“Supernatural” Theories and Speculation
As many of you know, I like to speculate and make up wild theories about what’s going on in the “Supernatural” world. So when Clarissa over at TVOvermind asked if I wanted to co-write an article with her theorizing about where the rest of season 8 is heading, I jumped at the chance. She was great to work with, and we came up with a lot of fun theories about the angels, Sam, and the issue of perception.
Check it out!
My thanks to Clarissa for having me!
Ardeospina
WOW!! Interesting stuff!!!
I agree that this would be a good time to bring a Chuck like character into the story as Metatron. After all, Chuck was the writer. Kevin is an interpreter of the written word of God but Chuck wrote the word of God just as Metatron did.
Loved the “proof” pictures that Sam is dreaming or hallucinating Amelia and his relationship with her.
I do like this season!!!
I hope, it´s ok to post this here… because uhm.. yeah.. HUGE wall of text incoming…
I didn´t want to take up three comment pages on TVOvermind to post it 😉
I hope, I´ll be forgiven.
Well, what DO we know?
a) Something is not right with Sam´s “living situation” this past year.
Indicator 1) Amelia watching him leave, without a word or a gesture.
Indicator 2) Shadowy figure watching from the outside
Indicator 3) Sam leaving, as he did, when he did, going right to Rufus cabin, where Dean was. WITHOUT having gotten Dean’s messages.
Indicator 4) The overly saturated tone of some of the memories (not all of them)
I´m going with mental breakdown here. And the angels intervening to keep him from something stupid. Like killing himself.
Getting Dean back was absolutely out of question. Not knowing, where he is, with the logical thing being, he is dead, in heaven and finally at rest, drinking with Ash, Jo, Bobby and so on.
So, if he can´t bring Dean back, what´s the logical choice? Go there.
OR! It might just as well have been Crowley, standing outside, watching him. He surely followed them to Kevin. And Crowley knew, where Dean was. He knew from the moment, Dean and Cas vanished. And most likely he knew, chances were good, he would be back. It´s Dean after all and he doesn´t underestimate him, as he likes to point out.
But that doesn´t explain Sam leaving, when he did and going where he did.
Or the colours, that were chosen to depict the Amelia scenes.
I think, Amelia is real, they hooked up, but not as the big love, but more for comfort. Which still doesn´t exclude angels meddling in bringing them together and pushing Sam into the right direction. (which brings me to a very brief b) Who is THEM, that told Benny about the portal?)
The moment, Sam took the dog, that is the pivotal turning point from everything, that came after they killed Dick. That is the one moment, where he found a resemblance of stability again. A job, he stayed in a place for more than a few nights, settled in a litte.
The phrase, that comes to my mind here is “grounded”
And all because of a dog, which he was forced to take in by a cranky verterinarian.
But still, with Amelias drinking? And the way they parted? the colors?
I think, Sam is just sugar coating alot, because he frankly can´t deal.
I don´t think, the play with Sam’s perception has something to do with Dean altering something.
I think that´s choice and mental problems on Sam’s part.
If he truly understands, how far down he went, in my opinion, he isn´t telling Dean, to protect him. Contrary to Dean, Sam sees and understands very well, what Dean can handle right now. And that isn´t much and nothing complicated.
Sam being in trouble? The nightmare of Dean’s brother’s mental state still not over?
Very much complicated.
What Dean isn´t seeing, or getting, is Sam´s atypical behaviour.
Up until 8.06 he took everything Dean threw his way, without so much as a blink of an eye. Any bit of protest, that has been muttered was half hearted and he´s basically just trodding along, doing whatever Dean wants. That is not even remotely normal.
Sam “I´m angry all the time” Winchester?
Only after Benny appeared in the picture, did he get a little of his fire back. But even that was a) a panic attack and b) after Dean laid the blame for almost EVERYTHING on him. Alot of things, Sam wasn´t responsible for. Being soulless? Teaming up with Samuel WHILE souless? uhm.. no? That wasn´t Sam? And Dean knows that.
What is funny, is the way, Dean blamed him for not trying to get him back and at the same time blaming him for the things, he did that last time, he DID try to get him back.
As for the tablets… I wont go there yet. It might be alot of things. Do they want to close the gates of hell? Or do they want to keep the Winchesters from closing them?
I mean, you only need to get Michael out of the cage and start Apocalypse 2.0 at another time, when Sam and Dean are out of the picture.
Or (*gasp*) do they perhaps want to help them, but are standing back, so as not to trigger Dean’s “get the f%&* out of my face” response?
Chuck? Chuck is the Metatron!
Scribe and Scribe. An Archangel, who is second only to God?
He might easily fool other angels.
I´m only slightly fangirling here….
Now I´m only hoping, they will bring back Gabriel…. after all, Cas was brought back, after helping the humans. So why not the only Archangel, that is actually on the side of the humans?
And Adam. Would they really close the gates of hell, with their baby brother still locked inside? I hope not. I so absolutely hope not.
BTW. is it just me, or is that dog way too well behaved? No dog behaves like that. NONE!
Amelia may be real, but the dog? Definately either an Angel or Demon plant.
It seems a little much that issues of perception should add up to downright delusion. Sam’s flashbacks are rosy and idealized, but maybe that’s just because now that he’s back in the midst of the uncertainty and occasional terror of hunting, he is simply elevating the value of the life he left behind. Maybe we’ll find out that in reality Amelia drank too much, and Sam couldn’t quite leave hunting alone, and they both had a fear of loss that drove them apart. And as for the brotherly issues, suppose for the sake of argument that Sam went to someone who cast a locator spell to find Dean, only to report that he was no place on earth, and it was then that Sam concluded that Dean was actually dead. Perhaps once Dean turned up alive, Sam felt in retrospect that the accusation he didn’t look was justified because he didn’t look hard enough, and the resources he lacked were more emotional than logistical.
The “Chuck must be dead” line could have been a meta joke acknowledging the end of the Kripke era. Carver did say he wanted to reboot the mythology.