Boxed Set, Vol. III: "That Can't Be Good..."
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Yeah, I can't quite see Papa Winchester selling his soul to save Dean's life. If crossroads demon can cure Hudson's wife of terminal cancer and let him live for another 10 years on top of it before collecting, I would think Daddy Winchester's immediate death, plus the Colt would be more than enough of a bargain for Dean's life.
See, though, I don't think it would be enough for Yellow Eyed Demon to just get a death and the Colt out of it. Because he's got those dead kids of his own to think of, and he's more twisted than Crossroads Demon, and all that. It's personal for him, not just business.
Although I do think it's a bit cheap for the XF team to be scavenging their own oeuvre for plots at this early date...
(Looks back over the last 30 episodes.)
They've been stealing since practically day one, but you know, it fits with the whole retellings of urban legends thing, so I'm okay with that.
OMG, I just discovered that the guy who played "Poor Bitch" in Wonderfalls is the son of Michael Hogan from BSG.
Yeah, I can't quite see Papa Winchester selling his soul to save Dean's life.
Well, and this is my hangup: what the hell do we know about souls, in this universe? Is it possible to sell your soul at all? Sell your life, sure -- but if there's an actuall Hell to which you can consign yourself, then there's a Heaven too, right? So, how come we never hear about it?
There's some serious deep-think that either hasn't been performed, or hasn't been revealed yet, on that account.
Sell your life, sure -- but if there's an actuall Hell to which you can consign yourself, then there's a Heaven too, right?
Why is that necessary? Why can't demons just be, like, otherworldly creatures with a hellish realm called...Hell?
Because, if there's a hellish realm, even if it's called Shrimplessness, it kind of has to be balanced out by an opposite, don't you think?
Or else somebody needs to tell me, explicitly, that this is a Viking universe, where everybody is more or less doomed. (And that's not what I've been led to expect up to this point, so no points for "well you could infer that.")
I think, based on what Tessa the Reaper said, that there's stuff we've not yet been told, things that our POV characters don't know.
Because, if there's a hellish realm, even if it's called Shrimplessness, it kind of has to be balanced out by an opposite, don't you think?
Well...no. I mean, I love duality as much as anyone, but you could have a hellish realm that took bad souls and let everyone else just sort of disappear into nothingness. What about the wronged spirits? We don't really know what happens to them when they're taken care of. They could just as well...dissipate.
I think I've heard the "If there's a hell, there must be a heaven" argument in a movie recently too, and I bought it then, but I never stopped to think about it until now.
Ancient Babylonian mythology was basically that that there is a hell and everybody goes there - you eat dust, drink mud, and you have wings that just kind drag on the ground. Oh except for the Noah predecessor and family. [Forgot the name - begins with L.] They were granted bodily immortality and live forever in a beautiful garden somewhere on earth. But everyone else goes to hell.
You don't hear the "If there's a heaven, there must be a hell" argument as much. (At least I don't.)
Yeah, I was trying to think if I'd heard it like that before, and how much more or less sense it would make.
