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apocalypsos... after watching the first half as soon as I walked in the front door because I simply couldn't resist, so now I am totally caught up.
EPIC FUCKING WIN ALL AROUND.
A few superficial things:
-- Lucifer!Sam was incredibly hot. Mmmm.
-- There is nothing about snarky-future!Castiel I don't find adorable.
-- The end of the world, and future!Dean still can't find a lozenge. Heh.
-- Chuuuuuuuck! Aw, he's in inventory.
Okay, now on to more serious things:
I still don't blame Dean one bit for turning down Michael. I haven't from the very beginning, because the angels have yet to prove that they're any more truthful or interested in saving humanity than Lucifer and his minions are. Let's be honest here. The angels are equally as responsible for the apocalypse as the demons are. For all that Dean and Sam blame themselves, they've been twisted and manipulated down this path by both sides for over twenty-five years now. Hell, even Castiel isn't totally to blame for his part in this (maybe less so, as Dean and Sam being human have free will -- thus, manipulating them means steering them towards picking choices rather than ordering them to do so -- while Castiel standing up to Chuck's archangel in the finale last year was the first overt step towards free will he took).
I'm not convinced that that future is set any more than I'm convinced what Michael and Zachariah and the others have planned isn't actually worse than the future we saw. Out of everything that's been said this season by Lucifer, can we honestly deny any of it as being false? His story of his fall tonight rings true, and to be honest, from his point of view I actually sympathize. His remark about how nothing will change the fact that everything will come down to Dean (carting Michael around or not) vs. Sam (carting Lucifer around or not) is something we've seen coming from season one. And Lucifer's been up-front about not being taken by Sam unless Sam says yes. Quite frankly, for all the "demons lie" shit we've been hearing from years, Lucifer's sort of a blatant example that it's less lying so much as it is being bluntly honest about shit you reeeeeaaaaally don't want to hear.
Speaking of Lucifer, I still find telling that he asks permission to enter Sam. Lower demons don't. Ruby didn't, Lilith didn't ... Lucifer says Sam will say yes, but he doesn't just barge his way in, which presumably someone of his power could.
Anyway, among other things about that vision I don't believe, that Castiel will never find God is a major one. Like I've said before, they gave us a gun-on-the-mantelpiece with the amulet, I highly doubt we're never going to see it fire. I just have a really hard time buying any mind-trip out of the same angel that brought us Smith and Wesson starring in Office Space With Monsters and the Gilded Cheeseburger Room.
I still feel like we're going to get Michael either tricking his way into Dean or forcing his way in without consent, and being so astoundingly destructive Sam has to take in Lucifer to take him down. I would just find it amusing if we got to the end of the season and Castiel, Lucifer!Sam, and God are up against Michael!Dean and the rest of the angels, a fight during which God and Lucifer kiss and make up and Michael gets spanked.
EPIC FUCKING WIN ALL AROUND.
A few superficial things:
-- Lucifer!Sam was incredibly hot. Mmmm.
-- There is nothing about snarky-future!Castiel I don't find adorable.
-- The end of the world, and future!Dean still can't find a lozenge. Heh.
-- Chuuuuuuuck! Aw, he's in inventory.
Okay, now on to more serious things:
I still don't blame Dean one bit for turning down Michael. I haven't from the very beginning, because the angels have yet to prove that they're any more truthful or interested in saving humanity than Lucifer and his minions are. Let's be honest here. The angels are equally as responsible for the apocalypse as the demons are. For all that Dean and Sam blame themselves, they've been twisted and manipulated down this path by both sides for over twenty-five years now. Hell, even Castiel isn't totally to blame for his part in this (maybe less so, as Dean and Sam being human have free will -- thus, manipulating them means steering them towards picking choices rather than ordering them to do so -- while Castiel standing up to Chuck's archangel in the finale last year was the first overt step towards free will he took).
I'm not convinced that that future is set any more than I'm convinced what Michael and Zachariah and the others have planned isn't actually worse than the future we saw. Out of everything that's been said this season by Lucifer, can we honestly deny any of it as being false? His story of his fall tonight rings true, and to be honest, from his point of view I actually sympathize. His remark about how nothing will change the fact that everything will come down to Dean (carting Michael around or not) vs. Sam (carting Lucifer around or not) is something we've seen coming from season one. And Lucifer's been up-front about not being taken by Sam unless Sam says yes. Quite frankly, for all the "demons lie" shit we've been hearing from years, Lucifer's sort of a blatant example that it's less lying so much as it is being bluntly honest about shit you reeeeeaaaaally don't want to hear.
Speaking of Lucifer, I still find telling that he asks permission to enter Sam. Lower demons don't. Ruby didn't, Lilith didn't ... Lucifer says Sam will say yes, but he doesn't just barge his way in, which presumably someone of his power could.
Anyway, among other things about that vision I don't believe, that Castiel will never find God is a major one. Like I've said before, they gave us a gun-on-the-mantelpiece with the amulet, I highly doubt we're never going to see it fire. I just have a really hard time buying any mind-trip out of the same angel that brought us Smith and Wesson starring in Office Space With Monsters and the Gilded Cheeseburger Room.
I still feel like we're going to get Michael either tricking his way into Dean or forcing his way in without consent, and being so astoundingly destructive Sam has to take in Lucifer to take him down. I would just find it amusing if we got to the end of the season and Castiel, Lucifer!Sam, and God are up against Michael!Dean and the rest of the angels, a fight during which God and Lucifer kiss and make up and Michael gets spanked.
