4x18: Reaction

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And next week, there's no new ep? :(
Well, the break's not probably a bad idea, considering how much the Show's given us to chew on this season... and who knows? Maybe I'll be able to spin out something other than half-assed random bits of fics. There's a desire to make a "Road So Far" picspam with screencaps from the Show and quotes from Legacy

Comments

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Question: What's the most common shared feature with the episodes of those titles?
Answer: Demons. Family. Blood.
Has someone written a meta on blood and its pronounced presence in Season Four already? Or do I have to? Because it's crying out to me so very, very strongly...

Oh! Do! I really like the tension between the different meanings of "blood" in the context of this show, being things that both bind and tear the Winchester family apart.

Oh, I love this girl! I don't have a clue who she is, but she looks lovely. And she's a fan.I'm pretty sure I recognize the actress from Battlestar Galactica. There've been number of local Vancouver actors who have shown up in both series. This actress in particular was a follower of Gaius Baltar's in the last season, and the dark-haired demon from the diner in Lazarus Rising was a pilot in BSG, the grown-up survivor of the Wendigo attack was the chain-smoking, gravely-voiced doctor in BSG, and the owner of the Mystery Spot was a member of the Quorum. I'm sure there are others, but I can'

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*waves*

I'm replying to your comment because you reiterated pretty much everything I was going to comment about! :D

I second the motion on a blood meta! Also, sade, thanks for looking through those epi/book titles and coming up with ideas why certain epi/titles were included and others weren't. My brain is dead and work is eating my fandom time.

That fangirl/publisher was also a VotW in "The Usual Suspects" where she wore (strangely) a very similar wrap-around sweater. Show seems to be recycling actors (or else there aren't enough actors in Vancouver) as the girl under the spell in "Wishful Thinking" was also the girlfriend of the Asian man who gets doubled by the shape shifter in "Skin".

Heh! You know, I recognized that yellow and red cigar box from "AHBL-2". I'm pretty sure Dean pulled a fake ID out of it when he was frantically putting together his deal box at the crossroads.

I'm beginning to strongly suspect that killing Lilith will break the final seal.AHH! Me, too! I sort of love the damned-if-you-do-and-damned-if

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Somehow Sam killing Lilith while knowing it would raise Lucifer seems a bit ... scary? not like Sam? very vengeful, obsessive darkside-ish? Not to mention it would make Sam seem more like John than bleeding-heart-Sam-in-the-pilot.

That would be sure be hard to imagine. *ponders*

I suppose Sam could rationalize away a report of it being the final seal.... though his character would certainly take a significant hit if he did.

I could see Sam killing Lilith if she directly threatens Dean, choosing Dean over all others like Dean tried to choose his mother and father over everyone their hunting would have saved in In the Beginning Certainly would bring on some symmetry to balance Dean's ongoing dilemma of choosing Sam over risking the fulfillment of the YED's end-game.

Otherwise, we're left with Sam not knowing, though I suspect Dean would find out at some point while Sam had gone off to confront Lilith. Hmmmmm...hmmm.hmm.

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And I wanna write a good, long, deep meta on blood! But I've been barely able to sit down for five minutes the last couple of days, not to mention anything about concentrating on one thing at a time. Being so scatterbrained does not a good meta make. :p

You're welcome for the ep/book titles. :)

But would Sam killing Lilith break the seal?

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I've been barely able to sit down for five minutes the last couple of days, not to mention anything about concentrating on one thing at a time.

I can only imagine with all that's going on. My attention span seems to have shortened substantially to the point that I can't seem to write or finish anything that's not work related and I'm not dealing with a full family and a little one making their debut any day.

But would Sam killing Lilith break the seal?

I don't know. I guess that depends if there are prophesies or "rules" about HOW/WHEN the seals or by whom they are broken.

I'm curious to know how Lilith got the tidbit of information about her demise. It seems like some demons (Lilith at least) invest in fate or the foreseeing of the future enough to believe it to be true but also take stock in free will such that they believe they can circumvent "fate". Interesting, no? :)

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'Blood' is indeed a curious element... just like oak. :p
I just so want to really delve into it, but I've been unable to sit down, concentrate on just one thing lately that I have no idea when I might get around to writing the meta the subject would deserve...

Given the above, I'm beginning to strongly suspect that killing Lilith will break the final seal.
That does seem likely, all things considered. And I wonder... How would she get Dean to kill herself? Sam's the most obvious answer, but... *thinky*

-the way he says that implies that he's assuming that the Apocalypse is going to happen.
You're right. It does sound rather definitive. Hmmm... Damned if you do, damned if you don't? I have no trouble seeing Sam viewing future in darker shades...