But time is a lover, and your time is young
More thought-dumping.
So, smilla02 said something in her journal today that I agree with in the multiple hundreds of percents:I want to hear Dean say to Castiel, Fuck destiny and fuck your God. After the last episode, I am convinced that he will. And soon.
I don't know how soon it will be, but oh man, am I certain he's going to say it, and act on it. Castiel's assertion that you can't escape destiny is, I think, bullshit, and I hope the show agrees with me, because free will is so much more interesting, and Dean has always, always been about fighting "destiny."
One more thing I loved about "Angels Above While You Sleep" and "In the Beginning"? Dean is his own goddamned angel. It's not destiny. It's action. Destiny and fatalism are something we hear about from demons, from Hell: your humanity will be burned away, you will forget, and you will become one of us. Why do demons worship Lucifer? Choice, choice, free will and choice. He defied God. He would not be externally defined. (Oops, I think my Gaiman and Carey is showing.)
This was one thing that was so hard about Season 3: it was an entire year of Dean being forced not to act. He's not good at being the lamb, and he shouldn't be. It's not who he is. Even if it was his choice to sacrifice himself that way.
This season brings a new kind of action to him, though. I think the significance of "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester" is, above all other things, that Dean has literally never before gone through the kind of consideration of God and Heaven that Judy Blume's Margaret does at 12. It's never been an issue for him: there was always just John and Sam and hunting evil, and that was enough. But the idea of a supreme being who is, for all intensive purposes, sitting the battle out infuriates him. It's going to be interesting to see when he realizes that an absent God is what allows for free will, in effect: he takes Castiel to task for not helping with the battle on Earth, but it's that vacuum that brings him to act and move and work. No one before Castiel has told Dean that he has a destiny: it's a mixed bag, from what I can see. (I don't buy it. I think speaking of a destiny and saying it's there is 99% of the work. Furthermore, I don't want it, and I don't think Dean does either. Sam... that's a different question, now that I think about it. Sam has always wanted something bigger than himself.)
I'm reminded of something Delirium tells Dream in The Kindly Ones: paraphrased, "Our existence distorts reality. That's responsibility." And that's the problem with angels and God. One of the papers I wrote in high school that I'm still proud of even today was about Le Morte d'Arthur, and how Galahad pretty much destroyed everything just by being there, because he was so freaking pure and good that everything else was thrown off its axis. So.
--and without segue: did anyone else have their moment of greatest augh at one particular line at the end? Your brother's not looking for you. That, to me, was more heartbreaking than the entire episode previous. This show is seriously killing me with its endpoints: every episode, I'm jolted when the credits come up.
...anyway. I'm so on tenterhooks for more story. I can see why Sera Gamble and Kripke keep saying that everyone in the writers room has just been giggling with delight about this season. And the ratings are holding up really well, which just makes me glee. Please let this continue, both in terms of quality and viewership. Or escalate, rather? I'm just. I'm so overwhelmingly happy with my show. It's a lovely feeling, especially when I'm so not with so much else.
So, smilla02 said something in her journal today that I agree with in the multiple hundreds of percents:I want to hear Dean say to Castiel, Fuck destiny and fuck your God. After the last episode, I am convinced that he will. And soon.
I don't know how soon it will be, but oh man, am I certain he's going to say it, and act on it. Castiel's assertion that you can't escape destiny is, I think, bullshit, and I hope the show agrees with me, because free will is so much more interesting, and Dean has always, always been about fighting "destiny."
One more thing I loved about "Angels Above While You Sleep" and "In the Beginning"? Dean is his own goddamned angel. It's not destiny. It's action. Destiny and fatalism are something we hear about from demons, from Hell: your humanity will be burned away, you will forget, and you will become one of us. Why do demons worship Lucifer? Choice, choice, free will and choice. He defied God. He would not be externally defined. (Oops, I think my Gaiman and Carey is showing.)
This was one thing that was so hard about Season 3: it was an entire year of Dean being forced not to act. He's not good at being the lamb, and he shouldn't be. It's not who he is. Even if it was his choice to sacrifice himself that way.
This season brings a new kind of action to him, though. I think the significance of "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester" is, above all other things, that Dean has literally never before gone through the kind of consideration of God and Heaven that Judy Blume's Margaret does at 12. It's never been an issue for him: there was always just John and Sam and hunting evil, and that was enough. But the idea of a supreme being who is, for all intensive purposes, sitting the battle out infuriates him. It's going to be interesting to see when he realizes that an absent God is what allows for free will, in effect: he takes Castiel to task for not helping with the battle on Earth, but it's that vacuum that brings him to act and move and work. No one before Castiel has told Dean that he has a destiny: it's a mixed bag, from what I can see. (I don't buy it. I think speaking of a destiny and saying it's there is 99% of the work. Furthermore, I don't want it, and I don't think Dean does either. Sam... that's a different question, now that I think about it. Sam has always wanted something bigger than himself.)
I'm reminded of something Delirium tells Dream in The Kindly Ones: paraphrased, "Our existence distorts reality. That's responsibility." And that's the problem with angels and God. One of the papers I wrote in high school that I'm still proud of even today was about Le Morte d'Arthur, and how Galahad pretty much destroyed everything just by being there, because he was so freaking pure and good that everything else was thrown off its axis. So.
--and without segue: did anyone else have their moment of greatest augh at one particular line at the end? Your brother's not looking for you. That, to me, was more heartbreaking than the entire episode previous. This show is seriously killing me with its endpoints: every episode, I'm jolted when the credits come up.
...anyway. I'm so on tenterhooks for more story. I can see why Sera Gamble and Kripke keep saying that everyone in the writers room has just been giggling with delight about this season. And the ratings are holding up really well, which just makes me glee. Please let this continue, both in terms of quality and viewership. Or escalate, rather? I'm just. I'm so overwhelmingly happy with my show. It's a lovely feeling, especially when I'm so not with so much else.