It does make sense, and I think it really would suck. *sigh* So many ways it could play out, and I'm DYING HERE. *tears at hair some more*
On the heels of the episode that I've come to loathe, known as Home, I got the step-bro or half-bro vibe; but still feel like Sam, being the chosen and preferred one (quite canonically if the on screen behaviors of Misery!psychic, dead!Mary, and SW-past!John are any indication), is the real son of both Mary and John. If they're going the half-bro route, then Sam is Mary's son, and John knows that; but because Sam is all that's left of Mary, it still puts Sam as #1 in John's heart even though Dean may be his natural son.
However, I'd be very surprised if Kripke & Co. went in this direction because 1) it immediately screws with their brotherly premise on which the entire series has been based and advertised; 2) it doesn't make dead!Mary look good; and 3) the writing on this show is simply not that deep or intricate. Veronica Mars this show ain't.
Of course, they could surprise us, and surprised I would be if they tried to shake it up like this.
I agree with all three of your objections there. It's not that I don't think surprises are on the way, but whether or not they're really and truly intricate remains to be seen. It's set up to allow that, certainly, but whether or not it will go through with it -- dunno.
I STRONGLY agree about the brotherly thing and the don't-bash-Mary thing. I kinda see the Christ story -- I have to admit -- with Sam as Jesus, Mary as, well, Mary, and John as, well, John, as in the Baptist. Meg so far could fit the whole snake-with-the-apple idea, although "Shadow" turned her into a minion, and the real Satan hasn't yet been revealed. Dean doesn't fit as an apostle, or really much of anything specific to me so far. He is sort of the fly in the biblical-parallel ointment. And I think Dean's ROLE is somehow related to that amulet. But I know that's an old theory, no need to go into it I don't suppose.
Then again, I'm an atheist of long standing, so what do I know? Maybe Dean is actually Biff.
Yeah, the whole messiah angle is the most obvious sledgehammer-over-the-head way for this story to go, and I sincerely hope that isn't what they have in mind at all. *ack*!
But if they do this then, yeah, poor Dean is one of the many Jameses no one but a priest can keep track of, or Biff (*snort*), or worse, Brian! (poor sap)
I could just be totally wrong about the biblical parallels, too. Just as easily. Dean doesn't immediately fit into it, no, which does pose a problem if that's what they're kinda-sorta doing here. *nod*
*snerk* Brian! "I want to have babies." "You can't have babies, you don't have a womb! Where are you going to keep it, in a box?"
On the heels of the episode that I've come to loathe, known as Home, I got the step-bro or half-bro vibe; but still feel like Sam, being the chosen and preferred one (quite canonically if the on screen behaviors of Misery!psychic, dead!Mary, and SW-past!John are any indication), is the real son of both Mary and John. If they're going the half-bro route, then Sam is Mary's son, and John knows that; but because Sam is all that's left of Mary, it still puts Sam as #1 in John's heart even though Dean may be his natural son.
However, I'd be very surprised if Kripke & Co. went in this direction because 1) it immediately screws with their brotherly premise on which the entire series has been based and advertised; 2) it doesn't make dead!Mary look good; and 3) the writing on this show is simply not that deep or intricate. Veronica Mars this show ain't.
Of course, they could surprise us, and surprised I would be if they tried to shake it up like this.
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I STRONGLY agree about the brotherly thing and the don't-bash-Mary thing. I kinda see the Christ story -- I have to admit -- with Sam as Jesus, Mary as, well, Mary, and John as, well, John, as in the Baptist. Meg so far could fit the whole snake-with-the-apple idea, although "Shadow" turned her into a minion, and the real Satan hasn't yet been revealed. Dean doesn't fit as an apostle, or really much of anything specific to me so far. He is sort of the fly in the biblical-parallel ointment. And I think Dean's ROLE is somehow related to that amulet. But I know that's an old theory, no need to go into it I don't suppose.
Then again, I'm an atheist of long standing, so what do I know? Maybe Dean is actually Biff.
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But if they do this then, yeah, poor Dean is one of the many Jameses no one but a priest can keep track of, or Biff (*snort*), or worse, Brian! (poor sap)
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*snerk* Brian! "I want to have babies." "You can't have babies, you don't have a womb! Where are you going to keep it, in a box?"
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