Walking off the chessboard: part 5

[amonitrate]

Sorry for the delay in posting. Complicated couple of weeks. Thus ends the main body of this sucker, though I'm noodling with a short conclusion that talks about the traditional/biblical concept of the scapegoat. Sadly I know nothing of the bible, so it will probably be a really shallow isn't this kinda cool thing.

Walking off the chessboard: Sam

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[meadowphoenix]

I don't know if it's appropriate or if you would even welcome a comment on meta 3 years old, but I just found this, and though I agree with the role that Sam played in season 4, I would argue that what I found interesting in season 5 was that Sam took culpability for something that he was merely responsible for not the other way around. And therefore that was still an internalization of his role as scapegoat taken to its logical extreme (the whole point of a scapegoat is that it is a sacrifice), and not an escape of that role as you presume makes him different from Lucifer.

I think the difference between Sam and Lucifer is that Lucifer never did internalize his role as a scapegoat, and therefore never even took responsibility in his role of perpetuating it.