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4.21 Meta and Speculation
Redirected from SPN 4.21 Reaction to spare the spec-phobes.
What might really be happening with Sam and the demon blood.
I don't think Sam's detoxing or addicted. I think he's weaning. That 'mother's milk' thing? Yeah. All the way back to the start of season two (Actually earlier, but I didn't post anything about it 'til then) and continued adapting. I have thought that the YED blood inside Sam is a seed of some sort, growing a new YED. And more and more I think I'm right. Because it's being fed demon blood to grow. Stronger, bigger appetite... it's not an addiction, and they've been faking everyone out by making it seem like an addiction.
Are babies addicted to their mother's milk? No.
What that implies is that it's not Sam who's the monster. It's the YED growing inside him. Sam not having demon-powers while astral-projecting in "Death Takes a Holiday" plays into this too, because Sam's soul or spirit is what's wandering around, not his physical body with the YED seed and the demon blood. Sam is a host for a demonic parasite.
OMG I had a thought there and lost it. Ah! Okay, weird-ass metaphor going on here. That whole 'only needs one' YED-kid showdown? Think about it. Kind of squicking myself here, but how many sperm does it take to make a baby? Just one that beats out all the rest.
Also to take into account, something Castiel said in the junkyard: "Quite likely Sam would become the next creature Dean would feel compelled to kill." There's some lovely double-speak there. Sam becoming a YED by way of nursing on demon blood and growing the YED to full strength so it can take him over and over power his personality would still count and leave Sam still Sam, needing rescued more than ever. Even though it may not seem like it.
Seals, Lilith, and Casiel
Last we saw Lilith, she was not wanting to keep up the Apocalypse thing because she found out she'd not survive it. So, she's also involved in the opening of the final seal, right? I'm thinking her death opens the final seal.
Thing is, if she knows this, why is she still opening seals? Lilith, to date, has arguably been the most tactically savvy of all the boss-level demons on this show. To go ahead with this is either a level of selflessness heretofore unseen from this character, or she's not running the game anymore. I'm thinking maybe her entourage had a dual purpose. They're her flunkies, but also her jailers, should she twig to her role as the final seal too early. Evil nurse may be cooking up babies for her, but she's caged. Either another demon has taken over the op, or... it's the rogue angels.
The angels' "Cult of Lucifer" having started opening the seals themselves would explain where they've been, and why Sam was ordered released, if Castiel's orders are coming from them through subterfuge.
Castiel had orders to release Sam. He says he serves Heaven, but seriously, bad things happened there and what he now thinks is heaven may not be. Or he might have some kind of angelic Stockholm syndrome. There's the mole in the Angel network still, and the cult of Lucifer who may or may not be the ones now breaking seals. Or he may be trying to infiltrate the cult of Lucifer to bring it down. He obviously has something he's hiding, and his "I can't" to Dean i the junkyard was very telling about his situation. He's being observed; who exactly by will come in the fullness of time. How his orders to get Dean onboard spin things it another matter entirely.
The capture of Anna... I'm thinking in the eyes of heaven, Anna's kind of an abomination. She stole her grace back and got her physical body back in ways possibly better left unexamined (like, say, the grace of one of the dead angels from head of a pin was extracted and used to pull her body together from atoms), so her capture does not clarify things. I'm a proponent of the 'Anna is the secret mastermind behind the moles in the Angel network'. But maybe she isn't. I'm not sure who's side she's on anymore.
Anyway, just some scattered thoughts.
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