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I don’t usually like speculating on TV shows (at least not in public), because I don’t like being wrong, but for Supernatural? I can’t resist it.
So we all know it’s All About Sam, right? that it’s not exactly a coincidence that Mary and Jess were killed the same way, by the same thing, in the same situation (ickle baby Sammy on the bed below). So whether Sam’s the Evil Thing, or the Evil Thing is linked to Sam in some other way... there is an element of Sam-being-responsible in both of their deaths.
And of course, John knows this. It might have taken him a while to come around to the definite conclusion (because he wouldn’t exactly *want* it to be true), and there’s some catalyst for it, at some point - Sam starts having premonitions at the same time Max’s telekinesis kicks in; then John goes missing. And of course John’s desperation at Missouri’s house is all about ‘not being sure’ about Sam, about what/who Sam is.
Because if he is something evil, then it’s John’s duty to destroy him. But it’s not going to end up being all that black-and-white, of course - Sam will have a choice as to whether he gets to be a good guy or a bad guy. Though John won’t see it like that. John will see bad guy. Whereas Dean, of course, will see good guy. Ah, there lies the rub. Because John will be all desperate and convinced and crazy and trying to convince Dean that they have to kill it, destroy it like they would anything else; but instead Dean finally, finally understands - because it’s Dean-and-Sam this time, not Sam-and-Max, and Dean will refuse to believe it, refuse to destroy Sam and thus Dean and John will finally come to be at loggerheads.
But I suspect it will come to be a choice thing for Sam... I say this partly because of what seemed to be that throwaway hitch-hiker character; could she be an insignificant evil person wanting to get rid of the ghostbuster boys, or is she part of a greater force who knows Sam’s potential? And if she does, then she seemed to be trying to keep Sam & Dean apart - which suggests that his ‘powers’ are possibly neutral: staying with Dean = he ends up good, leaving Dean = things don’t go so swell. So Dean’s whole speech about how Sam will never turn out like Max because Sam has Dean to take care of him is apt on a larger scale.
I say choice also because of the kinds of villains they fight... As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chaodyssey said to me, the show is refreshingly non-political. There’s not a “darker-skinned race” that is inherently bad, not really the construction of an Other, as such (aside from the Dean&Sam vs. Everyone Else aspect of it). The baddies they fight are all broken psychologically, they’ve strayed from the emotionally healthy path and have been unable to come to peace. The woman in white and her children, the boy who was murdered and has to have revenge, bloody mary and her secrets, the asylum patients, the preacher’s wife who was willing to deal with the devil to keep him alive, even the wendigo and the insect plagues had sympathetic pasts. (The only exception I can think of being the one constructed to *be* an exception, a contrast - the Benders, and they are creepy because they ‘do it for fun’ - not because they want to destroy another group’s way of life, so to speak.) And of course Max, and that blatant parallell.
So, is Sam going to be broken by his past and choose the side of evil and vengeance (which, hah, raises issues of John’s morality); or is he going tobathe in the healing light of Dean’s cock let Dean love/heal him?
And there are all kinds of theories about Sam’s origins that I’ve seen playing around the fandom... I’m kinda taken by the one where John isn’t actually Sam’s father; either he’s a cuckoo’s egg or Mommy was impregnated by something pretending to be Daddy (so kind of twisted cuckoo’s egg). And you have to admit, Sam and Dean don’t exactly *look* like they’re related. That’s the figure Mary saw standing over Sam’s crib (and of course, it’s not a sure thing that this figure was the same thing that decided to have a little Mary-BBQ and go all Harry Potter-esque on our asses...) Which means that, if/when John knows this, it’s all the more easier for him to decide that Sam needs to be destroyed. But Dean, on the other hand, will not feel any differently whether Sam is related to him by blood or not.
Which, you know, is kinda gay, if they’re not actually related at all.
Anyway. John is turning up in the next episode, yes? *rubs hands together in gleeful anticipation*
So we all know it’s All About Sam, right? that it’s not exactly a coincidence that Mary and Jess were killed the same way, by the same thing, in the same situation (ickle baby Sammy on the bed below). So whether Sam’s the Evil Thing, or the Evil Thing is linked to Sam in some other way... there is an element of Sam-being-responsible in both of their deaths.
And of course, John knows this. It might have taken him a while to come around to the definite conclusion (because he wouldn’t exactly *want* it to be true), and there’s some catalyst for it, at some point - Sam starts having premonitions at the same time Max’s telekinesis kicks in; then John goes missing. And of course John’s desperation at Missouri’s house is all about ‘not being sure’ about Sam, about what/who Sam is.
Because if he is something evil, then it’s John’s duty to destroy him. But it’s not going to end up being all that black-and-white, of course - Sam will have a choice as to whether he gets to be a good guy or a bad guy. Though John won’t see it like that. John will see bad guy. Whereas Dean, of course, will see good guy. Ah, there lies the rub. Because John will be all desperate and convinced and crazy and trying to convince Dean that they have to kill it, destroy it like they would anything else; but instead Dean finally, finally understands - because it’s Dean-and-Sam this time, not Sam-and-Max, and Dean will refuse to believe it, refuse to destroy Sam and thus Dean and John will finally come to be at loggerheads.
But I suspect it will come to be a choice thing for Sam... I say this partly because of what seemed to be that throwaway hitch-hiker character; could she be an insignificant evil person wanting to get rid of the ghostbuster boys, or is she part of a greater force who knows Sam’s potential? And if she does, then she seemed to be trying to keep Sam & Dean apart - which suggests that his ‘powers’ are possibly neutral: staying with Dean = he ends up good, leaving Dean = things don’t go so swell. So Dean’s whole speech about how Sam will never turn out like Max because Sam has Dean to take care of him is apt on a larger scale.
I say choice also because of the kinds of villains they fight... As
chaodyssey said to me, the show is refreshingly non-political. There’s not a “darker-skinned race” that is inherently bad, not really the construction of an Other, as such (aside from the Dean&Sam vs. Everyone Else aspect of it). The baddies they fight are all broken psychologically, they’ve strayed from the emotionally healthy path and have been unable to come to peace. The woman in white and her children, the boy who was murdered and has to have revenge, bloody mary and her secrets, the asylum patients, the preacher’s wife who was willing to deal with the devil to keep him alive, even the wendigo and the insect plagues had sympathetic pasts. (The only exception I can think of being the one constructed to *be* an exception, a contrast - the Benders, and they are creepy because they ‘do it for fun’ - not because they want to destroy another group’s way of life, so to speak.) And of course Max, and that blatant parallell.So, is Sam going to be broken by his past and choose the side of evil and vengeance (which, hah, raises issues of John’s morality); or is he going to
And there are all kinds of theories about Sam’s origins that I’ve seen playing around the fandom... I’m kinda taken by the one where John isn’t actually Sam’s father; either he’s a cuckoo’s egg or Mommy was impregnated by something pretending to be Daddy (so kind of twisted cuckoo’s egg). And you have to admit, Sam and Dean don’t exactly *look* like they’re related. That’s the figure Mary saw standing over Sam’s crib (and of course, it’s not a sure thing that this figure was the same thing that decided to have a little Mary-BBQ and go all Harry Potter-esque on our asses...) Which means that, if/when John knows this, it’s all the more easier for him to decide that Sam needs to be destroyed. But Dean, on the other hand, will not feel any differently whether Sam is related to him by blood or not.
Which, you know, is kinda gay, if they’re not actually related at all.
Anyway. John is turning up in the next episode, yes? *rubs hands together in gleeful anticipation*
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