is the surpise big baddie here and he's actually trying to cover something up and his intentions in employing Sam and Dean as his P.I. team are not as agreeable as they'd hope.) I'm sure even if Sam survives it the consequences will really not be pretty, but the idea that Ignorance Is Bliss would be a bit anti-climactic and unsatisfying for a way to end that particular plot thread.
"Bobby's my uncle -- my father -- my uncle AND my father!!!"
LMAO, I was way too amused by that.
There's definitely a big presence of the corruption theme with what's going on with the angels. There's no authority on what is right and wrong anymore. Balthazar figures the world's screwed and he doesn't care, he might as well start making a profit with holy weapons and just enjoy a hedonistic lifestyle. Things like souls and Purgatory are being pursued as business opportunities with no sense of responsibility. Castiel is one of the lone idealist angels still around, but if the way that usually works out in noir is any indication, that may only be because he clearly doesn't know all that's going on.
We've already seen that Dean has been being played big time from just about all angles from the start of this season. I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone in Sam's group if not Sam himself somehow led the Jinn right to Dean's home to be a catalyst that would make it easier to draw him back into the hunting world. I'm not sure if I'd expect more of the same duplicity and deceit from a lot of characters for the rest of the season, or if Sam getting his soul back will be the beginning of the phase of them actually figuring everything out and getting on the right track.
The whole idea of the wall in Sam's mind seems to me like a perfect literal representation of the kind of devastating consequences it brings when some horrible truth is uncovered by the detective that he ends up regretting he ever found out. I can't help wondering if one of the big twists I'm sure is coming eventually will be that scratching the wall is exactly what Sam needs to do because his memories of the cage actually hold some important answers.
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Castiel's idealism is beautiful -- but doomed? Even if he wins, his hands are covered in blood.
I agree with you that the Wall itself is the most Noir aspect we've seen so far. The way it divides self from self from self in Sam's mind is just boggling. I love that idea that whatever secret lies behind it might hold important answers -- though poor Samgirls if he has to throw himself into Mount Doom yet again!!
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