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ceiteanBrief thoughts on the last Supernatural. And by brief, I mean, ahaha, oh god, it's another essay.
So there's been a lot said about the last episode, especially about Sam and Dean 'finding out' about Wincest, which was kinda hilarious.
(I'm not gonna lie, I fell off the bed laughing when I watched it the first time. Good times.)
But after I got over the shock of that, something else stood out to me about the episode. Castiel.
So basically Chuck is a Prophet who's got a direct line to God. The things he sees come true, though he doesn't always write what he sees (ex. Sam drinking blood and the last name of the brothers).
The crucial point here, I think, is that it's not a case of 'what the prophet writes will ultimately come to pass' but rather 'what the prophet sees will ultimately come to pass.' What he writes is a human endeavor, it can be altered by free will, but what he sees is divine and cannot be changed.
In my head, what Chuck sees is 'fate as status quo.' Things are the way they are and so that is why certain things will come to pass. Sam is who he is, personality and demon blood all, and so that's why he was ready to confront Lillith. Dean is who he is, and that's why Chuck was able to predict the events that happened to Dean because he tried to mess with the prophesy. They are human and have free will, but that free will is part of the equation and Chuck still got it right every time, even when they tried to fight it.
Except once. There was one thing that Chuck did not see and that was Dean coming after him to make things better. On the surface, this looks like Dean's actions that upset the balance, Dean's choice that clouded the path of inevitability. Dean the chosen one who was ale to change fate.
But it wasn't. It wasn't Dean's choice that threw the wrench into the works. It was Castiel's.
Castiel the angel. Castiel the soldier of God. Castiel the freaking wild card and I bet you didn't see that coming and that's the entire point.
The 'angel' is not supposed to be a wild card, but in this episode he absolutely was. In the end, it was the being whose nature it is to obey who turned the tide by skirting theboundaries of his own nature.
From start to finish Sam wanted to fight Lilith and Dean wanted to save Sam. That never changed. The change came through Castiel's choice, when he chose of his own free will to help Dean.
Castiel is changing and I think that, more than anything else at this point, is altering the 'fate' of the Winchesters and possibly eve the coming apocalypse. He has yet to disobey a direct order, but he's not the simple soldier he was at the beginning. He's becoming independent. He's becoming, in a very real way, like Anna.
Makes me wonder what it would take for Castiel to fall.
(i'll bet you one million dollars it would have something to do with dean. it's always about dean.)
So there's been a lot said about the last episode, especially about Sam and Dean 'finding out' about Wincest, which was kinda hilarious.
(I'm not gonna lie, I fell off the bed laughing when I watched it the first time. Good times.)
But after I got over the shock of that, something else stood out to me about the episode. Castiel.
So basically Chuck is a Prophet who's got a direct line to God. The things he sees come true, though he doesn't always write what he sees (ex. Sam drinking blood and the last name of the brothers).
The crucial point here, I think, is that it's not a case of 'what the prophet writes will ultimately come to pass' but rather 'what the prophet sees will ultimately come to pass.' What he writes is a human endeavor, it can be altered by free will, but what he sees is divine and cannot be changed.
In my head, what Chuck sees is 'fate as status quo.' Things are the way they are and so that is why certain things will come to pass. Sam is who he is, personality and demon blood all, and so that's why he was ready to confront Lillith. Dean is who he is, and that's why Chuck was able to predict the events that happened to Dean because he tried to mess with the prophesy. They are human and have free will, but that free will is part of the equation and Chuck still got it right every time, even when they tried to fight it.
Except once. There was one thing that Chuck did not see and that was Dean coming after him to make things better. On the surface, this looks like Dean's actions that upset the balance, Dean's choice that clouded the path of inevitability. Dean the chosen one who was ale to change fate.
But it wasn't. It wasn't Dean's choice that threw the wrench into the works. It was Castiel's.
Castiel the angel. Castiel the soldier of God. Castiel the freaking wild card and I bet you didn't see that coming and that's the entire point.
The 'angel' is not supposed to be a wild card, but in this episode he absolutely was. In the end, it was the being whose nature it is to obey who turned the tide by skirting theboundaries of his own nature.
From start to finish Sam wanted to fight Lilith and Dean wanted to save Sam. That never changed. The change came through Castiel's choice, when he chose of his own free will to help Dean.
Castiel is changing and I think that, more than anything else at this point, is altering the 'fate' of the Winchesters and possibly eve the coming apocalypse. He has yet to disobey a direct order, but he's not the simple soldier he was at the beginning. He's becoming independent. He's becoming, in a very real way, like Anna.
Makes me wonder what it would take for Castiel to fall.
(i'll bet you one million dollars it would have something to do with dean. it's always about dean.)
